Partying Too Hard

“Vinyl, what on Celestia’s green Equis are you wearing?!” Octavia said, clearly not happy with what her roommate was wearing, and the smell wasn’t helping either. Instead of holding her coffee mug, she had set it down.

Vinyl carefully took her pacifier out and tossed it aside, “I can assure you, Tavi, I didn’t purposely come home like this! The club I work at has some strange thing going on! I didn’t realize that their alcohol was so strong, there weren’t even any bathrooms! Tavi, believe me when I say I’m not into this!” she said as she didn’t like arguing with her roommate, which brought some tears to her eyes.

“Never mind about that! Just get that bloody garment and undergarment off and take a shower! We’ll talk once you’re finished!” Octavia said, clearly still traumatized at seeing Vinyl dressed like she was

“Okay Tavi! I have an explanation!” Vinyl called out as she ran to her room, taking a shower

After thirty minutes, Vinyl had come out of her bedroom in a bathrobe. The messy diaper that once clung to her plot was now in a trash can, but her onesie and paci on the other hand she had put them in a well-hidden box in her closet. She debated whether or not to keep the onesie and paci, but knew doing so would only create more problems for her, so Vinyl decided to take the box with her when she would have to go back to the club

Octavia was now on the couch, still shaking a little from what she had seen, “So, care to explain why you came home looking like… a foal?!”

“Tavi, the last club I was working at just wasn’t paying well, and when the owner of the club I worked at last night offered me the job at her club, I was skeptical at first, but after suffering through the whole night dressed how I was, I got a pretty fantastic pay. There was at least 100-ish bits in there!” Vinyl explained, sighing as she sat on the couch

“That is true, this could very well cover your rent for the month. This club you talk about is very weird, and while the pay is great, it’s a shame you won’t be going back” Octavia said, finishing counting the bits and putting them back in the sack

“Yeah, about that… I kinda said I’d come back tonight as well, and I left my records there…” Vinyl said, which caused Octavia to look at her roommate with that ‘Are you bucking serious’ look

“You what?” she said, thinking odd thoughts about her roommate, “Vinyl, don’t tell me you actually like that sort of thing”

“Oh nonononono, I was too drunk and I wanted to leave, but it just came out. I promise you though, Tavi, this’ll be the last night, I promise! The owner’s very kind and I don’t wanna disappoint her, plus the bartender, Berry, is smart enough to not let me drink too much, so I promise you I’ll come home dressed normally and clean!” Vinyl explained carefully, getting a sigh out of her roommate, but an eyebrow raise too

“Who’s Berry?” Octavia asked

“She’s the bartender for the place, not sure why she works there though” Yeah, that works, Vinyl, she thought as she sweated internally

“Bartender? She wouldn’t happen to be a pony with a plum color coat, raspberry pink mane, and fandango-colored eyes?” Octavia asked, taking a sip of her coffee

“I… guess? I was pretty drunk, but her coat was purple-ish and she was an earth pony, like you, though I didn’t see her cutie mark due to her di-” Damnit, almost talked about her diaper, what is wrong with me? “-sco pants, yeah. They blocked her cutie mark, so I couldn’t see it”

“Hmmmmmm, seems there aren’t many ponies to fit that description, yep, it’s her. Berry’s an old friend of mine, but why is she working at a club like that?” Octavia asked, and the last thing she needed to hear was that an old friend of hers was a diaper-loving freak

“Same reason I was working there: Good pay. Trust me Tavs, she ain’t a freak, and neither am I” Vinyl explained, earning a sigh of relief from her roommate

“Well, that puts me more at ease, and if Berry’s there, that makes me more relaxed. She’s more responsible with alcohol than you, so I see no harm in you doing another night” Octavia explained, sipping from her coffee again

“No offense, Tavs, but I didn’t need your approval, I’m a fully grown mare” Vinyl said, taking out a small trash bag with her soiled diaper in it

“Your outfit coming home said otherwise, Vinyl” Octavia teased, giggling as she wiped her tail across Vinyl’s nose

“I WAS DRUNK, TAVI!” Vinyl shouted as she groaned and threw out the dirty diaper, sighing as she thought to herself about tonight, Okay Vinyl, as soon as tonight’s over, the diaper comes off, come home the same as before you got there, and things are a-ok!

