Apple Bloom is upset. She never has anything nice because her family has no money. She has to make do with her big sister's hand-me-downs, and lives in the smallest, dingiest room in the farmhouse. Applejack and Sunset Shimmer decide to brighten up her room.

This story is set in the Equestria Girls universe, some time after the events of the film Rainbow Rocks.

This story is a birthday present for Coby.

Thanks Tennis Match Fan for pre-reading this story and offering some suggestions. (Take a look at her stories if you like stories about pastel coloured humans.)

Sunset Shimmer isn't sure she's got much to be merry about this holiday season.

A few weeks ago, she thought she'd turned her life around. Now she's not sure she's accomplished anything at all. Not since the incident... Scandal, really.

When the rumors had begun to leak, everyone was so certain it was her spreading them. That she'd returned to her old ways, that her reformation was nothing but a charade. Even those she'd called friends were so quick to assume the worst, and to disown her. And even after the true culprits confessed, the damage had been done.

So now it was Sunset's turn to lose faith. Because if those she called friends were so ready to distrust her... Had she ever really had their trust or friendship at all?

Set after the Equestria Girls Holiday Special.

Sunset has had the same jacket ever since she came to Canterlot High. Rarity and the girls want to treat her to some new clothes, but some things are too important to be replaced.

Sunset Shimmer is homeless and living in an old abandoned warehouse with no power and a leaky roof with almost nothing to her name, not even her favorite jacket after it was destroyed during the Fall Formal. With the school closed down for the holiday and her so called friends too caught up in their own holiday plans they don't realize Sunset not only doesn't have any...but she has no place to get food with the school closed.

Going to a close by community center Christmas Eve to get a hot meal they were giving the homeless and those down on their luck, Sunset runs into the family of the last person she expected to see there...

Rainbow Dash returns from her summer position to find Sugarcube Corner on it's last legs. The Cakes are nowhere to be found and Pinkie Pie is barely holding on. All Rainbow can do is hold her as she tells her story of that summer and all she's going to miss.

Inspired by the story Bittersweet.
Originally called "On Final Legs"