At Sweet Apple Acres, Applejack and Pinkie Pie had finished preparing the cupcake with the necessary quantity that the blonde had agreed upon.

on the second floor, Apple Bloom was doing her class assignments.

“mmm… how boring, I bet at the university they don't give them homework. I've hardly ever seen Applejack have to do it," she said to herself.

Seconds later she heard someone knock on her door and then open it.

“I brought you some cupcake,” Applejack said.

“Thank you, I thought cousin Pinkie would bring them?”

“Let's say I keep an eye on her... I brought you two,” the blonde said, leaving the plate with the cupcake on her desk. Her younger sister took one and started eating. "How are with?"

“I understand, but it doesn't take away the boring part,” the youngest responded.

“Anything, I'll be in my room" She looked down the hallway and saw the smallest of the apples again. “when it comes back up”

Apple Bloom laughed a little at that.

Applejack was about to go, but before doing so, he looked at the younger girl again. “What you mentioned, about the fact that we don't have tasks... It's not that they don't give us tasks, it's more jobs, it also depends on each career, designers have more manual jobs."

“Aren't all jobs manual?” “we use our hands”

“True, but there are also digital ones where you only show a work through your computer… or pendrive? You know I don't know much about that, that's more about Twilight,” Applejack said. “As I said, designers have to do manual work to demonstrate what they are capable of as future designers. For example, I have Arts and they specialize in that area and if not, they will learn it. And despite not knowing how to draw well, I have to try, but my thing is more about plans.” I finish explaining

"I think I understood"

“You'll understand when you're in college. "I'll let you continue with your homework," said Applejack, closing the door to her younger sister's room. After walking down the hall, he went down the stairs and saw his Grandma and Big Mac coming in through the front door, heading to the couch or in Grandma Smith's case, her rocking chair.

“Big Mac, are you done?” the blonde asked

“Yep,” he responded. As always, her brother answered with a simple word.

“I was going to go to the barn, but it looks like you didn't need any help.” Applejack said, sitting next to him.

“Nop.”

“Cupcake Grandma Smith?” Pinkie said, appearing in the living room. Also offering big mac

“They're delicious, right,” Pinkie asked.

“They are delicious,” commented Grandma Smith.

"Yep"

“I helped her and at the same time kept an eye on her in case she went a little too far, do you remember what happened with Apple Bloom the last time?”

"Yep"

“Where is she now?” Grandma Smith asked.

“Upstairs doing your class assignments,” replied the girl farmer.

“Apple Bloom could help more in the garden” suggested the elderly woman

“Grandma, she can barely handle schoolwork like she can handle the garden,” commented the farmer.

“Apple Bloom helps when they need an extra pair of hands, isn't that the same as working?” Pinkie Pie asked.

“Yes, although he does it when the work is almost finished and not when it has to be done from the beginning” explained Grandma Smith.

“Okay,” Pinkie said.

“The only thing it doesn't help, is when we make cider,” said Applejack.

“In my time I worked since I was a child, that's how it was with Bright Mac…” she sighed to continue. “Later when she married Pear Butter, she continued it with you,” said the elderly woman, with a smile remembering her son.

Bic Mac put his hand on his sister's shoulder, they both smiled nostalgically. “Dad and mom taught us the essentials, they were good parents”

“At first I didn't like their relationship, then I realized how special your mother was to Bright Mac and she was to him,” Grandma Smith admitted, although it wasn't the first time she had mentioned it.

“Special…” Applejack said, something about that word almost clicked in the blonde's mind. “What i remembers about Mom and Dad being very close, Grandma Smith has also told me a lot about what they were like. She thought.

Dash Family House
Rainbow and Scootaloo were in the girl with multicolored hair's room playing Mario Kart.

“I'm beating you,” Scoot said.

"beginners luck"

“That would be you,” Scoot said, almost defiantly.

“True… you know I like them with more action” said Rainbow.

After the mini talk they returned to concentrating on the game

“Girls, dinner is about to be served,” said an older man with light gray-blue skin and rainbow hair. "They heard me?"

“Yes, dad,” they both said in unison.

The older man looked at the time on his wrist watch and then looked at the younger one. “Scoot, did you do your class assignments?”

“…” the youngest paused the game and looked at the older man. “I would do it, but I lent my notebooks to a classmate so she could catch up,” Scoot replied.

“And they didn't give you any guide?” the older man asked once again.

"No"

“Okay, but don't play for too long,” Bow said, ending that topic. “don't delay.” After saying that he left the room.

“were you saved from,” Rainbow said gracefully. He stood up, leaving the joystick aside. “Let's go.” His sister did the same and they headed to the door.

