Everypony sat in silence.
What could they say? What SHOULD they say?
Vinyl glared at the two ponies who had created her, and her one and only brother. Octavia watched Vinyl, worryingly. Lyra, Bon Bon, and Lucky Streak looked at one another, almost frightened. Vinyl's parents shifted uncomfortably. Long Play glared at his parents as well. And Neon just looked bored.
They were all seated at the table as dinner was almost ready. However, nopony made a move to check on the food.
After a few minutes, the sound of a timer in the kitchen went off, causing Vinyl's mother to get up silently in order to get the food.
She came back and placed food on the table, ignoring the glares her foals gave her. Once she finished, she sat back down next to her ex-husband.
Everypony started eating, except for Vinyl and Long Play. The ponies that were eating, didn't take their eyes off the other ponies.
After a few more minutes of this, everypony heard a groan. They turned to find Neon looking annoyed.
"Okay, seriously, this is getting boring. Is anypony going to say something or are we just going to sit here all day?" Neon asked annoyed, causing Octavia, Lyra, and Bon Bon to glare at him.
"Do you want them to talk because they should resolve their problem, or do you want them to talk because you’re bored?" Lyra questioned, her eyes narrowing.
Neon shrugged before he continued to eat.
"I believe Neon is right," Octavia stated, finally causing Vinyl to stop glaring in order to look at her marefriend in confusion, "I believe we should all leave the Scratch family alone to talk."
With that, Octavia got up with her food and walked out of the room. Everypony watched her leave before Lyra, Bon Bon, Lucky Streak, and Neon joined her.
Once everypony was out, the room went back into silence. After a minute, Vinyl's mother let out a sigh.
"I'm guessing I'll have to explain some things."
Vinyl and Long Play nodded, still glaring.
Vinyl's mother let out one more sigh before she started to explain what had happened.
~•~•~•~•~
"Caramel is the husband of that gray mare that was with our daughter before," Vinyl's mother explained, slightly shocked that the father did not know this already.
"Oh.... and why is he important?" Vinyl's father asked, tilting his head.
Vinyl's mom let out a slight groan of annoyance before she continued to explain, "That gray mare is named Octavia and is dating Vinyl."
Vinyl's father's eyes went wide.
"Yep," Vinyl mother said, laughing slightly, "Just like us, isn't that just peachy? Well, at least she has a good reason for it. Caramel is emotionally abusing the mare, so she is trying to move on. Unlike you who just decided to date some random mare."
Vinyl's father's eyes shifted around the room, causing the mother's eyes to narrow. He was definitely hiding something.
"S-so who is Neon, exactly." Vinyl's father asked.
"Neon is Vinyl's ex-stallion friend, who ALSO cheated on her, just like you," Vinyl's mother replied, her voice sounding slightly hurt.
"I'm guessing they all came here to explain the situation better?" Vinyl's father questioned, causing the mother to nod her head in response.
And then, it became silent. They stayed there silent for a while, until suddenly the mother looked up, tears in her eyes as she asked,
"Why?"
"I'm gay."
Vinyl's mother's eyes widened.
"W-wha-"
"I'm gay," The father stated again, "Well, I think I am. I might be bisexual. I don't know what I am. You see, that 'mare' you keep referring to was actually a stallion. I met him and was instantly attracted to him but that just made me more confused because I also liked you."
"THEN WHY DID YOU MARRY ME?!" The mother screamed, tears rolling down her face.
"I-I don't know!" The father exclaimed, "I've been trying to figure out my life the moment since I met that stallion! Sometimes I feel attracted to a stallion and sometimes to a mare, but the weird thing is, is that sometimes I feel I don't like them at all! Yeah that’s right, one minute I'll go from being in love to wanting to break things off!"
"W-why did you date him?!" The mother asked, still trying to comprehend the situation.
"Because I thought it would clear things up but it only made it worse! I would have probably just left him for you since we had foals but then you found out I was dating somepony and we broke it off!"
It was too much, the mother collapsed to the floor, shaking and sobbing. It was too much for her to comprehend.
She looked up when she felt her once lover rub her back. He was frowning, he looked as though he was in regret.
"And that's why I'm here. I don't want to bring up old scars, but I need to. I need to explain what happened and I need to meet my foals. But most of all, I need to apologize. So I'm sorry. I'm sorry for the pain I've brought to you and the rest of our family. And I know you may never want to forgive me, but I need to tell you that."
