It wasn't supposed to be this way

The two fillies who had just entered the room slowly walked to their positions when they did role call. I saw and knew what they were about to do so I walked over to my position.

"In place of Sweetie Belle, I, Apple Bloom, will take attendance for this meeting," said Apple Bloom in a very depressed voice. "Scootaloo?"

"Here," replied Scootaloo also sounding very sad.

"Apple Bloom? Here," said Apple Bloom to herself. "Sweetie Belle?"

"Here," responded Sweetie Belle, knowing that her friends wouldn't hear anyway.

"Absent," said Apple Bloom, who wrote a red X next to Sweetie Belle's name. "Alright, now that we have taken attendance we can talk about tonight's agenda. But first we have an announcement for all other crusaders." Apple Bloom paused. The room fell completely silent for about 5 seconds. Apple Bloom then continued. "Fellow crusaders! It's pretty obvious that one of our crusaders is not present in this meeting. Well if you haven't heard, which I'm sure you have, Sweetie Belle passed away in an attempt to earn her cutie mark. Because of this, us cutie mark crusaders must do something special in honor of our fallen crusader."

"Oooh!" Said Scootaloo finally looking a little bit excited. "Sweetie Belle always loved sleepovers! Can we have one in the clubhouse?"

"Scootaloo, we usually always sleepover in the clubhouse." Said AB. Scootaloo thought for a minute.

"Well what if this time we make the clubhouse a little bit more... sweetie-ish?"

"Well that could work. But how are we gonna make this place... umm... sweetie-ish?"

"By putting stuff sweetie belle likes, duh." Sweetie was just standing there. Happy that her friends were going to do something to try to repair the emotional crack, even though it wouldn't fix the physical one.

"Scootaloo, can you go down to the boutique and grab something of Sweetie's? Something that means a lot to her?"

"Yeah, sure!" Responded Scootaloo already heading out the door.

"I'll go get some other things to decorate this place!" Said AB to herself. Sweetie Belle watched as her friends went out into the night just for her.

"Thanks" she said, a small but cute smile on her face.