Waking up suddenly due to a load ringing, Sunset Shimmer opened her eyes and sighed. Reaching over she grabbed her phone and turned the alarm off. With her arms fanned out across the bed, the redhead stared at her ceiling. Today would be her first day back at school.

The teen figured going the last day of the week would be good as she could get a feel of what to expect. She would just have to get through one day, instead of being overwhelmed with a full week back. In spite of her pros towards attending the school day on the Friday, a part of the former unicorn wanted to skip and stay home. A part of her still felt not ready. How were people going to react to her? Would the nasty meanness continue or would everyone try to avoid her? Was everyone going to try to apologize to her? If so, she then hoped her peers would avoid her. The amber skinned teen was definitely not ready to deal with that. As she was still sad, angry and devastated by the situation.

A knock on her had interrupted her thoughts, “Miss Luna? You can come in.”

A cool pale blue face peered behind the door, “I wasn’t sure if you were getting dressed or not. If you still want to come today, we’ll leave in about thirty minutes.”

Sunset sat up, “Okay, thanks Miss Luna.”

“Remember you don’t have to go, if it’s too much.” The firm smooth voice said, with a hand on her hip.

“I know, I... I think I should. I can’t hide forever, it’s better if I just go for it head on.” The fiery teen said, throwing her blankets off and standing.

A smile grew on the home owner's face, “Very well.”

With Luna closing the door, Sunset made time and careful thought to decide her come back ensemble.

***

Exiting the car, The leather accessorized girl paused, stared up at the school she had been absent from for a near month now.

Checking her phone, she smiled a bit at the notifications.

Sparkes:)
‘Good Morning! I hope you slept well. :D’
Sent 7:01 am

Trixie /*
‘Fuschia Blush, Lavender Lace and I will be in the cafeteria this morning. Btw my great and useful twin assistants are looking forward to meeting you, so don’t be nervous! Trixie out xx
Sent 7:10 am

“Alrighty, you ready, Sunset?” The vice principals asked.

The amber skinned teen turned to look at the speaking woman and gave her a quick nod and small smile. Sunset catched a glimpse of herself in the reflection of the car’s passenger window. The teen observed her new leather jacket with shoulder pads, giving her a strong appearance along with how the cropped jacket showed off her curved waist with small spikes poking out the shoulder pads and lining the jacket's collar that could be stood up if she ever felt like it. Under the jacket layed a dark blue high neck top that glittered slightly in the light. The teen's eyes carried further down, liking the way her high waisted black, largely ripped skinny jeans with fishnets under hugged her bipedal appendages and lastly her mid thigh chonker boots with ridged thick platforms and smaller spikes wrapping around the top and ankles of her boots.

Sunset Shimmer's smile widened, feeling a surge of what she had thought had been lost confidence. “Yep let’s get this show on the road.” The teen said taking a step forward with her vice principal.

***

Stomping into her first period class with a straight back and a high head, Sunset walked past a familiar ivory skinned teen and sat in a front row seat in the middle row. Sunset prepared her desk for taking notes with a red flamed subject notebook, color arrayed highlighters and a black modern quill pen -she’s always preferred them, they reminded her of the writing utensils she horn wrote with in Equestria.

Leaning back in her seat after being satisfied with her desk arrangement, the amber skinned teen kept a straight face but felt her eyebrows begin to furrow as she felt many eyes on her. It was beginning to become frustrating. People already knew she was another worldly unicorn and they just passed by her, now though they made her feel like she was actually walking around in her unicorn body.

All the walk into the school and through the halls the former unicorn accumulated stares from not only her peers but a few teachers as well. The cafeteria hadn’t been any different, the stares and whispers practically tapped her shoulder. The morning with Trixie and her two band members had been lighthearted, they helped keep her distracted from her peers' gossip. Acting guard she noticed the two purple skinned twins shot glares to the student body that couldn’t mind their own business.

The illusionist of the four person group was much less bothered by the attention. The pale blue teen talked loudly, made big gestures with her body language and had her arm wrapped around Sunsets shoulders. Trixie made sure to use the unwanted attention to an advantage, which was advertising her upcoming gigs and how great and powerful her skills are. Sunset had to commend the magician, it was almost genius.