“Next we play Need For Speed” said Rainbow.

“I haven't heard about that game in a long time, I thought it was forgotten”

“It was more or less like this”

When he got to the table, his mother was finishing setting the table, after everyone sat down they started to eat.

“Any news either at school or university?” Windy asked, starting a topic of conversation.

“The Crusaders are reunited again,” said Scootaloo.

“Does that mean-” Bow was going to ask, but Scoot interrupted.

“Sweetie Belle is back, I lent her the notebooks”

"She's not the sister of-" his mother was going to ask, but this time it was Rainbow who interrupted.

“Yes, is who you think,” she said, looking at her parents. “Mom, do you remember what happened?”

"Yes doughter"

“She Now she came back, from one day to the next” Rainbow complained.

“It reminds me of you,” said his mother, thinking a little about the past.

"What...? I'm nothing like that!” protest

"I do not mean that"

“I think what your mother is referring to is that you also arrived in Canterlot from one day to the next,” Bow clarified.

Rainbow opened her eyes a little, understanding what she meant. “Now that you mention it…” she said. “It's like deja vu, but in reverse. I just didn't come from nowhere, the girls already knew about me” thought

“If you think about it, any new student arrives overnight,” Scootaloo commented.

“You're right, Scoot,” his dad said.

“Whether it is an old or new student, they arrive without prior notice, on very few occasions the teacher announces the arrival of a new student” said his Mom.

“Let's change the subject, I thought you were going out with your friends” said his dad.

“Actually, it was going to be with AJ, but I cancele and before you ask, does it bother me? No, it doesn't bother me at all.”
Both parents looked at each other. “You took the word out of our mouths,” the older man said.

Seeing that the topic was over, they decided to continue eating.

Rainbow still seemed a little thoughtful about the topic and she remembered a time when she considered switching to Canterlot.

Three years ago
Rainbow and Fluttershy were walking through the mall, eating some popcorn they bought at a store.

“How is everything going at your school?” Fluttershy asked.

“Boring, sometimes I don't even feel like going,” Rainbow said with annoyance.

“Canterlot, I wouldn't say it's more entertaining, but it has its good things,” said the pink-haired girl. “I still think you should go in.”

"That's it again," Rainbow said with a laugh.

Fluttershy has suggested that Rainbow Dash enter Canterlot Institute several times. When they were younger they went to the same school, but when they started growing up they both changed schools. Even so, they have not lost contact.

"I said I don't feel like going, but where I am... it's not that bad, not counting that unbearable Lightning Dust... at least I have Gilda" said the girl with multi-colored hair.

Fluttershy looked at her with a bit of concern.

“Don't worry, Fluttershy, I haven't gotten into trouble,” Rainbow said so as not to worry her friend. “At least I'm not with the Crystal Prep know-it-alls.”

The pink haired girl changed her expression to a calmer one. “I knew a girl who went there,” said Fluttershy.

"Oh really"

“Yes, her name is Twilight Sparkle.”

“Didn't you tell me that Canterlot and Crystal don't get along?” the girl with multicolored hair asked, confused.

“Differences can be put aside,” said the pink-haired girl with a smile.

"Maybe…"

“Apparently Twilight wasn't having a very good time at Crystal, the atmosphere there… it's not at all what one would imagine, so she transferred to Canterlot last year.”

“It's good that she changed…” Rainbow said, then he put another popcorn in her mouth. “About Canterlot, what other reason would I have to study there? The only thing that comes to mind is you.”

"What?" Fluttershy asked, not understanding.

“You know… I wouldn't want them to pick you up and from what I know I'm your only friend and possibly that girl Sparkle.”

“Actually, I did make more friends,” Fluttershy admitted with a slight blush, “well, I don't know if they consider me her friend, since I recently met them. This Twilight Sparkle, Sunset Shimmer, she is the first friend that Twilight made when she arrived in Canterlot, and also Pinkie Pie” she revealed. “oh… also yesterday I met two others and one is Pinkie Pie's cousin.

“Wow, you've met a lot of girls, are they trustworthy? “You have to know a person well” Rainbow asked suspiciously.

“Don't worry dash… I'm sure they are trustworthy.” said the pink haired girl, sure of herself. “The most curious thing is that we were all in the same institute a long time ago, we were just in different courses, that's why we never got to know each other, not to mention Twilight who transferred last year.”

“Is the institute that small?” Rainbow asked ironically.

“You could say… you'll like them” she said, she started thinking about another reason. “Another reason you might study, besides meeting the girls. At school you could demonstrate your abilities. The other day I heard some students talking about a teacher called Spitfire who helps you prepare to be a great athlete. From what I know, she is the teacher of Side B” Fluttershy explained.

