Leyah Luna LaNoche
Year 10
Sometimes the only way to get people to listen, is not to speak to them at all
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Post by Leyah Luna LaNoche on Jul 5, 2009 13:40:54 GMT
The sun was shining, Leyah was pale, and the cold shivers that she got in her dorm room told her to go outside. The gardens were always full of people making out, and that wasn't very calming to her, it just made her hyperventilate. So she went to the courtyard. She walked over a small bridge, where a pond lay. It was just the perfect temperature and she walked over by the bank. A mother duck and three little babies walked by. "Gorgeous creatures" Leyah thought, but said nothing. The bridge was over her head, so you couldn't really see her if you where passing by. She had brought 3 instruments, she couldn't decide what she wanted to play, but she took laid out the violin, her mandolin and her guitar. The next were placed in order by height, smallest to largest, and it looked like an ATT commercial.
She picked up the violin and threw some music in front of her. Andante in C Major K. 315 was flipped open, and she played the first violin part. It was funny how it seemed as if music was coming form nowhere at all, just floating around the courtyard. The duck approached and she stopped momentarily to raid her pockets. A packet of saltines was found and she put some in her hand. The ducks quickly ate them and she smiled. Wasn't nature great when it wasn't all sweaty and full of snakes? A baby chick leaped on her guitar, making a note play. He was startled and jumped back to mother.
She laughed at how the duck depended on his mother, the way she wanted to be able to depend on hers, but the was beside the point. She dumped the rest of the crackers on the ground and continued playing.
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Post by sarahj512 on Jul 13, 2009 14:45:21 GMT
Sarah stretched and looked around her dorm. She yawned, fighting the urge to lay back down and fall asleep again, and she stood. Naps always did this to her. She shook her head a little, and walked around, waiting for the feeling to re-enter her body. Sarah yawned one more time, and opened the door, and walked down the hall.
Her feet carried her through the halls of the school she'd grown accustomed to, and out in to the gardens. Of course, people were all over each other out here, a given on any day, at any time. She kept walking, a little upset that she didn't have someone to be in a loving embrace with, and she continued on into the courtyard. She had nearly made it to the bridge on the far side when she heard a violin.
She looked around, wondering where the noise was coming from, since she hadn't passed anyone in the courtyard. She sighed, and sat down on the edge of the bridge, not realizing that the sound was coming from right beneath her, and she listened to the sound of the violin, and the soft quacking of baby ducks.
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Leyah Luna LaNoche
Year 10
Sometimes the only way to get people to listen, is not to speak to them at all
Posts: 60
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Post by Leyah Luna LaNoche on Jul 13, 2009 21:36:49 GMT
Leyah's music came to a stop. She was abruptly done, something done very often. Her eyes, almond and squinted, became even more so, as she yawned. She moved the violin back in its place and began to hum, pushing her mandolin neck toward her with her bare feet. "Achoo!" Her skin was still freezing and even though this was so, she had a sudden urge to walk straight into the water in front of her.
She cupped her hands for a baby duck. The same one who had play the note on the guitar came forward, and she sort scooped him up into her hands. He cheeped, and she placed him toward her face. " Hello, lovely." She walked into the water, her skirt floating out around her.
"2 AM and she calls me 'cause I'm still awake,
"Can you help me unravel my latest mistake?,
I don't love him. Winter just wasn't my season"
Yeah we walk through the doors, so accusing their eyes
Like they have any right at all to criticize,
Hypocrites. You're all here for the very same reason
'Cause you can't jump the track, we're like cars on a cable
And life's like an hourglass, glued to the table
No one can find the rewind button, girl.
So cradle your head in your hands
And breathe... just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe."
Her skin turned colder and she turned back around to return the chick to her mother. When she turned around the mother duck was gone as well as all of the other chicks. "Oh nooooo, I can't believe they left you." She was now soaking wet, and her skirt clung to her legs. Her pocket was actually covered in algae, and she placed the duck there temporarily.
"Now I have to name you." She walked a little bit beyond the bridge, and she realized that someone was standing there. "Ohhhhh." her voice fell as she turned around.
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Post by sarahj512 on Jul 14, 2009 3:39:38 GMT
Sarah heard the music stop, and she looked around. She was enjoying the soft violin, and she sighed softly. She stood up to leave, then she heard someone talking. They were behind the bridge. She didn't move, and listened to the girl singing softly, and the soft splashing of water.
