Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 9

Friday

I opened my eyes to the sunlight shining on my eyes through the window, I slowly smiled at the warmth. Today was the day I begin my dare against Midnight Song, and I wasn't going to mess it up. As I got out of the bed, I looked out the window. Maybe I did my plan a bit too well, it's very early in the... know what? I'll go in early for work and suprise everyone. I thought to myself. I chuckled as I imagined the suprise on their faces when they find that I was already working so early in the morning.

As I walked through the town, I was actually suprised that I got up very early. Almost nopony was even up or even moving about. I then remembered the fact that Vinyl and Octavia lived in the radio station and I paused in my walking long enough to facehoof. As soon as I put my leg down to resume walking I chuckled softly to myself. At least they don't sleep in something that's quite possibly not theirs. I thought to myself as I continued to walk towards the large radio station. Since there was nopony even up by now, I was unhindered in my walk towards my new workplace.

When I got to the radio station and opened the door, I was suprised to find that it was unlocked. Remembering the tour that Vinyl gave me yesterday, I made my way towards the electronics room to look over the equipment before heading to the DJ room to make sure the turn tables were operational. As soon as I entered the electronics room I saw that it was in a bit of a mess. I sighed and started to clean it up and organize it properly by electronic type and name. I put the stereos in one part of the room; the headphones or headsets in a neat pile in the corner of the room. I arrayed the turn tables along the wall, and I also organized the vinyl records neatly on the shelf. By the time I finished, I heard somepony enter the room.

"John! What are you doing here?" I heard the pony ask.

"Organizing this mess of a room, what else?" I said in a confident tone.

"Normaly I'm the one who organizes this room, but now I think I can leave it to you if you keep doing this," The voice behind me said in a familar tone.

"Ahh, so you are the one who keeps things in order most of the times, Octavia?" I asked. I turned around and saw her look almost as awake as I was (Which was very awake).

"At least this means I have more time to practice playing my cello when the day ends," she said with a hint of a smile.

"You can thank me later, right now I need to make sure that the DJ's turntable and microphone are working properly," I said to her. Before I left the room, she stopped me for a moment.

"Would you mind cleaning up the instrument room? Since Vinyl used it for her storage of CD players I can't even get a step in there," She asked me politely.

"I wouldn't mind, I'll get to it once I finished with checking the radio equipment," I said and left the room.

By the time I finished examining and repairing all of the radio equipment, the sun was pretty high to signal that it is morning. I sighed in releif as I saw Vinyl Scratch walk into the radio room.

"Wow, I knew you were a DJ, but I didn't expect you to be that good," Viynl complemented, obviously very impressed.

"Yeah, everything's working fine. The microphone was on the fritz because of an overclocked energy surge, so I had to wire some of that energy to the turn table, don't worry the mic is still functioning properly along with the turn table," I explained to Vinyl who was looking at me in suprise.

"So that's why the mic kept fizzing like that..." She said to herself before smiling.

"I'm done here, so now I've got another room to go and organize," I said. As I was walking out of the room Vinyl stopped me. Again? I don't know why you and Octavia live in the radio station.

"When Midnight Song comes here, I want you two to be in the electronics room to make sure that all of the things there are in proper order," She told me, giving me my first official assignment.

"That shouldn't be too hard then. I just organized it this morning so I know where everything is," I said.

"Wait, I thought Octy organized that room?" She asked me in confusion.

"Well, I got here early so I did it for her," I said enjoying the suprise on her face.

"Dude, that means you made Octy's day a lot easier now!" She said in suprise.

"Your welcome, now if you excuse me," I said to her before leaving the room.

After I finished organizing the instrument room: it was full of violins, cellos, and all of the other string instruments, plus a few turntables and CD players. I walked out and admired my work. I sighed in releif that I finished another big job.

"So you were here early, that won't be enough to prove me wrong though," I heard a voice from behind me scoff.

"Midnight Song, since your here we need to go to the electronics room and look through the stuff in it," I said with no intent to start taunting her.

"At least you know when we have a job to do..." She said softly.

"I keep organized, and you would be wise to keep your thoughts to yourself, there are a lot of peop-- err... ponies that can use that against you," I said in a stern tone before walking towards the electronics room. I heard her fume for a moment before following me as well to the electronics room.

"Hey can you get me that screwdriver over there?" I asked Midnight Song.

"Can't you get it yourself?" She said in a half taunting tone.

"I'd love to, but I can't float things, and I need to keep my hoof here to hold this thing in place so it won't fall out," I explained in an annoyed tone, holding up a panel of the ceiling that had gotten loose.

"Then why are you complaining about it?" She taunted as she gave me the screwdriver. I picked it up in my mouth and used it to screw the ceiling into place.

"Because I ha'e w'ng's" I said with my voice muffled by the screwdriver. Once the ceiling was screwed back into place I put the speaker back into place and screwed it back on, "useless wings," I said, my mouth now free of the screwdriver.

"So do I, but you don't hear me complaining about it," She said with an arrogant tone. I put the screwdriver down and turned to her.

"That's because you don't look at what you don't have, you always look at the things you have," I said before moving towards the turntable.

"Why do I need to look at what I dont have? I'm fine with what I don't have, horns are over-rated," She said as she helped me to open up the turntable.

"If you understand what you don't have, then maybe you could be able to understand the way you act. Keep an eye on that wire would you?" I said while pulling out another wire and cord using my hooves. I was smart enough to not try to mess with wires using my mouth, because that's a good way to get yourself electrocuted.