The two never broke eye contact as the father stated his apology. Once he finished, the mother wrapped her hooves around the stallion and pulled herself up. Once up, she pushed the stallion onto her bed before crawling next to him and wrapping her hooves around him.
"A part of me never stopped loving you. There are still some nights I stay up thinking about what life could have been like if we were together," The mother confessed, staring up at the ceiling.
"I've done that too," The father replied, "I have also wondered what our foals are like. I've wanted to meet them for so long."
The mother froze slightly as she felt the father run his hoof through her mane. After a second, however, she started to relax into the touch.
"I'm sorry." The father apologized.
"I know."
And with that, the two became silent, enjoying the embrace before they drifted off into slumber.
~•~•~•~•~
"YOU'RE GAY?!" Long Play screamed.
Vinyl's father nodded, "Yes. I am. And I know this is probably a shock to you."
Long Play did LOOK shock, his glasses were falling off and you could see all the emotions he was going through by just looking at his eyes.
"Okay. Good for you. Can we move on to the next problem?" Vinyl asked, sounding slightly annoyed.
Vinyl's mother blinked. "You're not shocked?"
"Well, maybe I would be if you guys ACTUALLY TOLD ME ABOUT HIM!" Vinyl exclaimed.
Vinyl's father turned to the mother, "You haven't told her about me?"
Vinyl's mother and the Long Play cringed.
"Well... I told her about what happened to you.... but nothing else," Vinyl's mother explained.
"Yeah!" Vinyl said, getting up from her seat, "You guys even had a picture of him and you didn't show it to me!"
"I didn't want you to know the pain I went through. Or the pain our mom went through," Long Play explained, sounding as though he was pleading.
"I'm not a foal!" Vinyl yelled, tears forming in her eyes, "He's my dad! I need to know these things! I could understand if you waited until I was older, but not so old that I live in my own apartment!"
"Vinyl, listen, we needed to because-"
"NO NO!" Vinyl screamed, interrupting her mom, "I don't want your bullshit excuses! I’m done! You want me to tell you all about my relationship with Octy, but you won't even tell me about YOUR relationship with my OWN FATHER!"
"Vinyl, listen!" Long Played yelled, however, Vinyl ignored him as she stormed out of the room.
~•~•~•~•~
"Are we really just going to play cards?" Neon asked, extremely bored.
"Well, it's the only thing we can do without making me want to murder you," Lyra explained, "and even it's barely working."
When everypony left the Scratch family, they had decided to play poker. However, Octavia could not pay attention as she was too worried for her marefriend.
"Are you alright?" Lucky Streak asked, noticing how Octavia kept looking at the door.
Octavia sighed, "Yes Lucky Streak, I am just worried. Knowing Vinyl, she is a pony who won't listen to reason for things that have caused her pain.
Lucky Streak raised his eyebrow, "What do you mean."
"Well-" Octavia started explaining before she heard the door slam opened. If everypony were too focused on their game, they may not have noticed the white and blue flash that zoomed out of the room and out of the house.
It didn't take long for everypony to realize what was going on.
"Vinyl!" Octavia exclaimed as she chased after the mare.
"Shit," Lyra said, worried as she and Bon Bon followed after Octavia.
"Shouldn't you go follow them?" Neon asked.
"No, I want to stay here," Lucky Streak replied, glaring at the stallion, "I want to ask you some things."
~•~•~•~•~
Why don't they trust me? Why do they think I can't handle things I can? Why do things just keep getting worse? Why, why, why, WHY?!
These were the things Vinyl thought as she ran, she didn't know where she was running but she kept on running.
She ran past the homes, around ponies, through the woods, past lakes. It seemed she was going to keep on running until she made it all the way to Mainhatten, however, she soon learned this was not the case when she ended up to Sweet Apple Acres.
To think, just an hour ago she was here with Octavia, kissing, wrestling, and laughing. As Vinyl scanned the farm, more tears fell down her face.
"Vinyl!" She heard somepony call.
She didn't take the time to analyze the voice before she ran into the farm. She was afraid it would be her family, the last ponies she wanted to see at this moment.
They don't care. If they cared they would tell me the truth, so they don't care. Why should I trust them if they don't even trust me?
Vinyl then stopped. She was panting and she believed she lost whoever was chasing her. Vinyl looked up, she was on a hill, the same hill she and Octavia were laying before. She could see the beautiful night sky. She sat down, staring at the sky.
She didn't cry. Only sat and stared. She was thinking of her life, everything in her life.
