Late Night Playlist

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Chapter 1: Moonlight Mixing.

Octavia groaned in her usual annoyance that was brought on by her roommate's antics as the grey-brown coated mare rubbed at her temples firmly trying to prevent the headache that would not fail to come. Though she couldn't help but look on at the white coated mare, her roommate Vinyl, with concern as the mentioned mare for once looked stressed glancing at the clock as it read 23:52. Octavia stretched out over the couch one last time knocking off sheet music she completely forgot she was working with before Vinyl's stressed musical assault began. The hornless musician thought back a bit as she sat up upon her haunches not realizing how much she was staring at the unicorn pony concern stamped over her features.

Octavia whipped her ash black mane back by tossing her head about as she went over her latest composition humming the notes to herself while sprawled out over the couch. She glanced at the clock noting that it was already 21:22 while nibbling idly at the quill that managed to find its way between her lips. She was in the den that served as a joint study for her and her electric blue maned roommate and wouldn't admit that Vinyl's laid back attitude had rubbed off on her a bit. Instead of being in her firm high backed chair that was in front of the writing table where she normally worked on her far side of the study she chose to relax on the couch that sat in the middle of the room facing the DJ booth that was the wub loving pony's. She leaned back down over her sheet music and started to scratch out the notes she had just hummed to herself content with the way they sounded following what had already been written before the sound of the front door opening and slamming gave her a start dropping the quill off the side of the couch. She expected to hear Vinyl shout out her general greeting of "Oh Octi!! I'm home!!" but nothing of the sort came but instead the stomping of running hooves is what caused the Cellist's ears to twitch.

Vinyl Scratch though more popularly known as DJ PON-3, pronounced pown-ee, came bursting into the study saddle bags being consumed by a light blue glow before being lifted off the DJ's body then unceremoniously launched to a corner on the floor, Octavia winced slightly as she was sure she heard something break. Vinyl didn't even notice that her roommate Octavia, whom the white pony swore had more patience than Celestia, was right there in the middle of the room looking at her while she went straight to her record library horn a glow with her magic again pulling dozens of records at a time towards the unicorn. The DJ sighed openly sending the records flying before pulling more off the shelves and even tossing her beloved shades off her face not able to see clearly from the slightly dim lighting that was in the study. She shook her head in annoyance and practically jumped over to another wall just dropping the 20 or so records she was holding up with her magic to the floor not happy with the genre of the music in question.

Octavia who was quiet and decided to stay laying there with her head turned towards her clearly bothered friend tilting her head slightly before taking another glance at the clock sensing that something, aside from the obvious, was off. 22:01. She nodded her head confirming her suspicions. Her best friend was home early. Which concerning normal ponies was all in all not a big deal. But, when it concerned Vinyl, something had to be up. The mare would often wander into the house they shared at 01:00 when her gig ended and, more often than not, as late as 03:30 a mere 2 hours before Celestia herself readied herself to raise the sun in the summer. Not begin a pony for masking her intentions when it came to her one true friend cleared her throat loud enough to capture Vinyl's attention but clearly failed miserably as the unicorn in question had managed to find one record that seemed to agree with her and set it down in its jacket on the turn table next to her to keep it handy. "Vinyl Scratch!"

Vinyl shifted in surprise her mane and tail standing on end while Octavia covered her mouth with her hooves in shock both sets of eyes wide open between the two ponies. Octavia cleared her throat as she regained her composure while Vinyl turned around to finally see her prim and posh roommate finally realizing that of course she is home. Vinyl sheepishly rubbed the back of her head with a hoof while she looked over her best friend's appearance noting the slightly disheveled look to the Cellist's usually perfect bow-tie and collar. "Oh... Hey there Tavi.. I'm home." the white mare said managing to lock eyes with Octavia as she settled down on her haunches facing the black maned mare. Octavia sighed slightly though nodded her head the general brash manner in which she spoke quickly finding purchase on her tongue despite how genuinely concerned she was for Vinyl, "Oh? I had hardly noticed. Welcome back Vinyl." Octavia shook her head flinging her mane out of her face, it had grown rather long and was in need of a trim she finally admitted to herself, and cleared her head. "What is going on with you Vinyl? You come crashing on in here and start tossing your own belongings everywhere creating a mess. You are also back hours before I think you even consider thinking about home. Just what has you in such a brash and completely unacceptable manner?" She turned her head away from Vinyl slightly and mumbled under her breath moving to pick up her dropped quill, "...... you didn't even notice I was here...."

Vinyl giggled nervously as she looked around herself and saw her records strewn about the study on her side, a few of them even seemed to be broken also noticing that she was sitting on one. She stood up and started to collect her records with her magic putting on her best sorry Octi,don't be mad at me please face, a face that she had unwittingly perfected over the months they knew each other. She started to stack the ones that were still undamaged and put the broken ones in their own stack with a sheet of paper and a pen on top of it. She was going to have to replace those and hoped that none of those were her hard to come by ones. "My bad Octi..., I was in such a rush I wasn't payin' any attention. Its just that..., well..., ohh.., This is my probably my big break!" She finally spit out in joy jumping up and down in a manner Pinkie Pie would wipe a tear away in pride. Octavia who was preparing to shove her face into her hoof was caught by surprise. "Just what do you mean Vinyl?" Being a fellow musician, though Octavia was being more generous of the use of that word when it concerned Vinyl than every fiber in Rarity's being, knew what it meant to any artist, the words 'Big Break', especially since she managed to get her own a couple of months ago landing her name on the tip of every posh pony's tongue. Octavia jumped up off the couch and galloped over to Vinyl and hugged her best friend tight enough to cut off her air before letting go.

