Canterlot High

Canterlot High

Chapter 3: Blushing

The first week flew by like it was on speed. Between getting adjusted to their new schedule, meeting new ponies and trying to remember names of the ones they had met, neither Vinyl nor Octavia had much time for themselves.

But much like Pine had foreseen; the stress and discomfort the new environment brought with had died down by the end of the Monday after.

They had been roommates for just one week by now, but Octavia felt like she had known Vinyl her whole life. They often talked deep into the night about random and mostly trivial things. Octavia enjoyed these evenings greatly. For the first time in all her life she had someone she could share her deepest thoughts with. Vinyl was not only a great listener, she always gave good advice or a funny comment at the exact right time.

Unbeknownst to the gray mare, the unicorn thought pretty much the same of her. Sure, Vinyl’s life had always been full of friends. But she lacked real friends. Ponies she could talk to when she felt down or encountered a serious problem. Her other friends were more like drinking buddies. Ponies who would forget about her in two weeks, if she didn’t down some bottles of Applejack Daniels in some random club with them each weekend.

More even; Vinyl was fascinated by the musical pony with the choral mane. Vinyl was a good listener. She had always been. Having nothing to say in her family, just listening came naturally. Sure, she liked to talk as much as any normal pony, but Octavia was different: While her other friends always talked about meaningless stuff, colts, mares, booze and how stoned they had been last weekend, every word the gray filly spoke was thoughtful and wise. She never bickered about her own problems, but asked for Vinyl’s opinion about them.

Maybe that was what made the white pony think about her like that. She was the first pony she had ever met that was sincerely interested in her opinion.

Like so many times, they were both in their room, Vinyl working on different stuff and the first homework of the year. Octavia reading a book on her bed. It was Monday evening, just after dinner.

“Hey Tavi?” The nickname Vinyl had given her had stuck, and everyone in the dorm called her that now.

“Yeah Vinyl?”

“You got the afternoon free tomorrow, right?” She didn’t actually have to ask. When they had put their timetables together, Vinyl had secretly checked on Octavia’s schedule and had adjusted hers, so they had free time together. Octavia didn’t have to know that though. Vinyl herself thought that was a bit creepy.

“Yes. And as I’ve seen on your timetable at the wall, so do you. Why do you ask?”

“Wanna do go out?” Vinyl’s mind took a few seconds to realize what she had just said. Only when Octavia started blushing and looking at her with wide eyes, did the white unicorn catch up with her train of thought and she blushed as well. “I mean as friends! Like go to the cinema or to a club or something!” She added hastily. Strangely, it didn’t make things better. No, it seemed even more awkward that she even had to say it.

The gray filly’s answer surprised her quite a bit: “Yes Vinyl. I would love to spend my day with a friend tomorrow.” She answered, still a bit red on the cheeks, but happily , smiling. “Did you have something specific in mind?”

“Well, since we have school the next day, we can hardly go to a club until 3am, so I would say let’s go to the cinema. Is that fine with you?” “Of course, that would be lovely. We could Invite the others too. Oh it’s been so long since I’ve been to the cinema!” Octavia said excitedly.

Vinyl’s smile wavered for a second, but she managed to control herself. “Of course we can invite the others. The more the merrier, right?” she said, while secretly hoping none of their friends had time tomorrow. She couldn’t quite place the feeling, but she really hoped she could do something just the two of them.

Walking down to the third floor of the dorm they went straight to the door to the right. This was Pine’s and her roommate Lotus’s room. Lotus was a soft blue Earthpony mare with pink hair. She had a twin sister in the dorm, and the two did almost everything together. Her sister, Aloe, had the exact same colors, just reversed. Many ponies who didn’t know them better mixed them up quite often, especially since they had the same cutie mark.

They were both in their third year, and would leave the school at the end of this one. Rumor had it, that the sisters planned to open a spa in some small town around Canterlot.

