Funeral for a friend.

                                                                                                            Chapter Two.

                                                                                                          The walk home:

After paying for her meal and saying her last goodbyes to her friends Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash Sunset Shimmer began to walk home. The air in the night’s sky hung around her like a cold damp towel and clung to her neck and face as if it were a large wet blanket.

“Burr” thought Sunset as she pulled her leather short waistcoat up closer to her neck and zipped it tight.

Trying the keep the cold out was not going to be easy seeing as how she really didn’t have the money for winter clothing. The street was dark and barren, there was no one in sight only a few street lamps dotted the way back to her home. As she began to walk away from Sugar Cube Corner she thought that there was someone or something following her. She looked back yet no one was there.

“Hmmp!” She thought to herself as she turned around and continued to head home.

“Get it together girl! No one is after you and you don’t need to always be afraid of the dark!” She said coldly to herself.

Her breath came and went slowly puffing in large and small amounts of air that made her breath look like a dragons or a fire bird from her home in Equestria. She rubbed her gloved hands together trying to get warm. She had another 30 or 40 minutes of walking to do before she could be inside her nice warm apartment.

“When I get home I am SO turning the space heater on and just sitting in front of it for the rest of the fall and winter!” She said bitterly to herself.

As she walked the long dark street alone, she thought she could hear a soft yet noticeable laughter coming from her right. Sunset looked around yet again no one was there. She shrugged her shoulders in disappointment. Having someone, ANYONE! there to at least talk to would have helped to take her mind off the bitter cold night’s air. But to her disappointment no one was there. It was just her imagination.

Not wanting to waste any more time or energy for that matter in the bitter cold air. Or spending more time looking around for people that clearly were not around her. Sunset quickened her pace and began to lightly jog the rest of the way home.  Within twenty minutes of light jogging and panting she had reached her apartment building. The building itself was a large lime green and blue brick three story building. It had a few trees outlining the smokers’ only area outside. This area didn’t hold much interest for Sunset. Seeing as how she didn’t smoke and couldn’t fathom why anyone in their right mind would do such a disgusting thing. The area itself was sparsely filled with some tables and chairs each of various size and shape. The walkway that lead up to the front door was still covered in bird poop. Sunset frowned to herself when she saw the little green and brown landmines that she was going to have to either walk right though. Or was going to have to find another way to get to the front door without getting that ick on her feet.

As she started to walk towards the door she heard under her boot a soft squishy sound like a tomato being splattered against a wall. She looked down in almost disgust at what she was now fully standing in.  A big slimy piece of bird poop! was now stuck to the bottom of her left boot.

“GREAT! JUST FREAKING GREAT!!” exclaimed Sunset.

“Can’t that damn landlord Winter Fole do his damn job and clean this mess up!?” venom spewed through her mind as she thought to herself.

Sunset looked around for anything within reach to wipe the offending piece of poop off her boot yet found nothing available to her. Growling under her breath and having little time to waste any further on this she stomped up towards the entry door of her apartment. Once there she pulled both boots off standing now bare foot on the cold hard cement floor that made up the entryway of her home. She fumbled around in her left pocket for her key and lock card. Once the items were found she swiped the lock card into place on the card reader and placed the key into the door lock. Turning the key to the right hearing it click in place she opened the door and walked into the lobby of the apartment building. She looked around while carrying her boots under her right arm no one was in sight and she really didn’t feel like talking to any of her neighbors that night. She very quickly checked her mailbox for any new mail.

“Nothing” Sunset said under her breath.

She then walked over to the nearby elevator and pressed the button. “DING” a lite chiming sound was echoed out of the elevator and the metal door slowly opened. The elevator was small even by the day's standards; you could hardly get anything inside it. Let alone six people which was the maximum that this elevator could hold. Sunset pressed the number three button and the door closed. The elevator slowly rose and came to a stop on the second floor. Sunset was less than enthused to see the door opening on the wrong floor. Before she could say anything however a older male and his companion stepped into the elevator. Neither of the two said anything to her they simply pressed the number one button and the elevator did the rest.

Upon stopping at her floor she came out to the warm scents of banking cookies and ugh FISH! Gripping her stomach in a fleeting hope of not retching all over the hallway floor at the offending order she very quickly made her way to her unit. Unit 334 as she unlocked the door she noticed a small notice taped to her door. She took it down pushed the door open and ran right into her bathroom. Lifted up the toilet seat lid and let out all of her dinner from that night's engagements with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Picking up a used towel from the floor that had been sitting there for almost a week she wiped her mouth off. Tossing the filthy thing back onto the floor with the thoughts of cleaning it up later on that night. Sunset walked back into her kitchen and picked up the note that was lying on the kitchen counter from were she had tossed it before running into the bathroom. Looking it over she could see that it was a notice of her rent. On the note was written in plain black ink.

subject:

rent not paid:

200.00

Please pay this amount BY the 2nd of the month or you will be evicted within 30 days of not paying rent!

W. F.

“Is this some sort of sick joke!?” Sunset screeched at the top of her lungs.

“I PAID THAT DAMN FOOL! HIS DAMN RENT LAST WEEK!” Sunset screeched even louder than before.

Realizing it would do her no good to get all upset now she tossed the note into the air sighed and went about making some tea to settle her stomach. Sunset made her tea then settled in for some very well needed sleep. After drinking the tea and placing the cup into the kitchen she headed into her bedroom undressed and slipped on her pajamas then laid down on her bed and fell asleep.