Thursday. Four days later. Sunset's mind had stayed in its state. The numbing fog that ceased her rational thoughts as she would sit slumped in her class. The redhead certainly wasn’t paying attention, only staring waiting for the motions to move themselves to and fro of where she needed to be.

Luna had been silent the past days, simply watching the teen. Sunset had caught her watchful dark cobalt eyes tracing her multiple times.

The woman had also made it apparent that she required that the redhead keep her door at least half cracked open, which Sunset hadn’t exactly opposed due to the fear of being alone that now haunted her.

Her bloody habit had no slowing down, locking herself in the bathroom and wearing her extra long sleeved hoodies.

A sudden phone ring jolted Sunset out of her wall watching trance as she sat at her desk.

Sparkes<3 is calling…

The amber skinned female swiped the green icon across the screen, “Hey Sparkes.”

“Hi Sunny-bun! How was your day?” The lavender girl on the other side asked.

Sunset shrugged, realizing that she couldn't be seen, she replied with a bored, “Fine.”

“Oh ok…” silence befell the girls.

“Sunset, you know you can talk to me right?”

‘I’m already a burden.’

“Yeah..” she weakly said.

“Then why don’t you?” A serious tone responded.

“Twilight, I really don’t want to get into it right now.” Sunset replied with frustration building.

“Why not?”

“I don’t have the energy.”

“Why not?”

“You already know, the nightmares keep me up. Again, I don’t want to get into it.” Her tone became snappy.

“Why not?”

“Dear Celestia’s left teat, what are you a filly?” Sunset nipped.

The line stayed silent.

“I’m sorry, Twilight. I didn’t mean to get upset. I'm… just dealing with a lot right now.” The redhead said, rubbing the bridge of her nose.

“It’s okay, I know. I'm sorry for pushing it.” The bespeckled girl said.

“I miss you. I could really use one of your hugs right now.” Sunset said.

“Want me to hitch a ride?” Twilight asked.

Sunset exhaled air out of her nose in amusment, “No, that’s okay.”

It was silent again.

“Hey Sunny?”

“Yea?”

“My love for you is like a concave up function because it’s always increasing.”

Sunset could practically hear the held back laugh as the nerdy female told her joke.

A smirk had quickly turned into a small laugh. Sunset collected herself, “Oh tartarus, you're such a dork Sparkes.”

The girl on the other line giggled, “I mean it though. I hope you know how much I care about you.”

Sunset stayed silent for a moment, “Yeah… I do.”

“Good.”

The girls conversation shifted to their plans to skip the ever doomed friendship games. The studious one of the pair expressed her nervousness and excitement.

An hour later, the two ended the call in preparation for bed.

As the redhead laid down she noticed a small circular metal object. The lip piercing. Sunset wasn’t sure if she would wear it regularly anymore but most definitely sometimes.

A light tap knocking came from her door as the teen snuggled into her blankets.

“Hey, how are you feeling?” Luna spoke from the doorway.

Teal eyes peered up at her, “Better tonight then most nights if I’m being honest.”

The dark haired woman nodded and sat on the edge of Sunset's bed, “Are you willing to go to the support group tomorrow?”

The redhead shrugged under her sheets.

A delicate hand brushed red curls from the young female's face, “Well, we’ll take it slow, see how the day goes. I really do care about you, Sunset and I want to help you with working on getting your mental health better. When you're ready to do that I’ll be here.”

Sunset’s eyes filled with tears and nodded her head, “I-I do…I’m trying to get my stuff together, I promise. I’m just not used to acknowledging how bad it's gotten. Whether I've been so lonely that I'm bitter and angry or so de...depressed that I..you know.”

Acknowledging her depression outload was still a difficult thing. The word and it implications were not easy to admit to ones own self, let alone someone else.

Luna nodded, “I know how that it is. It takes a lot and it takes time but you'll get back on your feet or hoofs, which ever you want. You just need to learn to let the past go.”

The line struck a chord in Sunset’s heart. Let the past go.

The redhead nodded and moved to her back, outstretching her arms towards her foster mother. The purple and pale blue haired woman smiled and leaned down accepting the invitation of the girl's hug.

The redhead gripped onto the adult women's night shirt smelling the lavender shampoo of the long wavy hair and feeling her baby bump pressing into Sunset.

After a moment the two pulled apart with Luna placing a motherly kiss on Sunset's forehead, “Good night my flamey.”

“Good night.” Sunset whispered as her lamp shone her room after the main light had been flicked off.

The teen eyes slipped closed in the warmth and safety filling her nerves.

***

“Sunny… wake up.” a soft voice whispered.

A grunt had been the only response.

