“If heaven and hell decide, that they both are satisfied...
Illuminate the no's, on their vacancy signs...
If there's no one beside you, when your soul embarks...
Then I'll follow you into the dark...
Then I'll follow you... into the dark...”
“...that was really beautiful. How long have you been practicing that?” Vinyl asked me, glancing up and down my guitar.
“The better part of this year, I guess. I heard that song a long time ago, but it wasn’t until then that I thought to start learning it,” I told her, pulling one of my cloths out of my gig bag.
“Well you’ve obviously come a long way since then,” Octavia said, casting a warm smile at me. I quickly wiped down my guitar, before putting it back in its bag.
“Thanks... the F chord is still giving me a bit of trouble, but I’ve worked it out to the point where I can sort of make it sound good,” I smiled back. Vinyl, who was evidently tired of waiting for me, stood up and went into the kitchen.
“Is the food ready yet? I’m starving!” she exclaimed.
“You know what? I doubt that very much,” I smirked.
“And why would you do that? Look at the poor filly, you can practically see her ribs!” Octavia poked at Vinyl, giving her a large grin to go with it.
“Hey! There’s a difference between me appreciating fine cuisine and pigging out, okay?” Vinyl placed a hoof on her chest.
“And which one are you going to do this season?” I asked her with a cocked eyebrow.
“Pfft, both... duh,” she said as she turned and went into the kitchen. Octavia and I looked at each other before sharing a laugh. She then turned to face me.
“So Daniel, do you have any plans for after today?” she turned her head.
“I mean... there’s usually some pretty good sales for after the holidays at Donut Joes’s... that’s not a bad idea,” I told her.
“Not that, silly. I mean things like family, or parties,” she giggled.
“Eh, not really. You know I don’t like parties, and my family is in Manehatten visiting the other side... so I guess I don’t really have any plans after this Hearth’s Warming, no,” I thought aloud.
“I suppose that makes sense... what about friends? Is there anyone that you want to go and see? Anyone special in your life?”
“Hm... there’s a few people I might go and see... yeah, that’s not a bad idea. And... no, there’s no ‘special somepony’ in my life right now,” I confessed to my friend.
“Aw well... you know what they say. There are more unhelpful metaphors and anecdotes about finding someone to share your love with than there are chances to find someone special!” Octavia recited to me.
“Is that... is that what they say?”
“Something like that, I never really bothered to check that one.”
“Ha! I believe it, trust me.”
Before we could continued our discussion, Vinyl trudged back into the room, with a box full Hearth’s Warming lights in tow.
“Come on Daniel. I want to put these lights up and I need your extended reach to help me,” she ordered me. I shot my gaze between her and Octavia.
“...you do know that your magic can reach all the way to the top of the house, right?” I asked her, full well knowing what the answer was going to be.
“Yeah, but I don’t want to go and do this alone, now come on. You too Octavia, let’s go,” she commanded us, not giving us the choice. Octavia and I glanced at each other, before shrugging and getting off of the couch.
“You do know that today is Hearth’s Warming, right? Why are the lights only going up now?” I asked Vinyl.
“Because I completely forgot that we had them, and I am not going to let them go to waste this year,” she responded.
“You know they’ll still be around next year too, right?” I questioned her.
“...you have literally no proof of that.”