Sing me a song: Sophie & Noah (Open)

[Sophie Conway]

"Come on! This way!" Sophie said excitedly as she tugged her older brother along by his sleeve. They'd gotten to school early today which meant they had time to play before class started. Playing for Sophie meant heading to the music room. While her older brother Noah, also shared her love for music he'd never really been involved with any of the music programs at school since he'd always been so tied down with football. Sophie, who of course despised football and loved her brother, thought that this was a travesty and liked to bring out his musical side whenever she could.

The blonde wore her curly hair down and she was dressed in a short skirt with cartoon monsters printed on it and high purple socks that came over her knees. She wore a candy necklace twisted around her wrist and a large gold ring that was shaped like a pair of scissors. In comparison her equally blonde brother was in a more muted wardrobe that consisted an old Sacramento football shirt, Abercrombie jeans, and black and white Pumas. "Empty - perfect!" Sophie said as she pushed her way into the deserted music room.

The light was on and some chairs were still set up although half of them were still put away as if someone had started to set up the room for the day and hadn't finished...or hadn't finished cleaning up from yesterday. A large brown baby grand piano sat in the center of the room and there was a drum set in the corner along with some guitars and other instruments that had been half put away along with a stack of sheet music and chorus books.

"Come on what should I play?" Sophie asked as she plopped herself down on the piano. It was the only instrument that she'd had formal lessons in when she was younger. She'd taught herself the guitar and then taught it to Noah when he'd asked. She was quite musically inclined and could usually figure out how to play a tune on any instrument if she played around with it a bit.

She mindlessly started playing the intro to The Piano Man as she waited for her brother to decide. "I don't know, Soph," Noah said a little uneasily. He knew that his sister didn't embarrass easily, or at all sometimes he wondered, but he on the other hand did and he wasn't sure he wanted his peers to walk in on him and his sister doing an impromptu duet.

And it seemed that his fears were confirmed as someone appeared in the doorway, probably hearing Sophie's piano playing out in the halls...thank goodness they hadn't been singing!

[Zane Douglas]

Tiny Zane was making his way through the halls of the school, minding his own business as usual. Today the "big people" were pretty much avoiding him, that was more than welcomed.

He stopped at his locker and switched his black slip on dress shoes to a pair of white tennis shoes, they were more comfortable than what he had on. He readjusted the shoulder bag when he heard piano playing.

He followed the sound till he reached the music room. He stood close to the door, straining to see who was playing. He carefully crept toward the door, not knowing how they would react to someone watching or listening in.

Still it wasn't often that music kids went around like they owned the school. Maybe it was fine to speak up. "That--that's really good." He smiled shyly while stepping into the room.

[Sophie Conway]

"Thanks!" Sophie said with a big smile when the boy in the door complimented her. She wasn't one who went looking for compliments or praise but she wasn't really shy about taking them either when they were offered. Plus, the piano was always impressive to people although she wasn't quite sure why. She thought that millions of kids were forced into piano lessons when they were young whether they were interested in music or not, but perhaps that was just it...most kids gave it up and hardly remembered how to play if at all. Sophie of course didn't take lessons anymore, but she still played all the time while most kids were more interested in the guitar because they had some wild fantasy about becoming a rock star or something. Sophie of course had picked up the guitar as well buts he still thought it was fun to go back to the piano from time to time too.

"Do you play?" she asked the small boy. He didn't exactly look young like a freshman or anything but he was pretty short which sometimes was mistaken for being young, not that Sophie knew because she'd always been at least somewhat tall. She continued to play as she spoke moving into the part that should be sung even though no one was singing. Noah sat there somewhat awkwardly. He actually recognized the short boy as a fellow junior but being somewhat new to the school he hadn't learned most of the other people's names yet and he didn't know his.

Noah of course had nothing against the boy but he tended to be more shy than his sister was. Sure, he could be fine with a bunch of football guys, ironically who tended to be the popular kids, but that was because Noah knew what to expect of them and knew how they would act. They all seemed somewhat the same from his old school to this new one. But the other kids...the theatre geeks and chorus kids and nerds that his sister always befriended...around them he never knew how to act. He was by no means cavalier, thinking he was better because he was a football star and they weren't. No, he wasn't like that at all. He just wasn't the most outgoing guy and he felt comfortable in the world he was accustomed to and had never really branched out. So Noah, kept his mouth shut for the moment, letting his sister do the talking which wasn't exactly uncommon.

"I'm Sophie and this is my brother Noah," she went on with a smile. If she noticed Noah's discomfort, she didn't show it. "You don't have like a music lesson before school or anything?" Sophie inquired. "If you do we can leave...I just saw the empty room and thought I'd take advantage before first period," she said with a smile and looking at Zane and away from the keys even as she continued to play.