Between Turkeyday and Giftmas
Two slices of whole wheat bread.
Mustard spread across one.
A large block of cheddar to one side has a slice shaved off by a thin wire. That slice is then placed on top of the mustard.
A couple pieces of turkey are added.
Bacon is then added.
Yet another slice of cheeze.
The second piece of bread gets some mustard on it before being flipped and put on top of the sandwich.
Sunset picked up her food and walked back to her couch, taking a bit as she moved. She was almost getting tired of turkey. Next time she would pay a bit more attention to how big of a bird she gets.
She'd have to make something for her friends to get rid of the rest. Thinking on what she could make, Sunset pulled a blanket over her legs as the b-grade horror movie was resumed.
Eventually her thoughts strayed back to her situation. They were all with their family. Sure they had all invited her to join them, but imposing on their families wouldn't be right. At least not in this world from all she learned about etiquette and customs. Just one of the differences between here and Equestria where having friends or other ponies to join you for the holidays were practically expected.
"Maybe I could visit Princess Twilight." Sunset thought.
For a moment she pondered it before shaking her head.
"She'd probably invite Celestia specifically because of me. Not ready for that just yet."
Her mind then hopped over to this world's Twilight, Sci-Twi as Pinkie calls her. A smirk appeared as Sunset remembered an incident with Twi borrowing her math notebook.
The confusion and fretting of her friend amused her. She probably should've warned that she took notes in base 8. At least Twilight hadn't tried looking through her magic notations. She has a habit of using separate bases for different equations, utilizing both base 8 and base 12.
The thought of her friends brought her back to her loneliness. She was used to spending the holidays alone. She's been doing it for a few years. Even in Canterlot, although she was surrounded by the nobles, she was still by herself most of the time. Celestia did try to pry open time in her schedule to spend with her, but there were always matter of state that urgently called her attention.
When she was a bully she would keep herself amused by messing with people. Buying up the last of a toy or other item that a bunch of parents were fighting over, teasing one part of a couple leading to a fight, and many other little petty things. Sunset felt bad thinking back on all those times.
The power went out then. Sunset sighed, and waited for a bit to see if it would come back quickly.
A couple minutes later, and a text from the power company stating that someone had ran into a power pole and brought it down. Power would be out for at least a day.
"This has to be karma."
Looking down caused her to notice she was most of the way through her sandwich. Using her phone, she looked up some other possible thing she could do with the turkey. Something called shite on a shingle caught her attention so she jotted down the recipe for later.
Stretching a little, Sunset thought about what she could do. Almost a third of the city was without power. That narrowed down most things, as the mall was included in those numbers.
Heading to her room to get dressed she decided on going to the park and walking about.
Sunset parked her motorcycle and made sure it was secure. She looked around the park. Snow had made a lovely blanket over everything. There were paths carved through it by both design and by people forging their own way.
There were plenty of snowmen, and a few forts built. Seems like several impromptu snowball wars have taken place there already. Likely to be more as well.
Picking a path she knew well, she set off. The site of the snow caused her to remember one of her first snowfalls as Celestia's personal student. Her mentor had managed to get the whole day to spend with her and had asked her down to the gardens.
When Sunset had arrived there was several snowponies. A couple where even the size, and form of her mentor. Of course only one had an ethereal mane and tail flowing out of the snow. The little filly smiled and had some fun pretending not to be able to find Celestia while gathering up a large snowball in her telekinesis.
Jumping up on one of the normal snow Celestias caused it to collapse. Sunset then used the snow pile to jump up onto the real one. The snow crumbled off of the alicorn, before a snowball landed on her head covering her again.
They played around the snow for a couple hours before heading inside with Sunset looking as white as her mentor due to the snow clinging to her coat.
Sunset remember cuddling with Celestia next to a fire drinking hot chocolate. Then she slipped on some ice bringing her out of her memories.
Getting up she looked around. Most the of the path had passed beneath her unnoticed. A large, frozen over lake was nearby. A couple people were ice skating and others were just sliding about the edges.
Sunset decided to join them and was quickly in a contest with several other students from Canterlot High to see how far they could slide while holding a pose.
A little later she was interrupted by a familiar voice.
"Hey Sunset. How are you doing Darling?" Rarity said, looking down at Sunset as she had ended up on her butt after a slide.
"I'm good Rarity. How about you?" Sunset replied.
"Just fine. I needed a moment away from my family so I'd thought I'd come ice skating. I have a spare pair of skate that might be able to fit you if you care to join." Rarity offered her friend, holding out a hand to help her up.
Sunset took the hand.
Author's Note
Okay, maybe not exactly as sad as I thought. Didn't have an exact idea of where this was going when I was writing it, and when I got out what I had, the story was still a few hundred words short so I just kept writing.