Scootaloo stepped nervously up the path to her school. She had finally gotten away from her father ,who believed that he was being a good parent by sending away his daughter for an education. A decision Scootaloo supported greatly.
But when she stepped onto the school yard, she hid under her mane as all the ponies turned their heads towards her. She didn't want to deal with what they would say. The orange filly knew that they would approach her and tell her how they feel bad for her. She didn't even want to know what ponies like Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon would say.
"Scoots?" A southern accent asked. Scootaloo spun around to see Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle looking at her.
"I know what you're gonna say. I just want to be alone right now." Scootaloo said.
"Are you sure?" Sweetie asked sympathetically.
"Yeah i'm positive." She nearly angrily snapped at them. They both backed away from her in fear of provoking her into anger.
"Man, I need to chill out" she said to herself. She sat and began to breath in and out to calm herself. The sound of hoofsteps got closer to her and she opened her eyes.
"Scootaloo are you going to be okay today?" Ms. Cheerilee asked.
"Yeah I'll be fine." Scootaloo said quickly. Hoping that Cheerilee would leave her alone.
"Okay but if you-"
"I said I'll be fine!" Scootaloo snapped. Cheerilee understood her and the anger and backed off.
The bell rang a few minutes later. Scootaloo stumbled in to the class room and quickly took a seat at her desk. Her head resting on her hoof as she stared out the window as Cheerilee began the lesson for the day.
"Settle down class. Today we will be learning about genetics and how parents pass there looks from pony to pony." As she finished her statement, she looked over at Scootaloo, who had already shown no interest in the lesson. Cheerilee worried at first until she saw Scootaloo staring at the window without interest.
"OK so first off we-" Cheerilee was drowned out by Scootaloos thoughts.
She thought about being free. Not from this school. No she loved it here. She could get away from her father. But what she was really thinking about was Rainbow Dash, her mother. Despite her father yelling into her ear that she wasn't her real mom, she believed that the term mother goes to those who care and love you for their life.
But a tear nearly formed in her eye at the thought of her not being her mother anymore. Who in there right mind would take her away from her mother. Scootaloo had grown up with that mare right at her side. What was a comforting place to rest her head turned into some smelly old shed that her father lived in with mattresses.
"You see class. Somepony may have the look of their father, yet inherit lets say he wings or horn of their mother." Cheerilee said. Paying no attention to Scootaloo who had been lost in her thoughts.
'Just shut it already.' Scootaloo thought. It wasn't that she hated Ms. Cheerilee or the way she was teaching. It was just the thought of hearing about parents and how she was gonna be forced to share the same pelt color as her father. The pony that shamed her and her Rainbow Dash and made fun of Derpy in the courtroom.
"Not all ponies just look like one parent. Someponies can look like just their mother, just their father or a mixture of both." Cheerilee pointed out to the class.
"Oh just shut up." Scootaloo called out. But when she realised what she said, it was to late.
"See me after class Scootaloo." Cheerilee said as she went back to the lesson.
Scootaloo sunk into her seat and tried to ignore the comments from other students.
"Mommy?"
An older pink mares head shot up in fear. She never wished to tell her little daughter about the truth.
"What is it?"
"How come I have to go with daddy? I want to stay with you." She said with tears in her eyes.
"I don't know why. I want you to stay too." She said. Tears forming in her eyes that she fought desperately to stop from spilling from her eyes.
Just as the little filly was about to speak again, a voice of a stallion called. "Cheery, it's time."
The voice echoed through the house. But for the mare, it rang in her head. It was time to say goodbye to her little daughter.
"Okay. I want you to be brave for me Cheery. You be good." She looked in the little fillies eyes and tried not to burst into tears. Cheery failing to do so and ran up and hugged her moms leg.
"I will for you mommy." She wailed.
As the mother and daughter held each other, the stallion that called to them approached the two and bent down to the filly.
"The carriage is outside. We're leaving." He said.
"NO! I want to stay with mommy." The little filly cried out.
"But mommy can't take care of you. I can." The stallion said to her.
"Cheery. You need to let me go.'' The mare said in tears.
"NO!" She wailed. The mare instead walked down to her porch with the filly clinging to her legs.
"I don't want this as much as you do." She said to the crying filly.
"But why?" The filly wailed.
"Because thats the rule."
"Now give me her Cheerilee." The stallion said to her as he held out his hoofs.
Cheerilee raised her hoof that the Cheery clung to so she wouldn't leave her mothers side. The stallion took the crying filly and took her in his hold.
"I'm sorry it didn't work out between us." Cheerilee said sadly.
"I wish there was another way. Oh well. Maybe if our paths cross again." He said lightly.
"Maybe. I would love to see my daughter again." She said as a tear dropped from her eye as the carriage left.
"Look I know that I had an 'outburst' but I don't see the reason that you have to hold me in after class." Scootaloo protested as she stood at the front desk.
"Would you rather go home to your father." Cheerilee asked.
"No." Scootaloo said simply.
"Look, I called you in to tell you that I know what you're going through." Cheerilee said with a hoof on Scootaloos shoulder.
"You were separated from your mother when you were my age?" Scootaloo said.
"No. I was the mother that lost her little filly. My husband divorced me years ago. Since laws go towards those of stallions, I lost her."
Scootaloos ears fell flat on her head. "I'm really sorry miss Cheerilee." She said.
"Don't be. I don't even think you were born when it happened."
"But that still doesn't say why i'm still here?"
"I'm just calling you here to tell you, if there is anything you want to talk about then let me know. I'm here for you." Cheerilee said as she looked at Scootaloo.
"Thanks miss-"
"There you are." The door swung open to reveal Scootaloos father standing at the doorway.
"Sir. You shouldn't just burst in here like that and expect me to-"
"Shut it you dumb broad. I'm just here for my kid." He said angrily as he walk over and grabbed Scootaloo. It seemed like she was yanked away by her hoof and out the door.
Cheerilee stood there dumbfounded at what she saw. A stallion like him had no right to raise such a sweet filly like Scootaloo. She knew what she had to do.
"Now to contact the court and Rainbow Dash."
[A/N] One more chapter. Yes there are five on purpose. Been a while. Well I got sick while watching the first Balto movie so I got paranoid.