You turn the tap on the tub until it ceases and stand up. "Vinyl!" you cry out for the filly unicorn.
A minute goes by before you slap your head in realization of where she was. You exit the bathroom and make your way through the house, searching for the right room. At the end of the hallway you finally come to a door painted black and with a Fillex poster on it. You knock on the door and enter, not bothering to wait for the answer that wouldn't come.
On one side of the room lays a white unicorn with a two-shaded blue mane on a twin bed, with bulky headphones over her ears. Her head is slightly rocking in tempo to a song you could hear almost fine. The filly was wearing her signature purple shades and smiling her usual smile. You walk over to the deejay and remove her Cleats by Dr Hay, causing the filly to look up at you and raise an eyebrow.
"You aughta turn your music down," you warn her. "You'll go deaf."
Vinyl continues staring at you, not showing the slightest bit of caring.
You roll your eyes slightly at her apathy. "It's time for your bath, anyways," you inform her while putting away her Epod. Vinyl starts to reach for her device with a look of refusal. You sigh in defeat and create a compromise. "Alright, I'll hook it up to the Ehome and you can listen while you bathe." Vinyl nods at your proposal and hops off the bed, ready to follow.
Carrying the wondrous devices called an Epod and Ehome, which you found in Vinyl's bedroom, you guide the little unicorn over to the bathroom, with you entering first. You plug in the Ehome and attach the Epod to it. You then inspect the small gadget and search for an appropriate song (good luck with that you muse to yourself). You spend two minutes scrolling through the hundreds of titles, not finding anything that convinces you to play it.
Among the seemingly endless playlist (who payed for these?) you find titles such as Egotistical Cannibal, I Am Fillyex, Fustercluck (you hope you read that right), and so on, making you start to question the parenting of her parents. Nonetheless, you choose from almost nowhere a "song" from the list, figuring it sounded safe enough.
The music begins to play and Vinyl cheers up instantly, showing you that she was very fond of this one. With both parties satisfied (one more than the other, you figure it out), you pick up Vinyl and place her in the tub full of warm water. She starts nodding her head to the beat of the dubstep, causing you to chuckle a bit. You listen to the rhythm and find it to be not of your taste. Then, after you remove Vinyl's shades, the music stops and stays silent for a few seconds.
Confused as to how anything could be that short, you stand up and check on the Epod. Sure enough, the song hadn't changed, and in fact was still in the beginning. You look at Vinyl, who had her eyes closed and her right hoof in the air. Somehow more confused than before, you turn up the music slightly to see if it was having a quiet moment. This was where you made your mistake, and before you realized it the bass dropped.
BOOOOOOOOM! BUM BUM BUM BUH WUB WUB!
"SWEET MERCIFUL CELESTIA!" Your ears have never in your entire life heard something so loud and so ear-bleedingly techno in your entire life. You clasp onto your ears in an attempt to salvage your ear drums. Vinyl, however, you saw continue nodding (no, banging) her head to the horrid tempo, her hoof following its controller. You get up off the floor, which was hard to land on, and quickly attempt to pause the music. Instead, you suffice for unplugging the Ehome and swiftly turning off the Epod before it started again.
Vinyl looks disappointed when you return to her, sad that she couldn't finish her little moment. You, however, look at her with shock. "How are you not deaf?" you ask the filly while rubbing your ear to stop the irritation. Vinyl shrugs and points to the shampoo impatiently, wanting to get this over with. "No problem," you sigh to her, also eager to get her bath over. You kneel down and begin the quick task.
Grabbing the shampoo with one slightly shaky hand (the drop not only affected your ears), you squeeze the bottle and begin to lather the unicorn's neon and dark blue mane. You scrub thoroughly for about twenty seconds, both of you thankful for her short yet pretty mane.
You quickly go from lathering to rinsing, cupping the clear water in your hand and pouring it over her head. Again, because of her short mane, this takes less than usual for other ponies. Half a minute later, it's time for her tail.
Reading your mind before you could ask, Vinyl lifts her flank so you could clean the tail. You thank her and apply more shampoo to your palm and lather the slightly longer tail. Taking not too much longer, the tail was fully lathered in forty seconds.
Rinsing was automatic for you, because before you knew it the tail was half done. Overall, the tail only took a minute to rinse. Thankful for everything to be done, you unplug the tub and pick Vinyl out of the tub.
Grabbing the black towel across from you, you shake the cloth first over the unicorn's head, then torso, and finally tail and hooves. Vinyl remains content with a hint of impatience throughout the entire bath, showing that she really wanted to get back to her music. To the filly's amusement, you unplug the Ehome and Epod and hand her the latter along with her Cleats. She smiles and puts on the device, dismissing herself from the room.
You put your hands on your hips as you watch the white filly leave.
"Note to self: stick with rock."