Scootaloo was not happy when it came to December, normally she would love this time of the year but it was a sore spot for her and her two friends Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. It was around the time when the previous year they had concocted a stupid scheme to frame Sunset Shimmer for a cyber bullying social media account known as 'Anon A Miss'.
Her friends hated the memory of it as well, but for her she felt she had the least reason to go along with the stupid plan. She didn't have a sister like the others who was spending too much time with Sunset (in her minds). True she looked up to Rainbow Dash but it was hardly the same.
She had been avoiding her sister' group of friends, especially Sunset who had been trying to talk to her when they realised how down she was feeling. She felt like she didn't deserve this concern or pity.
Scootaloo had gone to the Sweet Shoppe and noticed the only table at the moment that seemed to be almost empty was with this black haired boy with a blue hooded jumper who seemed to be her age. He looked to be a few years younger and she hesitantly walked up to him and asked "is this seat taken?"
"Sure, if you want to sit here and contemplate this pathetic excuse that we call life then go ahead." The boy told her flatly and she was confused at this. Nonetheless she sat down next to him.
After a minute of awkward silence she decided to ask him "So can I ask your name and why are you down at this time of the year?" the boy shook his head but he decided to answer.
"Max and I was sent here to stay with relatives so my folk could spend their holidays without the kid they don't want around." The boy stated just as flatly as before and Scootaloo paused at his answer. Then they sat for a short time.
"Aren't you going to ask me why I am down?" Scootaloo asked looking at him and he just looked unconcerned. "Well I will tell you anyway, but thanks for asking..." Scootaloo told him sarcastically as she then told him of Anon A Miss.
Max listened realising she just wanted to vent her troubles but just raised an eyebrow at the end of her story. "That's it? That's why you want to be sad?" Max asked shaking his head to Scootaloo's confusion. "Don't get me wrong, what you and your friends did was terrible but I have no reason to be on a moral high ground over you. You and your friends seem like decent folks who had a horrible stupid thing but paid for it with the knowledge not to try it again, I have done way worst."
Scootaloo looked at him oddly and Max glared at her as if silently telling her to stop it. Max then decided to clarify "look I am a bleak brat who felt like optimism and idealism are wastes of time. During the summer my folks sent me off to summer camp with the main camp counsellor being this guy called David. He had been nothing but nice and cheerful around me, trying and failing to have me have fun in the stupid awful camp. The only things that made me bear it were my two friends and messing with him and the other campers. He was a lot more innocent than your Sunset Shimmer and yet I have tried to kill him, messed with his Tinder profile, I have done everything I could to utterly destroy him and his way of life..."
"...I am suddenly very afraid of you right now..." muttered Scootaloo in fear wishing she was facing Sunset and her friends at the moment.
"You should, I can be pretty rotten but the point is... you are nothing like me. I have done far worse than what you have done. I have accepted when I have gone too far and tried to make up for it. Talk with your friends or something if you want to think of what you did." Max told with a sigh and Scootaloo gave him a slightly grateful smile.
"So what summer camp did you go to?" Scootaloo asked and Max gave a smile as he explained. "Camp Campbell? Isn't that the camp run by a criminal scam artist who got arrested for running a dodgy summer camp?" Scootaloo asked as Max just gave her a dark laugh.
"Campbell is a real piece of work, done much worse than any of us could hope to do. He is a real piece of..." Max started only for Sunset Shimmer to enter through the doors. Scootaloo's eyes widened when she noticed her and Sunset then saw them at their table.
Sunset went and got Scootaloo's arms and Max's eyes widened when he saw her eyes flash as if magical. "She has a magical gemstone that gives her mind and memory reading powers through touch." Scootaloo then explained and Max got a little bit of an evil smirk.
He found a plan coming up...
"So you are stewing over Anon A Miss? Scootaloo, I have made peace with what happened so..." Sunset told Scootaloo with concern only to nice Max who had his arms crossed and looked down and sad. "Is this your new friend? Hey little guy, why are you so down..." Sunset told him sympathetically as she got his arm.
Max's smirk returned as Sunset's eyes flashed and she stared at him in shock as she then ran out of the Sweet Shoppe with her arms up in the air screaming in horror. "What on Earth were you thinking of?" Scootaloo asked not really wanting the answer.
"Just thinking of what my friends and I had found when we first went to his place called Spooky Island. Its burned in my skull so its burned in hers as well." Max laughed as he then got up. "Want to let cockroaches loose in the local boutique?" Max asked and Scootaloo knew that she should have said no.
But still she could do with some fun and it might do her some good to get over her moping about Anon A Miss, besides she had Max to take most of the blame for the idea.