Disclaimer
Hello, Reader. This is Worseman, and this is second chapter of Musical Life.
If you spot some spelling or Grammer error, please comment down about it and what do you think about this story so that I can improve my story.
I don't own any EAH character except my OC characters.
Notes
I'm trying to improve the song that I was writing down. As for a conversation with one specific character that you already know, I'm not sure how to write because the person spoke in riddle and riddlish language. And Big problem is that everyone in EAH world does not use a normal word sometime and I had some problem to write with it.
By the way, enjoy your reading.
I drank a sip of a black coffee with a bit of camellia and cream to stay awake. I was not at my home but at a café called Hocus Latte Café. The place was very enjoyable and quiet sometimes because he can enjoy seeing many people talking among themselves about their own topic while drinking their own favorite coffee. The reason why I'm not at my shop was simple. Today was my free time where I can do whatever I want to do. Right now, I was writing down muse-ic notes and lyrics on the pieces of paper for some muse-ic that I want to play. However, I need to take a break from this. As I stop writing and while I drank a sip, I looked out of the window to refresh my mind. However, nothing was interesting, weird, or crazy. All I see was people walking around, talking to each other while walking to their own destinations. I'm really want to think it loud but couldn't.
While I was distracted to look outside, a female voice called me, "Excuse me."
My head turned around to face a female who called me. The girl dressed in her dark violet and black dress. She had a long, wavy black hair with purple streaks tied into a single braid at the back, and parted at the top to a back room for her spiky tiara. To be honest, her dress was a bit too gothic, but I don't want to hurt her feeling. I was about to ask her but she first spoke, "You drop this."
The girl showed my paper out in her hand. I didn't notice that my paper flew off. I guess that my brain was now full of distractions or brain dead. I began to appreciate her for it, "Thank you, miss."
When I took my paper from the girl gently while tried to make an awkward atmosphere between us, I suddenly recognized her but from where. So I asked her with a somehow sensitive word. "Miss, by any chance, are you the daughter of Evil Queen?"
"Yes, but I never know why you're not running away from me. My name is Raven Queen."
"Duncan. Duncan Walter."
We both shook our hands to greet each other politely. It's the way to greet any friendly stranger especially the children of any fairy tale's character. I first spoke, "Well, Raven. I think it's very impolite to run away without seeing the stranger whom they truly are."
"You're very unique but an interesting person, Duncan. Are you the student?"
"No, I'm just a common citizen without destiny."
Raven was shocked to listen to me that I'm not a student at her school. She never saw a teenager who was broke away from school. It was pretty fun to laugh at her shock expression but I think I didn't make a good impression in our conversation with the mention of me. Feeling anxious, I hurriedly packed the paper on the ground into my bag and finished my coffee in one gulp. I stood up while grabbed my guitar bag and was about to walk to the door to leave at a fast pace. However, Raven stopped me by asking, "What do you mean you're not a student."
"I'm homeschooled, Raven," I explained but not enough. I looked at my mirror phone's time and quickly lied, "Sorry, look at the time. I had to go to meet up with my friend. It was very nice to talk with you, Raven. Goodbye."
I began to dash out of the café as fast as a lightning to get away from Raven asking me about me not being the student of Ever After High.
Third POV
Raven was speechless that Duncan was not a student of Ever After High and he had no destiny. She wanted to know more about him but he ran out of the café. She thoughts that she frightened him to run away but he had his reason to run away. However, she shrugged as she went to buy her coffee to stay awake. She would meet him at some point.
First POV
Enchanted Forest
After running from Raven, I entered the Enchanted Forest. I'm beginning to huff heavily because of his guitar bag that I was carrying. It was pretty heavy. I sat on the ground and my back lay against the tree to rest. I was fortunate to have a water bottle with me so I took it out from my bag and drank it until half of it. I then took out my old muse-ic sheet paper out and memorize the notes and lyrics. The song in my old sheet paper was going to be a bit difficult to memorize.
