Prologue and Chapter 1

Nasty looks, half-mumbled insults, irritating shoves. This has become the norm for my schooling life.

Yeah, you’re thinking, Uh, hello? Sunset Shimmer totally deserves a taste of her own medicine for going full crazy psycho-demon bitch on the school.

Let me stop you there by telling you, yes I agree, I should have been a complete pariah at school following that event. Well, actually I was with most of the school, including the principal and vice-principal.

But not all of the school. You see, after the five girls that I constantly bullied, backed by the pony Princess Twilight Sparkle defeated my evil she-devil side, you’d have thought that they would have left me there, in my smoking crater no doubt to be arrested and locked away for the rest of my life.

But no, after Twilight pulled me out of the crater, those same five girls started hanging out with me, and somehow we became….friends?

I was initially wary at first, I mean who wouldn’t? But I soon came to realise that these girls were my only ticket towards becoming a better person, and I have to admit, that she-demon kinda did scare me a little. Plus, it really felt good, having people to rely on, besides yourself. Knowing that no matter what, they’d always be by your side.

I’d like to think that I became a different person because of it. As I became a better person, the rest of the school gradually opened up to me and before long, I was treated as just another girls, albeit with five, super-awesome friends.

Anywhoo, that was about two years ago, and since then, we totally took down the siren Dazzing’s who were trying to control the entire school, kinda like I tried to once, (hehe.) and it seemed like I had finally unlocked the magic of friendship. Man, I became so close to the other girls and they in turn, came closer to me. We supported each other through the ups and downs.

It felt like nothing could ever go wrong…

A few months back, this person appeared on MyStable, going by the name Anon-A-Miss. This person quickly proved to be a nasty bully, posting every deepest, darkest secret held by every student in Canterlot High upon the web, making these private secrets public to the whole world.

Friendships were destroyed, long time friends became bitter rivals and the aura of trust surrounding the school was gone.

What makes it worse is that no-one was spared, not even my closest friends.

No-one, except for me.

Unfortunately, within weeks of the initial episode, everybody seemed to think that it was me behind these shameful attacks.

I know, it does sound like the sorta thing I would do, or would’ve done a year back.

But this time I’m actually innocent, I swear!

However no-one seems to believe me, and constantly harass me for it. Inside school and outside.

However, I refuse to bow before this tide of misdirected hate and anger, because I know that I am innocent, and my friends will stand by me.

Because that’s what friends do, right?

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The final bell sounded, meaning the day was finally over.

I let out a deep breath as I walked down the marble steps of the school. Thank god school’s over today! I was glad to get away from the daily torrent of abuse that I now faced whenever I went to school. Yeah, I admit it, some days I skip school. I mean it’s nothing I can’t handle, only a little abuse, but sometimes I just can’t face the deep hatred of the students.

Unfortunately, I had been missing more and more of school as Anon-A-Miss posted more and more of the schools deepest and darkest secrets which had led to an outbreak of physical violence against me. As it was, I only went around school now in the company of my friends, who fiercely defended me whenever someone tried to attack me or abuse me.

I was brought back to reality by a hard shove in my back. I lost my balance and fell down the stairs, spilling my books and skinning my knee. “Get out of Canterlot High!” A harsh voice sounded behind me. “Nobody want’s you here!”

Amidst the laughter, I quickly gathered up my books and walked away, fighting the impulse to turn around.

As I neared the school’s founding statue, the Wondercolt Horse (A.K.A the portal between this world, and Equestria), I stopped before it.

Running a hand over the smooth, cold stone, I contemplated jumping into the portal and travelling back to my home world.

Now that I had reformed, Twilight had told me that I was allowed to return home whenever I wished, but at the time, I had politely declined and told her that due to saving the school, I was no longer the girl hated and feared by others and me and the other 5 girls were closer than ever.

She had hugged me goodbye and wished me good luck. Due to the lack of evil Equestrian magic attacks recently, the Princess had not needed to return to Earth, and I found myself wishing she were standing before me so I could ask her what to do. What would you do in my place Twilight? Would you confront the school body?

I slid my hand through the seemingly solid wall when my pocket suddenly vibrated, and pulling out my phone, I saw that Pinkie had texted me.

Head 2 Sugarcube Corner. We’re all here! :-)

Smiling, I put my phone away and turned my back on the statue. I don’t need to go home, I realized. Home is where your heart is and my heart is with my friends.