Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 8

"You have got to be kidding me..." I said to Dusk in a very annoyed tone.

"No I am not kidding, she would be happy to give you a home," Dusk said.

"She lives in a tree at the edge of a forest where I appeared because of an artifact, the house is made of wood, and she cares for animals at the same time. Sorry but that doesn't sit well with me," I said to Dusk with a quick rant.

"Well you could live with Rarity," Dusk offered. I sarcasticly laughed but I shook my head no to Dusk's suprise.

"I'm not living with a pony who may possibly want to put me in a dress, I can tell that she makes clothing. I think I can sleep anywhere, but that doesn't mean that I will." I said even more annoyed.

"You can't always sleep anywhere," Dusk said in a concerned tone.

"I've been doing it ever since I disappeared a long time ago, I could even sleep in a tree if I wanted to," I said in a very annoyed tone.

"But-" Dusk started to say but I interupted him.

"Now if you excuse me... I've got a studio to go and tour," I said before walking away. I think I may have heard Dusk mutter something about me being more stubborn too, but I am pretty sure he'll get used to it. I was more focused on finding Octavia and touring my soon-to-be workplace.

It didn't take long for me to find Octavia, as I arranged for us to meet in front of Sugar Cube Corner before I left with Dusk to look at where I would "live". As I walked up to her, she turned to look at me, "Are you ready to go now?" She asked me blatantly.

"Yeah I'm ready, there's not much I can do today anyways," I told her while trying to keep my voice deadpanned as I could.

"Very well, just folow me and, try not to draw further attention to yourself," She said.

"Wait, my bass bomb got that much attention?" I asked, I was almost suprised that it did get attention, unlike back on Earth.

"It has, now we need to get going before Vinyl closes the doors for putting on her radio channel," She said to me in her calm way. I half smiled as I folowed Octavia towards the studio. This will be my best way of earning this world's currency... I probably should have asked what this world's currency is. I thought to myself. I mentaly shrugged as I continued towards a building with a pretty tall radio tower next to it. I was actualy suprised at the size of the radio tower, but the building was also pretty large too.

"We're here," Octavia said to me, I pulled myself out of my suprised state to answer her.

"This shouldn't be too hard for me to remember, that and it's a pretty large building." I said with a tiny smirk. I then heard another voice shout to us from the doors.

"Hey Octy! Hey John!" Vinyl called. I simply lifted one hoof in greetings as Octavia looked a tad annoyed, but was skilled at hiding it.

"Hello Vinyl," Octavia said. I looked directly at Vinyl in annoyance.

"Next time, how about you show me where the studio is," I said. Vinyl suprised me by facehoofing.

"Knew I forgot something, at least you still got here. Now let me show you around and introduce you to the other pony you will be working with," She said with a smirk.

"Wait, other pony?" I asked in confusion.

"Yeah, I hired her a long time ago. She doesn't work well with others but I think you may be able to change that," She said in a surprisingly serious tone.

"Right, what's her name?" I asked, completely ignoreing the detail about her not working with others. I've delt with stuff like that before, in fact I've actualy done the exact same thing while I was a treasure hunter.

"Midnight Song," She said to me, before leading me around the studio.

"And this is the electronic's room where we keep all of the speakers, headsets, wires, and even some turn tables," Vinyl said. I was very impressed with many features of her studio. I thought it was impressive, but the only time I was not impressed was the fact that I learned that Vinyl and Octavia actualy live in the studio. I knew of living where you work, but Vinyl just takes it to a diffrent level.

"Well, so far I think I would enjoy working here," I said

"Another one Vinyl? Didn't you learn your lesson?" I heard a voice from behind me say.

"I did, but this colt is diffrent from the last one," Vinyl replied to the voice. I turned around and found myself looking eye to eye with a pony. She was a blue color and had a smooth hair that was turquoise with a stripe of dark blue running through it. Her tail was a bit of a mess, but I could only guess it was natural for her.

"You must be Midnight Song," I said to the pony holding out my hoof.

"I am, and you must be the next worker who won't last a week," She replied in a very harsh tone.

"Listen here Midnight, I could really care less about what you call me. I am going to work here and I will last," I shot back.

"Really, bold words for a yellow Pegasus," She said to me in half mocking tone. I was trying to keep my anger under control while I talked with her, for some reason I was not happy about her attitude.

"I'm not just going to be called a pegasus, my name is John," I said to her.

"Well John, whatever kind of name that even is, I hope you're not as inexperienced as the last employee Vinyl so foolishly hired," She insulted.

"I'm just going to leave you two alone..." Vinyl said with worry, and left the room in a hurry.

"You have such nerve to call me inexperienced, did he get a cord plugged into the wrong outlet or something?" I asked Midnight in a mocking tone.

"And you think that I am inexperienced?" She said.

