''Ring, Ring, Ring! Phone call! Phone call!'' The video-phone kept ringing. “Sheesh! I'm coming! I hate that ring tone.” May said as she went over to the phone. As she picked up the phone, she yelled out to her roommate. “Hey, Veronica! We need to change that dang ring tone! Hello?” Ash's face appeared on the monitor. “Hi, May!” “Oh, hi Ash. This is kind of a bad time.” Ash leaned back in his chair. “Another fight with your roommate? You can see why I didn't go college.” “Ash, you got such bad grades that no college would accept you.” “Nag, nag nag! Get off my back. Anyway, more Misty troubles for me.” May chuckled. “Catch her and George kissing again?” Ash shook his head. “Worse. Their ENGAGED!” He shouted the last word. May was shocked. “I thought Misty was smarter than that. Well, you think you got troubles. I can't talk to Drew nowadays, he's so obsessed with that girl.” After she said this, Ash got an idea. He pulled put a pencil and a pad of paper, turned towards the screen, and said, “I'll call you back later. Chou.” He turned off the video-phone, and began to scribble down on his pad of paper. After he finished, he read it over, and said to himself. “Perfect.”
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“So, May. What do you think.” Ash asked, after he e-mailed her the the song lyrics. “It's good. But, how does the tune go?” Ash pulled up his guitar. “Thought you'd ask that. This is how it goes.” He played a tune, and May caught on pretty quick, and sung the lyrics. (Ha! Don't know what the song is? You'll find out l8r.) Ash nodded. “Good. We need more practice, though.” Ash thought a bit, than said “There's an unused concert hall in the park. Okay, so if the guards go in 60-minute shifts, and there's 12 guards, and it takes approximately 15 minutes to capture each guard, than that is 180 minutes, and there is 24 hours in a day, than we have 21 hours to practice.” May was shocked “How come you don't do that in school, Ash?” “Because that was important, and I needed a mind jogger. But, don't worry. There are no guards. Meet me there in, oh, one hour. I need to get some stuff.” After Ash turned off the video-phone, he pulled out the notepad, and checked “Meet May in park” off on his list. (This is what his list said:
√ 1. Write song.
√ 2. Meet May in park.
3. Secretly record song and send it to Drew.
4. Create music video
5. Upload music video to YouTube
6. Steal Misty from George.)
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At 4:00, Ash and May were at the concert hall. Ash had his trusty cherry red Gibson SG guitar with him, and May had spent the hour memorizing the lyrics and the tune. But she had no idea that Ash had hidden a voice recorder in the guitar case. Ash said “Okay, I'll start off with the tune.” He began to to strum the tune, and remotely activated the voice recorder. After a few bars, May started to sing
“Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see
That I want and I'm needing everything that we should be
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about
And she's got everything that I have to live without
Drew talks to me, I laugh cause it's so funny
That I can't even see anyone when he's with me
He says he's so in love, he's finally got it right,
I wonder if he knows he's all I think about at night
[Chorus:]
He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do
Drew walks by me, can he tell that I can't breathe?
And there he goes, so perfectly,
The kind of flawless I wish I could be
She'd better hold him tight, give him all her love
Look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky cause
[Repeat Chorus]
[Music]
So I drive home alone, as I turn out the light
I'll put his picture down and maybe
Get some sleep tonight
He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do
He's the time taken up, but there's never enough
And he's all that I need to fall into..
Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see.”
“That's perfect!” May asked “Ash, why did you want me to do this?” “Two reasons: Music always makes me feel better, and you needed to do something other than be cooped up in that dang dorm.”
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That night, Ash uploaded the music clip to his computer, and emailed it to Drew. He pulled out the pad, and checked item 3 off his list. He then set about to create a music video. He made that, and logged on to YouTube, and uploaded it. He then began to formulate how to accomplish item number 6.
The End
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