Silver walked down the street with the one he loved. Although they had never been to each other’s houses and had only met on dates, Silver was never going to let his Octavia go. Silver would occasionally peer over at his mare as they walked to take in the sight of such a beautiful creature. He would never think to get rid of her. She was his Octi.
Silver stopped at the doorway to Octavia’s house. It didn’t look like much, but to Silver, it was a great place. It was where his favorite pony in all of Equestria lived. It was perfect-everything was perfect. He had everything he wanted, no doubt he was the luckiest stallion in Equestria.
Octavia rung the doorbell and it was shortly answered by her roommate.
“Hey, what’s goin’ on, Octi?” asked the mare in an excited voice.
“Oh, nothing much,” responded Octavia, “Silver was just walking me home.”
Silver stood googly-eyed at the white unicorn before him.
“So this is the stallion you wanted to introduce me to,” stated Vinyl as he stared with awe into Vinyl’s eyes.
“Yes,” Replied Octi, “He sure is.”
You are an earth pony, easily sound with being so. In anything you do, you try your best and never try to let it go. You happen to go into a record store and stumble upon one that you like. The register was manned by a mare in an apron with her head greatly shut and her eyes narrowed. You ring the bell sitting on the counter to wake the mare up. Her eyes fluttered open.
“Sorry,” she tired, “Can I help you?”
You hold out the record for her to scan and check out.
“Are you okay?” you ask as she takes the disc.
“I’m… I’m not. I’ve been up all night,”
“Hard day?” you ask
“Yeah, terrible.”
“I understand.”
“Vinyl?” came a voice from behind the record cases. A grey mare walked forth to the register. “Don’t express negativity with the customers.” She pointed out.
“Yes, Tavi,” responded Vinyl glumly.
“No, that’s alright, I enjoyed the conversation,” you respond.
“Oh… well that’s very nice. Vinyl?” replied “Tavi”.
“Yeah. Thank you for your business, sir,” Vinyl says to you.
You notice the weak expression on each pony’s face and reply, “Ya know, I could stay and look around some more.”
“That would be fine,” said Octavia.
You wander aimlessly around the store, glancing up at the two store owners every once and a while to check for a moment when they’re perhaps prepared for a conversation.
“So, what kept you up last night?” you finally say looking down at a record.
“Oh, um… just… A doctor’s appointment,” Vinyl obviously lied.
“A doctor’s appointment?” you ask, sceptically.
“Yes…?” She replied.
“Well, whatever it was, I’m really sorry.”
“Sorry?” she begged, “Why?”
“Your face more than shows you’re sad about it,” you tell her.
Vinyl was always terrible at keeping secrets.
She looked both ways to confirm that Octavia had gone.
“Come here, I’ll tell ya ‘bout it.”
It was odd that somepony that had just met you would want to speak, but you walk over anyways.
“Her coltfriend broke up with her yesterday,” she tells you.
“Why?” you respond.
“He grew to love me instead.”
“Why are you telling me this?” you ask again.
“She’s sensitive about it.”
“And you work together and live with it?”
“No! Of course not! She’s also my roommate and my friend, I would never hurt her like that!”
You smile weakly at the mare’s response. It was beautiful that the two of them respected each other the the point that they would give up things such as that for the other.
“That’s nice,” you tell her.
“That’s what friends are for,” she responded.
“Best friends,” you add.
Octavia walks in and notices that the two of you have been talking.
“What’s going on?” she asks politely.
“We, were just talking,” you acknowledge.
You walk over and give the mare a hug, noticing the constant struggle in the mare’s eyes. It was an infinite struggle telling the mare not to cry, though she knew she would not hold up.
“I’m sorry,” you say. You soon realise your back is wet and reduce the possible blame down to Octavia’s tears as she let the liquid flow freely from her broken face.
There might be pounds of pain in being yelled at by your waifu, even being physically hurt, but the worst part, the most hurtful thing of all is that you still love him/her when he/she leaves you for another.
Vinyl brings herself closer to the couple and places each of her arms around you and Tavi. Although they were only friends, Tavi would never let somepony so cruel into her life to destroy the other’s, but the most important part is that she loved Octavia as much as any friend could love another. Her love would never be tampered with and it was all reserved for Octavia.
And Octavia Loved her friend back as much as any friend could love another.
Everyone is a friend.
Everyone belongs with another.
Everyone is a friend to me