//------------------------------// // Sins Of My Past // Story: Spring Break // by pabrony //------------------------------// I slowly looked over my shoulder to see an aqua unicorn with tears in her eyes. My little sister, Breaking Dawn, that I hadn't seen or even spoke to in nearly four years had a look on her face that expressed both confusion and joy. I felt my own eyes begin to water as I nervously made my way back to the front door. "Yes, Dawnie," I said solemnly. "It... it's me." After another minute of looking at each other, Dawnie galloped as fast as she could and wrapped both forelegs around me. Nothing was said between us, but there wasn't any way for us to speak due to the both of us crying. I managed to catch a glimpse at Twi through my tear-filled eyes and saw her nod in approval with a small smile on her face. "Dawn?" I heard a stallion call from inside the house. "Who's at the door sweetheart? Dawn?" As the hoofsteps grew closer, I heard an audible gasp of surprise. I did my best to look in the doorway but all I could see was a large orange blob. "Misty, come here," he shouted. "Quick!" Dawnie and I finally settled down and I wiped her tears from her face before cleaning my own. However as soon as my vision was restored, it became blocked once more as my parents Sunfire and Misty Dawn embraced me as tightly as they could at the same time. "Oh Sunny, we've missed you so much," said mom, trying to hold back her tears. "Thank Celestia that you're safe." The feeling that I was missing for years finally returned to me as I stood up on my hind legs and put a foreleg around each of my parents. I couldn't get the words to form in my mouth as to how I felt, temporarily rendering me mute. Silence filled the front yard as I looked at the clouds with tears returning to my eyes, broken only by the sound of me beginning to cry. "You... you're not mad at me for leaving without a trace?" I whispered through my sobs. "No, Sunset," dad answered as he and mom let me go. "We were more worried than anything else," said mom, wiping my tears away. "Let's go inside so we can talk about it and you can introduce us to your friend." As we walked into the house, Twi discreetly nuzzled my cheek and in response I whispered, “Thank you, babe.” My parents and sister led Twi and me to the den where we could sit comfortably and have some tea while we caught up. "Before we start catching up I'd like to formally introduce my, umm, uhh..." I stammered slightly. "Her girlfriend," Twi finished for me. "SciTwi Sparkle, a distant cousin of Princess Twilight Sparkle." "Girlfriend?" Dawnie asked with a look of confusion. "Is that like someone you're in love with?" "That's exactly what she is. It's a long story, to be honest," I explained as mom entered the room and began pouring tea for everypony. I waited for mom to settle down next to dad before I began telling my story. I told them about how conceited, arrogant and selfish that I had become. Then about the mirror that led me to the human realm and how I turned everyone at Canterlot High against each other. As my story progressed, my voice got noticeably quieter as the shame and embarrassment of what I did set in. As I looked into my parents' eyes I began seeing the disappointment on their faces. "Sunset, what caused you to do all of this bad stuff? You've always been kind and respectful towards others before you became Celestia's personal student," dad said as tears began filling my eyes once more. "I... I don't know," I cried. "I'm so sorry I let the both of you down. You wanted me to be a positive influence on Dawnie and I... I blew it." Twi scooted closer to me so that our bodies were touching before nuzzling the underside of my jaw. I closed my eyes in a futile effort to stop the tears from flowing. The amount of shame I was feeling at the moment was overwhelming but I knew that I needed to finish telling the rest of my story. "After thirty moons had passed, I returned to Equestria to steal the Element of Magic from Princess Twilight," I continued once my confidence returned. "I had planned to enslave the students of the school to help overthrow the princesses and become ruler of Equestria." "What changed your mind?" mom asked after taking a sip of her tea. I let out a sigh before replying, "Princess Twilight and her friends from the other realm were able to summon powers and hit me with a magical rainbow laser beam." "I thought you said that place didn't have any magic," mom said. "It didn't until I brought Princess Twilight's crown into that world," I replied. "Well, it kinda didn't. I'll explain that in a minute." "Okay then," she said in response. "Um, Shimmy? What happened to your legs?" Dawnie asked pointing to my scars from last year. "I'm getting to that part," I told her. "Anyway, the princess returned to Equestria and left me there to learn the ways of friendship." "Why?" dad asked. "I would think that she'd bring you back with her since you're from Equestria." "I haven't got a clue," I answered. "While I was crawling out of the crater the rainbow laser made, with my vision blurred by the tears flooding my eyes, she told me that her friends would be able to teach me about friendship." Mom and dad looked at each other in confusion about what I had said. Not that I blame them. I'm personally still confused to this day about the post-Fall Formal events regarding me and Twilight. "So is that when you got your scratches?" Dawnie asked, obviously focused on my scars. "Not exactly," I said as I began explaining the story behind the Sirens and how they got to the human realm. I also told them about my activities (or lack thereof) between the Fall Formal, when the Sirens arrived at CHS and Twilight returning to help defeat them. "So that leads me to these," I said, motioning toward the scars. "Humans suffering from depression will sometimes intentionally cut their bodies to defer the emotional pain in their head to physical pain. And..." "You felt the need to see if it worked?" dad finished. "Yes," I confirmed. "It did work as long as I could see the blood coming from my arms. Once it scabbed over, I felt the emotional hurt return." "Why didn't you talk to your friends about how you were feeling?" dad asked. "I didn't know how to bring up the subject. I was still unsure about where I stood socially with them." "Do they still hurt?" Dawnie asked as she reached out to feel the scars. I shook my head, signaling that it was okay for her to feel them. I resumed my story from the Battle Of The Bands welcome party until my talk with Twilight at Pinkie's house when I brought the number of cuts up to eight. "How many more times did you cut yourself, Sunny?" mom asked with worry in her eyes. "Seventeen if you don't count the cut from..." I