Chapter 28
When Octavia woke up, it took her a moment to remember where she was. When she had first gained consciousness, she was panicking at the unfamiliar surroundings until she found a familiar white unicorn wrapped around the cellist’s waist, snoring softly.
Octavia smiled at her marefriend as the thoughts of the previous day flooded back into her.
Octavia moved Vinyl's mane in order to see the mare's face fully.
Poor Vinyl. She has had such a hard time here. This visit has been much worse than the one at my parents.
Octavia jumped slightly when she felt the unicorn start to stir. After a second that said unicorn opened her eyes and smirked.
"Wow, Tavi. Watching ponies sleep. That's pretty friggin creepy," Vinyl teased.
Octavia glared at her marefriend, a blush quickly spreading across her face. This caused the DJ to laugh, which was stopped abruptly by Octavia pushing her off the bed.
"Ow!" Vinyl cried, "I thought you wubbed me Octy."
Octavia went to the edge of the bed in order to look down at the DJ. Vinyl grinned at the cellist, causing Octavia to roll her eyes.
"Honestly Vinyl, you really act like a foal sometimes."
Vinyl jumped back onto the bed, "Yeah but you totally like that."
Octavia rolled her eyes again, this time with a smile. Vinyl noticed this, causing her to suddenly wrap her hooves around the cellist and push the earth pony down.
The two mares looked at one another for a few minutes, both having grins on their faces. After a few more seconds of this, Vinyl started moving in to kiss her marefriend, only to be stopped by a hoof.
"If you want to kiss me, you need to brush your teeth first," Octavia said, smirking slightly.
"Mph Mph," Vinyl replied, her voice muffled by Octavia's hoof.
"What was that love?" Octavia asked, moving her hoof off the DJ.
"I said, you've let me kiss you with grosser things in my mouth before," Vinyl repeated, grinning.
Vinyl already knew what was about happen. In a flash, Vinyl was off the bed and in the bathroom, door locked. It didn't even take a second before Vinyl started to hear banging from outside the door.
"Vinyl Scratch! Open this door so that I may kill you!" Octavia yelled, anger clear in her voice.
"That doesn't sound like a very fair deal!" Vinyl yelled back, "Unless you mean killing me with sex, which in that case I will totally take you up on that offer!"
Octavia let out a roar, which just made Vinyl more sure to not unlock the door.
I bet I could survive off eating toilet paper. Or maybe I could get somepony to bring me food, yeah that sounds good.
After a few more minutes, the banging stopped. However, Vinyl knew this was a trick.
"Nice try Tavi! I'm not that stupid! I am not coming out of here!" Vinyl stated, stomping her hoof.
Vinyl got no response.
No Vinyl, don't let this get to you, don't think she left because she didn't. You are a smart pony who is going to stay in here.
Minutes ticked by, and there was still nothing. Vinyl was starting to get bored.
No Vinyl, this is life or death here! You can't just go out because 'you're bored'. You need to survive!
After a few more minutes, Vinyl let out a groan as she finally gave in.
Fine, but don't say I didn't warn you.
Vinyl opened the door, wincing as she prepared for an onslaught. However, nothing happened.
Vinyl looked around to find her marefriend nowhere in sight.
Vinyl started walking forward when all of a sudden, Octavia ran into the room.
Vinyl scrambled around in an attempt to escape, but it was too late.
~•~•~•~•~
"Did you hear that?" Harpo asked, looking around.
"Get back to work Harpo, it was nothing," Fredric commanded.
"I heard it too," Symphony commented, putting down her violin.
"O-oh! Then something must have happened," Fredric stammered, causing Beauty Brass to silently squee.
"It kind of sounded like a smack," Concerto agreed, much to Fredric's anger.
~•~•~•~•~
"You didn't have to hit me so hard Octy," Vinyl poured, rubbing the back of her head.
Octavia said nothing, she only glared at the mare.
