Author's Note

I know this might be shocking to you guys who love this, but when I was writing there was multiple ideas I wanted to put in this story and i've been thinking what would've happened if I wrote the main plot with Sunset a tiny bit differently? Ya know how the butterfly effect is where one decision effects the rest of the story, so this is what's happening here a different path of the story and yes there will be things that are the same. I combined chapters 1 & 2 of the first path so there won't be 12 alternate path chapters

Chapter 1

Things had been very troubling at CHS, as the past months someone has been revealing secrets of the students of CHS and putting Sunset as the cause of it all. At first it looked like just a prank and no one really took any notice of it, until very personal things were getting revealed about the students and when the others the turning Sunset, her friends were the only ones that were still fully behind her. Sunset sat in the music room alone in the dark, it used to be the meeting point for her and her friends, now it was nothing more than a result of a broken trust. Things started to go downhill when secrets shared between the seven girls where revealed to everyone in school, it became the breaking point the group. At first it was secrets about Rainbow Dash and Rarity that was shared and despite pleads of innocence by Sunset, everything somehow linked to her and there was no proof of her innocence which caused both Rainbow and Rarity to leave the group.

"Some loyalty huh?" Sunset asked herself.

(Flashback)

"ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!" yelled Rainbow, who was being held back by AppleJack and Pinkie from harming Sunset.

"Rainbow I..uh-" said Sunset.

"That was said in private and was only told to the people in this room and now somehow everyone knows!" yelled Rainbow.

"You have to believe me I didn't say anything, someone else is framing me?" pleaded Sunset.

"Really?, well how come there's no proof of it not being you? can you answer me that?" asked Rainbow.

"I'am -" said Sunset.

"Answer me this, do you not just give a shit?, all that time we trusted you to turn yourself around and when you managed it and become our friend, was that a cruel game to you?, like is this some part of a big plan of yours to play us like puppets?" asked Rainbow.

"Do really think I would throw all that away? after all the effort I did to finally find both true friendship and most importantly a home here?" exclaimed Sunset.

"I'am with Rainbow on this darling, she makes a very valid point, nothing has shown any innocence for you." said Rarity

"Rare-" said AppleJack.

"No AppleJack!, my trust in you Sunset is very much gone and until something says otherwise, I want nothing to do with you." said Rarity.

"Stop! you two can't leave! what about all the fun times we had and all the amazing time we saved pretty much the world, I know it looks bad, but I believe Sunset and she's not the one doing this, you have to stay." said Pinkie.

"I'm sorry Pinkie." said Rainbow, as she and Rarity turned away and left, leaving the others saddened.

Tears fell across Sunset's face she recalled what happened that day and soon afterwards secrets about both AppleJack and Twilight were revealed, but unlike RD and Rarity, neither Twilight and AppleJack turned away immediately, as Twilight tried to find any way to find that this wasn't Sunset's doing, however it kept leading to dead ends and then the once close group of 7 had lost 4.

"Did any of this matter?, what was the point of having friendship if the ones closest to me will just leave me all alone?" Sunset thought to herself.

She struggled to stand up when it was time to leave, pain shot through her body due to being beat up several times by Gilda and her "friends" which the latter would stand guard watching out for teachers, causing Sunset's torso to be covered in bruises. She was living with Pinkie(one of two friends she still had left) because it was a strain for Sunset to just walk, so instead of making a long agonizing journey back to her loft everyday, Pinkie decided to have her flame-haired friend stay with her until she was better as the walk to Pinkie's was short.

The door to the music room opened making Sunset jump a little in surprised, she was relieved when it was Pinkie standing in the doorway.

"So this were you are?" asked Pinkie, who had lost her smile ever since their group became broken.

"I just wanted to find some quiet so I could think about some things." answered Sunset quietly.

"Come on let's go home." said Pinkie.

The walk home for the girls was mostly silent, Pinkie tried to start a conversation about anything, but only got sighs and one word responses from Sunset. The rest of the day/night Sunset acted like everything was fine around Pinkie's parents and Sisters, they knew about Sunset's bruises, but were just told Sunset got into a heated argument with another student and nothing about what was really going on. Pinkie was a little nervous on how her friend was able to flip the switch so well and hid what she was actually feeling. When the two were getting ready for bed, Pinkie winced at the sight of how badly bruised her friend was.

"We should take you to see a doctor." said Pinkie.

"I'm fine Pinkie." said Sunset as a small jot of pain shot through when Pinkie walked over and touched her side.

"Your not fine! your really hurt, I know your heart is broken, but something in your body might be broken to." said Pinkie with tears forming in her eyes and placing her head on her friend's shoulder.

Sunset didn't answer, she just moved away from Pinkie, grabbed a orange t-shirt with her cutiemark on it which ran down to her thighs and she climbed in bed. Pinkie turned off the light and climbed on the other side of the bed and faced away from Sunset.

"I hope things are alright tomorrow and you feel a little better." said Pinkie with a little happy in her voice, but still she got no answer from Sunset, so the two girls fell asleep once again in silence.

