Playing Their Game

You mix the ice that is settling in the plastic cup. Twilight stirs her around, mixing the flavored juice with the shaved ice so that it can even out. Fluttershy started out the same way but she’s now smashing it into bits by jabbing the spoon down. Judging by the way she looks, Fluttershy lost her mind over a chunk of ice. “Hey, hey!” She ends it and gives you the look. “It’s just ice.” Twilight chews on hers in the sidelines.

”It’s more than just ice, Anon!” The guy starts to push his cart away while holding the bell, trying to stay unnoticed. Twilight finishes her spoon.

”What’s wrong?”

“What’s wrong? YOU’RE what’s wrong, Twilight!” The guy starts to speed walk away. Twilight was close to dropping her cup.

“What did she do?”

”Yeah, what did--”

”It was suppose to be me and Anon, no one else.” Fluttershy interjects.

“We can do that another day.”

”Are you sure Twilight won’t butt in like she did?”

”It was an honest mistake! How was I supposed to know that you and Anon were going to be alone?” You are more than ready to put the blame on yourself. Seeing Twilight like this is starting to worry you. Shit, you really are getting sensitive. Worry about that later, Twilight is under some heavy fire for ruining Fluttershy’s day.

”Didn’t Anon tell you anything?” Fluttershy asks. They look over, both irritated by your ignorance. So much for Twilight getting the heat.

“After the first five or so messages that Twilight spammed, I knew that putting my phone on silent wasn’t enough, so I fazed out any message that came from her.”

”You didn’t bother sending me a message, at all?”

“No disrespect, Twilight, but I have other things to do!”

”Is it so hard to send one simple message?!”

“You’re talking to the guy who barely knows how to do basic elimination in equations!” Twilight and Fluttershy are startled from your outburst. “Why do you think I make snarky remarks every now and then?”

”For the fun of it?” Fluttershy answers.

“That, and the fact that I do not think any of it through.” Twilight and Fluttershy look at each other and nod.

”We should have figured that out ages ago.” Twilight comments.

“Hey!”

”At least we have each other.”

”Yeah…” Fluttershy complains. You toss your empty cup inside the nearest trash can.

“Now what?”

”Now we try to figure out on who is insane enough to burn your car.” Twilight tosses hers away. Fluttershy has been looking at Twilight and her cup.

”Are you done?”

”Huh? Oh, yeah.” She crumples up the cup before tossing it away. “Who would do it to Anon, Twilight?”

”Who wouldn’t is the better question.”

”I hate it when you do that.” Fluttershy mutters to herself.

”It’s a good question, the entire school is hunting Anon down.”

”Most importantly, our friends.” Fluttershy emphasizes.

”Right, them as well. Anon, we need to talk about everyone that hated you.”

“From the beginning?” You sigh. “Let’s get this done.”

You told them each and every person so far. Applejack tried to get her revenge with her big brother, but that Sunset is still upset over on how you not only tugged her heartstrings, but basically ripped them out by now. No question on the fact that Dash is still pissed over the fact that you test her intelligence. Rarity does what little she can to impose as a threat, even though the worse has already happened a long time ago. Bulk must be clueless about what you lured him into. You do hope that he has a set of weights at his home, only to keep him busy and away from school for his suspension. Lightning is a mystery - she did say that ‘you’ll pay for it’ even though she damn well knows that she can kiss her ticket into a university goodbye. If Norman’s smart enough, he should be out of the game by now. At least for the next few days to weeks. You might pay him a friendly visit, just to see on how he’s dealing with the painkillers. As for the rest of the school, you haven’t done anything bad to them directly, excluding the few guys back in football, but they shouldn’t matter.

”Quite a list you have there, Anon.” Twilight says as she writes in her notebook.

"I can’t believe that you were able to bother so many in such a short time.”

“I tell ya, I’m making more friends each day.”

”You always knew how to rile them up, Anon.” Twilight smirks. “With this extra information, and today’s commotion at lunch, I should start knocking down some names.”

“What was that? You and your friends made some sort of show back there.” After some explaining, it’s all clear to you. “I’m betting 50 big ones on Rainbow.”

”Now hold on! Don’t jump into conclusions just yet. It still could be anyone.” Twilight still follows through her strategy.

”I’m not sure, you know how easy it is to set Rainbow off.” Fluttershy reminds Twilight.

”Did you forget on how Sunset reacted to Anon after he mentions about Flash?” Twilight compares Sunset’s temper problem with Rainbow Dash’s.

”I haven’t, but we know how Rainbow can be.” Fluttershy holds on to Rainbow for being the hot headed one.

”And there’s Rarity.” Twilight moves on the list. “How she acted was more than the usual melodramatic way.”

“What did she say?”

”Something along the lines of ‘I'll show all of you! It will be more than that!‘ after Rainbow Dash mocked Rarity’s plan.“

“What was it? Something about me wearing some clothes, wasn’t it?”

”It was nothing but you and a bra.”

“That’s it?”

”It may as well be just that and nothing else on you.” Twilight goes into her own ideas of what Rarity might do.

”There’s no way it could be Rarity, could it?”

”I don’t know, she was awfully passionate about her animosity for it all.”

“We can’t rule out anyone that might have done it. Even by the slightest threat, they count.”

Twilight nods as she continues writing down some notes in her notebook before closing it. ”That’ll be it for the day, I should go.”

“But it’s only five o'clock.”

”I know, but I need to leave you and Fluttershy doing… whatever you guys did before I arrived.” She tosses her notebook inside her backpack before getting up.

”We were having a private conversation.”

”Now you can resume whatever it may be. If it was that important, you should pick up on where you left it.” Twilight leaves Fluttershy with an obvious insult before waving to you.

”I--” Fluttershy stops when she sees you waving back.

“What?”