Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon walked out of their class, with everyone else. As they all made their way to their next destination, the two of them stood just outside the room. "Well that was completely boring, as usual," Diamond said.
"Yeah, I guess it was..." Silver replied weakly, as she watched all her classmates leave the room.
She had been uneasy throughout class, and Diamond had noticed this quite a while ago, "What's gotten into you Spoon? You tired or something?"
"No... I'm fine. I guess," she replied just as weakly.
"No, you're not," she continued, "Come on, I get that Harshwhinny's excruciatingly boring, but..." she noticed Silver's gase was looking just over her shoulder. She turned her head to see the three crusaders together, laughing about something. "What? Those three idiots?" she looked back at Spoon with a questionable look, "What do you want with them?"
"N-Nothing! I wasn't even looking at them!" she snaped back.
"Uhhh, yes you were. What is it? What's wrong with you?"
"I said I'm fine alright!?" Spoon replied angrily.
"Right, and I love flying unicorns," she replied mockingly, "Now, what's wrong?"
"Just drop it will you." Spoon said in a much calmer voice, as her eyes looked behind Tiara again.
"You're doing it again."
"I'm not doing anything. Alright," she replied as she saw the three of them turn the corner, and returned her eyes to Tiara.
"What do you want with them?" Diamond asked, "Why waste your time wit-" something clicked in her head. "Oh you've gotta be kidding me."
"What?"
"Why are we waiting here exactly Spoon?"
"I just... want the crowd to disappear, before I go anywhere." she replied slowly. "That's all."
"Uh-huh." Diamond wasn't buying it at all.
"You know I don't like crowds."
Tiara folded her arms, "You were waiting for them weren't you?"
"Who?" Tiara just looked at her. "What, them? No. Don't be ridiculous, why would I want to-"
"She's gotten to you hasn't she?" Diamond interrupted, "She's actually gotten to you?"
"I'm sorry, who are we on about now?" Silver asked, as her annoyance was starting to grow.
"Sunset," she replied, "All that stupid stuff she was on about, all that stuff about, whatever it was, I don't even care, has gotten to you!"
"Sunset? I didn't even understand what she was on about. And it's not like I really cared anywhay!" she folded her arms and leaned her back against the wall.
"Silv, I've known you for years now. I can tell when you're lying," Diamond replied, sounding extremely annoyed.
Spoon looked away from Diamond, down the other end of the corridor. "Alright, maybe I have been thinking about some stuff. What's it to you? Clearly you don't care."
"Even if you were waiting for them, it seemed like they all have class now anyway, so you've just wasted our time really."
"Actually, I was listening to them, Scootaloo's free now."
Diamond gave an irritated sigh, "Remind me, which one's Scootaloo again?"
"The one with the scooter in her looker."
It was at this point that Tiara gave up. "Alright! Fine! You want to go talk too a bunch of losers, be my guest, and I'll see you later," she said as she stormed past Spoon.
"Y-you're not coming?" Spoon asked.
"Of course not! I have more important stuff to do, like that homework that's due in after lunch."
"Oh... Alright then. See ya later," she said as she walked down the opposite direction, where the crusaders went.
Sunset sat in an empty classroom, waiting for the crowd outside to disappear, letting herself calm down after her snap at Twilight, and generally just hoping that no one noticed her. After a good few minutes, the crowd was gone, and she decided to leave the room.
Alright, the music club should be having that meeting now, hopefully Flash's with them. she thought to herself as she walked through the school. She took a glance in all the classrooms she passed, full or empty.
One of them caught her attention. An almost empty room, with only Scootaloo sitting in there. As much as she wanted too pop in and say hi, she had a more important thing to do right now. Eh, I'll come back later.
She looked up to the ceiling, letting herself get lost in thought as she walked on forward. Who could I talk to after Flash? she thought back to the list she had written earlier, most of which was useless, as her message of 'I'm not a threat anymore,' was already known throughout the school. That only leaves Snips, Snails, Gilda, and...
