Author's Notes:

What is this madness? Two chapters in one day? Havok you animal.

Apologies for the AN being at the top this time, but I felt I needed to warn you all that this chapter does touch on a sensitive subject for a lot of people. There is a mild case of verbal (and physical depending on who you ask) abuse, and a brief mention of suicide.

As Pinkie and Sunset rounded the corner towards the latter girl's apartment they spotted two figures, heading in the same direction as them. Both of them wore baggy hoodies that concealed their features. Sunset immediately slowed down so they would not notice her.

Two hoodies, pulled up in the middle of the heat of summer? It was very suspicious. Sunset motioned for Pinkie to stop following and began to silently creep behind the figures that were now heading straight for Sunset's apartment. They began to pick up the pace when the got close without making a sound.

Sunset carefully watched as the two walked up to her door and knocked.

"Can I help you?" Sunset asked from behind them, watching as they visibly jumped.

A familiar voice made Sunset drop her guard. "Nope." Sonata beamed as she faced the girl. "We brought you gifts from Adagio."

Sunset relaxed and waved Pinkie back towards her. "Why are you wearing a hoodie in the heat?"

"Duh." Aria said. "Haven't you ever watched a movie where they're in the desert?" she asked. "They wear the bags over their heads to keep the sun off of them."

"Yeah," Sunset said, "but, that's to keep the sun from burning them. If you wore a little sunscreen you could take off those hoodies and be a lot cooler."

"Nuh uh." Sonata said as she pulled a face. "We're not wearing anything underneath them, and Adagio told us we could get in trouble for that."

"Yeah, you could." Pinkie said. "I promise, that's a very awkward ride to the police station."

"I don't wanna know." Sunset said as she opened her front door. "Come in if you like." she said to the two sirens.

"We won't stay long." Aria said as she stepped in the apartment and pulled down her hood.

"We gotta go get tacos." Sonata bounced inside.

Pinkie laughed. "I love tacos." she said.

"Do you wanna join us?" Aria asked.

"No, that's okay." Pinkie said. "Me and Sunset have some things to talk about. Maybe next time."

"Suit yourself." Sonata said with a shrug.

"Adagio didn't really explain anything, but she wanted us to bring you both a couple bottles of wine." Aria said as she handed a paper bag to Sunset.

"We aren't old enough to drink." Pinkie said.

"Correction: you're not." Sunset said as she carried the bag to the kitchen. "I am."

"I can still drink if I wanna right?" Pinkie asked.

"Adagio said to tell you both she's thinking about you." Sonata said as everyone ignored Pinkie's request. "For some reason she can't come here herself, but she wanted you both to know that."

"Thanks." Sunset said to both of the sirens in the room. "I appreciate it. If you talk to her again would you tell her the same from me?"

"Sure." Aria said as she dragged Sonata to the door.

"Bye!" Sonata called as her lover dragged her through the door and closed it behind them.

"Well, Pinkie." Sunset said as she returned to the living room with two glasses filled with wine. "How about that story now?" she asked.

Pinkie took the offered glass and sat on the couch. "It's kind of a long story." Pinkie said.

"I've got all day." Sunset smiled.

"Well,"

I had a boyfriend once. It seems like forever ago, but it really wasn't that long.

What does that have to do with how you're feeling now?

Everything.

He's the reason I always feel like I'm not good enough for anybody to love.

He wasn't always bad. He used to be kind and sweet. I called him Navi. His name was Navigation, but I liked Navi better.

Navi was a gorgeous guy. He had long, straight, brown hair and his skin was tan. He played the guitar and lots of girls really liked him. One day after school he came to me and told me that he had had a crush on me forever and I was so happy.

We started dating after that, and everything seemed to be magical. He would take me places with his friends and show me off by saying things like, "Don't I have the most beautiful girl of them all?"

I liked when he would say things like that. On my birthday he took me on a vacation. We got a hotel room and we had been talking all week about all of the fun stuff we could do while we were alone. I was very excited to finally have sex. Maud told me all the time about how amazing her first time was, but it was with a girl, so she had no idea how it would feel with a guy. I've always known I was sexually attracted to both sexes, but looking back, I'm glad my first time was with a guy.

We got to the hotel room after he had taken me to eat at some fancy place that honestly had really gross food. We took off all of our clothes and started kissing. He pushed me into the bed and I giggled cause I was so excited. His dick was really big, and that kinda made me nervous, but I was still excited.

He pushed the tip inside of me and when I winced he smiled... and that's when he changed. All of the care in his eyes just seemed to disappear and he whispered, "It's about to get worse."

He wasn't gentle when he pushed himself the rest of the way in, and it hurt so bad that I screamed. He yelled at me and told me to shut up. I tried really hard not to make any noise after that. I kept telling myself that it was okay. That Navi loved me and that we had been together for months and he had never hurt me before.

He wasn't gentle at all. He held my legs apart and just kept thrusting as hard as he could, and when he saw me crying he told me to suck it up. I begged him to slow down and he just kept moving faster.

