The building was a solid square of brick. No windows to see in or out. The group rode up to the club in an open cart, being pulled by a stallion. “Pull around to the back please.” Skips called out to the stallion, he nodded in reply. Autumn noticed skips fidgeting and put his hoof around him, pulling him closer for reassurance.

“You’re going to be fine babe!” Autumn kissed skips on the cheek. Skips stared at the building, “You sure you can do this skips? If you getting stage fright just let me know and a real dj will take the stage.” Octavia hit vinyl in the back of the head, “You will be fine.” Octavia said back. Skips smiled, and stared at vinyl. “Get ready to kiss my flank” skips hopped out of the cart and trotted into the back door of the club. Leaving the other three to follow.

The club was dark throughout, dim Fluorescent lights lit up the back hallways. And colorful dancing lights lit up the dance floor and bar. Skips trotted up to a colt with a clipboard and tapped his shoulder, “Hi im…” he was cut off, “Skips! You made it! Great come with me and we can get your gear hooked up. We already have ponies starting to line up, its half off drink night so you'll have a crowd for sure!” Skips was taken a back by the colts enthusiasm, but followed behind anyways.

“Here is the stand! Set it up however you like you're are only dj tonight, club opens at 8pm and your set ends at 1am.” Skips nodded along, “Drinks are in the house for you and your plus 3’s. But just remember if you cant perform we cant pay you! So be responsible!” Skips at this point was over the colts enthusiasm and wanted to be left alone with autumn and his friends, who where now walking up to skips.

Skips began plugging in his equipment, “Wow skips, this is a big club. Hope there drinks are cheap.” Vinyl looked around at the empty club, “Drinks are in the house tonight. Don’t embarrass me, vinyl.” Vinyl looked at skips with an offended face, as she trotted towards the bar. “I’ll keep an eye on her dear, perform your best tonight.” Octavia said trotting towards her partner.

“You scared?” Autumn asked walking up to skips, “Kinda, the crowd is supposed to be huge tonight. Its half price drinks.” Autumns face turned to one of worry, a bunch of drunk ponies, what could go wrong.

As the ponies started to shuffle in, one group at a time, the lights dimmed. A big led screen lit up behind an empty dj table. As a soft opening started to fill the room, a soft gentle hum from a mare filled the air. Fog rolled out from under the booth. The humming came to a peak, and all the lights shut off. Just for a moment, complete silence. Then with as much energy as skips could muster, he jumped up from behind the table. A huge blast of white light from the leds filled the room. Smoke quickly filled the room, as a rush of bass and snares entered the room. Sending chills down the spines of every pony.

Vinyl’s mouth dropped, stunned by the show. Octavia and autumn both looked happy, but not Surprised. “Whats wrong with you two?” Vinyl yelled, “Neither of you look in shock!” The two giggled, “love,” octavia whispered in vinyls ear so that she may not yell, “He showed us his set a while ago. Wanted to keep it secret from you.” Vinyls face instantly went into pouting, “Im his best friend! Why wouldn't he show me?!” The others chuckled.

Skips’s set went on, while other ponies got drunk on cheep booze. Vinyl was apart of this crowd, dancing like a maniac on the dance floor in front of Skips. Octavia and autumn sat at their round table enjoying the music and their partners energies. “You know Octavia, I’m glad we could all get along. I really enjoy hanging out with you two.” Octavia smiled back at autumn, and leaned in to whisper in his ear, “I am too. But i must say, if you hurt him, we shall hurt you.” Autumn looked at octavia smiling, head cocked to the side. He gulped, nervous from the interaction. And went back to his drink, these mares weren’t to be messed with.

Skip’s set went on into the night, lights flashing bright, everypony having a great time. But as people trickled out, onto the streets, his set came to an end. Autumn and octavia threw vinyls legs over them and limped her to backstage. Skips was packing up his gear, when autumn hugged him from behind, “That was amazing! Everypony loved it! Even vinyl!” Everyone chuckled, but the white horse with the blue main stayed asleep, “I can tell, she was dancing like crazy. Im glad yall liked it. Thank you for coming. Let me finish packing this up, our ride is outback if yall wanna load her up.” They left skips to pack his things.

Skips zipped up his backpack and threw it over his back. The weight of his gear taking a Toll on his back, after standing up on his hind legs for hours at a dj table, his back felt sore. As skips began to walk out, a colt tapped him on his flank, skips turned around fast spooked by the sudden touch, “Skips you did amazing, here is your check!” Skips looked down at the check, his eyes widened at the amount, “Thank you sir, I didn't know I was going to be paid this many bits.” The colt chuckled, “Skips you’re one of the best performing artists we’ve had, I wanted to welcome you back anytime.” Skips became happy, with this check he just paid two months of rent. Everything seemed to be going his way, at the moment.

The next day the four ponies slept in, rays of soft sun bleed through the blinds on the window. Skips and autumn sharing each others warmth under the sheets. Vinyl and Octavia, not so much, vinyl is a sheet hog especially after a night of drinks. Octavia stretched her legs after waking up to the coldness of the room, not fazed at all. She decided to get up and make the house coffee, and breakfast. Haycon and eggs, and a tall stack of pancakes is what she had in mind. She looked through the pantry and refrigerator, gathered her ingredients and started cooking. Her phone playing soft classical music, her tail moved with the music as she cooked up the delicious meal for her friends.

