//------------------------------// // Roller's Mother // Story: Twins from Afar // by MomoMonster //------------------------------// It had been one day since Roller video chatted Scootaloo. She was filled up with joy,but she still had to tell her mother. Roller was doing her homework,"45x5=x"she mumbled. As she started figuring out the problem the door creaked opened and a special pegasus came in. "Mama!"Roller exclaimed. Roller ran over and hugged the purple furred pegasus. Lilac Wing,her mother,take off her rain hat off her magenta mane.Which had a purple stripe in the middle. Roller mother's icy blue eyes had tears dripping out. "What is wrong Mama?"Roller asked with concern. "We are in debt sweetie.I'm only making 15 bits per hour, that doesn't pay all the bills,"Lilac Wing sighed. "But don't you have three jobs?"Roller asked. "That doesn't give us enough money still.To help your mom out can you run a lemonade stand everyday after school?"Lilac Wing asked. "Of course Mom,"Roller sighed. Roller stopped hugging her mother's soft purple fur and cried,"I wish Daddy was here." "Us both do,"Lilac Petal responded. Roller galloped to her room she hopped in her old wooden bed.With had pink sheets over it.Roller grabbed a dark blue vest and hugged it. "Mama always tells me Daddy wore this vest almost everywhere he went,"she told herself. Slowly clear tears dripped out of Roller's purple eyes. "Hey kiddo,"Lilac Wing said in a loving voice. Lilac Wing hovered unto the bed and laid by Roller.She wrapped her wing around the little pegasus and started saying,"This is just a bad time in our lives Roller.Just because your father,Wrench Bolt,and Scootaloo-" Roller stopped listening.She started thinking,"How did the orphan people find Scootaloo?How did they know that was her birth name?" Roller sat up quickly and saw at the edge of her bed it was a baby pink blanket.It had her name sewn into it. Scootaloo must of been holding it when the people found it!But how did she survive that crash? Roller blurted out,"Scootaloo is still alive." Lilac Wing stared at her for a couple moments and told her,"She will be in our hearts." "No really Mom! I am friends with her online.I video chatted with her the other day-" Lilac Wing put her hoof on her daughter's back and interrupted her,"Scootaloo is d-dead honey.This filly you chatted with must of just looked like her." "No mom!Here I will show you-" "Roller,I have no time for this nonsense.I have to go to work soon,and it is 8:45 PM your bedtime.Please,go to bed."Lilac Petal sighed. Roller looked at the bags under her blue eyes she asked her mom"Mom,do you even sleep?You work night and day.I am worried about you.You need sleep!" Lilac Wing looked at her daughter and frowned,"I sleep about four hours each day.I don't need that much rest,"she went to the door and started opening it to leave. "Mom, but if your tired you might get hurt while walking there.I don't want to lose another parent!"Roller exclaimed. "I will be fine!Stop worrying about me.I will be OK.Good night hon."Lilac Wing told her. Lilac Wing went over to Roller and kissed her on the cheek. "Bye,"Roller mumbled. Roller then finished her homework,brushed her teeth,and hopped in bed.In a matter of minutes she was asleep. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BEEP BEEP that was the sound that startled the Roller awake.Roller pushed the off button on the alarm clock,rubbed her eyes,and dragged herself out of bed. "Time to get really for school,"she mumbled. She grabbed her bright pink hair brush and started combing her magenta mane. "Stupid tangles,"she mumbled. After she finished brushing her hair,Roller galloped to the kitchen and grabbed some hay and bread.She put the hay on the bread and placed it on the paper plate.Roller used one hoof to hold the green plate and bring it to the cheap wooden table. Roller was all finished eating and she picked up her dark blue backpack which has white polka dots,some dirt on the bottom,and many key chains made out of spare threads. Roller opened the front door and complained,"Time for sch-"she saw many police ponies. "What is happening!"Roller hollered. One of the police ponies,a stallion with a bright green mane,came up to her.He told her,"Sorry, youngster your mom is d-d-dead,"he frowned and went to hug her. Roller zoomed over to all the other police ponies with tears filled in her eyes.She squeezed between the ponies and saw her dead mother. "MOM!"she went down and hugged her mother even though blood was oozing out of her. "What happened?"Roller sobbed. One of the police ponies with red wavy hair came up to her and sighed,"She got stabbed.While she was walking home from work." Her eyes were flooded with tears.It seems it like waterfalls were going down her cheeks."WHY?WHY?Now I have no parents."she hugged the bleeding body. "You don't have any parents?"said the police pony with red wavy hair. "This means she has to go to the orphanage,"answered one of the other police ponies. Roller kissed her mom on the cheek and sprinted inside her home.She darted to her room.Roller quickly went on ponybook and wrote a message to Scootaloo. It wrote,"Our mom has died this morning I am going to Vanhoover's Downtown Orphanage.Please have your purple unicorn friend adopt me.I will earn the money to pay her back.Come soon before we can never see each other." Roller sent the message and closed the laptop.She got a bag and put a lot of her belongs and went outside to the police officers. "I am ready to go,"Roller told all the officers. Before she went inside the car she kissed her mom on the cheek for the last time.