He told me when he was about to come, and I begged him to please, please, please pull out.

He didn't.

I cried for about an hour after that while he got a shower to get my blood off of him. I even tried using toilet paper and my fingers to clean myself out, but I was so sore down there I couldn't get it all.

After Navi got out of the shower I asked him if he would hold me, because I was scared. He laughed at me and told me I just made it worse on myself for not putting out sooner. He said if I had given him what he wanted three months before he would have been easier on me.

I asked him if he still loved me, and I still remember every word of his response to this day.

"I never loved you to begin with. How stupid are you that you honestly think someone as great as me could ever love someone as irrelevant as you? Nobody will ever love you, I just wanted to sleep with you. Stop crying! Go clean yourself up. I'm taking you home, and don't bother talking to me or I'll make you walk."

I got dressed, but for some reason I still felt naked afterwards. I rode in his car home and he dropped me off at my house and I never saw him again. I spent the next two weeks in hell. I was worried I was pregnant and I didn't know how to handle that. I had no boyfriend, no job, and I could barely take care of myself, let alone a kid.

Then I got my period. I laughed until I cried that night. It's funny, cause I had even been considering how best to kill myself that night, cause I just knew that the worst had happened. I didn't tell anybody what happened though. I just told Mom and Dad and Maud that we broke up and that was that.

Then two months later the new school year was gonna start. My parents had taken the sisters to a rock convention in Ohio. They invited me, but I told them I didn't want to go, so they told me I could throw a back-to-school-party, so long as I cleaned up afterwards. I was so excited I invited everyone... except you, Sunset...

Sorry...

No, I don't blame you. I probably would have ruined it.

There was one girl there that caught my eye. I had never seen her before, but I thought she looked amazing. I knew I wasn't in the best place to have a relationship, but for some reason I really wanted to have sex with this girl...

Don't give me that look, she was hot!

I'm not judging.

I was too scared to make a pass at her though. After what happened with Navi, I thought I could go the rest of my life without having sex with anyone.

Everyone at the party seemed to be curious about who she was too, but nobody knew. She just kind of showed up. After a while everyone stopped wondering who she was and we all got back to the party.

We had homemade punch, and loud music, and I even saw a few people kissing each other, but mostly it was a good harmless kind of fun night.

After the party was over, the mysterious girl was still around. She didn't say a word, when everyone else left she just kinda started helping me clean up. I told her thanks and we cleaned my whole house together.

After the house was clean she asked if I wanted her.

She said she had seen the way I kept looking at her all night, so I told her the truth. Yes, I wanted her so bad I couldn't stand it, but I couldn't have a relationship with the way my last one ended.

So, she asked if I was up for a one night stand.

That's-

I know. At the time, though, it seemed like a good idea, so I said yes.

She took me to my room and laid me gently on the bed. She spent several minutes just kissing me gently and I was shocked. She had obviously been the aggressive type from what I had seen of her so far, but when she got me into bed, all of the aggression was gone. She was tender and warm and everything anyone could ever want from a lover...

Sorry if I'm giving you T.M.I.

Not at all, I think it's sweet.

When she got ready to take my clothes off, she just gently slid her fingertips under my shirt and whispered, "Are you sure you're ready?" I nodded and she pulled my shirt over my head. I took off my pants myself while she did that. She took her own shirt off and when I couldn't stop starting she laughed. Not a mean laugh, but a surprised laugh. She asked if I had ever seen breasts before, and I told her the only ones I had ever seen were my own.

I asked her if I could hold them and she nodded and she just laid there and let me play with her chest for a few minutes. Her breasts were kinda small, but they were so soft, I just wanted to curl up in a ball between them. They weren't quiet as big as yours, but they were still nice.

...Thanks?

Sorry.

Then when she went to go down on me she kissed me on the lips first and went down to my legs. She didn't just dive in though, she spent the next several minutes just kissing me all over. She kissed my thighs, and my tummy, and the spot between my boobs and my neck. She just kept kissing me and I thought I was in heaven.

When she finally started eating me out... it was amazing. Not just cause it felt good, but because she was so gentle. She moved slowly and used her hands to arch my waist up, so I didn't have to do any work. She didn't demand anything of me while she worked, she just did it all. She actually gave me my first orgasm that I didn't give myself. When I do it myself it just takes a couple minutes, but she made it stretch out half the night.

When I finally came, I felt tears sliding down my face. She was actually worried about me when she noticed. She wiped her face off and joined me at the head of the bed and just held me and asked what was wrong.

I told her she shouldn't worry about it, that we had both agreed we wouldn't be a couple after that.

She said, "There's no reason we can't be friends though."

I told her that no one had ever touched me like that before. That I had never been shown that kind of attention and that I thought nobody made love like that.

She told me that anyone who didn't have sex like that wasn't worth having sex with.

I cried more and she just held me. I fell asleep and when I woke up she was gone, but she left a note.

It was her phone number and a message. She had written down where she was going to school and that we were friends and if I ever needed her she would be there for me.

