Mezzo Piano stepped into Rarity’s house, and he was impressed at how pristine she had the place. Obviously her parents must be well off, thought Mezzo. The living room had a baby blue colour scheme, with a sofa, an armchair, and quite a large TV.

Mezzo noticed a young girl, looking like she was in freshman year, she slumped in the armchair, flicking through channels and looking bored.

‘Hi?’ Mezzo waved at the girl, she didn’t respond.

‘Oh, just ignore her. That’s my sister, Sweetie Belle.’ Rarity said in a soft tone.

‘I can hear you, you know.’ Sweetie Belle spoke up at last.

‘Why don’t you say “hi” to the guest?’ Rarity was getting annoyed, you could tell in her voice.

‘What? Are you having sex with this one, too?’

‘Shut the fuck up…’ It was rather funny how Rarity acts like a completely different person around her sister.

Rarity showed Mezzo all the rooms in the house, leaving for last her ‘workplace’. The place was a complete and utter mess. Different styles and hues
of fabric were strewn all over, on the desk in the centre, a worn out sewing machine was placed, covered in half-made dresses and the like, several mannequins loomed in a semi-circle around this desk. A laptop was placed next to the sewing machine, as was a notepad and an appointment book.

‘Well…,’ Mezzo finally said something after observing for a solid minute. ‘It is a bit, well, dirty.’

‘What?!’ Rarity yelled aggressively, she looked prepared to smash Mezzo’s face into the wall. ‘This isn’t dirty, or even messy for that matter. This is organised chaos.’

What is she even on about?

‘Care to elaborate?’ Mezzo decided to choose his words carefully, in fear of getting kicked out.

‘I can’t really, but darling, whatever you think it is, it’s not mess.’

‘Fine, I think I understand.’

I really do NOT understand!

Despite not knowing what the term ‘organised chaos’ meant, Mezzo was intrigued by the dresses.

‘I presume you’re a dressmaker of sorts?’ Mezzo asked rather shyly.

‘Well, it’s more of a hobby than anything, but it’s what gets the bills paid.’ Rarity looked into Mezzo’s confused face.

‘Wait, how much money do you make?’

‘Well that’s a secret, is it not?’ Rarity chuckled, which Mezzo echoed.

‘It’s getting rather late, I’d suggest getting some beauty sleep,’ Rarity yawned and stretched. ‘Let’s just say you’re going to be having a busy day tomorrow, Mezzo.’

‘It’ll be fun nonetheless.’ Mezzo said as he took off his long coat hanging it on a peg by the entrance. Rarity shooed Sweetie Belle out of the living room, which took longer than it should have. Mezzo moved to his new bed and found a comfortable position on it. Rarity shut off all the lights and darkness absorbed the house.

‘Goodnight Mezzo.’

‘Goodnight Rarity.’

Mezzo heard a door shut, which would be the queue to get some shuteye. His eyes felt heavy, and simply allowed them to cover his pupils, so then he could fall into slumber.

Well, he would’ve, if he didn’t hear his phone vibrate in his pocket. Mezzo checked his phone.

Pinkie Pie- 03:42
‘Hey, sleepy-head, I hope that you’re enjoying your new place. Don’t get up into any bad things now ;-) speak to you tomorrow.’

Mezzo woke to the sound of Rarity on the phone, she was talking about him, and from the sounds of it she was probably speaking to her parents.
She seemed rather nervous and praying to get off the phone.

‘Yes, Mother, I will turn off the lights when I leave the house…’

Mezzo watched in awe as Rarity turned more and more jittery with her movements and speaking patterns. As she hung up she made a melodramatic sigh and slouched in her chair, her eyes locked onto Mezzo’s.

‘You… didn’t just see that… did you?’ Rarity’s left eyelid twitched from time to time, making her look like a madman.

‘I might have, for the last 5 or so minutes.’ Mezzo checked his phone clock. It had indeed been 5 minutes since he had woken up to Rarity’s nattering. She got up and put on an off-white coat that swept to the top of her thighs, and a purple scarf which matched her hair colour.

‘Come on, I know a lovely place in which we could get brunch together before the rehearsal.’ Rarity jerked Mezzo by the hand, since he had his clothes on, he grabbed his wallet and coat and the two of them dashed out through the door.

