Sunset stared in awe at the size of the Siren's home. She had expected a house that was slightly larger than any of her 'friends' houses, not one that was about a fourth the size of Celestia's castle! Sunset's head snapped toward Adagio. "You three live here? In Chestnut Hills?"*

"Indeed we do, and I'm proud to say we never once used our magic to amass our wealth. I just happen to be very good at playing the stock market." After the four had managed to get inside the large house Aria walked down a hallway and disappeared around a corner, a door slamming shut a few moments later. "Now that we're here, we need to lay down some ground rules."

Sunset shrugged in her wheelchair. "The least I can do is follow the rules since you're letting me stay here."

Adagio smiled as Sonata walked past and handed her a pen and piece of paper. "Now there aren't many, but these are rules that you need to follow." To Sunset's surprise, they were all pretty normal rules you would expect in any household. "I need to know if you have any allergies." Sunset raised her eyebrow. "In case I make something for dinner... What are you giving me that look for?"

"Just never expected you or your sisters to be able to cook is all. Don't worry, I'm not allergic to anything humans normally put in food..."

"We all have hobbies of our own. Sonata collects comics and plays video games, Aria has her martial arts and I cook. Now, I use exotic ingredients every now and again so 'normal' may not always apply ." Sunset looked away and mumbled something under her breath. "What was that?"

Sunset sighed, looked her directly in the eyes and narrowed her own. "I am deathly allergic to it, so don't laugh."

Adagio smirked in response. "If I laugh, you can slap me."

"Hay. I'm allergic to hay." Adagio, with a deadpan face, nodded and wrote it down before looking back at Sunset.

"Ironic." She clapped her hands together and nodded. "Now that that's done, I can show you your room." Adagio walked past the girl who turned her wheelchair around and followed her. "I must admit, I'm looking forward to you staying with us."

Once more Sunset raised an eyebrow as she followed. "Why?"

"The others... Well Aria and Sonata are my younger siblings and I love them dearly, though it may seem like the opposite at times, but they can be..." Adagio stopped in front of a plain oak wood door and put a finger to her chin. "Irritating, Sonata always being so childish and Aria always wanting to use violence to solve her problems. It will be nice to have someone staying with us who actually uses their brain for once. Anyway, this is the room you'll be staying in."

Adagio opened the door and Sunset looked inside. The room was slightly larger than an average sized room and had a queen size bed, the top of it being pressed up against a wall as well as a few dressers and a closet. There was only one thing Sunset found suspicious. The walls were red. Her favorite color.

She looked at Adagio, eyebrow raised. "Why is it red, not that I mind, red's my favorite color in fact, but..."

"That would be Sonata's doing. I'm not sure why, but when we moved in she insisted at we paint seven rooms, each in a different color of the rainbow." Sunset just kept her eyebrow raised, though she slightly cringed at the word 'rainbow'. "My bedroom is yellow, hers is blue and Aria's is indigo. I'd let you have the orange, green or purple rooms but they are a bathroom, wreckroom and a room we use for storage, respectively." Sunset opened her mouth to respond when someone rang the doorbell.

"I'll get it!" Sonata ran out of her room toward the front door and opened it. "Hey there Princess, come on in." Sunset wheeled around the corner just in time to see Twilight enter.

As soon as Twilight saw Sunset she ran past Sonata and hugged the girl as tight as she could. "Sunset! I was so worried about you! Are you okay?" Sunset put on a fake smile and looked at the blue Siren.

"Hey Sonata, could you and Adagio give us some time alone?" Sonata smiled and nodded before walking upstairs with her eldest sister, the pair of ponies turned human hearing a pair of doors open and close a few moments later. "I'm fine Twilig-"

"No you're not." Sunset looked Twilight in the eyes and all she saw was rage. "Don't you dare lie to me Sunset Shimmer. You are not 'fine'. You were assaulted by one of our friends and almost died."

Sunset frowned and needed to correct her. "Your."

Twilight blinked at Sunset. "What?" Sunset sighed and looked away.

"You said 'our'. They're your friends Twilight, not mine... They never were." Twilight frowned and put a hand on the girls shoulder.

