We ate brunch and got on the bus. "So, where to next?" I asked the girls.

"How about Kentucky? That seems interesting." Fluttershy asked.

"No!" Applejack said, defensively.

"Why not?" Rarity asked.

"I am not-I just don't want to go there."

"Okay then. So no Kentucky." I said.

"How about Cleveland? It's only a 3 and a half hour drive!" Pinkie said.

"CLEVELAND?! I hear that Cleveland has quite a history." Rainbow Dash said.

"So Cleveland then? Who objects?" Twilight said.

No one said anything.

"Okay so I guess I'll be driving to Cleveland." I said. I turned on the GPS.

"Oh yeah. I forgot to tell you! Cleveland is also called C-Town and it has a fun dance! I'll show you when we get there." Pinkie said.

After an hour of driving, we stopped at a rest stop.

"Fluttershy, you have next shift." Applejack said.

I didn't have to use the bathroom so I was just walking in the store/type thing. I checked my phone.

Unknown Number: Applejack's hiding something about Kentucky. ;)

Unknown Number: Also you're hiding something too. Tell them ;)

I turned off my phone. I should charge it soon though. It's at 15%. I was looking at the food there. I decided to buy a chocolate bar for myself. After like 3 minutes, all of us were done with whatever we were doing and we got back on the bus.

"Applejack. Curious question. Why exactly did you not want to go to Kentucky?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"I just didn't want to."

"You're normally honest but it sounds like you're lying." Rarity said.

"Wow. It seems like we ALL have secrets." Pinkie looked at me, and then looked at Applejack.

"I'm not hiding anything!" I lied. I didn't want them to worry about me. It's better for them to not know. In a way I felt bad, but I truly wasn't comfortable talking about it.

"Yeah ya are. I ain't but you are." I knew Applejack was lying, and she could tell I was. Everyone could. I got quiet.

Awkward silence.

I took out a sketch book and started drawing. Drawing was actually one of my best talents. One of the things I'm proud of.

Fluttershy was playing more mellow and slow songs, Pinkie Pie didn't like these songs. I was indifferent about them.

"THESE SONGS SUCK FLUTTERSHY!" Pinkie Pie screamed.

"Oh, uh, sorry. I'll change the radio station." Fluttershy changed the station.

After a few hours, we finally arrived in Cleveland, or as in what Pinkie refers it to; C-Town. This time, we checked out at a motel so we wouldn't have to check out 2 rooms. We went to the room and set down the suitcases.

"OKAY GIRLS! I HAVE TO TEACH YOU HOW TO DO THE C-TOWN STROLL! IT'S REALLY FUN AND EASY!" Pinkie screamed.
"Is this even a real dance or something you made up?" Applejack asked, raising an eyebrow.
"IT'S REAL!" We all stood up and waited for Pinkie to do the C-Town Stroll.

"SLIDE IT OVER TO THE LEFT! NOW WALK IT OVER TO THE RIGHT! NOW TAKE IT DOWN AND SHAKE IT LOW! BRING IT ON HOME AND DO THE C-TOWN STROLL!" Pinkie exclaimed.

"I feel like you got this from a song." Rarity said.

"I did! C-Town Stroll by Otis and the Shoreway Saints" Pinkie said.

"Anyways, I think we should split up so we can go more places and we can meet up somewhere to go for dinner at 7:00pm and we can all go somewhere after dinner." Twilight suggested.

"Okay, Rainbow with Applejack, Sunset with Twilight, and me with Fluttershy and Rarity!" Pinkie exclaimed.

I walked beside Twilight. We walked around town. "Sooo uh, where do you wanna go?" I asked.

"We should visit the Cuyahoga River!" Twilight exclaimed.

"Isn't that the river that burned in 1969? I think I read about that." I asked.

"Yup! But it wasn't the first time. It burned 13 times!"

"I figured. Anyways, it's not walking distance and we all agreed to leave the bus at the motel so we have to call a cab to go."

I pulled out my phone and looked up the phone number for the cab. I finally found it and I dialed its number.

After about 15 minutes, the cab arrived. Me and Twilight went inside. The driver turned around.

"So where are you two headed? And call me Mr. Roth."

"Okay? And the Cuyahoga River." I said.

"That's where we were headed anyways." He mumbled under his breath.

I started to panic. He was gonna do something to us. I was heavily breathing. I was shaking.

Twilight grabbed my arm. I turned around to face her.

"Sunset, what's going on?"

"He's trying to do something to us!" I whispered.

"What do you mean?"

"He's telling us what to call him, and I heard him mumble 'that's where we're headed anyways'! I don't know what he's gonna do!"

"Sunset-" She was cut off by Mr. Roth.

"We're here." Mr. Roth stepped out of the car as me and Twilight did. He grabbed us.

"Girls. Get ready to face death."

