//------------------------------// // Ch. 8 Day 2 Morning. // Story: Scootaloo's Years // by Broneyofnoel //------------------------------// Once Peachy finished crying, she climbed on my back and I flew us to my room, hopefully we'd get there Red. Peachy was on the verge of sleeping when i was in the air, I felt her breath on my fur as the air outside grew colder with the dew finally setting in on the ground below. As the dormitory came within sight, I suddenly felt myself get just as tired as she was. I glided right up to the front door and then I half carried her up the stairs. Once in my room, she laid on the bed and almost instantly fell asleep. I looked over to see that Red's bed was still empty. I moved Peachy over a little and crawled into bed next to her and I looked out of the window: The sky was still dark, but a light blue and pink area was becoming visible on the horizon directly in front of my window. I looked at the clock beside my bed, 4:00 a.m. I laid my head down and, like Peachy, fell asleep almost instantly. i can't remember if I dreamed or not, but I slept for almost 6 hours before I was woken up by a hoof to the nose. I shot out of my sleeping position, only to see Red in front of me, suppressing a laugh with his hoof. "Red! Why did you poke my nose?" i half whispered. "Why did you follow me last night?" Red smiled deviously. My face went pale, and I'm not even sure if my coat covered it, but after a few seconds of silence, I spoke, "I don't know what you're talking about." "Haha Scootaloo, I saw you and Peachy there last night, went in through the roof to avoid the security did we?" He joked. 'What?" i hoped me playing dumb would help avoid the subject. "Scootaloo, you came down to the basement, you watched my last song." He did have a point, and there was not a point of even trying to get out of this. "Okay, we followed you, we just wanted to see where you were going, and we were very very bored." I finally gave up, he wouldn't do anything. "Wasn't so hard now,was it?" He put on a half smile as he looked out the window. "Oh shut up." I teased. "Well, did you at least like what you saw?" Red questioned whilst he headed for the shower. "Actually, I liked all of the things you did underground." I said, hoping not to sound too...ish. "Great, maybe you can some with me next week." He closed the bathroom door and I heard the shower turn on before I could answer. "Yeah, that'd be great." I said to myself, knowing he could't hear me. I spun around to look at Peachy. She was still laying on the bed in the same position as i put her last night. I figured that i better wake her up so she doesn't get screwed by sleeping habits right before school was supposed to start. I walked over to her and nudged her shoulder, she moved her other foreleg to swat me away. "Ooh.." I said, this should be fun. I used one of my wings and slowly edged it to her face. When it was about to touch, i aimed at her nose. Me tickling her nose caused her to very quickly punch herself in the face and fall out of bed,essentially waking her up. Success. She jumped to her hooves and looked at me with the thoughts of sleep still in here eyes. "Morning sleepyhead." I said cheerfully. "Why'd you wake me up? I've been asleep for like an hour." Peachy rubbed her eyes. "You've been asleep for six hours.." I said as a matter of factly. "It felt like only an hour." Peachy said, looking out of the open window. "Tell me about it, i basically carried you home from the cloud." "Thanks Scoots." Peachy said, hugging me. "No problem." I said as we broke the hug. "Well, what do you want to do today?" Peachy asked. "After I take a shower I'm going to see who that mare yesterday was, and then I'm going to go flying." I said, waiting by the bathroom door to take a shower. "Sounds great, I'm going to go to the theatre and catch a couple rehearsals. Once that's over I'll probably just go around the club fair that is supposed to end today." Peachy said, the sleepiness finally starting to leave her voice. "I might go to that too, what do you say, lunch?" i offered. "Yeah, what time?" Peachy said cheerfully. "Umm, let's do 1." I said as the shower stopped. "Okay, Starswirl Student Union?" Peachy questioned. "Yep." Red walked out of the bathroom, he was nearly dry, all except for his mane, which for some reason wasn't dipping water. Red noticed that we were staring and he took the towel laid over his back and dried his mane. "Shower is all yours." He said as i closed the bathroom door. I turned on the water and let the cold stream that Red used turn much warmer for my liking. Once it did so, the water flowed through my fur and mane, dropping my mane over my face. I reached over and put some shampoo in my mane and coat, rubbing it so that I would soon be covered in bubbles. After a few seconds, the amount of bubbles on me showed to be far too little. i rubbed around more and more until there was a near seven feet tall pile of bubbles around and on me. I let the warm water rinse me off and the bubbles away and down the drain. It took almost a minute to them to disappear, and once they did, I turned off the shower. the water stooped pouring and i opened the shower curtain and grabbed a towel. I dried myself off and walked outside of the bathroom. When I got out there Red wasn't there and Peachy was watching the TV above my bed. "Shower is all yours." I said, she bounced out of bed and walked to the bathroom. "I don't have my shampoo." Peachy realized. "You can use mine." I said, "When you're done, close the room door after you leave, I'm going to head to the dance studio." "No problem." She said, then I heard the shower start up. i closed my dorm door and once again, glided down the stairwell and out of the door in the lobby. Today there were hundreds of ponies along the paths and in the noel in the center,many of them either attending or on their way to the club fair. I flew up to cloud level while I was looking for the dance studio. There were dozens of pegasi flying around in the sky, some watching the grounds below, some racing, and some sitting on clouds, talking. Not long after I started flying did i actually reach the dance studio. I walked through the open doors and walked to the information desks and found a 'Know your teacher' pamphlet. I opened it to show seven different dancing instructors. I looked for the black mane, white coat, and golden eyes, yet I couldn't find them in the pamphlet. I flipped over the pamphlet and saw here, Madame Ceili, she was the overall coordinator and year 1 and 6 teacher, great.I set the pamphlet down and walked out of the building. Finding information about her would be easier than i thought. I heard the bell tower from across campus, i listened to the number of chimes it sounded. ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding Eleven, I still had two hours to go around campus before i was supposed to meet Peachy for lunch. I took off and flew towards the skies, looking for something to do. We never did say we would go to the club fain together, I guessed i could go there. I touched down in the middle of the hundreds of ponies who were shuffling around the dozens of clubs. I looked around, there were singing groups, dancing groups, movie making groups, and even groups about sports teams like the Canterlot Colts or The Mustangs. As i walked by one of the singing groups, I saw a larger mare talking to two skinny mares. "You call yourself fat pony?" the leader, and the skinnier one, questioned. "Yeah, so twig bitches like you can't say it behind my back." the larger pony....Fat Pony responded. I continued looking around the large fair, i even saw the marching and concert bands were trying to recruit ponies for their own. I passed most of the clubs with no interest, right up until i saw a club that I figured i would hate so much that i would love it. The FAA spirit club. I decided to sign up without anypony noticing and I walked off to meet Peachy at the theatre instead of the Student Union. In total I had signed up for one club, not bad for a first year here.