Frightening Little Details

by FlutterDash777

The Truth About Sweetie Belle

-The Truth About Sweetie Belle

With her face buried in Rainbow's brightly colored mane, Scootaloo suddenly felt like life around her had stopped. Her heart felt as if it had ceased to beat, and she could no longer hear Rainbow Dash's comforting whispers. Her eyes were blurred by the tears that were pouring out of her, but at the same time, they felt to have stopped as well.

Time had completely put itself on pause for a moment in time as Scootaloo finally realized what had just escaped her lips.

I....I.....I love her, Rainbow Dash!!! I love her!!!

Those words echoed through Scootaloo's mind. They wouldn't stop circling around her. She couldn't escape it.

Had she really just said that? Out loud? To Rainbow Dash?

She closed her eyes tightly as the world was still on hold. She couldn't feel or hear anything anymore. Everything had left her. She was in Rainbow's arms, but for some reason....she felt so alone.

"I....love her....?"

Memories began to cloud Scootaloo's mind. Haunting her.

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School days were always boring, and Scootaloo hated it even more because of the fact that she had yet to receive a cutie mark. Almost everypony in her class had one now and she always felt so left out....and occasionally...stared at.

She would usually roll her eyes or something, but truly it really did get to her. She couldn't stand it. It just didn't seem fair to the little filly and for that very fact, she began to cut class.

Scootaloo knew that it was really a bad idea, but for the past few weeks now, she had been able to do it without ever being caught. Cheerilee must have thought she was out sick or something, but whatever it was running through her mind, she didn't seem to be paying Scootaloo's absence any mind. Any mind at all.

This was very convenient for the filly anyways. It was much easier to get away from school without the teacher calling Rainbow or Fluttershy on her. Of course, it wouldn't be so bad if she had called Rainbow Dash, but if Fluttershy found out....Scootaloo knew it would be bad. But so far, she had been getting around pretty well without any obstacles.

The little pegasus walked along the dirt path that she had walked so many times before. She had practically learned it like the back of her left hoof and she considered it her own little place. It was where she was able to get away from her classmates that is. If she wasn't around them, with all of their shining cutie marks, then she felt pretty good about herself. Just the fact of being around a bunch of fillies her age with their own cutie marks just made her feel sick. At least when she was alone she didn't really have to think about it, or most importantly look at it with her own eyes.

Scootaloo found a nice place under a tree and sat her little flank down. She hadn't been walking long and she usually would go further down, but for some reason she had this feeling that told her to stay there. It wasn't really that it was a scary feeling or anything like that, besides, Scootaloo wasn't scared of anything. But she just felt like she should listen to her instincts for a change and just stay put.

She looked up to the sky and sighed. She wished she was able to fly, that way she could just hang out in a cloud or something, but she knew she wasn't yet able to accomplish something like that unfortunately, but she would await that day when she would finally be able to lift herself up with her wings and fly around just like Rainbow Dash.

This thought brought a smile to her face. It was really the nicest feeling she had had in a long time. Usually she would have lots of time to herself to think now that she spent so much spare time walking around the outskirts of Ponyville. Nopony was there to bother her or distract her. She had no school work to worry about, and really, she just enjoyed the time alone with just herself. She never really had that kind of time on her hooves anymore now that she was living with Rainbow and Fluttershy. She would have thought that they would like to have alone time together, but they didn't seem to care too much where they were whenever they decided to have that "alone time".

This thought made Scootaloo stick out her tongue. She was still trying to get used to the whole lovey dovey mother thing going on at home. It wasn't really the fact that she had two mothers, but it was more that it was just embarrassing to watch them be so sweet to each other. Scootaloo wasn't sure what it was about older mares and stallions and love. She could only shiver at the thought of her being that way someday. Loving somepony.... Gross!

Scootaloo shook her head and tried to rid herself of those thoughts. Love was really not her thing. She just didn't understand why so many fillies were obsessed over it. Finding true love and stupid stuff like that. She would rather be out rolling in mud or something....really, she would.

"Who needs that kind of stuff anyways?" Scootaloo chuckled to herself. It was a silly thing to be so excited over. She just wished that everypony would see it her way.

The filly laid her head down in the soft grass underneath her. She poked at a particular stem as if she were intrigued with it, but really she was just insanely bored.

"Maybe I should go back to school tomorrow...." She let her thoughts exit her lips as she talked to herself.

She turned up her brow in consideration, but soon dropped her head down again and scrunched her nose.

