Some ponies may say that the rain itself is the cause of depressions but I know better. The rain makes one reflect upon his or her past, how things happened and more important why things happened. Those are the most common thoughts one has while watching the rain.
The other thing you will realise is that the sound of the rain is relaxing but if you listen for too long, it just becomes as repulsive as every other repetition. Yeah that is exactly the thing that annoys me the most: All things in my life tend to repeat themselves and it disgusts me.
When finally the wheel of fate started to move I had to realised that change doesn’t come without a price. I had lost my grandmother and would have to pay my rent without her help. I had found a pony to share my apartment with but she was well…it is hard to describe…maybe not very conventional would be a good choice of words I guess.
Heck, how else should I know how to describe a DJ for crying out loud?
She would turn out to be a problem, one of many. I even started to list all of my problems.
First and foremost I had to find a job and I had to find it soon.
Then I had to attend the funeral the next day…oh how much I anticipated mothers fake tears.
The next problem would be her, the DJ-mare who would move in with me sometime this week. Oh and just for your information she didn’t even bother to tell me when she moves in because she had obviously better things to do.
Then I also had the problem with Victor. This one is a bit hard to explain. I wanted to spend more time with him and at the same time I wished to distance myself from his world. His existence simply made my life a lot harder. Thanks to him I always had my head in the clouds and even lost my job.
So I had a lot of problems going on back then and guess what…I didn’t try to take them on the most efficient way by taking out the biggest first...no. I tried to distract myself by sorting out the less annoying ones.
I made a mental map of my apartment and distributed it between the DJ and me in my head already. At the same time I was wandering through the streets of Canterlot once again. When I finally stood at Victor’s porch a strange thought started to occupy my mind. The wish…I could use the wish to make my life happier. A life without problems. Yes that was what I needed the most.
I entered Victor’s home beaming like the sun itself but he looked at me with pity and simply said: “No, it doesn’t work that way”.
I looked a little ashamed. I hated to be read like a book. It made me even more unsure about myself than I usually was. To make things short; Victor told me that my wish couldn’t be fulfilled.
A life without complications and absolute happiness was unachievable because the price would have been too high. Maybe I would have been put into coma only dreaming about the perfect and happy life I wanted. Another possibility would be that other ponies had to die in order for me to receive the exact amount of happiness needed to make my life perfect. It was a rather disappointing turn of events. So we just sat there and talked about trivial stuff.
I told him about my problems and he just chuckled the whole time. He told me that losing a job wasn’t the end of the world and that I shouldn’t fear my mother because she had not control over my life, only I had. It was quite refreshing.
He also told me that maybe the mare who’d move in with me might become a very good friend who would like my character and not just my status. He was really good at comforting and found a positive aspect to nearly all of my problems. The only thing where he did not find anything good was about me visiting him all the time.
I was completely annoyed by his attitude concerning our friendship. I mean this wasn’t some cheap kind of vampire romance where the main protagonist, a vampire, didn’t want his girlfriend to be hurt, this was just us.
We chatted a little while about this and that and after a while he sent me off, telling me to stay away from his place for the next few hours. That was new…he never did that before.
I really wanted to investigate that but he also told me to hurry home, shut the doors and do not get worked up too much because…a storm was coming. I hurried home as fast as I could but nothing would have been enough to prepare me for what was coming.
The storm he spoke of wasn’t the storm I expected. It was a bucking shitstorm! It didn’t take me long to get home but when I stood there right in front of my apartment it seemed like the gates of hell had opened.
All my neighbours gathered before my apartment and started to complain. About what you ask? Well, guess who finally decided to move in. Yes…she was the reason! Or…to be more concrete her deafening music.
I thought there was something wrong when I heard loud music three blocks ago but you couldn’t imagine my face when I found out it was coming from my apartment. Well, the loud music wasn’t all that bad…at least I didn’t understand all the complaints and insults of my agitated neighbours.
Oh that mare had it coming…
When I finally reached the inside of my apartment she greeted me as if nothing happened.