As the teacher gave her lecture on the American civil war with a quick spiel of how the city of Canterlot had been created from the effects of the war, Sunset felt the eyes had moved on from her, all except one. The leather adorned teen knew exactly who they belonged to. Sunset refused to give her any acknowledgement though. As far as the fiery red head was concerned, she was done with the five previous element holders. She can forgive but not forget. She can be friendly, be acquaintances but they probably never be what they used to be.

This was Sunset Shimmers second time starting anew, she wanted to make sure it didn’t get messed up. The past equestrian didn’t think she could do it a second time, after all the first loss of all her friends almost took life. The amber teen has begun to realize she’s always been alone in life, having to deal with things on her own, from her feelings of sadness and loneliness to those feelings morphing into those of jealousy and pure hate. The former bullied knew all too well what that allowed someone to turn into. Sunset would do anything to prevent that. She wanted to play it safe, learn to trust again. Trixie, the twins and her Twilight, were a good start.

Sunset's thoughts had been interrupted by the classroom phone sitting on her teacher's desk going off.

The combat booted girl doodled a bit in her notebook, tuning out while the teacher had to pause her lecture. Drawing a little anime-realism styled gently smiling face on the page, Sunset added bangs sprouting front the top of the forehead, topped by a graceful ponytail. Sunset gave a small exhale from her nose, it very much amused her that this world's Twilight seemed to prefer a style of what this world referred to as a ponytail. If only she knew that there was an alternate princess with her same name and appearance that had an actual pony's tail.

Hearing footsteps approach her the red head looked up at her teacher and saw a bright blue index sized card being handed to her. Reading it the card informed Sunset of the principals summoning her to the main office. The teen gathered her things and may or may not have on purpose swung the bag strongly onto her shoulder causing a gust of wind that sent a few of her peers papers flying -specifically a fashionistas. A small smirk forming on her face Sunset made her way to the sistering principals.

***

A knock on the door followed by a ‘come in’, the redhead entered the office.

“Sunset Shimmer, I’m glad to see you back.” A clear regal voice welcomed.

“Thanks Principal Celestia.” The magical student.

“We have a task for you, this morning.” Vice principal Luna said. That’s something Sunset liked about the woman, she’s straight to the point.

Celestia gave a small chuckle, “Yes, we have a new student today. She just transferred from another town. We’ve been informed that she’s from a small town and a school with not a lot of students there. I trust that you're the best person to introduce her to school. Give her a tour and make her feel welcomed. Especially since you’ve done it before.”

“Sure, no problem. Should I leave out recent drama details?” The witty teen smirk indicating she was joking.

“We’d prefer that yeah, speaking of which, no one has given you trouble today right?” Luna questioned.

Sunset shook her head, “Nope just some stares. So does this new person have a name?”

Principal Celestia nodded, “Well as long as it’s nothing beyond that, we’re keeping a sharp eye on everything. And her name is Starlight Glimmer.”

***

Walking up to the foyer at the entrance of the school, Sunset could feel herself getting nervous. According to Princess Twilight, Starlight Glimmer was a dangerous powerful unicorn. Did that same Starlight come to the human world for something? Is the school going to be under threat of a new magical foe? Or is this the human Starlight, who didn't have magic and wouldn't be a threat? The former unicorn was hoping deeply for the latter. If the school came under threat of magic, Sunset feared she would have to ask her past friends for help. Would their friendship magic even work anymore with everything that happened? Sunset guessed only time will tell.

Sunset spotted her new peer. Straightening her poster, Sunset walked over to the new student with confidence to mask what she was having a hard time admitting, anxiety.

“Hi, I’m Sunset Shimmer. I take it, your Starlight Glimmer?” The amber teen asked.

The lilac skinned hipster teen turned fully to Sunset, being made aware of the others presence. The newcomer started her outfit with a dark purple oval cut top with white stars, a dark blue- almost black, oversized plaid shirt that reached a bit past her hips. Her bottom half wore a pair of light washed mom jeans that were ripped at the knees and a pair of dark purple converse that matched her under shirt. The teens head had a dark blue beanie grabbing behind her meteorite purple side swept bangs that curled at the end framing her forehead. Her eyes showed off a darker lilac eyeshadow accompanied by medium cat winged eyeliner and heavy mascara, along with light periwinkle highlighter and clear lip gloss sitting on her plump round lips.

