Music

You woke up later still at school, near the statue. The morning sun slowly rising over the horizon as you had been woken up by a woman.

"Are you okay?" Your eyes opened to see Principal Celestia you recoiled in slight horror.

"I'm fine, e-excuse me." You ran past the principal, you were still afraid of even being approached by anyone at the school. Yet you weren't afraid of going there, for some reason you felt attached to the area.

As you ran down the street, you panted as you saw the school far from your vision. You panted heavily as you took out your phone and looked to see the long list of songs. The battery now at 3%, you hadn't used it since last night and the battery life was still taken from it.

"I knew you would be here." Sunset appeared from behind you, and put her hand on your shoulder making you flinch. "Your sister's are really worry for you." Sunset says with a soft smile.

"Doubtful." You say panting as you try to get your breath back to normal.

Sunset passes a bottle of water making you wonder how the hell did she keep having exactly what you need at the right moment, she was magical sure. But it was kinda ridiculous.

"So, how are you feeling? Ready to start?"

"Start what?" You asked as your breath slowly got back to normal.

"Your new life, I told didn't I? I can teach you how to start over, are you ready to start over?" Sunset was your friend, clearly you can see that. She was pushing you to restart your life, to restart everything.

"Yeah I'm ready." With a confident smile you nod, though that confidence was probably just adrenaline going through your system.

"Good, because we're just in time to enroll you." Taking your hand Sunset walked towards the school, it was still early in the morning as the school was still empty. Aside from a few teachers with their cars parked in the staff parking lot.

"Enroll me? I-I can't everyone still hates me." Your confidence slowly diminishing at the chance of the students hating your guts, normally you'd deflect it with your brand of coldness, but you couldn't just yet back at them. Not if you wanted to restart.

"Aria I know what you are thinking, I was extremely scared when I enroll right after my 'she demon' phase, and true a lot of people hate me as well, but they gave me a chance. And they forgave me, I'm sure they will forgive you too. My friends did and I swear to you, they'll give you a second chance." You had to trust Sunset, she's been in your shoes before. Seeing as the similar differences between the two of you were almost in sync.

"I trust you, let's just get this over with. Are my sisters reenrolling with me?" You asked with curiosity, you hoped at least Sonata would come, you needed some support even if it came from her.

"I tried to convince them, but they refused to leave the house until they heard news about you…which reminds me." She passes you her phone. "Could you calm them down? Please?"

"Fine." Taking the phone you dial Sunset's house phone number. Getting phones was probably the next step after re-enrolling after all pre-paid is still an option.

"Aria?" Sonata immediately answers, her voice happy and perky like always.

"Yeah it's me, I'm fine I just needed to get away from Adagio. She was a little annoying, I just had to go out for a bit."

"So are you ready to come home now? I made coffee, please Aria, you know I get sad when you and mom fight, please come back." Sonata says almost as if she'd be ready to cry.

"Mom? What're you talking about?" You asked pretty confused by her wording.

"Oh give me that…Aria come back here right now!" Adagio shouts anger in her voice.

"Please mommies don't fight!" Sonata is hear in the background.

"Sonata for the fifth time we're your sister not your mothers!" Adagio shouts.

"I still don't like when you 2 fight." You hear Sonata pout.

"Look I'm going to school, I'm enrolling, I want a better life not what we have now. You're welcome to join." You say hopefully they'd go with you.

"What?!"

"Awesome! Taco Tuesday!" Sonata shouts in the background.

"Aria, how are you expecting us to enroll without money?"

"Its public school, you don't need to pay. Plus I promised to help Aria, even if you had to pay I'd do my best to help her." Sunset mentions.

There was silence, you were scared if they didn't come. You'd be alone or the very least you'd have to face everything with only one friend, it terrified you.

"You can come or not, I'm not staying with the life we have." You say hanging up. Handing back Sunset's phone you sighed, your hands running through your hair. Your hair not having the usual pig tails style, now just long and relatively normal looking.

"Do you really think it's good not to wait for an answer?" Sunset asks.

"If they want to come, they'll come. If not I'll get through this alone. Now let's go." You smiled it was a little hard, but you had to try.