I paused my memorizing and my eyes looked up from my paper to scan the area to see someone who was here. After scanning around, there was no one here until there was giggle voice behind him. He moved his body a bit and took a peak to see whose voice was. I then saw a girl and a boy. The boy wore a dark brown, green and tan clothes. He had his brown hair with its head shaven. The girl wore a floral pattern dress. She had her long strawberry blonde hair. I can be told that they were dating because of some obvious thing that they had. Picnic, food and lovely talk. It also told me that from their look, they were a student of Ever After High. As I stop peaking, I reminded myself that it was time for me to play a music. After I have to sneak to somewhere quiet where no one heard his singing.
After finding any suitable location away from their dating, I finally found one. I took out my guitar and tune its sound perfectly. I then strum the string down and practiced the chord for about three minutes. I shut my eyes for a few seconds while breathed in and out slowly until my eyes opened and I stop breathing. I do not care for the couple to find out that I was singing, interrupting their date. I began to play a song.
Thinking Out Loud – Ed Sheeran (x Acoustic Session)
[Verse]
When your legs don't work like they used to before
And I can't sweep you off of your feet
Will your mouth still remember the taste of my love?
Will your eyes still smile from your cheeks?
And, darling, I will be loving you till we're 70
And, baby, my heart could still fall as hard at 23
And I'm thinking 'bout how
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[Pre-Chorus]
people fall in love in mysterious ways
Maybe just the touch of a hand
Well, me, I fall in love with you every single day
And I just wanna tell you I am
So, honey, now
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[Chorus]
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
Maybe we found love right where we are
0
[Verse]
When my hair's all but gone, and my memory fades
And the crowds don't remember my name
When my hands don't play the strings the same way
I know you will still love me the same
'Cause, honey, your soul could never grow old, it's evergreen
And, baby, your smile's forever in my mind and memory
I'm thinking 'bout how
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[Pre-Chorus]
people fall in love in mysterious ways
And maybe it's all part of a plan
Well, I'll just keep on making the same mistakes
Hoping that you'll understand
That, baby, now….
0
[Chorus]
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
0
[Interlude]
And maybe we found love right where we are
0
[Interlude while singing:]
La la la
la la la
la la la
la la la loud
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[Chorus]
So, baby, now
Take me into your loving arms
Kiss me under the light of a thousand stars
Oh, darling, place your head on my beating heart
I'm thinking out loud
0
[Outro]
Then maybe we found love right where we are
Oh, baby, we found love right where we are
And we found love right where we are
After my last strumming, my body relaxed and my mouth curved into a smile. I was looking at the beautiful blue sky. I was thinking out loud about the song that I sang but I could say that the day was better than I thoughts. As I turned to the left, my eyes widened to see the boy and girl before looking at me with a wide-eyed too. I was speechless that they were listening to me singing and it was going to be awkward being silence for how long. Fortunately, the girl broke the silence, cheering excitedly, "That was spell-tacular! Your singing is amazing."
"That's awesome, Dude. How did you do that?" The boy asked.
"Wait, how do you find out that I was singing? I thought I'm alone." I asked in my shock tone as the boy and girl looked each other and laughed nervously.
"Well," The boy was about to explain.
A few minutes ago
"It was a great picnic, Hunter." The girl said as she smiled.
"I'm glad you like it, Ashlynn." The boy, Hunter, smiled that the picnic that he and the girl, Ashlynn, have enjoyed.
Hunter and Ashlynn have been dating for a quite long time. They first met together when Hunter tried to save his squirrel pet, Pesky, from getting being shot by an arrow from Sparrow Hood, Son of Robin Hood, and he was mistaken as a hunter chasing his pet down, being knocked by her. They then fell in love and began to date because he retrieved back her ring from Sparrow and took a video of Sparrow and Duchess Swam, Daughter of White Swarm, to shut them up. However, they kept their date a secret as Hunter Huntsman was a Son of Huntsman and Ashlynn Ella, Daughter of Cinderella, because they were truly fearful about their relationship affecting their friend.
As Hunter and Ashlynn were walking to their school after their lovely picnic while talking in their lovely conversation, they suddenly heard a voice singing. They would not sure where the voice was coming from. They wanted to ignore it but their curiosity told them to. They followed the voice closely to find a mystery voice singing until they eventually found Duncan singing while playing guitar. They were quite amazed that Duncan's voice singing was perfect along with his playing guitar. They do not want to intervene his singing so they decided to stay and listen his singing.
