The summer Star Swirled Music Festival was great. Besides getting to see a whole bunch of her former classmates again before college, Vinyl Scratch got to play her biggest gig yet, capping off the second night of the festival -- and Lemon Zest, her girlfriend of two years, was there to cheer her on.

After driving Lemon back to her place, Lemon has one of those ideas. You know, the kind of idea that shows some serious problems if you think about it for more than a few seconds, but she's so excited about it that it's hard to say no.

Minutes after midnight, Lemon has decided she wants to introduce Vinyl to those eccentric, reclusive neighbors of hers that she's always talking about. These neighbors are her friends, and they're also fellow musicians, who played their first set in ages at Star Swirled, back on day one.

It's just gonna take maybe ten minutes, and then the rest of the early morning is theirs to spend together.

...It does not take just ten minutes.
Furthermore, Vinyl already knows these people.

Rated Teen for Lemon Zest swearing like she's still a teenager (which an 18-year-old numerically is); drinking while under 21; (references to) smoking weed while underage; and one or two vague, oblique references to sexual acts.

This story was written for the Rainbow Rocks 10th Anniversary Shipping Contest, where it received a Judge's Prize.