Shattered Trust

Sunset was walking down a hallway in what looked to be a hospital, she walked passed rooms with nurses attending to patients, doctors chatting in the hallways.

"Excuse me Miss Shimmer did Dr. Flashwing give you permission to be out of bed?" asked a Nurse.

"Um........what?" Sunset asked confused.

"You........." said the Nurse, but the latter part couldn't be heard due to a loud ringing.

"What did you say?" asked Sunset.

The ringing got louder causing Sunset to wake up, she saw the cause of the sound belonged to an very loud Alarm clock. She rammed a fist onto it to turn it off and read that the clock showed 6:30am, Fluttershy walked back into the room dressed and showered.

"Glad to see you're up." said Fluttershy.

Sunset only responded with a groan as both her head & stomach ached from yesterday's events, she didn't need to say anything because Fluttershy quickly handed her ibuprofen. Before Sunset could take them, she felt like her stomach just turned inside out and ran to the bathroom. Fluttershy heard her friend vomiting mid-way through the hall and stayed outside the bathroom.

"ohhhhh...... what the hell did I eat?" asked Sunset.

"You ate almost half the pizza last night and drank half a liter of soda, also the punches to your head from yesterday probably don't help." answered Fluttershy.

"How long are you going to remind me of that?" asked Sunset in between vomits.

"When you stop being reckless." said Fluttershy

After Sunset stopped vomiting she looked at the mirror to check out her eye, which was still swollen and was black & purple.

"What am I supposed to do then?" asked Sunset.

"Ignore everyone else and just try to have the best day you can." said Fluttershy who was leaning against the doorway at this point.

Sunset turned to face her friend "Easy for you to say, you & Pinkie aren't the ones everyone's going after with pitchforks and torches." she said, then exited the bathroom to get ready for another school day filled with misery.

-

School went surprising better for Sunset which was due to the fact Principal Celestia had arranged for two resource officers to monitor the school and keep things under control with the students and even know Sunset still wasn't immune to verbal backlash, the ones against her were smart enough not to try anything physical. Sunset had made it through the first part of the day and found a much needed break at lunch, however Anon-a-Miss wasn't done just yet, as during the morning, private information about Rainbow & Flash was released, much to the annoyance of everyone involved.

But Sunset did realize how smart this Anon-A-Miss was, as both Fluttershy & Pinkie were at first surprisingly immune to this horrible situation, however as the weeks went by Sunset figured the reason her last two friends were being spared is because questions would be raised and probably clear her name if the two that were extremely loyal & protective of her, found themselves on the receiving end of Anon when Sunset is the main suspect.

"Hello Sunset." said Twilight, snapping Sunset out of her thoughts and getting the attention of Fluttershy & Pinkie.

"Hey Twi." said Sunset.

Twilight nervously looked at Sunset's forehead & eye then back at her tray of food "Hope you're doing better." she said.

"I will when this over." said Sunset.

Twilight nodded her head and left to join the table that Flash, Lyra & Bon-bon where at.

"That was interesting." said Pinkie.

"Maybe she's coming around." said Fluttershy.

"Possibly." said Sunset.

"Ya know Twilight really wasn't attacked by Anon-a-miss, buuuuutttttt one day she just left, like how Dash, AJ & Rarity did however with less yelling and more vanishing." said Pinkie.

"That's because I slept with her brother." Sunset sigh.

"WHAT!" said Fluttershy & Pinkie.

"When?" asked Pinkie.

"You remember that party we had at Twilight's house months ago before this started happening? when her parents were out of town and we raided their alcohol." said Sunset.

"Yes." said Fluttershy & Pinkie.

"Well at some point Shining came in and tried to do his whole "responsible big brother thing" with no drinking and all that shit. But I think it was Rarity who talked him into drinking with us by trying to act all sexy." said Sunset.

"I vaguely remember any of this." said Fluttershy.

"Well you and Rainbow had the most to drink, I mean you two started dancing on the table for cake's sake!." laughed Pinkie with Fluttershy's face turning a deep shade of red.

"Please tell me you deleted that video." said Fluttershy.

"Why!? you have some very interesting moves, I mean who would've thought all it took was a few mixed drinks for you to finally smash that shell of your's." laughed Pinkie, pulling up the video on her phone.

"Pinkie!." said Fluttershy, as she reached for the other's phone only to be thwarted.

"Are you both done?" asked Sunset.

Both nodded in agreement.

"So what happened after you slept with Shining?" asked Pinkie.

Weeeeelllll....." said Sunset.

-

(Flashback)
Sunset laid on the bed in internal panic, as last night took a very unexpected turn, the room was still mostly filled with darkness as the morning arrived. A small ray of light showed through the curtains that hung on his window. She turned to the other evolved, the older brother of her newest friend. Several things raced in Sunset's head wondering how exactly this happened and what would Twilight say when they told her.

"So that happened." said Shining, startling Sunset.

"Yeah, um...... how long have you been up?." asked Sunset.

Shining grabbed his phone from the end table "Ten minutes." he answered.

"Oh." said Sunset.

"So what do we do know?" asked Shining.

"I don't know." answered Sunset.

"How the hell did this happened?" asked Shining.

"I believe our hangovers are the answer to that." said Sunset.

"Right, that's helpful." sighed Shining.

Sunset put her head on his shoulder "This was obviously a gigantic mistake." she said to which he said nothing "Don't worry not alone on that." she finished.

"Yeah." said Shining quietly.

Sunset looked in his eyes and felt not only guilty , but she felt sadness fill her as well. "How the fuck do we tell Twilight?" she asked.

"And Cadence." said Shining.

