A/N: This is a place where I'll put anything I think of writing that is too short for its own story entry. Both characters are from my other stories, so make sure you've read them first.

Told from Olivia's POV, this is her experience at the sleepover the other girls had shortly after the Friendship Games, which is covered in one of the chapter books.

Rating: K

I finally arrive at Pinkie's house. That took way longer than it should've. She texted me the wrong address, typing a 5 instead of a 4.

I knock on the door. A few moments later, it opens.

"You're here!" Pinkie says.

"Yup. Took me a while, though."

"Yeah, sorry about that." Pinkie is wearing a sleeveless light blue shirt with balloons on it and a pink bow. The shoulder straps are purple. Her shorts and slippers are also light blue, and there are pink bows on the slippers.

"Cute pajamas. The balloons really suit you."

"Thanks! Balloons my third favorite thing."

"What are the other two?"

"Parties and my friends!"

I enter and close the door behind me. "Where should I get changed?"

"In the bathroom. It's the door aaaaall the way at the end of the right hall. When you're done, my room is the first door on the left." We walk up the stairs. "Don't take too long! We're about to start our first game!"

"I'll try not to."

She enters her room. I walk to the bathroom door and knock. After a few seconds of no response, I open it, enter, and close it.

I exit the bathroom wearing a white short-sleeved shirt, black shorts, and long black socks. I don't have any cute sleepwear, so I packed what I usually wear at night.

I open the first door on the left. Inside, the girls are sitting in a circle on the floor.

"Olivia! You're just in time!" Rarity says. "We're about to start our first activity."

"Sweet! So I didn't miss anything?"

"Nope!" Pinkie says.

I look around the room. There are balloons with glitter on them, streamers covered in silver stars draped across the ceiling, and cupcakes with rainbow sprinkles on the table in the corner. "Is this a sleepover or a party?"

"Both!" Pinkie says. "It is a slumber party, after all! Tonight's is extra special since this is our first one with Twilight and you!"

"Did Cloudflare get a special welcome?"

"Sadly, no. 20 minutes isn't enough time to put together something this extravagant, even for me."

"What a shame." I would've loved to see his reaction to something like this. I join them, sitting between Rarity and Twilight. "What are we playing?"

"Spin the Nail Polish," Sunset says.

"Spin the... what?"

"When it's your turn," Rarity explains, "you pick a nail polish color and spin it in a circle on the floor. When it stops spinning, it will be pointing toward someone, and that person gets one nail painted that color. We don't stop until everyone's nails are done."

"That sounds... pretty exciting! One question, though. Are we doing fingernails and toenails?"

"Normally we only do fingernails," Rainbow says. "We can do both, if you want."

"Nah, I was just checking. Besides, I only have one actual foot."

"Fingernails it is, then," Rarity says.

"You go first," Fluttershy says to Twilight.

Twilight looks at the bottles of nail polish in the cosmetics box. She takes a deep breath, then takes a bottle of silver polish.

"Ooh! I hope I get that color," Sunset says.

"Give it a good spin," Rarity says.

Twilight sets it on the ground, then spins it. When it stops, the white top is pointing at Applejack.

"Aw geez! Now I'm gonna look like one of the Dazzlings!" she says.

"Are not!" Rainbow says.

"The Dazzlings had silver nails?" I ask.

"Who are the Dazzlings?" Twilight asks. She hasn't even heard of the Dazzlings at Crystal Prep?!

"It's a long story," Rarity says. "Don't worry about it. You just paint one of Applejack's nails."

"Okay."

To be fair, those three aren't well-known outside the choir. The only reason I know them is because Sonata was in my History class and we worked together on a few assignments.

"The Dazzlings were these girls who came here from Equestria to sow discord among us," Sunset tells Twilight.

"But Sunset stopped them!" Applejack says.

"They also helped turn Cloudflare's school life around," I say.

"Which was, like, the only thing they did that wasn't evil," Rainbow says.

"Well, they had evil intentions," Fluttershy says.

"It certainly wasn't their plan," Rarity says. "It just sort of... happened."

"I'm glad it did." I still feel guilty about getting him wrapped up in all that in the first place and leaving him behind, but I feel a little better knowing he wasn't miserable the entire time.

As we near the end of the game, Sunset and I are the only girls who still have an unpainted nail. The nine of mine that are painted are all different colors. I can sense Rainbow's jealousy. Hers are all red. Pinkie's are all green; Fluttershy's are purple, gold, and red; Twilight's alternate blue and white; Rarity's are blue, orange, silver, and yellow; and Applejack's are silver and gold.

"You're up, Olivia!" Pinkie says.

I look in the box. Hm... I haven't picked white yet. I take it out of the box. "Do I have to spin this? Sunset's the only other girl left, and I'm pretty sure I can't paint my own nail."

"That's fine," Rainbow says. "We never spin when it's down to one or two people."

"Okay, then."

While I'm painting her left ring fingernail, I glance at her a few times. She's wearing the purple PJs that Cloudflare mentioned from their first sleepover. There's something else that caught his attention, but I'm not seeing what it could be.

When I finish, she holds out her other hand. The nails on both of them are alternating blue and white. Just like –

"Hey!" She holds her hands up for everyone to see. Her nails are an exact match to Twilight's.

"Wow!"

"Cool!"

"Awesome!"

"How did that happen?" Rarity asks.

Sunset shrugs. "I don't know. The magic of friendship, I guess!"

