Hey everypony! Hope you liked chapter 13. Sorry this chapter took so long. A bad case of writer's block.

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Chapter 14: Conflicts

Scootaloo followed Sunny Shine into the dining room where Fluttershy was sitting in a chair at a small table. Delicious-looking food was set upon the wooden table, the aroma wafting around the room. Her heart lurched when she saw that Fluttershy was not looking at her sister, but at her. She turned away from her direction, pretending to look in awe at the dinner. She heard a loud "Ooh! Finally!" from her sunny companion, and was suddenly grabbed by her hoof and placed in a chair. She got comfortable, pushing her chair a little closer to the table.

Sunny held her fork in her mouth, carefully taking some green beans and setting them on her plate. She then picked out some other foods and set them on her plate. Scootaloo watched this and picked up her own cutlery, cautiously choosing some food and placing them on her plate. Soon her once-bare plate was filled with food. She glanced up, noticed that the shy yellow pegasus had not even moved. I wonder what's on her mind, she thought curiously, stealing a few more glances before settling to eat.

Sunny shoveled the food in her mouth at record speed, devouring everything on her plate in minutes. Scootaloo hadn't even finished her salad when Sunny leaned back on her chair and announced, "I'm done!" She twisted her head to gaze at the filly in wonder.

"Wow. Already?" she commented; now her eyes were set upon the bright filly's bare dinner plate.

"Yeah..." said Sunny shyly. "I eat fast..."

"No kidding," chuckled Scootaloo, who was now back to her own eating.

"I'm glad we're all here," Fluttershy suddenly piped up. Scootaloo jumped; she almost forgot about Fluttershy. "I need to talk to you about something," she said quietly.

She looked up from her dinner, expecting Fluttershy to be looking directly at her, but that was not true; her eyes were cast upon her little sister. Sunny most likely noticed this too, as she turned her head to stare at her sister. "Huh?" she asked. "What, it's about me?"

"Yes," answered Fluttershy. "Your parents are deciding to move here from Manehattan. They called me just a few minutes ago and told me. They're going to take you also, of course."

"What?" Sunny's eyes bugged out, her mouth agape. "But - you didn't...how - " The filly was apparently lost for words in this situation, so she compromised by making a loud choking noise.

"For education, they've decided on the schoolhouse Scootaloo goes to," said Fluttershy, her eyes darting to the orange filly for a split second but quickly retreated back to her dumbstruck sister.

Finally, Sunny managed to speak. "But our parents didn't say anything about moving!" she shrieked with desperation. "They never said I was moving here - in Ponyville - with you!"

"Well, I guess they were waiting for the right time," Fluttershy said simply.

Scootaloo gaped at her as well; she had no idea how the pink-maned pony could be so calm and serious in this surprising conflict. She cleared her throat, wanting to say something to Sunny just to cheer the usually bright pony up, but she was swiftly interrupted.

"What about all my friends back in Manehattan? What are they gonna do without me?" she muttered gloomily.

"I'm sure they'll be fine without you. You can still keep in touch with them," her sister answered. "I'm sorry, but that's what your parents told me."

"I'm sure going to miss Manehattan," Sunny Shine sighed, gazing at the floor glumly. Her ears drooped, and her mane suddenly lost its usual bounce. "When am I moving here?" she asked, barely looking up.

"As soon as you go back to Manehattan," Fluttershy said. Sunny whimpered, her eyes watering slightly. Fluttershy tried to soothe her little sister by murmuring comforting words to her. It didn't seem to help though, as Sunny started sobbing, something Scootaloo would have never expected to see of the sweet filly. Scootaloo quickly turned back to her unfinished dinner, not wanting to stare at the terrible scene. She swiftly finished her dinner and glanced up to see that Fluttershy's teal eyes were fixed upon her, even though she was still trying to calm her weeping sister. But as soon as she saw that Scootaloo was looking, she quickly changed her gaze and looked at her sister instead, as if she were scared of the younger filly even looking at her.

"Huh..." the orange pony mumbled to herself. "It's as if she hates me...well, she does, obviously...but I think it's something deeper than that..." She tried to recall the memory of the shy yellow pegaus staring at her. What was it that caused it to be even deeper? Scootaloo abruptly realized that there was mixed emotion in her eyes. She focused even more, and the flashing image of her eyes entered her mind. Her eyes were full of fear...confusion...sorrow...resent...and regret? The filly shook her head, causing her wild purple mane to flop into her light eyes.

She raised a hoof to push her mane out of her eyes and spat out a strand of hair that she somehow had gotten in her mouth. She shook her head again, more carefully this time so she didn't get her face full of her mane. Was it really true? Had she seen regret in the shy pony's teal eyes? And if she had seen clearly, could it mean that Fluttershy was sorry about the whole thing? "That could explain a lot," she said to herself quietly.

Her purple eyes wandered to Fluttershy who was still trying to comfort her sister. "But there was also hatred in there," she reflected, staring at her clear teal eyes curiously. Suddenly, she realized something was wrong. Something - or rather, somepony was missing.

"Where's Rainbow Dash?" she blurted out, her eyes growing slightly at her outburst.

The two sisters whipped around and stared at her. Scootaloo noticed how Fluttershy seemed kind of nervous.

"Oh...R - Rainbow Dash?...She left," the pink-maned pegasus said, spreading out her wings with a hint of anxiety.

"Why?" Scootaloo urged her to respond, anxious to know where and why her idol had gone.

"W-well, she actually wanted to stay, but I convinced her not to and she went..." she responded, scraping her hoof against the floor absentmindedly.

"Oh." Scootaloo's voice was dull but also had a small hint of frustration. "Then I'm going to sleep." Sunny looked up at this, tilting her head as Scootaloo walked off to the upstairs bedroom.

"Not without me," she said, trotting up to walk with Scootaloo to the bedroom. She exchanged a grateful glance with the other filly, now smiling slightly as she went upstairs side by side with Sunny Shine.