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// Friend (Epilogue) 
// Story: Musical Preferences 
// by Lunae 
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Vinyl's mouth flew open when Lawrence said those words. Her eyes widened as she stared at Octavia expectantly. Octavia had stopped playing, much to the dismay of the crowd. The crowd began to thin as silence began to fill the night once again.

"Oh, Lawrence, yes please."

Lawrence replied with a simple smile. He gave a card with his phone number on it to Octavia, who nearly fainted.

"Thank you, Lawrence. Thank you so much. And thank you, everypony!" Octavia added, addressing the whole crowd, though most of the ponies had left. "I wouldn't have done it without you. But I cannot express my thanks to you, Vinyl Scratch."

Vinyl stepped back in surprise. "What? What did I do?"

"Oh, Vinyl. If you hadn't invited me to your party, I wouldn't have learned to accept that some ponies are into different things than I am, and that's okay. I was intolerant to electro music because I was so into my classic. Since I had so much fun at that party, I thought to invite you to this concerto, and if you hadn't gotten us kicked out, I wouldn't have stayed to watch everypony leave. If I hadn't stayed to watch everypony leave, I wouldn't have talked to Mr. Lawrence, and he wouldn't have asked me to play, and he wouldn't have invited me to play with his group. Thank you, Vinyl."

Vinyl looked at Octavia in surprise. Had she really done that much? She glanced at Annie, who was watching the scene before her in silence and shock.

"Well Octavia, I'm so happy for you. Now go ahead and play with those ponies, friend."

Octavia and Vinyl stared each other in the eye. Two friends, seemingly opposite, had joined together and created something beautiful.