Adagio and Twilight continued down the street towards Adagio's house. After the call from Sunset basically confirming that she was at the sirens house, Twilight had decided to go back with Adagio, to see her friend, and offer a much needed apology.
"You know this is a bad idea, right?" Adagio asked. She wasn't happy with the princess coming with her, Sunset said herself that she didn't want to speak to, or even see her friends.
"I don't care!" Twilight snapped back, "I should have been here one week ago to sort this mess out, But I wasn't!"
"A... week ago???" Adagio asked, "You mean to tell me that you knew about this mess since last week, and you've done nothing?"
"Not quite," Twilight replied, "Sunset sent me a letter about this, back when it all started, last week," she sighed, "I should have been here then to take care of this before it turned into, well... this."
Adagio chuckled lightly, "Well, you sound like quite crappy princess if you let this happen."
"Yeah..." Twilight replied weakly.
"Still, you're here now, even if it is too late," Adagio continued, "And I guess you might just be in luck."
"Why's that?" Twilight asked.
"Because from what she's told us, you may be the only one she'll talk to out of your group of idiots," Adagio replied, "I mean you're the one she wanted to help her sort this out in the first place, so she might be a bit more open with you rather than them."
"I just hope she's alright," Twilight said to herself.
"Well she's not," Adagio said bluntly, "She's hurt, scared, and... Well if I had to describe it one word, I'd call her Broken. If you ask me, that's not alright."
"Broken?" Twilight repeated.
"Well, her whole life came crashing down around her. When that happened to the three of us, even we were on edge, to say the least." Adagio continued.
"You mean at the battle of the bands, don't you?" Twilight asked.
"But even we weren't this bad..." Adagio sighed, ignoring Twilight's question. "Whoever this Anon-A-Miss person is, I'll admit, she sure knows how to destroy someones life."
Twilight swallowed nervously. "H-how can you be so sure of that?" She really didn't want the siren to be right about this, and that she was just messing with her.
"When you're as old as I am, and you've seen every kind of person and pony there is to see, you can understand a lot about someone, just by looking at them." Adagio looked over at Twilight, her gaze sending a small shiver down the princess's spine. "And Sunset is currently..."
"What..?" Twilight asked, "What about her?"
"You don't want to know, Twilight," Adagio replied.
"Tell me!" Twilight demanded, "Just how bad is she right now?"
Adagio seemed to ignore Twilight's question, but eventually answered it. "Earlier today, just after she told us what had happened to her, she said that we should never have found her. That we should never have saved her last night," Adagio said rather dimly, "And I can tell you right now... She meant every word of it."
Twilight stopped, dead in her tracks. "You... Mean..."
Adagio also stopped, as to not get too far away from the princess. "She wanted to die last night," she continued, "She thinks it would have been best if she had died in that snowstorm."
"Why didn't you say this at the park, when Rainbow, Rarity and Trixie were there!" Twilight asked, a sudden aggressive and assertive tone in her voice. "Well?" Twilight demanded.
The siren wasn't fazed by Twilight's order at all. "Because they would have just done what you're about to do right now..."
"You're lying!" Twilight Yelled.
"Yeah, that..."
"Sunset wouldn't say something like that, she's stronger than that!" Twilight said.
"Well maybe you don't know your friend as well as you think you do," Adagio replied, "Because right now she just wants to give up..."
Twilight picked up the pace, and ran past Adagio. "I've got to see her!!" Twilight said to herself.
"Hold on princess!" Adagio said, her voice, rather demanding, "While you could in deed, end up helping her by going to see her right now, You might not like what she has to say to you!"
Twilight halted at a turn in the pavement, not knowing which way to go next. "Which way?" Twilight asked, ignoring Adagio's previous statement.
"Fine." Adagio caught up with Twilight, and turned the corner. "This way. It's not to far now," she said walking on ahead, as the princess followed behind.
"Sunset!" Sonata said as she continued banging on the bathroom door, "How long are you gonna be in there?!"
Moments after the phone call with Adagio, Sunset had gone into the bathroom, and had locked herself in. Sonata had been trying to get her to open the door and let her in, but she wasn't getting anywhere.
"I don't know, alright!" Sunset yelled.
"Come on! You've been in there now for over ten minutes, and I'm starting to get worried about you, alright!" Sonata said with another set of bangs on the door.
"I'm fine Sonata! I'll be out in a bit..." Sunset replied weakly with a few sobs.
"I can hear you crying in there Sunny! I wouldn't call that fine!" Sonata replied.
"Then you're hearing things..." Sunset said weakly.
"Well, ok... Do you wanna talk about something then?" Sonata asked, "Yknow, to pass the time, since you've been in there for so long?"
"No," a weak voice replied.
Sonata heard the front door to her apartment open. "Sonata, I'm home!" she heard Adagio shout.
"Oh good!" Sonata ran down the hall to see Adagio hanging her coat up. "Dagi, thank goodness you're here! You see after Sunny got off the phone with you she started crying and then she went over and locked herself in the bathroom and I've been trying to get her to open the door but she won't open it and I just don't know what to d-"
"SONATA!" Adagio interrupted. Sonata immediately stopped taking. "Calm down, and start again."
Sonata took a deep breath. "Sunny's locked herself in the bathroom, is crying, and won't come out." Sonata then noticed that someone was accompanying Adagio. "Who's that?"
