~Rising, Shooting, and Falling Stars~

~Chapter 6~

[POV Switch to Dave]

As soon as I hit send, I basically fell into bed. I was tired, and sad. The sadness I don't exactly know where it came from, but it was still there nonetheless. I laid in bed for a few minutes, and when I closed my eyes, I heard my phone vibrate. Email. Scarlett? No... she shouldn't be up this late... unless I woke her up... dammit! I hope I didn't wake her up. She probably has school tomorrow. I rolled over and checked my phone and read her message. She said that she was going to bed, good. I'll respond tomorrow morning then. I rolled over, and within minutes I fell asleep.

[Time Skip to the next morning]

I woke up from my nightmare at about 5 in the morning. Great, 4 hours of sleep. This is going to be great. I got up and went to the bathroom and cleaned myself up a bit. I went to lay back down and my phone went off. Just a stupid ad in my email. I turned my sound off and rolled over. I wanted to go back to sleep. I tried to go back to sleep, and eventually I started to drift off. But soon I woke up from my daze and looked at the clock and saw that it as 7:30. I wonder if the hotel serves breakfast for the people who can't sleep. I grabbed my phone and saw that Scarlett had said that she was up, and free to talk basically all day. I happily typed my response. 

"Good Morning. I hope you slept well. At least, I hope you slept better than I did. I know you have school, and I have adult shit to do, but hopefully we'll be able to talk a bit today. I'd really like to get to know about your playing. You've fascinated me, I never knew someone so young could be so talented after-I believe you said 4 years? Anyway, you're damn good. And I'm really interested in getting to know why. I hope to talk to you soon."

And I hit send. I went back to the bathroom and got myself a little bit more presentable, and went downstairs in search of breakfast. I wandered my way around the hotel until I found the scent of coffee and followed it to the source. Thankfully, I didn't have to wait for a new pot to be brewed. I stumbled my way around the buffet and took my share back to my room. I curled up back in bed and ate my breakfast. After I finished, I didn't know where to put my plates, so I just left them in my mini kitchen. God, as much as it sucks to be in a shit relationship, its really lonely when you don't have anyone with you. I've been alone for a fair amount of time, but still... it never gets any easier. I check my phone again for the time, and decide I have enough time for a nap. I turn the heat up a bit, and drop into bed. Instead of laying down, I end up going for a smoke instead. Maybe thats why I'm like this, I haven't had a cigarette in hours. 

[POV Switch to Scarlett]

Its lunch time and I finally get some time to explain my whole guitar story to Dave. I pull his contact up, and start my onslaught of typing.

"Well, since you're so interested, I'll start you from the beginning. When I was little, a friend of mine who was a lot older took lessons from one of the teachers at the school. She inspired me greatly, so much that I got a guitar for my birthday, so I could play myself. Well, I never got any real lessons, so I just strummed and pretended to know what I was doing. Then, when I got older, the same teacher offered up lessons to anyone who wanted them. I was reluctant, but my parents pushed me into it. It was a rough start, the calluses were the worst part of the whole thing. But eventually I got used to the pain of the calluses and I started getting good at the whole rhythm playing thing. I always wanted to be able to do crazy stuff like you do, so I would always try to do my best to progress to get to that point. Eventually I figured out that he couldn't teach me how to do those things. But I kept trying to play more and more to be as best as I could, even though I basically knew that I'd ever really get to be as good as you. Later on in my playing I started to play around with tabs, and I've basically been self taught from there. I'm not really all that good, since I have to play simplified versions of songs, but I still try anyway. Hope this does a little bit to explain my background. I'd go into more details, but I feel like that would bore you, but I'm up to go more in depth if you want me to. Hope this helps! :)"