If somepony would've told Vinyl what the night would bring hours ago, she would've called them a liar. Even she couldn't believe what happened, but it was all so sweet and true. The love of her life was staring lovingly into her own ruby eyes, like they wanted to devour every feeling she directed their way.

“Well, I think it's time for us to head home. It's four in the morning and we’ve got a reservation in eight hours,” Octavia smiled.

“Reservation? For what? Food?” Vinyl asked.

“Yes. Just a nice lunch. Us two. Nopony else,” she smiled and Vinyl's heart melted at those lavender eyes.

“Then let's head home,” Vinyl grinned before turning. “Yo, Neon, we're leaving!”

“Alright,” came the call back. “Just don't forget our deal.”

“What deal?” Octavia asked as Vinyl chuckled.

“I promised him to find a new mare for the wiring soon. If I manage before the next big show, I'm going to be a co-manager,” Vinyl shrugged. “I just don't know where to start.”

Octavia hummed. “Why not in the club itself, after or before you start?”

“Thats—” Vinyl stopped and blinked. “Wow, that's actually a pretty good idea.”

“All my ideas are good,” the grey mare huffed back.

Vinyl nuzzled her gently. “I never doubted that, babe.”

“Ahem.”

“Sorry, my love.”

“That's better,” Octavia smiled.

Both mares walked out of the club and into the chilling breeze of the streets of Trottingham. As if it was the most normal thing in the world they immediately touched coats, sharing their body heat against the cold.

They stayed silent for a bit before the grey mare spoke up again. “Did you ever think about our future? What we want to do together?”

“The future? What you mean, like next weekend?”

“No. What I mean is our life in the future. So, like in the next few years? Anything that comes up in your mind?”

Vinyl giggled, and then started to chuckle as she laughed at that. Something that died in her throat when she saw the offended look Octavia was giving her. Getting the last of it out of her system, Vinyl let out a huge sigh. “Tavi, I can barely picture next week—”

“It’s that hard to imagine being with me?”

“Let me finish, I said I can barely picture next week, because living with you has been like a wonderful dream. I mean, I get to wake up each day in your hooves, or you in mine. I feel like any minute now I’m going to get a bucket of ice water thrown on my head and wake up alone…”

“You’re not alone, Vinyl,” Octavia said.

“I know, but this is just… surreal to me.”

“That’s a big word for you,” Octavia said with a chuckle.

“It is. Tavi, every single day when I look into your beautiful eyes, I ask myself if I even deserve you. Just look at me. I sometimes dream about the first day we met again, here in Trottingham. I was shivering and homeless at your door, not deserving of you,” Vinyl frowned.

“Vinyl… I…”

Vinyl didn’t even let her finish her sentence. “To me, you are like a princess, Tavi. A princess that always seems unreachable, but yet she’s mine. It’s a dream come true. So to answer your question, I don’t know it. I can’t know it. I want to live in the here and now with you; and I plan to make it the best time of your life every time we do something together.”

“Well, if this is a dream, Vinyl Scratch, then we are sharing it. I look at you and I see an… otherworldly mare, you have lived. You have this entire life, this trail of broken hearts, and even still you are just as good as me at what you do. After tonight I would say you are better than me at what you do.”

“Tonight?”

“That set? I have never heard anything like it. It was easily the best performance I’ve ever seen: classical, or anything else for that matter.”

Vinyl laughed at that, something Octavia did not find amusing. “What is so funny?”

Vinyl looked her way, her smile never leaving her lips.

Octavia still didn’t find the humor, “What is so—”

Vinyl kissed her. Pressing her lips against Octavia’s she silenced the mare the only way she knew how, the only way she ever wanted to silence her.

Octavia was speechless when Vinyl pulled back. The unicorn just smiled a goofy grin. “Tavi, I’ve never played that good before in my life.”

“W-w-what?”

“Never. Not once. Tonight was special, I honestly don’t even remember what I did, it was as if something just told me exactly what to do. Almost as if the music simply existed and all I did was reveal its true nature to the world.”