"Hi Sunset, have you seen Scootaloo?" someone asked.
Sunset was snapped back to reality, as she saw Silver Spoon in front of her. "Hey Silv, where's Diamond?" she asked, noticing her other half wasn't with her.
"I don't know. We kind of, had a little argument just now. You don't wanna know," she said with a forced smile, "Anyway, have you seen Scootaloo? I'm looking for her."
"Scootaloo, she- Why?" Sunset asked. There was clearly something off with her.
"It's about what you said earlier, Diamond didn't wanna know though, so here I am," she sighed, "Alone."
Guess I can't cross her off the list just yet. "She's just down there, in an empty classroom." she pointed over her shoulder, "I think it was, B7, you can't miss her."
"Thanks," she said as she ran past Sunset.
"Don't mention it," she smiled at her, before turning back around, and continuing down the hallway.
Eventually, she arrived at the music room. Before opening the door, she took a deep breath, This shouldn't be too difficult. She opened the door, and popped her head in the room.
Octavia stood up from her seat, and spun around quickly. "It's about time you got here Ly... Oh, Sunset, what is it?"
Sunset heard a hint of nervousness in her voice. "Hi, sorry to bother you but..." The few people in the room looked at each other momentarily, "...could I talk to Flash a minute?" she gave a weak smile.
"Uh, sure," Flash said as he looked around the others, "That's alright with you guys, right?" no one objected, and so he got up and walked out the room, closing it behind him. "I'm guessing this is about earlier?" he asked.
"You know about that then, huh?" she replied weakly, despite the fact she knew the whole scbool was aware by now.
"I was there, I saw the whole thing," he replied, "It was really something. Hows your eye?"
"It's fine." she shook her head, "Look, I just want to... When we were dating I," she sighed, "I'm sorry for how I treated you, you didn't deserve any of it, and..."
"It's fine, really." Flash smiled at her reassuringly, "You made it quite clear back there that you've changed."
"No, it's not fine! I used you. I used you as a way to get more popular and, I was so horrible to you." she took a deep breath, and fixed her eyes on the floor, not daring too look at him in the eye "Even when you had dumped me, I kept all the girls away from you because, I knew you were such a nice guy, and I was just jealous."
"You were jealous?"
"Maybe that's not the right word. I just didn't want anyone else to have you, even though I never really..."
"We could always... give it another try if you want," he said slowly.
"W-what?" Sunset instantly looked up at him, surprised by what he had said. "Another... Try?"
"Yeah, if you want to, that is." he still had that same reassuring smile.
"No, I, I couldn't. You deserve someone better than me, and besides..." she looked away again, "Please don't take this the wrong way but, I never really liked you," she said nervously. "Like I said, I had always used you for your popularity, I never really though of you, like that. Sorry."
"I know, you made that abundantly clear, I just thought I might as well ask," he replied, "Actually, that's why I broke up with you."
"It was?"
He shrugged, "Yeah, believe me, it was clear you were only using me, and after so long, I just, decided I'd had enough of you, and broke up with you."
"You'd had enough of me?" she looked away in thought for a monent, "Hm, your the only one in this school who ever did. Everyone else just, put up with it."
"But there is, one more thing though." Sunset looked at him, "What's with the sudden change?"
The question sent a small shiver down her spine, "That's... That's personal," she replied, "Now, I gotta go." Suddenly, she just wanted to get away, as that was the last thing she ever wanted to answer.
"Are you ok?" Flash asked.
"I'll be fine but, I just gotta go now." she gave him a light pat on the shoulder as she walked past him, and began to head down the hallway. "See you later Flash."
He gave a small wave, "Oh, Sunset, one more thing." She stopped and turned around, "If you see Lyra, can you tell her we're kinda waiting for her."
Sunset couldn't help but give a light laugh, "Will do." she replied back, as he opened the music room door, and went back inside.
Silver Spoon approached the room Sunset had said to her, and sure enough, Scootaloo was inside. She seemed to be working on something in one of her books, though she clearly couldn't tell from here. She slowly walked into the room, "Hi," she said uneasily.