That caught the attention of the multicolored haired girl. “Wait…” she said, stopping walking. “Then next year, when I go to university, I could teach myself more things related to sports and who knows… maybe I will be a very well-known athlete” Rainbow finished, smiling sideways.

"Exact"

“You're right, I'm going to talk to my parents about being able to change.”

They walked again, eating the popcorn and talking about other topics.

Present

Rainbow sighed in frustration as she finished remembering. “It all started with Fluttershy's suggestions... How did we end up like this after transferred to Canterlot? Although at the beginning we were still like before... only something changed over time and we are no longer" thought.

The girl with multi-colored hair took her cell phone out of her pocket and opened Messenger. “Before I changed, we talked naturally…” thought, sliding around looking for Fluttershy's contact. “She was online 10 minutes ago, at least I'm glad to know that he possibly wanted to hear from me”

“Rainbow, what have we said about cell phones when we are eating?” said his mother

“Sorry, I just wanted to see something,” Rainbow apologized. She put her cell phone away and continued eating, until she remembered something.

"Mom?"

“Yes, rainbow?”

“I know it's still missing, but... is there any news about the family meeting?”

Windy looked at her husband and her youngest, she turned her gaze to her daughter. “It's like you said rainbow, we still have to think about that and we don't know if the Shy people will be able to this time”

“Is this because you were absent last time?” the older man asked

“I was late, it's not the same, plus I wanted to teach that Lightning Dust a lesson.”

Her parents looked at her a little seriously.

Rainbow let out a laugh. “It is not a good excuse and that is why I ask, since on the one hand it is because I am late”

Like Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, they have known each other since they were very young. It didn't take long for the parents to realize that both girls were going to be great friends. Time passed and, as expected, they became great friends. Sometimes Rainbow would go to the pink haired girl's house to hang out and the same thing happened with Fluttershy, so her parents decided to create a tradition in which both families would meet on a specific date to pass the time.

“When we have news we will let you know” said his dad.

“How is Fluttershy? "She hasn't come to visit us in a long time," Windy asked.

“Okay,” Rainbow replied. “When we get together with the others, I haven't seen anything happen to her, just when she's busy or if she gets sick,” thought. “We're in college, so it takes up a lot of your free time for her to come,” she lied, faking a smile.

“I understand, let's hope we see her again soon” commented her dad.

“Me too,” Rainbow murmured, barely audible.

Scootaloo didn't say anything in the middle of the conversation, as she was a little thoughtful about the conversation.

Belle Family House
Rarity was in the kitchen, she was going to prepare a preview for dinner like she used to do when her parents took longer than usual because of her work, like on this occasion.

“Preparing dinner again?” Sweetie Belle asked from the kitchen door.

Rarity turned around to look at her sister. “Mom sent a message that they were going to be a little late,” she replied. "Can you set the table?"

“Sure, but… I was thinking we could watch a movie and have some sister time while we wait.”

“Mmm… I haven't started cooking yet so it wouldn't get cold at all” said the dressmaker, looking at the kitchen, then at her younger sister. “Okay, wait, did you make progress on any assignment they gave you in class?”

“Scoot lent me her notebooks to stay up to date”

Rarity wasn't too surprised by the mention of Rainbow Dash's younger sister. If she saw the girls on side B, it wouldn't be difficult to deduce that her sisters would be on side A.

“Have you passed cleanly?” the dressmaker asked

“Yes I did… well a little” the youngest admitted.

Rarity thought about it. “I'll let it go for now. What movie do you want to see?”

“Yes,” the youngest girl went to the couch and looked for the control to turn on the television and enter an application. “Let's see what there is”

The two sisters were already on the couch. Rarity was the first to look for a movie, but she didn't find one that caught her attention, so she handed control over to Sweetie, who opted for a classic, The Lion King. They have both seen it countless times, it is part of several people's childhoods.

“Even though I've already seen it, it's still sad to see what happens to Simba,” said Sweetie Belle, a little sad.

“I can't imagine what it's like to go through that loss,” Rarity commented with empathy. “At least the songs help pass the moment”

“Like Hakuna Matata, look, it's just about to start,” said the youngest excitedly. As soon as the song played, she began to sing. Rarity smiled.

The movie was progressing and now it was shown on the screen how Scar betrayed Simba in front of all the lionesses. Rarity felt something on her chest, the smile she was wearing was changing. Simba was apologizing for what he supposedly did, while Scar was cornering him. That scene became very familiar to Rarity and the feeling of it on her chest became more and more intense. She decided to close her eyes thinking that by not seeing the screen it would go away, but she was wrong.