“Hey Tavi, baby! Wazzup !” she said with a big smile.
Even though it was amazing that her voice was still louder than the music I couldn’t help but to disregard that fact for just a moment and tell her the only thing that was on my mind.
“Are you completely nuts? What the hell do you think you are doing?” I screamed.
“House warming party? Is this the first one you ever attended?” she said still beaming.
“You know what I mean! Drop this stupid act right now!” I shouted angrily.
“What did you say? I should drop the bass?”
“Oh don’t you dare…”
Oh well guess what, she did. I thought my head would explode every minute. I tried to calm down, I tried to be rational but…
“What the hell are you doing you psycho? Stop right now before I kill you with my own hooves!”
“What did you say? I can’t hear you! I am too busy being awesome!”
That did it! I snapped. Well, I wish I could have said I just pulled the plug. No, I did not. I smashed the stupid speakers. What? Did you really think my patience has no limits?
Well, I’d come to regret that decision soon. The white mare had her mouth wide open when she saw what I did. I thought now she’d start screaming at me but…she started to laugh.
“And here I thought you were just a grumpy old mare who thought she had class. I guess now both of us know that the later wasn’t true.” she said still giggling like an imp.
I was surprised. Surprised about her and surprised about me. She was not mad at me and I did not strangle her. I think that worked out quite well…except it did not.
“Well, tavi…that was fun but you have to pay for the speakers you just demolished.”
There it was, the catch I was waiting for. So she was a cold calculating mare…ah I should have expected that from an entertainer. Of course she only played the carefree pony it should have been obvious that she was not really that crazy…she...
“I give you three options Tavi!
First option: You pay up…now!
Second one: I do not have to pay rent for the next half year.
Third one…hmm let me think…” and she started to giggle again.
“What?” I said.
“You could pay ma back with your body!”
I must have looked really dumbfounded. She laughed and laughed at my misery…the same way all the others always did. After catching her breath she started to be rather calm and collected and began to talk.
“You know girl…those speakers were trash. I just wanted to test the acoustic here. I was going to dispose of them anyhow. So you don’t owe me anything. Now there is just one more thing I want to know!”
“What?” I asked visibly relieved.
“Would you have taken option number three?”
Great…now I live together with a mare who had obviously the sickest taste of humour…ever. Well, at least she was just trying to be funny and did not try to make my life purposely harder. Now I just had to tell her that she had to behave a little more and everything would be fine….well maybe “okay” would be the better word…
“Vinyl…if you want to live here you have to accept a few things.”
“Tavi you already know I’d accept your love anytime!”
“Vinyl I’m trying to be serious here!”
“Me too…”
“Arghhh…you know what I mean. I just wanted to tell you that the neighbours complained because you were far too loud. You can’t do something like that here. We live in a rather posh quarter.”
“Oh don’t you worry. I contacted the owner of the apartment beforehand and told him that it gets a little louder after DJ P0N3 settles in. He dealt a hard bargain but after signing just three autographs for him and his two kids I got what I wanted.”
“You are kidding right…”
“Why would I kid about something like that?”
I facehoofed…maybe a little too hard (it was visible for the next hours).
That mare most certainly was not to be underestimated. So everything turned out to be fine from her point of view burt how did she think I would be able to cope with my neighbours from now on? It isn’t like Vinyl could have bribed all of them.
“Tavi…earth to Tavi…are you in there?”
“Eh what…pardon me, I was a little…lost…”
“Yeah I see that. I just tried to tell you that all of my stuff comes tomorrow. As you see the only thing I managed to get here today was that…” she said and pointed at the garbage pile that had once used to be a speaker.
“Tomorrow? Tomorrow would be terrible. I already have a funeral to attend to…this might be a little too much” I said hoping she would postpone her plans a little.
“Don’t you worry I did not plan to move in before the evening anyway…”
Oh dear Celestia…I do not know what will be worse…my encounter with mother or the moment this lunatic really moves in…