Friendship is Recovering

Chapter 7 part 2

This is the song that John put on that will play for the first part of the chapter

I put the disk to one of my favorite dubstep songs onto the turn table. I remembered the entire song by heart so I could also sing along with the disk into the microphone that was also on the turn table. I knew my singing voice was good, but it was nothing I would be impressed with. I was turning the dials and switches to match the sound of the music playing. As soon as I heard the words come I decided to start to sing.

Listen to the sound of voices, In the distance calling. Listen to the noise around, It's the raindrops falling. It's the wind in the tree's, inspiration running free, it's something I can't control. It's gift, it's an art. It's the music in my soul.

I smiled as I sang the melody of the song,

I'm breathing, again. I'm taking it in, 'cause you can't take the music from me. I refuse to pretend. I won't let this end, you can't take the melody.

I let the music play for a bit as I watched the party go on through my purple shades. I felt in my element while I was up on the turn table, watching the party unfold. I turned it up to as loud as I could make the volume go without busting a speaker or an eardrum in the party. I then notice the next part of the song kick in and I naturaly sang along without having to think.

There's a divide between melody, and sounds only some can hear. A song, a mysterious force. Yet it's never feared. An unexplainable thought, a shout from those who were lost. A call from the broken hearted. A projection of the mind, but I'm not wasteing time. I'm only just getting started.

I moved right back into the melody again,

I'm breathing, again. I'm taking it in, 'cause you can't take the music from me. I refuse to pretend. I won't let this end, you can't take the melody.

I let the music play once more for a bit as I spun the knobs and the disks to match the sounds that it plays. Because I matched them perfectly, I made it echo a bit for the whole party. I then switched the mic to distort my voice as I said the word Melody and I sang the melody once more. After I finished the melody I listened to the echo of the the music and my voice as it played. Eventualy the song ended with me smiling for everypony to see. I could hear them stomping the ground in applause (since they don't have hands.) and I decided to do something that I would say was a neat trick.

I suddenly turned down the volume of everything, to everyponys confusion. They wondered what I was doing up there. My answer is turning up the bass level to the highest it could go and putting my hoof on a button near the sound board. I smiled as I was ready to see what I could cause now. I pushed the button down all the way.

If you were outside (which nopony was), you would have heard a very loud BOOM coming from Sugar Cube Corner. It didn't sound like a bomb, more like a blast of bass loud enough that I'm almost sure that you could hear it from the mountains.

Inside the building, everypony whole room was knocked down, or knocked into a wall so hard that they stuck to it. I peeled off of the wall and landed behind the turn table. I had to smile very brightly despite what I just did. That was AWSOME I thought to myself. As I got up, I noticed a white pony walk into Sugar Cube Corner and look around in suprise. She was also wearing purple shades, so I could assume that she could possibly be the DJ that was intended to come here.

"Whoa... what happened here?" I heard her speak. I was not suprised about her suprise actualy. Most of them always thought that way when they first see the power of the bass bomb. It's actualy something that Dusk never saw me use before because I actualy did not know the methods of it back then. I then decided to shout to her over the ringing in my ears.

"Bass drop happened!" I shouted loudly enough for her to hear, and she turned to me.

"Whoa, whoever did that did an awsome bass drop!" She said. I barely could hear her over the ringing in my ears, but I picked out the words.

"Yeah! It was something I learned how to do years ago! Now who are you!?" I shouted, the ringing in my ears slowly starting to stop.

"Vinyl Scratch, Otherwise known as DJ PON-3." She said in a very confidant and impressed voice. I could tell she was a DJ by how laid back she sounded as well. Not many DJ's I know of actualy relax enough.

"Name's John, I don't have a fancy DJ name 'cause I only DJ as a bit of a hobby of mine." I said with a sheepish smile.

"I noticed, but since your good at being a DJ, why don't you help around my radio station?" She asked me

"Are you offering me a job?" I asked Vinyl in wonder.

"You don't have a job yet?" She asked me in surprise.

"Not really... I'm still actualy pretty new to this town," I said, my smile fading from my face.

