The mostly white, and sanitized, room made autumn nervous. Seeing the different colored cables and wires going in to his colt friend didn't help his situation. The steady beat of ekg kept Autumn grounded knowing his partners heart still beat.

The smell of the sanitized room was almost to much for Autumn, pacing the room wandering when the doctor would come in and tell Autumn the bad news. Moments later a soft but stern knock came from the door. A tall, skinny, white and yellow colt walked in with a nurse following him, “Autumn, is it?” Autumn nodded, “Well i've looked over the charts for Skips here and it seems he will be just fine, a severe lack of water or any liquids was the culprit it seems. Its quite rare to see a pony go into a coma like state from this, but mixed with anxiety and adrenaline can do that to a pony.” Autumn remembers telling the nurses and doctors that morning what they had been doing the night before. “He’ll wake up shortly, I would stick around.”

A few hours passed as Autumn paced the room, waiting for his partner to wake up. The beeping of the machines kept his hoofs in a steady pace on the ground. After waiting what seemed like forever, he heard Skips moan under his breath as he came to, “Babe! Skips! You're awake! Oh im so glad!” Autumn trotted over to skip’s bed side, and pressed the button for a nurse, “How do you feel?” Skips smiled back at Autumns worried but happy face. Skips touched autumns face and pulled him down for a kiss. That was all that was needed, Autumn knew his partner would be ok.

The two sat together in the room, waiting for the doctors ok to leave. Vinyl and octavia trotted in with flowers and gifts, “Oh skips, we are so glad to see that you’re recovering.” Octavia said, setting a Bouquet down on the dresser in front of the bed, “Dude, you scared the shit out of us, what the hell happened?” Autumn chuckled and nudged skips, “Go on, tell them.” Skips rolled his eyes, “Apparently,” he paused and took a deep breath, “Apparently water is needed to live.” Vinyl fell to the floor in laughter, and from the floor she yelled out, “ROOKIE!”

Octavia kicked vinyl, and gave her a death glare of disapproval. Vinyl, wiping away the tears of laughter from her eyes, stood up and held out a hoof for a bump. “But for a rookie, that show was off the hook! You had everypony on their back hooves man! I wish you could have seen yourself from my perspective.” Everyone nodded in agreement. “Thank you all, sorry for the scare. I felt fine the night before, im just happy i woke up.”

The nurse handed skips his papers as the mare pushed him out of the hospital in the wheel chair. Skips slowly stepped out of the chair and stretched his legs, the mid day sun warming his back, “Thank you nurse.” She nodded back at him and turned back for the hospital.

Autumn waved down a passing stallion in the parking lot, coming to a stop the four ponies hopped in. “Agh, I have music theory tomorrow.” Skips was uneasy about the one on one classroom setting he found himself in. The constant looking over the shoulder from a perfectionist with a sense of humor was not his ideal way of learning.

No matter, he was happy that the school forced him into the program, skips stared off into the open fields on the way back to the apartments, as the other talked about lunch and time of departure for the two mares. Skips couldn't help but day dream, sitting in a fancy studio working with amazing ponies, making even more amazing music.

The group decided pizza for lunch before the two mares headed home. “Ok, thank you. The pizza is on the way gang.” Autumn sat next to skips wrapping his arm around him, “Thank you babe.” Skips leaned in and kissed Autumn. “When was the last time I got a kiss octy?” Octavia rolled her eyes, “I gave you a kiss thirty minutes ago. But, seeing as im in a good mood, I shall give you anoth-“ she was cut off by vinyls lips against her own.

The group continued to converse and laugh as they waited for the pizza. “Oh vinyl, let me show you this beat ive been working on. Its very Suicidepony’ish.” Vinyl agreed and fallowed skips to his art room, which is now primarily a music studio,

Autumn and Octavia left behind, they sat in silence until autumn broke the silence, “So, cello huh?” Octavia giggled, “Yes, ever sense I was a filly. Autumn I apologize but I never asked what do you go to school for?” Autumn chuckled, “Its alright its been a busy weekend. Im a graphic design major.” Octavia smiled, “Oh thats wonderful, may I see your work?” Autumn smiled and agreed, “My apartment is down the hall, i haven't been there in a few days so pardon any mess I have forgotten about.”

As skips and vinyl melted into the DAW software on skip’s pc, the other two trotted over to autumns home. “Oh darling, its beautiful!” Autumns walls covered in beautiful artwork he had either drawn, or designed. A certain calm feeling swept over Octavia as the sent of fresh pine entered her nose, and the layout of furniture layed a welcoming path into the apartment. “Darling, you should be a home decorator!” Autumn blushed, “Thank you octavia I try my best, let me show you my art studio. I wont even make up an excuse its the only room in the house I allow to be messy.”

In octavias mind that was an understatement, messy did not even begin to describe. The walls, covered in splattered paint, the carpet removed and replaced with a cold hard concrete floor. Also, covered in paint. The only organization she could see was a wall carefully organized from smallest brush size to largest. And paint organized in the way a paint pallet would be. “I find a clean organized space henders my creative ability, every paint splatter you see has emotions behind it. That pink heart shaped one up there, thats the day I met skips. That red blotch over there is when I didn't make it into the arts Division at the college I wanted to attend.”

The colors filled octavias eyes, each individual line and blotch of color stood for something. Each string plucked on her cello, felt something. She begin to let the true meaning of art settle in. Her whole life was, practice practice practice. No meaning to her craft other than making ponies cry at the sound her hooves made. A tear began to fill her eye, “Hey octy? You ok girl?” A soft voice came from the door way, skips and vinyl helped themselves in, “Yes vinyl im fine, Autumn here was just showing me his amazing art.” Octavia walked up to vinyl and hugged her tight, with a new meaning to something she already loved, she could experience her life a new.

The four ponies trotted back over to Skip’s apartment where three large pizzas sat on the kitchen counter. The two couples stayed close to one another, feeling a slight mood change. From a feeling of curiosity and high energy, to a slow romantic feeling in each other’s chest. The cold night outside meant another fire, and movie.

As the fire crackled on into the night, and the soft ambiance of a movie no pony was watching, it started to lightly snow. And it became apparent that the two mares where going to stay another night, and leave in the morning. Skips and autumn both had class, but skips gave octavia a key the apartment. He would have given it to vinyl, but she seemed to excited to have such item in Possession, so he gave it to octavia.

After the fire had run out, and spiked hot Chocolate was resting in their bellies, the ponies decided to go to sleep. Skips and autumn went straight to bed after a long cuddle and a few kisses. While up in the guest room, octavias new found “enlightenment” peaked and the two did not sleep very much that night.

Author's Note

Hey guys!

This one took a while. My writing process is weird lol. I really only write at work. I write my best when im supposed to be doing something else😂 and i write one or two paragraphs a day.

Anyways hope you all like it, and i hope everyone is staying safe!

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