Scootaloo looked towards the sound, and wasn't happy to see Spoon at the door. Great, it's you. "What do you want?"
"I just, can I sit down?" she asked.
"Sure, there's plenty of seats." Scootaloo returned her attention to her work, but immediately turned it back to Spoon when she sat down right next to her, and threw her bag under the desk. Seriously? "Actually, I just remembered, I was about to leave anyway."
"Sorry, I can move away if you want." Scoot gave her a confused look, "I just, wanted to talk to you. If that's alright?"
"You wanna talk?" she asked. Silver just nodded, "To me?"
"Yeah," she said, looking at the work on Scoot's book, and the sheet of questions next to it, "What's that?"
"It's the math homework we have due in after lunch?" she replied in a confused, and irritated voice, "Now can you just let me work on this already?!"
Spoon could clearly see she hadn't even answered a single question. "Want some help with that?" she asked, reaching for her bag under the desk.
"What did you just say?"
Silver pulled her math book out of her bag, "I've already done it, so I was wondering if you wanted some help with it."
"You, you can't be serious."
"Of course I am," she said as she opened her book up to the same work Scootaloo was attempting, "See, it's all done." she moved the book closer to Scoot.
She took a look at the answered questions, "And, this is all right?" she asked cautiously.
"Um-hm, I've got a calculator if you wanna check em."
"No it's fine, I'll take your word for it," she replied as she began copying down the answers. "So what did you want?"
"Hm? I told you, I just wanna talk," Spoon said nicely.
"What's gotten into you all of a sudden?" Scoot asked, "Why are you being nice to me?"
"Why not, I mean," She sighed, "I can't keep this up... It's... It's cus I'm sorry Scootaloo," she finally said what she wanted to.
"Alright then- Wait, did you just...?" Scootaloo began, shocked out of her mind.
"I said I'm sorry, to you, Applebloom, and Sweetie Belle," she continued, "I'm sorry to the three of you, for how I've treated you over the year."
"Wow. Sweetie said you were acting strange but..." despite the kindness and sincerity in her voice, Scootaloo was still not sure if she could trust her.
"Yeah, that was when Sunset spoke to both me and Dia," she said, "She wanted us too talk to you three."
"Sunset did?" Most of that doubt in her mind had been blown up almost instantly. Knowing that Sunset had changed so much in such a short time, and how her behaviour towards the three of them had changed so quickly, maybe Spoon was going through the same thing. But some of it still remained.
"Yeah. She wanted us both to try and, 'turn around before it was too late'," she said, "I'm still unsure about what she meant, but she was serious."
"Well, she has been different this last week, don't know why though." a slight though popped into her mind as she looked at the girl next to her, "Wait, she wanted the both of you to talk to us, so where's Diamond?"
"She, she wasn't too happy about me wanting to talk to you and, she just left me alone," she said.
"Well, don't worry about her, it'll be her loss in the end." Scootaloo replied.
"I guess."
"Sooo, she wanted you to speak to the three of us right?" Silver looked over at her, "And you haven't seen Bloom yet, and all you gave Sweetie was apparently just a mumble followed by a quick goodbye. Right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, if you're serious about this, why don't you sit with us at lunch?"
Silver's face seemed to light up, "What, really?"
Scootaloo was sure there was no way Silver would ever be seen with the three of them in public. "Sure, but if you don't want to th-"
"Of course!" Silver interrupted.
"What?"
She gave Scootaloo a small hug, "Thanks Scootaloo!"
"T-t-that's ok," she stuttered, as she pushed her away lightly, "But could you just uh, I'm not one for hugs."
"Sorry." Silver readjusted her glasses, which had become slanted somewhat, "Got a bit carried away there," she laughed.
"It's cool," Scoot replied, "But, could we just, get on with copying this work now?" Silver nodded, and spent the rest of the hour filling in the thirty questions on the homework sheet.