Today is the day of three special events, The Halloween Party, The Battle of the Bands, and Sunset Shimmer's birthday. Right now, Alice and her friends are at a place called Round Table Pizza to celebrate Sunset's birthday before the competition starts. Even Alice's parents and their little sister join them on the party. After having pizza served and singing the happy birthday song, they are just about to really get the party started.

Alice and her friends happily cheer, "Happy Birthday Sunset!"

"Thank you guys, for throwing me a party," Sunset replies feeling touched for her friends going through the trouble for her.

"Don't worry Sunset, you're our friend and today's is your special day," Alice replies.

"Thanks," Sunset says with a smile.

As they are having fun, Jerry is going to get ready to have a slice of pizza from the table.

But Amy notices and says, "Wait!"

Jerry takes his hand away from the pizza and looks at the others with a questionable look.

"Not before she blows out the candles," Amy says.

"You need to wait Jerry," Clarissa adds.

Jerry sighs and says, "Aw! Why do we have to wait for everything."

"Well, you always have to eat everything," Alice mocks.

"Yeah, so what?" Jerry questionably replies.

Alice sighs and says, "Jerry, sometime I wonder if you just have a big appetite in that small stomach of yours."

Then Joseph turns his head towards Sunset and says, "Either way, blow out the candles Sunset."

At that moment, Sunset blows out the candles from her birthday cake. Alice and the others clap out

Jerry smiles and says, "Now we can eat."

"Oh Jerry," Amy says with a smile.

Everyone laugh a little bit before they decide to eat pizzas, breadsticks, salad, and cake. After they finish eating, they play some of the games that the restaurant has. After playing the games, it's about time for Sunset to opens her present.

Sunset sit in at one of the edge of the table while the others sit on the side so they can each over her their present.

Joseph hands Sunset his present as he says, "Open mine first."

"Sure," Sunset replies.

Sunset opens the wrapping paper from the present and then she opens the box. Sunset can see at shirt that is black and orange that has an S and F on the side.

Sunset surprisingly says, "Wow!"

"It's an official San Francisco Giants baseball shirt," Jospeh says with his thumb up.

Sunset shines and says, "Thanks you."

"No problem," Joseph says with a smile.

Sunset put the shirt back in the box and then Alice's mom puts it next to her on the table. Just then, Amy comes to Sunset with a bouquet of roses and baby breathes.

Amy shyly smiles and says, "This one's from me."

Sunset can see that Amy has bring her a bouquet of roses.

Sunset surprisingly says, "Are these roses?"

"Yes and they have baby breathes too," Amy says.

Then she hands the bouquet to Sunset with a shy smile on her face.

Sunset takes the roses with a smile on her face and says, "Thank Amy."

"You're welcome," Amy replies.

Then Clarissa comes over and give her a glittery magenta bag.

Clarissa happily says, "Here you are dearie, this is from me to you."

Sunset takes the bag and wonder what's inside. Since she kind of knows Clarissa it might be something fancy, nice like jewelry, clothes, or something like that.

"Come on open it," Clarissa replies.

Sunset takes the color paper that is in side and she is surprised to see what's inside. She pulls out a nice sleeveless dark purple dress with matching gloves.

Sunset surprisingly says, "Wow!"

"It's a lovely dress isn't it. I bought it for you to wear to our next school dance and make sure you wear it." Clarissa says with pride.

Sunset smiles and put the dress with the gloves in the box and says, "Thanks Clarissa. I love it."

"Any time," Clarissa happily replies.

Then Jerry puts the preset in front of her face and says, "This one is from me."

"What is it, Jerry?" Sunset asks as she takes the small present.

Sunset is kind of curious about the present is kind of small and from the looks and feel of it, it might be some kind of stuffed toy or something.

"Open it and see," Jerry happily replies.

Sunset opens her small present to see what Jerry has got for her. When she opens it, she is kind of surprised to see the doll is a pony version of herself. The doll has the same mane and tail color, fur color, eye color, and the right cutie mark.

Sunset questionably says, "It's me, as a pony?"

Jerry simply smiles and says, "Yeah, and it took me some time to find it."

"Wow! I look kind of different as a doll. Pony and human," Sunset replies with a surprised look.

Sunset turns to Jerry and says, "Thanks Jerry."

After Jerry takes his seat, Alice passes Sunset's present since she is next to her.

Alice says with a smile, "Here's my present."

Sunset opens her preset to see that it's a black purse with a gold heart on the zipper.

"What a cool bag. Thanks Alice," Sunset says with a smiles.

"I knew you will love it," Alice replies with a smile.

As each present is being passed down, Max is feeling nervous about giving Sunset his present. He knows that the present he byes for her is perfect.

Just then Max sees Alice little sister happily cheering, "Me! Me!"

Alice looks at her little sister and says, "That's right, Penelope got you a present to."

"Here you go," Penelope says as she hands Sunset her present.

Sunset can see that Penelope has given her ten roses that was some wrappers on. She can tell that the roses must be made out of candy.

