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“Um, Sunset, what are you doing wearing that?”
Up until this point, Aria had been quite bored. Waiting for class to start was always a drag, especially since Sonata insisted on coming to school early every day so she could get some free breakfast. Not a fan of the cafeteria’s breakfast food, Aria always went straight to her first class of the day: world history. She shared this class with none other than Sunset Shimmer, the girl who had defeated her and her friends little more than a month before.
For a while, she had remained bitter about their defeat. After all, they were little more than normal humans now, and adjusting to a normal life was harder than she’d expected. They actually had to pay rent, something that had been a foreign concept to them since their arrival in this world hundreds of years prior. Sunset had been nice enough to hook the three of them up with jobs, however, something that quickly changed their view of her.
Today, that view was going to be altered, and Aria’s state of near-perpetual boredom would finally come to an end.
“What, you mean my goth getup?” Sunset smirked, taking a seat next to her. “Looks cool, huh?”
“Goth people don’t care about looking cool, Sunset,” Aria matched her smirk. Today’s wait for class to start was going to be a lot more fun for the former siren. “Why do you wanna be goth?”
“I hate having to fit in with all of the popular kids. The goth kids are a lot nicer and I don’t have to try and fit in.”
Aria let out a sigh. It had been a while since she’d been this disappointed in someone not named Sonata. “Idiot, if you’re hanging with the goth kids and wearing the same clothes as them, then you’re still trying to fit in.”
“Nuh uh,” was all Sunset could muster up as a reply. “They don’t care what clothes I wear.”
“Well tell me something.”
“Hm?”
“Why are you wearing that abomination of an outfit if they don’t care?”
It truly was an abomination. Her pants had chains hanging from them, her shirt looked as if it was meant for someone two sizes smaller than her, and she was wearing spiked wristbands. She had even put on an obscene amount of eyeshadow, something Aria found hard to look away from. On someone that was truly goth, it might have looked fine, but on Sunset? It was a crime against fashion.
“Because it looks cool, duh!”
“Goth kids don’t care about looking cool. I swear, Sunset, you’re just the worst.”
“I thought Sonata was the worst?” Sunset raised an eyebrow at Aria’s declaration.
“You just stole that title away from her.”
“Whatever,” Sunset scoffed. “You’re just mad that I rock the goth look better than you.”
“First of all, goth kids don’t talk like that,” Aria facepalmed. “Second, I’m not goth, I’m punk.”
“Same difference.”
“No, they’re not the same. Goth people are gloomy, punk people are anti-establishment.”
“Well if you’re anti-establishment, then why do you go to a public school?”
“It keeps Sonata happy,” Aria shrugged. “So tell me, what are your favorite bands?”
“Green Day is pretty up there,” Sunset grinned. While Aria did like their music, it certainly wasn’t something that anyone would consider ‘goth’ unless they were a complete idiot. Still, she was going to have fun with this.
“Oh yeah? What’s your favorite song by them?”
“‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’.”
“My god.”
“What?”
“Could you be any more mainstream?”
“Hey, that song is anything but mainstream.”
“Do you even know what ‘mainstream’ means?” Aria asked incredulously. Sunset was quickly setting a new record in a dubious category: Dumbest Human to Ever Live.
“Uh, heh, I guess not. That’s not really a word in Equestria…”
“Figures,” Aria rolled her eyes. “So what I’ve gathered from this conversation is that you have no idea what being goth means, and you’re nothing but a poser.”
“A poser?”
“Yep,” Aria replied boredly. She obviously wasn’t going to be able to get through to Sunset this way, but then it hit her. She had an ace in the hole, a way to get Sunset to stop acting like such a fool. With a devilish grin, she turned back to her. Sunset looked a little weirded out, but managed a quick “What?”.
“So is there anyone you like?”
“Huh? Why do you--”
“Just answer the question, Sunny,” Aria chuckled. This was going to be too easy. She knew full well who the former pony liked, as did basically everyone else at the school.
“Um, I guess I have a little crush on Rarity.”
“Imagine if she saw you wearing those clothes,” Aria began to full blown laugh out loud, and Sunset looked more than miffed. Putting on her best posh accent, Aria continued. “She’d be all ‘Oh my, Sunset, what are you doing in that horrid outfit?!’”
Sunset blushed, embarrassed, and Aria continued.
“Then she’d take you back to her house and start making new clothes for you, and probably rip these ones up!”
“... Huh.”
Wiping away her tears of laughter, Aria tried her best to regain her composure. “What’s with the look?”
“You just gave me an idea.”
“I did?” Aria looked confused, and Sunset giggled.
“You’re right, I’m not cut out to be goth, but I am one thing you’ll never be.”
“What’s that?”
“Smart,” Sunset laughed, getting up from her seat.
“... Sure you are,” Aria replied flatly. It was official, Sunset had gone insane. She watched as Sunset made her way to the classroom’s exit. She could do little more than wonder what she was up to, but it didn’t take very long for her to get her answer. No more than ten seconds after she had left, Aria heard her talking to someone in the hall.
“Hey, Rarity.”
“Oh, hello, Sunset, nice to--” Rarity’s reply was cut off as she screamed, something Aria could easily assume had come from seeing Sunset, and it made her laugh intensely. “What are you doing in that… that… ghastly outfit!?”
“Oh, I was just--”
“Nevermind what you were doing! We simply must get you some new clothes!”
Okay, maybe Sunset was smarter than Aria gave her credit for. But hey, she had made Aria’s morning amusing. Leaning back and propping her feet up on her desk, Aria smiled smugly.
“Eh, at least she wasn’t trying to be scene.”
Author's Note
Not much to say about this one. I just wanted to write an amusing conversation that people could relate to, and this was the result.
