It has been 5 years since Octavia started her career as an Idol. She had become one of the most recognized musicians of all time. Yet, she felt like she was missing something. Of course, she knew exactly what she was missing, but she wasn't ready to tackle the problem quite yet. She was sitting in a room backstage, tuning her instrument of choice for this concert, the violin. There was a knock on the door and a stagehoof poked his head inside.

"Ms Melody, your on in five." He told her. Octavia sighed and got her violin ready. She walked out of the room and headed to the stage where she gave yet another stellar performance.

She hoped somewhere out there She was watching. Octavia always performed for her, even after she tried to put her out of her mind five years ago. Once her concert ended, Octavia rushed out of the concert hall, trying to hold back tears. She didn't go to any meet and greets for the fans, she just, needed to go home. She got into her car and drove away before she could be swamped by the press.

Vinyl watched the entire concert from beginning to end on the billboards. The rooftop shamble she called home had a great view of one of the Manehattan towers that had the megascreens. She was leaning on the railing, smoking a cigarette a she watched Octavia perform.

"Amazing as always, Tavi." Vinyl sighed as the concert ended. Vinyl sighed and stepped away from the railing. A stallion had walked up the stairs and over to Vinyl.

"You need to pay your debt, Flower Hall!!" He shouted. Vinyl looked at him with a blank look that clearly said she was dead inside.

"Do I look like some bitch named Flower Hall!? Do you see flowers on my flanks you idiot!?! Huh!?! Do you!?" Vinyl said, grabbing him by the collar.

"Get your hooves off me and pay up!!" He hissed at her.

"I have enough bullshit going on in my life without some two bit thug trying to force me to pay him bits that I don't owe him!" Vinyl shouted, the only emotion she was portraying right now was sheer anger. The stallion realized that his plan to get this washed up mare into false debt was backfiring.

"So, do me a favor, and Buck Off!!" Vinyl said, headbutting the stallion and tossing him down the stairs. The mare let out a loud yell of frustration. She put her cigarette out on her foreleg, adding to the many burn marks and scars, and stomped inside her shamble.

She picked up a half smoked joint and lit it up again."I need to buzz up to forget about it again." Vinyl said, taking a long hard hit of the joint. Her eyes were red from tears and her high she was currently on. "Why....why did I have to buck up so hard...." She cried as she desperately smoked the joint.

Honestly, the weed did nothing for her anymore, it was just a comfort mechanism for her now. Vinyl eventually just threw the joint of her only window with a scream of anger. She got up and pulled on a blue hoodie, pulling up the hood to hide her face. She walked down the stairs and headed into town. Vinyl melded in perfectly with the everyday townsponies of Manehattan, not standing out at all. She walked through to the poor part of the town and headed to a Conveyor Belt Sushi place. The inside was as it usually was, one or two ponies here, a sushi fanatic over there. Vinyl just sighed and trotted over and picked a random seat, getting as much food as she could. She ate her food with no emotion, just needed to quell her hunger. Once she was finished she placed a few bits on the table and left, bumping into somepony as she exited the restaurant.

He recoiled back a bit, looking at her angrily. Vinyl walked away, not paying him any mind. "Hey!" he shouted, getting in front of her.

Vinyl pushed past him and continued to walk forward. He stayed in her path, glaring at her. Vinyl pushed past him again, ignoring him. He grabbed her shoulder. Vinyl let out an exasperated sigh and turned to look at him. "What?"

"You need to fucking apologize!" He sneered.

"Man up, dude. Quit making an Ass of yourself and get over being bumped into." Vinyl said shrugging his hoof off of her before walking away.

This time he grabbed her directly, holding onto her with one hoof and rearing the other back to punch her in the face. Vinyl ducked under the stallion's punch and grabbed it with bother her front hooves before flipping him over her and throwing him over the railings next to them and into the river. He was pushed downstream thanks to the current.

"See ya asshole!" Vinyl called after him, giving him a cheeky wave.

"I'll remember this you fucking bitch!" He shouted before he was out of sight.

A few ponies stared at her in awe. Vinyl rolled her eyes and pulled her hoodie strings, covering her face even more. She trotted away without another thought on this matter. Eventually, she made her way to a specific alley that had a red door at the end. She knocked on it four times. "The Moonlight will Guide us along the path." She spoke.

The door creaked open and Vinyl trotted inside, getting bits ready.

"Don't bother Vinyl. I told you that I won't sell to you after last time." The mare in charge says.

Vinyl looked at her with dead eyes. "Just give me cigarettes." She said.

"Which kind you mean? Cause after that overdose I ain't selling you any dirty ones." The mare said, crossing her forelegs.

"I don't give a shit. I just need to smoke something." Vinyl said, tapping her hoof impatiently.

"Tem, get her some clean ones." She tells one of the lackies.

A black mare flew off to get some. Vinyl looked to her left and gasped. There was a poster of Octavia, right there!

"Yeah... she's been big in the concert scene..." a random mare said, noticing her looking at the poster.

Vinyl teared up, quickly covering her eyes with her sunglasses. The mare didn't notice, having gone off and doing her own thing. Vinyl looked back to the mare in charge. "H-How much for the Poster of Tav....Octavia..." Vinyl asked, trying to keep any emotion out of her voice.

"Uh, you can just have it. It's not a big deal." The mare behind the desk shrugged.

Vinyl cleared her throat and levitated the poster over to her. "Y-Yes. Well...I'll be going now." Vinyl said, beginning to trot away.

"Don't you want your smokes?" The mare called after her.

Vinyl left without saying another word. Vinyl ran all the way back home without stopping. She barged through the door and hastily began cleaning up. She placed the poster in the neatest spot in her shamble. "H-Hi...Hi Octavia..." she said, waving to the poster.

The poster did what posters do: Just hang on the wall.

"I know it's been awhile....I'm sorry..." vinyl chuckled humorlessly.

It felt like the poster was staring at her.

"I'm doing....okay...I know it's nothing compared to your success.....without me...hehe...heh......hehh...." Vinyl just began crying underneath the poster of Octavia.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry Octavia!" Vinyl cried, leaning against the poster. "I bucked up, I bucked up so badly!" She cried as she fell back to the floor. She smacked her face into the ground as her sobbing grew worse.

She ripped open her fridge and began chugging more alcohol, she needed something to take away this pain.

Author's Note

Depresso Espresso! That's me, that's you! That's Vinyl and Octy, that's for shoe! I mean, Sure!

This is probably my most poorly written story yet, but I still plan on writing it. So for anyone who actually enjoys this or actually reads these dumb Author Notes, thank you for reading!