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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 21, 2004 4:34:31 GMT
Vanessa Link, exitted the Hufflepuff Common Room, in her normal mood. She was home sick, but not much. She missed home but she missed her piano more than her home. Vanessa sighed as she turned right down a corridor entered an empty classroom. Lately she had been writing music, without a piano so she had no clue how it sounded. That bugged Vanessa. She didn't know what she needed to work on!
She normally came to this empty classroom, to think, write, sing, study, and many others. And all those times it had been empty, why did she think it would be tonight? It was like a force, it drew her to it. And she knew better than to fight most supernaturual forces, considering she had dealt with many of those in her day.
Vanessa placed her bookbag down on the floor near a desk and withdrew her wand. Waved it around in the air and muttered the words for a charm she had learned earlier that day. It was a charm for music to play in the background, but she was blending it with another. She knew it wasn't going to work, but it was worth a try. Right?
Nothing happened. Vanessa sighed and put her wand on the desk that her bag was near. No use in trying again. She sat down at the desk and laid her head on the cool table. Her heart beat steadily, like a rhthym of steady music notes, a chord of some sort. She sat up as lightly the music began to fill the air. She smiled to herself, proud with her accomplishment.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 21, 2004 4:44:34 GMT
Katie was in the Gryffindor common room playing her guitar but people kept on asking her if she would quit it down or leave. As a girl asked her to leave Katie was mad and she stormed out of the Gryffindor common room with her guitar, wand, and back pack.
She was walking down a corridor and let her mind race. She was thinking of her crush and new plans for a prank.
What about.......giving flowers to someone and then it hits the person with ink in their face.... Katie thought in her mind. She didn’t have many good pranks but she was learning.
As she was walking down the corridor she heard a faint sound of music. She closed her eyes and her body sent her in the direction of the music. She noticed it was a class room. She peeked through the window and noticed a girl writing music down. Katie smiled at the girl and opened the door and walked inside to meet her.
"Hello I am Katie Davenport. I love the music you are playing." Katie said smiling at the older girl.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 21, 2004 4:49:37 GMT
As Katie entered the classroom the music immediatly cut off and Vanessa turned to face the newcomer. She managed a smile, but it was crooked. She wasn't used to greeting people.
"H-hi. I'm Va-Vanessa Li-Link." Vanessa smiled and looked at her music as Katie complimented it. Vanessa looked back up, amazed that Katie had enjoyed it. She never let anyone listen to her music, it was a miracle that she wasn't wanting to yell at Katie for eavesdropping.
"Th-thanks." Vanessa said. Her eyes wandered to Katie's guitar, she shifted in her seat and fized her chocolate eyes on Katie's.
"D-do you play?" She asked, her heart beating with anticipation. Hoping that there was another person who in this school enjoyed music as much as she did.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 21, 2004 4:57:59 GMT
Katie than seat next to Vanessa and flashed a welcoming smile.
"Oh yes I play and write my own songs. But I am not all music girl I am troublesome. Well with the help of Jordan and Dillion I will be known" Katie said in a confident voice.
Katie also noticed that Vanessa was a little shy. She didn’t won’t to make her feel uncomferable so she than tuned down her high energy and looked at Vanessa with her sparkling eyes of mischief.
"I can tell you play the piano from the music. It the styling of the music that was playing. I personally love Batweethoen ninth sympathy." Katie said smiling and playing the song in her mind.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 21, 2004 5:05:43 GMT
Vanessa laughed at Katie mentioning Jordan. Vanessa and Jordan weren't friends, but she had heard enough about Jordan and Dillion to keep her laughing for the longest time. Her eyes sparked at the mention of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Vanessa could actually play that piece...that is...if she had her piano.
"I love that piece! I can play that piece! Or could, if I had a piano. You are so lucky you play guitar...it's portable!" Vanessa giggled and gasped at her own outgoingness. But it was something about being close to a fellow musician that brought that friendly side of her out.
