The Seasons

Like Someone in Love

"Anthony looks like the self centered type, you know," Stephen sat outside with a cigarette loosely in between his lips, with David sat directly next to him.

The two had gone out for a short smoke break from playing, also allowing Ant to help teach Declan a bit in the meantime. It was getting fairly late, and the nightly chill slowly began to bite at the two, the only thing that distracted them from this was the heat of the cigarette between their lips and hands.

"Hm?" David puffed out the smoke from his mouth whilst turning and looking at Stephen.

"I mean, Ant," Stephen stared at the sky as night slowly began to fall, hearing a faint 'oh' from the latter, "I think he always does his best. He's a good guy don't you think?"

"Yeah," David had no clue where all this talk was coming from, probably from the new presence of Declan, but he didn't disagree with that he had to say.

"So I was right, right?! You also think so too?!" The Londoner turned to him, slightly confused but glad he agreed.

David was a little thrown off by his weirdness and energy, all this seemed to be obvious when it came to Ant, "Not really, he's been like that for a long time hasn't he?"

"He has? Didn't he have an attitude at first?"

"I mean yeah, but..." David chuckled before continuing his sentence, "He doesn't run wild on his own during performances. Also, he's good at guitar for his age and he's good to paying attention to the sounds around him. He has an attitude because of that. It's just cause he's young... I mean I'm sure you were like that, if not worse when you were his age."

"I was probably less talented than he was," Stephen laughed and ran his hands through the bangs that rounded his face. David was right, he had an attitude twice the size of Ant's when he was in highschool. If anything, Ant is mature for his age.

"There is no probably, you were most definitely less talented," David smirked at him as he rubbed his cigarette out, "Basically, I think he's an honest and good guy. He may seem grumpy sometimes, but we both know he's a big softie on the inside."

"David, I never really realized how much you pay attention to people around you," Stephen laughed, "It's weird not hearing you so smutty and cheeky all the time."

"Don't get so used to it Stevie, there's plenty of smutty and cheeky comments saved up for you," David smiled as stood up and stretched his body out, "We should probably head back in now."

The blue eyed man stood up and mimicked Davids stretches, "Aye."

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"First, is this part. Basically the sounds come from here between the pickups," Ant was squatted down pointing to the different parts of the guitar as Declan sat on a stool in front of him, "You should try out some chords and memorize them. Basically, you need to know what sounds will come out."

"Okay," Dec nodded and stared at Ant, letting him continue talking.

"You see, there's a lot of blokes who can't remember chords and don't understand this stuff well."

"I see."

"First, do your best to completely copy a song, anything is fine. Start with the intro, and when you can play it move on to the verse. Sound like a plan?" Ant looked at him holding up an 'okay' symbol with his hand.

"Yeah," The brunette boy nodded again.

"You've been saying, 'yeah' or 'okay' or 'I see' for a while," Ant stood up and rose one of his eyebrows, questioning his ability to listen, "Are you really listening to me?"