“Yep, that's me.” The pale purple and mint green arrayed girl said, with an anxious laugh, rubbing the back of her neck. The warm palette teen considered that a good sign. Seeing her nervous allowed Sunset to assume that this was this world's Starlight; which in turn, that could be a good thing. It could be a fresh start with someone. A person who has no idea of who Sunset Shimmer is and has no idea of her past or what the school has gone through these past few months.

The red head gave a friendly smile, “Cool, I’m gonna be showing you around here today. I was told you were already given your schedule so we can start with your locker, that way you don't have to carry your backpack around the whole time. Then, we’ll go through where your classrooms are.” Sunset informed her tourie, beginning to walk down the east hall, knowing that was where Starlight’s assigned locker is.

“Cool.” Starlight said awkwardly, shoving her hands into her pockets, following the orange, red and gold teen.

***

“Alright and that is our school. It’s special, you can say that for sure.” The fiery haired teen said with a sly smile, placing her hands on her hips.

“Right, thanks for showing me around. I probably would have had a very stressful time. I’m not used to such a large school with this many students.” The mint streaked haired teen said, with what Sunset had continued to notice over the tour- nervousness.

Not that Sunset blamed her, the teen knows all too well what it's like being thrown into a crazy large populated school and not knowing anypo- anybody. Sunset pulled her phone out of her pocket slightly and glanced at the time. The red head noticed it was close to the lunch period, and the fact she had texts from her Twilight.

Sunset smiled a bit at the thought that the human Twilight had cared enough to text her throughout the day; on the other side the thought of lunch about to begin brought Sunset's anxiety back. Looking up at Starlight, the redhead had a thought. Surely, Trixie and the twins wouldn't mind having a new person at lunch. “Hey, so lunch is about to begin, if you’d like you can join me and my friends.” Sunset smiled.

Starlights makeuped eyes made eye contact, with almost disbelief swimming in her eyes, “Really?”

“Yea, I mean I’m sure my friends dont mind, Besides I think Trixie wouldn't enjoy getting another person to show off her magic tricks too.” The red and gold haired girl smirked with a hand on her hip.

Hearing the bell go off, the two teens headed to the cafeteria.

***

Walking into the cafeteria, Sunset could feel her anxiety knocking against her chest. She worked hard to mask it in front of the new acquaintance she has made. Luckily she quickly spotted the off white blue hair bouncing around, communicating that Trixie was currently talking eccentrically about something.

Sunset moved forward with Starlight at her side, “Hey guys, this is Starlight Glimmer. It’s her first day today.”

The three looked up, the twins -who tended to be on the quieter side, nodded at her and gave friendly smiles.

“Welcome, Congratulations, you should consider yourself lucky your first day is being spent with the school's best students! The Great and Powerful Trixie invites you into our crew!” The overconfident magician exclaimed, rolling the R in her name.

Starlight smiled and emitted a breathy laugh, “Thanks, I.. um, look forward to it.”

Sunset could make a guess that Starlight isn't so experienced with friendship. The thought for some reason made the amber skinned teen feel comfortable. The thought that her new friends were not perfect friendship experts, looked up to by everyone, helped her ease in more than ever.

The leather jacketed artist sat at the table placing her black and gold spiked lunch box on the table, pulling out her vegetarian lunch. Being able to afford her plant based diet meant alot to her. There were some days she was still disgusted at the thought of the fact that when she first wandered around in the world, homeless and aimless, she had been forced to succumb to eating an old hamburger. Shuddering at the memory, Sunset cut off her thoughts in an attempt to not lessen her appetite.

Trixie stood up, showing off her outfit. Sunset had to admit the girl had an odd but good fashion sense. It was a mix of modern, and medieval, like if a pirate or gypsy lived in the future and went to high school -and had a theme of blue, purples and pale gold stars. Her top was a spanish purple square necked corset with a belted stomach, the sleeves were short and poofy mesh material to show off the high neck, long sleeved fishnet top as the under layer. The teens wrist also had a light blue, pink and white striped bracelet. Her bottom half was a slanted skirt with ruffles on the hem, that was pulled up to her mid thigh on the right and flowed down to her left knee, laying on top the skirt was a low rise gold chain belt that had stars dangling down and following the saint of her skirt. Her slender bluetonium legs stayed exposed until her knee high black skin tight large platformed boots cut off the exposure. “Follow me, Starry, we’ll get lunch together.” Trixie instructed with the following wave of her hand. As the two walked off together, Sunset checked her phone.

