The sun was bright. The breeze was wonderful. It made me want to play my guitar outside, on my balcony and sing all day long. But too bad, I can't for my neighbor, as usual, over-volumes the music. Every morning, I have to wake up with the sound of beats from the stereo from the other side of my bedroom wall!
I love Electro, Pop and so on, but at least, I know to respect my other apartment neighbors. I sighed and continue to try finding songs to sing today. My favorite songs are all mostly soothing, slow songs, songs that had something to do with a ukulele and an acoustic guitar.
I then found one from my reliable source, Adlina, a pen pal from South East Asia. We always send each other letters, we don't believe in using e-mail for it sounds like doesn t sound so meaningful. And if the computer breaks down, then it will be a big problem.
The letter said the song is a beautiful song written by one of her local country's singers, which is said, is becoming quite popular in Asia. I wrote back the letter with full gratitude. If it weren't for her, I would ve not been able to find a nice song for my next month's first performance at Catren's Wonders, a theatre that always opens only from 7 to 12 midnight. Never have they failed, entertaining the masses. I got the job of a performer on the stage. This is my first step of becoming a worldwide star!
The stereo got louder and I immediately had to go next door to knock and asked them to turn it down. They did so but I'm sure they will turn it up again soon. I sighed. Oh well, at least, I tried. I practiced the music notes that Adlina gave to me along with the suggestion letter. As I play on my bed, I can feel the stereo's sound turning down. This is my chance to practice! And I begin to sing as I play my acoustic guitar:
Sounds straight from the twilight
Has me up all night I can't
Fall asleep coz I keep thinking of you
And I saw a shadow, outside my window
And it s you!
As I strum the last note to the verse, I realized the stereo; the loud music was completely off. Did they hear me singing? I blush, my face is almost as hot as a fever and I m sure as red too. I lay on my bed with my guitar lying by my side.
How can I sing next month now if I just found out I m too embarrassed to let someone hear me sing? Or is the song that is causing me to feel this way? I look at the number of suggestions Adlina gave to me. I ahve to test each one to see if oen of them is suitable. But, I think the song is not the problem for the song is ok for any gender. It has no girly lyrics or gore or rocks lyrics at all. Just nice, soothing songs.
Suddenly, a gust of wind from the outside world blew from the balcony, blowing the music notes, lyrics and Adlina's letter all around the room. I panicked. Again. I closed the balcony door and as the sheets of paper fall to the carpet floor, I was relieved that none flew out. As I picked each one and stacked them back, I then found a little letter in the envelope, I opened it and it was something that made me panic even more. It said:
"Let's sing together. I'm coming to Harmonix, Song Chun-Hyuk! Love, Adlina."
I fall to the floor, red from head to the earlobes. "I'm so dead!"
It's ether I sing, or disappoint.
"KILL ME, BENEDICT!"