"I'm... Princess Twilight," Twilight answered, "I'm here to see Sunset an-"
"Oh, so you're the princess who never wrote back, right?" Sonata asked.
"Y...Yeah. That's me," Twilight sighed.
"Look Dagi, I'm not saying I know better than you, but I think bringing her here was a bad idea..." Sonata said.
"So do I." Adagio walked through the apartment, to the bathroom door. She could hear the girl crying on the other side, as she calmly knocked on the bathroom door. "Sunset," she began, "Can you open the door?" she asked nicely.
"I'll be out... in a bit," Sunset sobbed.
"Well, there's someone here who wants to see you," Adagio continued in a soothing voice.
"Did Rainbow Dash follow you from the park?" Sunset asked, "Tell her to fuck off!"
"Actually, it's..." Adagio was about to say it was Twilight, but instead decided to move away from the door. Adagio gave Twilight a small nod, who then approached the door instead.
"Sunset?" Twilight began.
"That's... T... Twilight?" Sunset asked.
"Yes, it's me, I'm here," Twilight began, "I know I'm a bit late but... I'm here now." Sunset didn't reply. "Can you, maybe open the door?" she asked nicely.
"Go home Twilight!" Sunset replied.
"What?"
"I said go home!" Sunset repeated, "You're just wasting your time here!"
"Sunset, please open the door," Twilight repeated, "Can we just talk about this?"
The door slowly opened. On the other side of the bathroon door, Sunset's eyes were full of fresh tears that she was failing to hold back, and both of her jacket sleeves were wet as well, where she had been repeatedly rubbing away her tears. "What do you want, Twilight?" she asked harshly.
Twilight ignored the question, and instead rushed towards Sunset and hugged her as hard as she could. She expected Sunset to bring her arms up and hug her back, but that didn't happen. Sunset's arms didn't even move an inch. "Why are you here, Twilight?" Sunset asked again harshly.
Surprised by Sunset's rather harsh question, Twilight moved back from Sunset. When she had stepped back, she saw it. Twilight thought that Sunset would be glad she was here to help sort this whole mess out, glad that she had finally came, but that wasn't at all true.
Sunset's eyes, while still full of tears, were also full of anger. Instead of seeing the eyes of someone who was happy to see someone who could help, happy that the princess had arrived, Twilight instead saw the eyes of someone who was full of rage, and hatred. "Sunset?" Twilight asked nervously.
"Why are you here?" Sunset asked harshly, "Why now? Now that it's all over, you finally turn up..."
A nervous shock shot through Twilight entire body. "I'm here to help," Twilight replied.
"Help?" Sunset repeated. "I been asking for your help for over a week, and now I don't need it anymore!" Sunset replied.
"I know," Twilight sighed, "I'm sorry, I should have been here a week ago, but instead I wa-"
"Save it for someone who cares!" Sunset interrupted.
"Wha? Sunset, I-" Twilight replied.
"I said save it!!!" Sunset yelled. "I don't need any more of your lies, anyway princess!"
"What lies?" Twilight asked.
"The lies that you, and all the others kept telling me!" Sunset replied, "None of you cared about me! If you did, you would have been here when this all started!"
"Sunset, it's not like that, I'd never lie to you!" Twilight replied.
Adagio put a hand on Twilight's shoulder and gently pulled her away from Sunset. "Sunset, calm down," Adagio said.
"But no!" Sunset continued, "Just like all the others, you only turn up when it turns out you were wrong!" Sunset clenched her fist, as it started to tremble.
"Sunset..." Adagio said, taking a step closer to Sunset.
"You only come looking for me when it turns out that I was telling the truth! You don't care about me at all, if you did you wouldn't have left me crying in the school bathroom for a week!!!!!"
There was a small moment of silence. "Sunset That's not it! I-" Twilight began, but was interrupted again, this time by Sunset raising her arm. Sunset brought her arm up, and swung her trembling fist as the princess.
But before Twilight could even realize what was about to happen, there was a sudden crash, and Adagio had Sunset pinned up against the wall. "Calm down Sunset!"
Twilight quickly moved away from the two girls, as she realized Sunset had almost hit her. "When I needed you the most, you weren't there! None of you were!" Sunset continued.
"Sunse-"
"Just go away Twilight!!" Sunset yelled.
Sonata grabbed Twilight and pulled her towards her. "You. Go. Now!"
"She's right," Adagio continued. Sunset let go of her anger, and as Adagio let her off the wall, she hugged the siren, who hugged her back, and started crying into her shoulder. "You should go."
Sonata pointed down the hall. "Alright... I'll go," Twilight sighed. "But, Sunset, is there anything you want me to tell the others?" she asked nervously.
"Tell them they can all burn in hell for all I care," Sunset cried, "And that I'm not coming back!!!!"
"Alright..." Sonata guided Twilight to the door, and opened it for her. "One more thing."
"Yeah, What is it now?" Sonata asked.
"Well..." Twilight removed a small bag from her back, opened it, and pulled out Sunset's magic diary.
"A book?" Sonata asked.
"I know she probably won't want this right now but..." she handed the book to Sonata, "If she ever wants to write to me about something, she can always use this..."
"Will do. Now GO!"
Twilight walked outside, as the door immediately slammed shut behind her. When she heard the loud slam, she leaned her back against the door and slid until she was sitting in the snow leaned up against the cold door behind her. She lowered her head, and covered her face with both of her hands.
"I'll be there next time... I promise..."