The stallion was now annoyed with the loud music which was blasting from the unicorns headphones, he turned to face him. "Excuse me do you mind turning that down?” he asked. The unicorn kept bobbing his head up and down to the beat with his eyes closed obviously not hearing the colts question. Starting to get furious the colt tapped the unicorn on the shoulder, as he did this the unicorn took off his headphones only to see a face full of rage staring back at him. “Can you turn that music down!?” yelled the pony, the unicorn just shrugged as he replied “Come on dude there’s no need to be so loud, some ponies are trying to enjoy some peace and quite” The unicorn looked to see the train had stopped at the station, “Anyways gotta go this is my stop” the unicorn took off in a quick gallop.
“So this is Ponyville huh?” the unicorn rummaged around in one of his bags pulling out a town map, “Okay Treble, better get too lookin for her house, this place isn’t that big it shouldn’t be so hard” Treble put his headphones back on, “But I’m gonna need the right track before I head out” and with that, he put his music back on with his volume set to the maximum.
Since he was little, Treble always enjoyed music, he had learned to play a variety of instruments and enjoyed just about any element of music. Though it didn’t surprise him, music ran in his family. His father was a DJ, song writer, and recording artist; his mother a singer and music enthusiast; he basically had music flowing through his blood. His cousin whom he had come to visit was also very gifted, she was amazing at playing the cello and was even once apart of the Royal Canterlot Symphony.
Treble wasn’t paying attention to where he was going as he studied the map and had his headphones on, his body made contact with another pony with a hard motion. Both of them fell back on their backsides, the force was so great it knocked off his headphones and left him a bit dazed. He shook his head and looked at the pale unicorn in front of him “Geez can you watch where your going?” The unicorn picked up her glasses and put them back on while putting her own headphones around her neck “Well excuse me, but I don’t see how its my fault you can’t keep an eye on your own surroundings”
“Says the pony who’s wearing shades when the sun isn’t even that bright” Treble and the unicorn were now both back on their hooves and face to face.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, look your cute and all and I’d love to stand her and chat with you but I got some recording to get back to and I haven’t eaten anything all day and I’m starved” the unicorn put her headphones on and left.
“What the hay was that? I thought ponies in this town were nice and she was nowhere close to-“ Treble paused for a moment as he blushed with a look of irritation “Did she just call me cute?” he shook his head, “Whatever I’m almost to cousin Tavia's anyway” Treble put his headphones on and continued on his way.
Octavia was practicing as she always did when there was a knock at her door, “Ugh Vinyl, don’t tell me you locked yourself out again” she than put her cello to the side and got up to answer the door. When she opened the door she was greeted by a sky blue unicorn with a turquoise colored mane and tail.
“Treble? Treble Clef?” Octavia had a shocked expression.
“Tavia Wassup?” Treble wrapped his hooves around her giving her a hug “s’Been ages since I seen you, nice to see you again cousin”
“Nice..to see…you too” Octavia said between gasps of air, “Can you…maybe…ease up”
Treble let her go and saw all the color return to her face, “haha, my bad cuz” as she gasped for air Treble let himself in and shut the door behind him. Treble noticed how the living room, much like the outside of the house, was divided in half “This is some pretty wicked architecture you got goin here,” he said as sat down on a couch on the side that appeared to be his cousin’s.
“Yes well my roommate and I share different musical interests, so we made a compromise” Octavia cleared her throat before she continued. “I don’t mean to be rude Treble but I really must ask just exactly are you doing here?”
“Is there any harm in me just wanting to visit my favorite cousin?”
“Well I suppose not, but you really should inform me ahead of time like I said before I have a roommate and-“
“Yeah been meaning to ask you about that” Treble interrupted, “Is he your roommate or is he more like your room ‘mate’?” Treble started laughing after he noticed Octavia turn a bit red when he asked.
“For your information my roommate happens to be female”
“S’ok Tavia, a lot of other mares roll that way too” as he said this Treble began laughing even harder than before. He settled down after a moment and took notice of the music equipment on the other side of the room. “Gotta hand it to her though, she does know how to pick her equipment. Hey, does she record music like me too?”
“Yes she does and as a matter of fact she’s in the middle of something, so please for the love of Celestia don’t touch-“ Octavia looked over at her cousin and noticed he was already behind the stand. Her face held a frightened yet angered expression, “ARE YOU MAD!?!? VINYL WILL KILL YOU!!!!” Though she screamed rather loud, Treble just continued as though he didn’t hear her.
“Adjusting the BPM by 15 cents up will still give it the rhythm we’re looking for. Now we add a little reverb to the kick, slight echo on the clap and throw in a snare roll before the beat drops and the bass kicks in”
Octavia looked at her cousin puzzled as he spoke out loud with his headphones on. He appeared to know what he was doing but she couldn’t take the risk, so she pulled him away before anything else could happen.
“Awww I’m not done, it still needs a tad bit of resonance control and slight filter of the snare roll to the left side instead of right” Treble whined as he was forced to take the headphones off.
“Well it’s getting late, if you are to stay here than I guess you can sleep on the couch. I’ll go get you a pillow and blanket, don’t touch ANYTHING while I’m gone” with that Octavia left the living room leaving Treble standing there with a grin. He quickly turned around when he heard the sound of the front door opening, and somepony coming inside.
“Tavi, I brought you a wheat burger, there were some fries but I ate them on the way here. I figured you’d be mad but then I thought you’d get over it eventually” Vinyl paused for a moment when she spotted an intruder in the house.
“What the heck are you doing here!?” Treble asked with a nervous expression.
“The heck does it look like!? I live here you creep, the real question is what are you doing here!?”
Both unicorns stopped yelling when Octavia returned with Treble’s pillow and blanket. When she noticed her, Octavia smiled and greeted her friend, “Oh Vinyl, welcome home” Vinyl gave her a confused look as she said this, “Uh Tavi, you wanna tell me what’s goin on here?” Her roommate nodded with a sincere gesture and prepared to explain herself.