Mighty Long Fall (open)

[Axelle Flint]

"When we met the pain stood still
It was us
Then suddenly it's where'd you go
The system blew
I knew

This side of me I want a little more
But inside it seems I’m just a little boy
Nothing else!

Don't go it's a mighty long fall
When you thought love was the top Ooohhhhh
Oh no it's a wake up call
When your life went into shock Whoaaa
It seems like gravity keeps pulling us back down Whooaaaa
Don't go it's a mighty long fall
When you know time is up Whoaa - oohh"

The muted, almost quiet sounds of an electric guitar played through the back hallway of the auditorium where the music rooms sat mostly quiet at the end of the day. Occupying the room in question was Axelle Flint and her guitar, a speaker hooked into her phone to provide some back ground music as her fingers (with pick) busily played out the lead guitar's melody. Inside the room the sound was almost deafening, Axelle's voice almost yelling into the microphone she had set up. There was something about this song in particular that had resonated with her recently and since her father had given her the single as a late birthday present she had listened to it obsessivly on repeat. The song, though at times in Japanese held a desperate emotion that she could almost touch in the music.

The band, from Japan was called ONE OK ROCK, and she had found them while putzing around YouTube one day and had fallen instantly in love. It had taken her almost two years of saving to buy their entire current discography and have it shipped to her. Her father's gift of their latest single "Mighty Long Fall" brought her collection to completion at the moment and she was grateful. As the Japanese lyrics came on she only hummed the melody because the words were too fast and confusing for her to have learned yet but the moment the english lyrics came back she was singing with the sort of reckless abandon she had come to be known for.

"Get up Get up Get up Get up
Time to make amends for what you did
Get up Get up Get up Get up
Running with the demons in your head

Let's shout it out completely
You never really wanna know
Let's shout it out we're screaming
Oh Oh

Don't go it's a mighty long fall
When you thought love was the top Ooohhhhh
Oh no it's a wake up call
When your life went into shock Whoaaa
It seems like gravity keeps pulling us back down Whooaaaa
Don't go it's a mighty long fall
When you know time is up Whoaa - oohh"

As the chords faded from their echo she stood there, head down, breathing heavily. Her fingers itched to play again.

So she did.

She changed the pitch in her voice, a little deeper, more desperate, more emotional...raw and aching. She thought of how she had been avoiding everyone recently, the way she flinched when someone moved to touch her, how she flinched to keep from touching others. She thought she'd been getting better. After that night with Benji she had been so confident. She wasn't sure where it had all gone. After all the drama surrounding Lucas and Benji and everything with Salem and the accident on top she just felt so low. So she was pulling herself up again, one song at a time, she could be strong enough for herself and everyone to lean on when things got bad and if she couldn't take care of herself when she was aching and in need, who else could?

She'd be stronger; she would absolutely be stronger, for everyone, but mostly for herself.

[Sawyer Lynn]

Hammel had seemed less hectic the past few weeks, even now that summer was nearing the end. She had been stuck on campus for two main reasons; summer classes and the fact that home meant nothing anymore. So really, she was glad she didn't have to go.

But it did mean lonely nights and days on campus, which just meant she could run around the halls doing God knows what without much consequences.

Like right then, she was listening to her music player and dancing about without having to deal with bumping into people and getting frozen or jelly legged on the spot.

She was passing the auditorium when she heard a different kind of music vibrating through the doors. Pulling down her headphones, she approached the door and opened one, peeking inside to find a redhead down on stage.

Raising an eyebrow, she went inside and sat at the nearest chair, enjoying the performance. Girl seemed to be putting a lot of emotion into the song. When she was done, Sawyer gave her a clap.

"You're pretty good. Waiting for your big break?" She asked, projecting her voice to travel the big hall.

[Axelle Flint]

Axelle about jumped out of her skin when she heard the voice of another person in the room with her. "WHAT THE~shiiiit!" she exclaimed as her heart raced and tried to choke her as it leapt into her throat. When she had taken a few seconds to calm down and carefully put her guitar back on its stand she looked at the person who'd walked in on her. "Hey sorry, you surprised me," she said with a cough. "And uh, no not really. I mean, it would be great if that happened but I just like music...I don't know if I could ever be famous." she admitted. She'd thought about it but she liked cars more, she liked the shop, she wanted to make it more profitable and be successful doing something like fixing cars for a living.

Axelle tilted her head and looked at the girl, she was sure she had at least a few classes with her. "But thanks!" she added with a smile. "Uh, was I too loud or?" she couldn't really understand why someone would have stumbled in here unless they had a complaint...even though this girl, shoot what was her name, had complimented her instead of complaining. "I'm sorry, your name is like...Cindy right? Sam? Sorry I'm really bad with names," she admitted. "I'm Axelle."


((ooc: I looked at Sawyer's bio and she's the same age (thereabouts) as Axe so they've probably have classes or something even if they've not really interacted much))

[Sawyer Lynn]

The girl's reaction had Sawyer snickering in the back row. She was supposed to be nicer now that she had been knocked down by life, having to stay another year at a place she hadn't wanted to call home. But no. She was still a sad as shit prankster who couldn't be bothered by genuine niceties.

Although she was being rather generous with her compliment.

"Nah, you were...adequately noisy." Sawyer's head bounced up and down before chuckling at the mix up with names. She mouthed the name Cindy with a snort, thinking if she had been named Cindy, she would have more reason to hate her parents as it were.

"Sawyer, mate. Name's Sawyer." She responded before jumping out of her seat and walking to the front via jumping from chair to chair. "Your name though. I mean...damn, what were your parents thinking? Wait...lemme guess...dad loves cars?"

[Axelle Flint]

Axelle nodded with embarrassment. Adequately noisy didn't seem like a compliment or an insult...she wasn't sure how she should react to that other than going "Ah, gotcha," and dropping the subject.

"Sawyer," she muttered to herself, feeling bad that she'd forgotten it and resolving to remember from now on. She couldn’t help frowning though at the girl's next comment about her name. "Um, no...well I mean, he's a mechanic so he likes cars, I like cars, my grandfather likes cars and yeah, we’re all mechanics; but no. It's the female form of the name Aksel, spelled with a ‘k’ which is the Medieval Danish variant of the biblical name "Absalom"," she explained (what? She could know things, she’d asked him once!).

"He read it in a book once and liked it so that's what he named me. I don't think my mother cared, she gave me "Mae" as a middle name," she grimaced, her irritation vanishing as she launched into a mini rant. "What the hell kind of name is "Mae" anyway? It's like so unoriginal," she sighed.

“Anyway Sawyer’s a cool name, how’d you end up with that since we’re on that subject?” she asked casually, voice laced with genuine curiosity as she took her guitar off and set it gently down on its stand after unplugging it from the amplifier. She turned the device off seconds later and unplugged her phone from the speaker she had plugged it in to.