“What do you mean?”

Vinyl looked over at her and smiled. She was still smiling as she saw a little sparkle in Octavia’s eyes. She doubted anypony else would have seen it. But it triggered a realization in her. “That something, that inspiration, I think I know what it was. It was you.”

“M-me?” Octavia stammered.

“Yes. You were my muse, the light in my life. You are everything to me. I think that made me work even harder than I normally do, bringing me to a whole new level,” Vinyl still smiled, nuzzling her still shocked mare gently.

“I’m not that special-”

“You are,” Vinyl cut her off. “After all, you’re my beautiful princess,” she continued and punctuated her sentence with a quick kiss.

Octavia’s blush became all consuming on her face. She had never heard such praise in her life, not directed at her anyways. And then, here was this mare, this mare she loved more than anything. Telling her that she was her everything, that she was her muse, her princess. And to top it off, it was proven, that set… it had been amazing. Beyond amazing.

“And don’t tell me I getting all mushy here, I know I am,” Vinyl smirked. “And for you, honestly, I’m totally okay with it.”

Octavia truly didn’t have anything to say, not after that. She simply started up into those ruby eyes and moved her head forward, nuzzling into Vinyl’s coat with a purr in her throat.

Vinyl pressed against her, enjoying the warmth, the closeness of being with her. “I mean it too,” she said.

Octavia pulled back with a smile upon her muzzle. “I know.”

“Should we head home?” Vinyl asked.

“Only if I can fall asleep with you holding me.”

“Deal,” Vinyl replied as she pressed her coat against Octavia’s again. The two ponies walked home through the crisp night air of Trottingham. The moon, the stars, the weather, they were all perfect, making the night one of the most memorable of either of their lives. But to Vinyl, she could take or leave the scenery, the thing that made the night perfect was the mare by her side.

Together, they approached their home. Vinyl opened the door with her magic and they walked in together. The two made their way inside, Vinyl shutting and locking the door behind them with her magic. Octavia smiled as she looked down at her dress. “Maybe I should freshen up?”

“No,” Vinyl said. “I want to sleep with you just the way you are.”

“Vinyl?” Octavia asked.

“This… this is a side of you that truly amazes me. Can you leave it on tonight? For me?”

Octavia blushed. “I can, but then I can’t wear it later.”

“Later?”

“I… I wanted to surprise you with it on our date.”

“Oh,” Vinyl smiled. “Don’t worry about that. Magic is good for more than levitating things around,” she tapped her horn and grinned. “I can magically clean it once we woke up.”

“You can really do that?” Octavia asked.

“I can do much more with my magic than you know. Maybe I’ll show you some night,” Vinyl said with a wink.

Octavia’s blush deepened heavily. “I think I can imagine.”

“You won’t have to,” Vinyl replied.

“Love you.”

“Love you too,” Vinyl said back as the two made their way into their bedroom. It was basically Vinyl’s room, but they’ve only ever shared one, leaving the other unused. Vinyl lifted the sheets, letting Octavia get in first.

The grey mare crawled in, careful to not make a mess out of her dress before sighing and inviting Vinyl in with a loving gaze. The unicorn just jumped into the bed, eliciting a small shriek from her mare that soon turned into a giggle in which Vinyl chimed in.

“Never change,” Octavia whispered as she snuggled against the white coat. “I love my silly mare way too much for that.”

Vinyl smiled and nuzzled her on top of her head. “I’m glad to hear that. And Tavi?”

“Yes?”

“The sex… You don’t have to change your attitude just because of me. I don’t need a wild nymph in bed, I want you at my side.”

Octavia blushed and Vinyl could see it. “Well… Maybe I like being your bad mare?”

Vinyl chuckled before shutting the lights off. “Sleep well, my bad mare.”

The rays of Celestia’s sun shown through the blinds and into the room. It bathed everything in a luke-warm glow that offered warmth, protection and the promise of a new day. The warmth of the sun kept Equestria from freezing, kept the plants growing, and the ponies thriving. But for the two ponies sleeping in bed, they found it more of an annoyance than anything else.

