CANTERLOT FOSTER HOME
THE NEXT DAY
When Clover woke up the next morning she found herself surrounded by six friendly but unfamiliar filly faces. She turned her head to see if they had taken Honey Bonnets yet. Indeed they had.
"Hello, welcome to the foster home" One unicorn filly with a green mane and lemon coat said, "My name is Citrus Swirl. What's yours?"
"My name is C-C-Clover, Cinnamon Clover" she stuttered nervously, surprised by all this excitement.
"Nice to meet you Clover, allow us to introduce ourselves." Citrus said kindly.
"I'm Winter Heart." a snow white pegasus filly with a white mane of the same shade to match said.
"My name is Sugar Sprinkles!" a pink earth pony covered with colorful dots with a neat and curly rainbow mane added.
"Fairy Dancer is mine." a light green pegasus filly with a dark green mane called out.
All the fillies except one had told her their name except two. An earth filly with the pale pink coat and light orange mane and a unicorn filly with a light purple coat and a purple mane with grey highlights, both on the far end.
"What are your two's names?" Clover asked kindly.
Each mumbled something under her breath.
"Sorry can you run that by me again?" Clover asked unaware how shy these pony was.
Then Sugar Sprinkles stepped in.
"The earth filly with the pink coat is my twin sister Sugar Shy and the purple unicorn is Daisy Darling." the pink pony explained, "They are the best of friends and both extremely shy but also very sweet."
"Oh, I know how they feel." Clover said timidly.
She then got out of bed before neatly making it just like all the other fillies had already done to theirs.
"Um…Clover, C. Mint said that Princess Celestia is coming to visit you today. We were wondering if you could possibly to tell us why." Citrus asked her new friend.
"It's a long story. If I'm going to tell you it I should start from the beginning. There is one thing you should know about me before I start." Clover said in a voice that had drawn all the fillies' attention.
"What?" asked Winter.
"I'm anything BUT normal…" Clover said.
This hooked all the girls to the bait and with that Clover started her story.
AN HOUR LATER AT THE ROYAL HOSPITAL
"Ok, you can go now." The nurse said as she finished Scoot's last exam. Even though she didn't enter with a disease the nurses and doctors work with a lot of patients and she could have caught something from them. Now that she was cleared, the mane six, the cutie mark crusaders and Princess Celestia left the hospital. Since the foster home was only a mere three and a half block away they decided to walk.
A LITTLE OVER A HALF HOUR EARLIER AT THE FOSTER HOME
Clover was now wrapping up her story. She had told them everything from her birth to her mom dying to learning about her special ability and that she had a twin to being captured by her own brother and meeting Sweetie Belle. Right up to waking up to seeing them. She even showed them her small wings, that were so small none of them would have noticed them if she hadn't point them out.
"And that's my story." Clover said as she finished off the story.
"So let me get this straight. You are an alicorn, you have a twin sister you never met and your own brother captured you and Honey Bonnets? Fairy Dancer asked just to make sure she was hearing her new filly friend correctly.
"Yes" Clover said.
Something in her voice told them it was the whole truth and nothing more. This left an awkward silence in the room. After a few seconds C. Mint came in and broke the silence.
"Ok girls, it's time to get ready for The Princess' arrival." She said before leaving to return to her desk and finish grading the fillies math homework being that she was also their teacher.
The floor was already really clean because they had polished it yesterday so they just had to make themselves look presentable. Each filly took a quick three minute shower, dried and brushed their hair, washed their faces and brushed their teeth. They were now waiting for the Princess and Clover's twin, even though they still had five minutes till they would arrive. Clover had butterflies in her stomach about meeting her twin. Was she nice? Was she going to like her? What if they had nothing in common? The questions kept on whirling around in her head. She looked out the window to see several ponies, including The Princess, coming up the steps to the foster home. It was game time. No turning back now.
Knock-Knock!
C. Mint went to answer the door.
"Thank you for coming, your majesty." she said as she and the fillies bowed.
The Princess and Scootaloo walked up to Clover who was still bowing.
"Clover, I would like you to meet Scootaloo. She is your twin." Celestia said to the little filly.
Clover looked up to see the Princess and an orange alicorn filly with a purplish mane, who she presumed was Scootaloo. She got up and shaked hooves with the filly.
"Hi Clover, I'm Scootaloo!" Scoot said enthusiastically.
"Hi" Clover replied shyly.
After a few minutes of trying to get Clover to open up a little, she did. As it turns out they had a lot in common. For one thing they both knew Sweetie Belle and AJ. They talked for several hours, as they introduced each other to their friends, introduced Scoot's friends to Clover's friends (and vice versa), playing with Honey Bonnets and just plainly getting to know each other. About eight hours later it was time to go. Rainbow Dash had arranged for all of them to stay in a hotel, predicting that Scootaloo might want to spend another day with her sisters.