A/N Meh, I have a half hour before I go to bed. Might as well write another.
"I don't think I understand what I'm listening for."
"Shh."
"Seriously, Tolly, why was I dragged from my nice comfy bed so early in the morning?"
"Eleven thirty is not early, Tanc."
"You're supposed to be on my side!"
"SHH!"
"Fine, fine. Geez…"
Tancred shifted in his seat on the bench. As far as he was concerned, Sundays were his and his alone. He was far from happy that Emma and Lysander had shaken him awake and dragged him to the church square.
"You realize we'll get trampled when mass gets out, right?"
"Shh.. That's why we're sitting across from the church, not right on the steps," Emma checked her watch for the one millionth time.
"I don't understand why I have to be-"
"The girl obviously wants you to shut up," Lysander laughed, reaching over Emma's head to poke his friend on the cheek.
"It adds to the experience," Emma sighed swatting away the boy's arm.
"But we've been sitting out here for AGES."
"Don't be such a baby, its only been ten minutes."
"Shh! I am sharing something very profound with you two idiots and you're talking all the way through the experience."
"This is profound?"
"No, what's COMING is profound to me."
"But what's-" Tancred was interrupted by the booming melody of the church bells. For a good two minutes, the empty square was filled with a twelve note rendition of the last verse of 'Amazing Grace'. The tones bounced off the cobble stones and reverberated back against the sea of church goers who had begun to file out of the church's double doors. When the crowds had parted, Tancred turned wide eyed to his friends.
"Wow."
"Exactly"
"How do they do that?"
Silence.
"With a hunchback."
A/N Ahhh… that took me all of 15 minutes…. Popsicle time.