These two already had protection. After all, they had each other. The warmth from one another provided sufficient body heat. As far as the promise of a new day? It was that moment that they treasured most, they didn’t need a new day.

What they needed and what they got proved to be at odds with each other. Regardless of what they felt, the day was here. The sun’s rays, its warmth, it wasn’t going to go away, no matter how much they wished otherwise.

“I suppose it is time to get up?” Octavia mumbled after laying in bed for far longer than she should have.

“Five more minutes,” Vinyl said back, burying her muzzle into Octavia’s mane and making the whole process that much more difficult, for both of them.

“How late is it?”

Vinyl groaned, but shot a glance at the clock. “Eleven.”

“You know the reservation is at twelve. We really have to get ready,” Octavia patted her head.

“I… don’t… wanna.”

“Vinyl…” Octavia couldn’t help but smile. As she sat up in bed, the white unicorn pawed at her almost like a cat—or a foal reaching for a teddy taken away from it. “Well, I will not force you to go, but I am going, so if you want to be with me, you will just have to tag along.”

Vinyl stopped pawing for her and glared at her instead. Something Octavia chuckled about as she got up and left the bed. “You don’t fight fair,” Vinyl muttered in an almost pouty tone of voice.

“Well, I invited you on this date after all, and I made the reservation. So get that sweet flank of yours up, my love, and start getting ready.”

Vinyl lifted her head as she noticed Octavia was stripping off her dress. “Quicky in the shower?”

“If you can make it in ten minutes, why not,” the grey mare playfully sighed.

Octavia had to laugh at how fast Vinyl tried to untangle from the sheets now. It was an effort that stole her balance, she fell off the bed and landed muzzle first on the ground. “Oww, dammit.”

“I hope you give a better show in the shower.”

“You bet I will,” Vinyl growled before coming to her hooves and chasing her laughing marefriend to the bathroom.

Octavia chuckled as she walked into the bathroom. “And don’t worry, I will not bug you about it again.”

That caused Vinyl to pause. “Come again?”

“Sassaflash, and our pasts; I will leave them be, we can focus only on us and the future, like you wanted.”

“I never wanted to simply cut a line, Tavi. Not at everything. Just Sassaflash. I’m not proud at my past, but it is my past after all. Make a cut to what happened, but not the past itself.”

“That…” Octavia stopped and smiled. “Wow, that was pretty smart. You just surprised me.”

“Hey! I’m smart!”

Octavia blew her a raspberry, something that Vinyl laughed at. “You’re starting to become like me.”

“You say that like it’s a bad thing.”

“Never, but I have a much better use for that tongue,” Vinyl replied as she walked past Octavia and into the bathroom, lightly nipping at an ear as she did so.

“Well, if you think we can make it in ten minutes,” Octavia smiled with a light blush.

Vinyl just grinned and swished her tail more seductively. “I can. What about you?”

“We’ve gotta have goals,” Octavia said, smiling as she watched Vinyl sashay herself into the shower.

“Then what are you waiting for?” Vinyl asked. “Come in and show me how fast you can make your mare cum.”

Octavia moved with a purpose. As she cleared the distance, Vinyl turned on the shower and stood under the water, letting her mane get wet and lay on the back of her neck An action that made her look sexy as hell.

She wasn’t alone under the water for long. Octavia quickly joined her, announcing her presence by pressing her lips to Vinyl’s, kissing her as passionately as she could, even going so far as to push her back up against the wall, allowing the DJ to rest her back against the it.

On their back two hooves, the two mares made out, letting their tongues dance between their mouths, wrestling each other for dominance that neither truly wanted. The fun was in the fight, not in the win. When Octavia pulled back, Vinyl’s smile could not physically get any larger. She said, “That’s not going to make me cum you know.”

“Gotta get my mare nice and hot,” Octavia replied before moving down Vinyl’s body. She started with several quick—but no less hot—kisses to Vinyl’s lips. From there she moved down the side of her muzzle, her neck, and even to her chest.