Vinyl and Octavia expected Lotus and Pine to be in their room and so Vinyl lifted her hoof to knock on the door. Before hoof could connect with wood though, her hoof was stopped mid air by a force field of familiar white color.

“What’s wrong Vinyl? Why don’t you knock?” Asked the gray mare from behind her.

“Tony must have placed a spell on the door. It keeps me from reaching the wood, or even the door handle. I can’t enter.” Vinyl answered.

“Well that’s weird. Why would he do that?” Octavia wondered. “We should go to him first then.”

With a nod that almost knocked her purple glasses from her nose the unicorn agreed and so they went on the short journey across the hall, to the room opposite. Luckily, this door wasn’t protected by any force field, and so the knock was clearly audible.

The door opened by itself and the mares let themselves in. Upon entering they spotted Tony easily on his bed close to the balcony door, reading a book. “Hi.” He said without looking up.

“Hey Tony. Watcha reading?” Vinyl asked.

“Harry Trotter. It’s a wierd story about some secret society of unicorns. Strange stuff… I hope nopony ever invents a death spell.” He answered, putting his book away and standing up to greet them properly. “What’s up?”

“Well, Octavia and I were going to the cinema tomorrow, and we were wondering if you want to come.” ‘Please say no. Please say no. Please say no.’ “I would love to…” ‘damnit!’ “But I can’t. I got Advanced spell controlling tomorrow afternoon and that’s one of the few classes I actually like, otherwise I would have no problem with skipping it. So… sorry, but no.” ‘Yes!’

“Oh, that’s too bad.” The gray Earthpony said. “And what we were also wondering about; what’s going on with Pine’s door? Are you playing a prank on her?” Her gaze had a clear ‘please don’t be that childish’ look.

Tony’s cheeks got a bit of red color. “Not exactly no.” He hesitated a second before adding “Blue’s with her. I just put a force field and a muffling spell on their room, to give them a bit of… privacy.” More color rushed through his cheeks.

“Why would they need privacy or a muffling spell for that matt- oh.” Vinyl’s cheeks now matched Tony’s. Having a white coat was a curse sometimes.

“What is it Vinyl? What are they doing? They aren’t fighting, are they? That would be sad; they make such a cute couple.” The amethyst eyes of the gray mare looked back and forth between her two white unicorn friends. ‘Celestia she’s so adorably naïve!’ thought Vinyl.

“Not exactly fighting.” Said Tony. “But from what I’ve heard they are at it quite rough from time to time.” He added with a grin that would have scared away that creepy cat from ‘Alice in wonderland’. “And believe me; I have heard my fair share.”

“Oh. OH!” Finally the filly got it. Her face, despite her gray coat, managed to exceed Vinyl and Tony in redness.

Luckily, their thoughts about what exactly their friends were doing in their room were interrupted by the entry of a young, neon green Earthpony with a just as neon yellow mane with cyan blue highlights. The two mares had only seen him during the meals in the dining hall so far, but neither had had a chance to talk to him yet.

“Hey Two. I see you got ladies over. Care to share them?” He said with an absolutely childish, wannabe seductive smile.

Tony facehoofed. “Fillies, this little perv and failure of a womanizer is my roommate: Neon Light. He’s useless with mares, but if you ever need a technician for your stuff, Vinyl, I would recommend him.”

Neon looked at them in mock hurt. “I’m not useless with mares! They love me! Right fillies?” He wiggled his eyebrows up and down like they were in some kind of really cliché and crappy cartoon series.

Vinyl spoke what they all thought. “Dude, that’s just creepy. Don’t do that again. Ever.”

“Ah well, it was worth a try.” He said shrugging. “So what are you two doing here?” he slumped down on his own bed at the opposite side of the room. Vinyl had long since placed herself on Tony’s bed and Octavia sat on his chair at the table (Which didn’t look like much work had touched it so far.).