"FUCK!!!!!!" said Sunset.

"There's a lot of decent & bad with being drunk, the bad part being us hooking up and the decent being how calm it's made us right now." said Shining.

"That's really stupid." said Sunset.

"I have to find something to keep me calm right now, cause my head is pounding." said Shining.

"I just realized your very warm." said Sunset making both of them laugh.

"I think we should get outta of here, the others might come looking for us and that would lead to a very bad situation if they did." said Shining.

"Yeah." said Sunset, a small part of her disappointed by having to leave.

Sunset sat up, closed her eyes and thought for a few moments, then she turned around and placed a couple of kisses on his lips, then started to slip her tongue in before quickly pulling away. Her eyes went wide as the extreme guilt hit her, there was no alcohol evolved this time, no excuse to fall back on, no that was solely her. She got out of bed, put on her orange shirt, red pajama pants and made her way to the door.

Sunset sat down in the middle of the hallway that lead to his room, thinking about how wrong what she did was, he's the brother of one of her friends and he's got a girlfriend. But a small part of herself liked those kisses that she just gave him, as well as the sex from last night and that part of her wanted to go back into his room and to take him for herself. She was left shaking there, "how could I be having these thoughts? she asked herself.

"Hi Sunset!" said a voice cheerfully.

Sunset looked up and it was Twilight smiling down at her, to Sunset this was life bitch slapping her, for sleeping with Shining.

"Uh-um h-hi Twilight." said Sunset nervously.

"Anything wrong?" asked Twilight concerned.

"Um I had too much to drink last night, just a little hangover, i'll be fine." answered Sunset easing her friends concerns.

"How about coffee?" asked Twilight.

"That sounds nice, after I use the bathroom of course." said Sunset.

"Right!, I'll see you downstairs." said Twilight.

"Okay see you downstairs." said Sunset.

(End of Flashback)

-

"So I have a question." said Pinkie.

"What is it?" asked Sunset.

"How does Shining look..............." said Pinkie finishing with a smirk, making Sunset blush.

"Seriously Pinkie." said Sunset.

"What!? we're talking about it soooooo......" said Pinkie.

"Fluttershy help me here." said Sunset.

"I...... kinda agree with Pinkie on this." said Fluttershy.

"Alright, I can't believe i'm about to say this............ummmm Shining's very good looking like that." said Sunset with her face now matching the red parts of her hair, then acting like Fluttershy by hiding behind her hair.

"Shining is nice to look at." said Pinkie.

"I'm sorry I don't like thinking about it, because I liked ya know............... the hookup itself. Then I feel extremely guilty about it, because of Twilight since it's her brother and then of Cadence who's dating him!." Sunset said laying her head on the table.

"We all make mistakes...........it's just how you move past them." said Fluttershy.

"Easy for you to say, neither of you are horrible meaningless whores who try to steal other people's partners." said Sunset.

"Don't you dare think like that, EVER!" said Pinkie sternly, causing Sunset to lift her head back up.

"Pinkie?" said Sunset.

"You not a bad person, you a good one, you've been an amazing friend despite this bad mistake you made and you saw Twilight ask if you were doing fine, so she's probably accepting that it's something that happen and both of you should move on." said Pinkie.

"I guess." said Sunset.

"Ummmmm................ how exactly did Twilight find out? asked Fluttershy.

-

(Flashback)

It had been 3 months since Anon-a-Miss had risen and the person already broken up the best friendship group at CHS, Rainbow Dash, Rarity & Applejack had already left the group, leaving only 4 left. Sunset was at Twilight house as the latter wanted to look at the former's phone to see if it had been possibly hacked. As it was possible for people to remotely hack into another's phone and look at the messages, pictures & videos. The two had been at this for an hour and Sunset needed at break, she was hoping they could get this figured out soon since Twilight's parents weren't happy about the party their group had 4 months ago and right now Twilight's parents were currently out, but they would be home soon and Sunset was getting more nervous every minute that passed.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" exclaimed Twilight from the living room.

"What happened?" asked Sunset.

"YOU SLEPT WITH MY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" yelled Twilight, showing Sunset the conversation between the latter and Shining.

Sunset stood there frozen in nerves, guilt and fear, all Sunset could do was look at the ground in despair. Quickly Twilight pushed the other's head up so the two were looking at each other.

"SUNSET!!!!" said Twilight raising her voice and snapping Sunset back to reality.

"I'm so sorry Twi.'" said Sunset sadly, holding back tears.

"When were you going to tell me?" asked Twilight.

"That's what me and Shining were talking about, how to tell both you and Cadence." responded Sunset.

"You kept this a secret from me for 4 months! and we haven't even been friends for half a year, so that begs the question how much longer were going to keep this from me?, 4 more months?, A YEAR!?, then rest of our lives!!!?" asked Twilight.

"I don't know." said Sunset quietly.

"I know alcohol was involved, but it doesn't make things any easier." said Twilight.

"Yea I fully understand." said Sunset quietly.

Sunset collected her things and made her way to the door and sadly left Twilight's house as Sunset had lost another friend.

(End of Flashback)

-

Sunset just sat there in silence thinking about if she had told Twilight the morning after the hookup, would Sunset have 3 friends sitting with her right now instead of 2. As the bell ended lunch and the three friends were making there way to their final class of the day, Sunset felt like her stomach had turned inside out again like this morning and rushed to the bathroom with Fluttershy & Pinkie following. After a couples of minutes, Sunset exited the stall with her face looking pale, she sat down on the bathroom floor waiting for her stomach to settle.

"Sunset?" said Fluttershy with an arm wrapped around Sunset.

"What's going on with me?." Sunset said.