My Cherryblossom.../Chpt.3
Auditions/Sherinda-san
"And the name of the band will be 'Ten Yen'! Will the person who wrote this name down please step forward!" Shiko said smiling. She looked around the room but no one was coming forward. She heard an "Um..." from behind her and turned around. "Haru?" She said in surprise. He looked at her with a normal expression on his face.
"Yeah." He said. Shiko looked at him for awhile then grinned.
"Everyone who thinks they have talent in the art of music," She said, pointing to the door. "Move out!" She marched out of the house and into the backyard followed by a line of Sohmas, last of all came Haru.
Shiko sat on a large rock in the backyard facing the auditioneers. Haru stood behind her with a clipboard and pen in his hands. Standing in a line in front of them were Ayame (with Yuki standing behind him mumbling to himself), Kagura, Momiji, and Shigure. Shiko smiled at the results. "I will have you go in the order in which you are lined up. Ayame will go first. The rest of you go wait on the porch until will call for the next person. We will let you know who made it tonight. Now let's get it started!" She said, raising her arm then bringing it down in a chopping motion.
Ayame stood in front of a keyboard (provided by Haru) and cracked his knuckles. He flipped his hair back and ran his fingers across the keys. He played a beautiful number then stopped and bowed. Shiko whispered something in Haru's ear. He smiled and nodded. Shiko took some sheets of music from a folder and handed them to Ayame.
"Play." She said, smiling mischievously.
"As you wish, Madame." He said and looked at the papers, playing exactly what was on the sheets. When he finished, Shiko's eyes were sparkling.
"It was beautiful Ayame-san!" She took the clipboard from Haru and wrote something down. "You may go now." She nodded to Hatsuharu.
"Next!" He called to his cousins. Kagura shuffled onto the makeshift stage. She took out a tambourine. She hit it on her hip three times, and then sang some of a little song she heard on the radio.
"She put that bottle to her head, and pulled the trigger
She finally drank away his memory
Life is short, but this time it was bigger,
Than the strength she had to get up off her knees
We found her with her face down in the pillow,
Clinging to his picture for dear life
We laid her next to him, beneath the willow
And the angels sang a whiskey lullaby:
La la la la la la la, la la la la la la laaaa..."
She stopped singing and looked down at the dirt, blushing. Shiko was sitting on the rock, with her knees up against her chest, rocking back and forth as tears rolled down her cheeks. She noticed Kagura wasn't singing anymore and sniffed, wiping her eyes. "Hm, there must be some dust in the wind or sumthin' huh?" She said sarcastically. She cleared her throat and wrote on the clipboard. "Thank you, Kagura-san. You may go now. Next, please!" She said. It was Momiji's turn.
He set up the drum set lying in the pile of instruments Haru had brought. He sat on the small seat and tossed his sticks up in the air. He caught them and broke out into a loud drum-roll then played an addictive beat. He finished with a double cymbals hit and a bow. "Very good Momiji-kun! You may go and join the others." Shiko said writing down more things. "Last one please!" She called.
Shigure walked onto the 'stage' and cleared his throat. He then broke out into the worst song imaginable (in the tune of 'Yellow Pokka-dot Bikini').
"They're wearing, itsy bitsy,
Teeny weenie, pink halter tops and bikinis
At the beach when I went there today
High school girls in tiny shirts
And don't forget the super short skirts
Let's hope they don't know karate!
I want to—mmph!!!!"
He was cut short by Haru covering his mouth and dragging him by the ear back to the house. Shiko fell off the rock, her face twisted in mock horror at the dog's 'song'. She lied there for a little bit, and then wrote down more on her clip board. She got up and un-covered the video camera she had hidden.
She clutched it to her chest and grinned. "Perfect entertainment for tonight!" She said to herself and headed back to the house.
When she walked into the living room, she was ambushed by Kagura, Tohru, Momiji, and, oddly enough, Shigure. "Please sing a song for us!!!" They said in chorus. Shiko backed away only to be followed by them.
"Erm...well...see...I...uh..."She tried to make up an excuse. Momiji shoved her guitar into her arms. He looked at her with his lost puppy dog stare and pouted.
"Pretty please, Shiko-sama?" He said in the most pathetic sounding voice. Shiko couldn't resist. She smiled.
"Oh...all right...I'll play and sing for you..." she said. Everyone cheered. Shiko sat on a chair and tuned her guitar. She put the strap around her neck and cleared her throat. "I like to call this one, 'My Happy Ending'." She said as everyone chose a spot to sit and listen.
"So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
Let's talk this over
It's not like we're dead
Was it something I did?
Was it something you said?
Don't leave me hanging
In a city so dead
Held up so high
On such a breakable thread
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
You've got your dumb friends
I know what they say
They tell you I'm difficult
But so are they
But they don't know me
Do they even know you?
All the things you hide from me
All the shit that you do
You were all the things I thought I knew
And I thought we could be
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
It's nice to know you were there
Thanks for acting like you cared
And making me feel like I was the only one
It's nice to know we had it all
Thanks for watching as I fall
And letting me now we were done
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
You were everything, everything that I wanted
We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it
And all of the memories, so close to me, just fade away
All this time you were pretending
So much for my happy ending
Oh oh, oh oh, oh oh...
Oh oh, oh oh, oh ooooh..."
When she finished she took her guitar off and ran out the door, without even putting her shoes on. Everyone either stared at the door or where Shiko was when she was singing. Hatsuharu got up and ran after her. Tohru was about to run after them both but she found Uotani and Shigure holding her back.
"Let Haa-kun handle it, Tohru-kun." Shigure said.
"She only let's people near her when she wants them to be. They'll be back soon." Uo said. Tohru sat back down and frowned.
Sherinda-san's babble: dramatic music in the back-round A little cliff-hanger for you all! Lol! The song Kagura was singing is actually a country song by Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss. The song's called "Whisky Lullaby". It's really good too! Any Avril Lavighn fans out there will know that the song Shiko was singing was "My Happy Ending". Also a good one. There will be more songs for your enjoyment, so hang in there!
Sherinda-san