A Post-Christmas Cacophony
A Post-Christmas Cacophony
"Phew. Finally finished." Sunset said after being done with taking down all of the holiday decorations.
With another great Christmas had come and gone, it was now time for Sunset Shimmer to kick back and enjoy the rest of her holiday break.
"Alright. Now that all of my chores are out of the way, time to play some Tirek's Revenge for the rest of the night." Sunset stated happily.
Sunset sat down on her couch, and she turned her TV and game console on to blow off the rest of the evening with some video game playing.
"I hope there are no children online this time." Sunset hoped. "I have contaminated enough young minds with my angry swearing habit."
Even though she has beaten this game many times, Sunset wasn't starting off too well, which was because she wanted to challenge herself with a higher difficulty setting.
"Come on, you god damn demons! Die already!" Sunset shouted while struggling to kill Tirek's minions. "The makers of this game designed you all to have your asses burned by my flaming hot magic, so burn already, you sons of bitches!"
Sunset was once again letting her temper get the better of her through her butt getting kicked at a game, and her yelling and swearing were getting a lot more frequent to the point where she was a lot louder than the game's volume.
By the time a half-hour had passed, Sunset's swearing got so bad that she even started listing all of the thirteen swear words that people should never use. Even though there are only seven, that doesn't apply if that person is a sailor, and Sunset may not be a sailor but she certainly has the mouth of one.
Just as Sunset was about to probably scream out her loudest cuss yet, suddenly out of nowhere, loud music started to play that interrupted her. And it wasn't just any music, it was traditional old Christmas music that's played on the radio every year.
"What the- Where is that music coming from?" Sunset questioned.
Sunset turned off her TV to see if the music was coming from her TV, and it apparently wasn't since she could still hear it. With the TV now off, Sunset could get a clearer glimpse of where the music was coming from, and it sounded like it was coming from her apartment walls.
"Are those... Are those my neighbors playing that music?" Sunset asked as she pressed her ear up against the wall.
Sure enough, she was correct. The music was definitely coming out of the walls from the people she lived next to.
"Aw, man! I hate Christmas music so much!" Sunset whined while trying to cover her ears. "Why are they playing Christmas music?! Christmas has been over for days!"
For Sunset, Christmas music is one of those types of music that she couldn't stand, mainly old Christmas songs due to the repetitive lyrics and annoying singers that are performing them. And those were the type of songs that her neighbors were currently playing.
Desperate to rid herself of that annoying music, Sunset turns her TV back on hoping that turning up the volume will drown out all the noise.
Sunset then went back to playing her game with the volume even louder this time, and it looks like she succeeded as she could barely hear the music this time. Unfortunately, ten seconds later the volume of the Christmas music was turned up too.
Now that she was unable to hear her game's volume, Sunset started to get even more irritated and she was now not in the mood to play games anymore, so she turned off her TV and game console.
"Those insensitive dick heads, I swear..." Sunset aggravated while clenching her fist from the amount of frustration she was having.
Sunset pulled out her phone and put a pair of earbuds into her ears, and she put on some PostCrush music as another attempt to block out the headache-inducing music her neighbors were playing.
Sunset hummed the lyrics of the song she was listening to while tapping her foot, since PostCrush is her favorite band she always enjoys their music.
"Now this is quality music." Sunset said.
As happy as Sunset was from listening to nothing but PostCrush, her happiness did not last because her phone battery had died.
"No!" Sunset screamed. "PostCrush, don't leave me!"
Since her phone was now dead, Sunset was once again forced to suffer from the irksome music that should only be played in a torture chamber.
Sunset ran to her room and put on a pair of noise-canceling headphones as one final attempt to protect her poor eardrums from the nasty assault they were going through.
"I can still hear it!" Sunset cried.
Sunset then took a bunch of pillows and stacked them all onto her head as was now completely desperate to get rid of that sound. But once again, it failed.
At this point, Sunset can easily claim that some of the worst things about living in an apartment such as loud construction in the lobby, the screaming children that live across from her, and the movement sounds that the people on the floor above her make when they are having sex, the loud Christmas music is way worse than all of that.
"Oh my god! I think I'm losing my mind!" Sunset screamed.
