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// Getting Answers 
// Story: Explaining the Foalhood 
// by IMNOTHERE889 
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"NS is a mess! NS is a mess!"
"Look everpony! It's Neon Unclean!" The words ringed in Neon's ears. She shuddered. "What's wrong? Are you cold?" Pinkie said. "No, I'm fine. Just a chill." Neon said.
"Oh. Okay!" Then the pink pony went back to baking her cupcakes.
Neon had just come out of therapy again, but it didn't seem to help. Those memories kept on haunting her.

Neon had never been friends with many pegasus ponies. She was mainly friends with two: Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. They seemed to be the only ponies that didn't make fun of her in flight school. So whenever a pegasus that she isn't friends with walks by, or flies over, she usually flips out. When it's not curling into a ball saying "I'm not a mess! I'm not a mess!", it's flying to her house and hiding from everypony.

Other ponies had started to worry, so they had Neo be sent to go get therapy every week. But it didn't help. Neo would still be the same.

"Pinkie..."
"Yeah?"
"There is something... I actually have to tell you."
"What is it, Neo? Ooh! Is it a secret? I'll guard it with my life! Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!"
Neon chuckled. Pinkie Promises always made her smile.
"It's quite private, so, yeah, I guess it is a secret."
Pinkie sat there, waiting for the secret.
Neo took a deep breath, then told her.

"When I was just a filly in flight school, my mom was very sick. I could barely concentrate in flight school because I was thinking about my mom all the time. And then, one day, before a big test. My mother gave me her necklace, see?" Neo took off the necklace around her neck. The earth pony sat there, waiting for the rest. 

"'Always believe in yourself, you'll be fine. Just keep control, and believe...' Those were my mom's last words. Then she...." Neo trailed off. She stared at the floor. She had been trying not to remember. "Uhm, Equestria to Neo, are you still there?"

Neon snapped back into the present. "Yes, right, sorry." She cleared her throat.

"When it was time for the big test, I was shaking like there was no tomorrow. Other pegasi said to me, 'hey, nice necklace, where'd you get it, the junkyard?' Those ponies just made me feel worse. When it was time for me to go, I couldn't even open my wings. I was too heartbroken and nervous to do it. Then someone pushed me off the platform. Still couldn't open my wings. I landed on the clouds with a thud, and the other pegasi were making fun of me with this humiliating song..."

Pinkie gasped. "Why would anyone want to make fun of you!? You are probably the best pony I've ever met!"
"Well, they obviously didn't think so. They didn't know what I had just been through. Then something even worse happened. Somepony said, 'hey! Her mother died! That's no way to treat somepony that's just had a loss!'"

"Yeah!" The pink pony said.
"Then somepony else said, 'your mom must've been a weakling to have died this early in her life!' I was so sad that I ran away from my home, away from Cloudsdale. I came down here, to Ponyville."

"OOH! OOH! IS THIS THE BIT WHERE YOU MEET ME!?"
"No, Pinkie. That's not quite yet. I looked everywhere to see if anypony would accept me, but no one would. I was all alone. No one was there to love me, care for me..."

"Wow, Neo.. I knew that you had a rough start here in Ponyville, but I never knew it was THAT rough!"

"I ended up staying at a run down building at the edge of town. The place I now call home."

"So THATS why you get so freaked out around other pegasus ponies! You're afraid that they'll make fun of you!"

"Yup..." The pegasus sighed. Pinkie was probably the best friend she ever had. After all, Pinkie did love to make other ponies smile.