Just a few days

by Discorded Pegasus

Chapter 3

The grey mare, (still in shock) slowly turned around to face Rainbow Dash.

"Ex-excuse me?! What di-did you just say?" Octavia was still trying to process what just came out of the light blue mares mouth.

How does she know? She can't know? Its not possible, she doesn't know? Did Vinyl tell her? Can I trust Vinyl? Of course I can trust Vinyl, what am I saying? The more she dwelled on it, the more she doubted Vinyl... and herself. Your stupid Octavia, thinking that Vinyl would do such a thing!

"Oh come on!" Rainbow Dash groaned. "It's Obvious you two are in L-O-V-E!"

Octavia stared straight down at her hoofs as her cheeks glowed bright red. "That obvious?"

Rainbow Dash nodded so hard it made her rainbow mane bounce in agreement.

Rainbow could see that Octavia was upset, (That and there was tear running slowly down her cheek.)

"I'm mean you are in love, aren't you?" Rainbow Dash knew she was on thin ice and she really didn't want to make Octavia any more upset than she already was. (Its not a good first impression to make friends cry.)

Octavia nodded wiping the tear from her face.

"So why are you crying, was it something I said or something I did?" Rainbow Dash was genuinely concerned for the grey mare.

"No, you did nothing wrong, really." Octavia started to raise her head. "It was me, it was something I did."

"What, what did you, did you stub your hoof?" Rainbow Dash replied with a bit of friendly joshing.

Octavia let out a little giggle. "No no, nothing like that."

"Wh-when you said you knew that me and Vinyl were 'together', I started to doubt my trust with her... an-and."

"I understand." Rainbow Dash interrupted. "Don't worry your head about it, Vinyl didn't tell me anything."

Reassuring other ponies was not Rainbow's speciality but she gave it her best and it seemed to work, she suddenly had a nice, warm feeling in her heart... she liked it.

Octavia started to smile, she relaxed now that she knew Vinyl wasn't involved.

Rainbow Dash laughed. "I think that you and I are gonna be the best of friends, now why don't we try a Electric Guitar and Cello mash up?"

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Vinyl was worried. What could have happened, is Octavia mad at me? Did Rainbow Dash do something stupid?

As she read the text, a wave of relief flowed over her.

>Hi Vinyl, every things fine here, just wanted to ask if on your way home could you pick me up some rosin for my cello?

Vinyl smiled as she started texting back. How stupid was I, thinking that Rainbow Dash would do anything wrong.

>Sure, so you and Rainbow are getting on fine then. As Vinyl replied to the text she looked up and saw Neon Lights with that 'Is everything ok' look, but as soon as she looked at him she felt the phone vibrate.

>Yes, me and Rainbow are getting on fine, were about to try an Electric Guitar and Cello mash up, that's why I need the rosin. Also you could have done a better job at introducing us. Vinyl just remembered that she never introduced them properly, but it looked like Octavia did her job for her.

>Yeah sorry 'bout that, just skipped my mind.

"We could always do this later." Neon Lights said when he walked into the booth. "You look kinda busy."

Vinyl turned her attention to Neon. "Yeah, Rainbow Dash turned up this morning and I had to rush out the door leaving them alone to introduce themselves."

"Hmm, sounds like you've got a lot on you plate." Neon said looking concerned for Vinyl. "Go home, sort it out, we can finish this later."

"You sure?" Vinyl put her phone in her saddle bag and put the bag on her back.

"I insist, but remember to ask Octavia if she can record with us."

"I will, thanks Neon!" Vinyl gave Neon a friendly hug, she then let go, smiled and ran out the door, heading for the nearest music shop.

As Vinyl ran into the music shop she felt the phone vibrate again. It was Octavia.

>Its okay I forget things sometimes, Oh and Vinyl...

Vinyl wondered what she meant at the end of the text.

>Yes? She replied nervously.

>Rainbow Dash wants to know if she can stay for a few days?

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As Vinyl ran towards the house, she was still thinking about Rainbow. Why would she need a place to stay? Hasn't she got her on place? But those thoughts were but to the back of her head as she got closer to the house and a strange sound appeared.

What is that sound Vinyl thought to herself as she approached the front door.

Vinyl proceeded to open the door and as she did the sounds volume increased.

When she walked inside she saw Rainbow Dash and Octavia making a Electric Guitar and Cello duet in the living room, it was odd but it seemed to work.