Sunset was now finally at her breaking point, and she let out a very loud scream that would be able to compete with the decibels of the music.
Ten seconds later, Sunset emerged from all the pillows over her after she was finished with all that screaming, and she came out with a very wide devious smile on her face. She was pretty much now totally off the deep end.
"So, those annoying idiots love loud music so much huh?" Sunset madly questioned as she got out of bed and walked to her closet to look for something. "Well, if they want loud music, then loud music they will get!"
After finding what she was looking for in her closet while letting out a small but terrifying cackle, Sunset pulled a large amplifier out of her closest and pushed it into her living room. And she then grabbed her electric guitar and an amp cable.
Sunset still had her voice-canceling headphones on her head, and she then plugged one end of the cable into the guitar and the other end into the amplifier. She then cranked the volume of the amplifier up to as loud as she could.
With her guitar strap around her neck and her guitar pick in her hand, Sunset was ready to fight fire with fire.
"Happy holidays." Sunset chuckled.
Sunset strummed her guitar with all her strength, causing huge soundwaves to come out of the amplifier speakers. Sunset then strummed rapidly letting out an even bigger cackle than before.
"YOU LIKE THAT?! ALL THAT LOUD OBNOXIOUS MUSIC?!" Sunset shouted. "WELL, I CAN BE EVEN LOUDER AND OBNOXIOUS!!!"
As she laughed hard like an escaped mental patient, Sunset was playing her guitar pretty poorly, which was clearly on purpose to show how she sees the quality of Christmas converted into guitar form.
After about ten minutes of guitar playing, Sunset stopped and sat the guitar down while taking very long deep breaths after such a cathartic and exhausting guitar solo.
"Man, that felt good to get out of my system." Sunset sighed while wiping the sweat off of her forehead.
Suddenly, Sunset felt a strong chill that made her shiver a bit.
"Hey, do I feel a draft?" Sunset asked.
She looked at her living room windows and noticed that they had all been shattered, which was the result of the loud soundwaves. And now, the cold winter air was entering the room and making Sunset cold.
"Oh, man!" Sunset cried. "Now I have to replace these broken windows!"
Sunset then heard a very loud knock on her apartment door, so she went to go see who it is.
Upon opening the door, what Sunset was met with was a tone of hairy eyeballs all pointed out at her, and they all appeared to be her neighbors. She also look passed them and noticed a lot more people were behind them, which were also people who lived in this apartment building. Sunset was pretty much standing in front of every single person in the building.
"Um, can I help you people with something?" Sunset nervously asked.
"Why, yes you can." The man in front of her said. "You can help by REPLACING ALL OF MY BROKEN WINDOWS!"
Everyone else who was complaining also demanded that Sunset replace their windows.
"Our windows are broken because of your blaring guitar playing!" Another man stated.
"I-I was only playing my guitar loudly just to drown out all of the loud Christmas music my neighbors were playing!" Sunset replied.
"And we were only playing loud Christmas music to drown out all that loud potty talk you were spewing!" One of Sunset's neighbors responded.
Sunset's eyes widened and a huge blush appeared on her face as she now realized what was the cause of this mess, and she was pretty embarrassed about it. She looked back at the angry people and let out a nervous chuckle. "So. Um, who's up for hot cocoa and cookies?"
For the broken apartment windows and the large amount of disturbance she gave everyone, Sunset was charged with destruction of property and disturbing the peace and she had to spend the entire night in jail.
"Okay, so this sucks a whole lot." Sunset depressingly said while staring through the bars of her cell. "But, since I'm only going to be here for one night, I should just think of the positives. I mean, at least there's no annoying Christmas music being played here."
"Hit it, girls!" A familiar voice to Sunset commanded.
Sunset turned around with a horrified look on her face to see that her cellmates for the night were none other than Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk. Also known as The Dazzlings. And to top off the misery Sunset was experiencing from seeing them, they were singing Christmas carols.
Sunset let out another scream from being dragged back into the same torture she thought she finally managed to escape. As she watched The Dazzlings badly sing Christmas songs while knowing that this is going to be all night long, all Sunset could do was sink right back into her misery.
"You know, sometimes I really need to know when to shut up." Sunset bleated.
