When did it all spiral into chaos...?
When did I get so embroiled in blood and death...?
When did it become something else...?
Oh, right...it began back then, didn't it?
That night...
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Sunset sat on her bed; legs hugged against her chest as she stared out the window. Snow had fallen across the city of Canterlot, and reflected white into Sunset's room, not that she could sleep much. Winter break was almost over, in fact, today was the last day. A new year was on the horizon, but it was already marred with bad omens. The flame haired girl sighed heavily, she continued to stare out into nothing, she knew she had to leave her bed, but honestly, she didn't feel as if she had the energy to do so.
She glanced over to her right, spying the terrarium she bought for her pet lizard, Ray. The heat lamp shined on the little lizard, allowing him to rest peacefully on top of a rock. "At least one of us is sleeping well."
Sunset's sleep had been less than peaceful lately, nightmares plagued her every other night about CHS, the environment had become toxic, and thanks to the efforts of this mysterious Anon-A-Miss, she had become the target of the hate and malice that this online fraud had conjured, just as they wanted. Whoever was behind it obviously had a grudge against Sunset, on the one hand she couldn't blame them, Sunset wasn't exactly the nicest person a few months ago, and while some had started to forgive her, Sunset didn't doubt that there would still be some who couldn't.
Christmas has come and gone, and just like before, like all those other times before, she was alone. Just when she thought that the girls were ready to bring her into their lives, to treat her kind of like...family, it all came crashing down and shattered into pieces.
"Friends are supposed to have your back, to believe in you when no else does..." Sunset gripped her arms hard as a small bout of anger rose inside her. "Some friends, didn't take much for them to turn on me and – stop it!" Sunset took a deep breath.
She couldn't think like that, they were her friends. Still could be, if she could figure out who Anon-A-Miss was. A soft trilling sound drew Sunset's attention, she looked to her left and saw that Ray was awake, his front claws pressed against the glass as he looked upon his owner with a sad face. Sunset smiled at her little lizard friend as she opened the terrarium and let Ray crawl up onto her arm. Ray made his way to her shoulder and nuzzled the side of her cheek.
"Thanks, Ray, but you shouldn't stay out of your home for too long, it's too cold for you without the lamp, even with my body heat."
Ray trilled again and shrugged as if saying, "I don't care."
Sunset smiled and then laid back on the bed, now staring up at the ceiling as she felt Ray crawl his way atop of her chest. If the lizard wasn't a lizard, Sunset would've thought the reptile was copping a feel. Sunset had her phone on the bed and opened it, going through her contacts to see if any of the girls had even tried to text her. No surprise, there were none. She then checked the MyStable page of Anon-A-Miss and narrowed her gaze, there had been no new posts since the break, but Sunset was certain that they would come flooding in sooner rather than later once school started again.
As she scrolled through them, she could see several comments from the students of CHS who were either cussing out or outright threatening harm, of course, they all thought it was Sunset, so the comments all had her name in them. And as predicted, Anon-A-Miss never commented back, it didn't help that the profile picture was a silhouette of her, it was so obvious a ten-year-old could figure it out, which was another frustrating aspect of all this.