However, as thoughts of the past twenty-four hours flooded back into the cellist's head again, she started to frown.
I shouldn't be so hard on Vinyl, especially after yesterday.
Vinyl's eyes went wide in shock as she felt Octavia pull her closer before kissing the spot she was hit.
"Better?" Octavia asked, blushing slightly.
Vinyl stared dumbly at her marefriend for a few seconds, before a smile spread across the DJ's face, making Octavia's blush grow even more.
"A little, but I know what will make me feel A LOT better," Vinyl replied with a grin before she kissed Octavia.
Octavia decided to let Vinyl have this one kiss, even if she hadn't brushed her teeth yet.
The kiss lasted a few more seconds before Octavia broke it.
"We should probably get some breakfast now," Octavia suggested, smiling.
Vinyl smiled back, "Yeah! I'm starving!"
And with that, the two mares got ready for the day before they went downstairs.
~•~•~•~•~
When the got downstairs, they found that Lyra, Bon Bon, and Vinyl's mother were already there. Lyra and Bon Bon were watching TV, cuddling, and Vinyl's mom was cooking breakfast.
"Hey, guys!" Vinyl greeted, causing Lyra and Bon Bon to jump off one another.
Lyra glared at the DJ, "You have great timing Vinyl. Octavia, can you hit Vinyl for me?"
"No can do Ly, Tavi already hit me pretty hard today," Vinyl replied with a grin.
Bon Bon's eyes went wide, "Is that what that smacking sound was?"
Octavia blushed, "I may have hit her harder than expected."
"Yeah," Vinyl started, putting her hoof around the cellist, "but she already made it up to me."
"With hot sex?" Lyra asked smirking.
Vinyl smirked back, "Yep!"
Octavia facehooved, "I would hit you again if I didn't feel so bad for hitting you as hard as I did."
"Oh c'mon Octy, we all know you don't want to hit me because you care about me too much," Vinyl teased, nuzzling the cellist's cheek.
"Vinyl Scratch. If you do not stop now I will kill you when we get back from Manehatten," Octavia threatened, causing the DJ to practically jump off her.
"I think Vinyl's mother said that breakfast will be ready soon," Bon Bon said as her two friends sat down next to her and Lyra.
"Alright sweet," Vinyl replied, excited.
"Vinyl, are you and your family going to have to talk again?" Octavia asked. Vinyl just shrugged in response.
"Don't you guys still have to talk about your relationship? We also never finished that thing where we each took a turn talking to somepony," Lyra pointed out.
"I'm not answering their questions if they don't answer mine," Vinyl growled angrily.
However, Vinyl's anger vanished when she felt somepony squeeze her hoof. She looked up to find Octavia smiling at her reassuringly, to which Vinyl smiled back.
"No matter what happens Vinyl, we'll still be there for you," Octavia said, comfortingly.
"Yeah! We got your back!" Lyra agreed.
Vinyl smiled at her friends.
Damn, what the hell did I do to deserve these guys?
Their moment was cut short as they heard a pair of hooves walk down the stairs. The group turned to find Long Play coming down.
"Morning guys," Long Play greeted.
In response, everypony said hi back.
"So, when are we going to have our big talk?" Long Play asked, sitting down on a chair near the couch.
"Presumably during breakfast," Octavia replied.
Long Play nodded his head before the room was back into silence.
After a few minutes, they heard another pair of hooves coming down the stairs.
They looked over to find Vinyl's father looking at them. Nopony said anything as they did not know exactly what to say.
Here is this stallion who cheated on his wife, left Vinyl's life completely, and now just came back telling everypony how he’s gay.
Octavia couldn't help but feel a little bad for the stallion. Maybe it was because he was the father of the mare she dated, or maybe because she saw a little of herself in him.
The father cleared his voice before he walked towards the kitchen, in order to stop the eyes that were following him.
After a few more minutes of the ponies waiting in awkward silence, they heard the mother call out, "Breakfast is ready!"
