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// New Friends 
// Story: My Past Does not Define Me 
// by MLPEGRRR 
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Students mobbed through the hallway after the bell rang. They all shoved past the orange girl with fire-colored hair holding a lunchbox struggling to go the other way, not even pausing to help her or apologize. The girl was used to this, though. She experienced it every day since the Fall Formal. She knew she deserved the angry glares that shot her way and the mean comments whispered behind her back when she passed someone in the hallway.

This girl was Sunset Shimmer. She had only recently been reformed and no one accepted her apologies yet. No one except for Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Twilight, who had gone back to Equestria through the portal in the statue in the front lawn. They're the reason she isn't taking over Equestria right now. It's a long story...

Sunset finally reached where she was going and stopped to catch her breath, leaning against a doorway. There really are a lot of people who hate me right now, she thought. When she looked up, she saw 5 girls waiting for her in the room. She smiled and walked in. At least it isn't everybody.

"Hey, guys!" She waved shyly. "You said you wanted me to join you for lunch, right?"

"Of course!" Rainbow Dash patted the chair next to her for Sunset to come sit down. Sunset did and set her lunch box on the table.

"Why aren't we eating in the cafeteria?" she asked.

"We have something to talk about." Rarity explained. Sunset nodded, waiting to hear more.

"It's just that we all feel really bad about how terribly you're being treated." Fluttershy said. "And we want to do something about it. So, um..."

"What we're trying to say is..." Rainbow said.

"We'd allow ya to be our friends now, If you'd like." Applejack finished. Sunset was stunned.

"B-but I'm the one who first made you all enemies!" she sputtered. "I can't accept it." She looked down at her feet.

"Oh, come on! Do you think we're still angry about that?" Rainbow laughed. "All that's in the past now. All you have to think about right now is, well, right now." She winked at Sunset.

"Actually, we kind of are still angry-" Pinkie started before Rainbow nudged her hard with her elbow, telling her to not say that. She rubbed her arm.

"Really?" Sunset asked hopefully, looking up. "I, never really had any friends before..."

"Well now you do!" Pinkie exclaimed. Sunset smiled. Maybe now she would finally have a chance at changing what everyone thought about her.