“Sayonara, See you tomorrow Sunset.” Silver Fin shouts waving goodbye to Sunset Shimmer.
Sunset waves back before she walks over to her parked motorcycle. She lets out a big sigh as she looks at the envelope in her hand. Sunset was caught a little off guard when she saw the amount of money in it.
“That’s…that’s a lot of tips.” Sunset says. Reaching her bike, Sunset stuffs the envelope in her purse and picks up her helmet. She pulls out her phone to see that it was almost eleven and that she has two messages.
One is from Twilight, Sunset looks down at her screen to see what her friend has sent her.
Hey Sunset, have you started on your reading and paper for AP Literature?
Sunset shakes her head as she reads the message.
It has literally only been a month since summer break started. If Sunset didn’t know any better, Twilight was probably already done with all her summer papers and projects.
Sunset laughs as she taps at her phone to respond to her studious friend. After responding to her, Sunset looks at the second message which was from Flash. She taps on her phone and opens the message.
Hey, I wanted to let you know that my dad’s having a special event tomorrow at the restaurant, if your friends want to come by and get some food it’ll be on me.
Hmm, the idea of getting free food sounds really nice right now. Speaking of food, Sunset got on her bike and drove off to the nearest late night convenience store.
Upon arriving, Sunset parks her bike next to its door and walks inside. The door let out a small beep as she entered the brightly lit store.
A man sat behind the counter with sleepy eyes as he read a magazine.
Sunset makes her way towards the microwave instant meal section of the store. Looks like she has two options for tonight, either frozen chicken tenders or frozen hamburgers. She let out a sigh as she was very disappointed with her options.
“Sunset?”
Turning around, Sunset was greeted by Flash who wore a white dress shirt and black dress pants, his tie was tucked in his pocket, a strand of it popping out. His hair was still in the same condition when they left this morning.
“Oh, hey Flash,” Sunset waves at him.
Flash looks at Sunset from top to bottom and raises an eyebrow.
“You know, Halloween isn’t for another few months.” He says with a smile.
Looking down, Sunset realizes that she was still in her work uniform. She completely forgot to change out of her uniform back at work. Letting out a sigh, Sunset just shrugged her shoulders and turned back to pick which meal she wanted.
Flash walks up next to her and stares at the instant meals with her. Judging from what he can see on her face she didn’t like her options. He then heard a loud growl come from her stomach causing her to grab onto it. Shaking his head, Flash grabs Sunset’s arm and pulls her out of the store.
“Hey! Flash what the heck?” Sunset questions as she is pulled by the blue haired rocker. He brings her over to his car which was parked across the street.
Once the two were next to Flash’s car, the teen boy pulls out his keys and clicks a button unlocking its doors. Opening the door, Flash leans forward into the open car door. The sound of plastic bags came from inside and followed when Flash popped back out of the car with a large plastic bag in his hand. He places the bag on top of his car and pulls out two large to-go boxes, one small one, and a cylinder shaped to-go cup. He opens the boxes to inspect the content inside this causes Sunset to intake the smell of freshly cooked food.
“Wow…that smells amazing.” Was all Sunset said, her stomach groaning again this one louder than the last.
When Flash finished looking in all the to-go bins, he nodded his head, repackaged them and put them back in the plastic bag.
“Hear this should be enough for two nights.” Flash says handing Sunset the large plastic bag.
This caught Sunset off guard as she stared at the bag full of cooked food and the rocker. She shakes her head and waves her hand as she pushes the bag towards him.
“No, Flash I couldn’t, but thanks anyway.” She says with a smile, but her stomach betrays her as it roars.
“Sunset come on,” Flash pushes the bag right back at her. “I know you don’t like asking for favors like this, but come on I know you don’t enjoy eating those microwave dinners every night.”
Sunset stares at him once more, but slowly she reaches out for the bag and grabs it out his hand. She gave him a nervous look, but not before she pulled out her wallet.
“At least let me pay for it.” She opens her wallet to pull out a few bills.
Flash quickly closes her wallet and shakes his head.
“It’s my treat.”
Sunset lets out a sigh in defeat and puts away her wallet and brings the bag to her side.
“Thanks.”
Before Flash could say anything, his phone began to ring. Reaching into his pocket he pulls out his cellphone and answers.
Sunset notices his face beginning to frown as he listens to whoever it was on the other side.
After a few minutes, Flash hangs up the phone and opens the driver’s seat door.
“Sorry, my dad wants me to head back to the restaurant, he needs me to check the inventory for tomorrow.” Flash waves her goodbye as he gets in his car and drives off.
Sunset watches his car leave and disappear in the distance with the bags of to-go in her hands.
It doesn’t take her long to get back to her apartment. Parking her bike, Sunset walks up the stairs to her door. Walking over to her living room table, Sunset places down the bag Flash gave her and walks over to her room. After a quick shower and a fresh change of clothes, Sunset moves back to the living room and begins to open the to-go boxes.
“Oh…wow.” Is all what Sunset said as she opens each of the boxes.
There were four containers in total, the first box had a steamed lobster with mashed potatoes and asparagus on the side. The next box had grilled salmon with broccoli and two small baked potatoes. The smaller box was nothing but salad and the cylinder container had soup and from the looks of it was clam chowder.