"You two have been busy." Vinyl said, interrupting the two musicians.

"Hay Yeah!" Rainbow Dash screamed as she strummed a very loud note.

"You like it, its an odd mix, but it works." Octavia replied. "Did you get the rosin?"

"Yup." Vinyl said quickly. "Umm, can I talk to you for a minute?"

The Cellist turned around and faced her Fillyfriend. "Sure, what is it?"

"I mean in private." She whispered.

"Back in a minute." Octavia said to Rainbow Dash.

"Perfect, I'll tune my Guitar while your gone."

Once they were in the kitchen, Vinyl firmly closed the door, then gave Octavia a hug.

"You don't know how happy I am." Vinyl said with a big grin on her face. "When you sent me that text, I thought something bad had happened... but you and Rainbow are getting on fine!"

"Well, something did happen." Octavia whispered nervously.

"What happened? I thought you two were becoming great friends?"

Octavia took a deep breath and spoke. "She knows."

"About what?" Vinyl was very worried. Her heart was racing faster than ever before, she felt like she would faint at any moment.

"About us!" Octavia shouted trying not to alert the pony in the other room.

"That's what I was afraid you would say." Vinyl whispered to herself. "Did you tell her?"

"No!" Octavia barked.

"Then how did she find out?"

"She said 'it was obvious that we were in love'." Octavia said as her cheeks glowed red.

"Well... I do love you." Vinyl went as red as the Cellist.

"I love you too." Octavia said giving her red DJ a kiss on the cheek.

"How is she about it?" Vinyl asked.

"Rainbow said she understood."

"Well... at least she won't mock us." Vinyl shrugged. "We were going to have to tell her at some point, we can't hide it forever."

"Yeah well, I think we needed more time." Octavia said stubbernly

"You never know this be a good thing." Vinyl rubbed up against Octavia and tried to make her see the bright side.

"Hmm... I better go and check on Rainbow."

As Octavia then headed for the door to check on Rainbow Dash she suddenly remembered about this morning.

"Oh yeah, Vinyl."Octavia said as she turn to Vinyl.

"Yeah?" Vinyl replied nervously.

"You owe me for leaving me this morning with Rainbow Dash to do introductions." Octavia said with proud look on her face.

"All right then, tonight I'll make it up to you, sound good?"

"You better." Octavia felt very 'cheeky' all of a sudden.

"And what do we do about Rainbow?" Octavia asked Vinyl.

"Well... what do you want to do with her?" Vinyl threw the question back at Octavia.

"I guess we should let her stay, I mean I see no reason not to, but I think we should still ask why."

"Yeah I'm sure there's a reasonable explanation."

They both walked back into the living room to talk to Rainbow Dash who was still tuning her guitar.

"Hey, Rainbow!" Vinyl shouted, making her jump.

"Yeah!" Rainbow said still recovering from the shock.

"We both think that there is no reason not to let you stay here." Octavia said a little bit quieter than her Fillyfriend.

"Great!" Rainbow screamed, gentle placed her guitar and flew over to them to give them a massive hug.

"But." Octavia said struggling to breathe. "Can you tell us why?"

Rainbow Dash released. "Just Coltfriend troubles, the usual." She looked away as if she embarrassed.

"Say no more, you can still stay."

"Thanks again, I just need to... get over him." Rainbow tried to stay strong and not let a tear out, but one did manage to escape. Rainbow wiped it off quickly trying to act like it was an itch.

"We can't offer much, only a sofa." Vinyl shrugged pointing to the dark red sofa.

"Its fine, I'll make do." Rainbow said reassuring Vinyl.

"You sure?" Octavia asked.

"Hey, I've slept on more sofa's than you've performance's." Rainbow Dash didn't mean to sound to bitchy, they were offering a temporary home after all.

There was an awkward silence after she spoke but was interrupted by a hungry DJ.

"So, now that's settled, who wants dinner? Cause I'm making."

"Y-yes I would like something to eat, what would you like Rainbow?"

Rainbow Dash stared into deep space, she didn't really know what she wanted.

"Umm, hay fries I guess, nothing to fancy." Rainbow said shrugging her shoulders.

"Hay fries, sure, you okay with that Tavi?" She looked over to her cellist as if to say 'just go with it'.

"Hay fries it is." It wasn't like she was going to say no.

