-Chapter 21 Danny the singer-
I'm sensing a special duet in this chapter, guess with who? ;)
Disclaimer - There are songs in this chapter I obviously don't own...I'm not telling you what they are until you read it..you will know ehat they are while singing obviously :)
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"Wait what do we do?" Tucker and Ember asked calmly to Danny at the same time.
"...We pick an instrument and pick a partner, one of us sing or rap and the other tries there best to keep up with the beats with the instrument of their choice in class..." Danny explained smiling.
"Danny you go pair up with Amber and I'll go keep Sam under control" Tucker whispered to Danny winking.
"Thanks Tuck" Danny replied smiling and turning to Ember "Hey, do do-do...you-" Danny began to say only to be interrupted by Ember.
"Danny do you want to be partners?" Ember asked Danny smiling. "Uh...y-yeah" Danny replied smiling warmly.
"So, who's grabbing an instrument and who's singing?" Danny asked nervously hoping he would be the one with the instrument because he didn't like to sing out loud.
"I'm doing the guitar!" ember replied happily leaving Danny in a tough spot.
"B-but I can't sing!?" Danny complained.
'Ugh! Are you serious!?' Ember thought annoyed at Danny's statement.
"Dipstick, I sang last time, your turn!" Ember stated smiling smugly knowing her point was valid.
"But you can actually sing! Amazingly I have to add, I can't sing!" Danny continued to panic roughly.
"Thanks baby-pop, but I'm sure you can sing, I'm getting the guitar we used last time!" Ember said as she ran quickly to the music room cupboard and flung the door open in hope to find the instrument Danny played a few days ago in last music class.
When she looked into the cupboard she was a bit confused to say the least. She only saw an acoustic guitar in it's place.
"What?" Ember asked herself softly in confusion.
"Looking for something Amber? Something that you and Daniel were playing a few days ago?" The music teacher asked, raising an eyebrow as he did so referring to the electric guitar incident.
"Uh, where's the uh...electric guitar?" Ember asked slowly and awkwardly since he was literally leaning over her shoulder like a predator stalking their prey.
"It's been off to repair or maybe the school will decide to buy a new one for the music department since some teenagers decided to come into school during the weekend and take it for a joy ride..." The teacher explained giving Ember an uncomfortable glare.
"Wait what? You don't think I did it?" Ember asked sounding serious because she knew she was with Danny and Kitty during the weekend.
"Well teenagers these days are all the same, it could be you, could be other teenagers...I'm not sure these days you're all the same it'handed to tell the difference..." The teacher said boringly as he went on to say "For the moment, we have been given an opportunity to try out this acoustic guitar..."
Without second thought Ember decided to grab the acoustic by the neck and walk back to Danny leaving a dull teacher behind on his own.
"So dipstick, news is that they've gotten rid of the electric because of other teenagers wrecking it, so we got this acoustic..." Ember said to Danny with barely any emotion to her speech.
'I've never played an acoustic before, I'm kind of used to my electric...well maybe I should sing instead and Phantom could play the guitar?' Ember thought uneasy.
'Ember! The class should have a chance to listen to Danny's talents? He can play and sing, the class only know of his guitar playing because of you...you might as well do this as another favor!' Her conscious suggested abruptly.
'Ugh alright, I guess there's a first time for everything...' Ember thought referring to her playing an acoustic.
"So dipstick, since you're singing...pick a song?" Ember suggested kindly.
"Uh, well I told you I can't really sing Amber, I sound like a cat strangling a cat while being run over by a bulldozer..." Danny explained with an awkward voice.
"Thank you for the mental image." Ember stated joking. 'He doesn't have much confidence in himself does he?' Ember's conscious asked Ember.
'Yeah I noticed, that's why I'm trying to push him a little outside his comfort zone...' Ember said slyly.
"Amber, I really don't think that I can sing, I guess you've noticed I'm not that confident..." Danny admitted sounding a little ashamed.
'Well how are you going to get Danny out of his comfort zone?' Ember's conscious asked curiously.
