//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Scootaloo's Secret // by Blue Jewel //------------------------------// (In Scootaloo's dream) "Where am I? Mom?" "Hello Scootaloo" "Mom! I missed you so much!" Scootaloo runs towards her mother. Scootaloo's mom disappears,"Mom? Where did you go? Don't leave me please!" Scootaloo begins to cry. "Big sis?" "Rain chaser?" "Where am I why am I bleeding? Why am I dead?" Scootaloo cries "I'm so sorry I didn't mean to hurt you I didnt want this to happen!" "Sis? No I wanna go! I want to stay with you!" Scootaloo tries to hug her little brother but hugs nothing but air. "NO! DONT GO! I'M SO SORRY!" Scootaloo sits up and cries "I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom are talking in the clubhouse. "And then what happened?" asked Apple Bloom "Well she just apologized and ran off." "There's something that filly ain't tellin us." "I know and have you noticed she tenses up when we mention our parents or hers?" "Yea, how com we never seen em before?" Sweetie shrugs "I don't know we'll just have to ask her." Scootaloo runs to the clubhouse, when she gets there she sees Sweetie Belle and apologizes right away "I'm so sorry Sweetie Belle I didn't mean to yell at you. I have been so stressed lately and not getting much sleep, and I've been having nightmares. I'm so sorry!" Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom look at each other. "It's alright I forgive you, but Scoots why have you been acting like this?" "Like what?" Apple Bloom joins in on the conversion "You've been real quiet, distracted, getting hardly no sleep, having nightmares, and yelling." "Yea and how come we never seen your parents." Scootaloo sighs "It's a long story, it all happened when..."