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// The Beginning 
// Story: The Odd Lovers 
// by Kaytikookie 
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	I opened my eyes and made a gurgling noise. My alarm clock was going off. I rubbed my eyes, dragged myself out of bed and left my bed unmade, as usual. I hurled my alarm clock across the room. I hated that thing. Reading it upside down in the corner of my room, I saw that it was 10 o'clock. I usually slept till noon, so this was new. As I started to wake up more, my senses became clearer, and I noticed that I had a massive headache. I must have jammed a little too hard last night! I love my music and I guess I thought I could jam forever. Boy, was I wrong! I never had to touch my hair to get it to look good, so I just put on my glasses and went out to meet my friends, Sparkle Pen and Cream Puff. Half way out the door I realized I needed to put something nice on today, so I snorted, trotted all the way back to my room, and put something decent on. Then, I finally went out into Ponyville. 
I breathed in the cool, crisp air and heard laughter coming from everywhere in town.  Ponies here are so easily happy! Mr. and Mrs. Cake were giving out free samples to a giggling group of fillies, and the one in the middle saw me and waved. I recognized her too. She skipped over to me while her friends were persuading the Cakes to give them more. 
"Hi Vinyl! My sister told me you did great DJing last night!", she practically yelled. 
"Hey Blossom! Tell her i said thanks, will ya?" I said. Her sister was big on parties and usually went to all my events. I pointed my horn towards the other fillies, "You better get back to your friends. They're getting more samples and I think you should get some too." She waved her hoof goodbye and she ran back over to the store. You see, I try to act cool- Scratch that. I am cool, but she is one of the few things in my life that can break through it and make me act uncool. But I don't mind.
Sparkle Pen is big on classical music, and she heard the local orchestra was going to be playing today. Now, everypony knows the kind of music I like, and that's not it. Somehow though, she persuaded me to go along. Only because she invited Cream Puff too, and that means I wouldn't be the only one suffering. Cream Puff is a lot like me in musical taste. 
When I showed up at Sparkle pen's door, I heard a yell and a couple of seconds later I saw the door open. It was Cream Puff, and boy did she look like she was uncomfortable in her suit. She tugged on her collar, "Hey Vinyl, Sparkle pen is upstairs doing finishing touches." She laughed, "You look like you'd rather be dead right now!" I coughed and grumbled, "Yeah, I would! I hate wearing this!" I imitated choking myself with my own collar. 
"Well, we'll get this over with and then she'll owe us!" She winked at me. Sparkle Pen made her way downstairs looking amazing and leaving Cream Puff and I feeling even more uncomfortable and dorky. "You ready to go?" She asked, then she saw me, "Oh hi Vinyl! just in time!" And after a few final touches on her make-up at the door, we headed off the concert. 
When we arrived at the theater, We handed our tickets to the pony at the door. He seemed to approve of all of our clothing, which boosted out confidence a little bit, and i ended up laughing out loud for no reason. I felt like something good was going to come out of this, I just didn't know what. 
We took our front row seats, which I have no idea how she managed to get, and Sparkle Pen must have noticed how over-civilized Cream Puff and I were behaving. She looked at us and started giggling! "I have never seen you guys so behaved before! It's unreal!" We lightly punched her shoulders and we saw that the lights were flashing. That meant it was about to start. We all hushed up and prepared ourselves to listen. The lights lit up on the stage and the orchestra was sitting there. I honestly had no idea what these instruments were called, but they looked kinda cool! Sparkle Pen saw the confusion on my face and pointed her hoof at each of the sections, explaining what each instrument was. I hadn't payed much attention to the faces of the ponies playing, but when her hoof pointed over to the bass section, I stopped listening. I couldn't take my eyes away from one of the base players. She was grey and had a dark grey mane. A purple-ish pink bow-tie was fastened on her neck. I had never seen her before in my life, but my heart started beating extremely fast. Now, I'm not one for love, and she definitely looked like the opposite of my type, but she looked absolutely stunning to me anyways. I had to find out who she was. By now the music had already begun. I tapped Sparkle Pen on the shoulder, but she waved me away. She was absorbed in the music. Whatever. I whispered to Cream Puff to look in the pamphlet and find out what her name was. She was bored, of course. I pointed to the beautiful mare. She flipped through until she came across her photo. She whispered, "Her name is Octavia. Why do you want to know?" I thought for a second on whether or not to tell her the truth. I decided to. "Because I think I have a huge crush on her." I said quietly. She replied with a questioning gaze and faced the performers again. I watched Octavia's every movement the rest of the night. She was flawless, perfect, and made me act totally unlike myself. I guess she'd be one of those ponies who would make me act uncool. But more importantly, I was all too happy to do just that.