Sunset walked into school and stood in the main hall, watching as everyone made their way to their homeroom, unsure how today would play out. She watched to see if anyone had noticed her entrance, and how they would react to her. Since she remembers things yet to happen, it was reasonable to assume maybe they did too.
For a while no one did, and she decided to start making her way to her own homeroom, that was until Snips and Snails approached her. "Hey Sunset." Snips began "About yesterday..." Sunset froze in place and her eyes went wide as she heard those words, suddenly fearing the worst for today. "...we know we weren't able to get your name up for the Fall Formal yet, so we're gonna do it now."
Sunset calmed down as she realized she was safe, and turned to see Snips walking towards the message board, about to sign Sunset's name down for the Formal, "A-actually, I won't be running for it this year." she said rather slowly, causing them both to turn to her.
"What?! But you always run, and you always win." Snails asked curiously.
"I know, but I just don't feel like running this year." she replied.
"Why not?" Snips asked, just as curious.
"My reasons are my own, you don't need to worry about it." she replied again.
"It's not like you'd lose you know." Snails said. Their constant questions were starting to annoy her, "Oh you're just joki-" he continued.
"I'M NOT RUNNING THIS YEAR OK!?" she snapped at them, causing them both to back away in fear, she felt like punching herself for that. "Sorry about that," she sighed "spread the word will you. Sunset Shimmer won't be running for princess this year." she said in a less demanding voice, as she continued walking towards her homeroom.
Snips and Snails just looked at each other "What was that about?" Snips asked "And, did she just apologize to us as well??"
"We probably shouldn't question it, you know what she's like when she's mad." Snails replied as they both walked off.
As she opened the door and entered her homeroom, everyone took a quick look at who it was, only to look away as soon as they noticed it was her.
"You're la-" her teacher, Harshwinny began, only to stop when she noticed who it was. "Oh Sunset, please take a seat." there was total silence in the room as she did just that.
The door opened again as Lyra made her way in "Sorry I'm late miss."
"Yes you are late, any reason why?" Harshwhinny asked in an annoyed tone.
Usually these were the best parts of the morning for Sunset, Harshwhinny had quite the temper, as the name would suggest, and watching this would bring a huge smile to her face, but today she just watched with a frown. "My- my mum got caught up in traffic on the way here."
"Then you should have left earlier then shouldn't you." she replied, her tone unchanged, "Take your seat."
Sunset got up and walked towards the exit, already bored of this, as Lyra made sure not to make eye contact with her, "Lyra, we have Miss Cheerilee for math next right?" she asked.
"Um, y-yeah we do." she answered nervously, still looking away.
"Tell her I won't be there. Doesn't matter why, so if she asks, just make something up." she then looked at Harshwhinny, "I'll be going now, if that's okay with you Miss?" she asked, already knowing what the answer would be.
"Of course it's alright," she replied in a much lighter tone, "wouldn't want to cause a problem now would we." she mumbled, just loud enough for the class to hear.
"Thanks Miss." she said as she made her way out and walked towards the library.
When she reached the library she looked around to see it empty, as the librarian Cheerilee was now teaching math. "Good, no one's here." she said as she made her way to the table furthest from view and sat down, resting her head on the table.
"I've got one week of this, one more week as 'queen' of this place, so what do I do with it?" she sighed "One week of seeing just how bad I am. Maybe I should just disappear now, go back home and don't come back til it's open. That would be best."
Sunset just sat there for the whole hour, barely moving, until she heard the bell that signified break, this told her her time of just sitting around was done for now, as she left the quiet library, and into the loud the corridors.
As she made her way to her locker, she did her best to not look at anyone, knowing exactly what she would see, and she did just that, until unexpectedly, someone actually called her.
"Hey Sunset!" she looked up to see it was Trixie of all people. "Hi... Trixie was just wondering, is the recent rumour about you true?"
Sunset quickly scanned over her, despite her trying to hide it, it was clear that Trixie was nervous about this, "What rumour?"