“Oh we were just in here seducing Tony into doing naughty things with us when you interrupted us.” Vinyl grinned.  Tony took her hint. “Yeah, why did you have to enter? I was just about to get sandwiched by two cute mares when you ruined my game!” He said, pulling Vinyl closer by the waist, leaning over her as if he was about to do something NSFW and trailing the outside of her leg up with his hoof.

Neon’s breathing became quicker and he excused himself to the bathroom at light speed.

Octavia looked just as flushed as he had been, but Vinyl and Tony started laughing at the top of their lungs.

“Well that’s something I didn’t expect to see anytime soon.” Came a mocking voice from the door. “Is our little Tony finally getting a marefriend?”

In the doorframe stood Blue. Fresh out of the shower, his hair was still matted down and his coat was still a bit wet. Of course he teased his friend who had still a hoof around Vinyl’s waist.

Tony teased back by magically slamming the door in Blue’s face. Then he removed his hoof from Vinyl’s waist and scooted a bit away from her again. Octavia notice only then, that she had looked at that hoof as if it were a poisonous snake. She didn’t rightly know why herself.

“We were just playing with Neon a bit. He was creeping. Again.” Tony stated the facts. Blue didn’t need any further explanation. He let out an exaggerated sigh “And there I thought you would finally get some… well, bad luck my friend. You and Vinyl would make a fine couple.” He drifted back to teasing.

Now it was the two white unicorns’ turn to blush again. (They seemed to do that a lot that day.)

The Apple girl appeared behind her stallion, still glistening with water from the shower herself. She checked out the situation in the room, seeing many blushing ponies. Two Tone decided it was time to strike back. “Did you use protection?” He asked bluntly.

Now it was Blue and Pine’s turn to blush. Coloring Blue in a dark shade of purple and Pine in a light orange one.

Vinyl interrupted the argument between the two colts before it could start. “Great that you two are finally finished and here. Tavi and I wanted to ask you two if you wanted to come with us to the cinema tomorrow?” “Tomorrow?” asked Blue “Sorry no chance. Tomorrow we have a special flight class with Spitfire, the latest addition of the Wonderbolts! I heard she’s the fastest flyer in Equestria and she’s coming to teach us personally some of her greatest tricks!” He gushed. The other four looked at each other, all rolling their eyes and knowing they all shared the same thought: Pegasi and their Wonderbolts…

“I can’t either. Cousin Mac is coming up to Canterlot from Ponyville to talk about some apple shipments with local food sellers, and I’m supposed to help him ‘communicate with them stuck up nobles’ as he put it.” “Eyoup.” Said Blue smiling. Being with Pine almost a year now he had met some of her widespread family, and that cousin in particular was one of the reasons he never wanted to get on Pine’s bad side.

Vinyl almost squeed at the fact that she got to spend some time with Tavi alone. She still refused to fully admit it, but the other mare occupied her mind like a Snorelax route 11.

Neon soon returned from the shower, glistening wet and a towel around him. Once he got over his first attempts to impress the fillies in the room he actually became quite bearable.

The five friends and Neon kept talking deep into the night, until Carry had to come by to shut them up. She ended up staying and talking and laughing with them.

One, normally obnoxiously loud, blue maned unicorn was uncharacteristically calm. Serenely waiting for tomorrow to come.

Notes:

Not much to say here I guess. Had slowly to get the romance going, right? Let me make one thing very clear here: I did NOT have a muffling spell in RL. You can think of the rest yourselves.

The “me getting slightly erotic with Vinyl” scene is certainly possible, but not after one week. I’m quite shy in RL. I can talk to girls just fine, but I’m a bit reluctant to touch.

The new guys:

Neon: Got his name from the clothes he always wore. Mostly neon green, blue or orange. He was a bit annoying from time to time, but overall a cool guy. A bit premature maybe.

Lotus & Aloe: I used the canon twins for the twin girls at that school. Cute girls really. Got mixed up by many, but I knew them quite well, so I learned to see the little details to tell them apart.