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// XIV~Christmas Day(Shadowbolts) 
// Story: Anon-A-Miss: Another Way 
// by King_Again 
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Christmas Day(Shadowbolts)

It had been Hawkthorn to wake up first before grinning ear to ear and jumped on Sour, who woke up with a glare at her little brother, before rolling over to shake Sunny awake, who woke up Lemon. Of course Lemon just yelled out Christmas, waking up Indigo, Sugarcoat, and Sunset. 

Indigo groaned loudly before rubbing her eyes. "The fuck Lemon!?" she growled, ignoring Sour's glare for cursing. "It's literally, like, six in the morning. Can't it wait until, say, eight?"

"Nope!" Lemon shook her head. "Not today, dude!"

"Jesus," Sunset whispered. "You'd make a good alarm clock for how loud you can get, Lemon." 

"Thanks." Lemon smiled.

Sunny rolled her eyes before stretching her arms. "That's Lemon for you, always taking things as a compliment, unless she can tell it's an insult, then you'll get her all silent before she unleashes one right back at you." Lemon threw her a thumbs up.

"Yup!"

Sunset laughed before rubbing her arm, catching Sugarcoat's gaze before gulping, giving a nervous smile. "Anyways, should we get breakfast before opening up presents? Or should we jump right in because Hawkthorn is eyeing his presents like there's no tomorrow."

"I'm just seeing which one's bigger!" Hawkthorn protested, puffing out his cheeks. 

Sour patted her brother's head. "Sure you are."

"Let's do presents first," Indigo commented. "It's what I've always done." 

"Presents than breakfast, sounds good!" Lemon replied.

A few minutes later, wrapping paper was on the floor, breakfast was made and everyone was chatting away, Hawkthorn playing his new video games for the girls to watch as he created his character of an High Elf, and everything was good and joyful. Like a christmas should be until Sunset felt her phone buzz and she groaned. 

Another text of hateful names.

But, it wasn't that at all.

Her eyes widened when she realized it was a handful of texts apologizing for thinking she was Anon-A-Miss, and she quickly went onto MyStable to see Sweetie Bell, Applebloom, and Scootaloo confessed they were Anon-A-Miss, a bunch of replies cursing at them, along with threats. 

But they surely wouldn't confess out of the blue, would they? Who caught them?

"Watcha looking at?" Indigo asked, peering over her shoulder to see the post. "Those three? Hey! Ain't Sweetie Bell the one with the post of a makeup fail? I saw a lot of comments about how cute that was for an freshman. But, she looked like she was eight in the picture."

"But who solved it?" Sunset questioned. 

"Who cares? Everyone knows you're innocent!" Indigo beamed. "But they ain't going to get the chance to properly tell you they're sorry because you're at Crystal Prep now... which reminds me, what about Sugarcoat's final present?"

Sunset flushed up. "Do we have to do this right now?"

"Yup! Look, I'll set it up," Indigo offered. "I'll tell her you wanna say something in private. Use the hallway."

"No, I'll..." Sunset took a deep breath before standing up. "I'll do it myself." 

Indigo nodded. "Go get her tiger!"

Sunset rolled her eyes before tapping Sugarcoat on the shoulder and telling her she needed to speak with in private, and Sour told them to speak in her bedroom, giving them enough space to talk, and Sunset thanked her before pulling Sugarcoat's hand towards Sour's bedroom.

Inside the bedroom, Sunset rubbed her shoulder and took a deep breath before speaking.

"Look, I know this might sound awkward and weird..." Sunset started, nervously tapping her fingers together, "But, look, you were the first person to ever listen to me during this whole mess, and yeah, I could talk back and forth with one of my other friends who lives... in a different state, but even she couldn't do much..."

Sugarcoat rose an eyebrow. "Where are you going with this?"

"I'm... I'm trying to say that, you might not... you know, feel the same... but I know that..." Sunset gulped, "I know I feel this way for you and I never really realized it...."

"Are you trying to say you like me?" Sugarcoat asked, getting to the point. 

"Yeah, I am."

Sugarcoat took a moment. "And you thought to confess this way by yourself?"

Sunset laughed, rubbing her neck. "Well, actually, Indigo gave me the idea when we were shopping for your presents, and she thought it would be a good final present for you..."

"And here I thought she'd be the one to confess," Sugarcoat smiled. "I know she still has some sort of feeling towards me, but to be honest, I'm glad she didn't."

"Really?" Sunset asked, eyes wide. "So... you'll have me? You're okay with me?"

Sugarcoat nodded. "Yes, I'm willing to give it a shot."





The rest of the day, the group had went out for a walk. It wasn't the best thing in the world, but it was another way to spend time together. At one point, they went to the park and started to have fun there. Lemon rolling around in the snow with Indigo, while Sunny and Sour started up a snowball fight.

Sugarcoat and Sunset just sat down to speak, Sunset wrapped an arm around Sugarcoat's waist to pull her closer. As much as Sugarcoat didn't like the idea of public affection, she didn't mind it. As long as it didn't go overboard, wanting affection every few minutes.

"Anyone want some hot chocolate?" Sunset asked as she and Sugarcoat stood up. 

"Me!" Indigo and Lemon said at the same time.

Sunny nodded. "Sure."

"Alright, why not?" Sour agreed.

Sunset smiled and nodded. "We'll go get them, just stay and have fun."

They headed into Sugarcube Corner and grabbed the order of hot chocolate, and while Sunset paid for the order, Sugarcoat sat the cup holder down on a table to adjust her jacket a bit before hearing the door opened, and one look told her this wouldn't end well.

The Rainbooms stood by the doors and they looked guilty, expect for Rarity. That's when Sugarcoat saw a trio behind them, looking equally, maybe more, guilty than the Rainbooms did and she frowned. Surely this would be a good sight to see, but she could tell Sunset wouldn't be happy.

Sunset turned back to her girlfriend after paying. "Let's go..." She stopped when she saw the look on Sugar's face. "Er, Sugar, what's wrong?"

"Sunset!" Pinkie's usual voice piped up and Sunset paled. "We need to talk with you!"

"And I don't want to talk with you," Sunset replied, taking Sugar's hand and the cup holder in her other hand. "Now, if you excuse us..."

"But we really need to talk with ya," Applejack pleaded. "Just give us a few moments."

"No," Sunset shook her head.

Rarity bite her lip. "Please, Sunset, we have the real Anon-A-Miss with us..."

Sunset sighed heavily and shook her head, "I know. I saw the post." She glared at the trio of freshman and growled deeply, narrowing her eyes. "Little fuckers, messing up my life so badly... but you did do two good things for me."

"We did?" Sweetie asked. "What's that?"

"You helped me meet Sugar," Sunset replied, kissing Sugarcoat's head. "That's one, and the other is you helped me meet my real friends through Sugar. So, I thank you for that."

Rainbow rubbed her neck. "It's... like, too late for sorries?"

"Way too late," Sunset frowned, "Now leave me alone."

They left before the Rainbooms could get another word out.