"How long have you been playing? I started playing when I was 6, after my parents died. I got my first piano when iwas 11, along with my Hogwarts letter. So I only got to play on it once. What about you?" Vanessa found herself rambling, and that surprised her. She was normally a well thought out girl, but not tonight. No, she actually had someone talking to her.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 21, 2004 5:18:38 GMT
Katie nodded her head at Vanessa. She too could talk all night about music and play.
"I been playing since I was four. My mom taught me how to play." Katie said trying to hold back strong tears. She didn’t want to break out in front of Vanessa she needed to be strong.
"It’s good to start at a young age than in your later days." Katie said smiling at Vanessa. She knew that Vanessa missed her piano.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 21, 2004 5:23:17 GMT
"I agree...my uncle taught me. When I was throwing tantrums about my mum's death, he told me to learn the piano and he taught me. So I am here today, all my emotions go into my music. I can blame it all on him if a piece comes out wrong." Vanessa told Katie. Her aunt had never approved of her playing piano, she said it gave her a terrible head ache...but Vanessa knew it was because of all the alcohol she drank each night before bed.
"I want to be one of the greats, like Beethoven, or Chopin, or one of them! I want to keep on living even after I've died..." Vanessa smiled and looked down at her music, but there was no way she could be that. Her music wasn't nearly as good as the others she had mentioned. And even if she did write a great piece, who would want to publish it?
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 21, 2004 5:30:03 GMT
Katie smiled at Vanessa and was holding her guitar and looking at it.
"Play now!" a harsh voice said in her mind but she pushed it away.
"It will happen soon I can tell. You love your music and everything." Katie said smiling once again. She than began to think of a song about someone she really liked. She than started to play some cords.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 23, 2004 20:07:42 GMT
She smiled and brushed her finger against the corner of the paper, to smoothen out an edge. She looked up at Katie, the wildest idea had come to her mind.
"Ma-Maybe you would like to meet my Uncle? He plays the guitar, and the piano...and oh he could help in so many ways! Maybe you could come over to my house sometime? During break or something? That would be so cool..." Vanessa trailed off, a genuine smile on her face. Hoping that Katie would accept.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 23, 2004 20:23:42 GMT
-My computer acting weird it won’t show where I can post so I have to find it myself if\d your computer doing that?-
Katie looked up at Brooke and smiled. She was shocked someone asked her to go to their house. Only Jordan did but that was for other reasons.
"That would be great" Katie said flashing a big smile.
As silence was in the room Katie than stared off into space and started to think. She normally thout about prank ideas, songs to write, or boys. For an 11 year old Katie loved boys!
She than noticed her back pack and it had her journal in it. Katie shifted her gaze off into space to her journal. She was thinking if she should write in it or not. After a while of being teased Katie grabbed it and opened it up and wrote down some ideas she could show Jordan, Dilllion, and Brooke. She could tell that she was starting to take a real liking to those people. They were all like her love trouble and playing pranks.
Katie than looked up and into Vanessa eyes and smiled. She could imagine herself like that at times. Shy, careful, and kind. But now she was a wild child and wonting more in on pranks.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 23, 2004 20:32:52 GMT
-Hmm, no..not that I can see..-
Vanessa smiled at Katie, and giggled at the sight her house would be to Katie. Vanessa wasn't rich, nor poor, she was average. And the only thing worth money that she had was her piano. That was it. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Taking up a pen Vanessa began to write, when she was finished she set it down and stood up, the paper in her hands.
"Crashed on the floor when I moved in
this little bungalow with some strange new friends
Stay up too late and I'm too thin
We promise eachother it's till the end
now we're spinning empty bottles it's the five of us
with Pretty eyed boys girls die to trust
I can't resist the day, no I can't resist the day." Vanessa sang, her eyes closed her diapraghm expanding and her mind wandering.
((Lyrics written by Vanessa Carlton.))
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 27, 2004 6:30:08 GMT
Katie than stared off into space as Vanessa started to write lyrics down on a paper. She started to hum to herself a new song she was making up for Jordan. She than took out her note book and started to write down her lyrics. As she reached the end she smiled and than took out her guitar and started to play the notes. After messing up a few times she smiled as she got the sweet melody down.
