I find myself in CHS the next day and see Sonata & Fluttershy are just the only two in the music room, the doors closed and the intercom turned off, like they're isolated from the world, as Sonata took some more singing lessons to make her singing voice better than it used to be before. Sonata was glad to get the help of her new 'family', which consisted of Rhyan and the seven girls who left her feeling at an emotionally higher place than ever before.

I could see she was well aware that when she was with her siren sisters, she never got any help with her emotional issues, so being absent-minded just kinda grew naturally to compensate for the lack of support. It has already been over twenty four hours since she disappeared from one of her classes with a new friend of hers, Sunset Shimmer, but the pain from having to avoid singing at her full potential was hurting her head. Enough to put her off the tacos she is currently eating for lunch.

Having the chance to learn to sing again was exciting to her, but she was soon figuring out, with help from Fluttershy, that there is a more powerful magic than the type her and her siblings had been born with. And it didn't require any magical pendants. Sitting in the Café on Sugarcube Corner, Sonata is thinking about ... Well, mainly just tacos, but also about her voice improving so quickly that it had become her first real secret to hide from others.

Why are tacos so deliciously sweet and spicy? Was one train of thought she had. But why am I hiding my true voice from my friends? Was another, hidden just behind the first one, which then quickly became the more donimant thought.

To some of the others, having a taco inside Sugarcube Corner would be a bit weird, but there was a portable taco stall just across the road, so this time, they all shrugged it off. Mainly the staff members. I could see that some students were still upset with what she had done with her sisters during the musical showcase a fair number of months earlier.

Okay, so things seem a little bit down, but on the bright side, the young girl now has the girls who defeated her as her friends. Her siblings have cut ties with her entirely. Adagio is working somewhere Sonata doesn't even know about, but Aria? Well, let's go see. We make our way to a fashion shop, and through a window opposite, I spot them both.

"Urgh.." Groans Aria Blaze, sitting in her cramped, slightly damaged apartment room with her sister. It is part of a small apartment Adagio managed to get last minute with the last of their cash about a month after the magical battle. "Adagio, why didn't we ditch her sooner?" Laying on her bed, she takes her time typing into a laptop she somehow snagged from a low-end tech store.

Learning to use it had been a bit of a problem for her before, but she was effortless in using it now. Especially since she'd found the history of this world, whichincluded the gems of ancient myths of creatures that this world once might have had. Just out of interest, I take a closer look at her screen and find two of the three Siren stones on display at a museum somewhere about one hundred and twenty nine miles south of Manehatten.

"Because she is our sister, Aria." Adagio replied instinctively. "Even though we were defeated by those girls, she was the first one out of all of us to want to make things right." She looks out of the glum window looking directly at a fashion boutique store.

"Oh, riiight." Aria slowly grumbles, as she check her nails out whilst on her computer. "So I take it you're not looking to do the same thing?" She adds, briefly looking up as her browser logs her into an online website in a new tab. I randomly notice the site name; Manebook.

"Actually, I think our sister, albeit absent-minded and always annoying, does have the right idea, but I still don't know why she did it. OR how we can do it." Adagio half-responds, talking to herself out loud whilst also saying it to her sister. "The thought of food was usually what she thought about. But to pull a switching act on us must mean something..." She trails off, as Aria comes over to the window and stares with her. They continue to gossip about their joint mix of hate and somewhat growing respect for 'The Rainboom's' and their sister.

Both staring out at the shop, unbeknownst to the two of them, Rhyan and Rarity are upstairs, sitting on a small couch together in the upstairs lounge and watching the relatively normal television. I could sense Sweetie Belle was supposed to be asleep, but was on the phone to her friends instead, so I .

Let's take a look. I wonder what they're up to? I write/think/say, as I think about describing what I might see from outside. It's not like I can be seen in their world anyway. I add in afterthought and go to look at them them anyway.

Floating through the walls, I find them watching an episode of 'Frankly Fashionable', a choice made from a quick game of Rock Paper Scissors between the two lovebirds, the winner probably being Rarity, which was apparently discussing the current trends in fashion for the month and was just about to start It's fourth part, after playing some adverts.

Oh, I want to tell Rhyan about earlier, She thought to herself during the final advert segment, as she was leaning into him with slightly droopy eyelids, showing off her 'eggshell blue' eyeshadow just that little bit more. But I also know I have to keep it from him. I also want to know why some of my materials are missing too, but I get the feeling I shouldn't worry. Besides, it's my birthday tomorrow anyway. I hope he has a wonderful present for me. Snuggling into Rhyan a bit more, she softly giggles as he wraps an arm around her, also close to forgetting her previous thoughts from earlier too, right as something funny happens on an advert.

This new secret she has to keep? Well, let's take a look: Earlier today, she was just leaving Rhyan by himself to take a look around the mall to give him a bit of space and to look for something, when she was confronted by Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna. She learnt that he is supposed to be dead from a car crash incident a long time before he turned up. But with the case being closed, the chief of police willingly decided not to do anything about it and to not inform Rhyan of it what so ever.

Anyway, back to the current day, well, late evening. Further down the street, Fluttershy was just finishing with taking the animals to bed with Sunset, whilst out at AppleJack's house, AJ and Rainbow Dash were collecting apples competitively with their powers. Again. Twilight? Well, it depends on which one you ask about. The princess was busy in her world saving some ponies from another friendship problem, whilst the human one is currently studying at Sunset Shimmer's apartment.

