Friendship is Recovering

Chatper 10

Saturday

I awoke at the same time as I did yesterday, and got out of my bed. I looked out of the window for a moment to admire the beautiful colors of the sunrise. I only looked away when I walked out of the room and down the stairs to head to the radio station once more.

I arrived at the radio station, without incident, and made my way towards the radio room. When I got to the radio room, I was surprised to see Vinyl Scratch asleep near the mic. Luckily, she wasn't drooling so the equipment wasn't being messed up. I chuckled to myself. She must have really been working late to have fallen asleep at the mic. I then went through my routine of examining the radio equipment. I didn't fully examine all of the radio equipment however, because I did not want to disturb her sleep when she really needed it. I smiled and finished my inspection.

After I finished examining the equipment as best as I could, without disturbing Vinyl, I walked out of the room silently and went to the instrument room. When I looked inside, I saw that it wasn't as messed up as it was when I first organized it. I still went through the work of making it fully organized though, since there was only a few things out of place.

After I finished organizing the instrument room, I walked back out and looked at it once more from the doorway. I smiled as everything was in place, where it should be. I walked out and made my way to the electronic room, where I would work for the rest of the work day. I strode into the room and started to open up the speakers to look over the sound boards and circuitry, when from behind me I heard a very soft 'click' of the door opening and closing. I turned my head towards the sound and saw that Midnight Song entered the room.

"Your early this time," I complemented her.

"Just because I can't have a rookie show me up so much at my job," She responded while yawning.

"Right, if we're going to argue again, at least we should keep it quiet, Vinyl is asleep at the microphone last I checked," I said.

"Again? Why does she work that hard anyways?" She asked with a sigh. I know she didn't expect me to answer that question, but I did so anyways.

"My guess would be because she would want everyone to be able to hear music," I said in a thoughtful tone.

"And how would you know?" She challenged quietly, waiting for me to answer.

"I don't, I was just making a guess about it," I said in my deadpanned tone.

"Well why don't you take your guessing and-" She started to say, but I interrupted her before she finished.

"Could you get me a working sound board? I need something to compare these speaker's soundboards to," I said simply. She looked at me in annoyance for interrupting her, but she went and gave me the sound board anyways.

After about an hour of working in the room in silence I heard Midnight Song say something to me, "is it true when you said to me Thursday that you were betrayed by your closest friend?" She asked me. I sighed, remembering that I shouted that at her when I got very angered with her.

"Yes, it is... something I would rather forget however," I said to her sadly.

"What did he do? Sleep with your love?" She taunted at me, but with more... how do I put it? Pity, maybe?

"He killed my wife in cold blood, then attempted to kill me when I found him," I said with growing anger and sadness from the memory. My anger vanished quickly when I saw her surprised face.

"I... Killed him in self defense, I had no other choice... he attacked me with a knife," I said with growing sadness. I ended my sentence with a soft click as I closed the speaker cover. Her reaction was not of anger, but of sadness. I sighed and left the room, taking a break for the time being.

As the time went by, I continued to work with Midnight Song in silence. Oddly enough, we had no reasons to argue, Even though Vinyl woke up hours ago. The silence ended when I saw two ponies walk into the room. I looked up from my work and looked very annoyed at who walked in. I saw that it was Sparx and Dawn who just entered. Dawn went over to Midnight as Sparx walked over to me. I finished fixing up the circuit board and plugging it back into the turn table and setting it into place. After I closed the turn table I turned to look at Sparx.

"Now what is this visit for, Sparx?" I asked him, hiding my annoyance.

"Dawn wanted to visit Midnight song actually, I came along to ask you something," He said calmly.

"Go ahead," I said to him.

"Where do you sleep?" He asked me.

"With Fluttershy," I said, I was not even trying to hide the fact that it was a lie anyways, "Well not wi--"

"We both know that is not even true." He interrupted in a concerned way.

"And you are keeping tabs on what I do?" I asked with a glare.

"No, Fluttershy told Dusk that you haven't really been near her house at all when he asked her about it," He said, sounding really concerned.

"Well, I have a reason of why I don't sleep with her. Her house is too far away from the radio station where I work," I explained to him. He, however, didn't like that answer so much.

"Why do you need to be close to the radio station?" He asked me, being concerned about my real reasons.

"None of your business," I told him with a frown.

"I thought you were going to be more friendly, guess you need to work on that," He said, in an attempt to make me remember my Pinkie Promise. I figured Pinkie told him about it or something.

"Well I have something I need to do here, and I can't be late for my job," I said, muttering that last part to myself.

"Alright, I'll at least help-" He started to offer, but I interrupted him.

"No, this is something I will do on my own. I don't need anyone's help to do this," I said. I didn't want to reveal to anyone that I was actually doing a dare from Midnight Song, and that I actually liked seeing her despite what I said. I also wanted to learn more about Midnight Song before the dare ended, I knew for a fact that she was hiding something. She didn't seem eager to tell me, so I took her dare in a bold attempt to find out eventually. If I figured out her problem, then I could try to help her with it. I then halted on thinking on my reasons, Wait... why do I want to help her? She has done nothing but insult and taunt me.. I thought to myself. Sparx snapped me out of my thoughts however,

"Alright, Since you don't want to tell me where you sleep, then can I ask you of what you think about Midnight Song?" He asked, curious about my relationship with my co-worker.

"She is hiding something, and internally suffering for it too. I want to try to help her because I acted the same way." I whispered to him sadly.

"So... you like her?" He asked. I sputtered for a moment before answering,

"No! No, I do not like her! Now stop asking!" I near shouted at him.

