//------------------------------// // The Secret That You Keep // Story: The Sunsister and The Snowbrother // by FoundFamily //------------------------------// Sunset was silent as she remembered what happened next. “The worst day of my life…Part 2.” Sunset was feeling rather uneasy right now. As soon as she entered the school, all eyes were on her. Every student were holding their phones as they glared at her with cold disdain. Sunset felt a shiver go down her spine. “What the hell is going on?” She asked herself. This was rather reminiscent of the Fall Formal aftermath, where everyone had a ton of anger and rage against her and now she was at the bottom. Sunset soon saw her friends by the lockers, who were not to pleased to see her. “Hey, girls. Anyone know what is going on?” She asked. “Sunset’ Rarity began ‘Do you have your phone on you?” he asked. “Yeah…why?” Sunset asked with a raised brow. “Nothing. Why don’t you take a look?” Applejack said, teeth gritted as she handed her phone to the girl, to which she took it. One look on the webpage and her eyes widened. “WHAT?!” On it were the pictures of the girls in a variety of outfits, like they were just picked from the closet. "How did she get our pictures?" Sunset cried as she was looking through Applejack's phone. "They're not our pictures Sunset," Rainbow Dash said coolly, causing Sunset to look up at her. "They're yours!" "All those pictures were taken by you!" Applejack added. Everyone was in the hall, watching the exchange. Some were even recording it. Sunset, took a step back at that. Were they seriously accusing her of this?! "Wait, but– I've had my phone all this time! How did she–" "Yeah, how did she!?" Applejack interrupted Shimmer as she went up to Shimmer's face with narrowed eyes and snatched her phone back from Sunset. "How did she know about my nickname? How did she get the pictures from your phone!" Applejack then pointed accusingly at Sunset, "It was you all along! You're Anon-a-Miss!" "We trusted you Sunset!" Rainbow Dash said in her anger tone. "We thought you were our friend!" "How could you do this? After all we've been through together!" Rarity said disappointingly, couldn't bring herself to look at Sunset. "No wait, you guys– I didn't do this!" Sunset cried desperately. "I could never hurt any of you!" "But you did!" Pinkie Pie accused her in an upset tone. "You must've just been pretending to be our friend, when all along you were just after our secrets! You– you secret stealer!" "No! NO! I don't know how she got this stuff, but it–it wasn't me!" Sunset pleaded to her friends who clearly did not believe her judging with their hands on their hips with the exception of Applejack who just crossed her arms and Fluttershy just standing there staring at Sunset. "I'm not this person!" "No you're not!" Fluttershy exclaimed angrily with tears spilling from her eyes. "You're not the person we thought you were! You're not our friend!" "No, I... I am! I promise!" Sunset cried. "This is it Sunset!" Applejack declared in her most hard tone Apple Bloom had ever heard as Applejack lowered her hat over her eyes. "You're not going to take advantage of us any more! I'm sorry, but you did this to us!" Applejack then turned away from Sunset. "Tell whatever secrets you want! But we don't have to listen!" With that, all of the remaining Rainbooms left Sunset as she fell to her knees as she wept, while the other students also left, leaving the poor girl alone in her misery. Lincoln looked shocked as he dropped his muffin. “Wow. Just…I have no words.” He said in a shocked tone. “Yeah. You’d think they would give me the benefit of the doubt. Instead, they assumed it was me without any proof.” She spoke. Lincoln was silent before he asked something. “May I see the webpage?” Sunset looked confused but handed him her phone, showing the Anon-a-Miss page. When Lincoln saw it, his eyes furrowed with confusion. “Question. Those ‘friends’ of yours.’ She looked at the boy, who looked back with a glare. ‘Did they get hit on the head with the moron stick?” “Huh?” “Because only a complete moron would believe this!” He exclaimed. “Seriously?! I may not know you all that much but, I know when someone is trying to spill secrets. And rule number one is: Don’t make it obvious! I mean, your silhouette and your colours?! Seriously?! If they were trying to frame you, then those girls must be the biggest boneheads on the dang planet! This looks like something done in 30 minutes!” Sunset was handed the phone back. ‘It really says something when an 11-year-old kid knows this was a frame job and five teens in high school have think it was the obvious one without proof.’ She thought to herself. “I’m guessing that it didn’t end there, huh?” Lincoln asked. Sunset frowned as the memories came “No.” “No, it did not…”