//------------------------------// // Chapter 8 // Story: Unexpected Love // by Vinyl Scratch //------------------------------// Vinyl turned in bed and threw her hoof out expecting there to be a pony laying next to her. Her hoof patted along the entire bed trying to find Octavia to no avail. When Vinyl was convinced she wasn't there, she attempted to roll out of bed and land on her feet. However, when she rolled she was closer to the edge of the bed than she thought, causing her to collapse to the floor with a loud groan. Vinyl slowly picked herself off the floor and wandered off into the living room before collapsing onto the couch. "Why am I up so early?" She thought to herself, "I just need a few more minutes..." Vinyl had closed her eyes for a brief second before being launched off the couch by the grey mare who was frantically packing up the few items they brought with them "Wake up Vinyl! The carriage is not going to wait forever." She said as she picked up the pace, roughly grabbing her cello case. Octavia rushed to the door, impatiently waiting for Vinyl. "Come on Vinyl, we really must hurry!" "I'll be there in a sec, just give me time to grab some room service." She said heading towards the kitchen table to pick up a carton of orange juice. "There is no time for that! Fix your mane and lets go!" Octavia said impatiently. "We don't want to keep the nice colts waiting." "Ugh! Fine." Vinyl said in an irritated voice before shaking her head rapidly for a couple of seconds, and when she stopped her mane was back to it's original frizzy self. "There, you happy Octy? Now lets go, I'll just take some other pony's food I guess." "You will do no such thing Vinyl." Octavia stated, stomping a hoof on the ground to enforce her words. "I know, I know I was just kidding." The two mares headed out the door and Octavia looked at Vinyl's mane for a brief second before speaking. "You must tell me how you trained your mane to go into place like that. It takes me nearly an hour to fix mine." "It's just comes naturally when you're as awesome as I am." "Ya, okay Vinyl. Whatever you say." "What's that supposed to mean?" "Nothing," Octavia said while entering the carriage. "Now that we are in the carriage, you can go back to sleep if you want." "Then why did I need to fix my mane?" Vinyl asked flatly. "Well, to be honest, I wanted to know how you 'fix' your mane." "Oh, well I guess I can understand. I mean no pony is as awesome as I am." Vinyl taking the seat in-front of Octavia. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Octavia was reading one of her favorite books to pass time over the ride to Ponyville. She was deep into the book now, coming to it's climax, when a loud snore interrupted her thoughts. Peeking over the top of the book she found Vinyl splayed out over her seat, a thin line of drool hanging from her mouth. "How can she sleep for twelve hours?" Octavia asked herself. Coming up with no answer, she desperately tried to get back to reading her book, but no matter how hard she tried, she could not. Octavia gave up on trying to read at current moment and just looked at the outside world through the window. She didn't see a lot of impressive things, besides a tea shop that has been open for almost a hundred years now. Something though caught her eye. a simple field that held a water fountain in its center, and a few benches that overlooked Ponyville. The carriage started to go down hill and greatly increased in speed. When it reached the bottom of the hill it came to a sudden stop. Vinyl was woken by the sudden lurching and flung off her seat. She gave a yelp before landing face first on Octavia's chest. Octavia giggled as Vinyl got on to her feet. "What are you giggling about?" "Well, it's just your fur a lot softer than I remember." "Okay. And?" "You know how the saying goes the softer the fur on a pony the weaker he or she is." "How did you manage to remember that old saying?" "I don't know it just came to me." "And I'm not weak."Vinyl stated before sitting back down, crossing her hooves. "I think you're as weak as a filly."Octavia said with a grin. "Am not!" "Prove it." Octavia said, giving a challenging smile. Vinyl put her hoofs down and gave an ear to ear grin. "Fine, I'll prove it in bed!" Vinyl shortly received a book to the face from a blushing Octavia. "That is not what I meant!" The unicorn chuckled a little. "I know. But that's how I'm going to prove it." "You will not any time soon." "I think we can start NOW!" Vinyl said as she dived for Octavia. To which the grey mare jumped to the left. "Vinyl! What is wrong with you!?" Octavia shouted as she tried to dodge the next dive, but she didn't expect Vinyl to land in-front of her. Vinyl soon got her down to the ground and on her back. She stood triumphantly over Octavia as she tried to get up. Just going to have some 'fun'. I know it's normally done in bed, but this will do." "Don't you dare Vinyl!!" The two stallions couldn't help but turn around and see what was happening. Vinyl pinned Octavia started to kiss her at the neck. Octavia was blushing harder than ever as Vinyl continued. When Vinyl reached her stomach Octavia couldn't fight back anymore.Vinyl