Fancy Meeting YOU here...

Tavi regained conciousness after a few minutes. She was on the floor and both her face and the back of her head hurt. She didn't know why the back of her head hurt. She had fallen on her face.

"ARE YOU OKAY?!?" Pinkie asked in a happy shout.

"Sure...I'm just fiiiiinnnneeee....." Tavi said sarcastically.

"Okie Dokie Lokie!!!" The pink party pony shouted as she hopped away to get Tavi's order.

"Okay then..." Tavi said quietly to herself.

Tavi stood up and found a chair. She sat and waited for Pinkie to return with her order. Tavi pulled out her phone and found that Tuning Fork had sent her a message. It simply asked if anything was wrong and why she hadn't been online. She replied with "I'm visiting somepony." She put her phone back in her saddlebag as Pinkie skipped back into the main room.

"Here you go!" She said smiling, handing Tavi a paper bag ,much like the ones donuts go in, with a muffin inside. Tavi knew that it was more of a cupcake being as it had bright blue frosting and white sprinkles on it.

"Now I remember why she likes these so much..." Tavi said with a grin. "They remind her of herself." Tavi finished taking the bag from Pinkie with her teeth. She said goodbye and trotted out of the store humming that same tune from earlier as she went down the street to her home.

A few hummed away minutes later....

"Breathe in....Breathe out..." Tavi slowly told herself as she stood in front of the door to her old home. She had been standing there for a few seconds now. She had no idea if she should knock or just go right in.

"I guess I can be polite..." Tavi raised a hoof and knocked twice. She heard slow hoofsteps from upstairs a lot of bumps and thumps and...

"I knew I would trip over that eventually..." From the pony she had been missing from her life for so long.

Her memories were cut short as that Vinyl opened the door rubbing her head. "If you need me to sign some...." The white unicorn stopped when she noticed it wasn't a mail-pony. She didn't move for a few seconds.

"Vinyl are you alri-AGH" Tavi was cut short when the white unicorn jumped forward and hugged her so tight she couldn't breathe.

Vinyl let go and broke into a happy smile that Tavi knew and loved so much. She hadn't noticed, but Vinyl looked horrible...even for Vinyl's own standards of good and bad. Her mane was unkempt, but not the happy medium that was her style it was a mess of blue and white strands. She didn't have her trademark shades either. Her magenta eyes were slightly reddened either from lack of sleep or crying.

"It's been too long Octy..." Vinyl said her voice almost sounded as if she was crying. Vinyl hugged her once more. Tavi couldn't tell. Vinyl's face was buried in her neck at that point, but she knew she was crying when her neck began to feel damp. She always knew Vinyl as the "cool party animal" type of pony. That was the moment that Tavi realized she wasn't the only one hurting inside. At that point though...she was really hurting on the outside. Vinyl had somehow squeezed even tighter then when she had began. Tavi's arms began to hurt as they were being squeezed to her side, and what little air she had been getting was now cut-off.

"Vi-...yl.....t-....too....TIGHT!!!" Tavi let out the last word as loud as she could which was near a Fluttershy-like volume by now.

"Oh sorry..." Vinyl apologized as she let go. "Do you want to come in?"

"I shouldn't need an invitation...this is my home after all." Giving Vinyl the most loving grin she could muster as she was still regaining her ability to breathe.

Tavi in an almost Pinkie Pie fashion skipped into the room happily. Unbeknownst to her the white unicorn was silently jumping up and down happily in the doorway. Vinyl eventually closed the door and followed Tavi before she turned around to see the ecstatic happiness that had just burst out of her.

As Tavi entered her old home she noticed something that surprised her greatly. Vinyl's shades were on the table the left lens had a crack from bottom to top. This was surprising due to the fact that Vinyl took care of two things...Her sets and her shades. Secretly Tavi wished that she was the third thing to appear on that list sooner rather than later.

"Oh yeah...um....since you're here do you by any chance remember that place that fixed them last time?" Vinyl asked with a grin and a blush.

"Vinyl it's on the fridge..." she said pointing to the note that was magnetically bound to the refrigerator door. Tavi at the time was trying so hard not to facehoof herself into a coma, but it seemed easier if it was about Vinyl. It also seemed that Vinyl had done it for her as she had a hoof on her face as she shook her head.

"Whoops..." Vinyl could only utter that one word as she took her hoof off of her face.

"It's okay....it's partially my fault." Tavi said smiling. "I should've put it on my goodbye note." She chuckled at the thought of Vinyl, out of all ponies, to be the one to NOT look at the fridge.

"About that...." Vinyl started, but stopped.

"Yes Miss Scratch?" Tavi asked with a grin. She knew how much Vinyl hated formalities.

"Does this mean....you're coming home?"