The January winter air was cool on Mezzo Piano’s skin, it made him want to just turn around and walk back into the warm house. However, he was intrigued at the thought of brunch and food in general pushed him on. Rarity pulled out her phone and checked her hair in the reflection.

‘Do you think I look alright?’ She asked Mezzo.

‘Um… you look fine.’ Mezzo hesitated, simply because he didn’t want to sound like some kind of freak.

‘You hesitated… that only means… I LOOK AWFUL!!’ Rarity squealed as she grabbed hold of Mezzo’s shoulder and started crying on it. Mezzo
continued to walk, asking if Rarity was alright every 5 minutes or so, she grunted mostly, but soon enough she started to say yes.

Rarity wasn’t holding his arm to cry on it, she was holding it for comfort, this was fine for Mezzo, but it made them look awkwardly like a couple. If Pinkie saw the two of them, the questions would never stop, and he would have a lot of explaining to do.

The little bistro that Mezzo Piano and Rarity rested at for Brunch was small yet classy. The two of them ordered their meals and sat across from each other, Rarity cleaning her face, Mezzo texting Pinkie about ‘What should Pinkie get with her Steam vouchers’ or something along those lines.

‘Mezzo?’ Rarity asked.

‘Yeah?’ The Pianist answered.

‘I’m sorry about all that mess that happened before. It was unbecoming of me.’

‘It’s alright, you look, well, beautiful today, I guess.’

‘You guess, well its either it is or it isn’t.’

‘Listen, I’m not very good at complimenting people, take it or leave it.’

The two of them chuckled as finally their orders arrived. Rarity ordered Crepes and Mezzo ordered a bacon sandwich. As the two of them ate, Rarity was inspecting Mezzo, scanning the way he sat, the way he ate his food, she couldn’t react, it was either adorable, gross, or attention seeking, or all 3.

A vibration was heard, and Mezzo reached into his pocket, not surprisingly, it was Pinkie Pie.

Pinkie Pie- 12:01
‘OMG HURRY UP YOUR LATE!’

Mezzo ignored the incorrect spelling of ‘you’re’ and quickly tapped onto his screen.

Mezzo Piano- 12:02
‘We’re on our way now’

‘It may seem that destiny is calling, and destiny now goes under the name of Pinkie Pie.’ Mezzo put down 20 bits onto the table and put on his coat.

‘That was strangely poetic,’ Rarity grabbed her purse and looked at the table in shock. ‘Oh don’t be ridiculous, I’ll insist on paying for this one.’

‘Seriously, you’ve done enough for me already.’

‘That may be true, but who has the job around here?’ Rarity asked rather smugly as she gave Mezzo back his 20 bits, and in turn placed down 11 bits 87 cents of her own, the exact change for the meal.

As Rarity and Mezzo walked out of the bistro, there was a large commotion from across the street, not only that, but the sound of two girls arguing was heard, one was obviously bettering the other with harsher comments, but the other voice seemed to be biting back just as hard.

‘I’m intrigued.’ Rarity said casually, motivating her to walk across the street, as she did, she started to recognise one of the voices.
It was Sunset Shimmer!

Rarity called over to Mezzo, as the two of them dashed over to the respectably large crowd. Sunset Shimmer stood, embarrassed, humiliated, and somewhat hung-over, in front of a pale white girl with an electric blue spiked hairstyle.

‘Listen to me, you freak of nature, how’s about you don’t bring my girlfriend into this.’

‘Oh what, you’re little prim, posh, cellist? Who gives a shit about her?'

‘It seems that you like to break my fucking 15,000 bit record table, and then spout insults to me and my partner! I could easily get you arrested, Sunset.’

‘Oh sorry, Vinyl, how’s about you don’t insult me in front of a packed club, you deserved it, you stupid bitch!’

‘ENOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH!’ Rarity yelled at the top of her lungs, bringing a hush silence over the crowd.

‘Listen, the two of you need to stop. Can’t we just sort this out like women?’ Rarity walked up to Vinyl ‘How much does Sunset owe you.’

The DJ scratched her head and took off her glasses, beginning to polish them with her T-Shirt. ‘Listen, I’ll cut you a deal, if Sunset pays me back the 15,000 bits in order to pay for the record table by the end of the month, I won’t press charges.’

‘See Sunset, you only have to pay- wait- FIFTEEN THOUSAND BITS?’ Rarity was disgusted, startled and worried all in one facial expression.

