Vinyl Scratch hadn't been expecting to see Octavia again. They'd had a fight—the kind of fight that an apology won't quite fix—and Tavy had left to go to school in Canterlot without another word spoken between them.

Now, three years later, Octavia is back. But this isn't the aloof, introverted mare Vinyl had been best friends with, way back then—Tavy is different now. She's straightforward and down-to-earth, has given up cello to play the upright bass... and she smokes now?

And what's with all this talk of jazz?

A music fic about two ponies and jazz.

(Rated T for Teen: suggestive steamy romance scenes)

Cover art by me. Used with permission or something.