"Alright, alright, calm down." He said in an attempt to calm me down. I saw him smirk a little.

"If you keep being so curious like that I won't let you get anywhere further with that!" I said before quickly walking out of the room. I was hiding my blush from him, because I really was not sure.

As I walked back to my "Home" as I called it, I thought about Midnight song, She needs to get help from somepony, but she seems hostile around any kind of Stallion. I can only help those who can ask for it. I suddenly stopped where I was and interrupted my line of thought again. Wait, why the hell am I thinking like that? She's just a Co-worker, nothing more!

But what if that is just my excuse to hide myself from her? I wondered to myself, before lifting one of my hooves and hitting myself on the side of the head. I don't like her... or do I? Argh, I'll just go and sleep on it. I thought to myself and started to make my way back towards to the abandoned house.

I arrived there to find that the door was left wide open. I would not have been worried, if I left it open when I left. I carefully entered the building through the open door, and as soon as I was inside I heard voices from the floor above me.

"Ah keep tellin' ya, there is no ghost livin' 'ere!" A voice said.

"I don't know... What if it just hasn't got here yet?" A second voice said.

"Good idea, perhaps we could wait and ambush it when it's not paying attention," The third voice said.

"Aren't ghosts incop.... incorp... not able to touch anything?" The first voice said.

"True, but we could be Ghost Busters!" The second voice said.

"Just like old times right?" The third voice said.

"Juust lahk old tahms," The first one said, then I heard movement for a moment before it stopped. I raised an eyebrow.'Why are there three... mares here? I wondered to myself. I then shook my head and started to walk up the stairs to the room. On my way up, I stepped on a bad step and my hoof went clear through it. The loud crack sounded through the entire house.

"Ah think Ah heard somethin'!" The first voice shouted, as I struggled to pull my leg out of the hole.

"Yeah, I did too. Hide!" The third voice said, and by the time I got my leg out, the room was silent. I frowned at my misfortune, but I decided to try to find out who the three voices were. I got to the top of the steps, and noticed that the door to my bed was left wide open. Whoever they are, they leave an easy to see track. I thought to myself with a silent chuckle. I then moved to the doorway and looked in, only to see that my bed was there and nothing was out of place. Huh? Where did they go? I wondered, and then I entered the room.

Suddenly I was attacked by a yellow blur.

"Ah Got 'im!" She shouted, before I was also attacked by a orange pegasus.

"I got his legs!" She shouted.

"AGH! Get off me!" I shouted in surprise, and started to run around the room with a yellow pony on my back, and an orange pegasus holding on of my legs.

"Whoa! Sweetie stop 'im please! The room's gettin' all whirly!" Shouted the yellow pony.

"I'm trying to but he's moving too fast!" The third voice shouted. I then screeched to a halt.

"Wait... your not trying to kill me?" I asked outloud for them to hear.

"Wait... you're not a ghost?" The orange pegasus asks. I looked around and chuckled.

"And here I thought you were trying to kill me," I said.

"Wait... if your here, then who's the ghost?" The voice, known as Sweetie, asks.

"Well, I actually sleep here so... I think I am?" I said in confusion.

"Aww, Ah thought we could nab ourselves an actual ghost," The yellow pony said and got off of my back.

"Well, I have seen ghosts but they were mainly trying to kill me actually," I said with a shrug

"Wait, Ah've seen ya at Pinkie's latest party!" The yellow pony exclaimed.

"Well, since we haven't met... My name is John," I said in a calm, but tired way.

"Mah name's Apple Bloom," The yellow pony, who had a pink bowtie on her head, said.

"I'm Scootaloo," The orange pony said in a confident way. She reminded me a bit of Rainbow Dash.

"And my name is Sweetie bell." The white unicorn asks. I then looked at her in confusion.

"Wait... are you saying your made of candy or marshmallows?" I asked, all of them groaned.

"Sorry but that joke is old," Scootaloo said. I sheepishly smiled.

"Sorry, anyways I'm pretty tired right now, so could you let me sleep?" I asked them in a polite way.

"Sure, we have a story to tell others though," Sweetie said in a happy way.

"Don't tell Dusk or his family, ok? I'd rather not have them come bearing down on my door," I told them before making my way to the bed.

"Ah can Pinkie Promise ya that, wouldn't do to make a new pony mad at us," Apple Bloom said.

"Forever!" I thought I heard a voice that sounded like Pinkie say. I looked around in confusion before shrugging.

"I must be very tired. Anyways, could you at least close the door when you leave? I'd rather not have some pony be able to sneak in and do something to me in my sleep," I said. They all nodded yes and as they left my bedroom, they closed the door. I sighed in relief, but smiled at the event. Maybe I could settle down with somepony and... no I probably won't do such a thing. I thought to myself.

"He sorta reminds me of Morning," I heard Scootaloo say in the distance.

"Every pegasus you see reminds you of him," I believe Sweetie Belle said.

I yawned and looked out the window, and saw the sun was almost behind the hills afar. I sighed and climbed into the cold bed. As soon as I lied my head down, my eyes began to droop. It took me a while for me to finally fall asleep. My dreams this time were more interesting than usual. I was staring down a dark creature in an attempt to protect somepony next to me. I couldn't tell who it was, but I knew I had to protect him or her. I had a shield made of metal and it had the emblem of the sun upon the center of it. I knew the shield was a guard's shield, but I did not know why I have it. As the creature charged, I used my shield and bashed it so hard that a normal pony's skull would have cracked. When it hit the floor, it vanished in a puff of black smoke. I sighed and put my shield down, but before I could see who the pony was. My dream changed to something else, My memories of when I enjoyed myself as a treasure hunter.