Sparkes :)
‘Hi! I do hope you're having a good first day back! Remember to keep your head up!’
Sent 10:59 am
Sunset started to type away a reply, thinking maybe the bookworm was on lunch as she saw the text was sent twenty minutes ago.

‘Hey, Thanks for checking up on me :) It actually hasn't been bad at all. I've had my friends here by my side, so all is well. Plus a possible new friend.’
Delivered 11:19 am

Sending the text, Sunset stabbed her tomato and placed it into her mouth. She sighed constantly as she heard the twins conversating. Of course, she could feel a few eyes on her, but it didn't bother her so much, knowing she wasn't alone. Crunching on some lettuce, the redhead felt someone walk up behind her, “Uh… h-hey Sunset?” a familiar male voice said.

The twins and her looked up at the lettermen jacket adorned male. “Can she help you?” Fuchsia Blush questioned, clearly not happy about Flash Sentry’s presence.

“Um, I was just hoping I could talk to you for a minute?” The navy blue haired male said in almost a whisper, directly to his ex.

The red head looked at the ground, she suddenly became hyper aware of the eyes, especially the pairs of five girls. Lavender Lace spoke up, “Anything you have to say go ahead.”

“Oh sorry, I was hoping privately.” The guitarist said, giving the amber skinned teen a pleading look.

Trixie and Starlight came into toe, done in the lunch line, seeing the pale blue girls mouth open, Sunset held her hand up. The teen felt herself getting overwhelmed, she didn't need others defending her, as much as she appreciated it, it could get to be too much. Sunset supposed she just wasn't used to it and didn't know how to react after being to used to being blamed for everything bad.

“Everything is fine.” Sunset turned towards Flash and stood up, walking out of the cafeteria with Flash following her out to the hallway.

***

The two stood a bit ways away from the cafeteria doors, with everyone in the lunchroom, the only one around were those going to and fro from the bathrooms. Sunset leaned against the lockers waiting for Flash to talk. The fiery headed girl quickly felt herself getting irritated.

“I- um… I just wanted to let you know I'm sorry.” The male finally said.

Sunset shrugged, “For what?”

Dark blue eyes widen, “For everything that happened with the whole MyStables drama.” He said somewhat dumbfounded that the female had asked.

Sunset rolled her turquoise eyes, “It’s fine, besides it's not like you did anything.”

“Yeah that's the thing. I didn't. I saw what others were doing and I did nothing. I didn't even really believe it was you. I’m sorry that I did nothing to help or defend you when I did think it was you, and I'm sorry that I didn't fully believe in you.” Flash said with shiny eyes.

“Okay.”

“Okay?”

“Yep.” Sunset said, beginning to walk back into the lunch room, until suddenly a burnt orange hand grabbed her wrist.

“Wai-”

The amber arm ripped away from his grasp, with her scars still being sensitive and the bad memories that came from being grabbed her panic spiked. Bringing her arm to her chest, the female sighed, “Listen Flash, things happen, I just want to move on, so forget it ever happened.”

“But Sunset, I-im sorry!” Flash pleaded.

“And?” Sunset raised her voice a bit, feeling her temper beginning to replace her panic, “You don't know half the shit I went through! It was way worse than anything I had ever done or what a few bitter people did after the formal. I was pushed, beated, attacked and imprisoned in a fucking locker for Celestia’s sake!” Looking into Flashs wide teary eyes the angered girl continued, “You telling me sorry for not doing shit and for only kind of believing me, doesn't make me feel any better. I’m sorry you feel guilty. Like I said, I'm ready to move on and forget about it. You should do the same.” With that the amber girl turned around and walked back into the cafeteria, walking down the center path to where her new friends were sitting, Sunset showed no problem this time glaring at anybody looking at her. Shifting her eyes to the right she looked dead at her old friends with a blank look, seeing them give her pleading looks too, Sunset looked away and sat down with her new group.

Picking up her fork and continuing her lunch she joined her friends' conversation of mall weekend plans, the former bully and bullied smirked. It may have been small now but she was glad she still had her blazing flame buried down, ready to return to the surface.

Author's Note

Oh my stars! Hi, it's been over a week!
I'm only two weeks into the new semester and is already kicking my ass, I plead for forgiveness.
Anyways this was super fun to write! I had been looking forward to entering Starlight. We only have one for beautiful cast member to join the fray! You get best friend points if you guess right.
See you next chapter! Please feel free to comment and interact I love hearing from my community :)