Rarity was walking through the school hallways, despite looking empty, some students were still circulating.

She was dressed in a pale blue blouse, with a belt that connected to her purple skirt, and boots of the same color with a diamond decoration.

Had received a message from Twilight summoning her to a specific location. When she read the message she had a feeling.

When she arrived at the destination she could distinguish the girls, their faces seemed calm at first. But as she got closer and they became aware of her presence, the girls' expressions changed.

Sunset was leaning against the wall with her arms crossed and frowning, Twilight with the same expression, but she was a little further ahead. Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were on one side, looking at the dressmaker with disappointment and finally Rainbow and Applejack were standing next to the wall, Rainbow was angry and Applejack had a neutral expression. Rarity saw that these two were holding hands, seeing that made the dressmaker sad. She acted tough and tried to hide it.

Almost in front of the girls, she expected them to speak, but she went ahead.

“I received your message Twilight, is something wrong?” The dressmaker looked askance at the others, she felt a little nervous. It was clear what she was about.

“You know Rarity… something a little peculiar happened” Twilight began to speak.

"What thing?" the dressmaker pretended not to understand

“Someone broke the display case and took something out…” Sunset continued.

“Did they find out who did it?” she asked, acting again.

The six girls looked at each other and started laughing. Rarity didn't understand why she was laughing and started to back away. Abruptly the girls returned to their previous expressions.

The girls left their places and began to approach the dressmaker, this made the dressmaker back away even more.

For some reason everything around her began to darken. Rarity turned around, seeing how everything was absolute darkness, there was only one light that illuminated the place, illuminated only by Rarity.

"What's going on?" she asked herself, a little scared. She turned around again, looking in front of her to see the girls, who had stopped in a curve.

She could see their silhouettes, they were barely illuminated, the light and shadow on their faces did not help. Rarity began to get more and more nervous as she saw that they began to move, approaching one by one, passing by and starting to talk, but her voices were heard with an echo.

“We thought we were your friends…”
"What kind of friend are you…"

“No…” Rarity muttered.

“You are just as you appear…”
“You used us…”

"ENOUGH…!" I shout this time. The girls kept appearing and disappearing in the darkness telling them things. Rarity covered her ears so as not to listen.

"I thought you were different…"
“You punctured the balloon of joy…”

“STOP…!” She felt salty drops coming out of her eyes. Despite covering her ears, she continued listening to them.

Another girl was approaching, she could make out that it was Applejack who had never moved and was just looking at her from the darkness. When she was close enough to her he tried to stop her by putting her hand on her blonde's shoulder. “Why haven't you told me anything?” asked through tears.

The girl blondi turned her head and looked at her indifferently. “I don't need to tell you anything…” was the only thing she said. The dressmaker's eyes widened and she shook her head. After saying that, the blonde followed her path, disappearing into the darkness.

“No… what you said is not true…” looked down at her for a few seconds, when she raised it she realized that none of the girls appeared and neither could her silhouette be seen in the darkness.

“Whe…where are they?!”looked around and then lowered his head fists and gritting her teeth. "I can handle it myself,"murmurs. released his grip on her and looked around her again. “But… I don't want to be here,” she said, squeezing her eyes shut.

Rarity opened her eyes, she was startled when she felt a hand on her shoulder, it was Sweetie Belle, apparently her younger sister woke her up.

Between gasps the dressmaker looked around, she was in the living room sitting on the sofa.

“Rarity, are you okay?” her sister asked with concern.

"What happened?" I asked agitatedly

“Looks like you fell asleep, are you okay?” the youngest asked once again

“Yes, I'm fine,” replied the dressmaker.

“Are you sure you're not having another anxiety attack?”

“Sweetie, It's been a long time since they gave me, don't worry, it was just a bad dream.” she replied with a fake smile, her breathing seemed softer. “Since I haven't seen them in a while, I remembered when they discovered me, counting the looks... It makes sense that they look at me like that, even though I did something immature... by doing so I lost their trust." thought. I try to put those thoughts aside. “Why did you wake me up?”

Sweetie Belle knew there was something else, when she realized that her sister fell asleep, she said some things in her sleep that Sweetie didn't understand and she saw some tears coming out of her sister's eyes, so she decided to wake her up.

“The movie ended a few seconds ago and I just heard Dad's car” explained his younger sister.

"Seconds? “I thought it had been minutes.”

They hear the door opening, but not the main one but the kitchen door that leads to the patio.

“We have arrived,” her father greeted, entering with his wife.

