Scootaloo woke up one beautiful summer morning with a big smile on her face. Because today is her thirteenth birthday. She sat up in her bed and flung off the covers. She hopped out of bed and skipped happily downstairs. Her mother, a Pegasus with a brown coat and a darker brown mane, was sitting in the living room on the sofa. She had laid five presents on the floor. Scootaloo was so excited until she looked at her mother’s face. She seemed sad but was trying to be happy for Scootaloo. She opened her mouth to say something, but she didn’t know how. So she stopped. Then Scootaloo asked “Mom, what’s wrong?”
Her mother sighed and took a deep breath “Scootaloo, there is something I should have told you a long time ago. I’ve never had the courage.”
Then slowly Scootaloo’s ears started drooping down. Scootaloo looked at her mother confused and nervous and said “Mom, your scaring me…”
Then her mom all of a sudden perked up and said plainly "Never mind! I was just kidding, now let’s eat cake!”
Scootaloo was surprised and strait afterwards almost forgot the dreary feeling and ran to the kitchen. Scootaloo’s mom was feeling guilty, she knew she had to tell her but she didn’t have the courage. She couldn’t bear to see this young mare be sad but she had to. She walked over to scootaloo whom was getting the cake out pf the cooler. Scootaloo turned around with a smile on her face, this made her feel even more guilty. She took a big breath.
“Scootaloo,”
Scootaloo looked at her mom again and saw her pained expression.
“Mom! What is wrong? Is it the thing that you wanted to tell me earlier?”
“Scootaloo, you-you’re a-a-adop-ted” She said with a wobbling voice and a tier rolling down her face.
Scootaloo had just taken the cake and dropped it, her pupils went small. She stood there in shock for a minute. Then perked up “Mom, it’s funny that you tried to prank me! That was a good one, he he! You should become an actress,”
Scootaloo’s mom was shocked at Scootaloo’s reaction, is she in denial?
“Hey mom! You should help me pick up this cake that I dropped!” Scootaloo said jokingly and laughed.
“Scootaloo! What I just said isn’t a joke!”
“Mom you have gone far enough! Now you’re overplaying it!” She said angrily.
“Scootaloo! Listen!” Scootaloo’s mom shouted.
“STOP! Mom, this joke has gone too far!” She said frustrated.
Scootaloo’s mom got very frustrated and angry. She grabbed Scootaloo. “Do I look like I’m joking!”
“No! you seem like you are going too far with a bad joke!” Scootaloo took a deep breath but it was not enough to calm her and she slapped Scootaloo.
“You are adopted! Stop being in denial!” And she started crying.
“You should have let me believe it was a joke,”
She started crying. She had so many emotions crossing through her. Anger, frustration, distrust, sadness, curiosity and denial. She didn’t want to stay in this house, with this person she had called “Mom”
“what she going to say next this is not her birthday or something? Or rainbow Dash is… Never mind, I just need to get out of here!”
She turned to the door and ran to it. Scootaloo’s mom sank through her knees. “What have I done?”
Then Rainbow Dash walked into the house.
Meanwhile Scootaloo ran as fast as her little legs could take her. She ran past Apple Bloom whom said “Happy Birthday” but then saw that Scootaloo was crying. So she ran after her.
“Leave me alone!” Scootaloo yelled as she ran full speed ahead. Apple Bloom couldn’t keep up and stopped. She went to get Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo galloped through the crowd, who all were confused.
She galloped to a pond in the park and sat at the bank, looking down at her reflection while one tier dropped into the pond. Her reflection was first clear and then turned into a mixed up image. Her tiers were making small ripples in the water. Rainbow Dash walked past Scootaloo and then saw her sitting at the pond. Rainbow Dash then slowly walked to Scootaloo and sat next to her, she tried to put her wing around her but she shook it off.
“Leave me alone! You don’t know what is wrong with me! She didn’t tell me! Sigh* she didn’t tell me…” Scootaloo looked even more sombre at the water.
Then Rainbow said softly “Squirt, I knew her, your mother, your biological mother.”
Scootaloo turned her head with her ears up “You knew my mom?”
“Yes, I did” Then Rainbows ears went down and a tier rolled down her face. Scootaloo could see in her eyes what she meant. Then Scootaloo came closer to her and they cuddled each other, with Scootaloo’s head under Rainbow Dashes. They hugged for a few minutes and then Scootaloo broke hug.
