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// Sad Melody 
// Story: Dying Friendship 
// by Evil_Enchantress 
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Chapter 3
Sad Melody
Octavia stepped out onto the stage and the lights dimmed instead of brightened, "This song is for the tough times everyone of you have had or will have..." The musical mare grabbed her cello's bow and started to play her instrument.

When the concert was over she took a bow and as she came back up she saw Vinyl in the very back standing there. Octavia rubbed her eyes and like she thought... Vinyl wasn't there at all. The grey earth pony sighed and walked off the stage and into her dressing room.

Please forgive me... Octi... Vinyl's words echoed in the musical mare's ears.

Octavia looked at her reflection in the vanity. Worn down from barely eating and depression. The earth pony's stomach growls as she clenches it with both of her hooves. "What have I done?"  The musical pony mumbled to herself. Octavia slowly made her way out of her dressing room. 

"Octavia are you okay dear?" The grey unicorn, also known as Octavia's manager, made her way over to the sick mare. 

"Yeah I'm just feeling a little sick-" Octavia was interrupted by a cough.

"You should go home at once Octavia. I couldn't live with myself if you got seriously sick." 

Octavia nodded and made her way over to the stadium doors, "Thanks again, mage." Octavia smiled uneasily and then walked out of the door heading towards her home. The mare had to stop a few times to catch her breath, or to think about her old best friend. We've been through so much. How could I just throw that away like it was a crumbled up piece of paper? The classy mare sighed unhappily.

The earth pony looked around before unlocking her front door, "I have to apologize to her... I just have too." Octavia blinked a few times before trying to go upstairs. After her third attempt of falling, Octavia grabbed a bottle of Tylenol off of the kitchen counter. The musical mare walked over to her couch with a glass of warm milk. The grey earth pony took some pills and washed them down with her milk, "I-I'll apologize tomorrow... I don't feel so good." The grey mare yawned before curling up in a ball on the couch. Yeah. I'll apologize tomorrow for sure. Octavia fell asleep with that one thought in her head.

Vinyl

The white unicorn walked around Ponyville with her friend Neon Lights. "So will you go to my parent's party?"

The green stallion looked up at the clear sky and then back down at Vinyl, "Of course!" 

"Great! We're leaving tomorrow so be ready!" Vinyl smiled before racing back to her house to start packing.

The magenta-eyed mare shut her suitcase and dragged it downstairs before looking up at her clock, "I've been packing since eight o' clock." The unicorn shook her head at the clock before retreating to her bed. "And I'm beat." Vinyl yawned and then slowly laid in her bed and pulled the covers over her. The white mare laid there until her eyes closed as she softly snored.