FIVE YEARS LATER…
A mischievous cyan filly tip-hooved across the room to the bed of her roommate and bestfriend, Fluttershy, who was sleeping soundly, her prismatic mane had grown and was very unkept looking as if a rainbow exploded on her head and neck the colors pointing in every which direction. she grinned evilly at her life long friend bringing her mussle close to her sleeping friend.
She inhaled deeply before she yelled at the top of her lungs, "WAKE UP FWUTTERS!" the yellow filly jumped up in surprise her wings flapped at her anxiety and with one powerful flap she was propelled off the bed to fall face down on the floor.
"Owwie Wainbow that hurt!" Fluttershy exclaimed in her quiet voice rubbing her nose.
"Ohmigosh Fwutters are you okay?" Rainbow Dash asked qenuinely worried about her friend.
Fluttershy pulled her hoof away from her nose scared to see if she was bleeding but when she looked her hoof and nose were both free of blood. Both fillies sighed in relief, and then Rainbow Dash was just as excited as ever hoping in place, "Come on Fwutters we gotta go we gonna be late!" she grabbed her friend's hoof and literally dragged her down the hall and stairs to the kitchen where all the children were already eating breakfast.
"Fluttershy your mane looks finer than frogs hair split four ways, Rainbow let the poor filly go," said a voice behind them. Rainbow Dash turned around and looked up at the earth pony that was her mother figure.
"Sowwy Gwanny Smiff" she hooved the floor in embarrassment.
Fluttershy sat up when Rainbow let her go and her mane was worse than even Rainbow's which was a feat in and of itself. Granny Smith carried the two fillies to the table where they immediately started eating breakfast as she brushed Fluttershy's mane. She attempted to brush Rainbow's mane as well but she finally gave up deciding it was a lost cause.
"Granny Smith," Sea Breeze, a colt new to the orphanage called.
"Yes dear?" she asked.
"Why is a earth pony here in cloudsdale?"
she smiled at him happily, "Boy do I love talkin bout' ma life before this one. I used to live in the town just under us. Its called ponyville, moved there when I was just the little ones' age, we were dirt rich and bit poor* grew up there on ma parents' apple farm Sweet Apple Acres darn tootn'est place in all of equestria. When ma parent's passed I stayed on the farm with ma husband and had a family of our own." She smiled softly at the memories of her past.
"Where are they?" he asked curious.
"Ma husband passed just after our children left to live on their own. i tried to keep the farm goin on ma own but it was too much work so I had to close it down and then I decided I needed a new view so I moved to Cloudsdale since not many earth pony folk are here, I saw a lot a kids growin up in the street and figured I might as well open up an orphanage. Been here ever since, now ma daughter is runnin the farm with her husband and they got 2 children of their own with a third on the way." She smiled at the kids at the table.
"Why don't you go back to ponyville and live with your daughter and her family on the farm again?" Fluttershy asked.
"Fluttershy you gotta speak up you sound as quiet as a baby bird in a windstorm." The kids all laughed at her choice of words before she continued, "I got you all to take care of, if I didn't like it then id of left long ago."
Sea Breeze looked down at his nearly finished breakfast thinking about something, " Will we ever get adopted Granny Smith?" he asked the question the all the ponies wondered but never had the guts to ask.
"I rreally don't know sweetums, I hope you do, not to get rid a ya but because you all deserve real families to call your own. I've said this to all the ponies that've just passed through, even when you have a home to go to you will still always be welcome with me even if its just for a chat." She smiled at his courage and kissed the top of his head. Sea breeze was a blue Pegasus with yellow and light blue striped mane and tail, his cutie mark was a bue cloud with yellow around it and sky colored rain drops. He was in love with anything that had to do with rain flying or weather. He got part of his left ear taken off from unknown circumstances and a lot of the kids have spread rumors that it was in fights with different pegasi around town.
"A'right nough chit chat y'all need to head on to school." Granny smith said as she put the dishes in the sink for her to wash later and herded all 15 children ranging from age 16-5 out the door. The teens escorted the pre-teens to Junior Flight school before continueing to flight school, granny smith took the others to elementary flight school and was dropping off Rainbow and Fluttershy at Pre-flight school.**
Granny smith looked down at Fluttershy who was holding onto the earth pony's leg tightly. Her blue eyes were squeezed shut and she was shaking with fear while her best friend was next to her bouncing in place, "Come on Fwutters! we cant be late to our fiwst day!" Rainbow Dash pried Fluttershy off and pulled her into the school to begin their first school day.
*"Dirt rich and bit poor" is a pony's way of saying dirt rich and dollar poor
**"Junior flight school= Junior High Elementary= Elementary (duh) Pre-Flight school= Pre school