The two of you approached the school, passing by the large statue and walking towards the faculty. You felt almost scared being here, being in the place that made you lose your magic with the person who forced that magic out of you. Sighing Sunset approaching the office and opened the door, Celestia looked up and smiled.

"Oh Sunset what can do for you?" Principal Celestia asks

"Hello principal Celestia I was passing by and I was hoping if you could do us a little favor." Sunset had a smile on her as you felt only a smidge confident being there.

"Oh and what's that?" Celestia asks

"Would you consider enrolling the Dazzlings again? Aria here has expressed some acceptance in turning a new leaf."

"Enroll the Dazzlings?" She looks behind Sunset and sees you, you were afraid but you didn't want to run. The strangest thing happened she smiled.

"Of course." Principal Celestia says smiling.

"Really?" Sunset asks with complete surprise.

"But of course, dear why wouldn't I?" She asks

"Uh well because the whole brainwashing, and controlling and…" Principal Celestia had stopped Sunset from saying any further and smiled.

"It's all in the past, our school has suffered through worse, and as long as you are willing to change we are willing to help you have a future. So…where are your sisters?"

"I'm not sure, they're not as keen on turning a new leaf." You say sighing

"She means they'll be here later." Sunset butts in with a laugh.

"Well as long as they arrive, I have no problem on enrolling them too, you came in at the perfect time, since the second semester has already started."

"Really thank you!" You happily exclaim, almost so unnatural of you saying anything like that.

"You're welcome dear." She passes you a few papers with a small smile. "Now if only you could…"

"Get in there right now!" A woman identical to Vice Principal Luna, but with a female business suit storms in dragging a boy by his ear, a black blazer, a t-shirt with an odd looking design on it and a pair of black cargo jeans as well as high top tennis shoes.

"Hello Celestia." The woman says with a huff.

"Nightmare…may I ask why are you dragging a boy by the ear into my office? And please answer me before I call the cops."

"Relax sister, this is just my lazy worthless son." The woman known as Nightmare informs.

"Son!?" Celestia stands up in shock "Night since when…"

"None of your god damn business. That's where." She voices back with venom in her voice.

"Always the ray of sunshine are you mom?" The boy says sarcastically.

"You shut up!" The woman says in anger.

"What are you 2 punks looking at? out!" She points towards the door where you and Sunset look.

"Jeez who shat in her Cheerios." You mumble as Sunset pushes you out.

"M-maybe it's best if we leave now, come Aria let me show you around."

"Alright, lead the way." You mentioned as you walked alongside Sunset

"So what made you change your minds?" You asked, both Sonata and Adagio had arrived to the school. The two looked rather nervous under Adagio boss attitude you could see it, as for Sonata she was like a scared puppy.

"I told you, without me you're lost, plus there was nothing on TV."

"Hey? Weren't you saying that you were worry about Aria, and thinking she could be hurt, or lost or bullied or…" Sonata was instantly shut up as Adagio shouted.

"Shut up Sonata!" She shouts

"Thanks guys and guess what Sonata it's Tuesday." You say with a small smile.

"Awesome!" Rushing to the cafeteria Sonata had sped off, Adagio sighed and approached her.

"Fine you got me here, how do we enroll?" Adagio asks

"Papers here." You say passing the papers over to her.

"That's it? No punishment, no trick? No jail time? Just a contract?"

"Yeah, that's all. And no talking about going back to Equestria I'm sick of it."

"But…"

"No more! I don't want hear about how'd we go back. And how we can trick ponies into helping us. I want the best for Sonata and you talking about Equestria only drags us down!" You shouted. Adagio grumbles and sit next to you, her anger was apparent and dully noted.

"Traitor." She mumbles before turning to Sunset. "Isn't this suppose to be a tour?"

"We got a tour awhile back, we know exactly where we're going." You reminded.

"What, they could always remodel?"

"Unfortunately no." Celestia informs as the kid from before walked alongside her, he looked as if he was recently hit as he had sported a hand mark on his face. "Sunset dear I know I'm asking much, but it appear we have a new student enrolling today…"

"Pfft more like toss into it." The new kid says shaking his head.