They all got up and went towards the table area, where the parents already were with the food.
Once the table was set, each pony took a seat.
Vinyl's parents both sat at the front of the table. To their right was Long Play, Lyra, and Bon Bon. And to their left was Vinyl and Octavia.
The ponies all started eating, the silence still present.
Octavia watched Vinyl, she looked as though she was having the hardest time eating that she has ever had. This caused Octavia to smile slightly.
Poor Vinyl, trying to seem professional by not devouring her food in one gulp.
The ponies continued to eat, until Octavia cleared her voice, gaining everypony's attention.
"Not to be rude but, shouldn't we start talking?" Octavia asked, "The four of us need to get back to Manehatten and our train leaves this afternoon. I believe we still have many things to talk about, including Vinyl and I's relationship."
Everypony seemed stunned at Octavia sudden determination to start the conversation, especially the mother.
"I would think that you didn't want to talk about your relationship," Vinyl's mother replied.
"I would like it more if Vinyl's family was okay with me dating her daughter rather than skipping the whole conversation," Octavia explained, "besides, you still need to explain to Vinyl why you have to hide facts about her father for so long."
The room went back into silence as everypony thought of Octavia's words. After a few more moments, the mother spoke.
"I suppose you're right. Let's start with the more major problem," Vinyl mother agreed.
"And what would that be?" Lyra asked, "No offense, but it's not very obvious when basically our whole lives at the moment are ten different problems going on at once."
"I believe she means Vinyl and Octavia," Bon Bon replied.
Vinyl raised her eyebrow, "Really?"
"Yes actually," Vinyl mother confirmed, "I know you want to talk about your father first Vinyl, but right now you all are in danger. This situation needs to be clearer if you want us to help."
Vinyl's eyes went wide, "Y-you want to help?"
"Of course Vinyl! You're our family!" Long Play exclaimed with a smile.
Vinyl returned the smile.
"Wait, what happened to the whole 'Octavia is bad because cheating is a bad thing? Are we just going to-"
"Lyra. Stop," Bon Bon commanded.
"Oh, sorry," Lyra apologized, sheepishly.
"No, you are right Lyra. We still need to know a bit more about this situation in order to also trust the mare we are trying to help. But so far, it seems as though she is a nice mare who just wants to move on in life," Vinyl's mother explained, smiling at the cellist.
And with that, the ponies explained the whole story. About everything that had happened to leave them to this point.
"Jeez, the amount of crap you guys have been through could be in a book," Long Play said, causing Octavia to blush slightly, "Like, a book with almost thirty chapters."
"That's ..... quite the story. I don't know what I was expecting but it was certainly not that," Vinyl's father said in shock.
"Yeah yeah, we get it, our lives are weird. And Caramel is a piece of crap," Vinyl said, waving her hoof around.
Vinyl's mother didn't say anything, it looked as though she was thinking. After a few more seconds, the mare suddenly jumped up causing everypony to jump as well.
"I've got it!" Vinyl's mother exclaimed, "To make sure this is all true and to help Octavia's father with knowing Vinyl. How about we all meet!"
WHAT?!" Vinyl and Octavia exclaimed at the same time.
"I thought the in-laws are supposed to meet during the wedding," Lyra teased.
"Oh yeah! I would totally like to meet these other ponies. Including Octavia's sister," Long Play said in a slightly slurry tone.
"Oh no, you don't! This love square has got to end!" Bon Bon stated, pointing a hoof at the stallion.
"It's settled then," Vinyl's mother said, sitting back down, "We'll work out a time and place later, for now, we have other things to discuss."
"Miss Scratch, while I am sure this might seem like a smart idea in your head... let me tell you now that it’s probably not the smartest idea," Octavia said, nervous.
"Yeah! Octy's right! There are so much smarter and less stressful ways to deal with this," Vinyl agreed.
"Oh c'mon Vinyl, what's the worse that could happen?" Long Play asked.