Her thoughts were stopped when she felt somepony rub her back.
She jumped, prepared to yell at her mother, only to find Octavia there.
Vinyl closed her mouth. She let Octavia pull Vinyl into a hug. Vinyl buried her muzzle into Octavia's chest as she cried.
These tears were not just for how her family never told her of her own father. These were tears for everything. Today she had hit her breaking point. After getting cheated on, lied to, hurt, she had finally hit her limit.
"How do you do it?" Vinyl asked, sniffling.
"Do what?" Octavia asked in a motherly tone.
"How do you handle everything? I could barely handle the things I've gone through, and those things passed on, well, until now. But you, you handled fifteen years of pain and even now it's not over."
Octavia chuckled, "To be honest with you Vinyl, I don't know. I guess I just never gave up hope that I would one day be free and find somepony who I loved."
Vinyl sniffled again, "You're really strong Tavi."
Octavia smiled, "You're strong too Vinyl. You're the strongest mare I know."
"Thanks, Octy," Vinyl replied, nuzzling closer to the mare.
"Thank Celestia you found her!" A voice exclaimed, causing Vinyl to jump.
"You alright Vinyl?" Another voice asked getting closer to the two mares.
Vinyl finally lifted her head up from Octavia to see her best friends standing there, worried.
"What did you guys think I would do? There aren't any bars in Ponyville," Vinyl asked with a grin.
Lyra grinned back, "You know, your grin doesn't work when you have tear stains on your cheeks."
Vinyl blushed before rubbing her cheeks, "Oh what?!"
Lyra laughed while Bon Bon got closer to the DJ before hugging her.
"Are you alright Vinyl?" Bon Bon asked.
Vinyl chuckled, "Yeah, I'm alright Bonnie. But you should probably stop hugging me, I think Lyra is getting jealous."
"Nah," Lyra replied, "We can just share marefriends." With that said, Lyra put her hoof over Octavia.
"Off," Octavia commanded.
"Yes ma'am," Lyra replied, taking her hoof off the cellist.
"C'mon Lyra! You need to be more persistent if you want to date Octy!" Vinyl exclaimed before getting up.
"Vinyl, what are you-" Octavia asked before Vinyl brought her into a bone crushing hug.
"Vinyl. Stop. You’re crushing me!" Octavia yelled, however, Vinyl stayed clung to the cellist.
"Nah. Besides, I know you like this Tavi," Vinyl replied as she hugged the cellist even harder.
"Okay Vinyl, I think you should stop before you kill the poor mare," Bon Bon said, worried.
"C'mon Bonnie! Let them hug. You know what? We should do it too!" Lyra exclaimed before she hugged her own marefriend.
"Ah! Lyra!" Bon Bon giggled.
~•~•~•~•~
The four mares stayed there for awhile, just talking and having a good time.
They were now on their way back to Vinyl's old home, where they knew drama awaited them.
However, when they opened the door, what they didn't expect to find was everypony gone except for Long Play.
"Long Play, where is everypony?" Vinyl asked.
"Thank Celestia, you're back!" Long Play exclaimed, relieved, "Well, something happened between Lucky Streak and Neon which caused them to both storm out of the house. Me, mom, and dad all waited for you four to get back before mom and dad decided to go to sleep."
"I'm guessing we are now all going to have a long conversation in the morning," Lyra assumed, to which Long Play nodded.
"Well then, we all better get some sleep," Bon Bon suggested.
Once that was said, the ponies all made their way to their rooms.
Vinyl sat down on her bed, ready to get a good night's sleep with her marefriend. She expected Octavia to join her immediately, however, she found that the cellist was not even in the room.
With a groan, Vinyl got up to find her marefriend. After some searching, she found Octavia on her phone in the living room.
"You alright Tavi?" Vinyl asked.
Octavia nodded her head, "I’m just trying to contact Lucky Streak to ask him what happened."
Vinyl seemed slightly worried by this, which confused Octavia.
"Well, I bet he'll answer in the morning," Vinyl reassured.
Octavia sighed, "You're probably right. Come on, let's get to bed."
Vinyl smiled before she rushed upstairs, causing the cellist to laugh.
As Octavia made her way up the stairs she stopped when she felt a buzz.
She took out her phone to find a new message from Lucky Streak.
'Hey. I’m guessing you're calling about Neon. Well, I don't really want to talk about it now. However, I will tell you one thing. What I learned in that conversation, may change how we view this whole thing.'