The night had begun to settle in, walking next to her partner to her car, the farmer and designer noticed a wooden clubhouse shining bright against the dark woods.

The couple made their way up a flight of wooden makeshift stairs leading to a brown wooden door. As the farmer approached and raised a hand to knock, she paused for a moment as she heard soft whispers. The blonde sighed and knocked, giving the three young girls a moment to collect themselves. After the said moment Applejack looked toward her partner, gaining a nod with deep purple curls bouncing, she opened the entry door, “Apple Bloom? Girls?”

All that could be heard was quick shuffling and a tissue being used, as the older teens opened the door they could see the mass amounts of wadded paper, thrown about sketches and a trashcan full of tissues. There were quick drawings of many different plans and steps for said plans strun about the room.

“Apple Bloom, what in tarnation is all this?” Applejack inquired.

“Oh, Applejack! Perfect, we can go through which plan you think will work the best!” The bow adorned girl said with puffy red eyes. “Ya see, Ah was thinkin’ we could go with a cool concert where everyone performs how sorry we are-" being cut off by Scootaloo to explain, "You know since Sunset likes music!"

"O-or we could do some sort of surprise apology circle, I saw that in a movie once- it worked for them! But we could also-“ Sweetie Belle piped up.

“Darlings, you can't be serious?” The tailor asked in near disbelief.

The pre-teens looked at the older teenager's, “what do ya mean? I’m trying to help, trying to give you ways to make up with Sunset! I-I, if you guys makeup you’ll be happy again! ...You might love me again…” the redhead said desperately while whispering the last sentence.

Applejack didn’t know how to think. She had been angry at her sister for the terrible thing her and her friends did, though the reason why they had lost their friendship with the fiery redhead had been their own. They could have stood by the former unicorns side, but instead they chose to completely abandon her. Applejack didn't like her own or her sister's decisions but it was too late, now the farmer needed to focus on helping her sister get through understand the lesson.

Taking a deep breath the cowgirl sat beside her sister, “Oh sugar cube, Ah know you wanna try to make things right, but Ah’m gonna be real honest with you girls now.” Applejack paused, making eye contact with her younger sister and her friends. “Sometimes ya can’t fix things. Some mistakes can be so bad that there is no making up for it. This is one of those, Ah know y’all feel guilty and wanna make amends, make things better for me, Rarity, the other girls and Sunset Shimmer again, but ya can’t. The only person that gets to decide that is Sunset herself.”

“But we have to try! Sunset won’t know we’re sorry unless we try to get her to forgive you guys!” Scootaloo exclaimed.

“Yea! It’s our fault everyone went after her, we did frame her after all.” Sweetie Belle said getting more quiet as she continued her confession.

Apple Bloom had kept her head held down. She knew her older sister was right, but much like her friends, she didn’t want to believe that they couldn’t fix things to how they once were. “W-we just want it to go back to the way it was, we realize we messed up, caused some trouble for Sunset.” The bow adorned girl began to childishly sod, being filled with an immense amount of regret and guilt that the child didn’t know what to do with. The polished designer scoffed, causing all the other girls to pause and look at the ivory skinned girl with hurt looks- save for the side low tailed farmer who looked more angry..

“I’m sorry darlings. I'm not scoffing at you particularly but the situation certainly did more than cause 'some trouble' for Sunset. I don’t know all the details, they weren’t told to us, but I know that she had most definitely been physically assaulted, many times… We know cause we saw… and we did nothing, not to mention Rainbow Dash confessed to being a part of it one time.” The preppy style teen said, guilt and shame lacing her words. The three young girls stared up at the older teen. Sweetie Belle’s sobs grew as Apple Bloom hung her head down and Scootaloo curled in on herself.

“Now she's not tellin’ ya this to make ya feel more guilty or anything like that. It’s important for ya to know.” Applejack gave a deep sigh, “Girls my advice to ya on this is to just accept that ya made a deep mistake, learn the lesson and move on. Trust me, Ah know how difficult it is, sugar cubes, the girls and I have to do it too, but only time and space can heal this.”

“B-but, our sisters don’t lo-“ Scootaloo began only to be cut off.

“Where in the pig's rolled mud pit did ya get that idea!” Applejack said, a bit horrified that her sister and friends came to this thought. The farmer spoke again before the three youngins got the chance, “Ah know better than the Apple family history that that just ain’t plain true. You girls really think that?”

Looking at the girls' faces, all exchanging guilty glances, the Stetson wearer had her answer. Applejack moved in encasing the three naive girls into a comforting hug, “You're our sisters, we would and could never stop loving y’all. Please next time you feel like this, talk to us.” The blonde farmer said.

“Yes darlings, we’ll understand. It’s important we listen and talk to each other, to prevent another tragedy like this. Besides, we've all made mistakes.” Rarity said with general reassurance.

“Oh yea? Like what?” Sweetie Bell said, not believing her older sister.

“Well for starters, not standing by Sunset’s side and even worse, doing nothing to help or listen to her when she needed us. It’s a grave mistake that we have to live with.” The posh accent said with sadness taking over her voice as she talked.

“That mistake was only made because of us.” Scootaloo said.

The ivory and sherbert skinned teens exchanged looks, “No sugarcube, It’s completely on us. Yes, the initial situation was because of a bad idea by y’all but we, the people who are supposed to be Sunset's friends, choose to abandon that friendship.” The freckled young woman explained.

“All because we hadn't completely let go of the past, we allowed ourselves to be petty and take things further than it should have.” Rarity spoke, continuing her partner's explanation.

“We’re sorry, we caused you guys to lose a friend. We didn't want that, we just wanted to get our sister's time back.” Apple Bloom said with tears blurring her vision.

Applejack hugged her sister, “We’re sorry we made you feel neglected to the point ya thought ya had to go there. We all play a part in this tragedy.”

Apple Bloom cried into her sister's shoulder, she felt her friends join on the other sides of her in a hug. Rarity joined in with one arm clinging to her sobbing sister's shoulder and the other holding onto her partner's side.

Author's Note

Howdy doo!
My stars it feels so long, my apologizes. I have to admit i'm very obsessed with 'Cross The Rubicon' on this site right now so its been taking my writing time.
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