A/N: Oh geez, this is the last chapter before the next arc! What am I going to do before the beginning of the arc? Hmm, well, you will just have to find that out for yourself! On with the chapter!

I woke up and felt Dash in my embrace as we lay on the bed. I feel good today, I am going to go to the club now so I can get everything back to how it was before, I am sure Vinyl is there by now. I got up carefully so I didn’t wake up my lover and went downstairs. I got two apples for a quick breakfast and took out a piece of paper and jotted down a note for Dash and Stratus so they knew what I was doing. There, no irresponsible boyfriend here! Maybe she will come down to see me today or something!

I took one last look at the note and went over it to make sure that I had everything right.

Dear RD and Strat,

I went into town to go to the club early so I can finish straightening everything out there. Vinyl will probably need to talk to me anyways, ho hum. I will be home later this evening so we can have a nice dinner that I have been thinking about trying. If you need anything just stop by and give me a big ol holllar, I’ll be behind my counter.
See you tonight!
Kyle
Ok, that looks legible and good enough for me! I put it on the table and out of the house. I took off towards the club and within minutes I was there looking at the front door yet again. I reached out and opened the door and walked inside. I looked around and saw Vinyl looking through the bottles of various liquor and mumbling to herself. I guess early it’s early to bed, early to get wasted in the morning for her!

“Hey Vinyl, what are you doing?” I asked her as I walked up next to her to help her look for what she needed.

“What are you doing here so early? I thought I wouldn’t see you around until like 10 minutes before your shift started” Vinyl replied to me as she grabbed a bottle of rum off of the counter along with two glasses.

Oh god, now I might regret coming here so early, she wants me to drink with her now! Not sure if want it need it! “Well, I just thought that maybe you would like some company or need help with anything” I said to her with a smile.

“I don’t have anything TO do that is the problem. I was going to sit here all alone and drink, but now that you’re here, I will have somepony to talk to that will be drinking right along with me” Vinyl said as she handed me a glass.

Crap! Please end up being a me gusta day and not a do not want day! “I never drank before, you know that right. I was going to once back when I was at my old home, but I never got to that day. What are we going to talk about?” I said to her as I took the glass.

She started to pour the rum into the glasses with her magic while she talked to me. “Well, anything really. I always like talking when I am hammered, maybe you will to.”

She finished pouring the drinks and she held hers up “To Club Pon-3.”

I held mine up next to hers “To hopefully not getting so wasted we pass out and forget everything.”

We tapped our glasses and then downed the drinks. I had to admit, my friend was right about rum tasting good. I feel like Captain Jack Morgan only without the barrel! I am a pirate! LOL LIMEWIRE reference, that’s a new one!

“How are you feeling?” Vinyl asked me in a very groggy tone.

I was looking at a stain on the counter that looked suspiciously like Abraham Lincoln’s head when she said that to me. I must be dreaming, that stain was never there before……quick to the Delorian! “Huh, oh I feel pretty good, this stain just looks cool that’s all” I said as I resumed looking at it and resting my head on my hand as I looked.

“Why are you looking at it? What is so cool about a stain anyways?” Vinyl said to me before she started to laugh at nothing in particular.

Because it looks like Abe Lincoln! Who wouldn’t want to look at it? I forgot my head was on my hand and it slipped off and my head hit the counter, right where the stain was “Darn it, now everyone will think I am the one that assassinated him!” I said into the counter.

Vinyl just laughed and picked my head up off the counter “You really are a funny drunk you know that? I am going to have to hang out with you more often. Now about that talking.”

“Oh yeah…..talking, what do you want to talk about? Do you want to talk about Octy?” I said to her before smiling like a fool and making a kissy face. I feel like…..like…I really don’t even know how I feel!

“Shut up, you are dating Rainbow Dash. C-C’mon, you have to talk to me about how to get her to like me. W-What should I do to get her to like me?” Vinyl said as she wobbled sitting in her chair.

I stood up and smiled “Ok, I’ll tell you allllllll about what you need to know about getting somepony t-t-t-to like you. Let’s go sit somewhere more comfortable though.” I don’t know what I am talking about anymore!

“Y-yeah, come on I got a spot. Guess you get to see the VIP lounge early. L-let’s go master of the ways of love” Vinyl said before leading me towards a white door with VIP written in red cursive letters.

We walked inside and she shut the door. I walked over to a sofa like the general drunk and flopped down onto it and smiled at her. She walked over and lay down in the sofa next to mine and smiled at me in return. “I can be called the love guru, all of your q-questions will be answered by Guru P-Pehker” I said to her with a smile.

Vinyl used her magic and opened a cupboard on the other side of the room and took out another bottle of rum and more glasses. She poured the drink into them and handed me one of the glasses “ok, Mr. Guru, what should I do to get her to like me?”

I took a swig from my glass “Ok, first off, you can’t keep doing this, I-I will turn into an alcoholic. N-next thing, if you want Octavia to like you, allllll you n-need to *hic* do is be nice and more importantly, be yourself. D-do you know when she will be coming around again?”

