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Son of a bitch...

I can still smell her...

I run out into the hall, chasing after her. I stumble over my own shorts. She's fast...

I pull my shorts up and sprint as fast as I can for the stairs. I hear doors opening behind me, but I don't care. I'm down the stairs...

The front door is open...

I hear a motorbike gun to life. Just as I reach the door, I see the red afterglow of a taillight speeding away.

"Flash?"

It's Twilight.

Oh god, it's Twilight...

I run back upstairs, barely making it to the bathroom, and kneel over the toilet. I almost don't get the seat up before I start throwing up.

I've just vomited for the third time when Twilight comes in behind me. "Flash? Flash! Are you alright?"

I bend my head over the bowl and vomit again.

"What's going on?" Twilight asks.

I can't answer...all I can do is vomit.

"Was...was it Eris? Was Eris in your room again?"

"What's going on, you two?" Luna asks behind Twilight.

"I think somebody broke into the dorm," Twilight says. "Flash looked like he was chasing somebody, then he ran back up here and started throwing up..."

"I'll call the police," Luna says.

"NO," I say. I stand up, wiping my mouth, and flush the toilet. "No," I say more calmly than I feel. "What...what just happened...it doesn't leave this dorm."

Luna frowns at me. Twilight looks worried.

I take a deep breath. I can't stop shuddering...

"Sunset Shimmer was here. In the dorm. In my room." I swallow heavily. "I...I woke up, and she was...on top of me."

Luna frowns. "Sunset Shimmer was trying to...what, strangle you in your sleep?"

I shake my head.

Twilight's eyes widen. "She...she didn't..." She covers her mouth.

I nod.

Luna's frown deepens. "Wait. Are you saying...Sunset Shimmer...assaulted you...sexually?"

I nod again.

"Oh my god," Twilight says.

Luna shakes her head. "I'm calling the police."

"No," I say. "I don't...I don't want this getting out." I run my hands through my hair. "The absolute last thing I want is this getting out."

Luna sighs.

Twilight takes a step closer and puts her hand on my shoulder. "Flash..."

"How did Sunset Shimmer even get into the dorm?" Luna wonders. "It's locked at night..."

Twilight gasps. "Oh no..."

I take a deep breath. "Look...Vice-Principal Luna..." I swallow heavily again. My mouth still tastes like bile. "If...if this gets out..." I sit down on the edge of the tub. "If this gets out, it's going to ruin everybody in this dorm. You know how screwed up our school is. Me, Twilight, the girls...we'd never have another minute's peace."

Luna frowns.

"And..." I continue, "and...I don't want...I don't want to give her the satisfaction. She did this...she did this to hurt Twilight. She's trying to hurt Twilight through me. If...if anything happens that...that gets tongues wagging..."

"Flash," Twilight says softly. She's crying now.

Luna nods gravely. "I understand," she says. "I don't agree at all, and as an educator, I don't have the luxury of ignoring something like this. But..." She swallows heavily. "You have to understand...I'm aware there was an assault in this dorm this night. I can't ignore that. As long as I have that knowledge..."

I take a deep breath. I get where she's going with this.

"Nothing happened here," I say. "I had a bad dream, I freaked out. I threw up...I probably ate something that didn't agree with me. I'm sorry I got everybody worked up over nothing."

Luna stares at me, eyes hard and expression grave. "And you're absolutely certain that's the truth?"

I nod.

Luna sighs. "Alright." She turns to leave. She pauses and looks back at me. "In the morning, I want you to talk to Nurse Cadance. ...about your stomach. And...you should stay home from school today. Until your...stomach feels better."

I let out a heavy sigh. "Thank you," I say.

Luna returns to her room. Twilight stares at me. "Are you insane?" she asks. "You're just...you're just letting this go?"

"No, I am NOT just letting this go," I say. "I'm protecting us from this." I look at her. "After every other fucked-up thing we've survived this year...I can survive this. And I refuse to let that smug, conceited bitch think she got the better of me." I shake my head. "She's not worth it, Twilight. We...we need to focus on what's important here."

"Flash, you getting...getting raped is pretty fucking important!"

"Okay, yes, it is! But I'm more concerned with how she got in here. And why." I stare at Twilight. "You know that little video Mephistopheles threatened us with?"

Twilight gasps, eyes wide. "Oh no..."

"Yeah. I think Eris...I think Eris was putting together another little bomb to drop on us." I sigh. "That, or she's just messing with us, Sunset Shimmer is a sick freak, and none of this has anything to do with Zodiac at all." I shake my head. "Either way, the fewer people who know what happened tonight, the better." I bury my face in my hands. "I just don't...want this getting out," I whisper.

Twilight is quiet for a long moment. "Alright," she says. "I...I think I understand." She sits down beside me and puts her arms around me. I don't know how long we sit there, but eventually I decide to take a shower. Twilight goes to my room to strip my bed down and change the sheets. After my shower, I go back to bed.

Daytime

I ate breakfast in my room today. Twilight told me she told everybody else I was sick. I do my schoolwork from the dorm today and try not to think about what happened last night...

Evening

Twilight brings me dinner in my room. "Are you feeling better?" she asks.

I sigh. "Yeah."

Twilight frowns. "Sunset sat at our table again today. I wanted to tear her throat out." She sighs. "You should have let Luna expel her."

I shake my head. "This doesn't go any farther than you, me, Luna, and Cadance."

"Alright," Twilight says. She hugs me. "I knew Sunset Shimmer was a petty, vindictive bitch, but...I never expected anything like this..." She sighs.

I finish eating dinner in silence, Twilight sitting next to me.

"Going to school tomorrow?" she asks when I'm done.

"Yeah."

"Good." Twilight toys with the hem of her skirt. "Umm..." She looks uncomfortable.

"Hand me my guitar," I say.

Twilight gets up and grabs my guitar. I tune it and strum something melancholy and soft. Twilight sits and listens.

When I'm done, she puts my guitar away. I lie down on my bed. Twilight slides onto the bed next to me; I wrap my arms around her and hold her.

The gentle rise and fall of her chest and the familiar smell of her hair helps me get to sleep...