Author's Note

Hey there folks! Sorry there was no update forever! Like seriously. I can't believe I forgot this story! Oh, well. Live and learn as the saying goes. I'm still alive and this fic aint dead. I just can't prioritize well! Hope you all enjoy the update. Things will get really cool next time.

A Meeting Gone Wrong

The awkwardness of the situation Starlight found herself in was thick.

Here she was in someone's home being accused of being a hooker. She wouldn't let this insult go by a long shot, but fate seemed to have other plans. Vinyl stepped forward to her roommate and bonked Octavia atop her head.

The shocked expression on the grey mare's face was priceless to Starlight. The grey pony bit her tongue as the white hoof stuck down on her making her bite it.

"What was that for Vinyl?!" Octavia cried in surprise rubbing her head.

"That wasn't nice, Octy. She's not that kind of pony," the Vinyl said with some bite in her tone. "You always taught me not to judge ponies based on their social status now you should apply that to yourself as well."

Octavia seemed to see the logic behind her friend's words. She took them to heart and approached Starlight with what dignity she could muster. She gave a polite bow keeping a rigid posture.

"I'm sorry I called you such awful things miss." Octavia said in her bow, bringing herself up to look her in the eyes. "I hope you can find it in yourself to forgive me for beings so rude."

Starlight sighed rubbing her shoulder. "It's fine. I've been called worse believe it or not. I don't think I got your name? Mine's Starlight. Starlight Glimmer."

"Octavia M. Philharmonica, or just Octavia if you don't mind," She said offering her hoof.

Starlight took the hoof shake with a smile. In return Octavia smiled back feeling at ease with the mare.

"I'm sorry I called you a hooker pony. It was quite rude and unbecoming of a lady such as myself and beg your forgiveness." Octavia said modestly.

"Oh, well it's nice to meet such a, refined mare." Starlight said dryly looking over at Vinyl. The mare in question was chugging a can of beer stopping to see the two mares looking right at her with deadpan expressions. It took her three seconds to realize they were looking at her and referring to her as the unrefined one.

"Hey! I can be plenty refined too!" she snorted.

Starlight and Octavia rolled their eyes at the same time. "Of course Vinyl." Starlight said sarcastically.

"Whatever you say Vinyl. We totally believe you." Octavia added dryly.

"Hey! Is this pick on Vinyl Day or something?" Vinyl whined, indignantly.

Octavia laughed loudly sitting herself on a nearby chair. "Oh, Vinyl that's everyday of the waking year."

Vinyl groaned crossing her arms with a pout as Starlight joined Octavia in a heartfelt laughter. Once the two mares calmed down they had the DJ pony join them at the dining table at the end of the house. It was centered where the two halves met and split the table between Vinyl and Octavia's preferred colors of blue and grey.

Starlight glanced around which didn't go unnoticed by the two other mares at the table.

"What's wrong dear?" Octavia asked trying to be more civil since her outburst.

Starlight looked around to see the decor of both sides of the house which gave a distinct impression on her. She guessed that based off the order and structure of how everything was arranged on Octavia's half of the house. Starlight found it strange that the two ponies who seemed so different could live in harmony so well.

It reminded her of the very reasons she founded Our Town. A place where nopony was better than anypony. A place where all could do their equal share and not have to live under an oppressive ruler. *Heh, funny how that turned out.* Starlight thought sadly. She turned to face Octavia who was staring at her with a concerned look. Even vinyl was watching her.

"I have had a lot of trouble adjusting to life in Ponyville since my... days as town leader." Starlight said looking away fro the two mares.

Vinyl nearly hopped out of her seat grinning at the pink unicorn. "You were a mayor of a town?"

"Once long ago," Starlight replied in a somber tone.

Vinyl looked like she was ready to ask more questions, but Octavia held up a hoof to her friend silencing her before a word got out. Vinyl sat back down on her chair and lowered her head. Octavia decided some refreshments were needed to help lighten the mood.

