//------------------------------// // Fire Coming out of The Apartment's Window // Story: Vinyl and Octavia: Roommates Are Magic // by Jam Rocker //------------------------------// "SMALL GET-TOGETHER, YEAAAAH!" Vinyl Scratch screamed at nowhere in particular, as ponies of all colors started to come into the new apartment. It was only twelve in the afternoon... It was only the first official day of the new apartment... And there were like fifty ponies in the confined space! What the buck, Vinyl!? Small get-together, my flank! I walked towards Vinyl Scratch, slamming my hooves to the floor with each step (not that anypony could've heard it, due to the loud music that banged my eardrums). When I found her in the kitchen, she was drinking a beer and talking with two other ponies who I didn't know at all. "Vinyl, you wretched she-devil!" I whispered very loudly into her ear. "You said it was going to be a small get-together!" "It is! All these ponies are getting together in a place that's small!" She gave me an open-mouthed grin. "Get it?" "You..." I didn't want to say what I wanted to say, because I had some words in my mind that would've even put Vinyl to shock. "How many ponies did you invite?!" "I only invited ten ponies! I swear! But then those ten ponies started to invite other ponies, and those ponies started to invite other ponies, and then they made this event on Hoofbook... On the bright side, at least these ponies seem well mannered!" "FLAMING POTATO ON THE LOOSE! WOOOO!" A green-maned stallion screamed in the kitchen, throwing it to one of his friends at the other side of the room. His trajectory with his throw went horribly wrong, causing him to throw the potato straight out of the window. The music was turned off, and silence ensued throughout the apartment. We lived at the second floor of the apartment complex. Everypony listened as the potato hit the floor... Or something. I'm pretty sure an old pony just screamed, "OUCH." More silence was assured in the apartment. "...Don't worry guys... BECAUSE I HAVE ANOTHER FLAMING POTATO! WOOOOOOH!" The whole crowd cheered, the music was turned back on, and ponies went back to dancing and drinking or whatever they were doing. "...Well mannered, you say?" "I swear, I did not invite him!" "Well then, who did you invite?" "Okay! I invited..." She looked up to the ceiling to speed her thoughts. "Lyra, Bon Bon, Derpy, Time Turner, Carrot Top, Colgate, Beat Snapper, Jam Rocker, Eleanor, and Pinkie Pie!" I gasped at when she said the last name. "Pinkie Pie?! Pinkie Pie's here!?!" "Well, she has to come all the way from Ponyville, and I gave her a late invite, so I don't think she's here... at the moment." The door slammed open, and the pink mare ran in, got onto her two hooves, and put on a menacing look, breathing heavily. Everypony stopped again, staring at her from the door. The music stopped and the room went silent. "Everypony..... LET'S GET THIS PARTY-" "Small get-together," Vinyl corrected. "-SMALL GET-TOGETHER STARTED!" In a blink of an eye, she brought out her party cannon, and sent it exploding with a smash of a hoof. Everypony cheered loudly, and the whole party sped up. This is why I feared Pinkie Pie. Once Pinkie Pie is at a party, it doesn't become a party anymore. It becomes a moment in history... And I'm not sure if that's meant to be positive or negative. I stared with a twitching eye at the sight that was going on in my new living room. All the stains... All the trash... I can already smell odors that I didn't want to smell when I come to my so-called "home"... This was becoming another Vinyl apartment! My train of thought crashed when a burning food item hit me in the face. Noticing it was on fire, my eyes went wide, and I picked it up and threw it out the window before it had a chance to burn my hooves. "Stop it with the flaming potatoes, will you!?" The green-maned stallion scoffed and turned off the stove. Vinyl Scratch came back to me in the kitchen after five minutes of dancing. Here was another chance for me. "Vinyl, stop this party immediately! The neighbors will complain! Ponies will call the police on us! Do you really want to clean up this mess!?" Vinyl chuckled. "First off, it's a small get-together. And from what I noticed, all of our neighbors are here, small get-together-ing, and this apartment is pretty separated from other buildings for anypony to call the police. And don't worry about the clean up, I got that handled. I got this planned Tavi, I actually looked over this stuff before agreeing to the apartment." She winked at me, and then turned around to the fridge. She opened it and took out a bottle. "Octavia, you need to lighten up. You know what you need?" No... Don't do it Vinyl, please don't be what I think it is. She smacked the brown bottle onto the table and smiled deviously. I swear, beer was a refreshment made by Discord himself. "Vinyl! I'm not drinking! You know what happens when I drink!" "You're amazing when you drink! Please, at least try to enjoy the small get-together! Just have one beer. All I'm asking is for you to have one." She showed me her puppy-dog eyes. Buck... I hate those puppy-dog eyes. "Just have one beer. For me." She patted my back and trotted back to the living room. All the other ponies that were hanging out in the kitchen followed Vinyl, so it ended up with just me in the room. The beer and me. I stared it down like it was poison, waiting for me to drink it and die. I've had bad problems with alcohol, and I didn't want to go back to the same problems before. Just have one bottle, Octavia, lighten up. My inner voice said. "Nooo..." I answered back. It's a party, you have to enjoy yourself at a party... "Small get-together... ther... ther..." An echo-ish voice of Vinyl corrected in my mind. ...Small get-together... "No drinking...?" I said, sweating as I stared down the bottle some more. Beer is so delicious, so wonderful, so tasty... It was like sunshine in a bottle. Vinyl told you to drink. You don't want to let Vinyl down, don't you? "No I don't... But drinking is nothing but... b-but trouble." It's just one bottle. Do it for Vinyl Scratch. "Wubs wubs wubs wubs wubs...." The echo-ish voice of Vinyl came back into my mind. I ignored it. "Okay..." I gave up. I grabbed the bottle and opened the top with the refrigerator cap-opener. "It's just one bottle.. Right?" I put the bottle to my mouth and took a gulp of the drink. My eyes went wide in amazement, and I started to drink more. And more.... And more.... I drank so much that I had to stop just to catch my breathe. I checked the bottle and found that I finished it in one take. Oh my goddess, it's been so long since I've had a beer... As I said before, beer was like sunshine in a bottle. And oh boy, do I love sunshine... I went to the fridge, got another beer, and drank that one until I was finished. I was still fine, right? I can control myself... After one more beer. I finished that beer. Maybe I'll have another one. I finished that beer. I'll have just three more... That one felt like it had less than the other beers. I'll just have a couple more in case... Wow, I didn't notice how great this small get-together was! Hey you guys and gals! Wow, this was a really fast update. I would wait until next week to take this out, but I didn't think the first chapter was enough to introduce this story overall. I just wanted to put out a little more... Don't expect updates to be this fast. Anyways, enjoy! Comment, like, and favorite!