Plan B (Octavia)
"Oh my Celestia, I hit her."
"Calm down."
"I hit her across the face, a-and she fell into the snow."
"Octavia-"
"My hoofprint was imprinted on her face."
"Octavia!"
"I-I-I just don-"
"OCTAVIA!"
The voice on the phone snapped me back into reality. I've been pacing back and forth in my room since I managed to get myself inside. I could faintly hear my mother and my sister going back and forth in the main room of the house. My mother would shout something, then my sister would say some incomprehensible string of sounds, followed by laughing. Other than that, the only sound that was in my room was the constant squeaking from the ceiling fan waving back and forth.
"You there?" The voice came through the phone again.
"Yes, yes. My apologies."
"You need to calm down."
"But, I-I hit her."
"So you've said. I also ran into Vinyl a few minutes ago. She looked like she was in a ton of pain."
My legs lost the strength to support my body. I collapsed to the ground.
"Don't worry, I'm joking."
"W-what?"
"I did run into Vinyl, but trust me, I couldn't see her face."
"What do you mean?"
"Her face was buried in that scarf."
I could feel my face getting hot. I looked at my door, making sure it was locked. The last thing I wanted was one of my family members walking in on me like this.
"Trust me, Vinyl's not mad at you. If you really felt bad, you'd call her."
"You think so?"
"Definitely. I know Vinyl."
"Okay.. Thank you, Lyra."
"No problem! I gotta go now. I'm about to head home."
"Tell Sweetie Drop I said 'Hello."
"I will as soon as she wakes up."
I hung up the phone and tossed it onto the bed. I went back to pacing back and forth. I would occasionally look over to my bed, debating if I should take Lyra's advice. Should I really call her now? It has been a little over an hour since we had our...interaction. I should wait longer, she's probably still walking in the snow. Alone. With nothing but a scarf.
...
...
Why didn't I offer to walk with her? She'll get sick for sure. I wonder why she didn't ask for something more than a scarf, like a jacket or at least a blanket. She didn't even look at me after she put my scarf on. I started to walk faster, like I was trying to catch up with my thoughts. I was startled when my train of thought was interrupted with a pounding on the door.
"Octavia, it's your mother. Open the door."
I was still shaking from the shock of what happened earlier. It took a few tries until I managed to unlock the door and let my mother in. Her white coat was almost blinding against the black walls of my room. She did not come into my room often, but when she did, it was never good.
"Octavia," she stood next to my bed, eyeing my phone. "did you know anything about this party your sister went to?"
"I promise you, I had no idea."
My mother looked disappointed. However, I think she believed me.
"Well, the guards will be here soon to talk to your sister. I would like you to stay in here."
"Sure thing."
"Good girl." She approached me and planted a kiss on my head. I stayed facing the same way as she walked past me. I waited to hear the sound of the door closing behind her.
"One last thing." She halted in the door frame. I turned around to see her.
"I found this in your sister's saddlebag." She paused to levitate a pair of light blue and white headphones. "Because of your sister's actions, she's grounded. You can keep these until she earns them back."
"Oh...um...thank you. I-I was looking for that." I stuck my hoof out as the pair of headphones were lowered into them.
"Mmhm." My mother left the room and closed the door behind her. I observed the pair of headphones more closely. They were wireless, and they matched the mane of Vinyl Scratch. I was certain that they belonged to her, but that became a guarantee when I noticed her cutie mark design was on one of the sides. After a second of thinking about what I should do, I got an idea. I placed the headphones and on the bed and picked up my phone. I went to my recent numbers list, then started typing a message.
>> I found a pair of headphones, I believe they are yours. Would you like me to bring them to you?
