After failing most of her classes at Canterlot College, Octavia returns to Manehatten for Hearth's Warming break. Over a weekend of drinking, debauchery and moping, she struggles with her desire to drop out of school and return to the comfort of old friends and romances. That is, if she can keep from alienating all of them.

This story is set roughly six months before the first episode of MLP:FiM, and is intended as an homage to J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In the Rye. It was written for National Pony Writing Month 2012.