~Rising, Shooting, and Falling Stars~

~Chapter 7~

[POV Stays Scarlett]
After I hit send I started eating. Tobias was a little late because he had something to do, but he soon came over and we started our lunch. After lunch we went to our separate classes and I started to talk to Dave for a bit. He had asked about certain details about my playing, my preference, and style. As we continued going back and forth, I realized that he seemed to be more interested in my playing than he was in me. But I guess I can't blame him, there isn't really much to me. Eventually as the school day came to a close, he stopped responding. I figured he had stuff to do, as he had mentioned earlier. I went to track practice and managed to escape the judgmental glances of the people who saw my encounter yesterday. Luckily we had a free practice where we chose what we did, and I was the only one who chose to lift weights again. After practice I checked my phone to see what time it was and to ask my mom if I could go over to Tobias' house for a few hours. 4 messages from Dave... odd. I opened the first one, and read carefully, then read the second, third, and fourth. The first message was him talking about how much he wanted to play with me. The second was him talking about a show coming up that he would love for me to be in, the third was him asking if that was too much, or if he was being too forward too quick, and the fourth one was him basically panicking and apologizing for him being too forward. I started to get a little worried for him, so I started typing as quick as I could. 

"Hey, Dave, calm down. Its ok. I was just busy for a while so I couldn't answer you. You didn't do anything wrong. No need to panic or apologize. I will definitely be up for a one on one jam session with you, but I would have to ask my mom about the performance. I'm still kinda busy at the moment, but I will try to get back to you as soon as I can. Please don't panic, everything will be fine, and I will get you an answer on that performance as soon as I can. I have to go, I will talk to you later."

I hit send and I hoped that I didn't seem too motherly or anything. Eh, it wouldn't hurt to send another message letting him know that.

"Also, sorry if I seemed a little too 'motherly' in that last message. I just wanted to calm you down, and I guess I went a little overboard. Sorry about that."

Sent. Now I have some business to attend to. 

[Time Skip to a few hours later]

I walked in the door to have a nice and slobbery kiss on the cheek. 

"I missed you too, Spike." I said as I pet Spike on the head. "Y'know, we autta play some fetch some time soon." I say as I walked up the stairs. 

I didn't even remember to check my phone, I just started straight on my homework. Thankfully, I only had a few things to do. After I finished my homework I checked my phone. Dave had responded, and this time he was back to his normal self. He had asked when I would next be available to play one on one with him, and he said there was no rush on the answer for the performance. I replied back a quick ok, and I will let him know when I find out. He replied almost instantly. 

"Ok, sounds good. Hey, listen. I know this all might be a lot way too fast, but I want to say thank you for sticking with everything. Hopefully this hasn't been too weird for you. I honestly couldn't let myself see your talent slip away from me. You have something special that I used to see in myself, that I no longer see in myself, or anyone else. I know this sounds weird, but if I could, I would love to take you under my arm and teach you some stuff. I dunno, I guess I'd like to mentor you and help you grow more into your guitar career. That is, if you choose to pursue guitar. So... that is my side.... sorry if thats weird, or if it makes you uncomfortable... I thought that telling you my side of all of this would make things a little easier to understand, but I'm sorry if I did just the opposite. Even if mentoring you wouldn't work out, I'd still like to keep in touch and maybe play from time to time. But I guess time will tell. I hope I haven't scared you away now... I hope to hear from you soon... ~Dave"

[POV Switch to Scarlett's thoughts]

Wow... what a bombshell... well, I guess not a "bombshell" but still... thats surprising.... THE Dave Navarro wants to mentor me. I wasn't expecting that... I guess I have decisions to make. I guess doing the one on one with Dave is a start. And I will make sure to do it... but then what? Play with THE Dave Navarro at a live venue? Well, I hope my mom doesn't cut my head off for this.