I hit the send button and stared at my phone. In all honesty, I just wanted an excuse to text her I waited for seconds. I waited for minutes. I stared at it for hours. At least, that is what it felt like. I'm positive in the real world, I only stood there for a moment before tossing my phone back on my bed. I went back to the headphones. I've never been great with technology, and I've certainly never seen a pair like these. I flipped the headphones around, looking for a place to plug a wire into. I did not find such a place, but I did see some buttons along the left ear. I pressed the buttons, against better judgement. After fumbling with them, the headphones started to vibrate rather violently. I almost dropped them from the surprise. I put the pair of headphones on. For the amount it was vibrating, not much music came through. I could hear faint pulsing, but the raw noise of the headphones vibrating overpowered the actual music.
Useless set of headphones. The only reason I could think anypony would wear these would be for the style. I put the headphones on my dresser. I heard a door open in the other room, a few voices, then the same door closing. The guards have arrived. I put my ear up to the door, and tried to hear what they were saying.
"...ma'am, please calm down."
"My sweet little filly is drunk! I want the pony responsible for this!"
"Do you have a name?"
Water rushed through the pipes around the house. Instead of hearing their conversation, I could just hear the water running through the pipes. No. No. No. I pressed my head against the door. Please Celestia, what are they saying?
"...coffee...
lemons...
night....
party...."
The words I heard made no sense. I decided to open the door.
"Thank you, ma'am. I assure you that everything will be handled."
Oh no. I retreated back to my room and picked up my phone. I saw that I had an unread message, but I ignored it and started typing a new message.
>> I think the guards are going to some coffee shop with lemons. If that makes any sense to you, the guards will be there soon.
Before I could hit send, a loud voice made me drop my phone. I looked over to the door. My father stood in the doorway with a large pegasus in gold armor standing behind him.
"Octy, this is Cloud Runner. He wanted to talk to you about the party your sister went to."
"I-I have no knowledge of it." I tried to keep my eyes focused on them as I reached for my phone.
"Don't lie to me, Octy. I know that white unicorn gave you her number."
"Oh." I couldn't help but giggle from the nervous energy. "Yes, about that..."
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Oh snap! Whatcha gonna do when they come for you!
I would change 'buy' to 'but'
how did her mother jump to the conclusion that those were hers?
Also I hope you werent referring to Beats, Vinyl is a DJ and hopefully smart enough not to buy something like that!
4487498 Whaa, naawwee. No pro DJ in their right mind would ever buy Beats. Psht. That's. Psht. Yea. Whatever.
4487503 You own some don't you.
lol if you do. that would be too funny
But I mean they are OK and all. just expensive for their sound quality
4487616 I don't. I'm a TurtleBeach / Skullcandy person.
4487620 I... Um... Yeah...
Those will work I guess?
Those are... pro
lol
4488449 I'm not a professional DJ. :
So yes, they will work.
4488558 Fair enough
Anyway keep it up man! i am digging this story!
4487498 oh yea, to answer your question about the mother thinking the headphones were hers, there is a quarter note on the left ear cup (referenced later). Since Octavia is the only musical pony in the family (Chapter 1), it would make sense (to me at least) that her mother would think they were Octavia's. If that seems really far fetched, I'll re-write it when I do my overhaul
4492629 Well I guess that would make sense. But I mean headphones could be anyones
I just noticed you mentioned me in the descript!
I have done something!!
Nice story, What happened to Lemon's perspective? I'm probably a little late
Anyways, I got a little confused when you said this wasn't going to become one of those Vinyl X Octavia pairings, but it seems it is going to turn into one of those.
Unless of course you are going to make Vinyl's little crush.... crushed.
4506689 I never said "They aren't going to be a pair." I just left the ambiguous ending in the first chapter so people can draw their own conclusions, but since people started commenting and even mailing me "Want more", I expanded on it. Now, OctaviaXVinyl is like, one of my favorite ships, but I also love a good tragedy. I honestly have no idea what each chapter is going to be about as I write them. I just try to write as I would think each character would react to each situation, and let them carry the story. At this point, I'm waiting to see if my shipping side or my tragedy side is going to win over the story. It can still go either way. Oh yea, and I took out Lemon's chapter and added more to the two chapters before and after it, since I felt it didn't flow as smoothly as the other chapters did.
4506764
Okay. I understand more now, thanks. So yeah, Look forward to what's coming up next.