Funeral for a friend.

                                                                                                        Chapter One:

                                                                                                            Detention.

The clouds hung with a soft grey as the cool air blew lightly throughout Canterlot City. Fall had come early this year and the maple and oak trees that were planted around the sidewalk were already starting to turn from bright jade green to a rainbow of colors. Sunset sat in her chair trying to pay attention to the teacher, yet her mind kept wandering. Try as she might, she kept thinking of her home, Equestria. Flashes of glittering streams and cloud capped mountains danced in her memories, tugging on her heart, as she sat in class listening to the teacher droll monotonously on.

“Sunset? Sunset Shimmer, will you please pay attention!”

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Huh? What?” Sunset replied.

The teacher gave her a grim look that caused Sunset to recoil in her chair.

“Uh, what was the question again?” asked Sunset, trying to recall what Ms. Hoof Whinny had already asked her.

“You’re in detention!”

Sunset groaned, leaning back in her chair. “Damn it,” she thought. “There goes my afternoon with my friends at Sugar Cube Corner.”

For the rest of the day Sunset went from class to class trying to pay attention as best she could. As the bell rang the students began to file out into the hallway one by one. There was to be a four day weekend for all of the students. The school was to be closed due to a teacher study meeting and some sort of teacher teaching thing. Something that Sunset really didn’t seem to understand nor did she, want to learn about it. She had other concerns on her mind at the moment. She began to walk to the dentition room. She had gotten this sort of punishment before when she first showed up at Canterlot High School. It wasn’t even a week into her being here that she was sent to detention for not turning in her homework on time. In fact her actual home assignment that day was actually three days late. Detention was something that she didn’t want to do again yet she knew she had little choice in the matter.

Her mind wandering from thought to thought as for what lame thing she would have to do this time around during her two hours of detention. She could write a report, take notes, or dust the chalk boards and erasers. A task that she really hated doing due to all that damn dust causing her to cough and sneeze like crazy. She had to do this during her last detention section. Or simply sit and be BORED for the whole two hours.

As she made her way into the room, Ms. Hoof Whinny place a blank piece of white paper and a pencil on an empty desk and pulled out the chair. Sunset said nothing to her and sat down in the chair. Ms Hoof Whinny closed the door and walked back over to where Sunset was sitting. There eyes momentarily locking.

“Now Sunset I hope you don’t think you are being punished unfairly,” She said coldly. Sunset again didn’t say anything to her she just sat there looking right at her. “Or that NOT paying attention in class is well to put it bluntly “FUNNY” Because I can assure you that it isn’t funny at all”

This made Sunset cower back a bit as her teacher leaned in and fully locked her ocean blue eyes right at Sunsets lime green eyes. Ms Hoof Whinny retracted a bit seeing that Sunset was a bit rattled by this aggressive behavior.

“As for your assignment I, want you to write down what caused you to how do you students put it? Ah, yes, I believe the term is 'space out' and what you plan to do to prevent it from happening again in the future.”  Sunset looked at Ms. Hoof Whinny a bit shocked by this request. Sunset picked up the pencil and began to slowly write down what she thought about during class.

After two hours had passed by, she got up and headed over to where Ms. Hoof whinny was sitting filing her nails and handed her, her paper then prepared to leave. Sunset was about to walk out the door when she heard from behind her.

“Ahem” Barked Ms. Hoof Whinny.

She turned around to see that Ms. Hoof Whinny was standing behind her.  Sunset could feel her heart jump a bit, her palms began to sweet and her breath was labored as she looked right at her teacher. Ms. Hoof Whinny was glaring daggers and fire at Sunset as she snorted a stark retort at her.

“The next time you feel the need to dwell on matters NOT at all related to class or the materials therein. I shall and will do more than just give you detention do you fully understand Sunset?!” MS. Hoof winy snorted bitterly at her. Sunset simply shook her head “yes” and turned to leave.

The school at this time was almost empty except for the janitor and a few other’s that were busy cleaning the carpet and walls. For the next time classes would start. Besides Ms. Hoof winy and sunset there were about three maybe four other people inside the school. All of whom were cleaning the school getting it ready for the next time the students would trash the place. That is all expect for Ms. Hoof winy who was still in the detention room doing god knows what.  Sunset found she really didn’t care about what that bitch of a teacher was doing. Nor did she want to know either she simply wanted to go home. The front doors leading into the school were locked tight. So she had to talk to the janitor to get him to open the damn doors and let her out. She walked down a small yet quaint hallway till she finally found the person that she was looking for.

