Sweetie Belle woke up bright and early. She headed downstairs to make herself breakfast, thinking to herself, “Damn that Sunset Shimmer. I'm in trouble with Rarity because of her. This is all her fault,” as she sat alone at the kitchen table.

Looking out of the kitchen towards a small hallway, she could see that there was light coming from Rarity's workroom. Getting up from the kitchen table, she headed down the hallway towards her sister's workroom and entered. Looking around, she saw her sister was busy at her sewing machine, trying to repair Coco Pommel’s dress.

Getting a little closer as she tried not to disturb her sister's work, Sweetie Belle spied her phone sitting on a nearby end table. Reaching out for it, she heard her sister mutter to herself, “Sweetie Belle, where did I go wrong with helping to raise you?” Sweetie Belle looked at her sister for a few seconds as she thought she could see tears falling down her sister's cheeks. Sweetie Belle picked up her phone and headed back into the kitchen. Once there, she placed her phone into a cabinet under a plastic bucket, then headed upstairs.

A few moments later, with her eyes dried and her tears spent, Rarity came out of her workroom and entered the kitchen. Rarity called out, “Sweetie Belle, it’s time to go. I don’t want you to be late for school.”

“I’ll be down in a minute. I just need to finish brushing my teeth,” Sweetie Belle called back.

Rarity opened up the cabinet that Sweetie Belle had hid her phone in, took out a few tea bags, and put them in her purse. Sweetie Belle came down stairs just as her sister was shutting the cabinet door, thinking to herself as she watched Rarity move from one cabinet to the next, “Please don’t find my phone.”

Rarity went to the refrigerator, taking out her lunch and her sister's. Handing Sweetie Belle's lunch over to her, Rarity said, “Put your lunch in your backpack and put on your boots. I will meet you outside.” Rarity headed for the door after placing her own lunch into her backpack and walked outside, leaving Sweetie Belle alone in the kitchen.

Quickly opening up the cabinet door she had hidden her phone in, Sweetie Belle was relieved to see that her phone was still there. She had just enough time to stuff it into her coat pocket before her sister came back inside. Watching Rarity carefully, Sweetie Belle saw her sister head back into her workroom and return a few moments later, saying, “Do you know where your phone is, Sweetie Belle? I thought I placed it in my workroom last night.”

“Uh, no. You took it, so you should know where it is. Are you telling me you lost my phone?”

Looking at her watch, Rarity frowned, saying sternly as she opened the front door for her sister, “We don’t have time to search for it now. Get your boots on, and let's go. We will look for it once we get home.”

“Fine, whatever, but if my phone is broken after you lost it--”

“You had better not finish that sentence, young lady! Now stop fooling around and get your boots on so we can go,” Rarity snapped back.
Sweetie Belle complied without further protest, slipping her boots on and heading outside. Rarity walked out as well, locking the door behind her. She was about to head down the sidewalk to join her sister but stopped about halfway to the sidewalk, saying to her sister who frowned back to her, “Did you remember to grab your set of house keys before heading out, Sweetie Belle?”

Sweetie Belle felt her pockets, then shook her head when she realized that, in her rush to get her phone and get outside without being caught, she left her keys on the kitchen counter. Rarity closed her eyes and began to count from ten to one. Once finished, she turned around with a slight huff, headed back inside, and returned a few moments later with the extra set of keys. She handed them to Sweetie Belle, saying, “What would you have done if I had not been home to let you in and you completely forgot your keys?”

“I would have headed to Rainbow's house and waited there until you came to pick me up.”

“Right. Now let's go. We are going to be late.”

“Fine, whatever.”

Fifteen minutes, later the two stood waiting at the bus stop. While they waited, Rarity reached into her purse and took out her Pony phone, plugged in her ear buds, and started listening to classical opera. Sweetie Belle stood next to her, stewing in her anger towards both her sister and Sunset.

Twenty minutes slowly went by before the pair found themselves entering the school's main doorways. Sweetie Belle raced ahead towards her locker, much to her sisters irritation. After putting her things, away she took out her phone, looked around to make sure her sister wasn’t nearby. She set it to record and silenced it. Once done, she headed for the cafeteria.

Getting to the cafferata a few moments later, Sweetie Belle quickly found her two friends sitting at their normal table. She confirmed that it was recording, slipped it into her pants pocket, and approached the table.

Sitting down, in front of her two friends, Sweetie Belle said to Apple Bloom, “Alright, before I agree to help either of you out, I have some conditions to make clear. But before we get to that, I want to know a few things first.”

“Like what?” asked Scootaloo. “You already know that Apple Bloom and I are Anon-a-Miss and that we're using MyStable to post everyone's secrets. What else is there to know?”

Sweetie Belle took a soft, quick breath. “I want to know why you both did this. I'm doing this because Rarity doesn’t pay any attention to me at all. The only time I get to spend any time with her is when I'm being used as a model for one of her,” Sweetie Belle shuttered slightly, “dresses. Don’t get me wrong, I think she has some pretty good Ideas, but I don’t like having to wear them all the time.”

“Well, because o' her, m' sister skipped sister night, and Ah also want Applejack back in m' life. Ah don’t like that Applejack makes me do so much work around the farm yet is never around when Ah need her for somethin'. She's always spendin' time with Sunset.”

Scootaloo looked down at the table in front of her, “I'm doing this because Sunset made my sister forget about my swim meeting. Because of that, I got kicked off the team.” Looking back up, Scootaloo saw a confused look on Sweetie Belle’s face. “I'm not gonna talk about it, Sweetie Belle.”