She played it once again and closed her eyes
"Just a couple months ago..... I lived with a man who would hurt me.... I couldnt find the sunshine.... until now..... you were my light in my darkest hour.... you were my soul protecting me...... and how can I ever repay you.... from giving me this new life." Katie sang as she opened her eyes.
She looked up at vanessa and tried to smile. She thought that was so horrible and it didnt even Ryphme to her.
"That was horrible......." Katie said crumbling up the song she wrote and threw it to the other side of the room.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 27, 2004 6:41:52 GMT
Vanessa winced at the music. She nodded as Katie threw it across the room. She sat down next to her, took a quill and started to write.
"Half a week before the winter
The chill bites before it comes
And I'm a child of the pleasure
That he brings before he runs.
He sits behind a desk of mohagony
He whispers dreams into my ear
Though I've given him his empire
He delivers me my fear.
The unicorns are riding high
Powerful in coats of white
I turn to look but burn my eyes
I carry on, I carry..." Vanessa handed the paper to Katie, and looked at her...wondering if she liked it any.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 27, 2004 6:51:43 GMT
Katie looked up at Vanessa and her eyes were swelling up in tears. She than could see her father flash before her eyes and fear sturcked her heart. Katie tought it was beautiful allot better than anything she would ever write.
"Its......... beautiful....." Katie said looking up at Vanessa with her light green eyes almost in tears. She wasnt going to tell Vanessa about her past not just yet.
"My pain and sorrow lays beneath the wodden flours of my heart.
I must carry on and forget him but it always comes back once again.
I may think of beautiful unicorns running across the forrest
But nothing will take the fear in my heart that was stored there and never be taken out." Katie whispered as a tear went down her check.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 27, 2004 6:59:49 GMT
Vanessa smiled, and looked down. She loved writing,but it embarassed her so much.
"That could be the next verse. Just arrange it to fit the melody." Vanessa told her with her eyes sparkling with delight and happiness. But, that soon stopped when she saw Katie crying. Vanessa looked down, not knowing what to do.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 27, 2004 7:08:27 GMT
Katie than looked away from Vanessa and wipped the tears away. Why was she crying her father wasnt here and she wasnt his daughter anymore. Katie than looked up at Vanessa and closed her eyes nooding her head. She was so young when this all happen, her father hating her and hitting her, her mothers death and left Katie to defend for herself.
As Kaite closed her eyes and started to play the guitar she tried to thing of something happy. Puppies, Kitens, brooms, Jordan anything that would make her heart beat once again. But those images didnt come in her mind it was something horrfying that came in. She opened her eyes beforing watching the scene that was behind her eyes that always haunted her. Every night when she went to bed it was always their haunting her. Katie never knew how to get rid of it she wonted to tell Jordan or anyone about the dream but it was hard to desirde.
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Post by VanessaLink on Nov 27, 2004 7:17:58 GMT
Vanessa sensed something wrong with Katie, but having no idea what was wrong, she couldn't do anything. All Vanessa did was think about what had happened when she was younger, thinking back to the horrid images. And yet she didn't cry. She didn't dare cry.
BIG GIRLS DONT CRY! She remembered, her aunt screaming at her after her mothers death.
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Post by quidditchgrl34 on Nov 27, 2004 7:24:09 GMT
Katie than noticed they both were having mental break downs, she seemed to be the queen of it. Katie looked up at Vanessa and nooded her head and more tears went down her checks. She grabbed her guitar and back pack and swung it over her shoulder. She than shoot out the empty class room and ran down the corridor running where her feet take her.
"Stop your running this instant!" yelled a Professor but Katie kept on runing ingnoring the professor.
"Stop running Katie" katie screamed in her mind as she reached a dea end. As she reached the wall she bumped into it and looked both directions for a dark corner. She saw it and went over towards it and went on her knees and hide. She can't believe she was doing this she needed to be strong she just needed to be.
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