Why? Well, it's not just a magical knowledge study night for her. Plus, she's secretly stuck between her feelings for Sunset and Timber, but doesn't know how to approach either of them about it. Let's see, okay, so when Rhyan was admitted many days ago, Rarity had taken to pairing with AJ for her feelings were torn between helping Rhyan and wanting to get closer to AJ. For a lot could've changed, if AJ had admitted to feeling for Rarity too, but something changed in the air that stopped her from saying it and they both silently agreed to help Rhyan out together.

Moving on, heading over to Sugarcube Corner, I find Pinkie Pie baking some birthday edibles for Rarity's birthday tomorrow late into the night. About an hour later, after baking about 14 muffins, 19 cupcakes and 11 brownies, we find Fluttershy talking with Sonata as they pass the front of the bakery where Pinkie's working, waving happily at Pinkie as they passed. Sunset has gone back to her apartment, where Twilight is having her first official solo sleepover with the girl who knows the most about equestrian magic.

Anyway, Mr and Mrs Cake, of whom are currently asleep, including their younger kids, both have an agreement with Pinkie Pie that as long as she's tidy and also cleans up, she has free reign of the kitchen for her party planning. Including their free bedroom for late night cooking. Going inside, I find her cooking after putting the kids to bed, as I notice a few damp footprints heading for the shoe section near the stairs.

"Hello!" She says to a quiet kitchen, with only her in it. "Oh come on, don't be so quiet! I know you're there!" She says to the empty kitchen again, as she twirls a new mixture of brownies.

Um,hello? I think/say to the pink-haired girl, feeling confused. Did she sense me, or was she talking to my readers through me? Ho-how can you hear me? I'm not supposed to be noticed in your world. I add, shocked at the new development.

"There's no need to, silly!" Replied Pinkie, as if she was looking directly at me through my screen. "It's nice to speak with somebody this late at night!" She laughs and stops spinning the spoon to whisper loudly to the room behind her hand. "It's not like I've spoken to myself from a world that I'm actually a pony from before!" She winks, then quickly puts the mixture into a tray, which then went into the oven so she could make a batch of new brownie later on.

I don't think Princess Twilight would be happy with you about that. I inform her warily, knowing the movies, the specials and the shorts all too well, but not saying anything.

"It's fine," She responds, smiling. "It's not like we swap worlds together simultaynee-thingy for a day or two." She finishes as she finally looks down at her cooking and starts humming a familiar song her pony counterpart had sung once about cooking.

Whilst she's humming I'm thinking about what everybody else is doing as they get ready to go to bed as she continues to hum and work on her now cooked brownies. Once the last batch is decorated to perfection, she starts to head for bed as I decide to go and see how Sonata was doing whilst staying over at Fluttershy's for a night.

"HEY! Please don't leave me yet!" Pinkie somehow calls out to me, oddly getting my attention from where she was as I was just at the end of her street. "Where are you going?" She adds quickly, her eyes pleading into thin air somewhere near the counter, just as she was about to start heading upstairs to her temporary bedroom. Which was roughly where I pictured we would see her from.

Uh, I respond, in surprise at how she got my attention like that. I'm going away soo youu can go to bed? I add after hesitating, now uncertain of what to say or think.

"Oh, okay!" She replies, perking up a lot. "If you want to know, I have noticed things happening a lot lately." She says, her voice muffling gradually as the writer hears her make her way upstairs as she gets ready for bed before entering her room. With permission of course.

Okay, you've caught my interest. The writer responds, somehow crossing his arms within his work. What do you know?

"Well..." She begins, sitting on her bed, as she rapidly rattles off the things she's seen.

This goes from what she thinks is the growing secret relationships between her and her friends, including some shipping names.

"Okay, so I don't know why you didn't just let me speak really quickly my way, but I don't care as long as I have a little notepad with all these ship names on it!" She interrupts cheerfully. "Okay, so there's RariJack, which I thought was going to happen until mister red-haired, speedy guy showed up... There's AppleShy, which I think would be adorable.... Oh AppleDash is my favourite, which I think some others would agree on." She flips the page and continues rambling. It's definitely a small notepad if it takes only three ship names to fill it.

"There's also... FlutterDash, which I kinda don't get, as they're exact opposites or whatever." She shrugs, then just says to continue listing the ships, those being TwiSet, Twimber, RariLight, Rarian, and more original or alternative ships that we all know about.

Maybe Rarian could be a thing, after all, it's the most obvious secret couple between all my friends that I've seen so far, well it's definitely above AppleDash and Twimber double dating FlashSet, or was that just TwiSet? Oh Well, those ones are the hardest to predict anyway. She adds in afterthought silently, as she quickly writes these new thoughts down into it on a new page.

Wait a minute, The writer says to Pinkie. I've not-- uh, they've not told you that yet. How did you figure out that Rhyan and Rarity were dating so quickly? I question her, as I somehow give a look of unexpected curiosity with a raised eyebrow. You readers probably would too.

"Eh, kinda just a hunch!" She replies awkwardly, not acting like she'd been caught red-handed but her cheeks glow a slightly stronger, darker pink on her natural light pink colouring. "Wait... Di-did you ree-read my mind or suh-suh-something?!" She adds after a few seconds of realisation, until I convince her that it's okay as long as she keeps it a secret, making her blush rapidly fade away with her smiling, yawning shortly afterwards. "Anyway, I'm pooped. Night!" She quickly falls asleep onto her bed lazily and drops the pad on the floor.

I secretly wonder if she's figured out the link between her and Melody Symphonía yet. But that's for you to think about. Shaking my head, we take a look around and find everybody sleeping peacefully. Well, except for Pinkie's slightly dimension breaking snoring as we look down on CHS.

And yet something was soon to break the peace that only the writer knew how everything was not going to be this peaceful and calm for long.

Especially for Sunset and Rhyan.