'I got an idea...' Ember said thinking slightly. Within a few seconds a thinking she started to have a cute dopey smile across her face looking into Danny eyes as Danny looked back into her's calmly, Danny then saw her eyes flash green.
Then after a few seconds, Ember kissed Danny's cheek softly and whispered "Danny, it's okay, just follow my lead...I know an easy song for you..."
Danny had mixed emotions and was apparantly playing twenty questions with himself. 'She kissed me again..is that a good sign? Why did her eyes flash green then back to blue? What does she mean by 'follow my lead'? I can't believe I'm taking her to the cinema, why would she say yes? I'm a loser...' Danny asked himself these questions countless times.
Danny just nodded instead of a reply to 'Amber'. Their cute moment stopped when they both jumped up a little bit by a booming voice from the front of the class.
"CLASS! 5 minutes to practise left, then I would like each group to preform what they have done in front of the class, best singer will recieve a prize, the best instrumentalist will also receive a prize" The teacher stated slyly trying to get everyone involved into the task.
"C'mon baby-pop-" Ember was cut off by a laughing Paulina.
"BABY-POP!? What?! Is that his pet name or something! That is so funny!" Paulina laughed walking past the two. "Oh by the way, I wouldn't start to set his confidence too high, he might think he actually has a chance against Dash...oh and just so you know, I'm winning best instrumentalist, so put down the guitar honey" Paulina smirked.
'Remind me to attack her with my guitar later will you?' Ember asked her conscious annoyed.
"Okay, we got a few minutes of practising left I think...thanks to her! So what about the song 'The-" Ember was interrupted by the teacher once again.
"OKAY CLASS! I gave you five minutes, time to dazzle me with fresh beats and talent!" The teacher yelled excitedly.
'Crap.' Ember and Danny both thought.
"Okay Tucker and Samantha, would you come up first since you to be at the front anyway?" The music teacher asked.
"Yeah!" Tucker answered excitedly while Sam answered "Oh no..."
Sam grabbed the keyboard and bashed random chords at will that didn't make a tune or sense, it was unbearable while Tucker sang his heart out, you can tell how that went.
"...IF I WAS YOUR BOYFRIEND I'D NEVER LET YOU GO I COULD TAKE YOU PLACES TOU NEVER BEEN BEFORE!-" Tucker began to sing though it sounded like a construction site.
"WOAH thank you Tucker and Samantha! Next please! Tucker I think you are a little bit off key? Samantha you did pretty well since your bashing on the keyboard more or less caught up to the beats with Tucker..." The teacher said with hardly any emotion.
"I nailed it." Tucker stated to Sam smiling. Sam just rolled her eyes in reply.
"Please could Paulina and Dash come up next please?" The teacher asked hoping for something or anything better than Sam and Tucker's.
"Gladly sir!" Paulina said politely as she threw a smirk Ember's way.
Dash yawned only to be pulled by the collar to a lower level, the level of Paulina's height as she hissed "DASH! You're not ruining this for me! Sing a good song!"
"Ugh...popular snobs, I wonder how this will turn out..." Ember muttered to herself.
"Um, shawty's like a melody in my head...
That I can't keep out,
Got me singin' like...
Na na na na everyday...
It's like my iPod stuck on replay, replay-ay-ay-ay?"
Dash sang quietly and sang quite boringly with barely any life to the song. While Dash pitifully sang, Paulina was shaking bells. Paulina's timing wasn't bad because Dash sang really slow.
"Wow, depressing...and I thought Sam's would've been depressing but this is just sad..." Ember whispered to Danny as they finished, Danny giggled at her comment.
'Oh Phantom gonna do just fine, Dash sounded like a cat strangling a cat while being run over by a bulldozer...' Ember's conscious said copying what Danny said earlier about his own singing.
-Time speed skip-
"Kwan and Star...", "Max and Jamie", "Tom and Delilah..."
-Finish Time Skip-
"And lastly, finally...we have Amber and Daniel..." The teacher said already bored from some of the past disappointments.
If you heard carefully you could of heard the small sigh the teacher gave off thinking that there was going to be another disappointment.
