"Twi, let's go! We're gonna be late!" I shouted from the door of the apartment.

"I just want to make sure we don't forget anything," she shouted back. "You know what happens when we rush."

"What's to forget?" I wanted to know. "We're only going to dinner with the girls and just the two us going to a movie after that."

After what seemed like an eternity, Twi finally emerged from the bedroom. I felt as though I was dating Rarity when I saw her toting a backpack containing who knows what. All we were going to do at the restaurant, besides eat, was discussing spring break and the Senior Prom.

"Ugh. What is with the backpack?" I asked, slightly annoyed. "We're not staying overnight anywhere."

"I wanted to bring along a notebook for vacation notes. I also have a thick fashion magazine so we could get some prom dress ideas and also-" Twi tried explaining before I placed my index finger on her lips.

"You always overplan for everything. Even stuff you don't need to," I said as I pulled her into a light kiss. "For once, just go with the flow."

"I'll... I'll try. It's so hard for me," she replied as she rested her chin on my shoulder. "I've done things this way for as long as I can remember."

We stood there for a couple minutes with me holding Twi in my arms. While she wasn't in need of comforting, just the small amount of cuddling seemed to boost her spirits after our little disagreement.

I reached up, grabbed Twi's helmet off the shelf and handed it to her before tying my hair in a ponytail so that my helmet would be able fit on my head.

"How about we get going before we're later than what we already are," I said as she gave me a peck on the cheek before putting on her helmet.

As we finally headed out the door I felt a quick wave of dizziness overtake me, causing me to pause. I locked the door and made my way to the bike where Twi was leaning against it in a seductive pose.

"You okay?" she asked me.

"Yeah. Why?" I replied quickly.

"I'm just curious. I saw you shake your head before you locked the door."

***

It's been an interesting month and a half since my "First Dildo Party" between me and Twi. We've had extracurricular study sessions on human anatomy at both her place and mine. That is, until three weeks ago when she moved in. Then anatomy class was just here at the apartment.

Something strange happened to me after moving in together. Although the love-making hasn't slowed, it doesn't have the same feel to it. I found myself slipping off to the couch three or four times after making love to break down in tears. It's almost like I have conflicting feelings for her. I'm hoping these odd feelings are related to the strange dreams I've been having since she moved in.

Although I've had a rough time dealing with this, I'm still happy with where my life is at. I've got great friends and someone who loves me, even with my terrible past. Thanks to Twi's love and the girls support I haven't found the need to add to my collection of scars on my arms for a while.

Back to the strange dreams however. Nearly every night since Twi moved in, I've had a similar dream; I start in a black void nothing to see, feel or even smell for miles. After floating in place for an undeterminable amost of time, I'll hear an evil voice that I'll begin to argue with it until I finally wake up in a cold sweat.

***

We pulled into the parking lot of the restaurant fifteen minutes late and got the bike parked next to Rainbow Dash's Mustang. Twi climbed off, removed her helmet and fixed her hair. When she looked at me as I took my helmet off, a look of fear came over her face.

"You're looking a little pale, babe. You okay?" I asked as I gently grabbed her shoulders to look her in the eyes.

"Sunny, th-there's... your eyes... th-they're... they're..." Twi stammered as she began to freak out.

"What are you talking about, babe?" I asked as tried calming her down.

"Wh-when you t-t-took off your helmet... your eyes... th-they... they were..." Twi tried explaining as her meltdown continued.

"Twilight, slow down. Take a couple deep breaths, then continue," I calmly told her as some worry began to build inside of my own mind.

She took my advice and calmed down slightly. She then finally managed to tell me what she allegedly saw. "When you took your helmet off, your eyes were glowing a bright teal. It... it was almost de-demonic looking."

I pulled her in tight so I could get her calmed down before moving to the curb to sit down with her. "Everything is okay, babe. My eyes are fine. There's nothing wrong with me. I love you and I'm not going to let anything happen to you. Okay?"

Twi let out a deep sigh as I felt a tear from her hit my arm as I cradled her head. I realized then that I needed to communicate with her better, especially about these dreams I've been having recently.

I gently lifted her chin and wiped her tears from her face. "Are you okay now?"

She just sniffled and nodded her head as I continued to clean her face with the handkerchief I keep in my jacket.

"Look, everything's going to be fine," I said gently as I interlocked my fingers with hers. "Let's go inside, have a nice dinner with the girls and get spring break and the senior prom planned out. Okay?"

"Uh huh," Twi replied as we walked into the restaurant hand-in-hand.

"Hello, ladies. How may help you this afternoon?" the host asked as Twi and I walked into the restaurant.

"We're the last two of a party of seven," I replied.

"Ahh, yes. Ms. Dash's party. We've been expecting you," the host told us. "If you'll follow me please."

The host lead me and Twi to the table where the rest of our friends were already seated and snacking on the appetizers.