“Suuunnnyyy…” the voice sang beginning to place kisses on the amber skinned girls neck, starting at under her ear nd leading down to her collarbone.

Sunset opened her eyes at the pleasant feeling, catching the form of her girlfriend, “Sparkes? What are you doing here?”

“You asked me to come over, remember silly?” Twilight said, latching her mouth to Sunset collar bone.

A little moan escaped her, “I did…?”

“Mhmm..” The indigo haired girl hummed with her pony tail falling to the side.

Sunset enjoyed the feeling of her Twilight’s kisses bouncing around her collarbones and up her neck then to her jaw.

“Twilight.” Sunset gasped out as the lavender skinned girl lifted up her shirt and began kissing a trail down Sunsets stomach.

“Does it feel good Sunny?” Twilight’s silky voice whispered.

“Y-yeah…” Sunset's breaths came out heavy in an unusual warm and tingling feeling her human body brought about as she witnessed Twilight’s head move down to in-between her legs.

“Ah!” Sunset yelped out, throwing her head back.

Teal eyes flung open as her dreamed fantasy was revealed. A hand gripped her sheets and another brushed her sweaty hair back as her chest heaved.

“Hot summer sun.” Sunset heaved out. Shifting her head to the side, she noticed her that after her hand had been released from the sheets it was now covered in a bright yellow fire ball, much like the one before. Sunset waved her hand around hoping that would extinguish the magical fire only to meet with more flames. The amber skinned female made an effort to kept her hand from touching anything.

'Calm down Shimmer, it's just like having my horn in Equestria. My magic is emotional.' The next few moments were spent taking breathes to calm down enough till the last bit of fire ashed out.

The redhead wobbled out from her bed making her way to the restroom.

Sunset washed her flushed face after doing her business being weirded out by the wetness brought about.

Gliding the tower rag down her face, Sunset stopped midway, staring at her eyes in the mirror. The bags under her eyes are deep and dark, her skin pale and dull with slightly sunken features.

Sunset sighed, placing the towel back on the sink counter. She pulled her sleeves back analyzing the damage she had done.

Her hand lightly glided over the wounds lining and crisscrossing her arms.

‘How did I let myself get so bad? What would Princess Celestia think? What would Sparkes think? She would be so sad. Both would be.’

Let the past go.

The redhead flicked off the bathroom light and settled back down her bed.

‘That was quite a weird? interesting? dream. Should I bring it up with Sparkes?’

Sunset curled in on herself as she threw her sheets back over her.

The redhead has never put any thought towards human reproduction and what's needed to achieve it. Flash had never pushed it, not that Sunset had allowed for much intimacy anyways. Cuddling and handholding was about as far as it would go, unless when the navy blue haired boy snuck in cheek kisses.

Things are different now. The former unicorn had built a genuine attraction and attachment to the dorky scientist. This was normal, right? In a romantic relationship.

Just rethinking about the vivid dream reheated the in between of her thighs.

‘Stupid human hormones.’ Sunset thought before willing herself back to sleep.

***

Waking up later that morning had been difficult as Sunset slept through her alarms and her human motherly figure had to coax her out of bed.

The redhead could hear the masculine figure in the home laughing at the predicament, something about ‘the queen of non-morning people having found her match’.

Sunset snatched a cup of hazelnut coffee and a honey crisp apple from the fruit bowl as she mumbled her readiness to the other grumpy woman.

The school day had gone by in a blur, in a different way than the former unicorn had become used to.

Her morning had been brightened with a loving text from her Twilight as the caffeine from the coffee began to wake up her nerves.

Classes chugged along smoothly with history just showing a movie on the civil war Amareica had hundreds of years ago. The amount of wars, big and small, this world engaged in was something the amber skinned girl would never understand. Equestria within its many millennia reign had only dealt with a small number of wars, most of which were cold wars. The few bloodsheding wars the equine country did have was kept under raps, Celestia was always hesitant to join fighting and didn’t want her ponies to be subjected to the knowledge of how dangerous other kingdoms could be.

Of course the former Equestrian native only knew about it from when she broke into the restricted section of the Canterlot library after the, third? time.

Math and English flew by as they might have been considered advanced for other students, but for her it was just review.

The redhead wasn’t particularly happy about the fast paced day entirely, she had promised Luna that she would show up to the support group humans were so obsessed with. Mostly she didn’t want to disappoint the woman so she decided she would stick through it.

She shared a couple of genuine laughs during lunch at Trixie and Starlights' antics and Fuchsia Blush’s witty comments.

Sunset now sat in her study hall, bouncing her head lightly to the soft rock entering her ears from her headphones while roughly sketching a portrait of her bespectacled girlfriend showing off that amazing world changing smile.

