Musical muse (Cade)

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Ashley Vae	Musical muse (Cade)		Lead	[-]
Posts: 114 08/09/07 14:24:46	Tags : cade Why had she been volunteered for this job? Ashley really wanted to know and understand why her parents had left this up to her It was silly for them to not do this themselves. Nope they had insisted that she should do it after all he was her younger brother. It wasn't that she didn't like her brother much the opposite in fact. She just knew him well enough that the chore and yes this could be categorized as a chore would end with her getting a headache a bad one. David was taking band class when he started 8^th grade. He could not play an instrument but wanted to learn. The problem was he had no idea what he wanted to play. So her parents had sent Ashley with David to go to Musicians Warehouse so he could look around and get an idea of what he may want get. They did not even give her money to buy anything was only told take him there let him look around and later we'll take him back and buy what he decides on. Sounded like bitch work to her. Oh well it got her out of house and though she knew there was a good chance she would get bored while David looked about the store. Entering the north end entrance to the mall Ashley walked to the Musicians Warehouse. She had been in the store once before. Entering she realized her memory of the size of the store was correct and she knew her patience would not last the day. The store was huge; it was two stories and full of different type of instruments. It could very well take hours for David to decide on assuming he decided at all. Moving ahead of her David started to browse through the many different instruments making small and rather silly comments about the instruments he was looking at. Fifteen minutes into looking Ashley was already leaning against an aisle arms crossed as David looked about. "Anything yet?" He turned giving her a look and shook his head. "No patience girl I just started looking." Sighing she nodded her head and watched him walk off. Standing up straight she followed him. Last Edited By: Ashley Vae 08/17/07 06:38:08. Edited 2 times.
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Purplefurp		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31 08/09/07 19:27:48	Summer was nearing its end, and school shopping started. These were the times when the buying rose. Had to love school bands, parents and kids coming in for instruments as well as supplies. Cade was one of the stores better sales people. His record sales was the prior month with three pianos out the door. At the moment Cade was talking to a guy looking for a guitar. Of course like all beginners, the dude had no idea what he wanted. " Well it all depends on what you want in a guitar. Are you looking for sound quality? Better crunch with a distortion? If you want the new rock sound and have a wide variety of effect usage, you'll want a stratocaster….and I can show you the different models and price ranges. If you want something that works killer with just the basic effects and gives you the old school sound, I can show you a few styles like the Les Paul, Gibson or Fender." The guy just nodded as he was listening to Cade but clearly in his face it showed he didn't understand one thing he just said. "Well what kind of guitar do you play?" The guy asked. Cade hated this question as it plainly said "I'm too stupid to decide or explore my avenues, tell me what you use and I'll just use the same." Cade shrugged as he answered. "I own two electrics, I have a sunburst Fender Stratocaster and a green Gibson flying V." The guy chewed the inside of his cheek as he thought about the two Cade just told him. "Mmmm, I'll just keep looking." Cade nodded and placed his hand on the guy's shoulder. "Alright, take your time in choosing. Buying a guitar is like buying a car, you'll want to really make sure it's what you want." The guy smiled at that and Cade walked off to look for another to help. Glancing to the left, he spotted a girl and a younger boy walking among the horn section. Walking over, Cade announced his arrival to Ashley and her brother with a .. " Hi, may I help you with anything?"
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Ashley Vae		#2	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 08/09/07 19:53:20	Hearing a voice Ashley looked up to see Cade. He looked familiar to her but she could not fully place it. That bothered her a little since he looked like someone she would not easily forget. Mentally shrugging she opened her mouth to respond to him. Never getting the chance David stepped forward and spoke up having suddenly no issue with the question. "I'm looking for an instrument for a band class. Starting to lean towards a trumpet. You guys got any of those?" Smiling Ashley moved up beside David a strange look on her face. This whole time he had kept on claiming that he was completely clueless as to what he wnated and the moment. The first frelling moment someone else asked the same question she kept asking him he answered straight off. Why did he do things like that? She just didn't get it. Ok maybe she did it was to irritate the hell out of her and it worked. Every single time it worked. She spoke shortly after doing little to hide her annoyance with her little brother. "He needs something that'd be good for beginners." Grabbing the back of David's neck she squeezed slightly to show her annoyance to him which caused him to look back at her and smirk.
