Behind the Shades

Vinyls song

Chapter three

"Whoa whoa whoa what...your joking right?  Please tell me this is all some big joke" Vinyl said to her mother with terror in her eyes.

"Oh darling I wish I were b-but hes gone." her mother said, still sobbing uncontrollably.

"No, no this cant be!" she said dropping the card her boss gave her as tears began to pour from her eyes.  Vinyl just sat there holding her mother never wanting to let go in ear that if she let go her mother would vanish from her as her father just had.  Later that week they attended the fathers funeral and since that moment Vinyl started slipping into a deep depression.  She started to drink to make the pain go away but it wasn't helping so she drank even more.  Due to all her hangovers she found that looking at any sort of light was totally blinding to her so she started to wear a dark purple tinted pair of glasses only taking them off to sleep or shower herself.  Finally disgusted with the sight of her drunk self Vinyl contemplated death everyday before attempting to finally end all her pain by hanging herself in her room when her mother was gone. Just before Vinyl jumped off of a chair with a rope tied around her neck Vinyl's mother walked into her daughters room to ask a quick question when she found her daughters attempt.  Catching her daughter before she could commit suicide and undoing the rope from her neck.

"Why Vinyl, why?  Not you too I cant loose you, you cant leave me!" holding her daughter and crying.  "How would your father react to this."

"I can't do it I want to be with him again." said Vinyl uncontrollably sobbing.

The next day Vinyl's mother took her to see a phychologist to talk about her problems.  For the next 5 years Vinyl would see this phychologist to help with any problems, although she no longer had suicidal thoughts she was still a bit of a drinker and she still used her dark purple shades.  Now a full grown mare at the age of 22 Vinyl decided to move out of her mothers house and start living her own life "but where" she thought to herself "where will I go what will I do or a job?".  While packing up her things a small card fell from a shoe box it was a business card for a music producer in Filly Delphia. She had forgotten all about that card and remembered what she wanted to do with her life so she decided to move to filly delphia to start a career as the Dj she knew she was.  After a boring and bumpy 8 hour train ride down to Filly Delphia she was finally there ready to start her new life.  Vinyl found the record studio that the card came from it was called Filly Delphia RecordZ the building was easily twenty-five stories tall and was made of all glass Vinyl looked at the building in awh.  She walked into the building and the lobby was giant it had its own  fountain and in the center was a big round desk with a couple of secretaries.

Vinyl walked up to the desk and one of the secretaries said to her with a big greeting smile. "Well hello dear welcome to Filly Delphia RecordZ how may I help you?"

"Hi yes I was wondering if I could schedule some time to get into a recording studio if that is at all posible?"

"Well you would first have to fill out some paperwork to be able to use one of our recording studios."

"Why do I need to fill out paper work?"

"It's just to say that if anything gets damaged or goes missing you are responsible and must pay for the cost to replace it."

"Ok, then would I be able to use one?"

"Yes, if a studio is open we will call you over and walk you to it and you can record for up to an hour at a time."

"Ok thank you."  An hour and a half after filling out paper work Vinyl gave her information to the secretary.

"Well everything looks to be in order lets see when a room will be open.  Oh your just in luck one is open now, please follow me."  The secretary walked Vinyl to an elevator and went up to the tenth floor.  "Now its down to the second to last door on your left you have an hour to be in there any longer and it will cost 35 bits."

Vinyl walked into the room closing the door behind her and sat in a chair and went to work on a demo.  She started off with a simple bass and snare combination.  Getting a feel or the beat she started adding more things like high-hats and she found that a heavy guitar was needed to make her song stand out after only 45 mins of working on it she had a totally finished song.  Vinyl went back down to the secretary that she talked to and asked "Could I submit this for a song?"

"Oh why of course, if you would just let me see it." as Vinyl floated over the disc the secretary grabbed it.  "I will see to it that this gets heard, have a nice day now." she said with a more than happy smile on her face.

The rest of the day Vinyl decided to go looking for a place to stay.  She found a small appartment building that was just enough for her to get, finally all moved in and soon might even have a new job.  The next morning vinyls cell rang "Hello this is Vinyl." she said not sure who was calling her.

"Hello Miss Vinyl my name is Dj Mic and you little missy have a bit of a talent.  How would you like to come down to the Filly Delphia RecordZ later to discuss a record deal im willing to make you."

"Oh Celestia Yes, I will be there as soon as possible!"

Vinyl's life was about to change more then she knew it.