"Well, that changes things actually. Yes, I'm offering you a job at my radio station," She said in a laid back tone.

"Sweet... what time?" I asked her while trying to hide my own happiness.

"I could always use an extra hoof on Tuesdays and Fridays, things always get very hectic around those days with all of the pony's listening to the radio station," She said calmly.

"Sounds good to me, what's today?" I asked eagerly.

"I think it's a Monday... let me check my phone." She said while using her horn to levitate a phone out of her bag. Wait... unicorns can float stuff? I thought in wonder as she checked something before putting it back.

"Yep, it's actualy a Thursday actualy. Sometimes Thursdays feels like Mondays to me, you know," She said.

"I feel you on that subject," I replied in a light hearted way.

"Right, if you are going to work at my station you need to know your way around it and to it. After I give this party the daily dose of Wubs, I want to have you come to the radio station to tour it and see who you work with," She said with a mischievous smile.

"Alright, so do you want the turn table now?" I asked her.

"Yeah, this party needs more Wubs to get it moving!" She said in an excited voice.

As I moved from behind the turn table and Vinyl taking my place, I completely forgot I was wearing the purple shades. Supriseingly, aparantly Vinyl had a spare pair of shades so she let me keep mine. I smiled and lifted it from my eyes and wandered around the party. By now the party goers were recovered from my Bass Bomb and are resuming the party like nothing happened. Pretty sure that not all of them were fond of what I did. Some actualy glared at me for it.  I simply ignored the glares and walked on. I saw Pyro, who had the largest smile I have ever seen. While continuing towards the back of the room, I was stopped however by none other than Rainbow Dash herself.

"What the buck was that?!" She nearly shouted at me.

"Bass drop, one of my tricks of the trade," I said to her with a confidant smile.

"Now why in all of Equestria would you want to do that?" She asked me in a very angry voice.

"Why wouldn't I? The whole party needed a big boom to keep it going," I said while smiling.

"How the hay are you even hearing anything by now?" She asked me, calmer than before.

"Question I've been asking myself since I started doing this," I said in a deadpanned tone.

"Right... Remind me to not hire you as a DJ if you'll do that," She said with a hint of a smirk.

"I rarely do that outside for reason, so I am still trustworthy," I told her, and then left.

As I walked to the table with muffins (How the muffins were still on the table, I don't know) I noticed that the Grey mare wasn't there now. I walked up to the table and picked up a muffin. After taking a bite out of it, my mind wandered to the time where I first got a job as a DJ.

"Dude, You certainly know your way around that DJ booth. I almost thought you were someone else," my soon to be boss said. My boss was an average man who had dreadlock hair that was the color of dirt. His clothing was pretty much screaming 1960's hippy because of the colors and the peace sign on the shirt. One would actualy mistake my boss for a hippy at a first glance, but I knew better.

"Thank you sir," I responded in a polite but nervous tone. My boss was the owner of the club named, Club Nectar and was very good at running it. I mainly heard it from the employees though, so I wasn't sure if it was true or not.

"You don't need to be so moddest to me man, you truly rocked the house so much that the roof moved," He said in his trademark hippy sounding voice.

"So... does this mean I got the job?" I asked, more nervous than I was ever before.

"If I told you no, then I would be denying myself of one cool DJ. Of course you got it, now you should really keep coming back man," He said to me in a profesional hippy voice. I let out a soft sigh of releif, knowing that I actualy got the job.

"Thank you So much sir!" I said to my boss.

"You don't need to call me sir," He told me, not in his hippy voice. He had a surprisingly low voice, despite his hippy tone (which was a little higher than his normal voice).

"Ok then, sir." I said again, "no...ah... oops..." and he laughed.

I was smileing broadly at the memory of years ago, when I was actualy not actively trying to keep everyone or thing from being friendly with me. The reason I loved to DJ was because they provide everyone with a song, a dance, a mood to have. I was not one to want to deny that. I was too fond of the music to hoard it all for myself. I also didn't notice a certain pony just walked up next to me until I actualy looked. I noticed the pony was a grey one with what looked to be a treble clef. The only noticable thing that she had was her pink bow tie.