"More roses," Sunset replies with a smile.

"They're milk chocolate roses and I got you a small box of chocolate,"

Clarissa says, "That's a lot of chocolate."

"I know, but I hope you like it," Penelope happily replies.

Sunset smiles and says, "I do. Thank's Penelope."

Penelope smiles, thens he goes to sit down with her parents. There is only one present that needs to be open.

"Well Max, it's time to give Sunset your present," Alice says as she turns to Max.

However, Alice and the others are starting to notice that Max is a little stiff at the moment.

Alice waves her hand infront of Max face and says, "Max?"

"Are you okay?" Amy asks in concern.

"Come on Max, give Sunset your present," Joseph replies.

"Sure!" Max screams out of the blue.

The scream catches everyone's attention. Max starts to blush and make his way towards Sunset with a small box containing his present.

He hands it out to Sunset as he shyly says, "Happy Birthday Sunset."

"Thank you Max," Sunset replies as she takes the present from Max.

"You're welcome," Max replies with a nervous look.

Sunset looks at the small box for a minute and wonders what's inside of it. She then opens it too see what it is. She becomes in awed when she sees a lovely necklace. The necklace has a silver lace that has a small spiral cage on it. Inside of it, is a pure white colored pearl that is about 10 mm big.

Sunset is shocked to see that Max give something as beautiful as a necklace with a pearl in it.

Sunset surprisingly says, "Aw Max, it's beautiful."

"Really! You like it." Max says looking a bit surprised.

"Like it. I love it." Sunset says with excitement,

"I appreciate it," Max says while he blusehes.

"Thank you Max. I'm going to wear it right now," Sunset says.

She then puts the pearl necklace on her neck so she can wear it. Alice and the others takes a look at the pearl necklace and see that it's beautiful.

"She's right. It sure is a nice necklace,"

"I say it's lovely," Clarissa replies admiring the pearl

"We're did you get it?" Jerry asks.

Max starts to get embarrased and answers, "I got it from the Pear Factory a few miles from here."

"Really!" Jerry surprisingly replies.

Max nods his head replying yes to Jerry's question.

Then Alice says, "That must have cost a lot of money,"

"And you got an excellent pearl too," Clarissa adds.

Sunset smiles as she looks at the pearl and says, "I really love it Max. Thank you."

With that, Sunset walks towards Max and gives him a kiss on the cheek. Max starts to get really embarrassed, but it doesn't last very long. He and Sunset both hold on to each other as they hug each other with love sparkles in their eyes. Alice and her friends giggles a little bit at the two making a love scene towards each other. Max and Sunset start to blush at each other and decides to end it right there.

Max face the others with an embarrassed look and asks, "What time is it?"

Joseph looks at his watch and answers, "It's just about 2 o'clock."

Alice and the others realize that they need to start heading to the school gym so they can get to the Battle of the Bands.

Alice says, "We better get going so we can go play at with the competition."

"Yeah." Jerry replies.

Then Clarissa says, "Let's go over to the gym and we can get dressed there."

Everyone in the band including Sunset who is going to play with them, looks at Clarissa with a confused look and not understand why she is talking about.

"What do you mean by dressed," Alice questionably asks.

"Yeah. We won't be in our costumes until tonight's party and finals of the Battle of the Bands," Sunset adds looking confused.

Max looks at Clarissa with a suspicious look and asks, "Clarissa, what did you go an do?

Just then Clarissa starts to hand each other them the clothes she wants to wear for the competition before the party.

Clarissa happily says, "Well, while I have a little time on my hands and since we are going to have an audience, I made costumes for us from the Equestria Girls movie."

Everyone looks at the costume Clarissa wants to wear and they are kind of surprised by it. She manage to get them a costume that is like the one the characters wear in the movie. She even find a way to make the boys male versions of the outfits.

Joseph questionably says, "You really didn't have to do that,"

"I know," Clarissa says happily.

"No really. You really didn't have to do that," Max replies looking concern about the outfit.

"I know," Clarissa says cheerfully.

As they examine the outfit, they have to admit, Clarissa actually have done a good job with the outfits. She even have time to make Sunset an outfit too.

Sunset says, "You know. These costumes looks really pretty,"

"And they do look pretty cool," Alice adds.

Joseph looks at Clarissa and says, "I guess we could wear them while being in the competition."

"I know you all would like it," Clarissa says with a cheerful look.

"We sure do," Amy adds.

Joseph looks at the clock on his wrist and says. "We better get going and get all the stuff in the car."

With that, Alice, Sunset and the others are going to get their things in the car and are going to go to the gym for the competition. They are so excited to be in the competition and play some music. Sunset is excited that she gets to be in the band and have a wonderful birthday, but she's very touched by the pearl necklace that Max gives to her. She really love it and surprised that he pays a lot of money for it. She hopes her date with Max will go well tonight for the competition and the dance.

Author's Note

I think love is very sweet.