Hey there! My name is Cream, and this is my first fanfic ever! Please help me by reviewing, and if you find any mistakes, don't be afraid to PM me! Anyway, enjoy!

The snow was falling quietly from the sky. Stephanie paused from her walk and stared up into the dreary gray Vancouver sky above. She sighed deeply and continued her walk. What a winter, she thought as the snow crunched under her hooves. The usually bustling city was unnaturally silent. All the ponies in Vancouver were staying at home, locked away from the freezing temperatures of winter. Stephanie, on the other hand, had nothing to do. She didn't have a job like most of the adolescent ponies around here. Neither did she have enough money to vacation to somewhere warm like Hawaii like her parents were doing. Her parents had deserted her last month, leaving her with virtually no money and nopony but her older brother to give her company. Her brother, whose name is Wallace, had stayed in Vancouver, but he doesn't usually like with her, he likes to say at his girlfriends' houses (yes, he is a player). Occasionally, he crashes at her place, no, literally crashes at her house.

Getting bored of the walk, Stephanie turned back and went in the direction of her apartment. As she got closer to her apartment complex, she heard an odd noise emanating from her home. Stephanie's hoof paused at the doorknob. She was trying to decide to knock on the door, open the door, or stay here and not do anything at all. Unfortunately, fate had already decided for her. The door was yanked open by none other than her elder brother.

"Hey Stephanie, what's up?" Wallace was super chill, as is nothing has happened.

"What's up? Is that all you say? And why are you in my apartment?" Stephanie pushed past him and gaped at the mess he made in her living room.

"Wally! I told you! Even if you come over without permission, you can't touch anything without my permission!"

"C'mon, sis! I thought we're family!" Her brother whined.

"Yes, Wally. We were, but now I am officially unrelated to you." Stephanie huffed. "Didn't I tell you that I don't have any more money to pay for repairs? The last time Mom and Dad sent us money was well over a month ago! I'm already too deep in debt to deal with-"

"Sis!" Wallace interrupted her as she was just about to open the door to her room. "Please don't go in there!" He pleaded his eyes full of guilt and tears.

"Why? What did you do this time?" She ignored his frantic pleas and opened the door to find... a mare stretched out on her bed, covered in an odd substance while moaning seductively.

"GET OUT!" Stephanie finally reached her breaking point. "GET OUT, RIGHT NOW, WALLACE! YOU CAN TAKE YOUR DIRTY LITTLE GIRLFRIEND WITH YOU, AND NEVER, EVER COME BACK AGAIN!" She rushed him and the mare to the front door and slammed it shut in his face.

Stephanie retired to her room, confused and angry. The last thing that came into her train of thought before she hit the bed was that the landlord's secretary was coming next morning, and how angry she's going to be when Stephanie goes into further debt.

And that's the end of the prologue! The next chapter will be coming on soon... I hope. :P