I Will Break The Silence

Vinyl and Octavia sat on the curb of Sugar Cube Corner awaiting the arrival of Neon Lights, who was picking them up for their little "adventure". Cars passed them by on the busy street and the quiet was becoming more awkward by the moment. Looking for any way to ease the silence Vinyl pulled out her earbuds and offered one to Octavia. The Cellist looked at it quizzically as the young DJ typed something out on her I Phone.

"I was wondering if you wanted to hear one of the remix's I made? I'm always looking for a second opinion.

"Oh well, in that case I'd be delighted Vinyl."

With that she took the spare earbud and rested it in her right ear while the blue haired girl put one in her left. Careful not to turn the volume up too high and burst the raven haired girls eardrums she set the volume to thirty and hit play on the remix she had titled "Free We Can Be". As with most of her songs there was a low roll of base in the background while other sounds of machines took over the foreground of the song.

For Octavia this was a new type of music, she was used to string instruments, the sound of Violins and on occasion drums and other such things. Rock was by far not her favorite type of music, but she partook from time to time. In fact it occurred to her that this was her first time listening to electronic music.

The sound of the beats in the background continued to rise as well as the other sounds. She could feel her ears vibrating from the intensity of the growing noise but for some reason she liked it. The sound of Dubstep was completely foreign to her, it was a kind of music she had never heard but, while incredibly different and in no way close to what she was used to, it did have it's own charm. It was loud, it was rude, it was the opposite of everything her parents had told her she was supposed do and everything she was supposed to be.

The music only got louder but suddenly stopped. for a split moment she thought the song was over but then a mechanical sounding voice shouted "BASS DROP!" and her ears were bombarded by the loud screeches and the blasts of scraping wires and technology crying in her mind. She flinched at first but didn't pull the bud out, finding that this only continued to feed the fire that she was feeling from the earlier part of the song. It was like this music, this song, was an act of protest against the world's Ideals of decency. It was like nothing she had ever heard.

As the song came to an end Octavia found herself almost remorseful as the feeling of renegade behavior was leaving her. Still, no song can last forever and this ones end was at hand. Removing the earbud from where it hung on her lobe she turned to Vinyl.

"That was wonderful Vinyl! You made this?"

"Well sort of yeah. It's a remix of a song, so I took one that already existed and threw my own spin into it. I liked the song but I felt that if I could change it a bit I could change the meaning of it."

"What was the message supposed to be and what was the original song about?"

The DJ took a second to remember the interview with the author she had seen on YouTube before answering by typing a reply on her phone.

"The origonal song was called "Damned Are We". It was supposed to be about how we're being oppressed by the people who run our world. At least that's what the guy who made it said he wanted the message to be. I kept a lot of the background, but changed some of the louder parts and the quieter ones while re-writing different portions."

"But you changed the message when you changed the song right? What was it supposed to mean?"

She smiled, typing out another reply.

"When you listened what did you feel?

Octavia took a moment to think about how to answer, after a full few minutes she was able to piece together her feelings as best she could.

"I felt...free, rambunctious and...and..."

Vinyl cocked an eyebrow with a coy smile accompanying it.

"And, guilty..."

"What I was shooting for was that if we want things to change, but they aren't changing, we have no one to blame but ourselves. Change comes from action, not from wanting it."

"Well, that was...deep Vinyl."

The DJ smiled and nodded in thanks. Octavia was about to ask if Vinyl had any other songs that she had made, but was interrupted by the growing sound of bass from a different source. Looking to her right she saw that Vinyl had stood up and was looking down the road, waving a hand as if to get someone's attention. As she got to her own feet a black haired driver pulled up on the side of the street and leaned towards the DJ.

"Hey V! Ready for the party?"

She nodded and pulled out her phone while turning to face Octavia.

"Octy, meet Neon Lights, my big brother."

"Neon Lights, as in Water Melody's boyfriend Neon Lights?"

"The Very same." He replied. "I take it your Octavia?"

"Why yes, I am."

"Nice to meet you, I've heard a lot about you from Water Melody. I take it Vinyl asked you to tag along with us?"

"Yes, she was kind enough to invite me to come along."

"Cool, hop in and we'll head out."

With a cocky smile Vinyl vaulted over the cars back door into the backseat of the open roofed car before opening the door for a surprised Octavia. The Cellist climbed in before turning towards Vinyl.

"That was quite the display! How did you do that?"

"I took parkour classes for a while. I'm not the best but I can climb a two story building and do a lot of the basics."

With yet another cocky smile the DJ kicked up her feet upon the top of the passenger chair and leaned back in the seat. Neon revved the engine before putting his foot down and pulling a U turn that Octavia was sure he would have been fined for had an officer been present. As they drove towards the east side of town Neon did his best to make conversation. So naturally the first thing he asked was...

"So I take it you were expecting me to be younger, and not a sophomore in collage right?"

"Wait your in college! Umm, well, I..."

Vinyl snorted into her hand at the bluntness and the reaction it got out of Octy. Neon joined in with a hearty chuckle as he made a left turn on a yellow light.

"Relax, I get it. I'm a bit old for her right?"

"I didn't say that."

"But you were thinking it right?"

"Well...yes."

"Yeah, her folks hate my gut's and my parents are pissed too, but sometimes you got to just say fuck it. In my case, love is more important to me than others approval. That's why Water Melody comes first."

"I thought I saw you at the Friendship games with Crystal Prep though?"

"Yeah, that was me. I went there when I was younger but sometimes if they're short staffed for a field trip I help chaperone. Miss Pencil Pusher was sick that day so I took her place."

"I see."

"Your taking this better than most people do, so thanks for that."

He looked back with a smile as he stopped at a red light.

"Neon's a good guy Octy. Well ok, he is a bad roll model, but he's like a brother to me and he always has my back."

"Like a brother to you?"

"Me and Vinyl aren't related but we might as well be. We've been friends since she was seven. We used to be neighbors before I moved into the school dorms. We started hanging out because we were pretty much the only people who could tolerate each other's irresponsibility."

Vinyl held out her hand for a high five and Neon was quick to accept. More comforted by the show of kinship, Octavia finally asked the question she had been holding on to for a while.

"So where are we going?"

The blue haired DJ smiled wide.

"It's a surprise my dear Octavia. It's a surprise...