Disclaimer: I don't any of the songs or characters in this story.
Italics = thoughts
Away From the Sun
Time seemed to fly by for Tim as he raced into the city. As always he was darting in and
out of traffic on the freeway. People usually said he would eventually crash, And that might be true he mused to himself as he dodged past a red Corvette. But right then he didn't care this was part of his past he could feel it, like a lifelong friend always there. There are many things that made him feel this way, like he felt like who he was. It's strange he thought again flying through traffic the roar of his red and black chopper creating a wall of sound to drown out everything else except his thoughts, how is it that I have these different parts of me from my past, and not know where they came from? Not paying much attention to the red light that appeared on the sign he snapped out of his trance quick enough to slide within an inch of the gold pick up in front of him. As he waited he thought of the different keys to his past, the dagger for one was probably the most confusing it was kind of gothic, but he wasn't goth at anytime that he could remember. The other keys so to say only unlocked doors to more doors of questions. He had an uncanny sense of technological know how he could work with any kind auto mobile or other vehicle. There was also his ability to keep his patience while those...less intelligent made ignorant mistakes. He had a great respect also for animals and nature one that you wouldn't associate with an eighteen year old boy. Why do all of these seem to be connected by something more than just my past? The light by then had changed green and some very angry drivers blared their horns at him pushing him to move. Got to concentrate he thought and gunned the throttle and flew down the freeway leaving the others in the dust, but not his questions with them...........
Tim finally made it to the store he parked his bike and got off. He looked up at the sign above the store like he always did. The sign read Hawk Groceries in green letters except the A in Hawk and the G, O, and C in Groceries was faded pretty badly. I always said I would repaint that sign... he thought ...I actually better do it today. He sighed and walked through the ally way between the red bricked store and the new concrete building next to it, and made his way to a small shed in the ally way. Getting out the paint bucket, ladder, and a brush he went back to the front to begin his work. It took him half an hour to paint the sign he then started down the latter when Percy came bolting down the street obviously late for work. Again thought Tim.
"Hey T!" said Percy not slowing down a bit.
"Hey Percy late again?" said Tim as Percy drew closer.
"Yeah dad is going to kill me!" he said now trying to skid enough to stop in front of the front door.
"WATCH OUT PERCY!"
But to late Percyskidded right into the latter in effect snapping the latter together and left Tim walking on them like stilts while trying not to drop the paint.
"Sorry T." he said, but didn't stop and rushed inside. Great now what? he thought to him self. A strong gust of wind caught the latter and made Tim fall off landing on the side walk and the paint can landed right on his head drenching him in paint.
"PERCY!" he yelled, but then he thought Wait a minute where's the latter? And as if to answer his question the latter fell on him one of the rungs bashed him right in the forehead.
"PERCY...." he yelled again "I'm GOING TO KILL YOU!!!!"...........
Raven walked down the street as thoughts and memories resurfaced themselves in unwanted surging waves. She tried to clear her head, but still couldn't. I just need to distract myself... she thought. A slight breeze blew through her dark purple hair ... but I miss him so damn much. The wind had picked up and now could hardly see because of her tears. She stopped and composed herself for a few minutes and noticed the scent of fresh paint and looked up to see that she had ended up at the least likely of places a café/ club and grocery store. The café/ club was called LIVEWIRE it was next to a small store called Hawk Groceries and she decided to go in it was an okay place very plain and also looked like most of the decor was mostly blue neon lights and modern stainless steel. She seated herself on a small armchair at the khaki of the large room near the stage that was there. She used her powers to make a book appear from nowhere. She turned to last place she left off in her book The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King and began to read while she waited for a waiter. She stared at the page she was reading, but couldn't focus on the words on the page no matter how hard she tried she couldn't focus on reading so she decided to just watch the other people at the café. There was a good number of people at the surrounding tables she watched, she also noticed that two people were on the stage setting up for the small crowd in the café. Soon she was able to calm her self down to try and read again.
