Was Neo lying all along? Let's see what actually happened...
It was the day before a big flying test, one that could very well define her future as a flyer, but she was still nervous. Neon Screen had never failed a test before, but now that her mother was sick, she couldn't help but feel this way.
Neo was standing next to her mothers bed, and her mother was gently stroking the young filly's mane.
"My little Neo, my time has come..." Her mother said.
After saying this, Neo burst into tears.
"M-mom! I don't w-want you to l-leave m-me! I don't know h-how to t-take care of myself!" Neo said through sobs.
"Don't worry, my little pony, I just need you to know this..."
"What? What d-do I need to know?" Neo asked as her mother took off the necklace that she always wore and put it around her daughters neck.
"Always believe in yourself, you'll be fine. Just keep control, and believe... Because the power of hope can be very special." Her mother said. She closed her eyes and passed.
Neo couldn't take it.
"Mom? M-mom? MOM! MOOOOOOM!!!" She shouted while sobbing. She crawled up onto the bed and sobbed into her mothers chest. She didn't want to believe that her mother was dead. She eventually cried herself to sleep.
She woke up on the floor, and the memories from the night flooded back into her head. She sighed and walked out of the room, and out of the house. She walked to her flight school, and made it just before the test started. She got into line and waited for her turn. Other foals made fun of her necklace. They said things like, "where'd you get your necklace? The junkyard?" And "nice necklace, does it come in fashionable?"
They just made Neo feel worse. When it was her turn to fly, she couldn't do it. Her wings were firmly stuck to her sides. Neo gulped. She couldn't do it. Then, somepony pushed her off the platform. Her wings still wouldn't dislodge them from her sides. She hit the ground with a thud.
Other fillies and colts surrounded her and started laughing. They started making fun of her.
"NS is a mess! NS is a mess!"
"Hey, look everypony, it's Neon Unclean!"
Neo felt like crawling into a ball and dying. Or, better yet, disappearing.
Then somepony in the crowd of foals shouted, "hey! Don't make fun of her! Her mother died last night, and she's obviously taking her death roughly!"
They just turned that into a way of making fun of her.
"Well, her mom must've been pretty weak to have gone this early in her life!"
That made Neo burst into tears. She ran off, and flew away from Cloudsdale. She flew to the ground. She made her way to Ponyville. She went into town, and asked literally every and anypony to take her in. But, she failed. She walked sadly through town, and bumped into something hard. After rubbing her muzzle, which was kinda sore from the sudden contact, she looked at what she had just hit. It was a building, and it looked abandoned. Neo walked inside. Yep, abandoned.
Neo made her way to the bedroom and plopped onto the bed. She cried herself to sleep once again.