"What are you saying Sunset? Of course they were." Sunset looked at the girl and snapped, all the anger she had been holding back since the Battle of the Bands came loose.

"I'm not blind Twilight, and neither are you! You and I both know that they never really saw me as a friend! They saw my as a pet! As a trophy to show everyone that they took down the Queen Bee of Canterlot High!" Sunset looked away. "I realized that the day they yelled at me during the Battle of the Bands... I think you did too... We just didn't want to admit it..."

Twilight frowned and narrowed her eyes and placed her hands on her hips. "You're wrong Sunset! They are your friends! They're just confused, they..."

"Then why did they turn on me so quickly!?" Twilight flinched at the girl's words. "After all I've done for them, all I've done to prove that I've changed, it took less than a week for them to abandon me!" Sunset looked away and began to cry. "I may not fully understand friendship, but I'm pretty sure that's something friends don't do to each other..."

Twilight's eyes softened and she reached out to the girl. "Sunset, please, I know your hurting right now but-"

"Hurting!? I died Twilight!" Twilight's hand retracted at the statement. "I flat lined while they were operating on me. Twice." Sunset glared at Twilight. "I was technically murdered by Rainbow Dash and you are trying to defend the people who abandoned me, including her!" Sunset's head dropped and, to Twilight's surprise, she began laughing. "I should have seen this coming, they were your friends first after all..."

The words hurt but Twilight didn't back down. "Sunset I-"

"Leave... Just... Leave, please..." Sunset turned around and began to wheel herself to the room Adagio said she'd be staying in.

It took a few moments for the Princess to register what had just been said. "Sunset wait! I'm not defending-"

"She knows you're not defending them Princess." Twilight looked at and saw Adagio leaning on the balcony railing. "You should go for now..."

"But I-"

"Twilight, can I call you by your name?" Twilight hesitantly nodded. "I know you're not defending them, and somewhere in her mind so does Sunset. But she's hurting right now, and when someone is hurting they can't think straight and they process what others say differently. It might not be easy for you, but please, try and trust me. I know how to deal with these kinds of situations. I have two younger siblings after all."

Twilight looked at Adagio for a moment before looking at the hallway Sunset had disappeared into and after what seemed like an eternity to the Princess, she looked back at the Siren. "What should I do?"

The Siren walked down the spiral staircase she was standing next to and walked over to the Princess when she reached the first floor. Adagio gave her a small smile and put a hand on her shoulder. "She's not thinking straight and in all honesty, she needs some more rest. Come back tomorrow once she has settled down. In the meantime I suggest you try and find out who the 'Anon-a-Miss' that started all this is. Don't worry about Sunset, she'll be safe and sound, my sisters and I will make sure of it."

Twilight slowly nodded. "Ok, I'll come back tomorrow, I'll probably know for sure who Anon-a-Miss is as well." Twilight turned around and headed toward the door before sparing one last glance at the Siren. "Please, take care of her."

"You have my word." Twilight nodded and left the house before pulling out the phone her friends had given her, calling them and asking them to come get her.

Once her ride was on the way, Twilight began to cry.**

Rainbow Dash's house.

Scootaloo entered the house, only to see her adoptive mother crying on the couch. "Mom? What's wrong?"

Windy got up and hugged her adopted daughter as hard as she could. "Oh Scootaloo, it's just terrible! Rainbow was arrested in front of school today!"

The orange skinned girl's eyes widened. "What!? Why!?"

"The officer said that she... She said that Rainbow tried to kill her friend, Sunset!"

'No' Scootaloo began to tremble. "B-but things are going to be okay right!? They made some kind of mistake right!?" She just wanted to spend more time with her sister, she didn't want Sunset to die! "Mom, please, tell me they made a mistake!"

"I wish I could Scooty, but... Rainbow... She confessed." That did it, Scootaloo's mind shattered as her world crumbled around her. And then, all she saw was darkness.

Author's Note

*
Chestnut Hills was (or maybe still is) a high class neighborhood in Philadelphia.
**
She didn't stay inside where it was warm because she didn't want her former enemies to see her cry.