It was a rather quiet night at the sirens house. Or rather early morning, about one o'clock in the morning. But while Sonata, Aria and Adagio were most likely fast asleep, the former of whome was laying in a sleeping bag next to her bed, Sunset was wide awake.
She couldn't sleep. There she was, just laying on Sonata's bed, staring up at the ceiling, and thinking about her plan for tomorrow.
She had been thinking it over for a while now. Ever since Princess Twilight left the appartment hours ago, Sunset had been thinking about what she could do tomorrow.
Sunset had decided that, maybe she should give Twilight a chance. The two of them were in different worlds after all, and Twilight is royalty, so maybe she was busy.
But as for the others. Well, they were what Sunset was thinking about right now. The girls who had originally given her a chance, but in the end, they believed her just as much as everyone else did. In the end she was nothing but a monster to them.
Maybe she should have seen it coming. It was only recently she felt that people in the school had really forgiven her. She can even recall some of the teachers, including Principal Celestia, giving her a vicious glare from time to time, so maybe she shouldn't be surprised by such a reaction from everyone.
But she thought that was behind her. That she had finally been forgiven for what she had done.
When she thought about it, it had only been months since the Fall Formal, and that was nothing compared to the years she had been her past self. So maybe it would take years to make up for it.
If that was true, if it would take years to truely redeem herself, was it worth it?
Sunset began imagining things if she went back to CHS. If her and her friends started again. Could she do it? They gave her a chance, so maybe she should so the same.
Her gaze shifted from the ceiling to her phone, that was laying on Sonata's bedside table.
She had received a whole ton of messages today, and just about everyone of them had the word sorry in it. Maybe everyone's now realized that she has changed. Maybe now they would accept her.
But one question, one simple question made her doubt everything Sunset had just thought of.
"Who did this to me anyway..?" She mumbled quietly. That one question spawned a few more. "Why did they do it? How did they pull it off? What if..." For just a moment, Sunset felt like her heart had suddenly stopped, "What if they do it again?" she asked herself.
Well of course that wouldn't work, Anon-A-Miss had apparently confessed who she was, so it's not like people wouldn't know who it really was. "But what if... Someone else does something else... And they blame me for it?"
This whole mess had proven just how easy it is to blame Sunset Shimmer and get away with it. So much so that it would probably only take about five people to get her expelled. She could picture it happening.
The door to the principals office flew open, and one injured girl, limped her way into the office, with the assistance of four other girls giving her support.
"What happend to you?" Principal Celestia asked, rising from her chair and rushing over to help the girl.
"I... I was attacked in the hallway..." the girl mumbled.
"You were WHAT?!" the principal yelled, "By who?"
"S..Sun... It was Sunset Shimmer..."
"She did this to you?" Celestia asked.
"Yeah! We saw the whole thing!" one of the girls replied.
"It was pretty brutal!" another replied.
"She broke her leg and her arm!" the third girl said.
"Yeah, she went nut!! You've gotta do something!" the forth girl yelled.
The six Rainbooms, as well as Twilight Sparkle, who was here visiting, walked past the office, and took note of the injured girl.
"Oh my... What happened to you?" Sunset asked.
"You know exactly what happened here, Sunset! Don't play dumb with me!!!" Celestia yelled.
"What??? But I didn't do any-"
"That's enough! Consider yourself expelled!" Celestia replied, slamming the office door shut.
"I didn't do this!!"
"Why would you do this?" Fluttershy asked.
"Yeah! I thought you had put all this behind you!!" Rainbow continued.
"I have, this isn't me!" Sunset replied.
"And here I was thinking you were a nice person! Whoops, won't do that again," Pinkie said.
"Girls, I'm being set up again, it's just like that Anon-A-Miss mess before. I'm innocent!" Sunset cried.
"You know I heard you were forcing Anon-A-Miss to do what she did just so you wouldn't be directly responsible," Rarity said.
"But, I'm-"
"Well Sunset?" Twilight began, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
"Sunset!"
"Sunset?"
"SUNSET!!"
Sunset's eyes shot open, to the sight of a very worried Sonata, who sighed heavily. "Oh good. You're up. Are you ok?" she asked quietly.
"Y-Yeah... I think so..." Sunset replied weakly.
"You sure? You look like you were having one hell of a nightmare," Sonata replied, "You were mumbling things and..."
Sonata's bedroom door burst open, and Aria and Adagio rushed in, both armed with metal baseball bats. "We heard you shouting, Sonata. What happened?" Aria asked.
"Are you two alright?" Adagio asked.
"We're fine," Sonata replied, "Sunset was just having a... bit of a terrible nightmare."
"I'm fine now, I swear," Sunset replied, "It was just a nightmare."
"Alright," Adagio said.
Sonata saw Adagio give her a small signal. "I'll be back in a minute, you wanna drink?" she asked as she walked over to the other two sirens.
"Yeah, it might help," Sunset replied. As the three sirens left the room, and shut the door behind them, Sunset looked back up at the rooms ceiling. Her mind was now made up about what she wanted to do.
The bedroom door opened up, and Sonata walked in with two glasses of water. "Here." She put one down next to Sunset's phone, and drank from the other one.
"Sonata, can you three do me a favour tomorrow?" Sunset asked.
"Sure, what's up?" Sonata replied.
"Can you three take me back to CHS?" Sunset asked.
"You wanna go back there? Why?" Sonata asked.
"I'll explain tomorrow, on the way," Sunset replied.
"Well... I guess we can..." Sonata replied.
"Thanks." Sunset reached for her drink, and drank it all down in one, before setting the glass back down. "Night Sonata."
"Night Sunset," the siren replied as she got back into her sleeping bag, and they both went back to sleep.
Or at least, would try to, but Sunset was up all night, still unable to get any sleep.