Cookie looked at her oldest daughter and noticed that she looked like she had seen a horror movie. “Daughter, are you okay? You look a little agitated.”

“I'm fine mother, I just had a bad dream.” replied, She looked at the table and remembered dinner. “Sorry, when I fell asleep, I didn't get ahead of myself with dinner.”

“Don't worry, daughter, you don't always have to do it,” said her mother.

“Luckily we brought some pieces of cake,” her father mentioned.

“How delicious,” said the youngest.

The Belles walked to the table and sat down.

“How did my two little princesses do?” said their father.

“Dad, I'm not a little girl anymore,” Rarity said, a little embarrassed that her parents sometimes treat her like that.

“For us they always will be,” said Hondo, with affection. Cookie didn't say anything, just blinked slowly, showing a smile.

“Since I started two weeks late, I had to ask a classmate for her notebooks to catch up,” said Sweetie Belle.

“For me, not much to tell,” replied without giving more details. While she was eating a piece of cake she began to remember her dream. “When I left town, they weren't the only ones who were angry. I was too, but that anger soon turned to regret. I knew that maybe I would meet them in the city, at least some of them, but I never thought I would see them all at the university.”

The next day at the university
As always, the girls were in their respective classes or some in the same class, in the case of Applejack she had arts with Sunset Shimmer and other acquaintances, but this time a new classmate will also share classes with them.

Applejack was entering the classroom, he stopped when he saw a certain violet-haired girl. "Brilliant" thought sarcastically. “It was obvious that some of us were going to be involved with Rarity.” she realized that where the dressmaker is sitting is right next to her seat, he saw her again and noticed some changes that he had not noticed the day before. “Now she wears a blouse with buttons, apparently she left behind the pale blue blouse that she used to wear, also her violet boots… well we are already 22 years old, it is normal that we change our style.” she put that aside and approached her seat.

Rarity was settling into her place when she saw a certain blonde in a cowgirl hat starting to put down her things. After a few seconds of silence, Rarity decided to break it.

“Hello AJ… how have you been?” Rarity asks, hoping for an answer.

Applejack does not answer, but she is not so rude to leave her with the word in her mouth. “Good…” she answered with disinterest. “…and only my friends call me AJ,” commented with her gaze on the lectern.

“You're right,” Rarity apologized, lowering her gaze, although a little saddened by Applejack's curt attitude. “How do the rest-”

Applejack was annoyed, as Rarity was babbling like it was nothing. She started taking her things to change places. The violet-haired girl realized what she was going to do.

“Wait you don't have to do that,” Rarity said waving her hands as a sign for her to stop. “I was the one who invaded your workspace… I better change,” commented, taking her things and heading to the back.

Applejack didn't say anything, but looked at her out of the corner of her eye. watched as Rarity seemed to ask Sandalwood for something from her, then she moved her hair. “Using your charms,” Applejack thought, shaking her head, stopped looking at her and waited for the teacher to speak.

The boy went to the place where the dressmaker was supposed to be. Meanwhile Rarity was arranging her tools, a girl greeted her.

“Hello,” a girl greeted.

The dressmaker looked to the side and saw a girl with purple and teal hair.

“You're Rarity, right?”

"Yes, it's me"

“My name is Starlight” she introduced herself.

"A pleasure. Mine is Rarity and apparently you already know it.”

Seconds later two girls appear. One with cyan hair and a white line. The other one with navy blue and pink hair.

“Hello,” the cyan-haired girl greeted.

“Sorry for asking. What happened to Sandalwood?" The girl with navy blue and pink hair asked.

“…” Rarity guessed that it was the green-haired boy, whom she asked to change places. “What happened is that the sun was hitting my face a lot and even though it is good for the skin, I can't let it blind me, allowing my clothes to get stained with the paint, they don't know how long it would take for the paint to come off. such a fine fabric” explain

“We haven't had to paint yet, this week we have only drawn” said the girl with navy blue and pink hair.

"Exact. Although we love that Sandalwood talks about the band he has with Flash, sometimes we get into what he says, that the teacher catches our attention," said the one with cyan hair.

“I introduce myself, my name is Bon Bon” said the girl with navy blue and pink hair.

"And my name is Lyra... and you must be Rarity" said the cyan-haired one.

“I realized that the three of you know my name, but I didn't introduce myself to you,” Rarity commented, without understanding.

“You've only been here for two days and everyone is talking about you,” said Bon Bon.

"And because? It's not that it bothers me, because I'm delighted that they talk about me."

Lyra looked knowingly at Bon Bon and pointed at her with both hands. Giving us an understanding of its appearance

"I see"

“Some people talk about the hot new girl in math class,” said Lyra, heading to her workplace with Bon Bon.

