2 - Sweetie tells Applebloom and Scootaloo
Sweetie Belle looked around her room. Rarity had to told her that she was only allowed to bring a few things. She eventually settled with her stuffed bear, coco, a book, and a small picture of her, Scootaloo, and Applebloom. She smiled at the photo. They all looked so.... Happy. She missed those days already.
She was still thinking about how to tell them. She imagined how they would be smiling as she approached them, but by the end of the conversation, their ears would be drooped, and their smiles would've vanished.
A single tear fell from her eye; and another, and another. By the time Rarity came up to check on her, Sweetie Belle was on the floor, weeping.
"Sweetie" Rarity said, softly, "there are two certain fillies here to see you"
Sweetie Belle looked up. Applebloom and Scootaloo were standing in the doorway.
"Applejack told us" said Applebloom
Sweetie Belle could tell that they were trying not to cry.
"Well, I'll leave you girls to some peace now." Rarity said as she exited the room. As soon an she closed the door, Applebloom and Scootaloo burst into tears.
After a while of crying, Applebloom spoke. "S-so where a-are you m-moving t-to?" She sniffed
"Rarity says that we're moving to a small apartment in manehatten" Sweetie Belle replied "it's all she could afford"
"I don't get it" said Scootaloo, quizzically "why is Rarity so poor?"
"Ponies haven't exactly been into her fashions lately" explained Sweetie Belle "her ideas have seemed to... Get duller and duller, I guess she just lost her inspiration"
There was a knock on the door, and Rarity entered.
"Sorry girls, but me and Sweetie have to go to the train station now"
Applebloom and Scootaloo nodded, and they walked out of the door.
Scootaloo cast one more look over her shoulder as she left, Applebloom after, and they all shared a glance at each other. They wouldn't have another one in a while.
1 - The news
It was a beautiful summers afternoon. The birds were chirping, the bees were buzzing, and Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Applebloom were busy discussing their next adventure.
"How about gardening?"Squeaked a voice that belonged to none other than Sweetie Belle.
"To boring" replied scootaloo "what about skateboarding? Or skiing? Oh oh! What about swimming?"
"Girls" interrupted Applebloom "why don't we-"
Her sentence was cut short by Applejack, who was knocking on the clubhouse door.
"Come in!" Yelled Scootaloo
Applejack walked through the door, and up to Sweetie Belle
"Sweetie Belle, you have to go home. Rarity's got some... news for you."
As Sweetie trotted out, she noticed that Applejack had looked like she'd been crying.
She immediately started brainstorming what rarity could have to talk to her about. The look on Applejack's face, though, filled her only with worry.
As she opened the door to carousel boutique, she heard Rarity calling her name from somewhere within the house area. She followed the sound, and found her sister in the kitchen. Her eyes were red, as if she had been crying. By now Sweetie knew that something was wrong.
"Sis, what's wrong?" She asked
Rarity opened her mouth to say something, but tears automatically started pouring from her eyes again. Sweetie put her hoof on her sister as she cried. Finally, Rarity started to speak
"W-we have t-to move!" She cried, then she buried her face into her sisters mane. Sweetie Belle, however, was in total shock
"Move?!" She exclaimed in her squeaky voice. Rarity nodded.
"But-but I don't understand?!" Sweetie protested "why?"
Rarity pointed her hoof towards a slip of paper on the kitchen table.
Sweetie Belle walked over to it, and read it over.
After she read it, she read it again. Just so she was sure that her eyes weren't deceiving her.
"Ran out of money?!"
Rarity nodded
"T-the bank s-says that if I don't repay it,I-I will h-have to move" she sniffled
"Well..." Sweetie said " we can still pay it back!"
Rarity shook her head "h-have of seen how m-much it is?"
Sweetie read it over. "Oh. Yikes"
"E-exactly!"
Sweetie Belle put down the letter and sighed. What was she going to say to Applebloom and Scootaloo?
"Well... I guess I should start packing"
Sweetie Belle stood on the train station platform. The train to Manehatten pulled up, and both Sweetie Belle and Rarity proceeded to board it. Once they were on the train, they didn't say much. Sweetie stared out of the window and watched the scenery change. Rarity stared down at her hooves. Was she sure that she had made the right decision? Was Sweetie Belle right? Could they've raised the money if they had tried hard enough? Rarity shook her head, reminding herself how many zeros there had been.
She pulled a map out of her suitcase that showed her exactly where to go once they got to Manehatten. After staring at it for 15 minutes, she had memorized it. When she looked out of the window, to her surprise they were already passing some of the houses in Manehatten. After a couple of minutes, they pulled into the train station. Both Sweetie Belle and Rarity grabbed their suitcases and hopped of. Rarity led the way. Sweetie Belle followed after, taking all the sights and sounds of Manehatten.
Before to long they were outside their new home. Rarity opened the door. They entered into a kitchen-living room area. There were three doors leading off. Two bedrooms and a bathroom. Sweetie Belle decided which room would be hers, and she started unpacking. She put the picture of her, Applebloom, and Scootaloo On a small table next to her bed.
She looked at it once more, and smiled, remembering their last adventure, hiking. They had ended up being chased through the forest by an angry bear. Although it had been scary, it was still better than where she was now.
Sweetie took in her surroundings. The walls were a shabby grey colour, and only a little light got through the thick glass window. Sweetie sighed, and wished that she was back at home.