Evening came around, and Vinyl had her saddlebags ready. She had packed the washed onesie and the pacifier in the saddlebags.

Night Two. So, this is what it feels like having an actual job and not just doing one-night-gigs, I could get used to this… minus the diapers, of course Vinyl thought as she got her saddlebags set up. She wasn’t going to make the same mistake two nights consecutively, so she planned to return the onesie and the paci so as to not have the same thing happen again and feel even more embarrassed. Maybe I should tell them that I’ll go steady with the drinks… she thought, but then proceeded to double back on that thought, Like hell I would! I’m gonna need enough alcohol to last me the night of torture. Her thoughts were interrupted as a knock was heard at her door, “Come in, Tavi”

Octavia came in, smiling a little, “Surprised you knew it was me. Look, we need to talk, Vinyl”

“What’s up?” Vinyl responded

“Look, I want you to have fun tonight, but please please please…… don’t come home in a diaper, much less a poopy one… okay? I’m trusting you to listen to me” Octavia said, hugging her roommate softly

“I know, Tavs, it won’t happen, just chill out” Vinyl assured, getting a smile out of her roommate

“Good. Have a good time tonight, Vinyl, and make the most of tonight” Octavia said, leaving the room. Vinyl sat alone, looking at the foalish stuff in her saddlebags

For foalish stuff, it is all rather cute… oh who am I kidding? I’m a grown mare, not some silly filly. Though the diapers felt a little comf- goddamnit no! Vinyl, you’re not a foal anymore and you shouldn’t be thinking like one! Enough silly thoughts, can’t let Pacific down… she finished her thoughts as she got up and made her way to The Fountain Of Youth

Vinyl made it to the club a little early, but luckily for her, the door was unlocked. She descended into the club and came up to the bar, seeing Berry cleaning out foal bottles.

“Hey” Vinyl said, catching Berry’s attention as Berry smiled a little

“So you decided to come back for a second night after all. Most of our DJs never make it to a second night, congrats” Berry said, sighing a little

“Yeah, though I’ve been thinking of taking it easy tonight” Vinyl said, leaning against the counter softly

“Why, so you don’t have to suck on a paci tonight?” Berry teased, causing Vinyl’s cheeks to turn pink slightly

“N-No… It’s my roommate, Octavia…” Vinyl said as Berry looked up at her with an eyebrow raised

“Octavia as in Octavia Melody?” Berry asked, wiping down the counter now

“Yeah, why do you-?” Vinyl tried to say

“I haven’t heard of her since she left Ponyville, how’s she been? Still obsessed with that cello of hers?” Berry said obnoxiously

“Pretty much, yeah…” Vinyl said, looking down a little

“So, why’s she on you about drinking?” Berry asked, a little curious

“I… came home in a diaper and a onesie… and she freaked out…” Vinyl said, still looking down, “Worst of all, I promised her that this’d be my last night, since she doesn’t exactly like how this club sounds…” Vinyl explained

“That’s a shame, especially when Pacific was talking to me about giving you a pay raise after tonight’s performance” Berry said, which caused Vinyl to look up

“Come again?” Vinyl asked. This was quite the surprise, and a pay raise would definitely make paying her rent easier, though again, the diapers were a bit of a con to all of it.

“You see, even though you only got about 100-ish bits from last night’s performance, we raked in about 1,000 bits. A couple of our patrons recognized you and said that it was a surprise to see one of Equestria’s best DJs working at The Fountain Of Youth, in fact…” Berry paused as she pulled up a sheet of ticket sales, “...your performance was so great, it’s actually brought some newcomers to the bar. Some say they knew you, others say their friends told them to come. Regardless, you’ve brought quite the attention to the bar, Vinyl”

“Agreed, you’ve helped us a lot, Vinyl” Pacific said as she sat in one of the high chair bar stools, “You’re one of the best DJs we’ve had, and we’d hate to lose you, and about your pay raise, I was thinking of increasing it from 100-ish to 200-ish, and it’ll stay that way if you promise me you’ll stay. So, will you?”

