fandomhigh | Friendship 101, Wednesday, Period 2

Today's classroom was not entirely unlike last week's, though the floor and walls were far more soft and squishy than they were bouncy, as might be evidenced by the fact that instead of (quite literally) bouncing off the walls, Pinkie was instead sitting patiently in the middle of the room with a stack of cards in her mouth.

Don't worry, those wouldn't be too slobbery when it came time to pass them out.

We hoped.

Derek looked as surly as always next to her, hands in his pockets because he wasn't allowed to do anything with the cards. Oh no, not after the locker room fiasco. "Friends compliment each other," he ground out. "But also offer criticism to help each other."

Pinkie smiled around the cards and started trotting around to the students, nudging them with her head if necessary to get them to take one from the stack. When every student present had one, she smiled again and threw her front hooves into the air. "Today, you're going to practice offering constructive criticism! You each got something to critique your partner on, so pair up and get started! Ooo! Ooo! But your partner says something that you think feels mean and not friendly enough, then hit them with a bat!"

She whipped a brightly colored foam bat out of nowhere and waved it cheerfully in the air.

"Pinkie's voice is grating," Derek said as an example. Yes. An example. Pinkie whacked him in the knee with the bat.

"Derek's criticism was honest," she explained to the class, as she started manifesting and stacking up enough foam bats for everyone to use, "but kinda mean. He didn't even address it to me!"

That didn't stop him from smirking at least. "Get into pairs."

"And have fun!" said Pinkie. "Nopony likes a grumpy gus!" Derek.

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"Well, I could stop breathing, but I think that might cause you a bigger problem," Rilla replied.

"I know that, but you could go see an allergist," Juliet recommended. "You do this whistling nose thing. It's probably bad for you."

That's why she was criticizing you, Rilla. For your health.

So sweet!

"And those dresses are probably ruining the cat's circulation," Rilla countered. "Not to mention making it the laughing stock of the neighbourhood."

Juliet sniffed. "I'm not sure how you can hear people laughing at the cat when you're whistling all the time. Anyhow, the cat should learn to suffer for fashion."

"They are laughing quite loudly," Rilla said, which didn't exactly help her own case.

"And cats shouldn't wear clothes. They have fur. A bow is all they need."

"But bows are so common," Juliet argued. "You can't express anything about a cat's personality with a bow."

"It's a cat," Rilla said. "Doesn't it express it's personality just fine destroying couches?"

"That's where I got the clothes," Juliet said. "The cloth came from a pillow she shredded."

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"Oh, well that's different!" Rilla said, completely losing track of the point of the conversation.

"Isn't it?" Juliet agreed enthusiastically. "So, see, I had to make a little dress for her."

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