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// A Normal Experience? 
// Story: How to Live a Daily Life 
// by Smaug 
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    Vinyl stood in Pinkie's room door, awe filling her thoughts as her eyes drifted from one side of the room to the other. Pinkie's room was filled with ponies, all partying away, laughing and having fun. Vinyl looked over to Pinkie, who was staring back at Vinyl, smiling, eagerly awaiting a response. 

"Well?" Chimed Pinkie. "What's up? You want some punch, some chips, anything at all?" 

Vinyl sputtered. "I, I, uh... I, there's just... so many ponies in one room..." Pinkie laughed, and put a hoof on Vinyl's back. "Scratchy, I thought you being you would be used to this by now! I mean, you're the most infamous DJ in Equestria, and ponies from all around come into one big arena to see such a huge performance!" 

Vinyl rubbed her neck. "Yeah, well, that's what I'm used to though." She walked over to a table and floated a Colta-Cola to her mouth, speaking between drinks. "It's just that...*glurg*...it's such a small space, and... *glurg*... so many ponies, unlike....*glug*... the stadiums where I play. So many ponies in one big place, you know? But, here, in your own room..." She gestured with her head to the pony filled room. "Is just strange to see." 

Pinkie giggled. "Oh Scratchy, you're life must be a boring one to come here! I throw parties like this all the TIME up here! Why, this is the after party of the after party I had for my friend Twilight's first ever history class success! Ooh, speaking of which, her second class is coming on Sunday and-! I haven't planned for that one yet! But, you're here, too! oh oh! It can be a double party! I'll call it, "Pinkie's Party for the Pair of Pals who Planned to Party at Pinkie's Party Just for them!"

Vinyl put a hoof on Pinkie's mouth, gesturing her to quiet herself, as she had attracted unnecessary attention. "He he... oops!" 

Pinkie smiled at Vinyl. "Hey Scratchy, I want you to meet a few of my friends from here in Ponyville!" Vinyl nodded in agreement, and followed Pinkie to a table where a purple Unicorn, a pink-maned Pegasus and another Unicorn that Vinyl recognized as Rarity, whom had hired her for a fashion show at one point.

"Scratchy, I'd like you to meet my friend Twilight," Who, smiled gratefully and waved, "Fluttershy," Who seemed to blush a deep hue of red, "And Rarity!" Who simply smiled and nodded. The two ponies took a seat at the table and discussed their day. 

"My day was... an interesting one." Started Twilight, "I woke up to a giant crash, and found that Spike, the baby dragon I look after, had broken one of the library's branches and that it came through the cieling..." Twilight sighed. "My life..."

Rarity decided it was her turn to speak. "Well, " She began, "Sweetie Belle, my smaller sister, had once again decided to try and make her own dress for her school's dance coming up, might, I add, without my help. She had ended up with hair that looked like a pin cushion. It was dreadful having to pick out all of those needles, there were so many of them!" 

Pinkie spoke up saying, "Well my day was really busy! First, I had to plan the after after party for Twilight's after party for her successful-history-class-party, and I did that at about five in the morning! Then I had to rush over to Twilight's with her congratulatory cake from Mrs. Cake, where she was cleaning up the tree branch, and then I had to head back here, where I found Scratchy!" 

Vinyl laughed softly. "Man, you girls sounded like you had a pretty interesting day!" Vinyl looked at Fluttershy, and smiled kindly. "What about you, um, Fluttershy, right? How was your day?"

Fluttershy didn't offer one word. All she did was stare at Vinyl intently, her eyes huge, and her face red. She squeeked, but said nothing otherwise.

"O-o-okay, then!" Vinyl looked back at the others. "Well, my day wasn't too exciting. I got up like I do everyday, called my agent to tell him I'm vacating, and discussed the ordeal with Octavia, my Canterlot friend, packed my suitcase, and came here!" 

The four girls stared at Vinyl. Twilight said softly, "That's it? Nothing went wrong?" 