“I've barely arrived, everyone already knows about me and I still don't know anyone, not counting you three obviously,” commented the dressmaker.

“Four, if you count Applejack,” Starlight commented, pointing at her.

Rarity was a little shocked by mention of the blonde's. “Yes… I just met her” she responded with a slightly discouraged tone, hiding it well.

Bon Bon looked at Applejack and next to him was the green-haired boy. “I understand, you should sit next to him,” said, looking at the dressmaker.

“She seemed a little upset,” Starlight said, a little confused.

“It must be that I invaded her workplace,” said the dressmaker. “The previous excuse was somewhat true, I wouldn't want my clothes to get stained, but as the real reason for sitting somewhere else would say, I think it's better that they think that I just met Applejack” thought.

“Few things bother AJ… i would say, but I wouldn't want to say too many things,” said Starlight.

“I understand, I wouldn't like them to talk about my private things either.”

“There are more things that are seen in plain sight or heard,” thought Starlight.

“If you met Applejack, you will soon meet the Mane Six,” Lyra said.

“Mane Six?” Rarity asked curiously.

“That's how your group is known,” said Bon Bon.

“Also The Rainbooms,” said Starlight.

“They already have nicknames,” Rarity thought. “they seem to be popular”

"what? No." Starlight said, shaking her head. “Everyone has their own group of friends, even so, we all talk”

“Could I know more about the Mane Six?” Rarity asked.

“We could tell you the basics” Starlight said looking at the two girls, they nodded.

“The Mane Six are made up of: Pinkie Pie, Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Applejack and Rainbow Dash,” Lyra began.

“Pinkie Pie is very imperative and she is almost always baking some cupcake or doing one of her crazy things,” Starlight continued.

“Sunset is very talented, she does everything, she could have been the captain of the women's soccer team, but she refused from the beginning,” Bon Bon continued.

“Twilight, there's not much to tell, she's like the genie of the room.” Said the one with cyan hair.

“Fluttershy, well she's a little shy, not so much now. She is very kind and she really likes animals and she is even studying something related to that,” commented Starlight.

“Rainbow dash is very athletic, it still surprises me that she doesn't get tired of having many
classes related to sports.” He said bon bon

“Not everything is physical, she has some that have to do with the psychological,” Starlight clarified. “Her teacher Spitfire named her the captain of the women's soccer team.”

“We are here too,” Lyra mentioned. Referring to her and bon bon.

“Lastly, Applejack, she also likes sports, but she specializes more in what has to do with carpentry,” said Starlight.

“Apparently they continued with what they said in the past. Pinkie has hardly changed, I remember she said that she was interested in cooking. Sunset, she can do everything at once, she was luckier than me. Twilight, i see that it was the list of the group. Fluttershy apparently was able to overcome some of her insecurities. Dash… just as she said, she is specializing in the area of sports and AJ-" The dressmaker's thoughts were interrupted by bon bon.

“As far as I know, they have studied in Canterlot since they were on Side A.”

“What else can we tell you?” starlight wondered

“Applejack and Rainbow Dash have been together for almost two years” bon bon

“Weren't there three?” Lyra asked.

“As I understand it, they have been they have been together almost two years, ¿or three?” bon bon he questioned

“That's stranger, when I saw them together the first time, I understood that they were already girlfriens,” the dressmaker thought, confused.

“Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash are good friends,” said Lyra.

"They are?" ask this time bon bon

The dressmaker raised an eyebrow, it was already twice. “Why do they ask it like that? It's the same as how they knew my name or when they wondered about Applejack's relationship."

“What happens is that it is almost normal for rumors to circulate the university about what happens to each student; most of them are true and very rarely they are false.” Starlight explained

“I understand,” said Rarity. “Could it be true that they are in a bad? They were always good friends."

“So watch your movements,” Lyra said, with a serious expression.

“Ehh…”

"It's a joke. We told you that gossip is normal, but it is occasional,” Lyra said, changing her expression.

“Back to the topic of the Mane Six. In fact, they are all friends, but one always gets along better with another.” I end bon bon

"Often happens". Rarity said. "I wonder who she's been close to if she hadn't fractured our friendship, maybe it would have been with-"

“Oh, the teacher is about to speak and believe me, even though you is the new one, she is not going to let you be late,” Starlight commented, interrupting the dressmaker's thoughts.

"Good to Know"

After art, the students had their third class, and after that class, it was time for lunch.

Cafeteria/Side B
The Mane Six were heading with their tray of food to their usual place to eat, outside the cafeteria, an open area where there were more tables. They began to eat and talk, until Dash saw someone

“Look there it is”

The girls turned their gaze to a certain girl with wavy hair, who was heading towards a completely empty table.

