//------------------------------// // Needs more ellipses // Story: Living with the music // by Wafflegodman //------------------------------// Octavia stopped supporting me as I got the hang of putting one hoof in front of the other. The silence between me and Octavia started to get awkward, and I was searching desperately for something to say, alas I could conjure nothing up in my head, but I seem to be an incredibly lucky mare, for Octavia broke the silence for me. "Listen, I'm more then happy to let you live with me... but I won't be in Manehatten for very long. I'll be touring with the Royal Canterlot Orchestra. Don't worry though, I have a friend that was going to take care of my house, and I'm sure that she would be more then happy to look after you." She said giving me a smile. For some reason I thought I heard a hint of doubt in her voice. We spent a good half-hour walking the short distance to her house, which was actually a penthouse apartment on top of a large building. We took the main elevator up to the 30th floor, and walked down the hall a bit to another elevator that required a key to access. When we got inside the elevator, I noticed that it only had two buttons on the inside of it, up and down. Octavia clicked the button to make us go up, the doors promptly shut, and we were off. When the doors opened again I was greeted by the sight of a very neat looking apartment, if you could call it that. The roof was lined with skylights, and the apartment had an 'open' scheme. Their were no doors that I could see, everything looked like it belonged there, save for one crushed can in the middle of the, what I presumed to be, living room. Apparently the can wasn't suppose to be there, for Octavia's face changed from a pleasant expression to no expression at all. If you want the truth, I was terrified. Then she uttered one simple word, "Vinyl". She started to become very red, and I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't be exaggerating if I said she had steam coming out of her ears. "Vinyl!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. A mare with a white coat and an electric blue mane came around the corner. "Sup treble clef?" she said without even looking at us. "Don't call me treble clef!" Octavia yelled. "Whatever tavi." the mare, that I presumed was named Vinyl, retorted with a smug grin plastered on her face as she looked at us for the first time. "Really Vinyl?" Octavia asked. "Alright I'll stop, but just cause you seem to have a guest...Octy." Vinyl said. "You know what... never mind, I have some stuff to tell you." Octavia told Vinyl. "Like where you met another mare with red eyes?" Vinyl asked as she walked up to me. "Kind of, lets go sit down." Octavia walked in and took her place on a nearby couch. Vinyl and I soon followed. "So... what's up." Vinyl asked. "Enigma here," Octavia motioned toward me. "is going to be staying here with you." "ALLL RIGHT!" vinyl yelled as she jumped up into the air. "You ain't never been to a party like a DJ Pon-3 party!" "Who's DJ Pon-3?" I asked. "What, are you blind, I've never heard of anypony who hasn't heard of me." Vinyl said, with her mood deflating. "Yes." I informed. "Yes, what?" Vinyl asked as she lifted her head to look at me. "I am blind, but only in my left eye." I continued. "Oh, sorry man, I didn't mean to... yeah, but anyway, surly you've at least heard of me!" The DJ continued. "Nope." I said. "Have you been living under a rock?" The DJ said, as she sat back down. "Kind of." said Octavia. "She's suffered an extremely severe case of amnesia." "Wow, I just can't cut a break can I? So, what else do you have to tell me." Vinyl was visibly depressed, and I felt terrible about it. "You don't mind looking after my house, and Enigma... do you?" Octavia asked. "Not at all." Vinyl said. Octavia went to her room, which had a door, and got her bags, and suit case. We said our goodbyes, then she left. "So... what do you want to do blank flank?" The DJ beside me asked. "I don't know? What can we do?" I had a million things that we could do running through my head at once, but I wanted to hear what Vinyl had to offer. "Make hot, sweaty, love?" "..." "Oh, come on, that was a joke!" I was not amused. A few minutes later Vinyl brought me a glass of glowing green liquid, and one for herself. "What's this?" I inquired. "A unicorn spirit." "A what?" "A crazy strong alcoholic drink." "Oh... I don't think it would be wise for me to drink that." "Sure it's a good Idea. It's never not a good Idea to get hammered!" "If you insist..." I was hesitant, but eventually I gave in and downed the drink. Everything went black. I was dreaming of a fish swimming through the sky, and then I woke up. My head hurt, and I did not dare open my eyes, or eye in this case. It was most definitely not a good Idea to get hammered! After what felt like hours, I finally worked up the courage to look around. I was in a fairly comfortable bed, and had a glass of water waiting for me on the bedside table. I got out of the bed shakily, and made my way out of the bedroom. I was happy to find that I was still in Octavia's apartment, house, thingy. I searched for Vinyl, and found her passed out in a hot-tub that Octavia had on her balcony. There was a laptop beside her, and I couldn't help but sneak a peak of what was on it. Apparently she had started writing a fanfiction of a show called 'My little Human: Friendship is Science' in her drunken stupor. I would have to ask Vinyl about that later, but now I had to wake her up. I shook her a little, and in return I received a jumbled up mess of words that loosely translates into "Come back wub wub, I need to drop the bass!" I then tried to poke her, and got nothing. I tried to tickle her... nothing again! I was forced to resort to drastic measures, and I managed to bring out a large speaker attached to a record player, and placed it right by her head. I put a record on the player, and an extremely loud noise started coming out. I turned it off, and headed outside to see my handy work... NOTHING! I started to get angry, and paced around the hot-tub. I still wasn't used to walking, and slipped on a small puddle of water, and fell in! As soon as I got my bearings I opened my eye, just to see a pair of crimson ones staring back. For some reason Vinyl also seemed to be blushing, then I realized why. My lips were firmly planted on hers! I could feel the blood rise to my cheeks, and I pulled away as fast as I could. I looked anywhere, but at Vinyl. After a few awkward seconds Vinyl broke the silence. "Not bad blank flank, but next time you should wait till the first date!" Vinyl climbed out of the Hot-tub to leave me by my lonesome... it was then that I knew this was going to be a crazy couple of days, and it was going to be filled with a ton of ellipses.