As the time got closer and closer to the end of the day, nervousness and anxiety peaked causing her leg to bounce at a ferocious rate.

The former unicorn was well aware that she didn’t need to talk or share-not that she could share too much of her past anyways. The fact didn’t help her nerves.

The ringing dismissal bell ripped Sunset from her thoughts and her heart dropped to her stomach, only an hour left.

The redhead threw her things into her back and turned to the classroom exit only to be stopped by a sudden beige object in her face. She jumped back and threw her fists in front of herself in defense. After the initial shock settled, Sunset finally noticed what had been in front of her.

A… Muffin?

A girl with blonde hair, bluish-gray skin and light golden misaligned eyes smiled at her, “Muffin!”

Sunset blinked in confusion, “…yes..?” Why was this girl asking for clarification on what the food is?

The blonde moved the muffin closer to the redhead, “Take it!” She said happily, still holding a wide, friendly smile.

An amber hand lightly grabbed the muffin lightly as surprise and confusion filled her brain, “Thank you..?”

“Have a good rest of the day!” The girl with bubbles on her jeans said before walking out.

Sunset smiled as a mass of her anxiety was replaced with friendly warmth.

The magic wielder threw away the muffin wrapper in the disposable outside her caretaker's office, the door opened and out stepped the very woman, “Are you ready?”

A breath let out in attempt to get the last bit of tension in her chest to leave her, “Ready as I'll ever be..” Sunset answered along with a nod of her head.

***

"Alright fireball, you ready? You think you can head in yourself?" Luna asked parking in front of a boring building.

"First off, fireball? You have know idea how ironic that is and what's up with all these nicknames? Second, ...yeah, yeah I think I can." replied the redhead, grabbing the door handle of the car.

"Yes I know it suits, I noticed the burnt tree at the back of the school and because it's fun." the woman said knowingly.

Sunset blushed and gave nervous giggle, "How do you know its me?"

Luna quirked an eyebrow at her.

Sunset pouted in defeat, "Fine. I'm sorry."

The evening colored woman softened and put a comforting hand on the teens shoulder, "It's alright, though next time your going through something... please come to me. I know your independent and used to relying on yourself but you don't have to do that so much anymore, okay?"

The red head nodded filling warmth in her soul at the fact that the older woman truly cared, "I-I'm trying- or I'm trying to try. I promise, it's just taking me some time."

Luna gave the younger female a warm smile, "That's all I could ask that you do for yourself."

Another affirmative nod from the former unicorn as she opened her car door and headed into the inside of the building.

Sunset entered a make shift lobby and followed signs that lead her to a large gymnasium type room with chairs in a circle. Most where filled and she could see Night Light sitting in a chair next to a sign that said, 'Youth Mental Support'.

The flame haired female took the seat nearest to the exit door, sitting in-between a girl with topaz skin and a mass of messy dark fern hair and another teen with warm gray skin and sage green hair with long bangs that covered one of her eyes.

"Tch, fancy seeing you here." The fern haired female said with a dead voice.

Sunset looked at her with confusion. Did she know this girl? She must go to Canterlot High if this girl knows her.

"Welcome, I'm happy to see you all here." Night started, looking around the group until he met Sunset's eyes and brightened his smile.

"Today I want to use this session as a discussion of staying in the moment and out of the past. I know that the trauma's of past negative afflict us greatly."

Sunset nodded her head along to that. The past has has always felt like a weight on her mind, shoulders and soul. Like everyone is thinking about what she's done in the past. Everyone knows how terrible and mean she used- no, is. The past actions only add to the evidence of that. She hadn't forgot what she did to Fluttershy a few days prior.

"The wonderful thing about the past is it's just that. The past, its an example for us to grow as people and choose how we want to be in our future."

Sunset's heart began to thump as Night Light continued, "Things that can be considered 'evidence' towards reasons to pull the past into the present are a way of enforcing negative thoughts. The amazing thing about the future is change, everything has an opportunity to change-to become better."

It was almost like he was reading her mind. The red head knew he was right. She knew this is what she needed to hear. The past is past. You make a mistake, you learn and grow. Why had it been so hard for her to realize that?

The group continued for an hour longer with Dr.Light's monologue being joined with other teens asking questions of how to move on, how to stay in the moment?

The therapist answered with wisdom of using your surrounding to ground you. Focusing on positives of the past and if their aren't enough then focus on how to make it better for yourself in the future.

Let the past go. For the first time Sunset Shimmer truly felt ready to do so.

Author's Note

Hi :3
I hope you enjoyed, I so excited to write happy and fluffy content for the next chapters until the conclusion :p
Advice, points and feedback is always very appreciated