Strummin' Along The Coast

A young man sat by the edge of the ravine, a guitar in his hands, strumming along for the entertainment of a couple of people who had happened to walk by. The song he was playing was slow, and with the lyrics seemed to be a slightly sad song which Leon didn't entirely like, but hey, the song was still fun to play so he played it. After a couple of minutes he finished, storing his pick in his pocket as the small audience clapped and he smiled as they moved along with their lives. He put a hand up in farewell as they left, a little disappointed they hadn't given him a bit of money. Some loose change would have been nice. However, he didn't do it for the money or else he wouldn't do it all. No, he did it for the satisfaction of playing and brightening up others' days. He began to strum another song, partially hoping it would attract the attention of a few more people and partially because he was quickly getting bored and needed to play. As he played, he noticed that the instrument seemed to sound a little off and sighed, and started to do the time consuming task of tuning. Eventually he got it right again and smiled once more, fixed everything, took out his pick and began to play another slow song, not noticing someone else walking over.

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Leon looked up from his playing as a girl sat next to him. She looked to be somewhere around his age, maybe a bit older. He smiled and nodded in greetings and then looked back to his guitar as he kept playing. Shortly after, he finished the song, his eyes closed and he had a content smile as he sighed happily. He stored his pick away, opening his eyes and looked to the newcomer. "Hey there. Take it you heard my playing? I would assume so since nothing much else is going on here..." He looked around to confirm that he was right, nodded when he saw he was and looked back to her. "The name's Leon by the way. Leon Holt." He held a hand out, smiling his normal, outgoing and friendly smile.

Ori frowned a bit as the music stopped, but all songs had an end. Well, except for the never-ending one, but that one wasn't to be sung aloud. "Mhmmm, you're pretty good," she said with a laugh, turning to look at him as he looked around. He stuck out his hand, and she took it, "Nice ta meet ya, Leon. I'm Ori, Ori Watson." She dropped his hand after a moment, then glanced at the guitar. "Got another tune in ya, or are ya packin up?" She'd noticed the sudden absence of the pick, but was a bit disappointed. But if he didn't want to play anymore, she was cool with that.[/center]

Leon grinned when she said he was good. "Thanks...been playing for a few years now. Got inspiration from my brother." He began to rub the end of his guitar as she introduced herself as Ori Watson. "Like uh...Mayor Watson's daughter?" He looked back to his guitar and strummed a few chords quickly and then looked back to the girl when she asked if he was packing up. "Well I could play a few more songs. Prefer fast paced songs or slow ones?"

The boy laughed when the girl complimented his playing and he looked to her, saying, "Kind of you to say so, but there are a few songs I'm pretty terrible at. No one's perfect after all." He laughed a little again and began to think of a song, looking up towards the sky and then got an idea. "I think I know what song to do next...even know the lyrics to it. It's one of the songs my brother managed to scrounge up, like some of the others. Back when...well, who knows when actually." He smiled and strummed, to make sure the instrument was properly tuned and nodded. He tapped the guitar with his hand in a steady beat. When he started playing, he began to sing..disclaimermenoownsongbelongtofalloutboyweeeeeeeeeeeeee

"When Rome's in ruin~...we are the lions~, free of coliseum~...in poison places, we are anti-venom. We're the beginning of the end..."

When Leon finished, he looked up to the crowd that had gathered, only recently noticing a lot had been singing the chorus along with him. They all cheered which brought a grin upon the young man's face and he nodded to all of them in thanks. He watched as they departed, a few dropping a nice little tip for him. Leon tried to call after them to take it back, but they wouldn't. So, he shrugged and put it in his pocket and looked to Ori as she complimented him and his face turned slightly red, but he still grinned. "Heh, thanks...you aren't a bad singer yourself." He put his guitar to the side for a second, lying down as he put his hands behind his head with his arms outstretched and listened to her ask him another question. "It was hard to tell what it was at first since the titles were kinda faded away, but we managed to figure out it's called 'Young Volcanoes'."

Leon shrugged slightly, looking up at the sky. "I don't think anyone back then knew how lucky they were...but they definitely knew how to have fun." He grinned, looking back to the girl next to him and added, "You'd be surprised how many songs are happy like this one...but there are also sad ones that make me think...maybe they didn't have it so easy back then...but they all must've pulled through somehow, right?" For a second his smile disappeared, but it came back quickly as he looked up at the sky again.

He laughed along with her and sat up, listening to her speak. After she was done, her words hung in the air for a moment until she said she had to go and stood up. She mentioned having fun sing and he smiled. "Thanks...pleasure to sing with you as well." He was about to look away when she handed him a tip and both his eyes and smile got wider. "Wow...thanks!" He looked up as she walked away, raising a hand up and called, "Later Ori!" He turned back, looking over the ravine, grinning away.

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