"-and you will learn to take care of yourself, and with some responsibility you can finally do something other than sit around her playing your gaming station and get a good job-"
Vinyl listened to her mother drone away again about the positives of living on her own. It was a daily thing at this point. Vinyl lay upside down on her bed in a messy bedroom, a controller set snugly in her hooves as she played away, her character on screen jumping about and shooting his gun in all directions.
"-Why do you always have your TV upside down? Laying like that will swell your horn! Do you want a swollen horn?"
"Ugh!" Vinyl groaned before throwing her controller down as the death screen on her game came into focus. "Wasn't the reason you got with Dad because he had a big horn?" Vinyl grumbled as she pushed past her mother who stayed put in the doorway, her pale blue face flushing red.
Vinyl's mother shook her head and grit her teeth. She was a lovely light blue earth mare with a white bob cut mane, large pink sunglasses and a thick German accent. Her name was Photo Finish, and as for her "swollen stallion" he had long since moved on to another mare, Fleur de Lis. Photo Finish briskly trotted after her run away daughter, her tail swaying as she snapped back (although a tad late) with a retort to her child's sass.
"Now, Vinyl Scratch! You are not to talk about me and your father like that!" Photo stopped in the kitchen where Vinyl was digging eagerly in the fridge, her tail poking out from the door.
"Blah blah blah! Geez! Where's all the food ma?! I thought we were rich or something? We have like NOTHING to eat in here!" Vinyl slammed the door and trotted to the counters, climbing on them to get to the cupboards and knocking boxes over, ceramic vases, and cookie jars, all of which fell to their demise, much to the dismay of the fed up photographer.
"VINYL STACCATO SCRATCH YOU WILL STOP THIS AT ONCE!" Photo shouted, surprising the young unicorn. Vinyl stumbled from the counter, her mouth full of pop tart and her eyes wide as she watched her seething mother.
"Mph erm..." Vinyl mumbled out, but not for long as Photo had more to say.
"You will leave this house, I'll give you some starting money, but you can NOT stay here any longer! You're twenty five and you just sit around and play video games all day!"
"That's not true!" Vinyl snapped back dropping the pastry on the ground as she did, "I go out to parties and come home drunk sometimes!" Photo didn't say anything, but only reddened further. Vinyl took the angered shaking and twitching as a sign to leave. "W-well.... I can um... why don't we go out to dinner? Yeah! We can go out to dinner, and we can talk about this like normal, civilized ponies.... yeah?"
"NO!"
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Vinyl dragged her bags down the cobbled road, her horn having long since given in from it's long days of laying dormant. The town was eerily quiet this day, as if Vinyl was walking death row. It might as well have been. 'I don't know how to survive on my own!' Vinyl thought with a sigh. 'How am I supposed to live with nopony there to help me? Go out and buy me food, and clean my messes?'
As Vinyl continued to think, her body continued to grow weaker. How long had she been walking? Where was she? Must have been all day, she had to have been a whole ten miles away by now! Vinyl looked around and found her favorite donuts place.... it was half a mile down the road from her house.... 'sigh...'
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Vinyl lay bored and tired on a bench not far from the donut shoppe, her eyes fixed on something non existent on the ground. With another forced sigh, she rolled onto her back and looked into the sky. The stars would come out soon, and she would be laying, loathing her whole life on that stupid bench.
"Now where am I going to live? Why couldn't she just kick me out when I found a place?" Vinyl huffed, her nostrils flaring at the thought of being out on the streets just because her mom threw a tantrum. As Vinyl looked up again, she noticed a taxi cab with a flimsy paper on its side.
HEY THERE WEARY TRAVELER!
Are you new to Equestria? Or just getting on you hooves? Did your mother get fed up with you being a lazy bum and finally kick you out? Well you're in luck! Come here to Ponyville to this address and be sure to have at least two hundred bits on hoof, as we're giving away a nice little cottage just for you!
Vinyl shook her head, there was no way it was going to be that easy! Just, a little cottage, for two hundred bits, and she could just.... have it? That was it? Vinyl stood up, her eyes wide and her mouth trying its best to touch the ground. There was a tired little mare on the taxi, her hooves tapping away as she watched the young unicorn stare at her cab. She was shocked when the unicorn turned to her and smiled.
"Is this for real?" Vinyl asked pointing to the flier. The tired brown earth mare just rolled her shoulders and kept quiet. "I'll take that as a yes!" The Earth mare just rolled her eyes and nodded to her cab. "How much is it going to cost?"
"Less if you hurry up..."
With that, Vinyl grabbed her things and loaded them into the cab, as well as her self afterwards.
"Onward my loyal steed!" Vinyl shouted as she bounced in the cab. The earth mare rolled her eyes at the typically "racist" statement and trotted on.
"I don't get paid enough to deal with these ponies..."