But my words like silent raindrops fell

[dancnwithmyself]

Who: dancnwithmyself & morbidbubbles
What: Awkward rehearsals and overwhelming emotions
Where: Choir room
When: Tuesday lunchtime
Rating: PG for now

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[morbidbubbles]

Tina's feet were as confused as her heart - they couldn't decide whether they wanted to hurry to the choir room because she was slightly late to rehearse with Artie and didn't want to be rude, or whether they wanted to amble and prolong the inevitably awkward meeting. She was extremely hungry; breakfast had been more or less canceled this morning after her mother burned it. It was partly Tina's fault for snapping at her during a disagreement, though she really couldn't care less about the guilt right now

[dancnwithmyself]

"Thanks," Artie replied, with a small smile, before shaking himself slightly, putting the guitar down. He had to focus on business, or he'd get depressed. More depressed than he was at the moment, anyway.

"I went through my iPod and youtube last night, pulling up some songs that I thought might work," he said. "Of course, the fact that a lot of duets are love songs is a problem..." He wanted to curl up and die. Why did he let his mouth get away with him again? He'd love to sing a love duet with Tina - if people like Rachel could get away with singing their emotions out week on week, why couldn't he?

[morbidbubbles]

Tina had begun walking over to the piano, but she stopped briefly at his words. There was a word she didn't need to hear, it brought up too many thoughts. Complicated thoughts. She took a few more steps, and leaned against the side of the piano, her finger absent-mindedly drawing patterns on it.

"Um, y-yeah....I noticed that, too.." she let her voice trail off, staring at the cool, black surface of the piano. "Or like, love-gone-bad type of stuff..." No, she hadn't wasted a full hour of research time listening to them and reluctantly relating. Not at all. She coughed nervously. "So, uh, anyway...what did you come up with?"

[dancnwithmyself]

Artie took in her body language. Nervous, complicated, too much for him to handle at the moment.

"Yeah, there seems to be a lot of those as well," Artie said, clearing his throat. "Um. A few ideas. There is always Simon and Garfunkel - songs like Sparrow, Hazy Shade of Winter, The Sounds of Silence..." He paused, taking a deep breath. His tastes tended towards classic rock through choice, but he was flexible. "There are any number of songs you could take and make into duets, they are flexible like that. Tom Jones did a few years ago, good album."