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// Chapter one. Simple beginnings 
// Story: Memoirs of an earth pony 
// by remsaman 
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My story starts a long time ago. Back to my earliest memories, i can only remember from when i was about five years old, everything before that seems like a blur.
I was a small colt, only about 2 feet high. Or at least i felt small. i never knew any other colts my age.
I have a light milky chocolate coat, with a dirty blonde mane. my muzzle seems rather rounded, but not pudgy.

My mother was a unicorn, and my father was a pegasus. I liked my father more, but he was never home... he always had to work...

Enough of descriptions.

When i turned five years old, my mother told me i was going to kindergarten. I didn't want to go, i hated being away from my parents more then anything at the time. I kept making excuses, like i was "sick". or "the other foals will make fun of me." and giving my mother the 'puppy dog' face. If that didn't work, i sulked in my room and refused to leave. 
Now that i look back, i wasn't the best foal my parents hoped for.
It didn't help that we lived far from any towns.

My house was in the middle of the bush in the Neighstralian outback. Neighstralia is a province still ruled by Princess Celestia, and still part of Equestria, but run by a pony elected every four years to be the prime minister, who is under direct command of the princess. Its rather hot, but I've grown to deal with it.

"Now come on Scrolls, its time for kindergarten" My mother tried as hard as she could to put on a caring voice. But i knew she just wanted me gone.

"Muuuum.... I don't want to..." I pulled my blanket over my head and pretended not to hear her. She gave a sigh and levitated me out of bed, combed my mane and tail, and put my saddlebag on. "Oh come on... no fair!" She only replied to this with a small snicker.
"Time to go sweetie. Come on, ill walk you there." she nuzzled me a little bit, much to my embarrassment.
The walk was a long one, but it was rather nice. Usually whenever i leave the house my father lets me ride on his back to the shops. On the way, i tripped on a rock and hurt my knee. It hurt so much, i sat on the ground for what seemed like forever, screaming and crying in pain. My mother tried moving my hooves away from my leg so she could get a good look. It was bleeding, I hadn't seen blood before, so i yelled even louder. I didn't know what it was, i didn't like it, and it scared me a lot. My mother tried calming me down, holding me and hushing me. I stopped making so much noise, but i was still crying.
She pulled out a bandage from her saddlebags,(she never goes anywhere without her first aid kit, as she was a nurse and we lived far from town) and wrapped it around my leg, once she was done she hugged me tight
"does that feel better?" she asked in a voice only a mother could, I nodded. "good. Now lets get going or we might be late." she gave me a kiss on the forehead, i started following her again, somewhat limping.

Once we reached the kindergarten, i was immediately overwhelmed. There were lots of colts and fillies playing around with each other, and their parents conversing about things. I never liked large crowds, so i hid behind my mother. I kept following her closely into the large sky-blue building that lay in front of us, inside were a few parents with their children, talking to each other or signing forms. My mother walked up to a deep maroon mare behind a desk and started talking about something, I couldn't hear her. Some fillies started looking at me and laughing, so i buried myself in my mothers long tail, which surprised her a little bit, but she resumed talking.

i kept myself hidden under her tail until she finished talking and signing a form, and she was on her way to the exit.
She stopped, bent down to me and said "I'm sorry sweetie... but i have to leave... Ill be back soon, i promise. But please try to make some friends..." she kisses my forehead and separates me from her tail, gives one last wave and walks out the door. Needless to say i was rather lost. I didn't know where i was, what i was supposed to do, or how long she would take till she came back. I was on the verge of tears until the maroon mare came up to me,
"Hello little one, My name is Miss Pomegranate, what's your name? she sounded nice and sweet, not barbaric and mean like i thought she would.
"S-scrolls..." I stuttered, it was my first time talking to somepony without my parents nearby, needless to say i was extremely frightened.
"That's a cute name. Say scrolls, why don't you come over here and ill introduce you to some of the other colts" I reluctantly agreed, and followed miss Pomegranate into the yard. She led me over to two colts playing in the sandbox, one was a dark grey pegasus with a sleek white mane, the other was a sapphire blue unicorn with a parted light blue mane
The pegasus looks up at me, and looks back down at his small sand castle. The unicorn gives me a grin "Hi there!"
Miss Pomegranate whispers something into the unicorns ear, then gives me a smile and walks back inside.

The unicorn stands up and walks up to me "Hi! My names BlueBell!" he extends one of his hooves
i place my hoof against his and lightly shake it "uh... hi.. i'm Scrolls.."
"Nice to meet you Scrolls! A shy one are you? That's okay! come sit down!" without even asking for consent, he nudges me and i fall on my flank in the sand. The grey pegasus looks up and gives me a look i wasn't comfortable with.
"Um... could you please stop looking at me like that..?" I ask him politely. He immediately looks back at his sand creation and starts moving some sand around. BlueBell looks up at me
"Oh don't worry about Greymarch, he doesn't talk. He does take some getting used to though, but he is a nice pony."
I looked up at Greymarch "Hi there... nice to meet you.." I stuttered for a moment, but he looked up and smiled at me.
"Gee scrolls" Bluebell prodded my bandage, i recoiled. "that looks like it hurts... are you alright?"
"y-yeah... ill be fine... just don't touch it please."
"Of course!"

Eventually the time came to go home, and my mother was waiting at the gate for me. I ran up and tackle hugged her squeezing as tight as i could.
"Whoa! Looks like somepony is glad to see me!" she nuzzles me a little "Did you enjoy yourself sweetie?" I gave her a huge smile and nodded. "And did you make some friends?" I nodded again and pointed towards Greymarch and Bluebell, "That's great! Now lets go home, If you like you can come back tomorrow!"
"yes please!"

That night, I told my mother and father about everything i did at kindergarten. My father said he was proud of me. and i couldn't stop smiling for the rest of the night. I went to sleep soundly, assured that my life would get better from then on.

Or so i thought.