I was crying. I was heavily breathing. I looked over at Twilight, she was crying too. Mr. Roth threw us into the river.

"AHHH! SOMEONE HELP!" Twilight screamed.

"PLEASE! SOMEONE HELP! OR WE'RE GONNA DROWN!" I screamed.

After 2 minutes of screaming and crying for help, the police came on a life boat and went to where I was.

"Let me help you two" The police got Twilight on the boat first and then got me on the boat. Me and Twilight hugged each other while we cried, we almost died. But we were rescued. He rowed the boat back to the surface. I got out of the boat. My clothes were drenched. So were Twilight's.

"Miss, what are your names?"

"Sunset Shimmer."

"Twilight Sparkle."

"Oh, well Miss Shimmer and Miss Sparkle, what happened? How did you two nearly drown in the river?"

"So we called a cab to take us to the Cuyahoga River, a-and once we got there, the driver threw us into the river." I said, shaking. I was cold.

"Is his name Jacob Roth?"

"Uhh, well his last name was Roth." Twilight said.

"He has been known to throw all of his passengers into Cuyahoga River. Most of them die before we can save them. You guys managed to survive. Let me take you back home."

"Uh, we're staying in C-Town Motel. And please hurry, I'm getting really cold." I said.

"Okay, I'll hurry as fast as I can."

The police officer drove us to the hotel and me and Twilight were shivering. We decided to change our clothes. Twilight changed outside of the bathroom while I changed in the bathroom.

I looked at the blade, then I looked at my arms. There were some scars from when I cut after the Fall Formal but stopped doing it after the Friendship Games- well stopped doing it as often as I used to. Those scars were fading. Some of them stayed and weren't faded. Then I looked at the new cuts on my wrist. I thought about doing it again. I took the blade and made a cut on each arm. I set the blade down and wiped off the blood on my arms.

I finally got out of the bathroom and me and Twilight grabbed blankets.

"Do you wanna turn on the TV?" Twilight asked me. I nodded my head. The news was on.

"Welcome to the Cleveland News. Here we are reporting at Cuyahoga River. Two girls were thrown into the river by Jacob Roth. Jacob Roth is will be facing charges because he has a history of throwing his passengers into Cuyahoga River. Several have been killed but luckily these two girls survived. We're not revealing their identities because we were never given approval. Back to the news station."

Twilight turned off the TV. I looked at her.

"Twilight we could've died."

"I know."

"HE COULD'VE KILLED US!"

"Sunset calm down."

"HOW CAN I?! I WAS ALMOST KILLED!"

I threw myself onto her and cried. Twilight hugged me back.

After we let go, I started drifting to sleep, holding onto Twilight.

Nightmares happened. I couldn't wake up. It was my parents, Mr. Roth, a lot of things. No use in describing them.

After like an hour, I was being woken up.

"Sunset, wake up. I let you nap until the other girls arrived." Twilight was gently shaking me.

I opened my eyes. And I sat up on the bed and looked around to see the other girls.

"What time is it?" I asked.

"It's 5:54pm." Rarity said.

"So where do you guys want to eat?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"Let's go to Red Robin! But it's gonna be a 15 minute drive because it's in Independence." Applejack said.

"I'm down." Twilight said.

"OOH! I HEARD SO MANY GOOD THINGS ABOUT RED ROBIN!" Pinkie Pie said.

I was zoning out into my own thoughts.

"I want to go to Red Robin. What about you Sunset?"

I got startled. "Huh? Oh. Yeah."

"Are you sure you're okay Sunset?" Rarity asked.

"Yeah I'm fine. I just zoned out." I lied. I then got a text.

Unknown Number: Lies!

A few minutes later, I got another text.

Unknown Number: Tick tock tick tock. Time to spill your secrets now. All your friends have secrets too so you're not alone. ;)

I put my phone away. We got on the bus and went to Red Robin. We had to wait for 10 minutes before we got to our table. There was a chalkboard. And Pinkie Pie and Rainbow Dash decided to write some stuff on the chalk board.

Welcome To Dead Robin

The Red on the Robin is BLOOD!

"Are you two serious?" Rarity asked her two friends.

Rainbow and Pinkie Pie were laughing.

Eventually the wait was over and we got our tables. Then the waitress asked for our orders. Blah blah blah. We got our food. Blah blah blah.

When we all were done with our food, we went to the motel. We were gonna go out somewhere but almost everything is closed so we just relaxed.

Author's Note

Sorry if some parts seemed rushed, I just wanted to get to the next chapter. Because I have a few ideas. And I have ideas for the ending.... and it's very dark and tragic.

NOWWWW HERE'S THE HINTS AND SONGS!

Hints: The girls are still gonna be in C-Town in the next chapter. And the secret reveals will happen in a few chapters from now.

Referenced Song: C-Town Stroll by: Otis and the Shoreway Saints (Can't send a link.)