The following morning, Octavia woke up and got ready to go to her rehearsal. She still had a bit of a hangover from her night of partying. She trotted to the bathroom and looked at the mirror.
“My mane is such a mess and I smell horrid. I don’t want any of my colleagues knowing what I did last night.”
She took a shower. The smell, sweat and vomit from that night, washed off, but not her memories. Even though she barely remembered that night, she loved it. She wanted to go again.
Octavia got out of the shower, grabbed a towel and wrapped herself in it. After drying off a bit, she took her brush and brushed her mane into her famous style. For the finishing touch she put on her signature pink bowtie around her neck and she was ready for rehearsal. She packed her cello in her case and took it to the door. Before she left, Octavia trotted into the kitchen to see Vinyl was up once again making breakfast.
“Hiya Tavy! How are you feeling?”
“Better than yesterday, I’m still a bit hungover.”
“You have to go to rehearsal today?” Vinyl placed a plate of waffles in front of Octavia which she covered with maple syrup.
“Yeah...hopefully I don’t come back with the stress I had last night. I hate some of the new cellists; they get on my nerves. Ugh!” She stabbed her waffles with her fork; she just hated the new cellists. She was responsible for everything they did, if they messed up, she would get yelled at.
“Tavy, just try to calm down. They're new; cut them some slack.”
“I’ll try, but I won’t promise anything.” She continued to eat her waffles, she looked up at the clock.
“OH DEAR CELESTIA! I’m going to be late for rehearsals!” She took one final bite of the waffles, “Are you going to stay here all day Vinyl?”
“I am. I need to work on new music and relax.”
"Sounds better then getting yelled at all day."
Vinyl picked up Octavia’s plate with her magic. “So I’ll see ya tonight?”
“Yeah. I might be back a bit late if I get yelled at again.” She put her cello on her back and trotted over to Vinyl. After hugging her, Octavia left for rehearsals.
Vinyl worked on new music while Octavia was out. She was going to DJ the next night at the club. As she worked, she repeatedly kept stopping. Something was bothering her. She was thinking about her and Octavia's trip to the club last night. Vinyl had never had a friend of her's go to a club with her. When she thought of the hug Octavia gave her earlier that morning, she realized she had started to grow some feelings for Octavia. She’d never seen her have so much fun. Vinyl giggled as she remembered Octavia dancing last night.
Octavia is so cute when she dances!
She continued to make music, but she still had Octavia on her mind. They had been friends since they were small little fillies. They went to the same school even to the same university. They look after one another (Vinyl was very protective of Octavia whenever anypony would insult her.) They both had been through a lot, from trying to graduate from the university, to even getting their own home. They have had a strong bond with each other, one which Vinyl didn’t want to break nor did she want to screw up their longtime friendship.
It was the evening. Vinyl had taken a break from making music. She went to the living room and watched TV. When Octavia got home, she put down her cello and went to go find Vinyl. She found her sitting on the couch, watching TV. Vinyl didn’t noticed Octavia had come home until she was blocking Vinyl’s view of the TV.
“HEY I’M WATCH…Oh…hi Tavy!” Vinyl stood up and hugged Octavia. “I missed you all day!”
“Vinyl…too…tight...” Octavia gasped out.
“Whoops! Sorry Tavy! I just really couldn’t wait for you to come home from your rehearsal!” She released Octavia and sat back down.
Octavia sat next to her and watched TV. Vinyl scooted closer to Octavia.
“So how were rehearsals? Better than last time?”
“It was…meh…I need to take break from the new cellists! They are getting on my nerves!”
“Can’t the conductor do something?”
“No, he’s being quite unreasonable! He is yelling at me and taking their side without even asking me for mine! One of these days I’m just going to tell him off.” Octavia was frustrated. She really hated being in charge of the new cellist. In her mind she had decided that one of these days she was going to quit.
Vinyl reached over and gave Octavia a huge hug, “If you need someone to knock some sense into him, I’m available.”
Octavia giggled a bit, “Oh I know you are, but it’s okay Vinyl. I can fix this all by myself.”
Octavia stood up and went to the kitchen. “So what are we eating tonight Vinyl? I have quite the appetite.”
Vinyl thought to herself, This could be my chance to finally test if Octavia has feelings for me without risking our friendship.
“Um…Tavy, what if we go out to eat tonight? I’m too lazy to get up and cook something.”
“Hm, that sounds good. So where do you want to go eat?”
“Um, why don’t you choose Tavy? I really don’t care!”
Octavia thought to herself, Hmm, what if we go out to that one fancy restaurant, L’Overture di Ecstasy. I've heard good things about it and some of the other musicians suggested I go there. I hope Vinyl will behave herself.
“How about L’overture di Ecstasy? It’s a very nice restaurant that I’ve been wanting to go to for a while.”
“Tavy! I don’t want to get all fancy and pretty for just dinner!”
“You look beautiful as you are now. Just take off your glasses! I’ve always preferred you with your glasses off.”
“Fine. Let me just place my glasses back where they belong and we’ll head out. Okay?”
“Okay. let me just call the place and tell them to reserve two seats for us.”
While Octavia was on the phone, Vinyl went to her room and placed the glasses on her night table. She trotted into the bathroom and fixed her mane. Then she snuck into Octavia’s room. Vinyl was looking for some perfume because she not only wanted to look nice for Octavia but also to try to get Octavia to notice her. She really needed to know what Octavia felt for her.
She found a bottle of perfume and sprayed her coat with it. She began coughing from the strong scent of the perfume as she wasn’t used to this. Vinyl put back the bottle and closed Octavia’s room as she headed out.
“Okay, Tavy. I’m ready! So do we have our reservations set?”
“Yes. Since I’m an important pony, they just HAD to make space for us!”
Vinyl laughed. “That’s what Rarity sounds like!”
“Oh be quiet you! Let’s just head out shall we?”
Vinyl and Octavia grabed their coats and headed out. Octavia smelled a familiar scent coming from a very close source.
“Um, Vinyl, did you use my perfume?”
“I did Tavy! I wanted to look and smell good just for you!”
“Aw, that’s so sweet but you didn't have to do that. You could have just asked me.”
“I wanted to surprise you!”
“You didn’t have to do this!”
“I know!”
Octavia looked at the clock tower, “It seems we might be a bit late. Shall we hurry up?”
“We should! Can’t wait to eat this place.” Vinyl’s nerves kept growing and growing as they approached the restaurant. She was worried Octavia didn’t have any feelings towards her.
“So here we are! L’Overture di Ecstasy! Shall we go in?”
“Yeah. Let me just hold the door for you Tavy!” Vinyl held the door open as Octavia entered, then she followed her soon-to-be marefriend. She took one final breath hoping she was ready for what is going to unfold at the restaurant.