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// A Friend No More 
// Story: The Shimmer In Her Eyes, And The Sunset On Her Body 
// by MyLittleGeneration 
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	Man. After that, I was kinda hurt. And guilty. Arin, my best friend, has left me. And for a pretty good reason. I told RD the truth that Arin loved her, then she denied, and as Arin heard about me telling her, of course he would snap. I'd do the same. But now that he's gone and away from us, it seems a little depressing without him. Yet, I think it's the same for him, too.

But, I wasn't the only guilty one. Rainbow was a guilty-feeling person, too. She certainly felt like it was all her fault that Arin is just all angry and such, why he wasn't a friend anymore. Surely she liked him, a lot, but not to the point of loving him. And for that, she said no, crushing his poor heart. We both felt bad, and usually Dash would keep talking to herself about Arin, and even replaying the event, rewriting it. Like she would pretend she was having the conversation with Arin, then she would say 'yes' instead of 'no' to Arin. It looked pretty scary to look at, and mostly to think about. She looked like she was falling apart, though she really wasn't. Thank God for that. Really she shouldn't be like that. If anything, I should. If Arin was told 'no' by just Rainbow Dash, and she never knew about him liking her from me, Arin would probably not be angry and we'd still be friends. So in Heinz sight, it was my fault.

Sunset was still by my side, as always, but talks to me about Arin at times. How I confessed to Dash about Arin's crush. I started to just regret telling Dash about it immediately. I then talked back to Sunset, answering her, but I still had a hurt feeling. Cause believe it or not, everytime she asks or talks about him and the incident, Arin was always around. He'd be hiding in the crowd somewhere, but I was pretty sure he didn't listen, but knew about us talking to him. I'm not sure of it, because he never aimed his eyes at us, but he's a good hearer. 

I mean, life was good still, it was pretty fun to hang out with friends, like hanging around Sugarcube Corner, hanging around someone's house, or driving around, having a jolly good show. It just was a slight let-down without Arin. Sunset and I did usually have some private moments together at times, like when our friends were off somewhere for a minute, me and Sunset would have a nice chat and kiss. Both of us saying how much we love each other. Ya, atleast I still had Sunset by my side. My beautiful Sunset Shimmer. Oh, then it came to me. What if? What if it was the other way. If Arin took my position and I took his? If Arin told Sunset how much I loved her, and maybe she said 'no' to me? I was getting a little buzzed up in my head, thinking pretty harshly about it. God, why was this getting to me? Never thought that the moment I told Dash about Arin's love would become such a swarming bullet near the brain.

One day, at lunch, me and the gang ate lunch together, as always. I kinda became the 'joke guy' of the table, and I actually was pretty good at it. But not as good as Arin, the former 'joke guy' of the table. Speaking of Arin, he was across from our table, just holding his pepsi in his hand. He was a pepsi-holic. But he just stared at his table, looking down. We took quick seconds to just take a look at him, then turn back to our table.

"Gee, I... I hope he's alright..." Fluttershy said. Rainbow had her head held up by her right hand.

"It's like my fault, guys. I should of said 'yes', but I hurt him. A lot." she spoke out loud. 

I looked down, saddened. "Not entirely." I said. Rainbow looked at me. "I told you about Arin's confession, and I kinda promised him not to tell, and I did. If you just told him 'no' when I never told you about his love, he would have still been a part of this group. But I did a thing a friend should never do." I looked at Sunset. "If Arin did it to Sunset, telling her about my love for her, I'd be pretty ticked." 

Sunset looked at me with her soft, cyan eyes. "Well, let's kinda get off the subject, you know? I know it must suck to have Arin away from the gang, but trust me, we might go off fine. I mean, you lose friends eventually. It's the truth." Sunset was right. You do lose friends at times when you don't know. It'll happen. It happened to me in the past, and it sucked. But never have I thought Arin would be in that group.

"Ya." I said, then taking a sip of my sparkling water. I then took a strange notice. For a second, Arin was looking and hearing in on our table. Arin was listening and looking. It soon came to Arin that I noticed, and turned back to his table. Huh. Awkward. He never looked back before, unless we just were too dense to notice.

I wanted to talk to him. Apologize for what I did. Really. But I couldn't speak words for a strange reason. I tried so hard trying to talk to Arin and say the words, 'I'm sorry', but it never came out. I used to do this for others, what's stopping me now? It's my best friend who became a little broken apart from the group, he hasn't become a bully or whatever. What's honestly keeping me from him? Wonder if he tried to talk to me, too. Probably, probably not. I don't read minds, sadly.

But I kept myself away, but wondering if he was looking when I, or we really, weren't looking back. But, I just ignored it. No biggie.

But the time came when we can spend some time outside during lunch, and I do the usual. Sunset grabs my arm. "Really?" she asks. "It's pretty cold out there."

I patted her on the head. "Don't worry. I dig the cold." I told her. It really was pretty cold, but I can survive it. But as I headed out, I saw something. Arin got up and seemed to head outside, too. Huh.

I walked around outside, but as Arin was outside, he walked towards me. He looked down, wearing a grey sweater. He then shocked me when he tapped my shoulder as I turned away. "Hey." he said. "What's up?"

He didn't say it in a cool way, instead he said it in a dry tone. No character in it. I respond though. "Good." I said. I expected something else to be said, but I decide to cut the silence. "Arin, what's wrong?"

I thought stupidly as Arin answered, angrily. "What do you mean? What's wrong? Why am I away from the gang?" He seemed to breathe heavy heavy, then. It started to scare me. "You. That's the one and only reason."

"Arin, I'm sorry. I really am honest!" I told him. "I'm sorry for being a douche and telling her the confession, OK?" I strangely felt like tearing up. "We can still be friends. Rainbow said she doesn't love you, but she did say she likes you as a friend. We can still be together like buds."

He shook his head. "Not today, buddy. This ain't going to work like that." Arin's tone was getting darker. "You aren't a legit friend. You broke some promise that you thought wouldn't bug a man, huh? Well, screw you, Travis! Damn you!" He looked at me with a fierce expression, with a quick second of looking like he was going to cry. "I'm sick and tired of you! You've done some stuff in the past that has irritated me, and I stuck up with it. That was fine! But this... This isn't..." I looked down in shame. "You better be sorry." He then turned around, and walked back to the cafeteria. I started to feel broken. For some reason, broken. Well, I did lose a friend. And it seemed like I lost him permanently. 

"Arin..." I said to myself. "I am an idiot..." Again, I thought of the other way. What if I was in his shoes and he was in mine? It would go just about the same maybe. Maybe.