Friendship is Cakes!! - 3rd Period, Wednesday

[justlurkinghere]

Pinkie Pie had on a chef's hat and a yellow and blue mustache drawn on her face with icing.

She liked to make a good first impression. Derek had no yellow and blue mustache (he had a pretty epic stubble beard going on) and no need to make a good first impression. Instead, he had a frown.

The frown might have been aimed at the icing mustache. Because how did she even manage that?

The world may never know.

"Hihihihi everypony!" Pinkie greeted with a manic wave of a hoof. "Welcome to Friendship is . . . Baking? No, that was last time. Psssst!" she hissed sotto voce at Derek. "What did we officially name this one again?"

Oh god, she wanted Derek to remember? "Cake… decorating?" he ventured.

"Friendship is cake decorating?" Pinkie frowned thoughtfully. "That doesn't sound very snazzy. And it doesn't have nearly enough exclamation points on it. Oh well!" She threw up her hooves in a "whatever" kind of gesture. "Welcome to a friendshippy class about cakes! I'm Pinkie Pie!" And she held up a heart-shaped cake with her winking face drawn on it, framed by her yellow and blue cutie mark, with an illegible scrawl of black icing as a caption. "See?"

"She's real, you're not hallucinating," Derek added dryly. "You get used to it."

"He's Derek," Pinkie said, and held up another cake, this one circular with a big grey wolf on it. "Isn't he talented?!"

Derek huffed because that cake had been for friendship only, Pinkie. Not for sharing. "We're going to introduce ourselves with a cake that says something about you."

Friendship is sharing, Derek. "We've gots lots and lots and lots of different cakes for you!" Pinkie said, holding up several different shaped blank sheetcakes along with the two decorated ones she already had. "And lots and lots and lots of different colored icings!" A veritable rainbow of icing bags were added to the array, all held up at the end of a hoof. Seriously, was she secretly a bright pink milipede? "And what class would be complete without glitter!"

The big vat of shiny edible gold dust was apparently just one item too many for her. Pinkie went from proud to distressed as she stumbled, then desperately tried to keep all the cakes and icings and glitters balanced. She staggered back and forth across the room, letting out little "whoooooooooaaaaa, whooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"s as she went.

The students might want to take cover.

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Re: Decorate a Cake!

[locointhecoco]

"Oooo, neato keen!" Pinkie enthused. "What's your favorite?"

Pinkie knew nothing at all about documentaries. That would not stop her enthusiasm.

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[princessarcasm]

"Oh man, that's tough," Amy said, biting her lip as she thought about it. "I saw one about Susan Sontag that was really balanced and well-made. Or, oh, there's one about international students who grow up speaking a different language from their parents and what that does to the family. That one made my friend cry."

She could go on, but decided that was enough for now. "Do you watch documentaries too? I'm always looking for new ones to watch." It was true. Back home she and Karma watched about three a week.

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie shrugged. Which is a nice trick when you kind of didn't have shoulders. "I'll watch just about anything," she said. "We don't have a lot of movies back home in Equestria." The technology didn't always support it, after all. "And no tvs. So everything is still all shiny and new to me here!"

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[princessarcasm]

"Ah." Because of course she lived somewhere named Equestria. "Well, I saw one about horse grooming the other week? You might... um, have opinions... on it..."

She trailed off, realizing that no, Pinkie probably wasn't the right audience for that.

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie looked thoughtful. "If it's about human world horses that might just be kinda weird," she decided finally. "They're all only brown or gray or black or white instead of all the different colors and they don't even talk or have cutie marks. They're so weird!"

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[princessarcasm]

Really? They were weird?

"If it helps, some of the horses in this one had Bedazzled saddles," she offered. "I think they were from Dallas."

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie didn't know what that meant. "I don't know what that means." She didn't actually represent the spirit of honesty, but that didn't mean she wasn't into it as a general rule.

Re: Decorate a Cake!

[princessarcasm]

"Bedazzled or Dallas?" she checked. "Bedazzling is pretty much decorating something with rhinestones. It's pretty colorful and shiny and stuff." Since Pinkie seemed to be into that. "And Dallas is a city near where I'm from. The people are kind of eccentric. Especially when it comes to horse decorating, apparently."