Sour Sweet closed the door behind herself.

"What the fuck is she doing here?!" Lemon Zest all but shrieked.

"Settle down, Lemon." said Hope.

"Settle down? Settle down?!" said Lemon. "I told you everything I went through with her, she comes in here...and you want me to settle down?!?"

"Lemon." said Sour.

"How far out of your way are you willing to go to make my life a living hell?" said Lemon, tears streaming down her eyes. "I confess my feelings for you, and you reject me in the worst way possible!"

"Lemon." repeated Sour.

"You spite me after I blow up on you by telling the goddamn Principal about my confession!"

"Lemon!" said Sour.

"You and I then proceed to beat the crap out of each other in not one, but two different locations! I'm going to have nightmares of blood on my hands for years!"

"Lemon!" Sour had begun shouting.

"And top it all off, now you've gone and told Radiant MOTHERFUCKING Hope?!" Lemon shrieked.

Sour Sweet slapped Lemon straight on the face.

Lemon Zest resisted every urge she had to punch Sour as hard as she could. She had made a promise, after all. She looked straight at Sour.

"Listen to me for one fucking second, okay?" Sour said, tears running down her face. "I said this ends today. On a field of my choosing. Not once did I mention on that note that I wanted a fight."

Lemon put her hand to her mouth in shock.

"I came here...to say I'm sorry." said Sour.

"You're...sorry." Lemon said, flatly. Seconds seemed like small eternities as silence hung in the air. The tension could be cut with a knife. Lemon broke the silence. "You're...sorry?" she repeated. "You're sorry?!" her voice rose in volume. "After everything you've put me through, all you can say is you're sorry?! That's not going to cut it, Sour Sweet, and you fucking know that!"

"Of course I do, Lemon Zest! You think I don't feel guilty for everything I've done?!" Sour's voice cracked. "Nearly all my life, I've been without not just friends, but family ! Do you have any goddamn idea what that's like? To see all these people around you with the happiness you wish you had??" Tears of her own started flowing. "I felt so bad for what I've done...all this time. The 'sour side', I guess you could call it...is a coping mechanism. It's the anger, frustration and hatred from all of the loneliness I've gone through."

Lemon stared at Sour. "Well that doesn't surprise me. I know you harbor all those emotions towards me."

Sour sniffled. "No, Lemon Zest. It's not you those emotions are aimed at...it's me."

Lemon gasped.

"This coping mechanism of mine has gotten me in a lot of trouble...I didn't mean to hurt your feelings that day, but the sour side just came out. After you ran off, I burst into tears. Truth be told, I was flattered and I really did think it was sweet...but after what happened that day, I couldn't forgive myself. I just kept on using the sour side to vent my frustrations. Then when you blew up at me on Friday, something inside me snapped. I went over to Principal Cinch and told her about your confession."

"Well I know you told her..."

"I'm not done!" said Sour, tears still streaming down her face. "I let myself cry it out during the fight, hoping you'd think those tears were tears of physical pain, and not...emotional. Even if the whole school was watching. Then when I saw you with Twilight..." her voice cracked. "I really was jealous, Lemon Zest. I was jealous that you had a friend to help you. You had someone to come home to. People who love you!" she sniffled. "Your mother was kind enough to try to help me, and what did I say in thanks? My sour side came out and said 'I don't need your pity!" and I walked home. Alone. With nobody and nothing waiting for me except for a nearly empty house with holes that I've punched in the walls. And you know what? After the fight...when I walked into the house..." Sour began sobbing. "I...I'm sorry. I need a minute." she ran over to Radiant Hope and started bawling into her chest.

Lemon stood in complete shock. She had never seen this side of Sour Sweet before. Lonely. Vulnerable. Sad.

After a few minutes, Sour Sweet had calmed down, but she wasn't done crying. "After the fight...when I walked into that house...alone. I was so stricken with guilt that I just couldn't live with myself anymore. I...I was this close!" Sour Sweet put her thumb and her pointer finger so close to one another that the slightest movement would cause them to touch. "To just ending it all that night." she sobbed again. "I had nothing to live for. No family...no friends...nothing. Even the memory of how you got Twilight Sparkle to help you out didn't change my mind. It was set, and I was going to go through with it."

Lemon stayed on the couch, at a total loss for words.

"But then, one thing stopped me. The one thing that nearly drove me to suicide pulled me out of it. My sour side's voice echoed in my head...it said...'Don't be a dumbass, Sour Sweet! Nothing's worth killing yourself over!' I thought I had snapped. Here I was about to kill myself, but I ended up arguing with myself. 'Is it?' I asked myself. 'Oh for fuck's sake, girl!' yelled the sour voice. 'You need to make a friend!' and that's all it took. I set up this meeting between you, me, and Radiant Hope to finally get some closure on this whole back and forth we've been having. Not just for my sake...but yours, too."

Lemon blinked back tears, fighting a dam that was going to burst any minute. "If that's true...then I have just one question."

"Yes?" asked Sour, having a feeling she knew the question already.

"Did...did you ever have feelings for me?" asked Lemon.

Sour gave Lemon a sad smile. "I'm sorry...I didn't. But I still want to be your friend."

"I...I'll take what I can get." said Lemon Zest, and she ran over to Sour Sweet.

Both of them hugged each other tightly, bawling over the closure they finally had.