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I think I need to put on one of these, I don't think I have in a while...
Disclaimer: Anything you recognize belongs to either Squeenix or Stephan Sondhaim. The song in this chapter is Green Finch and Linnet Bird - sung by Johanna in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The plot is all I own.
Xion opened her laptop as she took a swig from her Dr. Pepper. Thankfully, Tifa and her dad always kept the fridge fully stocked (apparently none of her brother's liked the drink, but Tifa did). She started the power and once it was fully on she clicked on the Media Player.
"Where are you," Xion asked the empty bedroom, squinting at the screen. She really needed glasses, but she was too lazy to ask for them. She would go blind one day. "Aha!" She clicked on a piece of music and smiled when an instrumental piece started to play.
She clicked on another screen to show the lyrics and she began to sing:
"Green finch, and linnet bird,
Nightingale, blackbird,
How is it you sing?
How can you jubilate
sitting in cages
never taking wing?
Outside the sky waits
beckoning!
Beckoning!
Just beyond the bars...
How can you remain
staring at the rain
maddened by the stars?
How is it you sing
anything?
How is it you sing?
My cage has many rooms
damask and dark...
Nothing there sings,
not even my lark.
Larks never will, you know,
when they're captive.
Teach me to be more
adaptive.
Ah...
Green Finch, and Linnet Bird,
nightingale, blackbird,
teach me how to sing.
If I cannot fly...
Let me sing."
Xion let out a deep breath once she finished the song. Johanna's lyricals were always very speedy, something that was common of a soprano voice. Thankfully, soprano voices are usually paired with a slower tone, like a baritone or tenor. If Xion got the part of Johanna, hopefully her Anthony could sing well.
"That was really good," Xion squeaked and turned around to the doorway to see Riku leaning against the door frame. She squeaked again at seeing him shirtless. He seemed to notice his lack of dress. "I always spend the night here, my parents don't exactly get along so I come here to stay away from the fighting." Xion nodded.
"Thanks," she said. "Are you going to try out for the production? Or be a stage ninja backstage?" Riku laughed and Xion got shivers.
"I'm trying out for Anthony," he spoke with a smile. Xion grinned as well. "I'm a tenor. I know I'm singing Johanna, but I don't know what to do for my dialogue yet." Xion nodded.
"Didn't he say we could do duets?" she asked. "I wouldn't mind working with you for the dialogue. Johanna doesn't really have any solo speaking parts. It's usually all with either Anthony or Turpin." Riku nodded.
"That would be great," he grinned out. "Maybe we could do the Kiss Me scene?" Xion blushed.
"You just want to see me acting like a spaz," she stuttered out. Riku laughed.
"You got me," a voice called from deeper in the house and the silver hair Senior sighed. "Sora's calling."
"Do you answer to him?" Riku laughed and shook his head.
"Nah, but he might think I'm doing something inappropriate to his little sister," Xion blushed. "No need to blush, Xion." She threw a pillow at him and he laughed before escaping out the door.
Before he shut the door behind him, he called out, "We'll decide tomorrow at breakfast. I usually drive the nights after I spend the night. Sora can't drive worth crap!"
"At least he drives better than Axel," Roxas remarked with a toothbrush sticking out of his mouth. Xion laughed from her room as Riku scuttled down the hallway.
Roxas poked his head in the door with a raised eyebrow. "Riku wasn't bothering you, was he?" Xion shook her head quickly.
"N-No. Not at all," Roxas grinned.
"Just messing with ya squirt," Xion threw her other pillow at him and he laughed as he shut the door right before it collided with his head.
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