My Roommate is a Vampire

My Roommate is a Vampire is a short story written by Dennis the Menace. It follows a rather clueless Octavia as she speculates wither or not her roommate, Vinyl Scratch, is a vampire.

Style
The story is written in the past tense, first-person perspective, from Octavia's point of view. The story regularly applies sarcasm without warning into Octavia's thoughts. A pair of blank lines is supposed to represent a jump to a future event.

Summary
The story begins with Octavia deep in thought about her friend Vinyl. Vinyl is excited about the upcoming Nightmare Night. She asks Octavia about the book she is reading and as it turn out it is about vampires.

The two then go off to eat dinner, which happens to be pasta. Vinyl expresses great disgust over the fact that the food contained garlic. Octavia offhandedly remembers her vampire book stating something about vampires hating garlic, and she casually contemplates her friend's pale coat. However she puts the idea out of her head. Later, Octavia wants to take a walk through canterlot gardens and invites Vinyl to come with her. However Vinyl complains about the sun still being out, the hot air, and other things. Octavia seems to realize that Vinyl never seems to want to out during the day. She does convince Vinyl to come with her in the end at which point Vinyl decides to wear a heavy jacket. This puzzles Octavia, as she had just complained about it being too hot. Vinyl passes off the excuse that she sunburns easily.

Octavia contemplates the possible reasons her friend hates the sunlight whilst trying to cut carrots. When Vinyl burst through the door, Octavia flinches and cuts her hoof. Vinyl notices her friend’s bleeding hoof, grabs it, and sucks on the wound. When she is finished, the bleeding has stopped. Octavia, even more suspicious of her friend, wonders if her friendship would be strong enough to overcome Vinyl’s vampirism, assuming she is actually a vampire. Octavia has a quick recap of how the two mares had first met. She then works up the courage to ask Vinyl: "Doyoubelieveinvampires?" to which Vinyl calmly replies "I do."

Octavia and Vinyl then go to a high class orchestra. However, they acquire a lot of unwanted attention due to Vinyl’s antics; most notably eating popcorn, drinking soda, and snoring during the performance. Octavia, furious at her friend, proceeds to choke her and threaten her life. She then proclaims that she could use a drink. Vinyl immediately takes her to their favorite bar, and orders a "sparkling water" for Octavia and a Bloody Mary with "extra blood" for herself. Octavia is once more reminded of her suspicions that Vinyl is a vampire, but feels better about the whole situation, including the orchestra incident, after downing her drink.

On their way home, Vinyl tells Octavia that she needs to go run some errands. She also tells Octavia that she needs to do them by herself. Octavia decides to stalk her friend secretly. She follows her to a hospital, but decides not to follow her inside. She wonders if Vinyl went there to get blood from the blood bank. The next morning Vinyl comes home and Octavia inquires on what she had been doing last night. Vinyl claims to have been out getting "a few...cables and cords and stuff. For [her] set. [as well as] DJing and stuff." Octavia, unconvinced, visits the hospital and inquires the list of visitors last night. As it turns out, Vinyl had visited the hematology branch (hematology being related to blood).

The next day, Vinyl invites her Ponyville friends over for a bit of gambling. Her friends happen to be Derpy Hooves, Carrot Top, Bon Bon, and Lyra. That night, Octavia takes it upon herself to find out Vinyl's eye color. She sneaks into her room and crawls into her bed in an attempt to take off her glasses (since she wore them in her sleep). After taking off her glasses she discovers that Vinyl also wears a sleep mask under them. All of a sudden, Vinyl unconsciously grabs Octavia and pulls her close. Octavia, rather uncomfortable with this, manages to get away; but only after she comes to realization of her passionate feelings for Vinyl.

The day after that, Octavia is having a rehearsal with her music group. However, being distracted, she messes up her part. She thinks about how badly it would affect her career if she got into a romantic relationship with Vinyl the entire trip home. When she arrives, she opens the fridge to find a blood pack on one of the shelves. She is now completely convinced that her roommate is a vampire. Vinyl suddenly comes home, with the mail. She hands Octavia a letter from her mother which happens to be about her planning to visit. She wants to have and have dinner with both her, her father, Octavia, and Vinyl. Octavia completely flips out. She weighs the importance of all her issues and decides which ones she can get rid of first. She then decides to confront Vinyl about her vampirism.

Before confronting her friend, Octavia dips her hooves in garlic juice and positions herself next to the drawer they keep their silverware (which happens to be made out of silver). She then admits to Vinyl about following her to the hospital. Vinyl explains that she was getting the results for a blood test, and that as it turns out, she is an albino. This explains why she sunburns easily. She also states that she simply hates garlic. Octavia takes this all in before opening the fridge (now completely stuffed with blood packs) and asks Vinyl to explain those next. Vinyl tells her that it is pomegranate juice for the upcoming Nightmare Night. Octavia, now satisfied decides to break one open early. She quickly deduces however, that she is actually drinking blood. She spits it out and watches Vinyl transform into a monstrous figure. Octavia runs off and cowers under the bed. Vinyl follows her with and quickly pulls her out. Octavia screams.