A few days later, it's the day before the party. Cheese still isn't himself. He can't get over how much Octavia dislikes him. However, he's still going along like nothing happened. He's hiding his sadness with his normal, cheerful attitude. He talks to other ponies like normal and still continues to joke around and be silly. Right now, he's getting the cannons and everything else into place. After he gets everything in it's place he'll test each thing a few times to be sure it's ready for the party. "Alright, ponies, this cannon should go over there." He says while pointing his hoof towards a wall space between a table and the stage. "And that one over there." He continues, but pointing to a similar position on the opposite side of the room. "Alrighty, everypony, now I'm gonna need the ring of fire hanging from the ceiling directly in the middle between those." He directed while poking his clipboard with the tip of his hoof.
Octavia is the other room practicing with the band members. It's sounding better than it was at the start, but it's not perfect quite yet. "Ok, everypony, stop." She commanded while sticking her hoof in the air. "Cyan, you need to keep your violin paced with Crimson's piano." She suggested to Cyan. "And Neo, you really must get your harp playing in tune with the rest of us." She said to the the light grey stallion harp player. All the players nodded and got back into position. Octavia waves her hoof in the air as if telling the others to get ready. She then moves her hoof downwards, signalling the others to start. They all went on play for a few minutes and it was sounding amazing. The band finished playing and Octavia was very pleased with the results. "Well done, very well do, all of you. It's perfect, ready for tomorrow." She said happily. She then instructed all the other band members to pack up and head home. She did the same.
Cheese Sandwich had gotten everything into place and had tested everything. It was in good, working order and ready for the party. Cheese was heading home with Octavia, but never spoke a word. It was when they got home that the silence was finally broken. "Uh... Cheese Sandwich. Are you alright?" Octavia asked Cheese Sandwich. "I can tell that something is deeply troubling you."
Cheese Sandwich looks over at Octavia. "I'm...I'm fine, Octavia. Nothing to get your tail in a twist over." He responded while turning back the other way, but this time his head was hanging low. He sighs, "Just fine..." he says in a hushed tone of sadness. He made his way to his bed and sat down. His mane and tail going flat as if just experiencing static electricity.
Octavia walks over and sits down next to him. She rubs his back in hopes of making him feel better. But, Cheese just shook, trying to get her hoof off of him. She removes her hoof from his back and looks down in disappointment and sadness. "I'm sorry." She mumbles. She looks up at him. "I'm really, truely sorry, Cheese Sandwich."
He returns the gave, but his expression a little less sad than it was. "Me too, I didn't mean to give you a reason to dislike me, I didn't even know this was going to be a fancy party. I just knew it was gonna be party. I thrive on planning and making parties 200% more awesome." He said. "I heard about you being my roommate and hoped to make a good impression, it seems that I did the opposite."
"Well, if it helps I don't truely hate your wild behavior and such. I mean, I live with a DJ in Ponyville. I'm used to it." She said with a little bit of a smile. "It's actually quite fun."
Cheese begins to develop a smile across his muzzle. His mane and tail even got curly and puffy again. He pulled Octavia into a hug. "Thanks, Octavia, that made me much happier." He said.
"You're very welcome, Cheese Sandwich. You can call me Octy." She said while returning the hug. This was nice she made up to him for the things she caused him to think about her feelings toward him. "It makes me happy, knowing that freinds are happy."
Cheese released the hug and smiled at Octavia while looking into her purple eyes. "Thanks, Octy, I'm glad to hear that we're friends." He said with the smile still plastered across his face.
Octavia nodded, blushed a bit and gave Cheese a little peck on the cheek and went to her own bed. "Well, I suppose we should get to sleep." She said with a smile. "We got a big day ahead of us. Goodnight, Cheese Sandwich." She turned off the lights and turned over eith a blush on her face she did her best to hide. She thought to herself. ("Did I really just kiss him on the cheek.")
Cheese Sandwich laid down in awe about what had just happened. "G-goodnight, Octy." He said. He had a dark blush across his face. Perhaps Octavia had been developing feelings toward the yellow stallion. No matter what it was, Cheese Sandwich was happy. Both red-faced ponies fell asleep about an hour later after think about each other. Both very happy about the future to come.