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// Chapter 14 
// Story: A Scootaloo Story 
// by Golden Tassel 
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Honeydew was mad. "What the hell are you doing out of your room!" she yelled. She reached for Scootaloo to drag her back inside, but Rainbow Dash got in the way.

"Don't you lay a hoof on her," Rainbow Dash said as she pushed her way inside the house. Scootaloo came in behind her, but kept her distance.

"You can't come in here. And you have no right to tell me how—"

"I'm here to help Scootaloo, and you and me are going to have a talk about what you're doing wrong here."

"Don't you judge me! That little delinquent doesn't need help; she needs a good spanking to straighten her out!" Honeydew leaned around Rainbow Dash to level her gaze at Scootaloo. "I told you what would happen. So help me—"

Rainbow Dash kept herself in the way and spread her wings out to block Honeydew's line of sight. "Go up to your room, Scootaloo. I'll come talk to you when I'm done here," she said over her shoulder.

Scootaloo hesitated, but only briefly. She hurried up the stairs and closed the door to her room behind her. After a moment to catch her breath, though, she opened the door a crack so she could listen to what was going on downstairs.

Honeydew's voice was loud and clear. "How dare you come into my home and tell me how to live my life!"

"I'm looking out for Scootaloo because apparently nopony else is."

"I never asked to be responsible—"

"Well too bad, because you are. Now I don't care what you do with your life, but yours isn't the only one you're in charge of here."

"If you care so much, why don't you just take her?" There was silence, and then Honeydew continued with a note of smugness in her voice. "Not so high-and-mighty now, are you?"

Their voices were quieting down, and it was getting harder for Scootaloo to make out what they were saying. Rainbow Dash said something, but it was too muffled.

"You think I haven't tried?" Honeydew's voice sounded sad now.

That was the last thing Scootaloo heard that she could understand. She quietly closed her door and then climbed up onto her bed where she covered her face with her pillow and waited in darkness and silence.