Maybe..Just Maybe..

It's the beginning of the school day, and I'm in my 1st period class, and an announcement comes on over the loudspeaker:

"All students please report to the auditorium to work on your signs and posters for the musical showcase."

Once the loudspeaker turns off, all of the students head out of the classroom, and down to the auditorium. Once I enter the auditorium, I see everyone working on their signs and posters, and I see Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo working on their poster, and since I'm friends with their sisters, I thought I should help them on their poster. When I grab Sweetie Belle's paintbrush from the can of paint, all of the 3 girls look at me, a look of terror in their eyes.

"Want some help?" I say, trying to be friendly.

"Ah, no thanks." Applebloom says, the other two girls looking at her. "We're good." They all nod.

I sigh. "Okay." I hand Sweetie Belle back the paintbrush.

"Sunset Shimmer!!" I look over to the source of the yelling: Pinkie Pie. "Over here!!"

As soon as Pinkie said my name, everyone looked at me, and started to whisper to one another. I just smile, and walk over to Pinkie and the other girls.

I sigh. "I had no idea the whole school would be here."

Fluttershy puts her hand on my shoulder, comforting me. I look up and smile at her.

Pinkie and Rarity then hold up a poster. "Quite the eye-catching advertisement, if I do say so myself."

"And it smells like cake!" Pinkie adds, a beaming smile on her face.

"It does?" Fluttershy questioned, and goes to smell the poster, and Pinkie then ends up slamming the poster in her face.

Pinkie then took the poster off of Fluttershy's face, revealing now that her face is covered in glitter and frosting.

"I used frosting instead of paste!" Pinkie chimes, smiling.

"Uh, Fluttershy.. you've got a little something, uh.." Applejack points to her nose, and Fluttershy then gets the hint, and tries to rub the frosting off, but to no avail.

"Uh.. did I get it?" she asks, pointing to her cheek.

Applejack lets out a chuckle. "Not exactly."

I take the napkin and wipe the rest off of her face, and then Princess...er, I mean principal Celestia walks in, along with Vice Principal Luna.

"Good afternoon, students." Principal Celestia announces. "I just wanted to tell you all how pleased I am that so many of you are going to participate in the first ever CHS musical showcase!"

All the student cheer, excited about the upcoming event.

"This is a wonderful opportunity to raise money for all our after-school programs here at CHS, so keep working on those signs and posters." she continues. "I think it's going to be one of the most exciting events we've had at CHS since the Fall Formal."

'Really?' I think to myself. 'You've got to be kidding me.'

Now everyone is glaring at me. Oh, great.

I'm embarrassed, I feel humiliated. Why bring that up?

I sink down to the floor and put my hands to my knees. I can't stand to look at everyone giving me hateful glares.

"Ugh. I am never going to live that down." I say, looking down at the ground.

"Well, you were pretty bad at the Fall Formal.." Fluttershy remarks, grabbing her tambourine off of a shelf.

"A demon." I roll my eyes. "I turned into a raging she-demon."

"And tried to turn everyone here into teenage zombies for your own personal army!" Pinkie adds, smiling at me.

You're not really helping, Pinkie.

"Aw, darling." Rarity says, while adjusting her keytar. "You have us, and we've forgiven you for your past.." she clears her throat. "boo-boos."

"To be honest, I'd say the whole experience brought everyone at Canterlot High closer than ever before." Applejack says, tuning her bass guitar.

Applejack then looks over at Pinkie Pie, who is sitting at her drum set.

"1,2,3!" she shouts, tapping her drumsticks together.

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After the song is over, the girls' pony ears and "tails" go away.

"I still can't believe that happens to us when we play." Rarity remarks, putting down her instrument. "We've got to look for some new accessories, like something that looks good in a longer pony tail.." she paces for a moment, trying to come up with an idea. "ooh! Maybe some clip-on earrings for when I get those adorable pony ears!"

"I just wonder why it happens." Applejack points out, sitting on the set of stairs next to Fluttershy. "Princess Twilight took her crown back to Equestria. Shouldn't that mean she took all the magic back with her?"

Rainbow Dash scoffs. "Who cares why it happens? It makes my band totally awesome!"

Rarity gasps. "Your band?"

"Duh. It was my idea to start the Rainbooms so we could be in the showcase. After all, I'm the lead singer and guitarist" she gloats.

All of a sudden, there was a knock at the door, and someone walks in: Flash Sentry. He didn't acknowledge me or look at me. I don't blame him.

"Uh, heard you guys outside. You guys are sounding really tight." He says, walking over to the others.

"We're getting there. Rarity's coming in a little late on the second verse, and Applejack's base solo could use a little work. Rainbow critiques, the two girls looking at her, annoyed. "They'll get it in time for the showcase."

Flash scratched the back of his head. "I don't suppose our friends from uh.. out of town might come? Uh.. it being a special charity event and all."

"Sorry Flash, but I don't think Twilight is gonna be back here anytime soon." Applejack points out.

"Oh, yeah. Okay. I just, you know, thought I would ask. Keep on rockin' it." He adds , now leaving.

"Well, someone's quite the smitten kitten." Rarity giggles, then notices me standing right beside her. "Oh, sorry. I always forget you and Flash used to be an item."

"It's okay." I say, pretending to brush it off. "Flash is a great guy and all, but I never really liked him. I was just using him to become more popular" I noticed what I just said. "The old me was really awful, wasn't she?"

A chorus of 'Yep's' and 'mmhm's' cam from the girls. They were right, I was horrible.

"But the important thing is that you've turned yourself around." Appljack says, putting her arm across my shoulder.

"Thanks Applejack, but I'm not sure everyone else at CHS feels the same way."

Our conversation was interrupted by an announcement over the loudspeaker:

"Sunset Shimmer please report to the main foyer."

Oh, yeah. I almost forgot. Principal Celestia asked me if I wanted to tour some new people around the school.

"Gotta run. I volunteered to show some new students around the school. Thought it'd be good for them to get to know the new me before they hear some stuff about the old me."

I walk out of the band room, and head to the main foyer.