“Excuse me sir could you unlock the front door for me so I can go home?” she asked as she approached the man.

The janitor looked up from what he was doing and smiled warmly at Sunset. She in turn smiled warmly back at him but again asked if he could open the front doors so she could go home.

“Uh can you open the front doors so I can go home sir?” she asked.

The janitor just smiled warmly at her.

“Eh got yourself into detention again Ms Sunset eh?” he said half hardheartedly.

“Yes I was…. oh never mind what I was doing! Can you please just unlock the doors so I can go home?!” Sunset replied with a bit of annoyance in her voice.

With that the old man simply tipped his hat and walked down the hallway towards the front doors. Sunset watched him for a few seconds as they came upon the front doors fumbling with his keys until he found the right one and unlocked the doors. She thanked him and pushed the doors open to the now chilly cold night’s air. By now all of her friends must have either headed home or gone off to do whatever it was they were going to do before the start of the four day weekend.

This by no means bothered sunset at all. She was used to dealing with stuff on her own. She had done so many, many times in Equestria. As she walked home from school she did at least think she should stop by the sugar cube corner to see if anyone was actually there. She felt that was a bit of a cheesy excuse and more than likely there wouldn’t be a soul there. Save for the very few staff that actually worked there. But nevertheless she walked in the direction of the establishment as she came upon the sugar cube corner. She could clearly see that all the windows were lit up and the place was filled with customers. Too her absolute surprise she saw her friend pinkie pie and her other friend rainbow dash sitting at a windowed booth.

“Oh what heck you walked all this way from school. You might at the very least head inside and see what those two are up too.” She thought to herself as she headed up to the double glass doors of the sugar cube corner.

She gently pushed against the doors. The cold metal that made up the handle of the double doors slowly began to give way under the pressure of her pushing against it. The doors opened and a soft chiming noise could be heard as she entered the dinner. Pinkie Pie was sitting across from Rainbow Dash in their booth both girls had already ordered some food and drinks when Pinkie looked up and saw Sunset enter sugar cube corner. She called out to her in usual squeaky voice.

“Sunset Shimmer over here”.

Sunset looked over to her and walked up to their booth sat down and looked at both girls with a happy yet honest grin on her face.

“Sorry I am so late I had well……..” her voice trailed off and both Pinkie and Rainbow dash just looked at her warmly.  She was about to finish what she was going to say when a waitress came up to check on the three of them and see if this new customer wanted anything to eat or drink.

“Is everything going OK over here you two?” she asked warmly.

“Miss would you like to see a menu or start with a drink of some sort? Turning her attention now to Sunset as she and Sunset both looked at each other expectantly.

Sunset looked at her then at Pinkie and Rainbow Dash then back at the wateriest. Before she could even begin to answer Pinkie chimed in with.

“She will have the vegetarian soup, a strawberry milkshake, hold the whip cream and four cherries on top thank you”.

Sunset simply quirked an eyebrow at Pinkie pie then looked back at the waitress who had just jotted the order down on a blue piece of paper.

“Uh yes Thank you very much, What my friend said will be just fine. Again, Thank you”. With that the waitress disappeared leaving the three girls to talk about their day in peace.

“Pinkie Pie I really do Thank you very much for the order of food, but please next time let me at the very least see a menu BEFORE you offer any sort of uh help OK?”

Pinkie Pie said nothing in response to this she simply picked up her drink and began to slurp it down.

“Rainbow could you?” began Sunset but was cut off.

“NOPE! Sorry sunset I am sooo staying out of this one”. Replied Rainbow as she tossed up her hands palms facing out towards Sunset.

A moment later the waitress came back with a big tray of food which was Sunsets order. She placed it all down onto the table being careful not to spill the hot and rather tasty smelling soup all over Sunset.

She turned to face Sunset and asked “need anything else dear” she said with a friendly smile.

“Huh? Oh no thank you, this will be quite satisfactorily” replied Sunset with just as much of a warm smile as the waitress had shown her.

With that Sunset picked up a spoon and slowly began to eat her dinner. The waitress satisfied that she was able to please Sunset with her meal left the three to carry on about her business. The rest of the night was filled with Rainbow Dash and the other two girls laughing and giggling as they all enjoyed each other’s company.