"Here, I found some of my old clothes in the attic, they might fit you." Tempest said as she came in, wincing as she saw the flayed skin on Sunset's back as Celaeno applied a thick salve on the reopened wounds.

"thanks." Sunset murmured, wincing as the woman began to apply bandages. Tempest sighed as she put the clothes down on the bed before she decided to produce an orange phone from her pocket.

"Someone is blowing your phone up. It might feel like the end of the world but you have people who are obviously very worried about you right now." Tempest stated, careful with keeping her voice soft.

The girl had been too quiet since they had brought her to their home, ignoring her phone even though it had been vibrating nearly endlessly since they had found her.

"Hey, guys? Where is….nevermind….who is she?"

Tempest rolled her eyes as she shoved the younger boy out the door and shut it in his face.

"A friend! Now scram brat!"

"But I'm hungry!"

"Ugh go fix yourself something! You're not an infant!"

Sunset couldn't help but smile as she listened to their banter, pulling the blankets tighter around her as the numbing gel began to finally work.

"Sorry about them, they are constantly bantering." Celaeno chuckled as she stood "now get dressed and I'll try to make us all something to eat. Anything you can't or won't eat?"

It was nearly dark when Sunset finally answered her phone, a roar of voices on the other side.

"Sunset? Are you okay?"

"Where are you?"

"Are you okay?"

Sunset sighed as she glanced down at the large first-degree burn on her upper leg as she thought about the answer to that? Was she okay? How did she answer that?

"I'm a bit shaken up but yeah, I'm okay." She decided to answer, glancing over at where Tempest and Celaeno were engaged in some kind of card game while Grubber watched some kind of animated movie while stuffing himself with nachos.

"Guys, I'm hanging out with Tempest and her family. Can I call you back? I think I need to call and let someone important know that I'm alright. Not that you guys aren't…" she was cut off by Rainbow

"We know what you mean Sunshim, relax. Just, make sure to call us back okay?"

"Ya had us all worried Sugarcube. But what those idiots done to ya ain't right and they were wrong, you do have people who care about ya."

After she hung up Sunset sat there, staring at nothing in particular as she tried to figure out what to do. Did they really care? Would Celestia forgive her for running off? Suddenly a hand touched her shoulder, prompting her to look up to see that Celaeno was towering over her.

"Want me to drive you home, Sunset?"

Sunset scoffed at the question, drawing her knees to her chest as she replied: "where is home?"

"She sounds like you did when…" Grubber didn't get to finish his sentence as his face was shoved directly into his bowl of ice cream by Tempest as she walked past him.

"Kid, people are blowing up your fucking phone. I know I wouldn't call anyone that many times if I didn't care about them." Tempest stated, motioning to the phone before adding "plus from what I saw those girls, they are truly on your side."

Sunset didn't know what came over her as she suddenly stood, turning toward the older girl as she yelled "You know nothing about me! You don't know what I've done! You don't know what I almost did!"

Tempest arched a brow, not at all intimidated by the younger teen despite the fact that Sunset looked almost ready to hit her at any moment. "you are right. I don't know about your past, only what I see now and what I see is an emotional wreck."

She answered before she removed her jacket, something she had not been without any time Sunset had seen her, revealing a large scar on her left forearm. "I was a troubled kid, to say the least. I nearly killed two of my friends while showing off with fireworks. I was lucky a third-degree burn and this scar on my face was the worst of what happened."

Tempest chuckled as if remembering something as she glanced over at Sunset, who seemed to be losing some of her anger. "I was in the hospital for months. No one visited, not even my parents. No one wanted to talk to the pyromaniac. I was shuffled from foster home to foster home until I ended up with Storm King."

Sunset noticed how uncomfortable this made everyone in the room, though Celaeno was the next to speak "She moved in with me after his abuse went a bit too far. I actually found her trying to hotwire Capper's truck."

Tempest closed her eyes as she took a deep breath before saying " Getting off topic. Anyway, What I am trying to say is that family isn't always by blood and that the worst of people can change. Don't make the same mistakes I did, don't wait until you almost lose the people you care about to realize you have special people in your life."

"I guess I probably should take you up on that offer, Celaeno."