Sunset

I sat on my chair and relaxed, wrapping my hand around my coffee cup and inhaled the sweet scent of hazelnut.

“Are they here?” Trixie asked from her chair in the Clubhouse. Lyra gave a nod as she drank a water. It had been a month since the concert we did and the Shadowbolts were going back to Crystal Prep. Their school was repaired and I’m not gonna lie, CHS is going to be a bit empty without them.

“Come on in!” I called out as the Shadowbolts entered and sat down. Indigo hid her nervousness well. “We will miss you guys.”

“As will we,” Sugarcoat answered as she made eye contact with me.

“So what will you all do now?” Octavia asked curiously as she dusted her cello off in a corner.

“I don’t know,” Sour admitted finally after they all look at each other as Octavia frowned slightly. “But maybe go to the movies? Or go to dinner. Who knows?”

“Being friends after this long is weird,” Sugarcoat stated dryly. “But it has a nice feeling to it.”

“Captain Obvious is right,” Indigo chimed in with a grin. She adjusted her goggles and sighed. “It’s going to be weird going back to Crystal Preps unfriendly environment when we got used to Canterlot High.”

“Agreed,” Sunny mumbled. “It’s a awful place. Probably going to be the only five friendly people. Seven if Twilight and Coco still went to cpa.”

“Well chs is always an option darling,” Rarity offered with a smile.

“As if!” Sour snorted with a laugh. “Our parents wouldn’t allow that. Well mine would but Sugars wouldn’t.”

“Fair enough darling. We hope you will visit us every now and again,” Rarity conceded.

“One question,” Sugarcoat raised a hand slightly. “How will you guys know we stay being friends once we go back to Crystal Prep? Twilight and Coco are here. There’s no one to report back to you guys about us.” We all gave them a look and sighed.

“We thought about that,” Twilight admitted as she traced her finger on the table. “We do have a solution but I’m going to be leaving that to Sunset to explain.”

“You’re going to be writing us letters every time you learn something about friendship. Email preferably because it’s faster,” I explained as everyone looked at me. “It’s what Celestia did for Twilight and it worked out.”

“Like a friendship report?” Sour asked with a raised eyebrow. “What are we, five?” Sunny quickly elbowed her pointedly.

“What she means is we are perfectly happy to do it,” Sunny said hastily as I gazed at them.

“I’m happy to hear it,” I said honestly. “You have our numbers so if you guys experience anything magical, you can text or call any of us and we’ll come on over.”

“It doesn’t have to be magical either,” Derpy added with a smile. “If you just want company, Coco and I will happily come over.”

“Thank you dearies,” Sunny said as she she flipped her hair slightly. “You might hear from us after we leave. But we must be leaving now. Our rides are here.”

“Your ride,” Lemon corrected with a smirk. “Indigo and I drove here.”

“Thanks for the reminder,” Sunny said coolly as she glared at them. The three continued arguing as they walked out of the clubhouse as we all rolled our eyes.

“You sure they will send us the reports and aren’t just jerking us around?” Lyra asked with a raised eyebrow. I nodded after a moment of thinking.

“I’m sure.”

“What now?” Derpy asked as we sat at our table. “I mean other than our visit to Equestria, and the fundraiser to get enough money for everyone to go to camp everfree.”

“I have no idea,” I admitted as I stared at her. “I’m planning on a easy going vacation in the woods with my friends and girlfriend. No magic, no crazy saving the world opportunities. Just us having a good time.”

“As if,” Derpy snickered as she picked up her menu. “Magical events tend to happen around us more than anything.”

“Don’t jinx us,” I grinned and held her hand over the table. “I highly doubt anything like a crazy nature obsessed camp director will hold us all hostage.”

“Or a group of creatures kidnap all the princesses in Equestria!” Derpy snickered as we started laughing. “Uh Sunset?”

“Yeah Derpy?” I asked as we got our laughing under control.

“Everyone’s looking at us weirdly,” Derpy muttered as she hid her face. I glanced around and sure enough, everyone was staring at us with confused expressions.

“Oops?”

Everyone shrugged and continued their conversations as we both let out a sigh of relief.

“That was embarrassing,” Derpy said as she uncovered her face.

“Yeah no kidding,” I agreed sheepishly. “Oh well sucks to be them. They can listen to our weird conversations and just suck it up.”

“That’s such a you thing to say,” Derpy muttered with a smile. “It is kinda nice to have a date without our crazy friends or trying to solve some problem.”

“Agreed.”

“Don’t get me wrong, I love group dates with Lyra and Bon along with Vinyl and Octavia but one on one is my favorite,” Derpy sighed contently as she traced a finger on my hand.

“Same,” I agreed instantly with a smile and shivered. “The service here kinda sucks.”

“It does,” Derpy admitted as she made eye contact.

“Wanna go back to my place and we just make dinner ourselves? Mom and my siblings are at my aunts.”

“You mean us make dinner and then have sex for hours till we are exhausted and can’t walk,” Derpy corrected with a knowing look. I gave her a sultry smile and cast a critical look over her body.

“Maybe?” I offered with a small smile. Derpy winked and gave me an equally sultry look that startled me each time she looked at me that way. “I did learn a few new things recently.”

“I’m down. Let’s get out of here.”

We both stood up and walked out of the restaurant.

Author's Note

Welp this is the ending. There's a sequel for this as well so dwdw. This is my longest story yet. Almost 100k words.