The Life of a Broken Pegasus

by TimeLord_Whooves


New Friendship

Scootaloo was standing alone in the park, her eyes gleaming with the reflection of the moon. Cloudwhisp walked closer to her, drawn closer by a desire he had not felt before. She turned to him as he got closer, her mane flowed softly in the light breeze.
“H-hello Scootaloo, what are you doing here?” Cloudwhisp said nervously.
“I’m waiting.” she said simply and smiled.
Cloudwhisp looked at her questioningly and asked, “Waiting for what?”
Scootaloo turned and walked over to a pond. She gazed into it and said, “I’ve been afraid.”
“Afraid of what?” Cloudwhisp asked completely lost as to what was going on.
“Of what might happen… if I say something.” she answered, closing her eyes and sat down beside the pond.
Cloudwhisp walked over to her and said, “You aren’t thinking of telling somepony my secret are you?!”
“No, I promised I wouldn’t”
“Then what are you afraid to say?” Cloudwhisp asked, getting frustrated by Scootaloo’s cryptic behavior. “Come to think of it, who are you afraid of telling… whatever it is you want to tell them?”
Scootaloo looked up at him, he could see their owner’s conflict in them. She stared at him for a moment then quickly turned her attention back to the water. “I’m afraid of him getting mad if I told him.” Scootaloo said quickly.
“Who get mad at what? What are you talking about?” Cloudwhisp asked in a tone of concern.
“You.” she said, her eyes started welling up with tears. “I’m afraid of you getting mad.”
Cloudwhisp put his hoof on hers. “Why would I get mad at you?”
Scootaloo looked back into Cloudwhisp’s eyes, his heart skipped a beat. ‘She’s so beautiful.’ he thought to himself.
“You’ll just get mad.” she said as she looked at her hooves.
“I’ll be mad if you don’t tell me.” Cloudwhisp said, raising his voice a little.
Scootaloo winced at his tone and turned her head to look up into the night sky. Cloudwhisp nearly fainted from the beauty of the stars glinting in her eyes.
“I- I love you!” she yelled suddenly and kissed him.
Cloudwhisp closed his eyes and melted into the kiss. Scootaloo broke away and ran, tears streaming from her eyes. He stared at her, dazed from the kiss but started to chase after her.
A loud knocking sound rang through Cloudwhisp’s head, Scootaloo was getting blurry. The knocking grew louder and Scootaloo, the sky, all of his surroundings faded to black.
Cloudwhisp jumped up, the knocking at his bedroom door becoming louder by the second.
“I’m up, I’m up.” he called through the door.
“Hurry and get ready for school.” his mom’s voice called through the door.
Cloudwhisp sighed, ‘what was with that dream?’ he thought. He reached his hoof up to feel his lips, the sensation of the dream Scootaloo’s kiss remained on them. He shook his head and grabbed everything he needed for school that day and walked downstairs to have breakfast.
When he got to school he saw Scootaloo talking with her friends, she saw him and gave him a half smile before returning to her conversation. Cloudwhisp stood there unsure of what to do, he could feel his face burning. He decided to just walk into the class and take his seat.