It was early in morning the next day, Sunset was still sound asleep and Pinkie was downstairs finishing making breakfast for her family and friend. It was Saturday which was good news for Sunset as the girl would have two days of rest before having to go back into the snake pit of what had become of school.

"I'm extremely worried about her Fluttershy." said Pinkie on the phone.

"I know Pinkie so am I." said Fluttershy.

"It's just she looks like Sunset, but I feel like almost her entire spirit is gone and what's left is barely hanging on." said Pinkie trying to hold her tears.

"After my shift at the animal shelter how about I come over and we can watch movies, eat pizza, anything we can do to cheer up Sunset." said Fluttershy.

"Hopefully it'll help, but something worries me." said Pinkie.

"What is it?" asked Fluttershy.

"Yesterday when school was over I found Sunset in the music room and the lights were of and I asked is that were she was and she said she wanted some quiet to think over some things. Then when we got back home she was able to flip on how she was and act perfectly fine in front of my parents and sisters." said Pinkie sadly.

"You think something bad is going to happen don't you?, well i'm worried for her as well." said Fluttershy.

"Yeah." said Pinkie.

"Well I talk to you later Pinkie." said Fluttershy, the girls said their goodbyes and hung up.

"That Fluttershy?" asked Maud.

"Yes." said Pinkie.

"Was it about Sunset?" asked Maud.

"Yeah." said Pinkie.

"Well if there's anybody who can cheer her up it's you Pinkie." said Maud.

After breakfast, Pinkie's parents went off to work and her sisters left to do their own activities, Pinkie went back upstairs to find Sunset still in bed.

"Hey Sunset, time to wake up." said Pinkie quietly as she placed a hand on her shoulder.

Sunset response was a moan and she opened her eyes to see a the largest smile Pinkie could muster.

"I made breakfast, it's chocolate sprinkled covered pancakes." said Pinkie.

"Your lucky I like pancakes." said Sunset sitting up and reaching over for her pain killers and water.

Sunset eventually hobbled her way downstairs into the dining room.

"These are good Pinkie." said Sunset.

"Your Welcome!, now today we are going to have a relaxing day of fun." said Pinkie.

"Pinkie I-" said Sunset.

"Nope don't question me Sunset!, Fluttershy is coming over after her shift today and the three of us are going to watch movies and eat pizza and have fun." said Pinkie.

"Okay." said Sunset.

"Yay." said Pinkie with her hair becoming somewhat rising again for the first time in months.

Pinkie and Sunset sat on the couch watching whatever was on tv while waiting for Fluttershy. During the time Sunset had fallen asleep and was using Pinkie's shoulder as a pillow. Pinkie's phone then buzzed, she reached for it on the end table an saw a message from Fluttershy.

"Hey Pinkie i'm here with the pizzas and movies, so I need your help."- Fluttershy.

"Okay!, coming!"- Pinkie.

"Hey Sunset wake up!" said Pinkie, shaking the flame-haired girl who was using her as a pillow.

"Hmm, hi Pinkie." Sunset said groggily.

"Fluttershy's here!" Pinkie cheered, as she opened the door for the pink-haired girl.

"Hello Sunset." said Fluttershy after she sat the pizzas and movies down.

"Hi Fluttershy."said Sunset.

"How are you feeling?" asked Fluttrshy.

"Um..... a tiny bit better than yesterday." said Sunset.

"Well that's good, so are you ready to relax and have some fun?" asked Fluttershy.

"I guess." said Sunset.

For the rest of the day the three girls had mini daring do movie marathon which was then ended by watching one of Sunset's favorite movies "The Dragon King", during the day both Fluttershy and Pinkie saw a small smile appear on Sunset's face a couple of times. After it was over Pinkie and Sunset said there goodbyes to Fluttershy, and Pinkie gave Sunset smirk.

"What?" asked Sunset.

"You had fun." said Pinkie.

"Yeah." said Sunset.

"See you not alone, we're hear for you." said Pinkie as she then headed upstairs to get ready for bed.

"Yeah." Sunset said to herself.

After the weekend was over, Sunset was in a little better of spirits as she and Pinkie made the walk to school arm-in-arm. As they got nearer to the school Pinkie felt Sunset tense up.

"You alright?" asked Pinkie as she saw the nervous look on Sunset's face.

"Yeah i-i'm okay." said Sunset.

The two received glares from the other students as they walked by, Sunset adverted her gaze and stared at the floor.

"Just Ignore them." said Pinkie.

Sunset took a deep breath and calmed herself, however it didn't last long as when they got to Sunset's locker, the top half was covered in pictures drawn of Sunset as a devil, getting beat up, dead and pieces of paper with the words "Bitch, Demon, GET THE FUCK OUT!, Devil, Fuck You, etc."

"Sunset?" said Pinkie as they took down the pictures.

"I need to go to the bathroom, i'll see you later in class." said Sunset.

"Okay." said Pinkie.

When Sunset got to the bathroom, she threw her backpack against wall, hit the sink, ran her hands through hair and began to pace and hyperventilate. She turned around, put her hands on the sink and starred at her reflection, she then felt her chest get heavy and it felt like it was "burning up?" she then saw things go blurry and then Sunset fell to the floor.