"Ray please. We'll talk later for now please could you try?" Celestia informs.

"Ah whatever." He says waving her off.

"So which one of you wants to be eaten out first?" He asks, you knew you'd hate this little asshole.

"Ray!" Celestia shouts at him in shock.

"You said make friends, I'm making friends."

"Friends with you please, I may look like a punk but I'm not some bitch you can push around." You reply with a glare

"Yeah, you look more like the type of bitch that…"

"Ok that is enough!" Celestia pulls the new kid haway "We'll talk about this later. Sunset dear I…"

"I know Principal Celestia we heard a bit of the conversation, his mom doesn't look like a caring type." Sunset says understanding the situation.

"I honestly don't know what to do, I want to hug him, but for how damaged he is, I'm afraid I will just break him even further. I need time to think, just please, be patient with him."

"You can count on me Principal Celestia."

"I'm gonna go look for Sonata, Adagio come with me. And Sunset if you need help just call for me." You say smiling

"Will do." She says with a smile as Celestia brings back the new kid.

"First day and we deal with a guy with mommy issues." You say to Adagio with a sigh. As you rubbed your temples, the stress of it all was getting to you and being with negativity didn't help either.

"Isn't it wonderful being the boss?" Adagio asks with sarcasm. "Now you know what my life is everyday."

"Hahaha very funny, today's just a tiny misstep just need some music and there." You say aloud as you take out your phone and listen to your music. With such a low battery you had to only use music you had on your phone. Everything else would probably drain the battery faster.

"And then what boss? Do we practice our happy faces and join the cheerleader squad?" Adagio asks with a fake smile.

"Oh I like that idea, I know have the perfect look to be a cheerleader." Sonata say with enthusiasm

"Aria seriously, we need to know what the plan is if we aren't going home then what're we going to do?" Adagio asks

"Normal girls, we learn about this world we adapt, we find friends, find others who care, hell if you two want, find boyfriends." You reply

"What?" Adagio asks

"Hey that doesn't sound so bad." Sonata mentions with a perky smile.

"Are you going to find a boyfriend?" Adagio asks

"Now? No, maybe later. Right now I just want people to like us. I mean look around, it's lunch time and do you see tables near us filled? No, they're avoiding us." You say with a sigh.

"Good for us it let's us plan, and returning to the idea. Sonata to start, the problem of that plan is we don't age, do you really know what that'll mean?" She asks

"Who cares, if we get boyfriends at least they'll like us. I mean he'll plenty of ponies in the past loved immortal creatures." You say shrugging.Adagio sigh and shake her head before looking at you.

"Fine! We'll do it your way."

"Yay!"

"Under one condition."

"Boo!" Sonata pouts.

"And what's that?" You asked

"The moment we find a way back home IF we ever find a way back home we will take that opportunity and go…back…home." She crosses her arms. "Should not be dificult considering there's actually no way back right?"

"Here's a better plan, if we find a way home you two can go and I'll stay." You say with a glare.

"No." Adagio says with a glare. "We stick together no matter what the window appear we go, end of discussion. We're family Aria, we're suppose to be there for one another, I don't want us to be spread by some god damn dimensional bullshit."

"I'll decide when I leave. End of discussion." You glare back at her in complete anger.

"Aria!" Adagio shouts

"Please don't fight." Sonata holds your hand. "Sis…you'll leave us?"

"I won't leave you Sonata." You say sighing with a frown.

"Great then its decided we do your thing, with the promise of going back if there's a chance, which most likely there isn't one. I'm glad we talked."

"Yeah let's just finish eating and go back home, tomorrow is our official first day."

"Wait just one minute" Sonata look at both seriously before smiling. "Are still going to be cheerleaders?"

"Ask Aria, she is the boss now."

"If you want you can be one, but I don't think I'm cut out to be one." You mention

"Aw come on girls we all taking charge, I want all 3 of us to be cheerleaders." Sonata says with a giggle.

"We aren't as perky or good looking as you Sonata." You say listening your music

"But it won't be as funny if I do it alone."

"Think of it as a game Sonata, I imagine Aria will join a team at some point." Adagio says smiling.

"Right joining." You say with a laugh.