‘Yeah, sorry, she can’t be doing that to any of my equipment.’ Vinyl Scratch put her glasses back on, and walked off into the distance.

Pinkie Pie- 12:34
‘WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS? YOU’RE A HALF HOUR LATE!’

Mezzo Piano- 12:36
‘There’s been a few complications, be there ASAP.’

Rarity and Mezzo Piano dragged an exhausted Sunset Shimmer down the streets of Canterlot, the stadium was in sight.

‘What the hell did you get up to last night, Sunset?’ Rarity demanded.

‘Well, when you guys went in, me and Rainbow Dash stayed out for a while and had a few drinks at the Grand Galloping Gala Club,’ Sunset was
rather slow in her speech, but still managed to get the story out. ‘When Vinyl’s set was on, she decided to call me out in front of all the members. I was annoyed to say the least. Since I’d had a few drinks, I went way overboard and just smashed up her record table and well… you know the rest.’

‘Sounded like an eventful night, you alright?’ Mezzo asked in a concerned manner.

‘Yeah, I am, I’m just pissed off about paying it off, where am I going to get that kind of money?!’

‘I wouldn’t dwell on it today, it has to be paid off by the end of the month, so that’s 3 weeks off.’ Mezzo tried to lighten up the situation.

‘3 weeks still isn’t enough time, Mezzo,’ Rarity, however, planned to dull the situation ‘We’ll all have to chip in if we want Sunset Shimmer to remain a free woman.’

‘Trust me,’ Sunset started to trail off. ‘You needn’t worry about me, I’ll be fine…’

Finally, the trio arrived at Canterlot stadium, the rest of the Rainbooms were waiting, and annoyed.

‘Where the FUCK have you two been?!’ Rainbow Dash looked prepared to fly kick someone’s teeth in.

‘Well…’ Mezzo Piano explained the previous events of the day as Rarity lay Sunset Shimmer down on one of the front row seats, where she fell asleep.

‘FIFTEEN THOUSAND BITS?!’ The girls encored after Mezzo finished explaining.

‘…yep.’ Mezzo hid behind Rarity for her to defend his corner.

‘We’re going to have to contribute to pay this deed off.’ The fashionista told the group

‘But why should we pay it off, it’s her problem.’ Rainbow grunted.

Mezzo was surprised that Rainbow would say such a thing as that.

‘A true true friend helps a FRIEND IN NEED, Rainbow Dash.’

‘I’m sure I’ve heard that somewhere…’ Pinkie Pie pondered.

‘Ah know this may be more of a last resort kinda thing,’ Applejack started to ask ‘but don’t we have connections to a Princess? She could lend us the money.’

‘Wait… a princess?’ Mezzo creeped from behind Rarity’s back for tat statement had startled him.

‘It’s a long story, MP.’ Pinkie told the pianist.

‘But asking for money from a princess would make us greedy, wouldn’t it?’ Fluttershy hid behind her fringe as she spoke softly.

‘I guess it would be, but the situation is dire.’ Rarity was rather annoyed at the predicament by this point.

‘Listen, girls. We have about a week to think of a solution; don’t you lot have a concert in a few weeks?’ Mezzo said

‘You’re right, Mezzo.’ Fluttershy placed a delicate hand on his shoulder ‘can’t we put the payment on hiatus for today? I mean if you want to anyways…’

The girls all agreed and got up onto the stage, Mezzo sat next to an unconscious Sunset Shimmer as Pinkie Pie called in the band.

‘One, two, three, four!’

‘Um, hey, Mezzo?’

‘Yeah, Fluttershy?’

‘Tomorrow, I’d like you to come around to my place, I need to show you something, if that’s ok with you…’

‘Of course it would be, here’s my number if you want to text me about anything.’

Mezzo told his number to Fluttershy as she tapped it into her phone awkwardly.

‘Um, ok, thanks.’

Fluttershy gave a naïve grin as she walked off in the opposite direction as Mezzo.

‘So why are you going around Fluttershy’s tomorrow?’ Rarity asked, interested in why she had invited him.

‘I don’t know, she wanted to show me something, I guess.’ Mezzo replied.

‘Hmmm, you never know with that girl, she’s always quiet.’

‘Yeah, I guess she is.’

Author's Note

Hope you enjoyed this chapter, make sure to give a rating and comment on what you liked or didn't like, I'm always looking for new ways to improve!