“Yeah, s-she should be coming around tonight. Why?” Vinyl said as she took a swig of her drink.

“I-if you want me to, I can *hic* I can help you start some conversations with her, I still have to get to know her myself, sound like a plan Vin Vin” I said with a stupid smile. What the hell did I just call her? Vin Vin….oh god why!

She laughed a little “You know, I really think you are way too stupid right now to do anything useful, but I need your help so ok. By the way, you really can’t handle a little alcohol with a straight face, I-I have seen colts hold their own better t-than you.”

“N-now that isn’t nice. I-I can be a great big help if I really want to be. Now, how much longer until I have to get ready for my shi-shi-shi*hic*ft” I said to her.

“D-don’t worry drunky, you still have 6 and a half hours to sober up. Now, I want to know…..h-how did you get with Dash? S-she is one of the most popular ponies in Ponyville” Vinyl said as she poured another glass for both me and her again.

“S-she must just really like my charm. That and I saved her a few times and always was there for her when she needed it” I said to her in reply.

“You, know what Kyle? Life around the club w-was pretty shitty before you came around, but now I actually have s-somepony else to talk to that can see level with me and is pretty cool ass well” Vinyl said to me with a drunken smile.

She said Shit again, and she said ass! Hmm, I should feel something, but all I feel right now is extreme happiness. “Thanks, you are pretty cool to hang ou-out with ashwell” I said to her in reply. Oh god, I just said ashwell, what does that even mean!? I was leaning over the side of the sofa and could feel myself starting to slip. “Shi” was all I could get out before I hit the floor. “T”

Vinyl looked over the edge of her sofa and started to laugh at me. “You going t-to stay down there?”

“YUUUUUUPPPPP, this floor feels so comfortable right now” I said to her from the floor. I fell off of my sofa, curse you gravity!!!

“Fine, stay on the floor” Vinyl said to me with a huff.

“ZZZZZZZZ”

“huh…..figures”

I was standing behind the counter of the bar doing my thing. Vinyl was talking to Octavia at the bar so I could be in on some of their conversations. I was currently standing behind the counter listening to Vinyl talk about how she got to running the club. She had to go a long way to where she is now, good on her!

Octavia finished listening and smiled at the white DJ mare “I am truly surprised that you got to run all of this by yourself with no complications with only one other co-worker. I am truly appalled at how much you have seen and done in your time here.” Then she turned her attention towards me “Kyle, from when I talked with Vinyl when you were away on the job Vinyl sent you to she told me how much you liked this job here, do you really like it that much?”

I smiled at her “Yep, this place is amazing! I never thought I could have a cool enough boss, but Vinyl here sure takes that cake. I love working here.”

Vinyl looked at Octavia “Octavia, I think you are a really cool mare that has a lot of talent, I am glad that we are friends.”
I looked at the grey mare and she started to blush at the DJ pony. Holy sweet mother of lord! The connection has just been made, she has some feeling for Vinyl, Yes ho my gosh! I walked over and grabbed a half empty bottle of spiced rum and 3 glasses and brought them back over to where we were. “Here, we all deserve to live a little” I said with a wink to Vinyl.

I walked around the counter and a stallion walked right into me and I dropped the bottle and it broke onto the floor. I looked at him and frowned so hard that my face hurt and shook my head. “OH hell no, you did not just do that to my rum!” I said before I very sneakily punched him in the face and pointed towards the other end of the club “now watch where you’re going from now on you drunk.” Geez, I feel like Hancock now, but no one does something like that to my rum! I huffed and walked back around to where all of the drinks were kept and reached for another bottle of rum, there was none. “Why is the rum always gone” I said before smashing my head on the counter in frustration. Wow, that is two references in one go, and both of them related to drinking, I am a horrible person aren’t I?

“Kyle, Dash is coming in hot and she looks a little upset about something” Vinyl said to me before resuming a conversation with Octavia.

Wait, so you mean she is coming in like napalm? Curse me and my awkward references to CoD and such! I looked up right as she made it to me. “Hi Dash, something up?” I said to her trying to lighten the mood.

“Yeah, and it is bad. A large band of griffons have come into town and they are searching for you and anypony that is aiding in anything that is related to you. They sent out a message to everypony in town and told everypony that the human has been charged with the highest crimes of the griffon republic and is to be sentenced to death immediately, anypony that conspires with it will be tried as such. What are we going to do?” Dash said to me with a look of extreme worry.

I knelt down to her and looked her dead in the eyes “It is going to be ok, I am going to do something that will most definitely get them to leave us alone, seeing as we were the ones who escaped and fled their land, me doing it twice. I am going to go to Canterlot immediately and request a meeting with the princess to discuss what I plan on doing. I will tell you about it when the time comes, you will need to probably do it as well.” Then I hugged her tightly. Shit, here we go again! More unfortunate events to make my life suck more!

A/N: How did you like this chapter? I hope you thought it was funny, because I sure did. I hope you didn’t get any ideas when we went to the VIP room, you naughty people. I need to go now, things are calling. Next update in a while!

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