“Of all the seats, she had to sit there,” Rainbow complained.

“Rainbow isn't that close, she's only two rows away,” Pinkie said.

“We still see it”

“Not even if she was invisible,” said Sunset.

“Can you believe she's only been here for two days and everyone mentions her as the hot girl,” Rainbow mentioned.

“Even when she was with us on side A, she was named the cutest, along with Fluttershy,” said Pinkie.

“Emm…” Fluttershy didn't know what to say, she was blushing a little.

“You don't have to be ashamed of that Fluttershy,” Applejack said with a smile.

Rainbow didn't want to be left behind this time. “Exactly, we are all cute here, you, sunset, twilight, pinkie, Aj, there are no differences”

Twilight touched her forehead, gently with the palm of her hand.

“What they are trying to say, is that don't feel ashamed because they find you pretty, because you are and you should tell yourself and realize that you are beautiful,” said Sunset, sympathetically. The others agreed.

Fluttershy's blush faded. "Thank you... it's been a long time since they mentioned and I had forgotten when they named me the prettiest," said softly.

“That makes sense,” Pinkie Pie said. “Did any of you have any classes with Rarity, besides Sunset and Twilight having math with her?” she asked

“How did you know?” twilight asked

“I felt it”

Applejack and the others preferred not to continue asking, it was Pinkie they were talking to. “With sunset we had arts with Rarity.” I mention the blonde

“Arts, how did I not see it?” Sunset wondered.

“Since you arrived a little late, you didn't see that she went to the back row,” Applejack explained.

“No wonder I didn't see it.”

“Arts, math… what else is next, sports” Rainbow Dash joked.

"I really do n't know why I was surprised to see her in arts, it makes sense, all of that has to do with design and mathematics with measurements, that leads to-" Applejack's thoughts were interrupted by her friends, who were already getting up.

"Come on?" sunset

"Already?" the blonde asked

“It's still a little early, but we could get there sooner,” said Fluttershy.

“What if we go play a little?” suggested rainbow

“I don't think we would make it,” Twilight said.

Applejack got up and the girls went to put down their trays, then headed to the exit/entrance to go inside the cafeteria.
Before following the rest, Pinkie looked at the table where Rarity was still eating, without noticing her. Under her gaze, she saw her once more and left after the others.

The girls were walking through the hallways heading to the music room. Sunset, Twilight, Pinkie and Fluttershy were in front, Rainbow and Applejack were in back.

“You know yesterday I had a conversation with Grandma Smith,” Applejack comments to her girlfriend.

"And now..."

Applejack omitted the tonality with which his girlfriend spoke. “As he said i talked with Grandma Smith about if…”

Rainbow initially heard what she was saying, but when she looked ahead she saw her yellow-skinned friend.

“Yesterday I remembered when she suggested the Canterlot thing to me, but she didn't question the main thing. What have I done? It would be that time when we all went to the water park, I would take her to one where if you slid you could see the fish swimming, I knew she would like it and somehow I convinced her to go to the extreme one that I wanted to try. I'll never admit that it scared me a little, but I'm sure Fluttershy ended up liking it or maybe I looked wrong... Or was she really upset when I mistakenly gave the shelter animals the wrong food? Wait is she still volunteering?" thought

Meanwhile the blonde was finishing speaking. “But I told him that Apple Bloom can barely handle his homework.” Applejack waited for his girlfriend to speak. "Rainbow?" The farmer nudged him.

“Hey…” Rainbow said, coming out of her thoughts and looking at the blonde.

They both stopped walking, remaining in the middle of the hallway.

“Did you hear anything I told you?” he asked with a frown

"About what?"

“Seriously, Dash!” Applejack looked at her angrily. “I told you yesterday I talked to Grandma Smith.”

"And…?"

“It doesn't matter anymore,” said the farmer and started walking.

“Now what did I do” she thought. She followed the blonde, towards the music room.

The rest of the girls were arriving at the music room

“Don't you think it would be easier if the class were in the other music room? That way we would avoid tuning the instruments again,” Pinkie said.

“I agree with that, but the teacher already decided that this would be the music room,” said Sunset.

“Someone else wonders why we have music if we already know how to play instruments,” Pinkie commented.

"Well Pinkie, you see, it's one thing to know how to play them and another to know the concept of music," Twilight responded.

Fluttershy looked at the door noticing that two of her friends had not yet arrived. “Has anyone seen…” but it wasn't necessary to ask since Applejack was entering the classroom and behind her was Rainbow.