She sniffled and wiped her tiers away and asked “who was she? How did she look like? Who was my father?”
“Squirt, It’s easier if I tell you everything, instead of question by question.” Rainbow said with a faint grin on her face. She slid Scootaloo closer to her with her wing and kept it around her. “Her name was Firefly, we were very close friends. She had the exact same mane style as me, except it was completely blue, it was a plain blue. Her coat was pink, almost flashy pink, her eyes were just a plain purple.” Rainbow Dash smiled while looking at the ground, then she looked at Scootaloo “I’m not going to tell her life story, but the whole year before you were born, I’ll you tell that.”
Scootaloo looked at Dash and then nodded. “At the first day of high school, i was with Gilda. Laughing at others, thinking we were cool, while the senior years rolled their eyes sarcastically. We were the Freshman, we walked about the school grounds and chatted until the bell went. All the other years had to go to class except us. We, the 9TH grade had to stand outside and wait.
Then a teacher with a bundle of paper came to the middle of the grounds, right in front of the horde of pupils. She was a completely white Pegasus, in my opinion she looked a bit creepy.
Then she screamed loudly in a deep voice “My name is Miss Flake. When I say your name, you’ll also her the classroom you have to go to. So you say “Yes, miss” and then go to the classroom I tell you to. Got it?”
Then everyone said in a depressing and bored way “Yes Miss Flake.”
“Good. Miss Hooves.”
“Yes Miss Flake”
“Class E106”
A grey Pegasus then started walking to the door, while doing so she tripped and everyone was laughing except the nerds and the shy ponies, whom felt sorry for her. She started blushing and got back up and walked to the door, then walked into the building with her head down.
“Gilda the griffon.”
“Yes Miss Flake” she answered in a sarcastic tone.
“The same as Miss Hooves.”
Then Gilda said to me “Hope you’re not stuck with the wall-eyed freak.”
I laughed “Good luck” then we high-fived each other.
“Miss shy”
“Y-Y-yes Miss Flake” Fluttershy whispered and sunk in between the crowd.
“Are you there?”
“Yes Miss Flake” She said two decibels louder
“Stick your hand up please.” Then a little yellow hoof stood out of the crowd. “Miss Shy, newt time speak up!”
“Okay Miss Flake”
“Same as the others”
When she walked through, you could hear everyone softly giggling. She was walking near to the ground with her ears down, trying not to be seen.
“Miss Fly”
“Yes Miss Flake” said Firefly"
Then Scootaloo interupted “Wait, so my family name is Loo?”
“No, your name would be “Miss Scootaloo”” said Rainbow Dash in a posh accent. “Continued, uuum, aah yes,
“Miss Fly, same as the others E106”
“Thanks Miss Flake.” Then She flew to the doors, she was really fast. She left a pink and blue trail after her, it was so awesome!
“Miss D-CR-ash?!”
Then a stupid stallion said “Haha! Rainbow Crash!”
Then I said annoyed “It’s Dash, Miss Flake.”
“Sorry Miss Dash, same as the others.”
Then I turned around and headed for the doors. At the back of the crowd was the stupid stallion, I recognised him. He was the idiot whom got me my cutiemark!
“Even the teachers think you are Crashing! Haha!”
I ignored him and walked further with an angry face, I’ll get him one day! More names where getting called while I walked through the door. It led to a long hallway with big windows on the left side and 7 doors on the right. The first door was E101, the principal’s office. In the next few years I’m going to spend a lot of time there. The rest were all classrooms, E102 E103, ext., until I got to E106.
Derpy and Firefly were already talking to each other and Gilda was laughing at Fluttershy. She was almost crying. Until Firefly intervened.
“What do you think you’re doing!?”
“Telling this dweeb how useless she is.”
“Why? Because you need to feel better about yourself? By getting power in the sadness in others? Is that really how you want Fluttershy remembering her high school years?”
Gilda broke into a sweat, while firefly looked at her angrily. Gilda looked around the room to find a way out of it.
“Look! My friend Rainbow Dash is here!” She did an arm movement for me to come in.
I walked in nervously and said hi.
Firefly raised her eyebrow and looked up and down at me, then she just said “hm” and helped Fluttershy up and walked back to Derpy.