"Oh nooo, I can't believe they left you" She heard, and she looked around the bridge, and saw a girl slip a little yellowish-white fluff into her pocket. Sarah giggled softly, and watched as the girl turned around, and spotted her. The girl's face visibly fell as she realized she was caught, and Sarah smiled at her.
"Was that you playing violin? You're very good." Sarah offered kindly, and leaned up against the railing to the bridge.
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Leyah Luna LaNoche
Year 10
Sometimes the only way to get people to listen, is not to speak to them at all
Posts: 60
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Post by Leyah Luna LaNoche on Jul 15, 2009 1:06:54 GMT
Leyah's face flushed. Her hand flew behind her back and she smiled. "Why thank you Mrs." She finally took enough time to look in the girl's eyes, and realized that she was younger than she thought, and not at all a teacher. "Oh sorry, thanks." She always thought people were adults, just because she grew up around them.
"I've been playing for about 12 years or more... I don't remember." She walked back under the bridge and showed her guitar, and the mandolin. "You obviously know what this is. And you may not know what this is. It's a mandolin." She pulled the chick into her hands, and placed him toward the girl. "And this is... Andante." She smiled. "And you are?" She realized that she was being overly brave. She shied away again, hid inside herself.
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Post by sarahj512 on Jul 17, 2009 17:06:56 GMT
Sarah smiled as she looked over the girl's instruments. She did, in fact, not know what a mandolin was, but she thought it kind of looked like a Hawaiian fiddle. She thought back to when she was younger, and her father trying to teach her to play the guitar. It had never worked. She never got her fingers to do what they were supposed to do, so she gave up, and let her guitar collect dust in her room.
"Oh, how cute! Andante... What a perfect name for the pet of a music lover! He's adorable." Sarah cooed as she saw the baby duck, and she felt the urge to reach out and touch him. He was the cutest thing she'd seen in a long time, and she wondered if it were okay to have pets at this school. She hadn't really seen any, but maybe if she found the time, she could ask. "I'm Sarah, by the way. I've been here for only a couple of days. Who are you?" She asked softly, realizing the girl might be shy, by the way she was first greeted.
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Leyah Luna LaNoche
Year 10
Sometimes the only way to get people to listen, is not to speak to them at all
Posts: 60
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Post by Leyah Luna LaNoche on Jul 18, 2009 1:37:11 GMT
Leyah pulled her other hand from behind her back and almost presented the duck for Sarah to hold. Her eyes lite up when she mentioned it was the perfect name for a music lover. "My name is Leyah... Luna. LaNoche." She laughed. My parents went crazy with the l's. I like it though. " Her body slapped herself, not psychically of course, and she crept back inside, where she belonged.
But she didn't stay, somehow this older girl had a likeness to her, a magnetic pull toward her. "Are you a music lover too? Play something, sing?" She indicated with her bare toes to the guitar. "There's a bunch of guitar players around. In the school that is." Her chick jerked around in her hands. "Shh Andante."
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Post by sarahj512 on Jul 21, 2009 17:02:45 GMT
Sarah opted to just stroking the back of the little bird's head, and he chirped contentedly. She grinned, and looked up at the girl. "Leyah Luna LaNoche. I like it. It's unique. Mine isn't quite so special. I'm Sarah Danielle Jackson. My parents couldn't decide between Sarah or Danielle, so they put both."
Sarah felt this connection to the girl. A bond of some sort. She was younger, she could see that, and feel it, and she grinned. "I can't play anything, but I'm a singer. I love music. I do love guitar players. I'm going to be girly here for a second... Are there any cute guy guitar players?" Sarah giggled softly, and gently rubbed the duck again, since he was jumping and chirping.
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Leyah Luna LaNoche
Year 10
Sometimes the only way to get people to listen, is not to speak to them at all
Posts: 60
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Post by Leyah Luna LaNoche on Jul 24, 2009 0:30:44 GMT
"A singer..." She smiled softly, her finger mimicking Sarah's as she brushed the chick. "If you can sing you can play, it just takes a while. Your vocal chords and the string as the same." She wanted to show her, but she couldn't will herself. "No cute guitar playing boys, but it depends on your type." She looked around and whispered. "The teachers are cuter than the student, but I am not one to talk." She blushes. "Would you like to learn?"
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