CHS: Opinions of Restoration
“For the last time Pinkie, I don’t think a “Sorry-That-We-Didn’t-Believe-You-About-You-Not-Being-Anon-A-Miss-And-Are-Really-Sorry-For-Not-Standing-Up-For-You” Party is gonna make things better with Sunset!”
The sky blue teen stopped to catch her breath. Why did the party planner have to make such obtuse names for her parties?
“Well I don’t see you coming up with any suggestions, Rainbow Dash!” The pink girl snapped back, crossing her arms as she glared at the other teen.
“Would you two please calm down?” Rarity asked, trying to stop the group from getting kicked out of the Sweet Shoppe, “I understand you both are trying very hard to try and decide how we are going to let Sunset know how sorry we are, but shouting is not a good way to communicate with one another.”
Fluttershy had been cowering for the last few minutes behind her hair, refusing to risk her neck.
“Rarity is right y’all,” came the stern tone of Applejack, her feet kicked up on another chair casually, “We need ta talk this thing out, not shout at each other.”
Fluttershy chose that moment to pipe up, mustering as loud a voice as she could. “I don’t think Sunset would like to see us fighting like this… I mean…” She saw four pairs of eyes glance back at her, and her immediate response was to give a small “meep!” and duck away again.
“Sorry shugahcube,” Applejack reached out a well calloused hand to the animal lover, “Didn’t mean ta scare ya er nothin’.”
“Yes, please continue dear.” Rarity replied, staring down Rainbow Dash who was about to open her mouth again.
“Well, uhm…” the buttercream teen started up again, “I was just meaning to say that it won’t, um, help us to apologize to Sunset if we are fighting about what to do…”
“But what are we supposed to do?” Rainbow muttered exasperatedly, “And no Pinkie, a party isn’t gonna make this all better.”
“Then what’re ya suggestin’, RD?” Applejack was probing the rainbow maned teen.
“I don’t know, alright?” She threw her hands up, “There! Happy? We fucked up AJ, worse than I think we can fathom.” She skulked under the glare Mrs. Cake was giving her from the counter.
The farmer sighed, “Sorry, Rainbow… Ah think ah can speak fer all o’ us when ah say we are all pretty bummed about all this.”
“I still can’t believe that we did that…” the normally frizzy hair of Pinky was flat and lifeless, “What were we thinking?”
“I don’t know dear, none of us do.” Rarity reached out a gentle hand to her friend.
“I still can’t believe that the girls were the ones behind it all…” commented Fluttershy quietly.
“Don’t remind me...” responded Rainbow Dash curtly, “I can’t believe Scoot’s would do something so petty! Next time I see her…” Rainbow unconsciously clenched her fists.
Rarity and Applejack both averted their gaze. Rainbow had been lucky in the sense that Scootaloo wasn’t actually related to the athlete, but Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom had both gotten some pretty harsh punishment from their sisters.
“I still can’t believe all of us got punished as well though!” Rainbow was still running her mouth in frustration, “No phones and no internet? How am I supposed to record my awesomeness!?”
“Fer land’s sake, Rainbow!” Applejack had launched to her feet and slammed down on the table, “How dense can ya be? Look at what we did to Sunset!”
“I know we are quiet at the moment dearies, but please do restrain yourselves.” Mrs. Cake called out from her post.
“At least it’s not as bad as the girls…” Rarity commented when everybody sat down again after calming themselves, “Detention for the rest of the year, no extracurricular activities, and suspended for the rest of the month!”
“Plus tha Cyber Bullyin’ Awareness classes they have ta attend in tha mean time.”
“I think we may, uhm,” Fluttershy piped up once more from behind her mess of hair, “getting sidetracked again?”
“Only ‘cause we can’t think of anything.” Pinkie said grimly. The rest of the group had been surprised at the change in the teen since the announcement of Sunset’s innocence. “And I agree with Rainbow, a party isn’t going to fix this, but what else can we do?”
“Last time we saw her before the assembly we were quite rude to her.” Rarity looked disappointed in herself, “And she was right at the assembly. We betrayed her, Twilight, and what we are supposed to represent.”
“Generosity, Laughter, Honesty, Kindness, and Loyalty.” Rainbow called out as she pointed around the table, “Or more like Selfishness, Mocking, Falsity, Spite, and Treachery…”
All five teens looked down, unable to deny the tags Rainbow had applied to them.
“I’m sure Twilight would be able to help us.” Fluttershy stated, breaking the silence, “But she’s almost more angry at us than Sunset…”
“Can ya blame her?” Applejack said incredulously, “We betrayed her, an’ pushed tha person we were given by her ta help ta tha point o’ offin’ herself.”
“I’d be cross at us as well.” Rainbow said, scratching at the table absentmindedly. “I just wish we knew how to make it up to Sunset…”
“Maybe we should try talking to her?” Pinkie said halfheartedly, “Doubt it could go worse than yesterday.”
“Well I doubt that we would be able to ask Crystal Prep to allow us to talk to her,” Rarity stated, “and I don’t know if any of you have had better luck, but she has yet to respond to my texts.”
“She probably blocked us…” Fluttershy muttered in defeat.
“Well I say we find someway to get ahold of her.” Rainbow stated as she stood up, “We have to talk to her, let her know that we are sorry even if she doesn’t accept it.”
“Ah think we should give ‘er some time to herself, RD,” Applejack said, “Ah have no doubt that she don’t want to see any o’ us anytime soon.”
“Well I’m still gonna keep sending her texts. She gotta read one eventually… right?”
Rarity pitied at how hard her friend was grasping at straws, not unlike everyone else present herself included. How do you make amends for something like this? It’s not like you can just hug and all of a sudden everything is better! You’d have to be childish to believe such an absurd idea.
“I think we should all head home for the time being.” Rarity stood up and grabbed her purse, “We should all rest on this and reconvene at a more opportune time.”
All present noded, each rising up to leave, but not before apologizing to the shop owners. They had a lot on their plates to think about, and were unsure if there even was an answer for this situation. Rainbow paused before she followed after the rest of her group, digging her phone out of her pocket and hammering out a quick string of taps before returning the device to it’s resting spot.
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Sunset’s bleary eyes cracked open as she felt her phone buzz beside her head, hands gingerly grasping the item and bringing it in front of her blurry vision.
“New Text!”
“From: Rainbow Dash”
“Contents:”
“Sorry.”