//------------------------------// // Chapter I // Story: An Uneasy Alliance // by TheKing2001 //------------------------------// Sunset I sighed as I slumped over in my seat as I was pelted with yet another paper ball, courtesy of Rainbow Dash. Either that or Bon Bon. They were the only two people who sat behind me. I slightly looked back as Bon Bon tossed a glare Rainbows way and Rainbow gave me a dirty look. “Are you done stealing my paper yet?” Bon Bon hissed as she yanked her note book closer to herself. “I get a lot of people don’t like her but that’s my paper you’re using!” “I’ll buy you a new notebook after,” Rainbow grumbled as I felt her gaze burning into my back. “No thanks. Now fuck off kindly,” Bon Bon sneered at her. Internally, I was stunned. Bon Bon barely cursed. I didn’t know the girl well but I did know she wasn’t a swearer. “Class dismissed!” Miss Cheerilee announced as the rest of my classmates stood up. Usually they would be talking to each other but all they did was glare at each other or me as they packed up. “Sunset Shimmer, please stay after class.” “Oooh,” Daisy said in a low tone as she walked past my desk, glaring at me. “Probably finally getting punished anon a bitch.” “And that’s detention Thunderlane,” Miss Cheerilee snapped as some people laughed at him. “Go to Principal Celestia’s office now.” “But she-” Thunderlane began as I cringed internally. I would never say this aloud, but Thunderlane was overrated as fuck. He wasn’t even that good of a soccer player. “I don’t care. Do you want another detention for tomorrow Thunderlane? If you get another, you’ll get kicked off the soccer team,” Miss Cheerilee answered as she folded her arms and narrowed her eyes. Thunderlane wisely kept his mouth shut and left the room with Cloudchaser. I don’t know how he even got her to date him, yet alone tolerate him for five minutes. Rainbow tossed me a glare as she left the room. Soon enough, it was just me, Miss Cheerilee and my little arsenal off paper balls that had been thrown at me all class hour. I was probably going to be blamed, Rainbow was scarily smart at waiting till Miss Cheerilee wasn’t looking. “Did I do something wrong Miss Cheerilee?” I asked nervously as Miss Cheerilee stared at me. I let out a sigh of relief as she shook her head. “No you didn’t. I obviously know you aren’t behind the account that’s tearing the school. What I don’t know is why you didn’t defend yourself against Rainbow Dash throwing the paper balls at you all class.” I gave her a stunned look as I pushed down my anger. If she had known, then not do your job and make her stop? I inhaled and looked back at her. “If you had known, why not stop her?” “Because I was hoping you would have stood up for yourself. The old you wouldn’t have let them get away with this. I’m not advocating for you being a bully but there’s a large difference between self defense and being a bully.” I sighed and shrugged. “The old me wouldn’t have, you’re right. But that would just change nothing,” I answered as Miss Cheerilee stood up and walked over to my desk, sitting on the top as she swept her skirt under her legs and crossed them. “They would still hate me.” “Fair enough. Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna also asked me to escort you to the office. Relax, you’re not in trouble or at least, aren’t to my knowledge,” Miss Cheerilee said with a faint frown. “You can never tell with Vice Principal Luna. She’s a very unreadable person. They both are, no matter how much Luna denies it.” “Joy,” I muttered under my breath as I shoved my papers in my backpack and stood up. “Not like I have any friends to hang out with or anything. Or well, anyone for that matter.” I followed her out of the room, careful to avoid the angry stares of my classmates. At least they wouldn’t do anything with Miss Cheerilee here or the principals office down the hall. Then again, angry teenagers don’t necessarily have the greatest ways of dealing with their anger. Miss Cheerilee pushed open the door to Principal Celestia’s office and I sighed. Vice Principal Luna was leaning against the wall with her arms folded as I sat down. Miss Cheerilee shut the door and sat in the free chair. “I promise this won’t take long Miss Shimmer,” Vice Principal Luna said and I flicked my eyes over to look at her. “We have the police currently looking into this whole thing but are you okay Sunset?” Principal Celestia asked as I grunted in response. “How do you think I feel? Maybe the fact that I’ve gotten framed, betrayed by my so called friends and the whole fucking school should tell you a lot. And all of it happened in the span of a month. So tell me, how do you think I should feel?” I snapped as she nodded. I had expected to get expelled for that or suspended. Don’t even get me started on cussing in front of her, Miss Cheerilee and Vice Principal Luna. “I’m sorry,” I sighed and picked up a pen she had on her desk, spinning it around my fingers. “It’s fine. Which is precisely why I want you to talk to my cousin, Noteworthy. He’s very well versed in talking kids through difficult situations like you,” Principal Celestia explained as she rested her hands on the desk. I quirked my eyebrow at her as I gave her a confused look. “You want me to talk to a shrink?” I asked skeptically. The last person or well, pony I should say, who suggested a shrink had been her and it didn’t go well. “Therapist,” Vice Principal Luna corrected instantly. “He has been used previously to talk to other students during some of the shall we say incidents we’ve had on school property. Primarily the Battle of the Bands and well you know.” “The Fall Formal,” I said flatly as Principal Celestia tossed her sister a glare. “Will you be there?” “We can’t be in the room due to the laws about patient confidentiality because we aren’t your guardians but one of us can be waiting in the lobby for you,” Miss Cheerilee suggested as I looked over at her. “The three of us have all seen therapists at one point in our lives. There’s no shame in talking to someone.” “Miss Cheerilee is right,” Vice Principal Luna chimed in. “Note Worthy helped a great deal in helping me with my issues I had with my sister. Granted, he wasn’t a therapist then because we were just kids but still.” “I’ll consider it,” I said finally as Principal Celestia nodded. “Alright then,” Principal Celestia said as she opened her drawer. She slid a card across from me and I picked it up. “This is his card when you decide. Miss Cheerilee has agreed to take you home since you’re her neighbor.” I had forgotten we both lived in the same apartment complex. I often saw her leaving the building. It had made things quite awkward after the Fall Formal to the point where I had considered moving but Applejack had convinced me to stick it out. Miss Cheerilee was a decent neighbor I suppose. She often held onto my packages when I wasn’t home so they wouldn’t stolen but well, I haven’t really been anywhere but home recently. I stood up and followed Miss Cheerilee out of the office as the door shut gently, a quiet conversation happening behind the door that I strained to hear but failed. Damn humans and their thick wooden doors. “I’m going to be bringing you to school if you wish. Its almost winter and I don’t like you riding that two wheeled death machine in the snow,” Miss Cheerilee said and broke me from my musing. “You mean my motorcycle?” “Yeah.” I sighed as I froze, feeling what felt like a trio of eyes watching us. Miss Cheerilee paused and looked at me. “What is it?” She asked as I shrugged. “I don’t know. But we aren’t alone.” We both looked over the school grounds carefully as snow started to fall. But we didn’t see a thing. “Whoever it was is gone now. Now let’s get going, I wanna get out of here before the snow gets worse.” I gave a nod as I got in Miss Cheerilee’s small car. I still couldn’t shake the feeling that we had been watched. And that made me uncomfortable.