>"yall got any cider?" green spoke up
>"you mean that angry water? hell no we drink mango wine." deep rest chirped
>"you ever had mango wine?"
>"no"
>blue dream handed her a 3/4 full 5th with a picture of a mango colored mare on it
>"you sure?" green didnt want to just up and take her drink
>"yeah, ill share it"
>green popped the lid and took a swig
>though she could handle her liquor, the oddly sweet yet sour and fizzy taste illicited a funny face out of her
>"its, interesting"
>"all sorts of funny faces" blue dream said and pointed her eyes at greens drink
>"is this like a batpony thing or..."
>no response
>then suddenly green felt something spilling on her hoof
>"AH!" green cartoonishly jumped and stuck her mouth over the spout to stop the bubbling overflow
>"ahhhh i remember my first cider" blue dream said in an exasperated boomer tone, sprawling out and back
>"you want a nipple for that too?" deep rest jeered from behind
>green pulled her face up
>"NO!" green did a marescrunch to the two laughing batmares, the look in their eyes as if they just found new blood
>"youre cute when youre nervous." blue dream commented
>green was flanked by two catty batponies and had no good response
>blue dream was gonna lay one on her at some point
>"well keep lookin' cuz i got a marefriend" was what she could pull out of her ponut
>"she doesnt bite the bit, does she?"
>green almost spit her drink out
>this mother fucker.

>for being a fish out of water, green was handling herself well and getting settled
>blue dream had some clout it seemed
>a few less than welcoming residents turned on a dime once she gave them her seal approval
>green even got to mingle with a few other bat crowds
>all of them seeming to focus their eyes on her exposed forehooves, judgementally
>the more amicable of them quick to point out her lack of socks on them
>of all the days she chose not to wear them
>while floating between circles, something caught her eye
>blue dream out having a smoke on the balcony
>green had been waiting 2 weeks for a chance to hang out with her one on one
>so she excitedly hustled out there, wings flared, but taking care not to bump into anypony
>green slid open the flimsy door and shut it behind her
>then tried to turn on her nonchalant mode again

>"hey dreamie!"
>"sup"
>"i listened to that album"
>"you like it?"
>"oh yeah. it kicks so much flank"
>"glad ya do"
>"it very, like, harsh, so i gotta listen to it a few more times to like, absorb it, but chapter four kicks flank, and that second heart... the one after eternal rest,"
>"second heartbeat?"
>"yeah-that ones SO GOOD oh my tia"
>green had dropped the cool mare act in favor of fangirling as soon as she got the chance
>blue dream looked almost unfazed
>the near crease of her snoot only very slightly curling up into a satisfied smile
>"hey uhm, do you know Alice in Reins? i know thats more like, Neighattle grunge,"
>bluey nodded
>"liked 'em more than neighvana."
>"nAmE tHrEe SoOoNgS" green mocked
>blue dream forcefully exhaled through her nose
>"i went to Clash of the Titans last year when they came back with the singer, they got kinda screwed cuz My Little Romance was on at the same time"
>"i saw them down in Fla-Rita a while ago."
>green processed the statement, did the math, and realized if they were on the same page...
>"wait a sec, how old are you?" she crassly asked
>bluey took a long chuff and slowly blew it out for dramatic affect
>"im 34."

>green wasnt so much taken aback but drawn in
>"woah... so youre like, one of the ORIGINAL fans"
>it was true, while green was learning her ABCs in the 1st grade blue dream was witnessing Mayne Staley right before he exploded onto the scene
>in the same city she grew up in nonetheless
>she was envious, in the best way possible
>"did you not realize you were hangin' out with a bunch of old heads?" blue dream asked coyly
>"not really, you and Deep Rest look young"
>she did a cutesy eyebrow flick, "thank you~"
>"oh yeah, i shoulda told you to wear your socks tonight, my bad on that" dream apologized for some of the more dismissive behavior from her friends
>it was true, about 75% of the baps there had striped socks covering their front hooves
>blue dream included, the hot pink stripes between the black sticking out noticeably in the night
>and here green was, already not a bat and missing the memo
>"why only the fronts though?"
>"a lot of the ponies here cut..."
>a wave of offputting noise came up behind green

>it started off akin to a choir of frogs croaking loudly in the night
>but as more and more joined in, pitch frequencies just beyond the range of greens hearing started to leak into her ears
>the high ones piercing between her eardrums, the low ones rattling her bones straight down to her heart
>blue dream, completely entranced with eyes half shut, was looking straight up into the sky and joining the choir, her throat pulsating with every croak
>green ducked and covered her ears to stifle the cacophony, and tried to look around for a source of solace
>everypony
>and i mean everypony
>was crooning

>60 long seconds later, the noises ended in another wave
>and the party picked up right where it left off
>"look whos never been with a bat at midnight!"
>fuck you
>"you good green?"
>"yeah, what the 'tart was that?"
>"its midnight."
>true that, luna's moon was a perfect 180 degrees up from where green was standing
>well, now it was half a degree toward the West
>"anyway, so, a lot of ponies here cut their forelegs, especially the other bats" blue informed in a you-oughta-know tone
>green thought that was only a rumor about emos and didnt know how to respond
>"wow uh... im sorry to, hear that. are you, like, ok? do you need somepony to talk to?"
>"oh yeah, you cant help it when your fangs start growing in. see?"
>dream tugged her right sock down just a bit
>light blue scar lines criscrossed each other in haphazard skinny patterns down blue dreams dark leg as she took a drag
>green was really uncomfortable, and seriously wondered if she should be seeing this
>"well uh, im... glad you... never went down the lane"
>blue dream coughed out her smoke and covered her face in her hoof, laughing her ass off
>"whaaat?" green asked
>blue dream laughed into her sock for a minute
>pointed her green eyes back at her friend in silence for a few seconds
>then proceed to resume her asthma attack
>"whaaaaAAAAaaat!?" green probed again, almost whining
>"oh my tia.." blue dream laughed again as she pulled herself together
>afterwards doing a long tounge flick, the faintest hiss falling out
>"you crack me up."
>green blushed
>the screen door violently scraped open

>"i got graveyard shift, love ya Dreamie" Deep Rest gave her a nice tight hug that dream reciprocated
>"mmmmmmMMMWA!" they said in unison
>then she walked over to Green, determined
>pulling her into a similar hug that caught Green off guard
>"mmmmmmMMMWA!" only Deep Rest this time
>"be good greenie." almost a command, empashized by a mane ruffle
>and as quickly as Deep Rest was in, she was out
>green was still blushing from the last complement
>blue dream gazed in the path of her friend as she marched out of the party
>"so." blue dream started again
>green perked up
>"you ever been to a warehouse show?"
>"i wanted to, i never had anypony to go with"
>kind of a stretch, ponies always talked about them in rumor-filled whispers
>"i got 4 tickets for APX in a couple moons, you wanna go?"
>"EEEEEEEE-HEE-HEE-HEEEEEE!" echoed in the night as they both watched Deep Rest excitedly take off into the night sky
>"fuck yeah i do"
>that was quick
>blue dream smiled big and did a tounge flick
>green was fitting like a glove into her friend circle