Sunset stood in front of Sugarcube corners waiting for her friends. The warm summer breeze blew through her hair as she let out a relaxing sigh. Pulling out her phone from her pocket, she checks on her messages from the group chat she and her friends were in.
“I wonder what's taking them so long?” She walks over to a nearby bench. Tapping on her phone a few times, she brought it up to her ear. A few rings went off before a familiar voice spoke up.
“Sunset?” Twilight’s voice was heard on the other end.
“Yeah it’s me,” Sunset answers. “Where are you guys? I’m already here at Sugarcube corners.” She then heard a familiar voice shouting in the background.
“Come on, move it will ya!”
“Rainbow Dash?” Sunset asks. She then heard a few more shouts and some other words coming from another person. “Twilight, where are you guys right now?”
“Sorry Sunset, we’re a little held up in traffic right now I’m sure we’ll…Hey!”
“Sunset is that you?”
“AppleJack?”
“Yea, sorry sugarcube we might be a little late...Dang flabbit! Rainbow, would you please stop yelling?” Sunset pulls her ear away from her phone as her apple farming friend starts to yell. “Sunset, are you still there?”
“Yeah.” Sunset says put her phone on her other ear.
“Okay, well ah think we’ll be there in about thirty minutes this traffic jam here is thicker than we thought.” A few more muffled voices came when Sunset heard Twilight’s voice through the phone.
“Try giving Pinkie a call she should be with Rarity and Fluttershy.” A loud honk was heard. “Sorry Sunset, but I need to stop Applejack from taking the steering wheel away from Rainbow, see you soon.”
The call ends leaving Sunset once again alone.
“Sunset Shimmer?”
Standing next to the bench she was sitting on was Flash Sentry, he held his guitar case to his side.
“Hey Flash,” Sunset greets. “Heading somewhere?”
“Yeah, I was planning on meeting the band for practice,” he notices that Sunset was sitting all by herself. “What are you doing here alone? Where’s the rest of your friends?”
“Well, Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash are on their way here; they're a little stuck in traffic at the moment.” She brings up her phone waggling it next to her. “I was about to call Pinkie and the rest of the girls.”
Flash nods his head, the two of them stay silent not really knowing what to say at the moment.
“So...how’ve you been?” he finally asks to break the silence.
“Oh, um...I’ve been good,” Sunset gives him a small smile. “How have you been?”
“Same,” Flash lets out a small laugh. “My dad is making me work at his restaurant this summer.”
“Are you going to be a busser again?” Sunset asks.
“Luckily no, I’ll be working as a server this time,” He gave her a small smile. “You know I still remember all the jokes you made back when we dated.”
A light laugh escapes Sunset lips.
“Yeah I remember,” though she felt a little guilty since back then half of the ‘jokes’ weren’t really jokes. “What was the title I gave you again?” She thought for a minute.
“There’s no one like Sentry to clean your plates,” Flash says as he waves his hand in the air to emphasize his words. “He’ll get your dishes clean in a flash.” There was a short pause between them until they broke into a fit of laughter.
Sunset looks up at Flash who was still laughing at the memory. It’s been awhile since the two of them laughed together like this. She probably couldn’t even remember the last time they had a normal conversation. Even after she redeemed herself they were still on just ‘hey’ and simple compliments.
In all honesty, she’s quite happy that they were up to this point now. Even when they were dating it wasn’t any better, she was probably the worst person he could’ve ever been in a relationship with. Being who she was before it was safe to say that anything they did or in their case anything that Flash did was looked down upon by her. She can remember all the times he tried to be in her favor, always trying to make her happy. Sadly, Sunset's response to almost everything he’s ever done was usually the same. It wasn’t until the day he decided to break up with her that she gave him a new response.
Her being angry was probably an understatement. It wasn’t that she was heartbroken because he was breaking up with her, oh no, it was that she thought it was unbelievable. Flash Sentry, breaking up with The Sunset Shimmer, the girl who ruled the school with an iron, the girl who could probably get anything she wanted with a flick of a finger.
After the two had argued, he finally told her that he couldn’t do it anymore. He went on how being in a relationship needs both parties to cooperate and that if nothing was going to change then it would be better for them to see different people.
So it happened, just like that they were over, Flash seemed quite down even after a few days of the breakup while Sunset didn’t feel all too different.
A phone rang from Flash’s pocket, forcing him to calm himself down, he clears his throat and picks up the call.
“Sup this is Flash,” he answers. Sunset couldn’t really hear who it was on the other end of the phone, but she could hear someone yelling. “Dude, chill I’m on my, it’s only like…” Flash looks at Sunset and points at his wrist. She pulls out her phone and shows him the time. “It’s only....AW CRAP! Sorry dude I’m heading over now...alright alright I’ll see you when I get there.” Hanging up his phone, Flash gave Sunset a sheepish smile. “Sorry to cut our conversation short, but it looks like I lost track of time.”
“It’s alright,” she says waving at him. “Sorry for holding you up.”
Just as Flash was about to leave, he does a double take and looks back at Sunset.
“Hey if you don’t mind, let's do this again,” he sounds a little nervous. “We can hang out like we used to just relaxing and having small talk.”
Sunset was a little taken back by his request. A slight blush rose on her cheeks though quickly she brushes it off to smile back at him.