That’s not to say Vinyl simply stood there and took it; far from it. The mare powered her horn and levitated over the body wash that Octavia’s loved so much up. She dumped out a fair amount and started to magically work it through Octavia’s coat, back, and flank. Of course, she paid closest attention to that last one.

Octavia moaned gently as Vinyl levitated it behind her back legs, making sure that those spots were thoroughly cleaned. From her teats to her asscheeks, then finally her marehood. She was gentle, but also forced it against her soft spot, making her moan louder and louder.

The grey mare was encouraged by that. She nearly skipped the white belly and moved straight to the two teats that already started to stick out of the fur. Gently, she licked both, switching back and forth, her ears flickering at the soft sounds that started to come from Vinyl.

Such sultry moans, Octavia thought, smiling. Only a few weeks ago she would have seen such things as uncouth, unladylike, and definitely below her. Now? Now she couldn’t get enough of them. She loved hearing her mare make such noises and she loved the fact that it was her that made her make them. Such things were now a mark of honor, and not something to be hidden from the world.

With her own nethers getting a proper massaging, Octavia stopped playing with Vinyl’s teats. They were fun, but they were not the main enjoyment to be had. She moved lower, at the winking marehood directly between Vinyl’s hind legs.

“Four minutes, my love. Gotta work harder,” Vinyl moaned, increasing her own ministrations.

Octavia felt it, but it wasn’t the wash anymore. It was Vinyl’s pure magic prodding at her entrance, making her legs grow weak. She couldn’t help but moan loudly as the magic penetrated her, reaching places nothing else could. Maybe Vinyl’s tongue, but not as deep.

Vinyl loved the sounds, she loved the smell, she loved how her lover felt. She loved everything about it and was more than encouraged to give anything. Smiling and gently rubbing a hoof through her lover’s mane, she pushed her magic deep, but gently into Octavia, eliciting loud moans against her own marehood.

Octavia stuck out her tongue and started licking. She ran the tip across the outer lips of Vinyl’s marehood, wetting them more than the shower could ever hope to do. From there she moved up and down between the lips, teasing the possibility of entry without actually giving it away. Her eyes were open the entire time, waiting until the little bud of pleasure revealed itself. As soon as it did, she started to tease her tongue across her mare’s clit, playing with it, toying with it.

Vinyl’s moans grew louder, that, plus the slight laxing of her magical teasing told Octavia she was doing a good job. The mare latched her lips onto Vinyl’s lower lips and stuck her tongue out, again, as far as she could, directly into her mare.

Vinyl couldn’t believe that Octavia outmatched her. But she only used her magic, and magic tend to fade upon highly pleasurable peaks or even pain. She couldn’t concentrate anymore, so the magic in Octavia slowly faded. I taught you well.

“Seven minutes over.”

Octavia didn’t answer. Instead, she plunged her tongue deeper into her mare, gently exploring every single spot she could reach, making Vinyl’s moans louder and longer.

The temperature in the shower seemed to increase in a way that had nothing to do with the heat of the water. Octavia pistoned her tongue in and out of the mare faster and faster, enjoying the moaning that was only getting louder.

Vinyl couldn’t use magic anymore, it was simply beyond her at that point. The feeling of the heat, the steam, and her mare going to town between her legs was simply all consuming. She had to fight to stay in her upright postion, even with letting the wall take the brunt of her weight. Her hooves felt weak, her body heavy, and she never felt better in her life.

Octavia’s ears were in a full upright position, she heard each and every moan coming from Vinyl. As such, when they started to become frantic, she could easily guess what would happen next. The grey mare removed her tongue and lips from Vinyl and reattached them to her now engorged clit; suckling on it like a hungry foal on her mother’s teat.

Vinyl couldn’t hold it anymore. She came hard. Her legs gave in as she slowly slid down the wall while Octavia removed her lips from her clit, lapping at her marehood to extend her orgasm and catch every bit of the tasty fluids leaving her mare’s pussy.

