A Search For Something More

Chapter 23: To A Less Bittersweet Year

A Search For Something More

By HAKDurbin

Part 2: A Hope Reignited

It's been a couple of weeks since I dropped off the present and finals came and went the following week with students still feeling bad over the Anon-a-Miss scenario. My grades turned up as just passable as always with the exception of history with Ms. Harshwinny that was a solid B+ thanks to all the studying with Octavia.

Octavia.

There's still was no word from her since our breakup, and Vinyl, and the other members of the E.M.R. have pretty much shunned me. As much as I miss hanging out with them, though, I feel bitter towards Vinyl for the way she kicked me, Soarin and Caramel out of the group, and even then, I still don't miss Lyra, Bon Bon, Doc or Derpy even half as much as I miss Octavia.

I've been staying at home most days after finals week ended. On occasion, Soarin and Caramel managed to get me out of the house to go to the movies or the arcade to try to cheer me up, but as much as I enjoy our time hanging out and appreciate everything they're trying to do, deep down I'm still depressed. Eventually, however, they left with their families to celebrate the holidays out of town, so that just left me by myself and my grief again, doing nothing but playing video games on my laptop.

Today is New Year's Eve and my parents have already left to celebrate the new year with some friends. They wanted me to come with them, but they respected my wishes for me to be alone while I'm still depressed from the breakup. I decided to spend the rest of the day playing Star Wars: The Old Republic to pass the time until this year finally ends, but even with the game to entertain me, a part of me wishes I had something better to do than either this or going with my parents. As horrible as this year was, it was also the year where I made real friends and got my first girlfriend and so I would have liked to have spent the new years with them, but as it is, Octavia dumped me, her friends abandoned me, and my best friends are out of town.

Suddenly, right as I am thinking about this, I hear a knock on my window that makes me jump. I turn around to see Sonata smiling and waving through my second-story window. My mouth drops in surprise as I close my laptop, get off of my bed, and open the window to let Sonata in.

"Hiya, Rough Draft," she greets bubbly.

"What in the world were you doing on my roof, Sonata?!" I exclaim.

"I came to see you," she answers plainly.

"Well, I can see that, but what's wrong with ringing the doorbell or sending a text that you were coming?"

"I don't have a phone, and I did ring your doorbell, but you didn't answer," she says.

"So, you climbed up to my room?" I ridicule.

"Well, I knew you were home and figured you were focused on some video game or something," she answers, shrugging. "I learned a few things about climbing houses and breaking in back when I was a siren, so here I am."

"Sonata, you know you can get in trouble again breaking into someone's house," I say worryingly.

"I know, but I figured it's fine since it's one of my friends," She says innocently.

I sigh before I say, "Okay yeah it's fine, but please don't do it again. I really don't want you to get arrested again."

"Okay, okay, no more break-ins ever again," she says reluctantly.

"Thank you," I say appreciatively. "Now why did you want to see me?"

"Oh yeah, I almost forgot," Sonata says bubbly. "I was wondering what you're doing for New Years."