"And what if I am fine with what I have? That green wire should go there," She said as I plugged the green wire into the input jack that she pointed out. Her face getting close to mine. I caught a whiff of some really good smelling perfume. I shook the scent from my thoughts.

"Thanks, and if you are truly fine with what you have, then you should stop lying to yourself about it," I said as I continued to work on the turntable cords.

"What makes you think I am lying to myself?" She asked me in a dangerously annoyed tone. I plugged in the final wire before answering her.

"Because you are not the only pers- pony who has acted that way. On three we close the turntable," I said, and I counted to three before I worked with her to close the turntable shut.

"And what makes you such an expert on this?" She asked, daring me to answer.

"Because I've seen it before," I said simply and walked to the headsets. We both didn't say another word to each other because oddly enough, Midnight Song speechless after that. Showed her, didn't I?

By the time the day finished, I was just about ready to relax when Midnight Song glared at me.

"What did you mean earlier when you said that you've seen it before?" She asked me in a very angry tone.

"You aren't the only pony I know who has acted that way," I said vaguely. She did not take that for an answer and blocked me as I was trying to exit the room.

"And you know of any other ponies who acted the way you claim I do?" She asked me in a very angry tone.

"Look, it's been a long day, and I would perfer not to share my personal life with a worker that I barely know," I said to her, equally as annoyed as she was.

"Oh, so you don't want to share your life huh? Then I won't let you leave until you tell me why you think you know me!" She said and quite literly blocked the doorway.

"You've got to be kidding me, I don't want to have to try to barrel my way through you because I don't like to hurt mares," I said in a very annoyed tone.

"Then answer my question, why do you think that I'm lying to myself?" She asked, glaring at me, her eyes filled with hatred.

"Fine, I'll answer you because your being such a damn prick about it! I know because I act the same way, now move!" I said in a very angry way.

"And here I thought you were layed back, looks like you are not a-" She started to say but I got up in her face.

"Look here miss, if you lived the life I have lived then you would actualy see why I would call you lucky. Now move before I change my mind about hurting you," I said to her in a dangerous voice, I fought back tears as the memory once again filled my mind. I was not in any mood to try to deal with her any further because I was tired of seeing my own reminder in front of me, in the form of a Mare for even further insult too.

"Wha-" She started to say but I simply brushed past her and started to walk towards the door. I heard her shout at me.

"Why don't you make yourself more clearer than what you seem to act like! I think you're not the only one who notices!"

"Buck off, I don't need to tell you a damn thing anymore," I shot back.

I barely got to the front door when Midnight Song tackled me in anger.

"Stop acting like your life is such a failure then!" She shouted while on me. I shoved her off and lowered myself to try to suprise her with a tackle.

"Who says my life is a failure! My life is more hellish than a failure!" I shouted. She did not flinch and she noticed what I was planning on doing.

"Then why do you keep talking about it?" She asked me angrily. I responded by switching my stratagy at the last moment and I charged straight at her. She simply side stepped my charge.

"Because you are not my friend! With the way you act, I think you would find I would not be willing to share everything with someone who I just met. That and you are getting on my nerves!" I shouted and charged again. She side stepped it and I narrowly avoided running into the wall.

"Well we are Co-workers though, so we shouldn't keep secrets from each other!" She said with a smirk.

"I'll share mine if you share yours," I taunted at her and she was suprised for a moment before glaring at me. I glared right back at her, before we were interupted by a certain white unicorn.

"You both should really stop fighting..." I heard a white unicorn who I recognized as being Dusk's daughter, Dawn, say. After a moment of silence I heard Midnight Song speak up.

"Your probably right, I don't need to waste time by fighting this yellow Pegasus," She said before walking off. I seethed in anger before sighing. God freaking damn it... I thought to myself. I then noticed Dawn walking up to me.

"Are you ok?" She asked, concerned.

"I'll be fine... Does she know you though?" I asked.

"Yes, I'm her room mate's... um... reallyclosefriend... actualy, I just came to visit her and see how she's doing at work sometimes," She said in a very concerned tone.

"Yeah, well tell your friend to tell her to actualy be able to keep herself from trying to hide something. It retracts from her beauty.... and don't tell her I just said that," I added with a slight blush. I walked off before I could hear Dawn say anything else. I was pretty sure she was blind, but she may have noticed I wasn't there somehow, right now I could really care less.

I walked through the town in another attempt to calm myself before I tried to blow up in front of another pony. I only would hope that Pyro was not around to prevent that this time. Luckily for me he wasn't, but I was still interupted by a mint green unicorn.

"What do you want?" I asked the newcomer.

"Nothing, was just wondering what you were doing," She said before running off, strangely she seemed to be trying to hide happyness. I did my mental shrug, That might probably come back to bite me later. I thought and resumed walking. Since I had nothing else to do, I thought about heading to Sugar Cube Corner to get something sweet to eat. I decided against it however, because I was going to need to head back to the radio station tommorrow. So I started to walk towards the abandoned house again.

By the time I got to what I was beginning to call home, the sun was already starting to set. I decided that now would be a fine time to get rest, since I'll be getting up early for the rest of the week of the dare. As I entered the building, I didn't notice anything out of place, so I figured it really was abandoned after all. I smiled for a moment before walking back upstairs to the bed that I slept in the night before. I used the same stratagy I did yesterday and put my head near the spot where the sunlight will shine down. As the moon rose in the distance, I admired it's beauty from where I was before closing my eyes and drifting off to sleep.