"Your words, not mine." I said with a smirk. She looked suprised and angry at the same time.

"How dare you! I will not be mocked by a Pegasus that doesn't even know an insult when he hears one," She said angrily.

"If you mean to call me a chicken, that would be a flightless bird right? Sadly that would have no effect on me," I explained to her. She glared at me with her sky blue eyes.

"So you do know insults, I hope you know your way around your own home," She taunted at me. I glared right back at her.

"Are you saying I have no sence of direction? Because I think that you get lost in your fantasy's more than I do," I shot back. She recoiled in suprised before lifting a hoof and slapping me. I did not even flinch or move, nor feel a thing. my anger was starting to become too overwhelming.

"I will not let you be so rude to me because you can't uphold your earlier boast," She said to me. I felt the burn on my cheek but I could care less about it. I've had girls slap me before and I became numb to the pain. The only thing that made it hurt more is the fact that I was slapped by a female horse. I won't let her get away with doing such a thing.

"Then maybe you should stop trying to insult every single Stallion that whistles at you, maybe then you could learn that what your trying to do is more rude than what I do." I complimented while at the same time insulted with a angry frown.

"Do you think that I am a Mare that wants Stallions to swoon over her?" She asks me in an angry voice.

"No, with the way you are acting, I would say you would rather kick them down than let them be nice to you," I answered her. She was silent in suprise for a moment before returning to her angry state.

"And with the way you are acting, I think that you don't have a love life!" She said to me. I was furious at her for saying that.

"How DARE you think that I have a heart made of stone! You have no idea what I have been through! Have you ever had your best friend betray you? Have you ever woken up in a strange place that you have never been to before, and have no clue how you even got there? Have you?" I shouted at her in a very pissed off tone. her eyes widened in suprised as I continued, "Just because you assume something of a pony, does not mean that they are always going to be what you think! Because of your attitude, I don't think I would enjoy working with you as much as I thought! But I enjoy being a DJ just as much as Vinyl does so I will stand it long enough until I can prove you wrong," I said.

"Go ahead and try, if you can somehow last a full week working here without asking Vinyl to quit, then I MAY be nicer to you." She said softer but still angrily, daring me to take it.

"Fine, starting next week I'll be working here for the whole week. I will prove you wrong and show you that there is someone who can stand up to you!" I said to her with an angry glare.

"No, not next week. Starting from tommorow you will work for a full work day. If you can be able convince yourself to keep working for a whole week, then I will belive you when you say that you're serious about your job," She said with a cocky smile, I was sure she was thinking that she won already, I was really going to prove her wrong.

"Fine, I'll be here tommorow anyways," I said as I opened the doors and stormed out them. As I turned back, I thought I saw her give a look of sadness for a breif moment. But she saw me looking and it switched back to a glare. I turned back around and walked outside of the studio.

As I was outside, I breathed in the fresh air and walked in no specific direction. I just wanted to walk around and try to calm myself before I blow up in front of another pony who doesn't deserve it. As I walked onwards, I noticed a certain red pony walk up to me.

"What do you want Pyro?" I asked with a sigh, being annoyed at him walking up next to me.

"Nothing, I was just wondering what you were doing out here alone," he said.

"I would much rather be alone right now, but that won't get rid of you would it?" I asked in a very annoyed tone.

"No, but if you asked nicely you could get me to leave, but it's too late" Pyro taunted to me in a lighthearted way.

"Fine, please go away and let me find a place to sleep." I said to pyro

"Didn't Dusk show you where you would sleep?" Pyro asked.

"Yes, but right now I am not going to sleep there," I said.

"So you are just going to keep walking?" He asked me.

"Yeah, pretty much," I responded in a deadpan tone.

"And I thought you were more fun..." Pyro said before leaving.

I was glad that he left me alone so I could at least focus and think. I don't know why... but I am sure that Midnight Song is hiding something like me. I act the same way she does because of it. I probably won't ask her until I proved her wrong however. I thought and I walked around the area that is closest to the radio station. Eventualy as the sun started to set, I found a place for me to sleep, a cold abandoned house. I could see that nothing would live in there so I decided to sleep there. When I opened the door (it was supriseingly unlocked) I found the house had old furniture where cobwebs have formed upon them. I walked upstairs to an old bedroom and found that the bed was there next to a window. I smiled at the fact that the bedroom had a bed under a window because I could easily sleep in a way where the sunlight could wake me up naturaly. I walked up to the bed and climbed into it. It was cold from disuse, but I didn't mind. I layed down on my stomach and arranged myself in such a way that when the light shone through the window it would shine on my head. After I got myself into a comfortable sleeping position I made sure that the sun could still shine on my head before I closed my eyes. By the time the last of the sunlight disapeared I was asleep in my bed. My dreams changed between my past life to seeing Midnight Song in the studio. Strangly enough, I couldn't tell the diffrence between the two.