We walked in to the performance hall; I was avoiding eye contact with everypony, Vinyl must have been doing the same because when I looked at her she had her head slightly down. "Hello!"
Why can't I just disappear? "You're back." He was there, always there ready to torment.
"Yes" my pitiful reply. A sudden hush filled the room, great I'm going to die.
"Are you here to apologize?" Vinyl snorted at this.
"Are you gonna apologize first?" I felt the "better then thou" hair flip without looking.
"I shouldn't have to ap-" He went silent as if something had just appeared out of thin air.
"What is going on in here?" Princess Celestia! I'm as good as dead.
"These fillies expect me to apologize for nothing." I felt a surge of anger in my body and put my hoof forward with a shout.
"You threw a tomato at my face! and then caused my friend to nearly go blind! You certainly did something!-" I shrunk back surprised at my own out burst. "- err um sorry that was un-ladylike."
"You nearly ripped my ear off!" I felt Vinyl trot past me and when I looked up she was standing on her hind legs to be level with Blueblood's eyes.
"I'm sorry for this Celestia but-" SMACK! "-he caused my friend to cry." He went to strike her but Pinkie stopped him from contacting.
"Royalty shouldn't hurt girls" Celestia trotted over to Blueblood and gave him a stern look.
"You better apologize, for your lack of chivalry." I could barely hear it but he apologized and I felt okay with that and then I eyed my Cello un-touched and then Celestia was looking down at me with a kind smile.
"Will you grace us with your music Octavia?" I was nervous as I went to my Cello.
"O-of course p-p-princess." I got myself comfortable and prepared to preform with supportive words from Vinyl. "You can do it Tavi."
I took a deep breath, then I started to play. It felt as if my body was a part of the music, I slowly built up from a soft melody into a nice solo piece with altering tempos every two measure. It felt great, I had closed my eyes getting into my music gaining speed until reaching the climax where I brought out a long fade into a soft melody again swaying slightly to the music and then slowly brought the music out.
"Woo hoo!" I opened my eyes to see Pinkie cheering while jumping around shortly after Vinyl was joining her, I had started to get used to Vinyl's energy.
"Yay! My cousin did it! She has her cutie mark!" I was stunned for a second before I could look back, and when I did there it was. My cutie mark! "You did it Tavi!"
I could feel a smile spread across my face as I started to jump around with my sister and friend. "I got my cutie mark! Woo hoo!"
I bumped into somepony and turned around to apologize but was stunned when I saw that it was Princess Celestia. "That was a marvelous performance Octavia."
I was stunned and stammering trying to put words in my mouth. "Th-th-thank you pri-princess it was an ho-ho-honor."
She smiled at me patting my head. "It's always a treat when I get to see fillies get their cutie marks first hand."
I was almost beaming with excitement as Celestia started to trot off. "My cousin has her cutie mark!" Pinkie spined me around all of a sudden laughing. "Celestia liked you're performance too!"
After being set down I was wobbly yet again today and Vinyl gave me support so I wouldn't fall, only this time the support was in the form of a giddy hug. "You did great Tavi!" I smiled seeing that the entire crowd were clapping there hooves for my performance.
"Boo! Boo I say!" Well almost everypony, Celestia was suddenly in front of Blueblood scaring him badly. Pinkie, Vinyl and myself fell on the floor in laughter.
"You are a prince and need to show respect to your servants." I started to calm down and gain my composure again, feeling like a silly fillies for laughing and rolling around with my sister and friend like I had.
"What should we do now?" Vinyl had one of her hooves on my shoulder the other one was on my sister's.
"Let's go to that club and drop some beats!" My sister was ecstatic hopping around despite Vinyl's hoof on her back.
"Let's party!" I was basically dragged out of the room and down the streets, I guess the joy was still overflowing from me so I started to skip down the cobblestone path with them cheering.
We sang the whole way to this club of Vinyl's newest obsession in high spirits, this mood lasted for days. I couldn't help but wonder what the two of us would end up doing in the future.