"I haven't seen you before..." She said dully.

"I would say the same..." I said in suprised tone. How did she... oh right, I was not paying attention.

"May I ask you of why you are here?" She asked in a politely professional way.

"Party... and you?" I asked the grey mare.

"I have to keep an eye on Vinyl," She said with a sigh.

"Are you a musician?" I asked her.

"Yes, have you played any instruments?" She asked me back in a polite way.

"Not too much... the only instrument I truly got the hang of was the flute," I said.

"Ahh... I play the Cello," She said while looking me over with a careful look. It made me a bit uneasy of the musican looking me over like that. It wasn't my worry of being attacked, it was just that her gaze looked very criticizing to me.

"Well... I uh.... " I studdered before I closed my eyes and breathed in and out slowly to calm down. After doing that I opened my eyes again.

"Can I ask for your name and music preference?" I said with a questioning look.

"I am Octavia, I perfer Classical music but I do listen to Vinyl and her dubste musics." She said with a bit of an annoyed tone.

"Right... My name is John, and I actualy prefer all kinds of music. Classical is pretty relaxing in certain moments actually," I said and I think I saw Octavia brighten up a bit

"Now I heard that Vinyl was hiring you?" She asked me while I least expected it.

"Yes, how'd you-" I started before she interupted me in her polite way.

"Vinyl sent me a message... did she offer to show you where the station even is?" She asked me with care. I could tell that she was skilled at picking the right words with care. Most profesional musicans do that.

"... I knew I was forgeting something... No she didn't," I admited and she sighed.

"I suppose I can show you the same station I have to work at to put up with her antics," She told me.wait... I'm talking to my co-boss... oh great! I thought in my head with worry.

"Thank you... Can you show me after the party?" I asked her in a nervous voice.

"I can... Sometimes Vinyl forgets the way back to her own station, so I have to remember exactly where it is," She said calmly.

"Alright... Thank you" I said to Octavia before I left to wander around the party. Oddly enough, a strange thought comes to my head randomly. Didn't Dusk have a brother before? I thought. I decided that I would ask him after I looked through the radio station and made sure that I had a job. I would continue to wander through the bakery before I stumbled upon that grey pegasus with the yellow mane and the weird eyes. I would have called her beautiful, except that the eyes would always prevent somepony from doing exactly that. She stood in front of me with one eye looking at me, the other looking a diffrent way entirely.

"Do you like muffins?" She asks me.

"Yes... who are you?" I asked the grey Pegasus

"My name is Ditzy Doo, but you can call me Derpy. Most of my friends do," She said. Isn't that a bit demeaning? I thought.

"Well Ditzy, my name is John," I said calmly.

"Hello John, what's your favorite muffin?" She asks me, Intrigued.

"Anything that's not English," I said.

"Finaly! Somepony that agree's with me!" She said suddenly.

"...What?" I asked.

"Nothing..." She admited and I could swear for a fraction of a second, her eyes both looked at me before they... derped to looking opposite ways. I'm sure they would call her a klutz I thought.

"Can you fly?" She would randomly ask me out of nowhere.

"Fly? You mean flapping my wings so much that I can actualy get off the ground?" I said in a Disbelieving tone.

"Of course!" She said in a cheerful way.

"... right I'll just erm... let you eat the muffins." I said.

"Ok! I'll see you later than John!" She said as she flew off towards the muffin table. What a strange mare... I thought to myself. I shook my head and wandered around the party some more, it was slowly coming to an end anyways so I didn't have much else I could do.

"Hey, John!" I heard somepony call from the other side of the room. I looked over to see Dusk calling me over, "Come over here!"

I made my way over to him to see what he needed, "yeah Dusk, what do you need?"

"I am just wondering, where do you plan on staying?" he asked, concerned.

"Depends, I usualy sleep anywhere I can," I said, not really wanting to answer.

"Well, I think I might have a place for you to stay," he said with a grin.