“Pardon us for a moment Treble,” Octavia said as she and Vinyl started walking to Octavia's bedroom “This’ll only take a second” Octavia said as she shut the door behind them.
“I don’t think that’s normal cuz, it’s usually supposed to last longer. You should probably check with a doctor if that’s the case” Treble called out to his cousin trying to hold in his laughter. Treble went back over and sat down on the couch, he was thinking about taking a nap when something caught his eye. He noticed the cello resting in it’s stand where his cousin had left it, Treble walked over to the instrument and imitated Octavia by speaking in a Canterlot accent.
“Ah Bartholomew, it’s been quite some time since we last crossed paths hasn’t it? How are you my old friend?” He stroked the instrument as though it would break if he applied anymore pressure. “Why don’t we? just once for old time sake” said Treble as he picked up the bow and grabbed the instrument.
“So he’s your cousin?”
“Yes”
“And here I thought you were cheating on me” Vinyl laughed as she seen her roommate’s annoyed expression. “Aw I’m just messin with ya Tavi, so, when was he leaving because it’s kinda getting late?”
“Actually he had intended on sleeping here, I hope you don’t mind” Octavia said as she turned to open the door.
“Its cool with me, just as long as he doesn’t touch my stuff and watches where he walks” replied Vinyl as she followed Octavia out of the door and headed towards the living room. “Anyways I gotta get back to work, I’ve been beat blocked for hours and I think I have an idea on what I’m gonna…” Octavia stared at her friend as she had stopped in mid sentence with a shocked look on her face.
“Vinyl? Is everything alright?” she followed the unicorns gaze to see what had made Vinyl stand frozen. As she turned her eyes to the living room she gasped in surprise. Sitting in her spot with instrument in hoof, Treble played quite yet powerful as he glided the bow over the strings.
“What the heck do you think you’re doing!? That’s Tavi's prized cello!”
“Tavia you call it your ‘prized’ cello? Why I’m honored” Treble bowed his head after speaking this.
“Ok, that’s it!” Vinyl said as she began stomping towards Treble. She would have continued had a familiar face not stopped her.
“Wait Vinyl!” Octavia stood in the middle of her and Treble with her hooves raised to her friend, “Its quite all right, Treble here is actually an experienced musician and has handled my cello before”
“But…no pony touches your cello, you said so yourself” Vinyl spoke with a puzzled look.
“Well normally that’s the case but the truth is”- Treble interrupted her as he began to speak.
“I’m the one who gave her this cello. It was originally mine but after realizing my talents were not tied to one specific instrument, I decided to give it to my favorite little cousin” Treble could see the look of confusion on Vinyl’s face, “Its probably better if I show you than tell you, so why don’t you have a listen to your music” Treble pointed with the cello’s bow towards Vinyl’s equipment.
“You touched my stuff!?” Vinyl yelled at him as she ran to her equipment. “Oh there is no way your staying here now!” As she put the headphones on Vinyl prepared to hear her track she had worked hard on all day ruined, however, what she heard was actually a major improvement to what she originally had. Her song had come out the way she envisioned it in her head.
Treble noticed her look of astonishment as she lowered the headphones, “It could have come out better but somepony interrupted me before I could finish, I only got about a minute or so into production” Treble looked at Octavia who just rolled her eyes at his comment.
“But…how? I’ve had beat block all day and yet you captured what I wanted in less than minutes?”
“Treble has always been very gifted and passionate when it came to music, its practically all he lives for. Our family has always called him a musical prodigy, although, I wonder if he can keep up with the famous Vinyl Scratch ” Octavia smiled and winked at Vinyl when she spoke this.
“Wait, what!?” Across the room Treble’s face held a nervous yet excited expression. He shot up from the couch and placed the cello back on its stand in a quick action and ran over to where the two friends were standaing. “Vinyl Scratch? As in, The Vinyl Scratch a.k.a DJ PON-3? Your that Vinyl Scratch!?”
“Well there’s usually an amazing and cute in there too” said Vinyl with a confident grin.
“How in the wide world of Equestria did I not recognize you sooner? I mean, your only the best DJ in Ponyville and Canterlot, heck maybe even in all of Equestria” Octavia laughed as she saw Vinyl blush from the flattery.
“I guess I am pretty awesome” Vinyl gave a nervous laugh as she scratched the back of her mane with her hoof, “Your not too bad yourself from what I heard, say, would you be interested in helping me with some more tracks? I know we may have started out on the wrong hoof but”-
“It would be an honor!” Treble interrupted her with a scream, he cleared his throat before continuing in mellow tone of voice. “I mean, I guess I can. Two great minds are better than one”
Octavia smiled seeing her best friend get along with her cousin, “Well I can see you two are hitting it off splendidly, but I’m afraid I feel rather exhausted so I’m heading to bed” Octavia turned back to the two before she headed to her room, “If you two intend on staying up late please try to keep the wubs down” she smiled nervously at the two before closing her door. Treble and Vinyl stood quiet for a moment before their silence was broken.
“We should respect Tavia's wishes” Treble said as he stared at her.
“Yeah, I guess your right” replied Vinyl.
The two unicorns looked at each other and slowly locked eyes in silence.
“Nah!” they both said out loud as they began laughing hysterically.
“So miss Scratch, where shall we begin?” asked Treble as he and Vinyl walked over to the equipment.
“Depends, are you fond of dubstep?”
“Are you kidding me? No bass hits harder than a dubstep bass, actually I was currently in the process of developing a dubstep bass cannon back home” Treble laughed nervously, “Although I never really got around to make it, heh heh”
Vinyl wrapped a hoof around Treble and brought him in close laughing.
“You and I are gonna get along just fine, oh and ‘miss Scratch’ sounds lame, just call me Vinyl”