The smell filled the room causing Sunset’s stomach to growl as it couldn’t wait to eat the feast in front of it. She decided that she would eat the lobster and half of the salad and veggies tonight and save the rest for other nights. The food was still relatively warm so Sunset just began to eat it as it is.
Taking the first bite of lobster, Sunset let out a small moan, finally, she was eating good food. The tail was already cut open so she just stuck her fork in there and ripped off another piece of meat. She would scoop up some mash potatoes and then asparagus. Without even realizing, she already finished more than half of the meal before her.
Sunset lets out a sigh as she leans back on her couch with food still in her mouth. She closes her eyes as she smiles as the food in her belly satisfies her hunger.
Come on Sunset, just try a little bit I promise that it’s good.
Sunset sat up from the couch swallowing the food in her mouth. What did she just hear? She looks around to see if there was anything or anyone around her.
“Maybe…” Sunset closes her eyes one more and lets out a breath.
Hey, I thought you said only one bite?
Her eyes pop open once again as she stares at her ceiling.
What was that? It felt so familiar to Sunset, yet she couldn’t figure out what or where it was coming from. It must’ve been something far in her past that she can’t remember that well.
Getting sick and tired of these “voices” Sunset got up from the couch and made her way towards her bedroom. Next to her bed was a small box and inside she kept her geode. With this she can read the minds of others with touch of her hands. She and her friends made their geodes into necklaces, allowing them to wear them and keep them close when needed.
Picking up the geode, Sunset held the small gem in her hand and let out a sigh. She has never done this to herself, usually it was others that she would use her powers on.
She moves back to the couch and sits back down.
“Well I guess there’s only one way to find out if this works or not.” Sunset says, shrugging her shoulders and placing her empty hand on her forehead. A flash of light fills her sight and then images of the past begin to spin like film.
Finally, she stops on a scene where it was her and a certain blue-haired teen sitting in a restaurant. Sunset’s eyes grew wide as she was witnessing a scene from her past…a past before she got her friends and when all she wanted was power. It seems that this was one of the few dates that she and Flash had in the past. Usually, Flash would be the one to ask her for these dates of theirs, she would only say yes to keep their relationship in check along with her status in school.
The scene before her brought back feelings of regret and anger towards herself.
Sunset’s past self was on her phone with a bored expression on her face. Her other hand was tapping on the table showing that she was becoming impatient.
Meanwhile, past Flash was staring at her with a nervous smile. He opens his mouth to say something, but closes it and looks down at his hands. He looks up and stares at the other hand that was tapping on the table. He slowly brings up one of his hands and tries to reach for it. With his hand only an inch away it would seem that he’d be able to make contact, but to both his and future Sunset’s disappointment past Sunset brings her hand in using it to tap at her phone.
Sunset felt a frown growing on her face as she watched her past self completely. The way she carelessly ignores Flash, no doubt that she was planning her next scheme for domination.
The only time that past Sunset would even stare away from her phone was when the waiter came with a tray of food.
The memory fasts forward a bit to where the two were in the middle of their meal.
Her past self-had ordered a salad while Flash had ordered a chicken alfredo pasta. He looks up to past Sunset, another nervous smile on face to see that she was casually eating her meal with her eyes closed. Flash takes a breath and brings up a fork full of pasta with a piece of chicken at the end of the fork.
“Hey you wan-“
“I don’t eat meat, I already told you this before.” Past Sunset interrupts him before he could even finish.
Removing the chicken, Flash brings up the fork again.
“Come on Sunset, just try a little bit I promise that it tastes good.” Flash says a hint of nervousness in voice.
A small smile forms on Sunset’s lips as she watches his kind gesture. She silently curses herself for ignoring something that some people wish they could experience.
“Fine, but only just one bite.” Past Sunset says with a sigh. She looks up to face him with an annoyed expression on her face.
It took Flash a few seconds to realize that she was waiting for him to move towards her. He quickly leans forwards with the fork in hand and brings it up to Sunset’s face.
Past Sunset reluctantly opens her mouth and takes a half a bite of the pasta. This causes Flash to smile and sit back in his seat. As soon as she swallowed the food, she went back to her salad. The smile stays on Flash's face as he goes back to his meal as well. As he was eating his meal, he noticed a fork going into his bowl.
“Hey, I thought you said only one bite?” Flash says with a laugh.
With that the memory ends bringing Sunset back to the future. She drops her arms to her side with the geode falling to the ground. Seeing that memory caused a flood of emotions to fill her as she sat silently on the couch.
She couldn’t believe how one sided the relationship was between her and Flash. She knew that she treated him poorly, but she didn’t think it was so bad that she was forcing him to do anything just so she would talk to him or even look at him. The feeling of anger followed soon after as she began to ridicule herself for acting in such a way.
After the anger, Sunset began to feel something she hasn’t felt in a long time. The image of Flash trying to feed her and how he tries to hold hand got stuck in her head. Her face starts to warm up, she brings her knees to her chest allowing her arms to wrap around them. She buries her face in her knees with the images of Flash still in her head.