“Not really sure relaxing and small talk are the right wording.” She says. “But sure, you're free tomorrow?”
She notices his shoulders relaxing from her answer.
“Yeah, tomorrow is good for me.” Looking at his own phone again Flash’s eyes grow wide. “Well I gotta go, I’ll see you tomorrow then.” He waves her goodbye as he walks away.
Sunset waves back as a small smile rests on her face. She couldn’t help but feel a little excited for tomorrow, her giddiness would have to be cut short when she notices a puffy pinky haired teen bouncing her way towards her.
“SUNSET SHIMMER!” yelled Pinkie Pie. Behind her were both Rarity and Fluttershy who were also waving at her though not as loud and exuberant as their friend.
Sunset rose from her seat and walked over to her friends.
“Hey girls, it’s good to see you all.” Sunset says as she hugs each of them.
“Sorry for making you wait darling, we got caught up at Fluttershy’s animal shelter when someone decided to let all of the parrot’s loose.” Rarity frowns at Pinkie Pie who only shrugs her shoulders.
“What? They said they needed to spread their wings.” She said, flapping her arms in the air like a bird. It was no surprise that she was able to stay afloat for a few minutes.
“One of those flying vandals landed on my shoulder and…”
“And pooped on your shoulder!” Pinkie finishes letting out a loud laugh.
This only made Rarity glare at her party craze friend. As the two went on about the whole incident back at the shelter, Fluttershy and Sunset were off at the side talking amongst themselves.
“I hope we didn’t make you wait too long.”
“It’s okay, it wasn’t so bad and besides I think Twilight, Applejack and Rainbow should be here any minute now.” The three of them agreed to wait inside for the rest of their friends. Once they got their drinks and snacks, the four girls sat at a table next to the window saving three seats for their soon to arrive friends.
“And then he was all like wachoo and then he was like wachaa,” Pinkie Swung her arms in a downward chop onto the table with enough force to shake it. “And that’s how Gummy helped me find my phone.”
The three other girls stare at their pink hair party expert with confusion.
“Wait, how does a baby alligator karate chop a boat in half?” Sunset asks.
The three girls look at Pinkie only to shake their heads as they know not to question any of her strange stories. As Pinkie went on with her story, Sunset saw the rest of her friends walking into view through the window. Rarity goes to receive three more chairs while Pinkie runs up to the window and plants her face onto the glass.
The three girls outside of Sugarcube corners stop in their tracks as they notice Pinkie smiling back at them, her face being smudged on the window. Her breath fogging up the glass, Rainbow gives her a look and then stares back at Applejack and Twilight. Shrugging their shoulders they make their way inside.
Sunset waves them over just as Rarity places down their chairs.
Rainbow lands on her chair causing it to slide back a little.
“Man you won’t believe the traffic we were in.” She groans as she slumps back into her chair.
“You won’t believe what caused it too,” Applejack adds. “Some idiot left a boat in the middle of the road and the weird thing is that it was broken in half.” She lets out a small laugh, but was cut short when she saw some of her friends staring at Pinkie Pie. Applejack gives her a stoic look and then turns to Sunset. “It has something to do with Pinkie doesn’t it?”
“Well it would make sense if you heard the whole story.” Pinkie says she was about to retell her previous story only to be stopped by Applejack.
“Nope.” Applejack interrupted.
“But it’s going to explain why…”
“Nn’ope,” Applejack got up from her chair. “Don’t need to hear, ah just wanna get my drink and enjoy my time with you girls, no crazy stories, nn’ope.”
“Hey AJ, can you spot me a drink too?” Rainbow asks as she pulls out her pockets inside out. “I’m kind of broke this week.”
Applejack gives her a look.
“Yah still owe me money.”
“Then you can put it on my tab.” Rainbow says nonchalantly. Applejack just walks over to the cashier saying a few words under her breath.
Sunset turns to Twilight who was busy tapping away at her phone a small blush showing on her face. It was quite obvious who she was talking to judging by the way she was smiling and staring at the screen of her phone with dreamy eyes. It was at this time, Sunset’s feelings from last night came back to her as she stared at Twilight.
“Sunset are you okay?” Twilight asks as she stares at her with a raised brow.
Doing a double take, Sunset pulls herself out of her thoughts and stares back at Twilight. She quickly pushes her feelings off to the side as she waves her hands in front of her.
“Yeah I’m fine,” Sunset says with a forced smile. “I was just thinking about stuff.”
Their attention was drawn by the sound of Applejack returning with her and Rainbows drinks.
The seven friends sat, drank and talked about their plans for the summer and other various activities. After spending the day together the girls went on their separate ways home.
Saying her goodbyes, Sunset was on her way home, but not before stopping by a convenient store to pick up some microwaveable dinners. When she finally made it back home she made herself comfortable. With her dinner in the microwave and already in her pajamas Sunset sat down on her couch and switched on the TV.
“Well Sunset, looks like another night on your own.” she says letting out a small sigh. A ding came from the microwave signaling her that dinner is ready. With her dinner in hand, Sunset sits back down on her couch. As unappetizing as the meal looks she stabs at it picking a piece of what seems like boiled carrots. As she ate her meal the sound of her phone’s notifications ringtone went off. Picking up her phone she taps the screen to see who was messaging her at this hour. Her eyes grow wide as she stares at the name above the message box.