Brain Scramble

I woke up to my sister jumping on my tail, “Wake up, wake up! We’re here!”

I smiled and lightly pushed her off me, “Okay grab your things and lets go.” I said getting up and fixing my hair some what. I put on my glasses and walked off the train with my sis. No pony was on the platform so we just walked on. Eventually we got to the edge of the town, and by the looks of it, it was a quite little town. I could see an apple farm off in the distance, and also a thick forest in the other direction. Puzzle grabbed my hoof and we continued on.

We passed a lot stores and ponies, but no gave us a glance. ‘Ok, good lay low until we get enough money for Manehatten.’ I thought, but again I was interrupted, not by the filly by my side but by a pink mare with a crazy mane. “Uh, hi” I said slowly. She just looked at me and my sis for a bit longer then jumped really high, gasped and ran off. “Uh ok” I said and tighten my grip on Puz.

“What was that about?” she asked not fighting my grip

“I don’t know, but stay close ok?”

She nodded and we continued in silence.

Eventually we made it to an orphanage looking place. It looked better than any other building for Trottingham. Colorful, big, and little fillies and colts running around out in the front.

“This looks nice” the pink filly said

“Yeah, but is it available? Stay here I think I see the owner. Don’t talk to anypony.”

“Ok” she said and sat down.

I walked over to a purple mare with sunflowers for a cutie mark, “Uh Excuse me ma’am” I said and she turned

“Oh hello, there can I help you?”

“Yes is this an orphanage?”

“Oh no, this is the school house. But if you need a place to stay I could help you with that”

“Really!” I coughed “Sorry, thank you. I just moved here with my little sister,” I gestured over to Puzzle who was still sitting.

“Oh wonderful. I believe there is a free house about two blocks that way” she pointed toward a regular looking house, but that was fine.

“Thank you ma’am” I said and went over to collect my sister when she called back to me,

“The school is free if you want to enroll her!”

I thought about it “I’ll think about it!” I called back. I turned back to Puzzle "Come on my little filly there is a free house near here”

She smiled and we started to walk.

(At the House)

“Wow its bigger than our apartment” she said once we stepped inside. It was large, and very well-kept, as if the pony who lived here just moved out. It was two stories, it had a kitchen, two bathrooms, three bedrooms, and even a big backyard.

“It’s wonderful! I am surprised it was free.” I said walking up the stairs, slowly just in case. When I made it up safely I called Puzzle “Come on up here and pick a room.” She was up here in two seconds flat.

“Ok” and she walked down the hallway.

I chose the bedroom nearest the stairs. When I walked in, it took my breath away. Now being from Trottingham, a lot of thinks seem glamorous to me. Now this room was small, but that was fine, it had a bed right up next to the window, which overlooked town square, a desk across from the bed, in between the bed and desk was a closet. This room was perfect for me. I needed a good paint job, the whole house did, but I found as cozy as my old home.

As I was unpacking Puzzle walked in grinning from ear to ear, guess she found her room. “What’s up?” I said ignoring my stuff for now.

“I found the perfect room for me,” She said with a bit of pep in her voice, “want to see?”

I nodded and followed her down the hall, I felt uncomfortable with her being so far away, but if she felt comfortable it was fine. She opened her door and she was right, this was her room.

The bed end was right next to the door, there was plenty of room on the floor for her toys, and a slanted ceiling for her drawings. There were two doors side by side, most likely her closet and bathroom. Her bag was spilled all over her bed and the closet door was cracked open.

We hugged each other and went to explore the other rooms. The other bedroom was the guest room, obviously. There was another bathroom in the middle of both our rooms. When we went down stairs we found that the kitchen needed to be stocked, and the other bathroom was under the stairs, weird. The rest of the house was bare and the backyard needed mowing.

“Ok lets unpack, then we can go shopping. Ok?”

“Ok sis” and she was off.

I laughed and walked up to me room again.

(Later)

We have been walking around for an hour and the only things we bought were a couple cans of food and a sewing machine. Everypony we met was very nice and they offered to show us around, but I declined. We signed Puzzle up for school, which she was very excited about, and I got a job at the library, the librarian was extremely nice. Once we made it back home Puzzle put away the food and I made a little sewing area in the part of the house that was probably meant to be a living room. The day was nice and tomorrow was Puzzles first day of school, she wanted me to be there with her so she didn’t feel scared. I agreed and she understood that I had to go to work a little while after I dropped her off. After I sewed a bit of her jacket, again, we went up to sleep for the first night in our new house.