Sunset Shimmer let out a small grunt of satisfaction as she bashed the head of a zombie in. She was really getting the hang of this video game thing.
Suddenly the overhead light flared on, temporally blinding Sunset, who hadn't realize how dark it had gotten outside her bedroom window. Her bedroom, that was a strange thought, she didn't remember when she started considering this her room, but sometime during the past two weeks she had started to view the house of the two principals as her home.
"Sunset Shimmer, do you have any idea what time it is?" Luna asked.
"Miss Luna," Sunset gasped, looking at the clock, was it really ten already?
"Please at home you can call me Luna or Aunt Luna. Do you know what time it is."
"Ten, but it's not like my game is too loud, is it?"
"No, but you have school in the morning."
Sunset felt something grip her chest, school, she couldn't go back there, no way, not after what she did. "But aren't I suspended?"
Luna chuckled, that had got to be a first, "not for the past week."
Sunset thought desperately, "But I'm sick," she pointed out.
"You're no longer contagious, your fever broke, and you can't regain your strength moping around bed all day."
"I can't go to school, I just can't!" Sunset exclaimed pulling her blanket over her head.
She felt the mattress shag a little as Luna plopped down next to her, "it's okay to be afraid Sunset, people weren't very nice to you after the fall formal, but you can't let fear rule your life. You have to get back on the horse."
"What?" Sunset demanded, confused, "I've never been on a horse before."
"It's an expression, you know like raining cats and dogs?"
Sunset looked confused, she never heard of it raining cats and dogs not even in Equestria with all that magic.
"It means that it is raining very very hard, haven't you heard these before, they're common enough."
"Unicorn from another world." Sunset announced pointing to herself, "remember."
"Right," Luna said, blushing a little, it was going to take a little getting use to thinking that Sunset was an alien and was really a pony, "Look what I'm saying is that you can't let fear rule your life, you need to go back to school, make friends. You want to learn about this Friendship magic Crystal Rose told me that Twilight asked her and her friends to teach you. Though I have no idea what that might means."
"She asked them to be my friends therefore the only reason they are being my friends is because they promised." Sunset muttered.
Luna got a glimmer in her eye, "You know, Crystal Rose does not like video games, no amount of begging and pleading from Rainbow dash can get her to pick up a controller."
"What are you talking about?" Sunset demanded, although she had a feeling that she knew what Luna was hinting at.
"Crystal Rose is as stubborn as they come, trust me, I helped raise her, if she doesn't want to do something, she's not going to do it. She does not like video games, yet because she wants to be your friend and you like video games she will play them with you. That should tell you something."
Sunset frowned, she knew that Crystal Rose didn't let anyone tell her what to do, except possibly her mom. Last year she haad everyone vote for her for biggest meanie even though it wasn't a category. No matter how she blackmailed, lied, or tricked Crystal Rose, nothing she did would break Crystal's friendship apart.
It had drove her insane. hack into the email and send her one from her friends, she'd call and talk about it. Hack her phone and sent a text, she'll call and talk about it. If she tried doing the opposite, hacking her friends Email and phones, Crystal Rose would hunt them down and talk to them in person. Intimidation didn't work either, Crystal Rose could call out a bluff a mile away, and Sunset hadn't want to cause physical pain, she caused emotional pain and that was it. Threats and blackmailing, Crystal Rose had her on that too. The former Sunset never mentioned it, but the whole reason she broke up that particular group of friends was because she was always a little wary of Crystal and wanted to knock her down a few pegs.
"You okay Sunset?" Luna asked, concerned when the teenage girl spaced out.
Sunset shook her head, "Yeah I'm fine, just comparing what I knew about Crystal with what you just told me," She paused for a moment to organize her thoughts, "And your right, Crystal was the only one who stood up against me, besides Twilight Sparkle that is, but compared to the creatures she probably faced in Equestria I wasn't even scary to her. She wouldn't let me rule her life like the rest of the school."
Sunset ducked her head, "That's why I made such a big deal of breaking up her group of friends, because while I knew that she wouldn't let me push her around. Afterwards I thought that she would force them to talk to each other, I was worried that all of my work would have been for nothing, but..."
"Just like how she wouldn't allow you to push her around, she refused to push her friends around, giving advice and council when asked but that is all. She is so much like her mother that way," Luna interrupted, pride for her niece shinning through.
Sunset Shimmer sighed, "I still don't know about going back to school."
"Just take it one step at a time and stick close to Crystal or one of the other girls. They truly tried to be your friends."