Tim walked into the front of the store after putting the paint (or what was left of it), and the latter back in the shed. He was covered in the dark green paint and had a nasty headache from where the latter hit him in the head.
"Tim I said paint the sign out front not yourself in the process." Came a voice from behind him.
Tim turned to see a tall figure in khakis, a white shirt and a green apron walking toward him. It was Percy's father and the store owner James Levier. "Well I can thank your son for that I learned two things from this though green is not my color and to not paint until I make sure Percy isn't working." said Tim as he headed to the back room to wash up.
"Well when you get cleaned up go a head and play at the café. It's kinda full today and the store well isn't so the customers will need some entertainment."
"Alright... are Percy and Brook already set up?''
"Doing so now as we speak."
And with that Tim went to the back room and washed up. A shot of aspirin and fifteen minutes later he was walking onto the stage were Percy and a dark haired, green eyed girl about his age were waiting.
"Hey Tim." she called
"Hey Brook.....you two ready to start?" he said as he strapped on his guitar and plugged it into an amp.
"Yeah Man." called Percy as he got ready on the drums.
"Whenever you are Tim." said Brook were she had her guitar plugged in and ready to go.
"Alright let's do this." said Tim.
Raven was now deep into her book, but she could hear in the back round a band started to play on stage she chose to ignore it and it worked for a while, but soon she was watching the show that the band was putting on. There was a red headed boy on the drums he wasn't bad actually he is pretty good she thought. The girl on the left side of the stage was strumming out a great bass in tune with the drums, but these two were only a small thought in the back of her mind when she saw the lead singer. He was of average height about a head taller than the girl on the stage. He was clad in blue jeans and a black t-shirt, the medium length of black hair fell to the sides of his head. She wasn't even listening to the song they were singing right then something about him was different, but she couldn't place it. It was frustrating why does it matter anyway? She thought about it, but the more she did the more frustrating it was. She was brought out of her trance by the clapping of the audience as they finished their song.
"Thank you! Thank you very much!" said the lead singer. "Night fox is going to take a break, but before we go we are going to do one more song.... So here it is 'Away From the Sun'"
The dark haired girl struck up a few chords then the lead singer joined in and after a few seconds the red haired boy struck the cymbals and the song started.
It's down to this I got to make this life make sense
Can anyone tell what I've done?
I missed the life I missed the colors of the world.
Can anyone tell where I am?
Cause now again I've found myself
so far down away form the sun that shines into the darkest place.
I'm so far down away from the sun again. Away from the sun again.
Tim was watching the crowd when his eye caught this girl off to the corner of the room. She was pale skinned with dark hair and in his opinion the most beautiful girl he had ever seen.
Wow she's hot! He thought to himself, I've got to get to know her better. He continued on.
I'm over this. I'm tired of living in the dark
can anyone see me down here?
The feelings gone. There's nothing left to lift me up back into the world I know.
Cause now again I've found myself
so far down away form the sun that shines into the darkest place.
I'm so far down away from the sun. That shines the to light the way for me to find my way back into the arms that care about the ones like me. I'm so far down away from the sun again.
Ohh noooooooooo! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah! Oh noooooooooo!
It's down to this. I've got to make this life make sense.
And now I can't tell what I've done.
Now again I've found myself so far down away from the sun
that shines to light the way.. for me.
Cause now again I've found myself
so far down away form the sun that shines into the darkest place.
I'm so far down away from the sun. That shines the to light the way for me to find my way back into the arms that care about the ones like me. I'm so far down away from the sun agaaaaaain.
Ohh noooooooooo! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaah! I'mmmmmmm goooooone........
He then saw the mysterious girl applaud with the rest of the audience and his heart skipped a beat she was looking at him with a smile on her face. She then got up and left through the doors that led back top the store.
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A/N: Sorry it's short but when you have to work have little time to write. Hopefully I will get the next chapter up soon.
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