Book four of "Who We Become".
After discovering the magic of friendship, Sunset Shimmer's senior year was one of the happiest times of her life. But it's been almost two years since graduation; all her friends have moved on to studying abroad, to pr...
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Staying in bed should have been easy. There's really nothing to it; all one has to do is not leave. Given a comfortable enough bed and sufficient motivation, it's one of the easiest things in the world. Sunset had both, but unfortunately she also had certain things making it more difficult. Two of them, to be specific, but one at least had the decency to wait in the doorway. The other proved more persistent and, for some reason, wouldn't accept her groans as an acceptable answer.
"Sunset, come on, you don't want to keep everypony waiting, do you?" Fluttershy asked.
Sunset buried her head under a pillow.
"Sunset, please..."
She moved the pillow just enough to be heard clearly. "There shouldn't be anypony waiting, because I said I didn't want anypony to come."
Fluttershy sighed and half climbed onto the bed. "I know, but that's just silly."
"Come cuddle me."
Fluttershy smiled a little. "If I cuddle you for a bit, will you get out of bed?"
"Nope." Sunset reached out and attempted to grab Fluttershy, but she moved out of the way. "Come on, you're supposed to be nice to me today."
Applejack cleared her throat and Sunset could hear her hooves against the floor as she walked over. "Do ya mind if I give it a shot?"
"Sure, but she can be pretty stubborn."
"Oh, I know." Applejack walked over to the bed, so Sunset huffed and turned to face the other way. "Sunset, if ya don't get outta this bed, I'm comin' in after ya."
Sunset snorted. "Yeah, 'cause that's gonna happen. You'll have to try better than – Applejack, what the fuck!"
"I tried askin' nicely," Applejack said, as if that was enough to justify her jumping on to the bed with Sunset still in it. She was standing over her with one of her back hooves digging into Sunset's flank, and her head looming over Sunset's. "Now get your ass up, or I'm gonna drag ya out myself."
Sunset gritted her teeth, holding back her impulse to start yelling at Applejack. "Okay, fine. But how do you expect me to get my ass up with your fucking hoof pinning it down?!"
"Huh? Oh, sorry." Applejack shifted, but she moved the wrong hoof, and wound up stepping on Sunset's hindleg.
Sunset screamed.
Applejack backed up, falling onto her flank. "Sorry!"
If nothing else, she had succeeded in getting Sunset to sit up. She was attempting to perfect the ability to kill a pony by glaring as hard as possible, but she was sitting nonetheless. "Okay, I have a few questions. First off, what the fuck? Why are you even in my bed? And why are you stumbling around it like you don't know how to use your own hooves? Since when do you even use the word ass? And seriously –" she gestured to Applejack's dress "– what the fuck?"