Glad the other girls are getting a laugh out of it. I'm still getting used to magic being a thing.

"I love this game!" Twilight says.

Rarity smiles. "Thank you, darling! I aim to please. Now then, it's your turn, Sunset."

Sunset looks in the box, then takes a pink bottle.

"Sweet!" I exclaim. "Ten nails, ten colors!"

"Lucky you..." Rainbow mutters.

I hold out my hand for Sunset, and she starts painting my right thumbnail – using only her right hand to allow her nail to dry.

With her attention on my thumb, I can look her over without having to take quick glances. Even from this angle, I can't see what Cloudflare might've seen.

I look at my nails when she finishes. I never thought I'd be excited about having mismatched nail colors.

"Sardines!" Rainbow says.

"Ooh! I love that game!" Fluttershy exclaims.

"Who's hiding?"

All the other girls except Twilight are excitedly jumping up and down saying "Me!"

"How about..." Rainbow points at me. "You!"

Uh... "Me? Um... How do I play?"

They look at me in surprise. "You've never played Sardines?"

"I've never heard of it."

"It's called sardines because everybody ends up all squished in someplace secret together," Pinkie says, "like those little smelly fish that come in a can all piled up on top of one another."

Good thing I'm not claustrophobic.

"I like to think of it as playing baby squirrels hiding in a little nest in a tree," Fluttershy says. "Except all the squirrels have to be very, very quiet so no one else will find them."

"I'm... still not sure I follow."

"Let me explain the rules," Rainbow says. "It's kinda the opposite of hide-and-seek. Only one person hides – in this case, you – and when one of us finds you, we have to join you. One by one, we'll all pile in with you wherever you are."

"It's a blast!" Rarity says.

"That does sounds fun, even for the hider. How much time do I get to hide?"

"Well," Rainbow says, "since this is your first time at Pinkie's house... Six minutes."

"Alright." I stand up. "I'll try to find a tricky hiding spot." I exit the room.

I need to look for a spot that's either not obvious or somewhere you wouldn't even think about checking. I go back to the bathroom and knock on the door.

"¡Ocupado!" a voice angrily yells from the other side. So much for that. Unless I want to knock on every door, I'll have to stick to the lower floor.

I walk down the stairs, then look at a chair in the corner of the living room. It looks like it's part of a couch, and there's enough room for me to get behind it. That's way too obvious, though, and it'll be the first place they look. I check the kitchen. I could hide under the sink, but I'd have to move a bunch of stuff out of the way.

I move into the next room. There's a washer and dryer in here as well as a pile of clothes. Looks like this is the laundry room. I open the dryer door. I could fit in one of these when I was seven. No way am I trying now. I close it. I look at the clothes. That's a pretty large pile. I know no one would think to check there. But do I really want to hide under a pile of dirty clothes?

Eh, I've been around worse. I carefully slip into the pile. It doesn't smell all that bad, actually. And now, I wait...

A few minutes later, I hear the voices of the other girls. They're still upstairs, so I can't make out any words. Another minute later, I hear footsteps approaching. They stop, and the towel on top of me is pulled away.

"Found you!"

I look up. It's Sunset Shimmer. "How'd you find me so quickly?" I quietly say.

"I had a feeling you'd pick a pretty inconspicuous spot. Plus, this is where I would've hidden as well." She puts the clothes back and joins me under them.

I'm alone... with Sunset Shimmer. Every alarm in my head is going off. Get out now! Don't give her the opportunity!

"You okay?" she whispers. "You seem tense."

"I'm fine. Don't worry about it." The last couple weeks have shown me she has changed, but the way she ruined my life will always be in the back of my mind.

A couple minutes later, Fluttershy finds us, followed shortly after by the other girls except Twilight. It takes another couple minutes for her to get anywhere near us, and she probably would have given up if Pinkie didn't start giggling.

She removes the towel on top of us.

"Surprise!" the other girls say with a laugh.

"We thought you'd never find us," Applejack says.

"Phew! It was hot under there," Sunset says.

"At least it didn't smell too bad," I say.

"That was the best hiding place ever," Rainbow says to me.

"You were brave to burrow under all those dirty clothes," Fluttershy says.

"It's not the first time I've been covered in dirty laundry," I say. "When I was eleven, my old friends and I challenged each other to see how long they could stay in a clothes hamper full of clothing. It stunk a lot worse than these."

After showing off our dance moves and taking silly selfies – and comforting Twilight when she got homesick – it's time for the 'slumber' part of the night.

This was easily the best slumber party I've ever been to. The games and activities were great, but being with my friends makes it even better.

Friends... Something I thought I'd never have after last school year. I was so happy when Cloudflare became my first friend in years, but having nine friends, seven of which are here tonight... There just aren't enough words to describe how ecstatic that makes me feel. It almost makes the year of torment worth it.

Almost, but not quite. I never told him, but the week I met him was supposed to be my last week at CHS. I was set to transfer to a school in Manehattan at the end of the week. When Cloudflare told me he wanted to hang out, I gave him a chance. After a couple days, I could tell he was being sincere, so I decided to tough it out as long as I could. Things didn't get better, but having a friend made it easier to deal with everything.

Speaking of Cloudflare, I never did figure out what he saw during that sleepover. Maybe it's just a guy thing.

I close my eyes and wait to drift off to sleep.

A/N: Not all of them will be placing the characters in existing movies and books. I have a few original ideas.