"Everything," Vinyl, Octavia, Lyra, and Bon Bon all said at the same time in a voice that sounded so sure it was almost scary.
"While I would love to complain about how bad of an idea this is for longer," Lyra started, staring at the clock, "Our train leaves in a little while so if we still want to talk about Vinyl's family problems then we better hurry it up."
Vinyl's mother seemed to deflate slightly at this, "Oh, right."
And once again, the room was back in silence.
That is until they heard another groan.
"Guys! Seriously?! We stop talking for one second and we stop the whole conversation!" Lyra exclaimed, annoyed.
"Lyra!" Bon Bon scolded, whacking the mare's arm.
"What?! It's true! Do you guys want us to leave again for this?" Lyra asked, turning towards the family.
"That.... that would be best," The mother replied, nodding her head.
With that, Lyra, Bon Bon, and Octavia got up to leave.
"If anything happens Vinyl, please talk to me instead of running through Ponyville," Octavia pleaded, "And if you do run away again, then Celestia help you."
Vinyl gulped at the threat but nodded her head.
Once the ponies were gone from the room, Vinyl's mother spoke.
"I believe that this time we should try taking turns to speak, and we should also make a rule to not interrupt one another," Vinyl's mother suggested, everypony else nodded in response.
"Who's going first?" Vinyl asked, her voice sound slightly more angered than before.
"I will," Long Play offered, "The reason we hide most things about our dad from you was because... well, for one you don't really need to know much about him."
Vinyl opened her mouth to argue but Long Play continued, "I mean, you know that he cheated on mom and left, what else do you really need to know? Not only that but also the fact that I went through the divorce with mom and trust me, it was not fun. So I didn't want you to go through it as well."
Vinyl opened her mouth again to respond but her mother interrupted her.
"Although I will take blame for not telling you sooner," Vinyl's mother admitted, "We should have told you long before you moved to Manehatten."
Vinyl once again opened her mouth only to be interrupted by her father, "I understand why you two did this. I would have done the same thing in your shoes."
Once he finished, everypony turned towards Vinyl for her response.
"Oh, so it's my turn now?" Vinyl asked, sounding annoyed, "Well, okay. I GET the fact you were trying to protect me or whatever, but he still is my dad! And how would telling me about my father even hurt me? I would probably just be like, meh okay whatever. So why did you guys think it would help me?"
"Well," Vinyl's mother explained, "knowing how you are Vinyl, although you may not admit it, you are an extremely curious pony. Knowing you, you would probably try to find him and talk to him, or do something insane."
"So, wait. You didn't want to tell me because you thought I would do something stupid?!" Vinyl asked, getting up from her seat, "How reckless do you think I am?!"
"No Vinyl! Well, I did think that you would-"
"So you DO think I’m reckless!" Vinyl yelled, interrupting her mom.
"No, she thought you would do what I did," Long Play replied coldly.
Vinyl stared at her brother wide-eyed, "Wha-what?"
"After our parents divorced, I ran away. I ran away to find my dad. I don't really remember what I was going to do, but I wanted to find him. However, my adventure was cut short as the police found me and brought me back home," Long Play explained.
Vinyl and her father stared at the stallion with wide eyes. Vinyl had returned to her seat, her anger completely gone.
"How long were you gone?" Vinyl asked, tilting her head.
"A week," Long Play replied, looking down at the table in shame.
"I'm sorry," Vinyl's father apologized.
Long Play just lets out a hum in response.
The room went back into silence for what seemed like the tenth time that day. The mother looked towards the clock before she said, "You better get going Vinyl, your train is leaving soon."
Vinyl nodded before she walked towards the door. She paused at the door and turned back towards her family.
"I love you guys. And I'll see you whenever we do that dinner thing," Vinyl said quickly before she left the room.
~•~•~•~•~
"Honestly, at this point, I feel like everything we try to do to fix something just gets us nowhere, or in an even worse position than we were in before!" Vinyl exclaimed, sliding down her chair.
