It's been three weeks since I got into the agency. I walked into the karaoke room with Nyx. We were greeted with warm, beckoning smiles from Melinda the Cat, Jackie the Rabbit, Sapphire the Platypus, and of course, Perry.

Upon our arrival, Perry said, "Glad you could come, Aus. Have a seat. Nyx just told me how you 'throw yourself into life' the moment you got into the O.W.C.A., and I had to say that I could not agree more."

"Thank you, Perry. And you too, of course, Nyx. I really like you, you two are great."

"Well, based on my experiences, those who were like you, throwing themselves into life, ended up being one of the best agents in the agency, if not the best agent. Trust me, I have seen- and heard- a lot."

Wow, that was some level of praise, especially seeing as I'm barely starting out. Honestly, though, it kind of makes me feel overwhelmed.

While the others took turns singing, I just lounged in my seat. However, after not long did Perry notice me, although I was behaving rather reserved.

"Aussie, you haven't picked up your microphone once yet. Don't you have any song you want to sing?"

"Nah, I don't think so. But it's fine, it's not like I know any song," I told Perry.

Perry said, "if you don't know the lyrics to the song, they'll be displayed onscreen, and thus it shouldn't be a problem," Perry reminded me before he went on, "and you don't have to be able to sing well to sing karaoke. You just have to make sure you won't kill someone with your voice." He let out a chuckle.

"Kill someone with my voice? How's that even possible?"

I heard a female voice just after I had asked, "it's a figure of speech. It means that if your singing isn't extremely horrible, you can sing karaoke." I nodded understandingly to Nyx's explanation.

"What about this one?" Perry asked, indicating at the song title on the small screen in the corner, "you sang it with me last time."

"Yes, I remember that. It's the first I've ever sung; pleasant for me. But you have to go in first, for I'm really afraid messing up the whole song from starting to sing at the wrong time."

"Okay, I'll open the song for you."

Perry played the song on the karaoke machine as I grabbed the microphone into my right hand, turning it on. The screen displayed the song title, How To Save A Life, and the original band who had performed it, The Fray.

"He... right- Aussie!"

Perry interrupted his own singing to signal me to begin. I sang into the mic, continuing the song, and Perry stopped singing. He flipped his microphone a couple of times as I sang.

Perry joined in again when I got to the last line before the chorus, singing in harmony with me. We sang the chorus together, me singing the lead vocals and Perry harmonizing. I had never heard that before, hence it's most likely improvisation, which Perry seems to have an interest and gift in.

Perry started singing the lead vocals along with me as we got to the second verse. I decided to let him sing the chorus on his own this time before I joined in on the third verse. Just like when Perry and I first sang the song, I changed the tune in the following chorus, spicing up the song. It also added harmonic variety since Perry was singing the original tune.

"Next up I'm gonna sing a song written and performed by my beloved and loving owners, Phineas and Ferb," Perry announced right before he pressed play, revealing the song on the screen, "Rollercoaster. They wrote this song for their self-devised, self-constructed rollercoaster- the coolest coaster ever, that's what Phineas and Ferb named it."

I recognized the song as soon as I heard the intro with low backing vocals singing "rollercoaster" over and over. It was odd, though; it shouldn't feel that close. It's like the background singers who had recorded this soundtrack was behind me right now. I wondered how is that possible as I listened to Perry sing. And why just this song and not any other song?

I was awakened from my deep thoughts by Perry's surprising slide into a high voice. It seemed he was enjoying it a lot from his playful smirk, which I had never seen before. When the Spanish line came up on the screen, he sang in a sonorous and legato style, and the ad-lib at the end of that line added extra flavour to his singing.

Everyone, no matter if they're holding a microphone, shouted out the very next line in unison. Well, except for Sapphire and me. "That right, oh yeah!" Perry sang. Jackie told me, "that melody is his own improvisation. That line's spoken in the original song without any melody."

Perry was still singing into the microphone, but all I hear is that strangely intimate soundtrack. It sounded exactly like when the song began. I stared at Perry for a while before I finally realized that it was he that was singing both times. His voice had blended into the soundtrack, so I didn't notice at first and perceived it as merely "overly intimate soundtrack" instead.

Perry leapt between mega-high and mega-low with his voice at the "ah-ah-ah" part. He goes into his middle range at the next "rollercoaster" but held the last note for over ten seconds before raising his tone a minor third above and sustaining it for ten more seconds. He eventually ended with a crazy belted high note.

"Rollercoaster, roll, rollercoaster; roller coaster, roll, roll the toaster; roll the jokester, roll, roll that over, rollercoaster, roll, roll the boulder!"

What was that which Perry just sang in the end? He changed the lyrics into some random rhyming word!