"Well, I am parched!" Octavia said standing up from her seat. "Miss Glimmer, would you like some tea, or a water at the very least?" she offered politely.

Starlight nodded with a smile. "Tea sounds nice. Thanks."

"Oh think nothing of it dear," The earth pony said, walking away to the kitchen.

Vinyl and Starlight stayed behind in silence until the mare came back with the drinks. After quickly distributing the drinks Octavia joined Starlight on her side of the table as she sipped her own tea.

"So, dear, what do you do these days?" Octavia asked Starlight, sipping her tea.

Starlight sipped her drink slowly. She waited for the tea to settle before she continued on, giving herself time to prepare.

"I am actually Twilight's personal student these days." she said spinning the cup in her hooves.

Both Vinyl and Octavia looked shocked at this news. One was in awe the other in disbelief. Octavia had to act quickly not to drop her cup of tea while Vinyl simply allowed hers to fall without any grace at all.

“Y-you are the personal student?! Twilight Sparkle!?””Octavia managed to stutter out.

Starlight blushed lowering her head in embarrassment. “Yeah….”

Octavia shook as she lowered her cup of tea on the saucer plate. Her unsteady hooves made the cup clatter several times with the tiny plate before she dropped it, silencing the clanking noise. She had not only been rude to the student of twilight Sparkle, a hero and a princess now at that, but she also had the gall to accuse the mare of horrible doings. On top of all that she had openly accused Starlight being from an unsavory profession without knowing her first. *What a way to make a first impression!*

Octavia felt sick to her stomach. What if Starlight told Twilight about this? Would she get in trouble? She didn’t want to think about the implications this could have on her reputation among the social elite. She couldn’t believe this. All for a misunderstanding.

“Miss Octavia?”

Octavia looked up to see both Vinyl and Starlight looking at her. She didn’t realize she had zoned out and was staring.

“Um, what’s wrong? Is the tea not warm?” Octavia asked.

“No that tea’s fine, you were just staring,” Vinyl said with an affirming nod from Starlight.

“Sorry, I was just contemplating on how poorly I treated you earlier. I’m terribly sorry,” Octavia said trying not to sound desperate.

To her surprise the pink unicorn smiled and waved it off.

“Don’t worry about it. If I learned anything from the last few months is that it’s better to forgive and move on then hold onto a grudge. Trust me on that,” Starlight concluded sipping her tea with her hooves.

Hearing this Octavia felt a huge weight had been lifted off her shoulders. She was in the clear now and had no worries. She thought about what she said and truly felt sorry for making such an assumption. She felt like she owed Starlight for such a thing but was happy all the same to get off the hook so easily.

“Besides<” Starlight’s voice interrupted her thoughts. “I don’t think Vinyl would like it if I got her friend and roommate in trouble. It’s a bad way to start a friendship.”

Vinyl laughed loudly taking her shades and placed they just over her horn.

“Heck yeah it would! That'd suck hard!” Vinyl said.

Oh please, what do you know about sucking?” Octavia said feeling annoyed.

“A lot actually. I suck lots a ‘junk’,” Vinyl said wiggling her eyebrows seductively.

Octavia groaned rolling her eyes while Starlight seemed amused by this.

Octavia always envied Vinyl. Ponies came to her raves all the time, and it was arguable that she was more popular than Octavia herself. Yet, she always complained when there were no gigs, no jobs, and always sought more work out. While Octavia remained envious of her, she did like that the mare was fiercely determined in her music, which spoke for itself.

Unfortunately Vinyl also had a very dirty mind. Poor Octavia always feel for these word traps as she called them when Vinyl was around. How she never saw it coming annoyed her to no end, almost as much as Vinyl when she would mention something called, “The Game” every half an hour.

Yet she still cared for the white unicorn. She was a childhood friend, even if Octavia was five years older. She would never trade Vinyl for all the fame and fortune in the world. Tea? Maybe.