"Nah.....School sucks." With her final decision, Scootaloo rolled over on her back and looked up to the bright sky above her head. Clouds were rolling by so peacefully and a cool breeze was running through her mane.

She couldn't help but let herself smile a bit. The sun felt so nice on her fur as she closed her eyes and began to relax all of her muscles.

Her nose wrinkled upwards and she began to toss around. She couldn't help but let her earlier thoughts start to cloud her mind once again. It was making her uneasy just thinking about it. Somepony to love....

"Yuck..." She turned back over on her stomach and pushed her hooves towards her eyes. She tried to knock all of those thoughts out. She just couldn't enjoy herself while thinking about stuff like that.

Her ear flicked at the sound of a crinkle behind her. She turned her head slowly, but nothing was there to see as she thought. Probably an animal or something.

She turned back around as she tried to relieve herself of the constant thoughts. Nothing seemed to be working though, she just couldn't shake it from her. She just couldn't think about anything else.

Her ear flicked again. This time, she didn't bother turning around.

She dug her hooves into her face and began to groan. Now all she could think about was the way that Fluttershy and Rainbow would kiss in front of her sometimes. It was just too brutal to think about, how could they even do that to her? She began to toss and turn about now. Her groans grew louder as her thoughts began to grow stronger and more annoying.

Wouldn't you like to have your own special somepony?

NO!

Scootaloo buried her face in the ground as she struggled with the mental fight against her own self.

Once again....her ear flicked. Scootaloo was already irritated enough. She turned around with an angry face. She knew that there would be nothing there, just like the other times, except this time....she was wrong.

A little filly was standing there before her eyes. Scootaloo instantly noticed every single detail about her without even thinking about it.

She had huge green eyes. White fur. She was a unicorn. Her hooves were delicate. Her mane was curly and parted two different ways. It had pink and purple swirled around in each her mane and tail. She was so small, yet she was barely smaller than Scootaloo herself. She had no cutie mark, and a small grin was on her face.

"H-hey?" Scootaloo quickly jumped up from where she was laying. Her heart was racing for some reason. She thought maybe it was because of the fact that somepony had finally seen that she was not in school when she was suppose to be, but really.....that wasn't what it was that was bothering the pegasus....it was something else....something....more complex than that...

"Hi!" Her voice squeaked. It was enough to make Scootaloo take a few steps back.

Somepony to love....

Scootaloo's eyes grew big as she stared back at the unicorn. There was definitely something wrong here. There was definitely something wrong indeed. Scootaloo had never felt this uneasy around any other filly before. In fact, she had never felt this uneasy around anypony before, not even Rainbow Dash herself. This was strange. This was not right. This was.....No! That would be too weird....too coincidental....too.....much....

"What's wrong with you?" The filly looked over with her huge green eyes. Scootaloo could tell that she was moving closer to her.

Her heart was aching now. It was as if....it was breaking....

"N-nothing..." She tried to look away, but she couldn't. The unicorn was luring her in somehow. She just couldn't move away from the approaching filly.

"My name is Sweetie Belle!"

"Oh..."

"Just...oh?"

"I mean.....I'm Scootaloo."

This was getting awkward. Really, very, truly awkward....

"Why are you here?" Sweetie Belle finally stopped moving forward as she was already almost muzzle to muzzle with Scootaloo.

"I....uh...why are you here?"

Sweetie Belle looked down and smiled.

"Maybe we are both here for the same reason."

Scootaloo could hardly breath now. She was just too close to her....too close...

Sweetie Belle looked over on Scootaloo's side. The pegasus took another step back as she noticed where her eyes were.

"You don't have a cutie mark?"

"Well....neither do you..."

Sweetie Belle lifted her head again. Her smile was now fading.

"I guess you're right."

Scootaloo wanted this to end. She just wanted to turn around and run away from this strange filly. Something was just not feeling right and it kept getting worse and worse it seemed.

"Are you going to Diamond Tiara's party?"

Scootaloo looked back up with confusion now.

"H-how did you know I go to her school?" Scootaloo was starting to get down low.

Sweetie Belle smiled again and giggled a bit.

"I've seen you before."

"O-oh..." Scootaloo turned her face away again.

"Well....are you?" Sweetie Belle brought back the question.

"No."

The silence began to kick in now. Neither Sweetie Belle or Scootaloo said anything now. There was really nothing to say, so why was Sweetie Belle trying to keep the conversation alive between her and Scootaloo? It wasn't as if she had any interest in her, she just met her officially just now. So why was she being so pushy?

"Will you reconsider?"