"Speak o' th' devil," Applejack said. "We was jist talkin' ' bout y'all a minute ago."

"Are you okay, darlings?" Rarity asked. "I noticed you were sitting by the curb holding each other for a few minutes."

Twi and I exchanged glances before she spoke up, "I had a minor meltdown over something trivial and Sunny was getting me calmed down before we came inside. I'm good now so let's get planning."

"Well as dresses for the prom go, I've got plenty of ideas for each of us sketched out back at the boutique. We just need to make some time to pick which ones we like," Rarity said. "So that leaves the discussion of our vacation to Manehattan for spring break."

"Hold on a minute!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "Since when did we agree to Manehattan? Last I checked no one had even made a suggestion. That's why we we're having this planning dinner."

"Why don't we go to the Horseshy Candy factory and the amusement park next to it," Pinkie Pie suggested.

"That sounds like fun," I said. "But what do we do on the other nine days?"

"Ummm, good question," Pinkie Pie responded as she scratched the back of her head.

"What about Haywaii? The weather's always great there," Twi suggested.

"That's a nice idea, but, ummm, there's lots of people there during spring break," Fluttershy stated.

"Hey, what about a road trip? I think that would be totally awesome," Rainbow Dash added.

I tuned everyone out for a few minutes as I thought about what happened before leaving the apartment and what Twi claimed to see outside before she freaked out. Was it coincidence or were they connected somehow? And did it have anything to do with my dreams?

"Why Equestria, Sunny?" I heard Twi ask seemingly from a distance. I snapped out of my self-imposed trance to see everyone staring at me in confusion.

"What are you talking about?" I asked, equally confused as the others.

"We were suggesting places to go and you just blurted out Equestria, darling," Rarity explained. "Nothing else."

"You don't remember suggesting Equestria?" Fluttershy asked as I sat there and slowly shook my head with a blank look on my face.

I could feel the color drain from my face with that question. All I did was go into a moment of reflection on the events of the last hour or so and I allegedly began talking unconsciously.

"Y'all feelin' okay, sugarcube?" Applejack pried.

"Yeah, I just haven't been sleeping well the last couple nights," I explained nervously.

"Couple nights? Try the last couple weeks," Twi said. "You wake up sweating almost every night. Last week you woke up screaming so loud that I thought the neighbors were going to call the police."

"Sunset, you're really not looking too good," I heard Rainbow Dash say before I lost consciousness.

***

I opened my eyes to find myself floating in a black void.

'Not again,' I thought fearfully.

"Hahahaha! I'm back Sunset," came a voice from the darkness.

"Wh-who are you?" I shouted back.

"You know exactly who I am, hahaha," the voice answered.

I turned my head side to side trying to find the voice before spinning around and seeing a pair of eyes quickly disappear.

"Wh-what do you want? Wh-why are you tormenting me like th-this?" I shouted in fear.

"I'm not tormenting you. I'm trying to remind you of who you really are," said the voice. "It's been too long since you've taken the easy way out to be happy."

"What are you talking about?"

"Things will be different," the voice continued to taunt me. "Your friends will be revealed for who they are. Especially Rainbow Dash and Rarity."

I spun around again in a futile effort to try finding the source of the voice that was haunting me while it continued.

"Your friends are still pretending, just like after the Fall Formal. Hahaha!"

"Nooo! Leave me alone!" I yelled as I suddenly felt unable to move. "Let me go! Now!"

"Sunset? Wake up! Sunny, please wake up!" a new, familiar voice began saying.

"You can't trick me," I shouted. "I'm not going to fall victim to your games."

"Sunny, please wake up! I love you. I need you to wake up! Please!" the new voice begged as I noticed the sadness in her tone.

***

I began to regain consciousness as the desperate voice, which my mind finally registered as Twi's, continued to holler my name. I tried sitting up and looking around but my body was held in place by something in a prone position. After a moment, I realized that I was on a stretcher.

"Sunset Shimmer? Do you know where you are?" I heard a man's voice ask.

"I... uhhh... I'm at... ummm... Tony Pepperoni's Pizza," I replied groggily.

"Oh no. She doesn't know where she's at," Twi cried into her hands.

"Do you know what happened?" the man asked me.

"I fainted in the restaurant while we were discussing spring break ideas," I answered.

Twi and the man looked at each other and shook their heads. As Twi continued to let tears roll down her cheeks, I suddenly realized she wasn't wearing her glasses.

"Sunny, we... we never made it to the restaurant," Twi told me. "Someone rear-ended us at the stop light and it was hard enough to send us into the intersection where we got broadsided by another car."

"I... I don't remember that," I told them. "I remember leaving the apartment. We got to the restaurant where you had a small meltdown. Then I fainted and had one of my nightmares."

"Ms. Shimmer, can you tell me where you have pain at?" the paramedic asked me.

