Life at the homing building was hard. There were always chores to be done and the small amount of free time that you would get was spent trying to catch up on chores that you hadn't finished. That is unless the parents didn't ever pay any attention to you. It was a rare occasion to even see them worried about one of the colts of fillies that they were responsible for.
Luckily for Scootaloo, the parents never paid any attention to her no matter the cause. Hardly anypony ever paid her any attention because every pony felt that she was useless since she hadn't even gained the ability to use her wings. The parents never even introduced her to the adult ponies looking to adopt as they didn't feel she was worth the time of those who wanted to adopt.
There were days when Scootaloo wasn't able to get to her friends, when she was left alone, when she had no one to talk to. Scootaloo had no roommate unlike all the other fillies and colts at the home. She would sleep alone, eat alone, and do everything alone. She had no one to talk to but herself in the mirror. Everything in her life seemed pointless sometimes.
Some of the fillies even teased her about her lack of ability to fly. They would constantly antagonize her for what she lacked. Sometimes, they would even go as far as pushing her into mud and puddles.
But today, Scootaloo was laying on her bed, crying to herself about the new kinds of teasing that Silver spoon and Diamond Tiara had came up with. She cried because they called her a blank flank. While Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara had only recently gotten their cutie marks, they still felt the need to bully Scootaloo over her lack of one.
Her heard fluttered against her chest as the door opened. She thought to herself over the possibility of being adopted. Her dreams were soon crushed as the only pony that entered the room was another young pony like herself. He had an icy blue coat and a teal mane with a white strip dominating the middle portion. A tear ran down his cheek and the parents chuckled to themselves about their newest inmate. His wings fell to the floor as weariness set in from what was probably a long night.
" We are so sorry to have to put you in a room with her," The female parent said as she pointed a targeting hoof to Scootaloo. She shrunk back from the insult," But we have no other choice as their isn't any room elsewhere." Her words were bland, betraying her attempts to sounds as if she cared. " Now i'll just leave you two to get to know each other."
The male dropped the colts saddle bags on the ground and the door slammed shut behind him, causing the colt to jump slightly. After a moment to make sure that the two devils weren't returning, he moved to the nearest empty bed to him. That being the only one in the room as there were only two.
He pulled a sky blue coat out of his bags and spread it out on his bed. Once placed, he jumped up to it to find a comfortable position to lay down.
Nearly an hour had passed before the silence between the two was broke by Scootaloo. " So whats your name?" She asked.
He flipped himself to make eye contact with her. He quickly reverted back to his original position before making any sounds to address her question.
" My name is Ice Drop."
" Cool," She said, " I'm Scootaloo. Nice to meetch'ya!" He didn't respond to her and again, the room fell victim to the silence they had recently broken.
Soon enough, Ice Drop got up from his bed and moved to the window. The cold had fogged the glass but little flakes of snow could still be seen falling from the sky. The entire time, he could see Scootaloo's curious eyes following him. He lifted himself to have his two forelegs pressed against the window.
Scootaloo, still observing, looked down to his bare flanks. " Hey! you don't have a cutie mark!"
" You make that sound like a good thing."
" I wouldn't say it's a good thing but I don't have one either." Scootaloo adjusted herself so the Ice Drop could see her flank. He took a quick glance and looked back to her face.
" So you don't. Then why do you say such things so enthusiastically."
"'Cause me and my friends made a group called the cutie mark crusaders. None of us have our cutie marks either."
" Sounds interesting. Now, if you would excuse me I am going to get out of here."
" What do you mean! You can't leave."
"Why not?"
"B-b-because i've never had anyone to talk to here." Her ears folded back and she gave him the best puppy eyes she could muster.
Ice Drop pulled up on the window while looking at Scootaloo with a dull expression only to find that the window was locked from the out side." Um... d-don't worry, i'm not going to leave you here."
" Great, I want to meet all my friends. We wont be able to get out of here till tomorrow morning so we may as well get to know each other."
"That depends on what you want to know."
"Well, what do you like to do?"
" I don't know, i've lived alone since I was like, three."
" WOW, how did you do it?"
" Scavenging."
"What did you eat?"
Ice Drop looked off to the side "Thats not important. What time is it?"
" Its like, ten, why?"
" It's a good time to call it a night. Don't you think?"
"No."
"Well I do. Goodnight." With that, Ice Drop flew over to his bed and faked sleeping. Trying to fool her into thinking that he was asleep.
She, however, was not ready to sleep. This resulting in the constant blabbering of a filly who was bored out of her mind.
....
The next morning around eight o' clock the parents walked in to wake up Ice and Scootaloo. " Wake up you two, long list of extra special chores to do." Scootaloo was already awake, being unable to sleep for ten hours straight, while Ice Drop was still fast asleep at his bed. The male parent started ringing a bell which he held in his mouth and Ice Drop started to mumble and shift around in his bed.
After Ice Drop had woken up the parents left the room. He took the opportunity to plop down in his bed and get a few more hours of sleep. Scootaloo ran up to him and started to shake him with her fore hooves. Her hooves turned cold as she made contact and she quickly pulled away from him. " Don't touch me." He said bluntly.
" Hey, you got to get up! I want you to meet my friends." Scootaloo inched closer and pounced up and on top of him as she yelled, " Get up!" Ice Drops body shot upward into Scootaloo. His snout pushed up against hers as did the rest of his body against hers.
" Don't. Do that." Scootaloo started making faces as the chill from Ice Drops body caught up with her. " That'll probably hurt later..." he said. " But you have woken me up so lets go meet your friends before I fall back asleep."
" One second, what ever you did to my nose is making it really cold."
" Oh yeah," He chuckled, " Like I said, don't touch me."
....
Once Scootaloo had gotten all the things that she wanted to take to the clubhouse, they were ready to leave the homing building that they were staying in. . Right out the door and snow was in piles all down the roads. Ice could be seen at the bottom and bright lights seemed to be dancing in the area around them.
" Oh man, good thing we can fly or we would be walking through all of this." Ice drop said as he spread his wings an started to flap when he heard Scootaloo speak up.
" Oh no, were walking."
"Why?"
"Beee-because I just like to walk through the snow."
"Ok. Whatever. I'm not going to wade through all of this." Ice Drop took to the air above Scootaloo.
....
An hour later, the duo had arrived at the club house where two fillies were waiting for them. Scootaloo introduced them as Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. " Well howdy y'all. I hope you didn't tire your selves out on the way here 'cause we've got crusadin' to do." Scootaloo was panting in the corner of the room.
" She didn't want to fly here for some reason." Ice said. The two looked over at each other and giggled. " I'm obviously being left out of something."
Scootaloo panicked and started to make faces at the other two fillies from behind Ice Drops clearly telling them not to say anything.
Sweetie Belle took her first turn to speak," Anyway, I think it's time to get to crusading."
" I'm not going Crusading. I will get some breakfast, than i'm going back to the orphanage to go back to sleep. Ten hours of sleep, geez, how can you ponies live like that." Ice drop took off through the window before anypony could intervene.
Apple Bloom looked over to Scootaloo. " So, ya haven't told him yet have ya?"