Arrival is hard

Life at the homing building was hard. There were always chores to be done and the small amount of free time that you would get was spent trying to catch up on chores that you hadn't finished. That is unless the "parents" didn't ever pay any attention to you. It was a rare occasion that some pony was injured or ill and the parents were actually worried. Luckily for Scootaloo, the parents never paid any attention to her no matter the cause. She never had anyone pay any attention to her because every pony felt that she was useless since she couldn't even use her wings. However, she was also ver unfortunate. While all the colts and fillies were adopted at some point, the parents had never even introduced her to the adults that came in. The couples and singles adults looking to adopt had never been introduced to Scootaloo since the parents didn't feel that she was worthy to be adopted.

There were days when Scootaloo wasn't able to get to her friends, when she was left alone, when she had no one to talk to. Scootaloo had no roommate unlike all the other fillies and colts at the home. She would sleep alone, eat alone, and do everything alone. She had no one to talk to but herself in the mirror. Everything in her life seemed pointless.

Scootaloo was laying on her bed, crying to herself about the new kinds of teasing that Silver spoon and Diamond Tiara had came up with, when the door to her room opened. Her heart started to flutter at the thought of being adopted, but was instantly put down when a teary eyed colt was brought in along with one of the parents. He had a ice blue coat with a teal mane with a whit stripe running through it. He was also a pegasus" Now listen here, were sorry that we had to put you in a room with her," The female parent pointed a hoof at Scootaloo who was just watching on the bed," unfortunately, there is no more room anywhere else. It may be a little awkward at first, but you will get used to it." The parent seemed very assuring but gave away that she really didn't care with the tone of her voice. "I'll just leave you two to get to know each other."

After the parent had left left, the colt had found his way to one of the two beds in the room and simply laid down on it. He had brought no possessions except a heavy coat that matched his fur. After about an hour Scootaloo broke the silence,

" Whats your name?" He looked over at her for a second but soon turned back over to the wall.

" My name is Ice Drop."

" My name is Scootaloo."

Ice Drop got up from his bed and moved to the window. The cold had fogged the glass and snow flakes could be seen falling from the sky.

" Hey! you don't have a cutie mark!"

" You make that sound like a good thing."

" I wouldn't say it's a good thing but I don't have one either." Scootaloo adjusted herself so the Ice Drop could see her flank.

" So you don't. Then why do you say such things so enthusiastically."

"'cause me and my friends are in a group call the cutie mark crusaders. None of us have our cutie marks either."

" Sounds interesting. Now, if you would excuse me I am going to get out of here."

" What do you mean! You can't leave."

"Why not?"

"B-b-because i've never had anyone to talk to here."

Ice Drop pulled up on the window while looking at Scootaloo with a dull expression only to find that the window was locked from the out side." Um... d-don't worry, i'm not going to leave you here."

" Great, I want to meet all my friends. We wont be able to get out of here till tomorrow morning so we may as well get to know each other."

"That depends on what you want to know."

"Well, what do you like to do?"

" I don't know, i've lived alone since I was like, three."

" WOW, how did you do it?"

" Scavenging."

"What did you eat?"

Ice Drops words sped up  "Thats not important. What time is it?"

" Its like ten o' clock, why."

" It's a good time to call it a night. Don't you think?"

"No."

"Well I do. Goodnight." With that, Ice Drop flew over to his bed and faked sleeping.

....

The next morning around eight o' clock the parents walked in to wake up Ice and Scootaloo. " Wake up you two, long list of extra special chores to do." Scootaloo was already awake, being unable to sleep for ten hours straight, while Ice Drop was still fast asleep at his bed. The male parent started ringing a bell that was in his mouth and Ice Drop started to mumble and shift around in his bed.

After Ice Drop had woken up the parents left the room. He took the opportunity to plop down in his bed and get a few more hours of sleep. Scootaloo ran up to him and started to shake him with her forhooves. She found herself shivering as she made contact. " Don't touch me." Ice drop moved closer to the wall that his bed sat against.

" Hey you got to get up, I want you to meet my friends." Scootaloo inched closer and jumped up on his bed. " Get up!" Ice Drops body shot upward into Scootaloo, making direct contact with her nose.

" Don't. Do that." Scootaloo started making faces as the chill from Ice Drops body caught up with her. " Your snout will probably hurt really bad later but now that you have fully awakened me, let go meet you friends."

" One second, what ever you did to my nose is making it really cold."

" Oh ha, yeah. Like I said, don't touch me."

....

Once Scootaloo had gotten all the things that she wanted to take to the clubhouse, they were ready to leave the homing building. Right out the door and snow was in piles all down the roads. Ice could be seen at the bottom and bright lights seemed to be dancing in the area around them." This is weird. Well, lets be on our way." Scootaloo was watching all the lights dance around her.

" Oh man, good thing we can fly or we would be walking through all of this." Ice drop spread his wings an started to flap when he heard Scootaloo speak up.

" Oh no, were walking."

"Why?"

"B-because I just like to walk through the snow."

"Ok. Whatever. Im not going to wade through all of this." Ice Drop took to the air above Scootaloo.

....

An hour later, the duo had arrived at the club house where Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom were already waiting. Apple Bloom was the first to speak up. " Well howdy y'all. I hope you didn't tire your selves out on the way here 'cause we've got crusadin' to do." Scootaloo was panting in the corner of the room.

" She didn't want to fly here for some reason." As th

The two looked over at each other and giggled. " I'm obviously being left out of something."

Scootaloo panicked and started to make faces at the other two fillies from behind Ice Drops clearly telling them not to tell him.

Sweetie Belle took her first turn to speak," Anyway, I think it's time to get to crusading."

" I'm not going Crusading. I will get some breakfast, than i'm going back to the orphanage to go back to sleep. Ten hours of sleep, gosh, how can you ponies live like that." Ice drop took off through the window before anypony could intervene.

" So, ya haven't told him yet have ya?"