I focused on my body so that I could accurately answer the man's question. "My left arm and neck hurt really bad," I told him.

"How about your legs?" he asked as his partner helped load me onto the stretcher.

"My legs feel..." I paused mid-sentence when I realized what happened. "I... I can't feel m-m-my legs."

"Twi, are you okay?" I asked with tears in my eyes.

"They think I have a broken foot and some bruised ribs but other than that I'm fine," she replied.

"Ms. Sparkle we need to get you loaded into the other ambulance," another paramedic said. "We'll try getting you ladies adjacent rooms in the ER but I can't make any promises."

"I imagine my bike is trashed, correct?" I asked the paramedic. "But how is my helmet?"

He seemed to ignore my question but after a minute he asked me to repeat my question because he was taking my vital signs. He gave me an answer but not the one what I wanted.

"Yes, Ms. Shimmer, your bike is totaled," he said with a disappointed look on his face. "Your and Ms. Sparkle's helmets saved your life but they're both cracked on the right side where they hit the pavement."

"Th-thank y-you, sir," I cried.

I know what I'm doing when I get home, I thought sadly.

***

There is no way to describe the amount of embarrassment I felt two days later when Mrs. Sparkle brought me home. Here I was, someone who helped save the world on three separate occasions needing helped out of an SUV into a wheelchair.

While I wasn't completely paralyzed from the waist down, the synapses in my spinal cord weren't firing like they were supposed to. I had limited feeling in my legs and I could wiggle my toes but that was it.

"Thanks Mrs. Sparkle," I said as Twi's mom got back in her car.

"It's no trouble, Sunset," she replied as Twi began to push me toward our apartment.

"Bye mom. Thanks again for the lift," Twi said after giving her mother a kiss.

I was glad we lived on the ground floor because I don't know what we would've done if lived on the second floor. There was obviously no ramp and definitely no elevator to get there.

We got inside and I set my shredded leather jacket on the table so I could clean it out later. I managed to wheel myself to the kitchen so I could grab a cold soda and some potato chips while Twi went to the bathroom. As I made my way back to the living room, I noticed a drawer in the kitchen sticking out slightly. Before closing it I saw my pocket knife inside and decided to put it in my pocket.

Twi came back from the bathroom and was about to help me onto the couch when I told her I needed to go to the bathroom. She pushed me to the bathroom before levitating me to the toilet.

"Do you need help with your pants?" she asked with a smirk.

"No, I think I can manage," I replied with a false smile.

She closed the door to give me my privacy which I took advantage of. I pulled my knife out of my pocket, opened it up and lined it up with the main vein in my left wrist. Just as I was about to pull toward my body I heard Twi from the other room.

"Sunset Shimmer! Where is your pocket knife?"

Busted, I thought. Should I continue or just wait?

Before I could make my decision, the bathroom door burst open with an upset girlfriend. "Sunny, we will get through this," she told me as she took the knife from my hand. "There's no need for this crap again."

"I... I know," I whispered. "Almost everything is gone. My bike, my helmet, my... my jacket, m-my mo... mobil... mobility."

"You still have me though," Twi said as she moved closer to me so she could cradle me in her arms. "Isn't that enough?"

I reached up to wipe my eyes and gave her a slight nod. She held my head and stroked my hair before pulling back and suggesting to go to the couch where we could be more comfortable.

Once back on the couch, Twi continued to comfort me as my magic took over for a moment and I saw what Twi was thinking about.

"Sunset? Who are you talking to?" Twi asked me as she walked in the door.

"I... I'm... nobody..." I wept.

"Are you okay?" she asked softly.

"I don't know, Twilight. I'm pretty messed up," I told her.

"Messed up? From what?" she inquired as she knelt down beside me.

"You know that girl that's a pony? I'm actually a unicorn from the same world as her," I told her as tears continued fill my eyes.

"Really?" she asked with wonder.

"Yes. I've been here for around three years. The first two and a half years I'm not proud of," I said as I wiped my eyes.

"Why? What did you do?"

"Well, I, uh, I bullied everyone in Canterlot High, mostly Fluttershy, um, broke up friendships... I was an all around bad person," I reflected.

"I'm... I'm so, so sorry, Twilight. I-I've been a-a terrible friend to you," I cried. "You-you don't deserve t-to have me as..."

"Shhhh. It'll be okay," Twi said she held me in her arms, even with the blood coming from my arms.

"How... how can you be so... so sure, Twilight?" I asked.

"Because if you were still that bad person, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Spike and I wouldn't want to be friends with you," she assured me.

As the vision ended, a weak smile appeared on my face for a few minutes. That is, until I heard something that made me stop what I was doing.

"How would you like to walk to school tomorrow?"

Author's Note

Those who have followed the entire series might recognize the memory from an earlier book told from Twilight's POV.