//------------------------------// // Part 1 - The Early Days // Story: Sweet Strings // by DashCamp(IDBrony) //------------------------------// Sweet Strings Julian - CsCamper - DashCamp(IDBrony) Part 1 – The Early Days Two years, it has been two years since Octavia ran from home. Her family was sad, but there is also somepony who was sad, Lyra was still hiding under her blanket, she didn’t believe that Octavia ran from home. Her best friend and her first love, Lyra was still young but she already knew what love is. She couldn’t ignore the warm feeling in her, the more she resisted, the more she suffered in emotional pain. Her love is forbidden, she knew about it, but her heart didn’t listen to her. Lyra cried hard on her bed, she hadn’t confessed her love to her, at least she wanted to told Octavia her feeling, but Octavia just left, she ran away from home. Her mind flew back to seven years ago, when she first entered Ponyville school. Lyra was very nervous when her parents left her at the school alone, with a room full of fillies and a stranger. She cried a lot, she missed her parents. Her cries made another fillies in the class cried too, the class was filled with crying except from one. Lyra stopped her tears when she saw a filly, her mane was softly combed, her eyes was straight, and her grin was full. Since then Lyra had always been curious about her, she followed her almost everywhere. The curiosity filled Lyra, made Octav a bit annoyed, but she didn’t care about it. A year passed, the school received new students that year. That year, she saw another filly who drawn her attention. A little filly with strong personality, she has never seen her cry before, she was a bit rough. But Lyra didn’t put a lot of attention to that filly, her mind was still filled with the filly which had been bothering her for a year. She gathered up her courage, trotted slowfully to the filly, and greeted her. Lyra received a warm welcome, “Hi” soft voice came from the little filly’s mouth, she was smiling very wide. “Hi, my name is Lyra, want to be friends with me?” , Lyra still remembered the first sentence she asked to her. The warm welcome invited them to a beautiful friendship, unknown to Lyra, she, was Octav’s only friend at school. Octav seemed to interact well with the other fillies, but, Lyra was her only friend. Another year passed, Lyra’s parents bought her a Lyre, Lyra’s parent chose her name “Lyra” because she had always pointed at the Lyre everytime they passed the music shop. Lyra played the lyre pretty well, but it wasn’t her real talent. And Lyra was still filled with curiosity of Octavia, the beautiful filly with only one friend, her. But that year was different, she couldn’t see any of Octav’s grin that year. Her face was filled with frowns, Lyra tried to cheer her up but it was no use. At home, Lyra asked her mom about Octav, “Mum, why Octav don’t  want to smile anymore?”, “Oh.. Lyra, I heard that she is having a problem in her family, maybe you shouldn’t bother her so much, okay Lyra?”, “Okay, mum.”. Lyra tried to cheer up Octavia a lot of time, Octav didn’t show a single grin.  Lyra always tried new ways to cheer her friends up, but none of it work. But Lyra didn’t give up, she tried everyday, from school to Octav’s house, but nothing changed. One day, Lyra was preparing her books when she saw a note on her desk, “Please be mine”, Lyra didn’t care about it and just put it in her desk. The note continued almost everyday, and her desk already filled with love notes from stranger. It continued until Heart and Hooves day, Lyra wanted to confess to Octav,  but she didn’t have the courage. Unknown to her, another foal was peeking at her with love note in her hooves. Third year at school and Octav’s grin was still covered with frowns, Lyra had tried a lot, but Octav slowly avoided her. Lyra asked herself what was wrong with her, she couldn’t find any answer, because it was Octav who was having a problem. Octav might have avoided her, but Lyra is a stubborn filly, she never stopped trying. One day, Octavia’s sad frown suddenly turned into very big smile. Lyra couldn’t see what was inside Octavia’s head, “At least she is happy now”, Lyra said to her self. And another surprise followed Octav’s smile, Octav asked Lyra to play music with her because she  just learned to play a Cello, Lyra was very happy at that time, but somepony didn’t feel the same. Another year of studies passed, and Lyra’s school life turned better and better. Octavia played her Cello with Lyra almost everyday, Lyra felt closer to Octav and her heart felt warmer everytime she played with her. But still, Lyra was too shy about her feeling, she might have known about the word ‘love’, but she was still a little filly after all. She hid her feeling everytime she was with Octavia, because Octavia looked at her only as a best friend. Day by day, Lyra felt a strong feeling, not from the inside, but from the outside. She felt nervous, she looked around and nothing suspicious in sight. Not far away, another filly was stalking her. Fifth year, a rough year which Lyra couldn’t forget about. The school were going to celebrate the yearly event, and that year, Lyra’s class was old enough to attend the event. Octav attended the music competition, and Lyra only cheered her out from the stage, she didn’t feel like taking part in the event. The event was going to be the best year for Lyra, but everything changed. Right after the winner announcement, Octavia’s Grandpa, Alto, collapsed right next to her. Octav and her mother quickly took her Grandpa to the hospital, Lyra heard no more news after that because the teacher sent their students right back home. The next day, Lyra was going to her class as usual, but it was different because Octav didn’t  greet her when she arrived at the class. “Hi, Octav” and “What’s the matter?”  which came from Lyra’s mouth weren’t enough to make Octav talk, she was very quiet. Two days, Octav was still quiet as a tree. One week passed, Octav didn’t come to the school, Lyra felt really worried that she decided to go to Octav’s house that day. But that day turned from white to black so suddenly, “Octavia.... ran away from home”, that was what Octavia’s mom told her while crying. “B-but, why...?”, Lyra asked herself repeatedly, but the sky didn’t side on her, Octav didn’t come back. To be continued.... *Author notes: Oh.. hi, everypony, lovely August, isn't it? Oh... well, I started another story, and as you know, this is the final of my 'Three Musical Pony'. Update would like.. every 2-3 days maybe? And I decided to write a new story every month, which mean monthly update :3. Long short story, here's this month's story, final of 'Three Musical Pony', read and enjoy, every kind of critics and comments are welcomed.