got off and sat back down, using all her strength to not laugh. The two stallions whispered, "Damn it," and lowered their heads. Octavia was confused on what was happening and stayed on the floor for a little. "That's it?" "Why, you want me to continue?" Vinyl smiled. The two stallions brought their heads up with a smile. "No!" Octavia got up and sat back down, looking out the window while trying to get rid of her the blush. The two stallions each gave a sigh of disappointment. "You sure Octy? It looks like we got two fans who disagree." Pointing at the two stallion that quickly turned around with embarrassed blushes. "Come on guys don't be shy, we'll continue in just a second." The two stallions ears perked up at Vinyl's sentence. "WE WILL NOT!" Octavia shouted, her blush returning just as she got rid of it. "Oh fine." Vinyl said with a pout, turning to the two stallions, "Sorry guys but at least you got rain coats so no pony will see." Vinyl stood up, pushing the door open hastily. "Where are you going Vinyl?" "To Bonbon's." "We're here?" "Ya, ever since I was flung into your chest." "WHAT!? Why didn't you say so?" "Cause I was having fun. And so were those two." Vinyl said with a grin before she proceeded to walk outside. Octavia followed her but kept just a couple of hoofs away. "Vinyl I swear if you ever do that again I will hurt you." "Don't worry Octy, I'll set the mood next time." Vinyl said dodging two of Octavia's attacks before getting hit. "Lets drop this subject." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Here we are." Octavia said delighted after searching for thirty-five minutes. Vinyl proceeded to walk towards the door, pushing it open as she reached it. "Vinyl!" "What?" "You can't just enter another pony's home without knocking." "It's alright, I knew Bonbon for a long time she always let me do this." Vinyl then entered the kitchen and opened the fridge. "What the hay Vinyl!?" Octavia waited outside the house, ready to destroy Vinyl for simply being this ill mannered. "Well I see Vin-Vin hasn't changed at all." Bonbon said with a smile, appearing from a hall way with Lyra, Lyra waving Octavia in. "Not true Bonie. I got better curves than before." Vinyl stated matter-of-factly as she pulled a piece of chocolate cake from the fridge. Lyra took a seat on the couch with Octavia as Bonbon went to hug her friend. "My Celestia! You do have better curves. How do you keep those when all you do is eat cake?" Lyra and Octavia turned their heads to the kitchen, "Why are you looking at her curves?" They asked in unison. Vinyl and Bonbon giggled, "Isn't that adorable Vin-Vin I think they're already jealous of your curves." "Oh come on Bonie if they have anything to be jealous about it's... well yes my figure but also how cute you are." Vinyl gave both Octavia and Lyra a slice of cake before putting the rest on the counter. After that she threw a hoof over Bonbon, "Imagine Bonie if that Pegasus never burned our places, we would probably still be dating." Lyra and Octavia coughed out cake as they choked on some from Vinyl's statement. "YOU TWO WERE DATING!?" They said once again in unison "Ya. Vinyl and I were as happy as can be. But after we got separated I found Lyra and I'm even happier now then I was back then, uh, no offense Vinyl." "Not at all Bonbon, the same goes for me except it probably took me a little bit longer to find Octy. So stop being jelly you two . I guess I should thank that Pegasus after kicking the crap out of her." "Hey, Vinyl wanna go for walk, I can show you around the town" Bonbon asked enthusiastically. Vinyl shook her head, "Nah, I already know Ponyville, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Spitz already showed me last time I was here." "Whose Spits?" Octavia asked curious. "It's not 'Spits' it's 'Spitz'" "Okay... who's Spitz?" Octavia heard almost no difference in the name. "Well Pinkie got me a couple of gigs, one of them happened to be for one of those exclusive parties, this one was for the Wonderbolts. Man, that was one of my favorite gigs. But ya, after the party I ended up at a bar cause four of the Wonderbolts invited me there, after we all had five shots too many we decided to do a drinking competition, to which me and the captain ended up a tie. And the captain is Spitz, and Spitz is short for Spitfire." The three other ponies chocked on their cake, two of them setting down their plates least they choke for a third time. After they found a way to swallow it they just stared at Vinyl. "Why are you all looking at me like that?" "How did YOU get the SPITFIRE to go out with you?!" "I didn't ask her out, she asked me out." Vinyl gave a little chuckle. "I dated a lot of ponies that you wouldn't think I would." "Like?" "Besides Spitz?" "Ya" "You'll probably see one later." Vinyl said, making her way to the door "Now where are you going?" "To either see Pinkie, Dashie, or Spitz. who ever comes first. And to get something at Bigmac's place." And with that Vinyl left the house, leaving the other three mares to consult about what they are doing with their lives, their dreams, who else Vinyl could of dated, and how Vinyl had already finished the rest of the cake.