The local café was, it had to be said, not quite as busy as the owners probably would have wanted it to be. That wasn't to say that there was no business to be had there, but it was clear that today was not going to be seeing waves of people coming in for drinks and food. There was, however, one particularly notable customer here right now, and that was Sonata Dusk, the youngest of the Siren sisters. She wasn't here with anybody, but even so, solitude didn't seem to make her feel anything less than her usual chipper self. As she sucked on a particularly large milkshake, the ancient blue-haired beauty was, with her free hand, holding her phone, looking to a few internet videos upon it. And from the look on her face, it seemed as though she was more than satisfied to just keep on doing that for the time being. A few chuckles escaped her as she passed video after video, and she'd spent so much time watching them that, eventually, her milkshake was completely drunk without her even noticing. However, she did not remain alone here forever, as a familiar voice soon called to her.

"Sonata?"

Turing, the Siren smiled when she saw who it was.

"Hey there, Indigo."

Sure enough, Crystal Prep's most noted athlete was indeed entering the café, giving a smile and a nod to Sonata as she moved further inwards. Sonata watched as she made her way to the counter, ordering a milkshake of her own which, thanks to the lack of activity here today, was brought to her fairly quickly. With milkshake in hand, Indigo walked over, taking a seat on the opposite side of the booth to where Sonata was sitting.

"You having fun here?"

Sonata giggled.

"Yep! Dagi and Ari were busy today, so I figured I'd come down for a good shake."

Indigo nodded.

"Same here. The other girls all had stuff to do, so it's just me today."

Though her own milkshake glass was long-since empty, Sonata nevertheless raised it to her colleague.

"Alrighty then, here's to having nobody else to spend time with today!"

Chuckling, Indigo raised her own glass, and together, they gently clinked them against one another. Indigo took a deep swig of her shake, while Sonata got back to the business of watching internet videos. But, after a time, she happened upon one in particular that seemed to catch her interest a great deal. And after watching it for a while, she eventually looked to Indigo yet again.

"You know, I saw that music video your friends made with Sunset and the others. It was really good."

Looking to her, Indigo nodded.

"Yeah, they said they had a lot of fun with it. Helped them raise all the money they needed too."

Sonata considered that, then seemed to gain a somewhat confused look.

"Um...why weren't you in it?"

To that, Indigo suddenly started to look a touch nervous.

"Um...what?"

Sonata gestured to her phone.

"The music video? You and those girls are usually pretty inseparable, so...why didn't you take part?"

Folding her arms, Indigo leaned back into her side of the booth, turning her head to look out of the window.

"I just...didn't think it fit me, you know? I mean..."

She chuckled, even though it clearly sounded like a forced one.

"I'm Indigo Zap, remember? I'm not gonna get into all that frilly dancing stuff!"

Sonata tilted her head slightly.

"But...Rainbow did, remember?"

Indigo's nervousness started to become more prominent.

"Well...sure...yeah, I mean..."

"And also Applejack too, right?" Sonata added.

Indigo, as one would expect, was not very happy as having Sonata Dusk of all people start to poke holes in her reasoning, which the latter continued to do for a few moments afterwards.

"I mean, I get you have this whole tough tomboy thing going on, but if those two tough tomboys can get into dancing and have fun with it, then it doesn't really make sense for you not to have fun, right?"

She let out a brief laugh.

"Heck, even Aria likes to dance every now and again, and she's probably tougher than all of you combined."

After all of this, Indigo let out a long and slow sigh, looking to Sonata and bearing a look of clear embarrassment.

"Look...the truth is...I'm..."

Then, she grumbled the rest of her answer, speaking so quietly that Sonata couldn't hear her. The latter, of course, leaned in closer, turning her head to the side and placing a single hand behind her ear.

"Er...didn't really catch that, Indigo."

Indigo grumbled.

"I said, I'm..."

But again, she mumbled the rest of her answer, much to Sonata's irritation.

"Okay, this isn't going to be all hat great if you're just gonna whisper everything."

Indigo, hearing that, let out a frustrated grunt before looking her Siren companion right in the eye.

"I'm not good at dancing, okay?!"

Of course, the aggressive and forward way she'd said that caused Sonata to retreat backwards slightly, and shortly afterwards, Indigo calmed down almost immediately. She buried her face in her hands, letting out another long sigh, and when she finally looked up to her colleague, it was with a genuinely apologetic tone.

"Look, I'm...I'm sorry about that. It's just...I'm not a good dancer."

Now recover from her friend's earlier outburst, Sonata leaned forward again.

"But...you're usually so good with moving and athletic stuff, right?"

Indigo nodded, looking almost ashamed as she did so.

"Yeah...and that just make this whole thing worse. Indigo Zap, the best Crystal Prep has at pretty much every sport they do...and she can't dance?"

She groaned in an annoyed tone.

"Ugh! I'd never live it down! When Sunny and the other girls asked me to take part, I had to come up with some made-up excuse, like needing to practise for a race that wasn't happening!"

Folding her arms again, she started pouting.

"I've just...always been bad at it. I don't move right, I almost trip over a whole bunch, I'm just...not cut out for dancing."

Silence fell between the two girls, and for a while Indigo passed the time by tracing her finger around the edge of her half-empty milkshake glass. Sonata, meanwhile, watched her carefully, taking in everything that had been said. Then, ever so slowly, she broke out into a sweet-looking smile.

"You know...I could help you."

Indigo turned to her, raising an eyebrow.

"Huh?"

Giggling, Sonata continued.

"I mean it! I love dancing, and I've been doing it for, like, thousands of years, remember? I know a few things that could help you with it, if you like?"

Indigo blinked slowly.

"I...I don't know."

Sonata leaned forward.

"Come on! You want to get good, right?"

Sighing again, Indigo nodded.

"Yeah...I guess I do."

Sonata clasped her hands together.

"Great! If you like, you can come over to my place at the weekend, and I can give you as few steps to start off with."

Thinking on that, Indigo let out a dry chuckle.

"Sure...sounds good. Hey, it might be fun. So..."

Turning, she faced Sonata fully.

"...what kind of dances do you have in mind?"

Sonata poked the end of her chin, pondering that question for a while.

"Well..."

Then, a "light-bulb" look came to her, and she looked to Indigo with a wide smile.

"Oh! I do know this one dance, and it was pretty good for this Emperor guy me and my sisters were living with for a while. It was real slow, and he loved every minute of it."

Then, thoughtfulness came to her.

"Although...we did have to do it when we were half-naked most of the time."

A blush came to Indigo at that.

"Um...do you, you know...have any other dances you can teach me?"

Leaning back into her side of the booth, Sonata folded her own arms and let out a huff.

"Hmph! You're no fun sometimes."