“Boo!”
“Eeeek!”
“Hahahaha!”
“Vinol, stop scawring me like that,” a little grey earth pony filly pouted to her white unicorn friend.
“Aww, come on, Tabi. Whiten up,” Vinyl said, pulling off a white sheet. “It’s my sponsatility to scawr ponies. It’s Nightmare Night!”
“Well, I don’t wanna be ascareded. I don’t like it.” The grey filly hung her head in shame, her black mane covering her eyes.
“You don’t have to!” Vinyl squeaked, rushing to her friends side.
“But what ‘bout all the scawry costumes?” Vinyl looked into her friends lavender eyes and smiled.
“I will pertect you from them, so you don’t have to be ascareded.” As she finished, she stuck what she thought was a heroic pose.
“Really?” Octavia asked, looking hopefully at Vinyl.
“Of course. Stick by me, Ottabia, and I will pertect you.”
“For four evers?”
“Yup. I’ll be your internal pertector,” Vinyl proclaimed, glad she could use the big word.
“Internal? What’s that?” The grey filly looked on in confusion.
“Daddy said it means ‘for all time’. So I guess it must be longer than four evers.” Vinyl smiled, revelling in the fact she was teaching somepony something.
“Thanks so much, Vinol.” Octavia wrapped her friend in a hug.
“You’re welcome, Tabi.”
CLICK!
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Octavia sat on the couch, clutching a photo album in her hooves. Her mother had given it to her, but it had gotten lost in her disorganized house. She found it when her and Vinyl were packing her stuff so they could move in together. And life had been good since.
She looked to her side, where her marefriend was sitting, but found the seat vacated. Realizing she must have zoned out into her memories, she sighed and closed the book.
“Boo!”
“Eeeek!”
“Hahahaha!”
“Damn it, Vinyl!”