Vinyl thought carefully about this. The pay grade was definitely up her alley, but again, the diapers, onesies, and pacifiers just felt so degrading. At the same time, she did have a little fun last night being able to DJ, but the whole thing with degrading herself to a grown mare who wets and poops herself, she just couldn’t do that. She internally fought with herself, but decided to just go with it, as she needed the money. She sighed and looked Pacific in the eyes, “Fine, I’ll stay, but only if you got extra sma-” she was interrupted as Pacific pulled Vinyl over and hugged her tightly

“Yay! Thank you Vinyl! You’re the best pony we could ask for!” she said as she let go of Vinyl, “And to answer your question, yes we have extra smalls, but when I went to get some, they didn’t have any plain ones in stock, so I hope you’re okay with frilly flower-pattern diapers”

Vinyl internally sighed at the mention of ‘Frilly Flower-Pattern’ diapers, but nodded slowly, “It’s… not a problem, Pacific”

“That’s a relief, I was worried you’d be upset about that” Pacific responded

“At this point, I’m willing to take the good with the bad. The good being the pay, and the bad being in a foalish diaper” Vinyl said, getting a giggle out of the two of them

“Don’t worry, Vinyl, you’ll get used to it, trust me. If you think about it, diapers aren’t that bad. If it helps, think of them as pillows and not as foalish things, okay?” Pacific suggested, but that was easier said than done after being told about what pattern the extra small diapers had.

“I’ll try, okay?” Vinyl said, earning nods from the both of them

“Trust me, Vi, you’ll get used to it. It took me a while to get used to them” Berry said, making Vinyl shiver. She already tolerated them, but getting used to them meant that she’d end up getting used to using them, and that just didn’t sound, nor feel right

“Alright alright, I hear what you’re both saying, but I need your guys’ honest answers about something” Vinyl said. She was a bit worried when Berry had mentioned that some of the newcomers knew her.

“What is it, Vinyl?” Pacific asked, taking a sip from her foal bottle

“Did any of the… newcomers talk about me in Manehattan?” Vinyl asked

“Well, there hasn’t been anything in the newspapers so far, so I’d say you’re in the clear” Pacific replied. That put Vinyl at ease… for now, as it’d only be a matter of time before her image was tarnished completely

“How long until the club opens up?” Vinyl asked, sighing a little

“About 15 minutes from now, Vinyl, and we should get you into a diaper so that you’re ready” Pacific said, getting Vinyl to blush a little, but sigh too

“Alright fine, let’s get it out of the way…” she said as Pacific got down from the high bar stool

“Wonderful! Follow me!” she said as she headed backstage to a changing table. Vinyl followed behind, yet again seeing a padded flank in front of her. She’d never get a break from seeing that, that much she knew. After they got to the changing table, Pacific looked at Vinyl, “Do you need my help?”

“I’m sober, I can put one on myself” Vinyl said as Pacific frowned a little

“Oh… okay. I’ll leave you to it then…” Pacific said, sounding deflated as she gave Vinyl her privacy

Okay, I’ll admit, Pacific is nice and sweet, but I’ll die before I let anypony put a diaper on me… unless I’m drunk… she thought as she finished taping the diaper onto her plot, which made her face turn a little pink due to its softness, but she ignored it as she got off the changing table, landing on her hindquarters, then softly landing on all fours. She was yet again forced into a waddle, despite the diaper being an extra small. Vinyl even took a second to look at the diaper, and sure enough, it had frills and a flowery pattern on it. Sure, it looked cute on her, but it was too foalish for her liking. Regardless, she donned her shades and heard a certain voice.

“Vinyl~ club’s opening up, get to your turntables~” Pacific called out as multiple ponies were heard outside. Vinyl made her way out to the main stage where her turntables were, contained by pink bars, though the enclosure looked more crib-like

“Uh, Berry? Any Idea why the inner walls and flooring of my… area… look softer and plushier, except for the top of the bars?” Vinyl asked Berry, who looked up at her

“Oh, that was Pacific’s idea. She figured you’d like it better, since you wouldn’t bump into the bars and you’d be able to land a little softer as well” Berry explained, setting up everything at the bar. Vinyl sighed to herself.

While it’s more foalish and looks more like a crib, it’s better than backing into cold bars or landing hard, even with a diaper on… Vinyl thought as she gripped the top of the bars with her hooves, hoisting herself up and over the bars, landing softly on her diaper, which turned her face red. She shook it off, got her DJ face on, and took her position at the turntables, and luckily for her, her records were left exactly where she put them last night. She smiled as she put on the ‘Razzle Dazzle’ by Coloratura and smiled a little Show time… Celestia give me strength…