Vinyl went off into the kitchen to make dinner, in the meantime Rainbow Dash and Octavia got to know each other a bit better but they were cut short by dinner because hay fries doesn't take long to make. Once they finished their average meal, it was starting to get dark so they decided to get an early night, Octavia gave Rainbow Dash the warmest blanket they had and Rainbow crash on the sofa and just like she promised Vinyl made it up to Octavia.

Author's Note:

Hi, thank you for reading chapter 3 of this story, sorry that this chapter was longer than the others.

Now, I understand some people might not want to read the sex scenes of the story.
So I have decided to put the sex scenes into a '.5' chapter, that means if you want to read the sex part I will be releasing it after that chapter as a '.5' chapter. If you don't want to read them then I'm afraid you'll have to wait for the next 'full' chapter.

Thank you, I hope you understand and I also hope you enjoy the rest of the story!

P.S. Sorry for long Authors Notes and if this chapter wasn't as good as the others.

Comments

[Fox-Sama]

looks like your rushing it to hard. and forgetting a lot of key points/

Never once did Vinyl or Octavia ask Rainbow way she needs a place to stay.

and all your doing is telling us whats going on you need to show the reader what is it that's going on.

Show vs. Tell

This is often the biggest obstacle to a well-written story, and thus deserves its own section.

When someone wants you to show, not tell, they want you to imply that certain things are going on rather than just informing us that they're happening. It's like the difference between watching someone build a chair from a pile of lumber, and walking into someone's workshop and seeing a newly built chair surrounded by wood shavings and fresh sawdust.

In both scenarios, the information passed on is the same: this person you know (Let's call her Xen, because apparently Jayson Thiesson gave his daughter that name and that's a pretty freaking sweet thing to be called IMO. Agreed? Good!) has just built a new chair. The difference in the second scenario, however, is that instead of us seeing Xen build the chair or having Xen tell us herself that she built that chair, we can infer from what we see that Xen built this new chair.

To give you another example of how that sort of thing might play out in prose, have a look at this random little blurb of a sentence:

Twilight was tired because she had stayed up too late the night before reading an old astronomy textbook, and that was making her letter to Princess Celestia very difficult to write.

Sure, it got the necessary information across, but it just told it to you. There is no part of that sentence left to the imagination; the facts are the facts are the facts. As Pinkie Pie might say: "Boooooriiiiiiiing." Now take the ideas behind that same sentence, add a bit of showing, and...

For what seemed like the hundredth time, Twilight's head drooped towards the wrinkled yellow parchment lying on the desk before her. As her snout touched down with a painful thump, the purple-furred unicorn's head snapped back up, her eyes widening in shock for a second or two before crumpling into a scowl. She'd been sitting here for, what, twenty minutes now? And all she had to show for it was a splitting headache and a single line at the top of her paper: "Dear Princess Celestia..."

Twilight snorted and brought a hoof up to her forehead, the air feeling thick as molasses as she tried to lift her foreleg all the way up to her frazzled maneline. This wasn't that hard. This couldn't possibly be that hard. She'd been writing these letters every other Friday for the past year now, and she'd never had one single, solitary problem with it. And now: nothing. Her brain was on lockdown, and her eyes felt like something had dusted them with sand overnight. She could almost hear Spike's gratingly disapproving tone: Serves you right for staying up so late with your horn stuck in some chemistry textbook.

"First of all, it was astronomy," Twilight mumbled through clenched teeth at the reproachful baby dragon inside her head. "And second of all..."

A rogue beam of sunlight glanced off a nearby vase and flared out across the desk, sending Twilight's stomach into a tailspin. "...just shut up," she finished as her head fell onto her letter again. This time, it stayed there.

Contrary to what may seem like basic logic, the best stories are the ones that don't outright say anything. Ideally, the author is an artist just as much as a painter or sculptor is; he or she uses words to create an entirely separate world that we then visualize inside our own minds. When you show and don't tell, you give your readers a chance to determine all the little details of that world for themselves, which in turn allows them to immerse themselves much deeper into the text.

Why are people often disappointed when one of their favorite books is made into a movie? Because reading a book gives them the leeway to imagine the world however they desire, and a movie inherently has to pick just one version of that world. In other words, the movie, by its very nature, has to tell. And that's why the book is (almost) always better.

[rainbowscratch27]

3356976 yeah I saw that. They don't have that on the iPhone

[Skithiryx Icewing]

Awesome story so far can't wait to read the next few chapters and I hop you make it longer then 5 and /)

[Discorded Pegasus]

3952393 I brohoof thee! (\