Rhythm and Harmony: The Octascratch Prompt Collab

by lyra_lover777


3 Scratch by River Road

Prompt: Scratch by River Road
Okay Vinyl, take it cool. Her ear is twitching, but we can work with that. That doesn’t mean anything, her ear twitches all the time… It does whenever she talks to me, at least.
“Uhm… Tavi?” Vinyl slowly took a step towards her roommate, then very quickly took two steps back.
Okay, eye twitch. Eye twitch is bad, but we’ve seen it before. It’s nothing new.
…Maybe she won’t beat me up too much.
“Sooo… I guess I should probably have asked you before I took your stuff. But ponies do it all the time. It’s really not that big of a dea–“
Wrong choice of words! ALWAYS the wrong choice of words! Backtrack, abandon ship, do something!
“Okay, I understand that you are mad now. I mean, I took your stuff, and I’ll admit that there is a tiny… miniscule… practically non-existant chance that there is a little, unnoticeable indention in your Cartner record, but, uhm…”
Oh wow, I didn’t know her face could even look like that. Whatever you do, don’t look her in the eyes or you’ll–
Aaand there we are… Like a deer in the spotlights. It was nice knowing me. Try not to make a mess on the carpet when she kills us, or she might try to kill us a second time.
Vinyl instinctively ducked down, nervously grinning up at the other mare. “So, uhm… Do I get a headstart?”
Octavia took a deep breath, glaring past her nose at the unicorn. “You have two seconds. One…“
Vinyl was already out of the room and halfway through the house when she heard the ‘two’, followed by the sounds of hoofsteps in pursuit and the furious scream of a very angry Octavia Philharmonica.
“What kind of imbecile, braindead idiot would get the idea to forcibly drag a needle over a record just to spin the song back and forth?!”