When she got to school the next day she was surprised that her new school was the one we went to. We were great friends after that and we still are today.

She probably wouldn't like me telling you this, but that's the story of how I met Rainbow Dash.

Sunset nearly dropped the bottle of wine as she went to fill Pinkie's glass for the third time since her story began. "What?" she asked.

"Yeah," Pinkie said. "Dashie is the first girl I ever had sex with." Pinkie laughed quietly. "It's kinda funny that a one night stand with one of the most aggressive girls I know was more gentle than sex with someone I had been in a relationship with for months."

"That Navi guy can eat a dick." Sunset said.

"Last I heard he was in the hospital." Pinkie said.

"What happened?" Sunset asked, more out of curiosity than genuine concern.

"I don't know. Apparently he was attacked by some girl. He said that she looked just like Maud, but I told the police that it wasn't her because she was with me the night he got attacked."

"Really?" Sunset asked.

"Well, she did spend about two hours in the bathroom, but I didn't bother the police with the details, besides she probably didn't want me telling the police about what happens when she eats Mexican food. Still, that's why it couldn't have been her."

"Yeah, sounds like it definitely wasn't her, Pinkie." Sunset said. Next time I see Maud, I might just kiss her on the mouth...

"I guess that's just what's bothering me about Twilight." Pinkie sighed. "Cause ever since Navi and I broke up I've always felt irrelevant. Every guy that's asked me out since then... well I usually just ignored them, but there were a couple times when I actually agreed to meet them. One called and cancelled at the last minute and never talked to me again. The other I waited on at the restaurant for over an hour before I realized he stood me up."

"I'm sorry to hear that, Pinkie." Sunset said as she raised her glass of wine to her lips once more.

"That's why I was scared to fall in love with Twilight." Pinkie said as she downed the rest of her glass. "Cause I feel like no one can ever love someone as irrelevant as me."

"But, people do love you Pinkie." Sunset said.

"My friends love me." Pinkie said with a smile. "But, nobody is in love with me."

Sunset was quiet after that. She had no idea what to say to cheer up her friend.

"Tonight when I wrote her a message asking to come see me she said she had something more important to do... it made me feel irrelevant and it just proved Navi's point." Pinkie sighed. "She said she'd come see me tomorrow, though and I should have just been grateful for that."

"How did your mirror get smashed?" Sunset asked.

"I got tired of looking at her." Pinkie mumbled. "She always looked so damn sad in that mirror and I'm not sad. I'm happy. I laugh until everything is okay."

"Pinkie..." Sunset had no idea how to respond.

"I'm just so useless, and irrelevant, and broken... and I guess, I was just wondering why Twilight never tries to fix me..." Pinkie said. "She holds me when I ask her to, and she kisses me like she cares about me when I say I've had a bad day, but she never tries to fix me."

Sunset threw her arms around her friend and pulled her large pink head into her chest. "Fixing, implies that something is broken. Twilight probably doesn't try to fix you for the same reason I don't. Because you don't fix something that's perfect." Sunset whispered. "We don't try to fix you, because you aren't broken. You're perfect just the way you are. It's because of how you feel that you act the way you do and it's because of your past that you feel that way."

Pinkie sniffled slightly and stared at her friend with tears in her eyes. "Really?" she asked. "You mean that?"

"Of course I do, Pinkie." Sunset said.

"Tomorrow," Pinkie said firmly. "Tomorrow, I tell Twilight how I feel."

"Really?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah, and if she leaves me forever then I'll deal with it."

"What you said to Rainbow..." Sunset began.

"She just doesn't know what it's like. She's had Fluttershy for a long time, and you can tell by looking at them that nothing would ever drive them apart. I feel bad for saying it though, because no matter how bad Rainbow is, all I can think about is the sweet girl who promised to always be there for me."

"She's hurting right now..." Sunset said. "She'll be better once we catch whoever's been following us."

"Can I have Twilight come here tomorrow to talk to me?" Pinkie asked.

"Of course you can." Sunset said. "My home is your home, Pinkie."

"Thanks." Pinkie whispered. "I should also thank Adagio for the wine."

"Why's that?" Sunset asked.

"I don't think I would have had the courage to talk about everything if it weren't for that." she explained.

Sunset laughed. "Well, then. I guess, we both have to thank Adagio." she said.

"Yeah, but I'm just gonna say thanks, you can sleep with her." Pinkie laughed.

"Don't worry, I will." Sunset laughed.

"Come on." Pinkie said as she pulled away from her friend's embrace. "There's still another bottle of wine and I think we should spend the rest of the day on a happier subject."

"I think that sounds great." Sunset said. "Let's drink 'till it all runs dry."

"Another round, fill 'er up, slam it down, grab a cup, BOTTOMS UP!" Pinkie sang as she found her way to the kitchen.

The girl's spent the rest of the day drinking and laughing and when night fell, both had pleasant dreams. That would be last time for a while that either girl slept easy.