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// Home, Sweet Home 
// Story: Jolly Sailor Bold 
// by AntiBronyBenSwolo 
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You open the door to the apartment building, and let Sonata in, leading her to your apartment door. As you lead Sonata into the building, you hear Charity booming with a hearty laughter.
"Hey kid. Who's the girl?" Charity asks, scaring Sonata to hide behind you. You see Charity looking on, and decide to introduce your new friend.
"Charity, this is Sonata. I kind of paid for her food when she attempted to rob the grocery store." You say, as Charity walks up to her, clicking his tongue in disappointment.
"Well, you're lucky you stopped her and paid the food. Lord knows what would have happened if she got caught. Her parents must be so upset." Charity said, accidentally causing Sonata to tear up. You see a single tear and decide to hold her tight to prevent her from crying a river.
"Sonata, what's wrong?" You ask Sonata, as she starts to feel at least a little better.
"I don't have any parents." Sonata answered, causing her to tear up some more. You and Charity felt remorse for the poor Sonata, as the two of you felt there was only one thing to do.
"Well, if you're orphaned, kid, you could always stay here with us." Charity proposed to Sonata. He eyes lit up with joy. She never heard anyone felt so generous to her before. Well, maybe she has, but it wasn't directed at her. Sonata jumped up and gave you a graceful hug. You haven't felt this way since you first ran away, causing you to tear up a little.
"Thank you." She said though her tears. She finished hugging and went up the stairs to see where your apartment is. You just stood there, looking on as you saw her as joyous as she can be.
"Oh, she's a keeper all right, kid." Charity quipped, causing your face to turn a bright red. As you walked back up the stairs to let Sonata into your room, you stopped yourself, as you almost forgot to give Charity the change for the groceries. You got the 15 dollars from out of your pocket, and handed it to Charity, who closed your hand.
"I don't need this money, but if you're saying you don't want it, I say you should give it to your friend. She needs it more than either of us do at this point." Charity said, heading back to his room to watch his TV shows and whatnot. You walked up the stairs to find Sonata Dusk confused by the many doors.
"Which one's yours?" Sonata asked you. You lead her to your room, and the two of you enter. Sonata was less than impressed when she saw it. You did very little to take care of your apartment, and even if you did, it would still look shabby.
"I know my apartment isn't the best in the world, but at least it's home." You said. Sonata felt less disgusted and a little better by that fact. She remembered how every apartment and hotel room she slept in wasn't really good either, so it shouldn't really have mattered anyways.
"Hey, it could be worse." Sonata joked. The both of you chucked, as you grabbed a couple plastic cups and poured some soda into it, and handed Sonata one of the cups. She took a sip of her drink and saw your DVD player. Curious, she walked over and pulled it out. She's never seen a device like the one you have
"What does this do?" Sonata asks, holding it up. You take the device from her, like a mother would a child.
"It's my portable DVD player. I use it to watch movies in places without a TV. Like here for example. Sonata looked around and realized there really wasn't a television anywhere in sight. You sat down on your mattress and plugged in your player. Sonata decided to sit next to you and examine it's screen.
"What kind of movies do you watch?" She asks, as you get up, putting the DVD player next to Sonata, and pulled out your movie collection.
"I've got tons of interests, and I don't know where to start." You saw, with a giddy chuckle in your voice. "What do you wanna watch?" You ask Sonata, piling the movie collection next to her, as she examined movie after movie after movie. From Star Wars, to Jaws, to Indiana Jones, to Lord of the Rings. She was amazed by your movie collection, but there was one that really caught her eye: Pirates of the Caribbean. She places the movie on your lap.
"Can we watch this?" Sonata asks, pulling off a puppy dog eye look.
"With a look like that, how could I possibly say no?" You said, as you started up the movie. As you watched the film with her, and pretended like you were in the film with her, Sonata was perfectly entranced by the movie, almost as if she was hypnotized. As the film went on, she held onto you when she got scared by the intense scenes, either it being action or scary. Near the end of the film, you watched over Sonata to see her reaction, only to find her asleep. So you moved over the DVD player and laid her head on your lap, and covered her with an old blanked of yours. It was kind of adorable to see her sleep in this position. You were no psychic, but you could tell that this never happened to Sonata before, and she wanted it to always be like this. And in the sketchiest part of Canterlot, no doubt.
Then suddenly, without warning, a loud banging sound can be heard on the door. Whoever was banging woke Sonata up, and you got up to see who was there. Before you could answer it, the door flung open, knocking you backwards. Suddenly, a girl with purple skin and hair with a green outfit grabbed you by the collar of your shirt and just started yelling, threatening to punch you. 
"WHO ARE YOU!?!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO SONATA!?!?" The purple girl said, as an orange skinned and haired girl with a purple outfit ran over to Sonata and comforted her as if you were about to attack them.
"Sonata, are you okay? Did he do anything to you?" The orange girl asked, only causing mild discomfort to Sonata.
"Adagio, I'm fine. What are you doing?" Sonata asked, as Adagio and the purple girl looked at each other.
"We've come to rescue you. Last we saw you, you were gonna get some food, then you just disappeared." Adagio explained.
"Well, technically, I rescued her." You said, still suspended by your shirt. The purple girl got annoyed really fast.
"Nobody asked you, you little..." The purple one threatened, until Sonata interrupted her.
"Aria, could you please put him down? He's been nothing but nice to me all day." Sonata asked, giving Aria the same puppy dog eyes as she did to you. Aria sighed and put you down.
"Fine. My arms were getting tired anyways." Aria said, as you coughed for air. Sonata walked by your side and comforted you.
"I take it these are your friends?" You asked, as you got back up. Sonata was nervous about all of this, but nodded. You walked over to your bed and settled back down.
"Well, yeah. I'm Adagio Dazzle, and the one who was gonna punch your teeth in is Aria Blaze." Adagio answered, as Aria grumbled. She felt so mad she really wanted to punch something. Or someone. After all that happened, you realized one thing very important: Sonata's friends are just as homeless as her.
"So. You girls need a place to live? I think there's a spare apartment down the hall, though you have to ask Charity if you could stay." You offered to Adagio and Aria. Sonata smiled, and was exited to live in the same apartment building as her new friend. Adagio and Aria, however, were confused.
"Where is this 'Charity' guy again?" Aria asked, and Sonata jumped down and led her two friends down the stairs to ask if the three of them could live in an apartment, and if you know Charity long enough, it's that "No" could not be in his vocabulary. And people call these parts the sketchiest place in all of Canterlot.