Duet: an Avi Kaplan fanfic

Rain, fights, and three little words

A/N: I hope you guys like the longer chapter.  If there is anyone who is better at making covers than me and wold be willing to help me out, let me know in the comments. I am also working on a Scomiche One Shot book so if you have any ideas, let me know by leaving me a comment below. Thanks, you beautiful people.

               -Emmi

My job as choir teacher at Jordan Middle School is exhausting. Don’t get me wrong it’s a lot of fun but it’s a lot of work. There are these girls who won’t shut up. Another girl who is so quiet I can barely hear her. We have a guy who is the only one whose voice has changed and he doesn’t sound quite right with everyone else.

Finally, it is the weekend and I am going to a park with Avi again. As we’re walking under the cloudy sky, we play the “favorites game”, as Mel calls it.

“Color.” Avi says.

“Green,” I answer.

“Same here, that’s why I think you’re eyes are so beautiful” just then the rain that has been threatening to fall all day starts to pour out of the sky. Avi curses under his breath and suggests we go back to his house. I shake my head and squeal, throw my head back and arms out. I spin and shout “I LOVE THE RAIN!”  I really do. I love that smell of hidden freshness. I love the soft symphony the raindrops make as they hit the earth. I love the shine of wet pavement.

Avi laughs at me and I open my eyes to look at him. H’s just grinning as he watches me. I close my eyes and keep turning slow circles in the downpour.

Suddenly Avi has me caught up in his arms and sings quietly in my ear. It is the most amazing thing. He was singing some melody that I didn’t know and then he shifts into Just the Way You Are by Bruno Mars. At the sound of the familiar song, a shiver runs down my body, leaving goose bumps in its wake. I really want to turn around and kiss him but that would make him stop singing. So I stand there, wrapped in his embrace, until he gets to the second chorus. From there I cut in, keeping the words but changing the melody.

When I finish, Avi asks me, “Have you practiced that? It was amazing, you have a beautiful voice.” I can’t help it, I twist and press my lips to his. He quickly returns the kiss and it grows deeper but as I open my mouth the rain water streaming down our faces gets in and I choke.

We break apart and he asks if I’m okay. I tell him yes and we start off in the general direction of his apartment since neither of us had brought a car. “Would you believe you are the only person who has said that to me besides my sister, mom and Mel?” I ask as we walk.

“Seriously? What about when you did Evolution of music for your college talent night? Surely somebody came up and told you did great, right?”

“Sure, I got the usual, ‘Good job Arya’ and even ‘That was so cool, how did you do that?’ but nothing else. There was this one girl in my voice class who hated me, so she picked the one song that we both knew I couldn’t do. She was amazing and all the complements went to her, not me. You really think it was good?”