“Alright, I guess that's a pretty good reason. Now, on to my conditions. One, I want you both to hand over whatever you have on my sister, and I mean everything.” Sweetie Belle looked from Apple Bloom to Scootaloo as they both nodded in reply. “Two, once Sunset is no longer friends with our sisters, you need to shut down the site, no ifs, ands, or buts about it. I only want to see her lose her friends. That's it. Three, you will not post anything about my sister other than what I've already given to Apple Bloom. If you do, then we're not friends anymore.”

“Alright, we agree to that.” Apple Bloom smiled. “Ah have the video and the photos ready for you ta look at. Pick out which ones ya want me to post, and Ah’ll post them. Ah'll also give you the password to the Anon-a-Miss account.”

“Good. Now let me see what you have, and I'll take it from there.”

After spending ten minutes looking through the photos and the video, Sweetie Belle said with a slight smirk on her face, “Go ahead and post everything you have. But remember, any further pictures of Rarity need to be cleared by me first. I don’t care what you post about the other students as long as you clear what you want to post about my sister first.”

Both Apple Bloom and Scootaloo nodded in agreement. “Oh, by the way, Sunset isn’t here today,” Scootaloo said, grinning. “Rainbow came home last night and told me she had some...issues at the mall. Between that and her past, she's pretty much done for.”

“I see," Sweetie Belle replied. Turning to Apple Bloom, she said, "Alright, Apple Bloom, give me the password and let me use your phone so I can test it.” Seeing the confused look on her friend's face, she quickly added, “My sister has my phone on lock-down since I'm grounded for the next week.”

Apple Bloom handed over her phone, told Sweetie Belle the password, and waited for her to sign in. A few seconds later, Sweetie Belle signed in, then smiled to herself as she handed the phone back to Apple Bloom after signing back out.

“Thanks. Now, I need to go to class. I’ll see you both at math class today.”

Sweetie Belle got up and headed out of the cafeteria and down the hallway. Once she was sure her two friends were not following, she took out her phone, pressed the stop button, and then signed back into MyStable. It took only a minute or two for her to change the password. Taking a quick breath, she called Apple Bloom’s phone and waited for her to answer.

Looking at her phone, Apple Bloom scrunched her eyebrows together tightly as she said with a confused look on her face, “Why in the world is Sweetie Belle calling me on her phone? Ah thought Rarity had hers on lock-down.”

“Well, you better answer it to see what she wants. And to find out why she lied to us about not having her phone,” Scootaloo replied, also a bit confused.

Holding the phone up to her ear, she said, “Hey, Sweetie Belle. Why're you calling me with yer phone? Ah thought yer sister had it on lock-down.”

“And she thinks it's still somewhere in the house. Listen, while we were talking, I recorded what you each said to me. I also changed the password to MyStable. Now neither of you can go back on your word to me. This is the price that you both are going to pay for threatening my sister. And if you try to take my phone from me, I'll simply send this to Principal Celestia.” It wasn't missed on Sweetie Belle that if she did so, she, too, would be in trouble for her part in the Anon-a-Miss account. “So, you either do as you're told when your told, or you both will be in the principal's office, got it? Now, I need to go. Hope you two have a nice day, now.”

When Sweetie Belle hung up, Apple Bloom gave Scootaloo a very worried look as she said, “We are in so much trouble, Scootaloo.”

“Uh, why?” Apple Bloom replied with a confused look on her face.

“Because she recorded everythin' we said. If that gets out, we're in big trouble. We have no choice; we have ta do what she wants us ta do.”

“Great, so now we have to worry about Sweetie Belle turning us in!?” Scootaloo exclaimed, her eyes going wide. “I don’t believe this! If you hadn’t threatened her sister in the first place, this wouldn’t have happened.”

“Ah know that!" Apple Bloom shot back her eyes slowly widening. Looking down she continued. "S... what do we do now?”

“We change the pass--” Scootaloo suddenly had a look of realization wash over her face like ice-cold water. “She wanted the password so she could change it. That little traitor!”

“Look, for now, we hafta do what she says, at least until Ah can think o' somethin'.” Apple Bloom replied holding up her hands.

"Well, you damn well better figure something out and figure it out soon! We can't let what she recorded on her phone get out!" Scootaloo shot back with anger clearly showing in her eyes "We'll be done for if she sends that to Principal Celestia or to Vice Principal Luna."

Apple Bloom got up and headed out of the cafeteria, followed by Scootaloo, neither of them knowing what to do. They each headed to their own classes and waited to see Sweetie Belle again during math class.

Rarity was just getting into her own class when her phone chimed out, “Incoming call.” Taking out her phone, she quickly answered it, getting Sunset's voice on the other end.

"Hello, Rarity"

“Hello, darling. How are you doing today?”

“I'm...doing well. I think. Listen, I won’t be in today. Can you pick up my homework and ask the others to do the same for me, please? Just give it to Pinkie and ask her to take it to Sugarcube Corner when she comes in to work today.”

“Of course, dear. I do hope you feel better. Rainbow told me about what happened. If you want to talk, I’ll be there for you, darling.”

“Thanks, Rarity. I need to go, though. Bye.”

Rarity hung up her phone and started the rest of her day, all while thinking about Sunset. During most of her day she went from class to class, collecting Sunset's homework and making sure her friends did the same. By the end of the day, she had six assignments ready for Sunset to work on while she was out. Pinkie took the assignments in her backpack and bounced along the sidewalk happily, looking forward to seeing if Sunset was really feeling better, while Rarity and the rest of the girls all headed home.

Sweetie Belle smirked to herself, which quickly fade when Rarity turned to her, saying, "When we get home, I want you to get your homework done, then come downstairs so we can talk."

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