trailed off, unsure how to explain that I attempted suicide in the school bathroom. "From what?" dad asked. I looked at Twi and she nodded after realizing what I wanted. I didn't have it in me to admit to my family that I was minutes from ending my life in an alternate world. “It was before we met, but Sunny told me about how she came extremely close to committing suicide,” Twi told them. You could feel the shock move through the room as the truth set in. I was in tears as well as my mom and sister. Dad managed to get his voice back first between the three of them and asked me, “How close, Sunset?” I wiped my eyes, swallowed the knot in my throat, took a deep breath and replied, “I… I was in the process of cutting the primary vein in my arm when Twilight  found me by accident.” “By accident? What do you mean?” Dad asked gently. “She happened to come into the restroom for a quick breather from all the stress just as I was beginning to draw blood,” I explained. "It was a very intense couple of minutes. She reminded me of the mental strength that resided within me and promised to be there for me whenever I needed somepony." "Shimmy that's so sad that stuff happened to you," Dawnie said as she squeezed between me and Twi in order to give me another hug. "So what happened after Twilight saved you?" mom asked. I responded by telling them about my involvement in the Battle Of The Bands, the task of figuring out what was causing the girls to randomly pony up and how me and Twi met. "The first few weeks were kind of rough between us," Twi said, joining the conversation now that we were at a point where she knew what was going on. "My first sleepover was at Sunny's apartment with the others and I found her in the bathroom with her last four cuts in the middle of the night." "What was the reason for those, Sunny?" mom inquired. "I was feeling guilty about how poorly I was treating Twi as a friend," I told her. "I had a dream that night that reminded me of how I was treating Twi wasn't any different than how I was treated a few moons earlier." "Even though I had been feeling hurt, I managed to comfort Sunny enough that she was able to lay down and go back to sleep," Twi added. "Even though I got in trouble the next day by my mother for having her blood all over my brand new pajamas." "I think the more important part of that situation is you were there for Sunny when she needed you, regardless of what happened with your clothing," mom told her. "My mother said something similar after I explained where the blood came from," Twi responded. "Sounds like your mother is a wise mare," mom said. "Woman," I corrected her and proceeded to give the human equivalent term of each gender, adult, and child. "So is there any more to your life in this other world or universe or whatever you want to call it?" dad asked me. "Well... should I tell them about all the events of Camp Everfree?" I asked Twi with a nervous smile. "What do you mean by 'all the events'? Sunset, what did you do?" dad asked with a raised eyebrow. I let out a nervous chuckle before replying, "I may or may not have tried to seduce Twi on the second day of camp." "What does that mean?" Dawnie asked enthusiastically. "Umm, I, uh... perhaps a, uh, crash course in, um, human anatomy would be needed to, um, explain this part," I said as I felt my face beginning to blush heavily. "How about we skip that part of the story," Mom suggested, much to my relief. Me and Twi each told my family about what happened during our time at camp before Gloriosa turned into Gia Everfree (minus Twi getting an eyeful of my breasts, of course). "After camp we, well our friend Pinkie Pie, threw a, ahem, unique party for another one our friends," I told them. "If it's okay, I'd prefer to leave those details out while Dawnie is in the room." The mention of Rainbow's "Loss of Virginity" party seemed to reignite the flame that was currently residing inside Twi's reproductive system. Her eyes lit up and I knew exactly what was on her mind as she attempted to kiss me. "Later," I whispered quietly in her ear before returning to the tale. "Anyway, we continued our friendship until Valentine's Day when this little minx tricked me into revealing my feelings for her in front of the entire class at school.” "What's Valentine's Day?" Dawnie asked. "It's the human equivalent of Hearts And Hooves Day; although humans tend to get more, what would be the best term, intimate than ponies do," I said as the twinkle in Twi's eyes continued to get brighter. "How about we cut off the storytelling there?" dad suggested. "Oh thank you," I sighed. Honestly, I was beginning to get a little horny from those memories and I think my parents could tell. Meanwhile, Dawnie was protesting the decision to keep the rest of our "adventures" to ourselves. "So how long will you two be staying in Equestria?" mom asked, changing the subject. "And do you have a place to stay while you're here?" "We have a hotel room booked for us to stay for the next three days," I replied. "No, you don't," dad said sternly. "What?! Why?" I asked. "Because you're going to stay here instead," he said. "We still have your room set up from when you still lived here, except for the bed. We figured if you ever came back you would need a larger bed to sleep in," mom told us. "And yes it's big enough for the both of you." I saw the excited look on Twi's face when mom said that. “Mom? Dad? Since Twi and myself are grown adults, would it be okay for her and I to, umm, you know,” I said my face felt like it was on fire from embarrassment. Mom and dad both blushed slightly at what I said but understood what I meant. “It'll be fine as long as the door stays locked and you cast a soundproofing spell so the rest of us won't hear you two, umm, play,” mom said with a small smile. “We understand that certain… activities need to take place when a mare is in heat.” "How did you know Twi was in heat?!” I said in shock. "I picked up her scent as we were coming in the house,” dad admitted. "Please don't tell me you want to mount my marefriend, dad," I begged. "As attractive as she is, I'm married to your mother and I'll always be faithful to her," he reassured me. "Bummer," I heard behind me. "I kind of wanted to… Phunny!” I quickly made my way back to Twi just in time to cover her muzzle so Dawnie wouldn't hear something that she probably wouldn't need to. "Hey, babe. I have an idea," I told Twi. "How about you and Dawnie take your things up to my room?" After thinking for a moment, she agreed and gave me a kiss. When I was sure she was out of earshot I asked my parents to move in close so I could talk to them quietly.” "There's something that's been bothering me for a while," I said. "And it's about my relationship with Twi."