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Purplefurp		#3	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31 08/09/07 20:56:55	Finally, today someone who knew what they were looking for. After the dozen of idiots who had come in today, Cade welcomed this customer. "Sure do, we have a huge selection of trumpets. I'm pretty sure we could find one for you." Then the boy's sister chimed in. Explaining that they also needed it to be a beginners model. Great! More information needed to find the perfect product. Sometimes Cade wished more customers would be like these two. "Beginners model? This way." Cade ushered them to the area they had passed moments before to where the trumpets were displayed. Looking at Ashley's brother, Cade turned towards the horns and looked over the models there. Finding one he felt would be right for the younger boy, Cade took it from the wall and placed it into David's hands. "How does that one feel in your hands?" As the boy flet the trumpet out so he could answer, Cade looked at Ashley. "Oh, hey….Now I remember where I seen you before. We had History class last year… Mr. Roberts class? I was the kid who had hidden a piece of chalk in his eraser, that made him pissed because every time he erased the board it would make a line where he had just taken the previous writing off."
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Ashley Vae		#4	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 08/09/07 21:50:23	Watching David with the trumpet he seemed to like it. At least he was studying it very, very closely. Not a bad sign at all. Turning her attention away from David she looked over at Cade who thankfully recognized her as well. It was nice to know she was not wrong but unfortunately she could not for the life of her remember his name. Was a good chance she never learned it and if she had well she sucked at names. Laughing at what he said she nodded her head to the statement. "I remember that! The poor guy couldn't for the life of him figure out why chalk kept showing up after he erased his writing." Ok she had always wondered who had done that. It had been really funny at the time and by the end of class her and most of the other students were in tears from laughing so hard. It was a needed stress release for her one she rarely got. "It was really funny. Especially since Mr. Roberts had such a hard time realizing there was chalk in his eraser. To pissed for his brain to click."
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Purplefurp		#5	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31 08/11/07 10:46:04	"Yeah, Roberts isn't the brightest crayon in the box, you know?"Cade said with a fleeting smile. That was something very rare for him to do, smile. And like now, when he did smile it was never on his face for more than a couple seconds. Something about it made him uncomfortable and hurt his face as well. Maybe it was the lack of smiling that made his muscles ache when he did. Or maybe that his hurt deep inside did it. Whatever it was, it made it difficult for him to keep a smile for long. Looking at her brother, Cade noticed he still held that horn and was more enraptured by it. "I think we got ourselves a winner. And a good choice too by the way." He said to her brother David. "This is one of our best selling beginners models as well as one of the best sounding. You got taste there dude." Cade said to David. One thing with Cade at work, he was always truthful.
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Ashley Vae		#6	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 08/11/07 13:00:03	"Yeah, Roberts isn't the brightest crayon in the box, you know?" "No he's not." That teacher hadn't been all that great of one. In fact he had almost destroyed her GPA. Mr. Roberts had the class do a big project and told them to leave what they had done with him. She did as told and the moron lost it and then the jerk had the nerve to tell her she should not have trusted him with it and left the problem fully to her. Boy was she not happy with him that day. It was one of her better days. That one little trick Cade had done to him had really cracker her up partially because of what the stupid teacher had done to her at the time. Small bit of justice that at the time she had wished she had done to him. Looking over at her brother he looked up and smiled"Yup think this is the one." Ashley looked back a David and gave him another look why did he makes it so hard with her but someone else come up and he has it all figured out? Torment, he was tormenting her that's it. "How much?" Her parent's had given her a little money to buy an instrument but if it was more then that then they'd have to go in and get it themselves.
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Purplefurp		#7	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31 08/11/07 20:29:29	Cade took the trumpet David gave back after looking at it. "It's a hundred eighty-nine plus tax." Cade said. Placing the display model back on the shelf, Cade motioned for them to follow him. Cade had ushered them to the back where he disappeared through a double door for a few minutes. Re-entering the store from the stock area, he carried a box. Motioning to the register nearby, Cade got behind the counter and placed the box on top of it. " Here's a new one.....as you can see, even shinier than the other one." He joked with her brother as he opened the box and showed off the never before touched trumpet of the same design and make. Closing the box, Cade rang it up. "Total comes to....two hundred four dollars and twelve cents."