“They didn't know they were left behind, is something wrong with you AJ?” Sunset asked.

“I'm fine, I'll get over it,” said the blonde, downplaying the concern of her friends. She went further into the classroom and went down the steps to sit in one of the seats.
Pinkie, Sunset, Twilight, and Fluttershy looked at each other and then turned their gaze to the rainbow-haired girl.

“Don't look at me, I don't know what I did,” Rainbow said defensively.

Pinkie looked at her for a few seconds. “Okay,” she said with a smile, heading to the stairs, sitting in another seat. “Hello Vinyl,” Pinkie greeted a girl with a hearing aid sitting next to her. This one she just waved.

"Hmm…. The professor doesn't seem to have arrived yet," said Fluttershy, looking at the table where the professor would be.
“So it seems,” said Sunset.

They started to talk a little until someone comes through the door, they turn around to find a surprise. Once again in front of her, the girl with wavy violet hair was in her presence.

“Ehh… hello girls” Rarity greeted, a little nervous.
Rainbow frowned.

“I think we should sit down,” Twilight suggested almost with a difference.

“Yes, you're right, the professor must be arriving,” said Sunset. Fluttershy didn't say anything, she just followed her friends and entered the classroom.

Rarity lowered her head. “Her looks are the same as those in my dream or rather in my memories, with some differences, in that they are not as intense.”

“Oh, hello Rarity,” said Starlight, from the door.

The dressmaker stood firm again, turned around and saw Starlight, next to her was a gray-haired girl with a star-shaped brooch.

“I present to you she is-”

“Don't worry, I introduce myself… I am the great and powerful Trixie,” she introduced herself.

“…the pleasure is mine, I am Rarity” said the dressmaker, leaving aside the drama of the gray-haired girl. “Do you know if there are any free seats?” asked

“If you want, you can sit with us,” Starlight suggested. “There are no specific seats for one.”

Fluttershy was walking up the steps, gave a slightly sad look at Rarity, and left he went to a seat.

“It seems that this time the teacher arrived earlier or else he would still be-” Pinkie couldn't finish speaking as she saw Rarity leading to the other side of the classroom. “ohh…”

“Yes ohh…” Rainbow said with her arms crossed.

“I didn't think she would be here,” Twilight said.

“Would you play an instrument?” Fluttershy asked.

“If she doesn't do it, she will learn it here,” said Sunset.

“Well, I don't care to know,” said the rainbow-haired girl, heading to a seat. Feel like someone is sitting next to you.

Applejack moved to sit next to Rainbow. “Hey, dash… sorry about earlier.”

“You got angry alone, so I don't know why you acted like that,” Dash commented.

“I was talking to you, you should listen to me from time to time.”

“I was thinking about something else,” Dash said simply.

Applejack took a deep breath and let it go. “About yesterday…”

“Okay… and why are you thinking of apologizing now?” Rainbow asked

“mmm…” Applejack put a finger on her chin “I wanted to try something different, I thought about it more because yesterday Grandma Smith mentioned my parents” she started to think a little more. "You're right". Applejack said. The girl next to him nodded.

“I was searching on Instagram-”

“You using Instagram?” Dash asked in disbelief, interrupting the blonde.

“Yes, I'm using Instagram,” the blonde said, rolling her eyes. “I want to go to a place that I haven't been to in a long time... I mean, we should go, you might like it, I just haven't found confirmation yet. For the moment we could go somewhere else.”

Rainbow thought about it. "ok"

Applejack nodded. “This way I make it up to you for canceling in case you felt bad.” comment.

Rainbow frowned, she was going to speak, but the professor just arrived and started to speak.

“Music, what is music?” The teacher began to explain.

"Something happens?" Applejack asked in a low tone.

“Nothing, it's okay… let's go somewhere else and we could even go with the others” Rainbow commented.

“Lately I don't understand you” was the only thing Applejack said and then paid attention to what the teacher was saying.

“…It is also a method to better express what one feels, whether in the moment, or something in the past that they wanted to bring out now in the present,” the professor continued explaining. “For that they need a song, but something very important is needed, the lyrics. Did you know that you can write songs through a poem? But we will leave that topic for later…”

This is how the professor continues explaining to his students.

Author's Note

• Ready, I finally uploaded them. Sorry for the delay, I forgot that I had to translate it and without realizing it I made the chapter longer than necessary.

• I want to mention that I will do a flashback, but a little different. Getting ahead of the facts and then going back further, but I'll try not to make it feel so messy.

• My head exploded when I was looking for what I think each girl would study. As you saw, I gave some indications of what they study.

• I wanted to give an exact age to the girls and if it has relevance in the story