A Rainbow Scratched in Vinyl

I tried to DJ the best I could, but I was lost in fantasies of the pegasi. "Yo, Vy. You feelin' ok?" Asked my cousin, and co-owner of the club, Bass Blast, "You're a bit...off." I then realized I hadn't changed the song for most of the day. "Naw, I'm good." I said awkwardly stepping away from the turntable, "Just not my day, I guess." He gives me a suspicious look, which I counter with a huge smile. "If you say so..." He says, and starts escorting me off the stage, "Hey, it's my shift now so how about you go relax?" I nod, making my way over to one of the empty booths, and sit down resting my head on my hooves. "Rainbow Dash... She probably doesn't even like mares."I say to myself glumly, "Probably just some stupid rumor..." The beat drops causing the entire club to shake. I groan, and rub my now pounding head, "I'm just gonna head home for the day..." I say as I make my way to the exit, ignoring a few ponies that tried to block my path to get an autograph, and start heading home.

"I wonder if Tavs is home." I say, and check the time. It's 12:38... A mare passes me, and she looks very familiar... it's Octavia?! "Yo Tav you're actually going to the club?!" I shout in alarm, "You say you hate that 'torturous excuse for music' that's always playing there!" Then it hit me, she wasn't going for the music... she was going to see my cousin! "Omigoddesses! You like my cousin!" I shout before I can stop myself. This causes her to turn a bright red. "No, I do not like your cousin Bass Blast!" She shouts back, clearly lying. "Ya know... I never told you his name..." I reply putting on a sly smile, "You just blew your cover!" She just stands there, unable to think of a response. "Don't worry!" I say, putting my hoof around her, "Your 'secret' is safe with me! I'm not Beauty Brass!" Remembering how if she found anything 'juicy' on someone you'd find it on her Ponybook. "Well, thanks I suppose..." She awkwardly shuffles into the club, turning an even brighter shade of red. "That was fun!" I shout, and continue home skipping slightly. Then my thoughts go back to Rainbow Dash, and I sigh, "For all I know she has a coltfriend..." I reach the house, and head up to my room.

"Lesse... maybe some gaming'll help!" I say, and head over to my game shelf, "Hmm... Haylo: Reach! Perfect!" I pull it out, place it into my Xbox."Let's do this!" I shout, as I float my controller in front of me, put on my headset, and start up Matchmaking. I'm about to go grab a Monster out of my fridge when it finds a match, "That was fast..." It's a Team Deathmatch. "So... lesse who's on my team..." I look down the player list, DJP0N3, which is obviously me. The others are DashofLoyalty, PartyHardyPony, and SongBird22. "Aight... who are we up against?" I look at the other team. HeartStrings, "Oh, whoever could that be?" I say to myself sarcastically. The others on the enemy team are CandyCovesBonni1, Sup3rG0ss1pMare, and PrincessofScience12272. "Do any of them have mics?" I ask, not hearing a response I check again, and see that they're all in a Party, "That explains it!" I get a Party invite, and I accept. "Yo videogames!" I shout, as soon as I get in. "Yo P0N-3!" DashofLoyalty shouts back, and I quickly realize it's Rainbow Dash, "Didn't expect to see you!" I start find it hard to breathe. "Uh, yeah! Just got off work!" It sounded like Dash was going to ask something but got cut off by PartyHardyPony who I realize has to be Pinkie, "Yay!" The match had started without me knowing.

The match goes well, and we win by just ten kills. "That was awesome!" I shout, still feeling the adrenaline from the match. After the match I learn that CandyCovesBonni1 is Bon Bon, who is gaming at Lyra's, SongBird22 is FlutterShy, who is one of those 'Harcore' gamers, Sup3rG0ss1pMare is Beauty Brass, and PrincessofScience12272 is Shinebeam, who is rotating with her coltfriend Knyte. "Buck yeah, it was!" I hear FlutterShy yell. It's so odd how different she is while playing shooting games. "Uh, hey P0N-3?" I hear Dash over the sound of everypony chattering, "Can I come over, and listen to some records or something?" This makes me feel like my heart is going to explode. "Uh... Sure Dash!" I say, not even realizing everypony has grown quiet, "And it's Vinyl Scratch." She squeals silently, and you can hear her set down the controller, "I'll be there in a sec!" She shouts, then goes offline.

"You like her don't you?" Shinebeam asks over the headset, and you can hear Knyte holding back a laughing fit in the background. "She's pretty epic." I reply not understanding what she meant, "She's an awesome sniper." You hear Knyte burst into laughter. "No,no,no,no." Shinebeam says in a joking tone, "You just wanna snuggle with her next to a fire, and love on her don't ya?!" She bursts into laughter too. I freak, shut off my Xbox, and throw my headset across the room. "What am I going to do?!" I ask myself, running downstairs, and noticing the huge mess from last night's party, "Ok, I gotta clean for one!" I start picking everything up putting it where it belongs. "She's gonna be here any--" I get cut off by knocking at the door, "Second..." I open the door and Rainbow Dash waves happily,and strolls in taking a seat on the couch, "Hey sorry it took so long,"She says as if she took an hour instead of a minute, "Traffic, ya know?" Traffic? What?! I look around at the mess still left, "Sorry about the mess... had a party last night, and I didn't get the chance to clean it up." I say, kicking a broken vase under a table. "It's cool!" She says, with a smile, "Hey... I just wanted to know if you could teach me how to DJ...:?"

This completely erases any shyness I had. "You don't know how to DJ?!" I shout in alarm. She shakes her head, "Nope, but I wanna learn though!" Her smile gets bigger, "So will ya teach me?!" I lead her to the music room where Tav and I keep all the musical equipment. "This must be fixed at once!" I say in my most dramatic voice, earning a laugh from Dash as I set everything up.

After an hour or so of the basics, she starts doing stuff on her own. "Hey, this isn't that hard!" She shouts over the music, "It's actually pretty fun!" I stand just a few feet away, content with my new protege. "Now be careful! Don't want you--" I never finished the sentence. She slips, and is sent straight into me.

I groan as I open my eyes, and I gasp when I see her on top of me. I feel my face burning up."Uh, Dash...?" She looks down at me, also a bright red. Then, as if I lost all control over my body, I pulled her in, and kissed her. To my relief she kissed back. I don't know how long our lips locked, but I do remember what happened next. "I'll just... get my cello later..." Octavia says, walking in on us.

We must have looked very... erotic. Music blaring, laying on the floor locked in each other's embrace. "Uh... we weren't doing anything!" I feel my face burning even more. "Yeah, she was just teaching me how to use a turntable, and I slipped!" She says, helping me up, "Totally accidental!" She's nearly glowing from embarrassment.

I can't believe Octavia's terrible timing!--End of chapter 3