Scootaloo's eyes grew larger as she turned to the unicorn that had broke the silence. What did she even mean by that?

"What....why?" She was starting to feel a bit more comfortable around the filly for some reason. Her words were coming out much clearer now.

"I....I want to go, but....not alone." Sweetie Belle turned to show her blank flank. Now Scootaloo finally realized what was going on. This pony only wanted to use her to get into that stupid party just because she was a blank flank too. Scootaloo had never felt so angry in her life.

"Why would I want to go with you?! I'm not going to let some loser use me to get into stupid Diamond Tiara's party! If you want to go so bad, quit being a stupid baby and go by yourself!" Scootaloo turned her head and began to storm off in the opposite direction.

Usually, Scootaloo wouldn't feel bad about doing something like that to some other pony, but for some reason, she was feeling hurt now. Her heart wasn't pounding against her chest anymore. It was definitely breaking now.....shattering into a million pieces inside of her chest.....but.....why?

"Wait!"

Scootaloo stopped in her tracks. She didn't want to turn around and face that filly again. She just couldn't look into her green eyes another moment, she just couldn't.....But......

"What?" Scootaloo turned her head back to Sweetie Belle who had now caught up with her.

No words were said as Sweetie Belle grew closer and closer to her.

"Please....it's not that....."

Scootaloo's eyes narrowed. What was going on here?

"Then why?"

"It's because.....because....."

Sweetie Belle moved closer and closer. Scootaloo could feel her heart beginning to pick up pace again. This filly was crazy!

The unicorn was now inches away from Scootaloo. She moved even closer and brought her little arms around the pegasus. Scootaloo didn't know what was going on, but for some reason, she wasn't sure if she wanted it to stop or not because she truly liked the way it was feeling.

Sweetie Belle rested her head against Scootaloo's orange shoulder and squeezed against her back tightly as she brought her fur closer to that of Scootaloo's.

The pegasus could feel her hot breath run down her neck. Her heart was throbbing now.

"I......I love you."

Scootaloo's eyes grew beady as Sweetie whispered those words into her ear. She had never heard anything so sweet, so pure, so lovely in all of her life. They chimed together like a beautiful music piece that somepony had composed from the very depths of their heart. It was the sound of the purest love Scootaloo had ever witnessed in her life. She wasn't sure if it was the fact that she had only witnessed Fluttershy and Rainbow's love herself, or the fact that this love was including her. Was it because she could feel it for herself? Was this really the feeling that ponies in love feels?!

"From afar....I have always watched you....I knew....that we had something in common....and it wasn't just that we don't have cutie marks.....it's something else....something different. I think maybe....we share a bond. I think that we....were made to love each other."

Scootaloo couldn't take this feeling anymore. It was too overwhelming. It was too much to take in.

She jerked herself away from Sweetie's grip.

"Love......?" Scootaloo stepped further and further away from the filly.

"Please....don't leave me now.....I've....wanted to say that for a long time...."

Scootaloo wasn't sure what to say. She didn't know whether or not to be scared, or happy. She was completely dumbfounded, however, she found herself moving back towards Sweetie Belle and embracing her once again with a force that she had never felt herself have before.

"Ok."

"Ok what?"

"Ok. I will take you to that party."

Comments

[Bad_Seed_72]

Soooooooo cute! But part of me thinks this second section was a dream. Wait, no, it must be a dream. It has to be...

[FlutterDash777]

2919792 Nope. It was a flashback...so it really happened

[Bad_Seed_72]

2919914

Oh wow... So Scoots is now realizing what Sweetie meant...

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I demand more of this. MORE!

[BronyLance57]

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That was so adorable!

[FlutterDash777]

2920280

[Shepard of Peace]

Now if this were anything else, then Sweetie Bell's confession might be really creppy.

Just sayin'.

[Brakyo]

Now ain't that a nice change of feels?
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but if Fluttershy found out...

Yeah, you get The Stare!
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be able to lift herself up with her wings and fly around just like Rainbow Dash.

Somepony to love.... "Yuck..."

Aw, come on Scoots, don't you want...

"From afar....I have always watched you..."

My Little Stalker?

[lillytheomegawolf]

Huh...didnt see that coming.

It was a cute read and i can understand that it is a flashback, but it was a tiny bit odd how Sweetie comes in so stronly loving Scoots and all of a suden Scootaloo just kinda turns around and goes the friend track, despite how strong the love theme was.

Oh well, when you release the next chapter, I'll defiantly read it as I wonder where this is all leading and how such a flashback ties into the story in the present.