First POV
Now
I sighed in annoyance at myself for not hidden enough so that no one would ever find out him singing but could not help to stop his smile. I muttered under my breath, "I guess I'm not good enough to be hidden."
"By the way, are you the new student?" Hunter asked when his mind came about.
I sighed again but I was very worried that it would end up like his conversation with Raven in the café. So I decided to keep my guitar while began my conversation with Hunter and Ashlynn, hoping that it would end up the same. "Don't be very surprised when I'm about to tell you an answer just like I got a talk with a Daughter of Evil Queen."
"You met Raven?" Ashlynn asked me with surprise.
"Yeah, and I can tell your surprise that you two are the student of the same school as Raven, am I right?"
Both Hunter and Ashlynn nodded in a union as I smiled that I found it funny. I don't know how to answer Hunter's question but here I go. "I'm not a new student. I'm just a common citizen who has no relation to any fairy tale and I don't have my destiny."
There was a moment silence. It was a mistake to tell my answer which would affect them like Raven. Until Ashlynn began to speak, "Wait, What? You're not a child of any fairy tale but just a common citizen?"
I was hoping for them to be shocked but theirs was almost there as Raven. I nodded in reply to Ashlynn and Hunter also began to said with a shock, "Wow, I never knew that you were just an ordinary mundane who can sing and play instrument perfectly."
"You could say that, but I know that it was very, in fact, I'm going to say awkward, but I don't know what to say the other word besides awkward. My name is Duncan Walter."
"Hunter Huntsman," Hunter introduced himself
"Ashlynn Ella," Ashlynn introduced herself.
"Huh, the Son of Huntsman dating the Daughter of Cinderella are dating? That quite interesting and adorable. What on earth am I saying 'adorable'?"
Both Hunter and Ashlynn laughed for a bit at my compliment but they felt uneasy that I can tell. I think that they kept their romantic relationship with everyone but I don't want to ruin my friendship with them so I wanted to respect them to keep their secret.
"Duncan, May I ask you to…."
"…Keep your romantic relationship with your boyfriend a secret? Sure, Ashlynn. I would gladly do that."
Ashlynn was relieved and happy at the same time along with Hunter. We began to walk together while having a conversation about anything. What I have learned from the couple was that there were two sides who both were in a conflict in their school. A Royal was the student who wished or must follow their family's footstep to carry their future generation but while a Rebel was the student who does not want to follow their family's footstep and made their own destinies. I found that it was truly frightening to be either side with whoever you want to join but I was fortunate that I didn't go to that school. I also understood that they were forbidden to date because of their destinies and Hunter, a Rebel, was not allowed to date Ashlynn, a Royal. I don't want to ask more question so I put it aside and talk about other.
When we exited out of the enchanted forest, we went to our own separate path when we bid farewell to each other. As I was walking down the street to my shop to relax, I felt good to make friend with another student. My eyes closed for a second and open to see Raven and a recognized person, who was madness, Madeline Hatter, A daughter of Mad Hatter. I'm going to regret this. By the way, how I knew Madeline? Well, I came to her shop for a tea to relax and I regret nothing that her whole shop was in wonderland fun and madness even though I got afraid of her.
"Hey, Duncan. Nice to see you again."
"Yeah, I can see that but nice to see you, Maddie."
Maddie giggled madly and so we began to talk together nicely and comfortably. I talked about why am I not a student and I'm a genius and independent boy but that make Maddie and Raven laughed. However, they also told me about the conflict between Rebel and Royal which I already know and I just met Hunter and Ashlynn before I encountered them. Raven told that she and Maddie were Rebel and she was a leader of Rebel who was the first to be refused to sign the Storybook of Legend. Raven has some guts and Maddie told me to come to visit her and her dad anytime. As we finished our conversation, we parted our own separated way and bid farewell to each other.
"Huh, I guess this day is very interesting," I muttered as I smiled and continued to walk to my home to spend his remaining time. I really like to meet more Ever After High student but wished not to join the conflict.
I really hope so.