When the two teenagers came up, in front of the class...they were both nervous. Ember has never been nervous in front of crowds before, but it was because she had her spell enhanced electric guitar.
"Um, Amber? I uh...I don't know what to sing!?" Danny whispered panicking.
'I knew it, another failure...' The teacher thought.
"Dipstick chill! I'm panicking too!" Ember said unable to believe that she just said that.
Danny took this as an opportunity to show how confident he could be.
"Amber it's okay? Pretend you're Ember McLain, she's not stage fright..." Danny said with a playful smirk.
"I'm not stage fright! I'm just a little nervous..." Ember replied. 'Hold on, I swear this is deja vu?' Ember thought strangely.
Ember nodded back and began to play a few chords..while Danny's eyes widened to the song she had chosen for him to sing, he was very familiar with the song.
"White lips, pale face
Breathing in snowflakes
Burnt lungs, sour taste
Light's gone, day's end
Struggling to pay rent
Long nights, strange men
And they say
She's in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since eighteen
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
Cause we're just under the upper hand
And go mad for a couple grams
And she don't want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
Angels to fly..." Danny was singing closing his eyes all the way through so he wouldn't have to look at the strange stares and shocked faces his class was giving him. Ember continued to play the song swiftly on the smooth acoustic.
-Gossip cut in the class-
"Fenturd can sing..." Dash whispered into the other A-listers ears.
"Yeah no kidding! He could be a rockstar if he wanted to!" Kwan answered only to get a glare from him back. Everyone else in the class agreed with Kwan.
"Ripped gloves, raincoat
Tried to swim and stay afloat
Dry house, wet clothes
Loose change, bank notes
Weary-eyed, dry throat
Call girl, no phone
And they say
She's in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since eighteen
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
And they scream
The worst things in life come free to us
Cause we're just under the upper hand
And go mad for a couple grams
And she don't want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe she flies to the Motherland
Or sells love to another man
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
An angel will die
Covered in white
Closed eye
And hoping for a better life
This time, we'll fade out tonight
Straight down the line"
"Have you noticed that Amber can play the guitar too?" Star asked the other A-listers.
They all nodded in shock.
Danny and Ember, though they were playing and singing they could all hear what was being said since they both had their enhanced ghost hearing.
"And they say
She's in the Class A Team
Stuck in her daydream
Been this way since eighteen
But lately her face seems
Slowly sinking, wasting
Crumbling like pastries
They scream
The worst things in life come free to us
And we're all under the upper hand
Go mad for a couple grams
And we don't want to go outside tonight
And in a pipe we fly to the Motherland
Or sell love to another man
It's too cold outside
For angels to fly
Angels to fly
To fly, fly
For angels to fly, to fly, to fly
Or angels to die..." Danny finished the song swiftly as Ember stuck her last chord on the guitar and Danny finally opened his eyes, the first thing he looked at was not the cheering crowd and clapping teacher, but Amber's blue eyes, flash from blue to green and back to blue then back to green.
The crowd almost blew the roof of chanting and cheering. "AMBER, DANNY, AMBER, DANNY!" The class cheered.
"Deja vu Amber?" Danny asked playfully referring to last music lesson. "Oh yeah big time!" Ember replied smiling happily.
'Can't believe the dipstick actually did it...' Ember thought in a good mood.
Danny then did something Ember wasn't expecting, he kissed her cheek and gave her a small hug. "Thanks Amber..." Danny thanked as he grabbed Ember's hand and walked them to the back of the class to their seats. Ember was obviously beyond shocked, she was speechless, lifeless (no pun intended), barely moved, eyes wide with a small creeping on her face every now and then.
After they sat back down in their seats and the class began to calm down. "Alright alright children, I see we have a clear winner of both instrumentalist and singer!" The teacher said clapping and looking directly at the smiling Danny and Ember.
"Come collect your prizes during tomorrow's recess." The music teacher instructed as Ember and Danny nodded.
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Okay one or two reviews said they didn't know the song 'The A-team- by Ed sheeran, WHAT!? Okay...weird...one of my favourite songs! How can you not of heard of it! Brilliant song! Listen to it on youtube guys! ;)