Chapter 1

Author's Note:

It may not be my best work, but I wanted to write something in celebration of my one year anniversary of writing. Please let me know what you thought

"Ugh, are you ready yet?"

Vinyl shook her head, and wandered around the room searching for something.

Octavia rolled her eyes. Vinyl had spent the first half of the day trying to get Octavia to do something with her, and now that she had finally agreed, it was Vinyl who couldn't get ready on time. Although slightly annoyed, Octavia couldn't help but see a bit of humor in the situation.

"Do you honestly even need to wear your glasses everytime you go out?" Octavia asked. Vinyl always seemed adamant about wearing her glasses at all times, aside from at home, and Octavia often wondered why exactly that was. She theorized Vinyl could simply be self conscious about her eyes, or perhaps she liked seeing everything in purple. Perhaps Octavia would ask her about the exact reason at some point.

Vinyl nodded insistently, and seemed a bit angry that Octavia would even ask that question.

"Alright, alright, no need for that. How about I help you look?" Octavia offered. Despite not understanding the reason, Octavia felt that she shouldn't dismiss something that was important to her friend.

Vinyl smiled, and continued searching, and once she had found her glasses, she held them high above her head in victory.

Octavia smiled a bit at her friends small, over the top celebration, "shall we go then?"

Vinyl nodded, and ran to the front door, opening it and waving Octavia over, now seemingly in a big hurry.

"Thank you Vinyl," Octavia said, stepping outside and taking a look around. It was a rather nice day out, being the perfect temperature, and weather. She could see why Vinyl wanted to go out, "well this was your idea. I'll let you lead the way."

Vinyl paused and stared ahead, seemingly putting a lot of effort into her thoughts, before heading off in a random direction, that she likely had no real reason for picking.

As Octavia followed, she admired the scenery around them. She had always enjoyed the strong presence of nature of Ponyville, even though her personality seemed more fitted to a place like Canterlot. Thinking about that made her briefly wondered where Vinyl was from, "It's quite nice outside today isn't it?"

Vinyl paused, and looked down at a patch of grass beside them, as of checking if that statement were true or not. She felt the texture of the grass, then reached down, and pulled some of it out of the ground to examine it. She then nodded, satisfied with it's quality, and blew it towards Octavia.

Octavia gave Vinyl an unamused look, despite part of her wanting to smile.

Vinyl rolled her eyes and tossed the rest of the grass down.

"I am not a killjoy," Octavia said, apparently having inferred that accusation, despite Vinyl not being able to make it.

This assumption was seemingly accurate, as Vinyl responded by nodding in an "are too!" kind of manner.

"Am not!"

Vinyl rolled her eyes, which Octavia reciprocated, and they both continued walking. To others, it would almost seem like the two of them didn't get along, much less that they were best friends, with them being practically opposites, and getting into some kind of small argument multiple times a day. However in reality, there were no real negative feelings behind their playful arguing.

Octavia looked around once again to admire the area, but was interrupted as Vinyl quickly found another random thing to be distracted by, this time on the form of a tree, that she run up to excitedly.

Octavia couldn't help but smile once again, at her friends occasional lack of an attention span, which amused her, as often as it annoyed her. As did many things about Vinyl.

Vinyl looked at the tree, then at Octavia, then back at the tree, and once more, back to Octavia.

"What? If these something special about this tree?" Octavia looked up, and despite the size, she didn't find anything of interest.

Vinyl however was absolutely captivated, as she looked up at it again, not doing much besides staring, almost like she was contemplating something.

"What are you doing?"

Vinyl responded by crouching down, and jumping up to grab one of the trees limbs.

"Are you... Trying to climb it?"

Vinyl looked down at Octavia, as she was now dangling from the branch, and nodded, pulling herself up onto a higher branch.

"Any particular reason why?"

Vinyl shrugged, and continued her journey up into the tree.

"I see... Well I suppose it's as good a reason as you have for anything else you do."

Vinyl nodded, not picking up on the potentiality insulting nature of that statement.

Octavia watched as her friend went higher and higher up. Vinyl would always get into the most random things imaginable. It was something that both confused, and intrigued Octavia. She herself couldn't handle living so spontaneously. Although Vinyl would many times take her out of her comfort zone by force anyway. Sometimes, she could feel a part of herself that was almost tempted to join Vinyl in whatever activity or game she was doing that hour. Almost, "Please be careful up there Vinyl."

Vinyl waved Octavia off, certain that she would be fine. At least that was until she looked down. She then realized that she had actually gotten rather high up. Uh oh.

"Don't tell me. You're stuck?"

Vinyl shook her head, denying that vehemently.

"Alright. then come down."

Vinyl looked down, and thought for a moment. Ok... Just have to slowly move down-, Vinyl then immediately crashed back down to the ground, and face planted in front of Octavia.

Octavia gasped, "Are you ok!?"

After a brief second, Vinyl sat up, adjusted her miraculously undamaged glasses, and nodded, seemingly unscathed, and satisfied that she had proven she was indeed, not stuck.

Octavia sighed, "Call me a killjoy if you'd like, but you're practically a foal ninety percent of the time."

Vinyl shook her head.

"Are too."

Vinyl once again shook her head.

"Must you always be like this?

Vinyl nodded, and Octavia rolled her eyes, for what must have been the hundredth time today.

Vinyl lightly shoved Octavia in retaliation, and Octavia shoved back, then they both glared at each other, before braking out into giggles.

Octavia smiled at Vinyl. While Octavia prided herself on her maturity, there was something about Vinyl that made her feel differently. Not just more open to new things, but different kinds of things all together. It made her feel able to enjoy much simpler things, many of which she used to consider childish or ridiculous, and she couldn't deny, that she enjoyed it. No matter how much she tried not to smile when Vinyl roped her into some nonsensical game, she'd always crack eventually.

"Perhaps this was a good idea."

Vinyl smiled widely.

"My goodness... I didn't think it was possible for you to have one of those."

Vinyl's smile dropped immediately, and she attempted to shove Octavia, who simply moved out of the way,

"Ok ok I'll stop. For now," Octavia said, giggling.

Vinyl turned away from Octavia, in exaggerated offense.

Octavia hugged Vinyl from behind, "Aww I'm sorry," she said in the most fake, exaggerated, apologetic tone she could manage.

Vinyl burst into more giggles at Octavia's acting, and they once again laughed together, which they'd likely do many more times today.

The End.

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