"Red, wake up!" I slowly open my eyes to see a fuzzy blob of cream white and chocolate brown.
"M-Mocha..?"
"Hi~!" She smiles widely, her dark green eyes become super wide.
"How did you-"
"Get in the cottage? Did you forget? Your mom gave me an extra key!" She jumps up and down on my bed with this weird aura of excitement.
"Can you not?" This, most over used, saying slips through my lips as I stare at the bright mare groggily. In which she looks over at me and steps to the side of my bed,
"Sorry~!" She smirks apologetically. I sigh and put my hoof to my face, as it falls back down to my side and I slowly get out of my bed, stretching my wings slowly.
"Either way, what do you need..?" I yawn and my long messy streaks of sandy blonde get in my eyes a bit.
"Ooohh, yeah, so you're sleeping in and I didn't think you wanted to walk into Miss Cherlie's class-"
"I'M LATE?! WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY THIS EARLIER!!" I quickly start galloping around my room, rushing to find my satchel. Suddenly, the hoof sewn fabric satchel floats in front of me with a light green sparkly cloud around it,
"Is this it?" Mocha giggles and I sigh in relief.
"Yes! Thank you.." I grab it and put it around me. I look over at my friend and shift my head towards the door. She nods with a nervous smile and follows me down the steps. But to my demise, my mother, Cotton Note, is still home. "H-Hey ma.."
"Oooohhh, Little Melody decided to sleep in?" She looks down at me with a slightly disappointed look, I slowly make my eye contact with the dark wooden flooring. She sighs and starts to laugh,
"Don't act so ashamed Red, Mocha already made me aware of the whole situation." My eyes widen and slowly squint as I look over at Mocha who waves her hoof and giggles nervously. I huff and then, suddenly, my mom gasps, "You are not going out like that! If you're going to be late, you're going to be fashionably late!"
"No!!" I try to gallop away but I suddenly get pulled into the air, with a dark green almost dark blue sparkly cloud of magic, towards her. "Put me down!!" I struggle with more effort than usual but nothing works. She slowly lowers me to ground and in just a few seconds my mane was put into a braid that curls by the side and to the front of my velvet red body. The ends of my mane naturally dyed sky blue, the colors swirl together with in the braid and the blue is the only mane color I can see for my bangs.
"Awweee, you look so cute~" I slightly blow the bangs out of my eyes and Mocha perks up,
"Red thanks you very much for the hair style but we really must head out Ms. Note~" Mocha winks at me as I nod in agreement with everything she's saying.
"Well have fun you two, and don't come home after dusk. Love you sweetie." She kisses my head and pushes me off with her giant orchid pink wing.
"Love you too, bye ma! Come on Mocha!" I start to gallop out the door and she quickly follows.
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We arrive at the school and slowly push open the door. The whole classroom becomes quite and the teacher doesn't look too happy.
"Well students, looks like RedVelvet Melody and Vanilla Mocha decided to finally show up to class." She squints at us and marks down something on her note board and goes back to teaching. We quickly make our way to the back where our empty seats are between all of our friends. There's Galaxy Nebula, the seat where I sit, Fallout, Scythea ( but we usually just call him Icy ), and then Mocha is at the end ( from left to right ). I take my seat and Galaxy looks like he's trying to hold back uncontrollable laughter, I squint at him and whisper,
"What's so funny?" He holds back the sounds of his laughs,
"Teach is so mad at y'all~" I roll my eyes and look over at Fallout who frantically looks at something else and brakes his stare at me, I giggle and his cheeks turn beet red.
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The bell rings and echoes throughout the playground area as the door swings open and happy young mares and colts trot out talking to their fellow peers. While me and my group make our way to my big sister's first talent concert. She's so cool and so good at her djing, she puts the great Skrill X DJ to shame.
"So Red, isn't Vinyl teaming up with this Octavia mare that's a cellist?" Mocha asks in an intrigued manor.
"Oh Octy, yeah! They're amazing together, Vinyl told me that after this event, they're gonna go get they're own cottage and help each other with a music company thing....just wish I was that good.." I sigh concerned, but then suddenly, Fallout finally speaks up,
"W-Well, if anything Mel, I think y-you're a great m-musician.." I look over at him with a light smile as he smiles back with a blush still painted on his face.
"Thanks Fallout...but what's the use? My first name is a type of cake and I haven't even got a clue what my cutie mark could be.." My eyes focus down on a white cream spot where my cutie mark should be.
"Well then maybe you'll be a singing chef!" Icy gallops up in front of me, strutting his golden wings and horn. I laugh,
"At least you can have high hopes! Your an alicorn! The best of the best!" He sticks out his tongue and slows down so he can walk by Mocha,
"You only say that because of your mom." Regretting my stereotyping, I shut my mouth and keep walking until we make it to the talent arena. As we walk in we make a V-line to the backstage area as I spot my sister,
"Vinyl!!" I gallop over to her and hug her, she smiles and hugs me back. She doesn't really speak much at all but, I know she was saying hello, just by the way she looked at me.
"Oh, am I not good enough for one?" Octavia pouts,
"Oops!" I turn around and hug her and a smile slowly appears as she grabs my cheeks and coos,
"You're getting so big and your eyes are like the Caribbean blue~" Octavia looks over at Vinyl and turns my face to look at my sister, "Don't you agree Vinyl?" Vinyl lightly nods and goes back to listening to her practice runs. Octavia lets me go as she goes and coos over all my other friends, even if she didn't know the pony. A random colt comes running to Vinyl with a heavily edited picture of her at the turn tables. A charcoal mane and blood red eyes, he was filled with excitement and nervousness.
"W-Will you s-sign m-my picture, please~?" She smiles and signs her name with her cutie mark at the end. Vinyl grabs me and messes up my mane a little bit,
"Oi! Ma did that for me earlier today!" She looks like she's about to laugh and the colt looks dumbfounded.
"You're THE VINYL SCRATCH'S sister?!" I look over at him and wink,
"You got it." Mocha trots over and smiles.
"Your name is Valerium, right?" His eyes widen and a light blush can barely be seen.
"Y-Yeah, how did you-"
"Know? You're in class with the rest of us, don't you ever pay attention?" He shakes his head nervously and Mocha puts out her hoof, "Vanilla Mocha, coffee mare." Valerium puts out his hoof to hers and shakes it softly,
"Valerium, vampire colt." He smiles and his fangs are fairly visible. Mocha gets excited and starts asking him a load of questions. I turn around to talk to Galaxy but he's fawning over a bright purple filly with light blonde hair. The stage manager calls Octavia and Vinyl to go on stage, I wish them luck, and pull every pony with me into the crowd. The stage gets foggy and the first string is played gently