“Vinyl you are the worst…” Octavia hissed gulping her tea.

As she did she felt the hot tea go down the wrong tube and let out a most unlady like snort as she choked on teh tea. Vinyl heard the sound Octavia made and chuckled, while patting the grey pony on the back.

“You okay, Octy?” Vinyl asked while Starlight looked a little worried.

“After clearing the throat Octavia waved Vinyl off.

“I’m fine. I’m fine… I just had the tea in the wrong tube,” Octavia said.

Vinyl grinned but Octavia booped her nose with her hoof silencing anything that would have come from the mare's mouth.

“I swear Vinyl, if you say one more sexralated enuendo I will ‘really’ give you something to write home about,” Octavia said, her voice was dark and full of venom with every words and sent shivers down Vinyl’s spine.

“Uh, sure thing, Octy! Hey Starlight! You like music?” Vinyl asked.

“I love music,” Starlight chirped. “I love modern and classical. Though I find your line of music… interesting.”

“Great! Hey Octy, we should do the thing!” Vinyl said hopping in her seat like a filly.

“Oh, umm. Well not tonight Vinyl I just lost a contract to that Neolight fellow. I’m not in the mood,” She replied walking towards the kitchen. “Perhaps tomorrow?”

“Sure, hey Starlight. You wanna let us do a private showing for ya?” Vinyl asked hopefully.

Starlight smiled nodding. “I’d love that. Maybe you two can come to the castle and I’ll see if Twilight wants to attend too. That, ok?”

“Oh, well heck yeah! That’d be cool of you!” Vinyl said hugging Starlight and nuzzling her.

*Ahem.*

Vinyl and Starlight both blushed when they realized Octavia was glaring at them. The grey earth pony was tapping her hoof on the floor looking more at Vinyl than Starlight.

“Vinyl please remember that if you do any, explicit things tonight,” Octavia pointed to a flight of stairs that descended down. “Please use the ‘spare’ room.”

Octavia then bid Starlight a good night and turned herself in for the night. Vinyl had recovered rather quickly but Starlight still felt embarrassed that Octavia thought she would want to do such a thing. True she wouldn’t mind, if it was Vinyl. She was pretty enough.

Starlight looked over at the mare who was reaching under the counter to get some dish soap to wash them and saw the roundness of her butt. Her wide hips and her muscular toned legs. She realized that even Octavia had strong looking back legs. She wondered if it had to do with how they stood while they performed? Starlight walked over to a table and tried to stand on her two hind legs while Vinyl washed the dishes.

The first thing she noticed was that vinyl wasn’t standing freely. She was using her stomach as a cushion to hold herself up with the counter. She also had her legs spread wider and seemed to use her tail for balance. Starlight tried to imitate the motions leaning up against the table and then spread her legs to help balance herself.

Suddenly her legs felt more comfortable and she felt like she could actually stand on her legs for much longer than she thought. She looked between her legs to see how her tail moved as she leaned one way and how it helped her keep her balance. It was so easy, and now she understood why Lyra did it so well. She was so fixated on what she was doing that she didn’t realize Vinyl was standing behind her and was watching, having finished the dishes.

‘Hey, if you wanna lick it it doesn’t work like that. Trust me I tried,” Vinyl said behind Starrlight.

Starlight nearly toppled over but was caught by Vinyls strong arms. She was now hanging in the mares arms feeling the heat rush to her cheeks. Starlight’s muzzle was only inches from Vinyls. It was as close as she ever got to another pony since she nuzzled Sunburst.

Once more Starlight felt a rush and she slowly got woozy. Vinyl called out to her as the mare blacked out again. Starlight’s last thoughts feel back on the mare and made her wonder why? Why did she faint at her touch? At the very sight of her coming close? Why when she was wet? Starlight thought until darkness came over her thoughts as well.