Vinyl stood at the iron gated entrance that led to the courtyard of the massive marble academy. It looked like a mansion to the young white coated filly. Due to the lack of information available about her, and her inability to remember anything before the rough estament of five, a lot of documents had had to be made and a visit to the doctor gave an idea of her age.
The now officially existing ten year old Vinyl Scratch took a deep breath before walking onto the grounds of her new home. The stallion who had offered her the scholarship had taken time to explain her situation.
She was now a ward of the state and if she were to leave this school before the age of 18 she would be taken to an orphanage. However as long as she provided acceptable enough grades to keep her scholarship she would be allowed to live here at the school with the rest of the boarding students and would receive a general education along with her music classes.
Vinyl didn't have any possessions worth keeping and so had no bag to carry as she made her way towards the dorms office. All she had to do was get her room assignment and meet her new roommate and she would officially be a student at Canterlot Academy of the Preforming Arts.
Vinyl turned the key in her magic and opened the door to room 33. It was a cozy room with gray carpeting and white walls, two beds were situated on either side of the door and next to each was a desk. A window in the far wall let sunlight in and gave a nice view of the courtyard.
“So your my roommate.” A voice with a trottingham accent spoke from behind her. Turning Vinyl came eye to eye with a grey earth pony with a treble clef cutie mark.
“Yeah, the names Vinyl.”
The earth pony raised an eyebrow before holding out a hoof. “Octavia Melody, my family is from trottingham, I'm here on a scholarship.”
“I'm on a scholarship too, I guess I'm from manehatten, though I've got nothin there now so I guess I'm from here now.” Octavia gave her a slightly confused look before turning back to the hall and pulling in a suitcase.
“Which side do you want?” She asked around the suitcase handle. Vinyl shrugged and Octavia moved to the left side, placing the suitcase on the bed and opening it. She pulled out a picture frame with a photo of Octavia and two ponies Vinyl assumed to be her parents. Placing it on her desk, Octavia asked “I'm assuming your here to study music going by your cutiemark. What genre are you interested in?”
“Well I like Jazz and Pop a lot but I really love Electronic.” Vinyl said with a grin, flopping onto her new bed. It was sooooooo sooooooft.
Octavia's nose crinkled “Ugh Electronic really? That fake garbage? I can't see how it can be called music, unlike classical.”
Vinyl's eyebrows shot up. “It's synthetic not fake, and I don't get how you could like classical, It's sooo boring.” That wasn't exactly true, Vinyl appreciated Classical but it couldn't hold a candle to the more peppy genres in her opinion.
Octavia glowered at the white unicorn filly. “Hmph, just my luck to get some ruffian as a roommate.” Vinyl gagged.
“Ruffian? Really? Drop the fancy act sister it's easy to see you were raised in a lower class home so do yourself a favor and don't put on airs. If you actually want to act all classy use better research material then crappy romance novels.”
Octavia growled “At least I have parents! You look like you grew up in a gutter, at least the school doesn't have to worry about me stealing the silverware.”
Vinyl hopped of her bed and got right in the earth ponies face. “So what if I grew up in the gutter? I was good enough to get a scholarship here. Besides if I was going to steal something I would steal food or bits, silverware is only any good in the movies.” She paused for a moment. “Not that I'm going steal anyway.”
The two fillies glared at each other before breaking off in a huff. Vinyl jumped onto her bed and faced away from her roommate. Of course I get the aristocratic wannabe as a roomy, if this is supposed to be a joke from fate, fate needs a new sense of humor.