The smell of breakfast filled the apartment, which woke up only autumn. He carefully crawled out of skips’s arms, not paying attention to where he was located in the bed itself. Autumn let out a little scream as he fell to the ground, hitting the soft carpeting. Autumn rubbed his head, as thats what hit first, before helping himself up. Looking across the bed skips laid asleep, unaware of his partners fall. Autumn rolled his eyes, last night was hard on skips, so autumn quietly trotted out of the room and into the apartment.

He heard octavia's music first, and then The sound of breakfast on a skillet next. He wasn't hungover, but his body did hurt, and he was tired. He sat down at the kitchen table, rubbing his right eye, “Hello octavia, how did you sleep?” Octavia looked back at him and smiled from the stove, “It was lovely up until a pony, who shall not be named, stole all my covers. So I Decided to make us all breakfast. Hope you don't mind me helping myself.” Autumn chuckled, “I understand the sheet thing, skips has his moments, as do I. But please, use whatever you need. I know skips always keeps his pantry full. He does better than I with the whole adulting thing.” They both chuckled a tad bit, before falling into silence.

“I do wish to apologize for my comments last night, Skips is a dear friend of ours, and even though its a tacky excuse, After one drink my head is often swimming.” Octavia placed eggs onto a side plate next to the stove. “I understand octavia, no need to apologize.” Autumn continued, “Im happy skips has such amazing friends who care about him. And I never want to hurt him, I love him too much to do that. I just hope we can all be friends.” Autumn fidgeted with his neatly placed fork on the table, “Autumn I think you’re perfect for skips, and we are surely friends..”

Octavia was interrupted by a blue maned mare walking into the kitchen, “Oh, buck me, my head bucking hurts! Do we have any coffee babe?” Vinyl said rubbing her head, octavia and autumn chuckled, “Yes dear, here I have a cup ready for you.” Octavia handed Vinyl a tall cup of coffee, which she proceeded to chug, “Vinyl, before you finish that take these.” Octavia handed Vinyl pain pills for her head, “You practically drank the bar last night, will you be alright?” Vinyl scoffed, “Girl I drink more than that on a Monday afternoon!” Autumn laughed, “Sounds like an alcoholic.” Vinyl stared at autumn, “Buck off.” Octavia slapped the back of her head, “What?! He started it!” Octavia rolled her eyes, “Thats no way to treat our host. Besides, hes right.” Vinyl rolled her eyes and went back to her coffee.

Octavia handed out plates full of eggs and other breakfast items, but one spot stayed empty. The three ponies went into the living room and autumn turned on a comedy movie. The three quickly got into it and lost track of time. After the movie ended it was one in the afternoon, and skips still wasn't up, “I think im going to go check on skips, hes me never slept past 12 in his life.” The other two nodded at autumn who went into the room, skips hadn’t moved an inch from this morning. Autumn walked up to the pony and nudged him a bit as to wake him up, nothing, no movement or sign of life. Autumn began to freak out, and called the other two, “Hes not moving! Guys!” Octavia and vinyl ran in, “Watch out! I took a cpr class in college!” Octavias proper voice had disappeared into a scared ponies harsh voice.

She ran up to skips and felt his heart, “He has a pulse, its out of rhythm and soft. Call an ambulance now, and ill start cpr to keep his heart moving!” Autumn, to shocked to move, vinyl called 911, “The ambulance is on its way!” Vinyl let the room know, “Autumn!” Vinyl called out, “Dude! Shit, ok.” Autumn wouldn't move, “Autumn we need to go outside and wave down the ambulance! Octavia can handle this!” Autumn still wouldn’t move, “Buck this!” Vinyl through her hangover headache grabbed autumns tail with her magic, and pulled him out of the room.

Vinyl dragged autumn all the way to Elevator, autumn repeating under his breath, “I should have checked on him, he never sleeps in that long, this is my fault hes dead!” Vinyl put her arm around autumn, “He will be dead if we don't get the ponymedics up here. SO GET UP!” She said using all her strength to push him into the elevator. Autumn began to come around as the lift began to fall, they reached the ground floor as an approaching ambulance became more audible.

The two ran out of the front door of the complex to meet a now pulling up ambulance, two colts jumped out if the back of the vehicle with a stretcher. “Follow us!” Vinyl yelled as they all ran back into the complex.

Octavia continued to do cpr on skips, his heart still beating at a slow pace. Vinyl and the paramedics hurried up to the floor skips lived on, autumn leading the way.

The paramedics rushed into the apartment, octavia yelled from the room, “In here!!” The medics rushed in with their bags, leaving the Gurnee in the living room. They relieved octavia, and put an oxygen mask on skips. “His heart is going to stop, we need to get him out of here.” One of the colts rolled the stretcher in, while the other two lifted skips onto it.

As the medics rushed skips down to the ground floor, the others followed. “Are any if you related? Or know his family?” One of the colts said puting skips in the ambulance, “Im his boyfriend, and can call his parents.” The colt motioned him into the ambulance, “We are taking him to the manehatton central hospital on the west side of town. You can see him there.” They shut the door and sped off, leaving Octavia and vinyl in shock.

Author's Note

Just to start off, hope everyone is safe!!
Second, sorry for any grammar problems.
Third, sorry this took so long. Now that quarantine is a thing, ill try to get more content out for you fine people. Stay safe!!!