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Ashley Vae		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 08/11/07 21:08:20	Following Cade Ashley looked over at David who was looking very excited at finding an instrument that he wnated. Guiding him a head of her. She looked into her bag and checked the amount of money with her. her parents had given her exactly 200 dollars. She knew there was a good chance with tax it would be more then that. Thankfully she had a little of her own money hopefully enough to cover it because the look on David's face was enough to say were note leaving here without it. Waiting for Cade to return she looked over at her brother and stuck her tongue out at him. "Hope you actually stick with this and learn it or you'll never get our parents' to buy you anything like this ever again." The two followed Cade to the cash registrar and after hearing how much it was Ashely pulled out 205 dollars. "Here you go. Handing over the money she looked over at David and smiled "well at least someone in this family will be musical inclined." Music was nevre her strong point. her mom could play the guitar not professionally but decently and hoped both her her children would learn to play. Ashley just never got into it. Though trying to learn to play piano from a book that gave brightly colored stickers to indicate the different chords had not been all that helpfully in teaching her to play. Sure she could hit the right color but to know what cord was what by memory? Nope she never could wrap her mind around it.
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Purplefurp		#9	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31 08/12/07 14:11:31	Cade rang the transaction out. Giving Ashley her change, Cade then packaged the box. Handing the bag to her brother, Cade leaned against the counter. " If you can stick with it, you will find music can do a lot for you. Especially if you need to express how you feel without using words. Or if you need a little pick me up from bad day. It helps me. I just grab my guitar or sit at my piano." Music was the thing that Cade believed to heal all. It did wonders for him at times. He always wondered how people could not find the time and place the determination in learning. If they knew how much good it could do, he felt everyone would do it. "So, you're not musically inclined?" He asked Ashley. A little teasing but it was all in good fun after all.
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Ashley Vae		#10	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 08/12/07 18:10:52	Ashley looked over at him and crunched her nose. Musically inclined her? Not even close. She had tried and tried to play an instrument but it had never stuck. Now it was something that she would have liked to be able to do. Just was one of the many, many, many....things she had no ability in. She imagined playing an instrument required some type of coordination. To bad she was lacking that, really lacking that. Falling up the stairs was a norm of hers. "Me? Musical inclined?? Umm hardly.I can't sing. I've tried to learn my parents' piano just never got past chopsticks. Hell I can't even whistle or snap my fingers." Pathetic she knew. Talent was not something she had. She could draw a little it wasn't what she would call amazing work though. Not something she could use to get into art school. No instead everything she did required hard work and a lot of it. A lot of sweat, frustration and a mixed up with a few colorful metaphors. Jealous it was the best way she could describe those people who had talent any ability she really lacked. Oh well she shouldn't dwell on it. Having no way to fix it she had to accept it and move on.
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Purplefurp		#11	[url]	[-]
Posts: 31 09/08/07 19:38:33	" Are you serious??" Cade asked in slight disbelief. Everyone always said they could not do this or that. Fact was, people was too caught up in other things to take the time to really learn anything worth learning to his thinking. Seeing no one else waited behind her to be rung out for anything, Cade leaned against the counter top. " I don't believe that crap you just spoke...." Cade admitted to her as he looked around to double check to see if there was a customer waiting. "...Tell you what, I give piano lessons every day from 4pm to 6pm." Cade took out a piece of paper, wrote a number down and handed it to Ashley. " Here, this is my home number. You can call anytime if you choose to want to really learn. And I promise I will try to make a liar out of you." Cade said with a smile. There were two people he actually got to learn to play somewhat decent. " Or, you can take a few lessons and make me out to be the liar." The teen added as he waited for her answer.
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Ashley Vae		#12	[url]	[-]
Posts: 114 09/19/07 18:55:35	" Are you serious??" Nodding to his question she shrugged her shoulders. Not everyone was talented in everything, music was one of those things she was not all that great with. She did not see it as that big of a deal. Seemed Cade though was extremely shocked by her small revelation. Strange it didn't seem all that important to her. "I don't believe that crap you just spoke...." Believe it or not what she said was true shrugging her shoulders at him she could not make what she said any truer then it was. As he gave her his card she looked down at it. His handwriting though was scribbled onto the note was better then her own. That didn't say much. Ok it said nothing. Her writing was not that great at all. Putting the number in her wallet she shrugged her shoulders. Maybe she would try to take a few lessons, she doubted it would help her. Also it depended on how busy school got. The more homework she had the less free time here was for her. "I just may take you up on that offer." Last Edited By: Ashley Vae 09/19/07 20:09:13. Edited 3 times.
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