Vinyl, Octavia, Lyra, and Bon Bon were all back on their train to Manehatten. It has been a very eventful weekend for them and they all couldn't wait to get back home.
Octavia sighed, "I know that pain."
"Well, not exactly," Bon Bon argued, "You're now closer to your family and now somepony else is going to help Octavia with Caramel!"
"Sounds like a win to me," Lyra agreed with a grin.
"Attention all passengers! The bar area is now open!" The loudspeaker announced.
"Oh sweet! C'mon Vinyl, let's go get some candy!" Lyra exclaimed, getting up from her seat.
Vinyl smirked before turning to her marefriend. Octavia was staring out the window in thought, she looked almost depressed.
"Uh, you guys go ahead, Imma chill here for a while," Vinyl replied.
Lyra shrugged, "Alright, we'll bring you back something. C'mon Bonnie, let's go!"
Once Lyra and Bon Bon had left, Vinyl moved closer to the cellist before wrapping one hoof around her neck. Vinyl then nuzzled her neck, electing a sigh from the other mare.
"Vinyl, where is this all going?" Octavia asked.
"Where is what going?" Vinyl questioned, tilting her head.
Octavia turned towards her marefriend, "All of this! I- I just- there is so much going on! What did Lucky Streak find out? What is Caramel planning? What is going to happen to-"
Octavia was silenced by Vinyl planting a kiss on her lips. Once Vinyl moved away, she smirked.
"I was wondering where my worry wart cellist went," Vinyl teased causing Octavia to whack her lightly on the side.
Vinyl then gave the cellist a sad smile, "But to answer your question, I have no idea. But something tells me that as long as we got one another and our friends, we'll be fine. Besides, Caramel can't really do anything too bad without it being illegal."
Octavia sighed again, before she rested her head on the DJ's shoulder, "I suppose you're right."
Just then, Lyra and Bon Bon walked to their seats before stopping as they noticed the two mares.
"I think we should leave them alone for now Lyra," Bon Bon suggested.
"Yeah, you're right," Lyra replied, smiling at her marefriend.
And so, the two mares walked away, leaving Vinyl and Octavia happy in their embrace.
Whatever the future holds for us Vinyl. I hope we'll make it through together.
I will admit, this is not my strongest chapter.
But as I made this, it made me realized some things about myself as a writer, and I hope that the next chapter will improve from this one.
Thank you all again for your support! See you all next Monday 
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Oh, Long Play...
7721295 HE KNOWS TOO MICH WE MUST GET RID OF HIM
Long Play knows we are put here reading the story
7721474 The homicide of Long Play is
now permittableillegal.Too bad nobody wants to kill him.We're too busy screaming for Neon's blood.awesome chapter
7721295
Don't hurt poor Long Play, there are much worse ponies in this story
7721474 Calm yourself
7721637 Yes, yes he does
7721921 Glad you enjoyed it
7721978 caramel being one and its sad I actually picture him like that also do you have a twitter if so follow me it would be awesome to chat with you my card--->@hopefeuljustin11
7721999 Yep!
I don't have a twitter, sorry
7722263 its cool anways keep up the good work
7722265 Thanks!
7721978 Don't worry. I'm too busy screaming for Neon's blood to go after Long Play
likethat.7722584 Oh
I am screaming for Neon's blood as well
Well, seems like Neon is gonna work with the good guys instead of being an ass like he usually is..... just an assumption though
7722861
>Someone yells in the distance.
"See‽ Even the author wants him dead!"
Luckily for us, this is not Game of Thrones. Not yet, at least.
7722882 Who knows.... The world may never know
7722885 Yep!
Oh lord no
Congrats, you win, this story is too funny.
7724665 Yay! Do I get a cookie?
Glad you enjoy the story
7724714 Gamertag you're on a diet XD
7724756 Shhhhh
7724900 YOU'RE ON A DIET GAMER