Vinyl shook her head. "Nope! Unless you count the fight I got into with 'Tavia, but she boils down pretty quickly. Other than that, my day was fine!" She smiled intently, expecting a response, but saw again that they were all just staring at her. "Um... yes?" She said, confused.

Pinkie Pie spoke up. "Nothing really weird happened? You didn't wake up with green hair, or... or woke up with your glasses glued to your face?"

Vinyl raised an eyebrow. "Um, no... not at all. I don't even sleep with my glasses on..." She looked at Fluttershy, expecting at least something to be said, but she continued to stare at her. 

Rarity decided to speak up now. "Not a thing out of place? No missing disc system? No bald spots? Not even..." Rarity gulped. "...a different eye colour?"

Vinyl huffed. "No, nothing like that happened! Nothing like that ever happens to me. I'm just me, I do what I do, I avoid stuff pretty easily." She looked at them, bewildered. "Don't you?" 

The girls all looked at each other and smiled awkwardly. "Uh, no. No we don't." Said Twilight. "Nothing ever happens like that. Except for, uh, today." They all nodded in agreement, except Fluttershy of course, who was now actually sitting on the table, leaning right in almost touching Vinyl's nose.

Vinyl had to lean back a bit to slightly rid of the ever present awkwardness. "Can I... help you?" Fluttershy continuously stared, seemingly wonderfully curious about the pony sitting in front her. But still, no words. Just staring. 

Vinyl gently pushed Fluttershy back into her chair. "Okay, you can just... sit back down there. I think I'm going to hit the hay, the airplane ride here was pretty boring, and man, did I get sleepy." She looked at Pinkie, smiling. "Pinkie, could you maybe show me to where I'll be sleeping so I can unpack my things?" She floated her luggage over to her. "I don't have a lot of stuff, so it shouldn't be much of a problem."

Pinkie jumped off of her chair and landed perfectly beside Vinyl. "Sure! Follow me!" Pinkie hopped out of the room, with Vinyl and her magic enchanted luggage following closely behind. She stopped in the door to look back and wave goodbye to the ponies she had just met, as they waved back, smiles spreading on their faces. Surprisingly, Fluttershy was grinning ear to ear, waving continuously, even after Vinyl had left.




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"Oh wow, Pinkie! This guest room is great!" Vinyl was in awe by the state of the room. The Cakes must really respect having guests, she thought. This place is like a Pegasus mansion! She walked in and threw her luggage onto the bed. It was only then she noticed one thing; Pinkie was nowhere to be seen. "Hey, uh, Pinkie? Hello?" A pink blur landed on her face an instant later.

"Ye-e-e-es?" Pinkie asked. "You need me for something?" She jumped off of Vinyl and onto the bed, jumping up, and down. "Because I was just in the closet tidying up! Did you know the closet is one of the most important things for when a guest is over? I never would've guessed until Mrs. Cake told me the first time we had a guest, and gosh, was it interesting, the colt had wanted a job here but quit two days later because he couldn't work under the circumstances, like, what does that mean? It really didn't matter to me, but-" She stopped and stared at Vinyl. "Do you think he found me ANNOYING?"

Vinyl laughed and said, "Of course not, Pinkie. He just couldn't handle your awesomeness!" She opened her suitcase and sorted everything using her horn, which all took less than a minute. 

Pinkie watched gleefully, this time from the floor. "Wow, Unicorn magic is so cool! I wish I wasn't an earth pony, sometimes. It'd be super cool to be able use magic, or... do I want to be a Pegasus? Flying would be totally cool! Or how about an Alicorn? Ooh-hoo-hoo, that'd be really cool!"

Vinyl listened to Pinkie rant as she lay in bed. Pinkie wasn't nearly as bad as some songs she's had to critique for other artists, Pinkie was practically a song all her own. Her singing voice was phenomenal, it had made it's way onto several of Vinyl's albums, and they were usually the most popular of the songs. She was confident she was going to have a great time in Ponyville.