It was after school, everypony was heading home. Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom and Dinky talked as they walked each other home.
“I’ve been wanting to ask all day, why did you decide to not wear your bandages today?” Apple Bloom asked Scootaloo, staring at the little bit of wings that Scootaloo had.
“Well, I thought they were looking better and those bandages are so uncomfortable.” Scootaloo replied.
“Well, I guess they look a little better.” Sweetie Belle said, unsure.
Scootaloo sighed, “If it’s bad to look at then I’ll just keep wearing the bandages.”
“It doesn’t look too bad.” Dinky said. “If you don’t like wearing the bandages then you don’t have to wear them.”
Scootaloo smiled at Dinky. “I don’t want ponies to give me strange or disgusted looks, I’ll just keep wearing the bandages, thanks though Dinky.”
They reached Dinky’s house at the edge of town. “Good bye Dinky, see you tomorrow.” Scootaloo, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle said as Ditzy came out and hugged Dinky.
The rest of them continued on towards Sweetie Belle’s house, talking as they went. They dropped her off and continued to Scootaloo’s silently, they both ran out of things to say.
As they reached Scootaloo’s house she saw Cloudwhisp waiting on the corner facing the library. As they reached Scootaloo’s house Apple Bloom called out to Cloudwhisp. “What are you doing here?”
Cloudwhisp turned to them and looked at Apple Bloom cautiously. “I’m waiting here to see if I can’t see Rainbow Dash, I recently heard she lived around here.” he said quickly.
“What are you looking for Rainbow Dash for?” Apple Bloom asked.
“I’m a big fan.” he answered simply.
“Well she doesn’t live here, she lives over by Sugar Cube Corner.” Apple Bloom lied.
Cloudwhisp looked at the ground and started walking towards the bakery, stopping once he was out of sight of Apple Bloom and waiting. Apple Bloom watched as he walked away, turned to Scootaloo and made sure she got inside in case he came back. She said a quick goodbye and walked off to her home.
Cloudwhisp slowly walked back to the corner he had been waiting on before. Scootaloo stepped out of her house and greeted him nervously, unsure if he was going to be nice or not.
“Sorry about turning up like this, I didn’t want the others to know that we started talking. After I’ve been so mean to you, I don’t know what they would do and I don’t want you to lose your friends.” Cloudwhisp said, looking at his hooves.
“It’s okay, you can show up whenever you want to talk.” Scootaloo said with a smile. “If you apologized to me in front of them then they wouldn’t do anything, they would probably even be your friends too if you wanted. They’re as trustworthy as me.”
“Then why did Apple Bloom lie to me and make sure that I wasn’t going to be mean to you?” Cloudwhisp asked sarcastically.
“She was just protecting me because you haven’t apologized, she thought that you were going to be mean to me again.” Scootaloo replied hotly.
“I-“ he looked down at the ground again, thinking. “Right, sorry.”
Scootaloo sighed and asked, “So what do you want?”
“I just wanted to talk some more.” Cloudwhisp said, looking up at her.
‘She’s just as beautiful as in my dream.’ he thought. He shook his head vigorously, ‘No, keep those thoughts out of my head. I’m just being friendly, yes, friendly.’
“So…” Scootaloo said, giving him a curious look. “Anything you want to talk about specifically?”
“I wanted to ask you, how did you become Rainbow Dash’s sister, everypony knows that she doesn’t have parents so how?” he asked.
“Well, it’s a bit of a story and it’s kinda hard to talk about still.” Scootaloo said, giving the ground a sad look.
She invited him inside and made them both some tea before she began telling him of the day the dragon attacked. He listened to the story tentatively, his expression growing sadder as she spoke. “And after the funeral, Rainbow adopted me as her sister. We lived in her cloud home before the accident.” she finished calmly.
Cloudwhisp looked at her, tears in his eyes, and gave her a tight hug. Scootaloo jumped, taken aback at his sudden burst of emotion. She patted his head with her hoof and let him cry into her mane. She didn’t think it would make him react like this…
“Scootaloo, are you home already?” came a voice from the front door, Rainbow had just gotten home.
Rainbow walked into the kitchen to see Cloudwhisp crying into Scootaloo’s mane and gave her sister a questioning look. Scootaloo shrugged at her and said, “He asked how we became sisters, so I told him about the day the dragon attacked.”
“But how did you end up like this?” Rainbow asked walking over to them.
“He just jumped at me and started crying.” Scootaloo replied.
Cloudwhisp wasn’t paying attention to the two talking, he just kept on crying. ‘To think, I made fun of her so much and that’s what she went through? I’m such a horrible pony!’ he thought to himself.
“Hey, Cloudwhisp was it?” Rainbow asked him. “We are going to have dinner soon, you can join us if you want.”
Cloudwhisp looked up at the clock when she mentioned dinner. He needed to get home soon or his mom would be mad.
“No, I have to get home.” he said hurriedly. “Thank you though. See you tomorrow Scootaloo.”
“See ya”
He ran out the door and headed home, tears still in his eyes.