“You become my fiance.” Octavia said to my confusion.

“Huh?” Vinyl asked confused. “Octavia, what are you doing? Who is this?”

“Simple, this is Huxley, he was sent here by Redheart so he could be safe.” She paused giving Vinyl the piece of paper. “Here, read this...oh and the part about him having amnesia is wrong as we just learned.” She said taking a glance at me who was still confused.

“I’m sorry, but I’m confused too.” I said.

“Well I’ll explain this, you have something special about you, you’re a human who can use magic and you can apparently go to other worlds, which I’ll need to see for myself, but that makes you a good choice for getting my father off my back.” She explained.

Now I was more confused, who was her father? That's when Crusher chimed in. “She’s the daughter of the Don of Canterlot’s crime family.”

“Thank you Crusher, anyway, the reason I’m asking you to become my fiance is that my father wants me to marry someone who can improve the family’s control over their territories, but again it's your choice. You can say no but... I’m moving in a few days to a villa on the northern border of Equestria. So I’ll keep my word to Redheart and keep you for as long as I can, but after that, you’re on your own.” She explained.

“There is one problem...I’m only 17.” I explained.

“And I'm 19, I can wait a year.” Octavia retorted.

I sighed, while the option was there for me to back out, it wasn’t really a good choice. A few days of hiding; then what? I would be on the streets with nowhere to go. “Fine.” I said standing up and walking up to her before grabbing her hand and got down on one knee asking, “Octavia Melody, will you marry me?”

Octavia was confused as she asked “Umm, what are you doing?”

“Proposing, I’m taking the offer of being your fiance.” I explained as her face went slightly red.

“I...I was just expecting a yes or no, I didn’t think you’d purpose... at least not yet.” She stammered, embarrassed before hugging me. “YES!” She said giggling.

“Hey what about me?” Vinyl asked.

“Oh don’t worry, this is a slightly open marriage.” Octavia said letting me go.

“Huh?” I asked obviously confused.

“You think that me getting married is going to take me away from the people I love?” She asked before saying. “Don’t worry, you can have others in your life too, just don’t hide them.” She said before her face turned dark, “I don’t like it when people keep secrets from me.” She said in a dark tone.

“*Gulp* got it...” I said nervously.

Her face then turned back to cheerful as she said. “Great.”

‘What have I gotten myself into?’ I mentally asked myself.

The next day, Octavia noticed that I probably didn’t have any other clothing; apart from the ones on my back. So she and Crusher took my measurements before heading out to buy some clothes, leaving me here with Vinyl.

“Sooo... What was your world like?” Vinyl asked calmly. I looked down and muttered that I didn’t want to talk about it. “Yeeeah, I'm guessing the wound of ‘whatever’ sent you here is still fresh.”

I began to tear up as I muttered. “I never even got to say goodbye to them.”

Vinyl looked at me and said as she pressed her glasses up her ridge. “Look, I know what it's like to lose somebody, so don’t feel like you’re the only. I know we’ve only just met but… ‘Well’, technically; your going to be my boss so I might as well tell you.” She paused and took a deep breath, “I was an orphan, lost my parents in some kind of accident, It was only me and my brother, who worked for the Caterlot mafia to support me, he was a basic grunt but he did his best. It's been a few years since he died and it isn’t always easy, but you have to move on.” she said.

“So how’d you and Octavia meet?” I asked, trying to get some thoughts out of my head.

“Well, that's a funny story. It all started when I was 9. I had come down with a cold, nothing major but I couldn’t be in school. So my brother took me to work, he brought me over so he could tell them he had to be gone for a week to take care of me, the Don was visiting the speakeasy to inspect it and saw me. He was angry as he thought that the head of the ‘joint’ was either hiring children or selling to them. My brother was in a lot of trouble before explaining. I was just here because I couldn’t be left at home alone. The Don told him that he’d look after me and he could focus on his job and that's how I met Octavia. Jump forward a few years and I’m now her bodyguard.” Vinyl explained. At this I was confused, feeling sad.

An hour later when the voice of a familiar girl spoke up. “We’re back!” Octavia said as the front door opened with Crusher carrying a bunch of bags. They entered the kitchen and Octavia saw the two of us, she asked. “Um, am I interrupting?”

Vinyl wave at the grey women. “Nah, we were just finished talking.” Vinyl said getting up from her chair.

“Alright...” Octavia said, unsure of what was going on but snapped back into a cheery mood when she turned to me. “Anyway; I have some clothing for our date tomorrow!” she said.

“Date?” I asked confused.

“To another world, you did say you could take people to other worlds.” She said.

“Oh right, sorry it's just I'm still getting used to these things.” I explained.

“Well, I trust you’ll be able to do it.” She said in a happy tone, before giving me a look of ‘Or else’ “Oh and I’ll show you to ‘Our’ room.” She said; going back to a happy tone.

“Our?” I asked confused.

Sorry this took so long, I had a lot of things happen to me between when I put this up for editing and posting it. I also might have other non-mlp projects to work on. so the next chapter might take a while