The unicorn had no idea how long it lasted. She just enjoyed it. Every contraction and pulse of her body, every feeling of bliss that shot through her spine, all of it. By the time it faded enough for her to regain even some control of her body and she got to open her eyes, Octavia was standing before her with a lovely smile on her muzzle. “That’s ten.”

“Y-y-you’re amazing,” Vinyl muttered.

Octavia offered a hoof, helping Vinyl stand up. She met her mare with a kiss before asking, “What about you?”

“I got to make my mare cum, I will call that a win,” Octavia replied.

“Oh, c’mon!”

“Vinyl, we’ve got half an hour to get ready and walk to the restaurant. If we miss that reservation and our date, I’m going to hit your flank all week long, and not in a good way.”

“Still sounds interesting,” the unicorn pouted, but sighed quickly. “Fine. Let’s get done. But don’t think you’re getting off so easy!”

“Never even thought about it,” Octavia answered with a smile.

Together, they got out of the shower and Vinyl levitated over two towels for them. It quickly devolved into washing each other off, with Vinyl paying a little more attention to Octavia’s flank than was necessary. But rather than complain about it, Octavia let her have her fun while she started to brush her teeth and mane. Although she did have to put a stop to it when she felt Vinyl’s teeth bite into her tooshie.

“You’re no fun,” she replied, but said no more and stopped.

“Alright, Vinyl. Let me dress and we’re good to go,” Octavia smiled.

“Ah, I got something to do real quick. You go get ready, but wait for me!”

“What are you—” Octavia started, but Vinyl already darted to her room and closed the door behind her. Octavia even heard the lock engage. What is she doing? To say the least, it was unusual to even have a closed door in the house, much less a locked one. That alone would have interested Octavia, but for her also to be so secretive about what she was doing? That took it to a whole new level.

Shrugging, and somewhat excited, Octavia went back to her room to change. She didn’t know what Vinyl was up to, but figured she’d find out soon enough. While Vinyl had promised to get her dress from last night cleaned, there really wasn’t time now, so she grabbed a new one from her closet. It wasn’t as revealing as the other one, but certainly elegant. The dress was white with light and dark purple trims, pronouncing her coat and her eyes nicely.

She rounded it out with elegant hoof-wear, earrings and by putting her mane up into a ponytail. Looking herself over in the mirror she couldn’t help but smile, the mare that looked back at her looked radiant, sexy even. Something she had never truly thought of herself being before.

“Wow,” a voice called out from behind her.

Octavia spun around and was greeted by a sight that made her gasp. Vinyl, her Vinyl, the greatest DJ she had ever known—not to mention only—was gasping at her. The white unicorn was dressed in a blue dress with white musical note trimming down the side. She had on hoof-length blue socks with dark blue endings. Around her neck was a purple necklace with a musical note hanging off it, as well as matching earrings. Her mane was nicely combed over, something the mare must have done in her room.

“Wow yourself,” Octavia said as she caught her breath, again.

“Eh,” Vinyl blushed. “Since you’re taking me out to a restaurant, I thought I could dress up a bit.”

Octavia smirked. “A bit? Vi, where did you get that fancy dress?”

“At some snobby party I had to attend some years ago during my career,” she snorted. “But I guess it’s coming to good use now.”

Octavia smiled as she walked up and kissed Vinyl again. “It looks lovely on you.”

“Really? I think it’s a bit… frilly.”

“Frilly can be fun,” Octavia said with a smile.

“Well, I guess if you like it,” Vinyl replied.

Octavia’s grin increased. “Now come, let’s go to the restaurant.”

“Right behind you, my love.”

“I already thought that,” Octavia giggled while Vinyl blushed and followed her.

They left their apartment and hit the streets. Both mares got a lot of looks from every single stallion, but they only had eyes for each other. It was only a short walk and Octavia could find the restaurant in her sleep. It was the same one she always spend dinner at with everypony from her orchestra.

“Ugh, isn’t that a bit fancy?” Vinyl complained at the sight.

“Take it or leave it,” Octavia said and blew her a quick, hidden raspberry before walking up to the entrance.

Vinyl didn’t even had to think twice about it.