Trixie showed her her phone with a message on it, "This one. Apparently you're not running this year, is that true?"
Sunset Shimmer won't be running for princess of the Fall Formal this year, spread the word.
Snips+Snails.
"It seemed to come directly from them so, Trixie would believe it's true but, I just wanted to know from you." she said, partly expecting Shimmer to blow up at her.
"Yep, it's true," everyone in the corridor began talking to one another, "so if you want to run for it, go ahead. I won't try and stop you." she said as she continued walking.
"Wait, real-" Trixie was cut off by the bell, her surprised face turned to a rather smug one, as she walked to her next lesson, "That's good to know."
By the time lunch came around, Sunset was rather bored of everything, she had had enough of sitting around doing nothing but staring out a window for two hours.
She then noticed Snips and Snails approach and sit down next to her, "We're pretty sure near enough the whole school knows now, you know about you not running for princess." Snips said.
Snails noticed the rather gloomy face Sunset had, something neither of them had ever seen from her before, "Are you ok?"
"You two... you ever feel like changing things around here?" she replied.
"Changing things, what do you mean by that?" Snails asked.
"You know, like the way we do things around here."
"Not really, I like things the way they are." Snips replied.
"Me to, this is our school, why would we want it any different?" Snails answered.
"That's what I was afraid you'd say." she mumbled as she got up, "I'm going home now, see you two tom... I recommend you both stay away from me from now on." she told them as she walked off, only for them to follow behind.
"Wait, what do you mean, did we do something?" one of them asked.
"You're the one who asked us to spread the word about you not running." the other said as they all left the cafeteria.
"You three are pathetic!" a third voice said, catching Sunset's attention, she looked left to see Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and the three crusaders, the former being the one who spoke.
"Will you two just leave us alone already?" Scootaloo replied to her.
"Why? What are you gonna do?" Diamond asked. something about her was making Sunset very angry, but she couldn't quite pinpoint what.
"Well, what are you gonna do? Because last I checked you can't do anything to us." Tiara laughed, Silver noticed Sunset and whispered something in Diamond's ear, causing her smug smile to grow even bigger.
Sunset finally realized what was making her so angry, Diamond Tiara was just like her, a snob who spoke down to those around her without a care in the world, and that realization sent her over the edge as she walked towards them with a newfound fire in her eye.
"Well we'll..." Sweetie began, but froze as soon she saw who was approaching.
"Oh, what was that? I didn't quite hear you."
"Shut up kid." Tiara turned around to see Shimmer's gaze fixated on her, not the three opposite her.
"Wait... are you talking to me?" she asked as a cold shiver went down her spine.
"I said shut up! And leave them alone from now on." Shimmer answered, still glaring down at her.
"Is she... sticking up for us?"
"I... I thinks so."
"Shut up will you, don't make her any angrier than she already is."
"You're just joki-" Diamond began, but was immediately silenced by Sunset.
"I SAID SHUT IT!" they both froze on the spot, "Now let me make somethings clear for you. One, I'm in a bad mood right now, two, I can't be bothered to listen to anything you may have to say, three, your pathetic laughing is giving me a headache, and fourth, I really don't like you in particular, you rich little daddys girl. So unless you want to pay the nurse a visit, you'll do us all a favour and listen. NOW GET LOST!!!!"
They did just that, leaving the crusaders paralysed in place as Sunset tried to calm herself down, she then turned to them, "You three okay?"
Scootaloo gave Applebloom a slight push, "Hey... Um, yeah we're okay," Bloom answered, unsure herself as to what just happened, "thanks for that."
Sunset just sighed to herself and looked at the floor, "I shouldn't have done that." she groaned before looking back at them "I never really liked her anyway so, if she causes you anymore trouble... just let me know." she said, unsure how they would take that.
"S-sure we will," Scootaloo replied rather quickly, "but we gotta get going now, see you."
The three crusaders hurried away. "You okay?" Snips asked.
"I'm okay," Sunset had almost forgotten they were there, "I'm going home, remember what I said to you two." she said as she walked off.