"I'm so happy for you Vinyl!" She smiled standing up straight as the spiky maned mare fought to get air back in her lungs, causing Octavia to blush light enough to hide. "Thanks Octi." Vinyl managed to finally breathe out finally getting all the air back into her lungs and sat back down as Octavia beamed like a proud parent sitting down across from her. Vinyl getting her thoughts together finally managed to explain to the clearly waiting Octavia. "I know that you aren't one to follow the types of music I work with but a really famous DJ named Whinny Benassi!! He works with really big name ponies across a lot of industries I wouldn't even know where to start!!" The white mare stopped talking once she was out of breath but continued seeing that she still had her best friends full attention. "After this I wont have to work in dives anymore. No more back ally clubs! I would finally have my name in lights for all of Canterlot and Manehatten to see! The whole of Equestria and Beyond will know my name and beg for my skills!" During this explanation Vinyl through a foreleg around Octavia pulling her tight against her waving her free hoof through the air in front of them as if showing her grand illusions off of the new world to her roommate.

Octavia managed to wriggle herself free of the ecstatic pony's grip and trotted back over to the couch she had her work and quill laid out on but still gave the DJ her attention, "Well I couldn't be anymore happy for you Vinyl. I'm sure you must now have a lot on your plate and have some work to do but what is the rush? I'm sure you have plenty of time." That's when Vinyl shifted and immediately went back to scanning through her records though managed to stack them up on the floor rather than throwing them about. "Well.. I don't have an agent.. I can't afford one on my salary.. unlike you. So I didn't really find this all out till tonight at my set when Benassi's agent came up to me while I was getting ready for my primary set after opening for a new colt. And asked if I was ready for my dual set with Benassi. I honestly had no idea and I thought the phone calls were just pranks. So I stopped responding after the second one. But Whinny Benassi was there and heard my opening and was pleased. I said I was of course ready and then he said he would see me at that new ultra high end club that is opening tomorrow, ehh you probably don't know about it with it not being your kind of music. So I canceled my set and said the newbie could share it with the closer and rushed back here as fast as I could. But after of course gloating to every-pony there about where I was playing tomorrow night! Hehe..hehe..."

Vinyl went back to mad disk searching finally finding another that seemed like it would be good enough. As happy as the up and coming DJ was the Cellist could clearly see how distressed her friend was fully knowing oh to well what she was going through after experiencing herself first-hoof. Though Octavia could feel herself wanting to chide the unicorn she knew she couldn't, at least not after being in her friends hooves not all that long ago. "Well Vinyl.. it seems like you have quite a bit of work ahead of you and not much time to do it in. I'll leave you to it but try to keep things down. I have work of my own to do after all." Vinyl offered out a simply reply that was less words but more or less sounds and Octavia wondered just how much had the entertainer had bitten off. She climbed back up on the couch and went back to her work as Vinyl started to spin on of the records to give herself background music to work much to Octavia's chagrin though let it go. This was Vinyl's time to shine and she would be patient with her, if only for tonight.

This brought Octavia back to the current time not realizing how entranced she was watching and decided to get up off the couch and offer her assistance. She may not know what to do, per say, but the great master cellist Octavia couldn't help a clearly distressed friend what was she? Vinyl was now looking over a collection of about 20 songs that she thought would work but only had her heart set on two not noticing Octavia walk up to her from behind due to her focused mind. The classical mare reared up on her hind legs and placed her hooves down onto Vinyl's shoulders and started to rub firmly opting to massage her stress away though only getting a started snort and jump out of the clearly stressed DJ. "Relax Vinyl.. Its only me. Come on.. take a break.. Its clear that you are a little too stressed to actually get any work done." The unicorn wheeled around on her hind legs to protest that she didn't have the time but the stern look that was shot at her made her sink into submission. "Ok.. yeah.. you're right Octi.. There's no way I'll get anything done with how I am right now..."

Defeated and admittedly exhausted Vinyl followed her friend over to the couch she was working on and sat down after Octavia climbed on and patted at a spot next to her with her hoof. As Vinyl got settled Octavia managed to glance at the clock noting it read 01:42 thinking lightly to herself as she got settled next to Vinyl. 'Wow.. was I just sitting there looking at her that long before deciding to do anything?' Octavia motioned Vinyl to face away from her while she herself sat flat on her flank her hind-legs spread outside either side of the stressed mare that sat on her haunches and Vinyl obliged. Soon Vinyl groaned out in relief as the surprisingly dexterous hooves of her friend worked out the knots and stress up and down her back relaxing her more than she had been all week and it was quickly taking its toll. Octavia looked up from her hooves as they rubbed into Vinyl's back finally taking note of how the unicorn kept shifting forwards and back and went to voice how she wanted the mare to stay still but a light snore made it to her ears first. Octavia smiled and just simply wrapped her hooves around the rarely peaceful pony pulling her back against her and leaned back into the couch deciding that she would wake her in a bit after seeing the relaxed and happy expression etched into Vinyl's features. Octavia yawned a bit blinking a couple of times, "Yes.. I'll let her.. just.. rest.." She nodded off nuzzling against the surprisingly soft and well kept spiky electric blue mane not even realizing she didn't even finish her train of thought.