Chapter 3 - Gen 6 - Lyric

As well as the sing-o-grams the best way to gain experience, a good way to get people to hear me singing and of course the extra cash comes in handy is playing for tips in the park.

So I started to spend most of the day in the park on and off playing for tips in between doing sing o grams.  My parents spent a lot of time in the park so I got to see quite a bit of them, Dad I didn't mind, but Mom she was really getting on my nerves just being around all the time.  Dad always took an interest in my singing and threw quite a lot of cash into my pot.  Mom just took very little notice, too busy talking to anybody and everybody who appeared in the park.

 

The twins have had their birthday and are now teenagers.  Symphony looked like Mom and Harper I though had turned out to be quite a handsome boy to say that he had two ugly parents.  Neither of the them really got on with Mom very much, she has treated the younger twins no better than the rest of us.

I had a few cheer up sing-o-gram to do, with each one I was getting to meet someone new, at the rate I was going I was going to know everyone who lived in this town before long.  I was always at a disadvantage because they already knew who I was and generally most of the time I also ended up having to sign an autograph or they wanted to take a photo.

I headed back to the park to sing for tips again until it went dark.  I had no more sing-o-grams for the day so I went home to catch up on some sleep.  Singing for tips was pretty exhausting and I ached from head to foot.

When I got home, watching my Granddad hugging the ghost of my dead Grandmother was a pretty strange thing to see!!!  I went to bed and left him to it, wandering if I was so tired that my mind was playing tricks on me.

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Apricot:  "Where are we Cain?  This isn't our home."
Cain:  "We have moved to a new town."
Apricot:  "Why? Did you move back to Jugville?"
Cain:  "No, a new town, but I've told you all this already!!"
Apricot:  "Where are the children?"
Cain:  "Its exactly the same as I told you two days ago Apricot, don't you remember?"

Ever since we arrived in the new town Apricots ghost has appeared quite often and unlike before she now talks to me and when she is out and the boys are sleeping, me and Apricot spend the night together.
I know she is a ghost but while she is here and talking to me and I can hear her voice, I can pretend she is real, even though I know she isn't.  Just for a short time I can truly be happy.

We sit talking until it starts to become light.

When the sun comes up she has to leave.

And I am left all alone and the hurt starts all over again.

For me this is never going to end.

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I am taking a day off from singing for tips today, there is a simfest in the park that I want to watch, because I am hoping that I will soon be good enough to take part in one.  I started to get calls and the sing-o-grams started to mount up.  Straight after the show had finished I took off to do the first one.

Before I left the park I got stopped by quite a cute guy who wanted my autograph.

Standing quite close to him I thought he was more than just cute he was Hot!!  I know, I can dream but he was too good looking for me, he would never look at me twice with my ugly face, and never in a million years would I be lucky enough for him to be gay.  It didn't help me when he started to act like an excited fan, I swear my blood pressure went up a notch or two, my heart started beating faster and my hand was shaking so badly I could hardly sign my name.

I couldn't have been thinking straight, I was curious, I wanted to know what star sign he was and my mouth just came out with the questions while I was still wandering in my head whether it was a good idea or not.

I was fairly surprised when the question didn't seem to phase him, I would expect a straight guy to be offended by another guy asking him that question, but he wasn't.  Pisces, that's handy, the same as mine, but its not like it was going to do me any good.  Its probably best I walk away now before I make a fool of myself, my heart started racing again and I knew if I stood there for much longer, I would make a fool of myself.  I left to do the first sing-o-gram and after I had left I realised, I didn't even know his name.

I knew his name before I even realised I did.  Forrest Knight, I was on my way back to the park after doing a few jobs to do a cheer up sing-o-grame for a Forrest Knight who was in the park I had left about an hour ago.  I nearly died when I got there and realised that the "Hot" guy was still in the park and he was the one who I had to do the sing-o-gram for.

 

That felt pretty awkward for me, and the way he reacted just about tilted me over the edge.  I knew from that moment on I wasn't getting him out of my head and he was going to drive me crazy.  I needed to get away from him, I wanted to do something stupid but knew I had to be realistic, he isn't going to be gay, he wouldn't look at me twice, I needed to move away but my feet were rooted to the spot and wouldn't let me.

I was saved by my phone which started ringing, it was my sister Symphony she wanted to chat.  Forrest hung around waiting for me I think to finish my call, but then he looked at his watched pulled a face like he might be late for something, he gestured that he was going, waved and jumped quickly into a cab and left.  I was disappointed but at the same time I was also relieved.

I had one more job to do, funnily in the same park, so I didn't have to travel anywhere.  It was a celebration sing-o-gram and I realised the guy I recognised from school and had just had his birthday.

I got stopped by Neville South for a photograph.  That was me done for the day, I didn't feel like hanging around to play for tips so I went home to eat.

Grandad was out when I got back. I hadn't spent much time with him lately but he was keeping himself pretty busy with my Aunt Dixie and Uncle Brice who have had another baby, well twins, a boy and a girl.  Piper said he was off visiting his new grandchildren again.  Piper was staying over at Brandy's so that left me rattling round the big house on my own which was exactly what I didn't need at the moment, without company to keep me occupied I kept finding my mind drifting to Forrest.

The only thing I could do to keep myself occupied was singing so I went down into the basement to play with the karaoke machine.

When that didn't work I tried practising a few of my songs and when that didn't work I gave up and went to bed.

I didn't sleep very well and when I did sleep I was dreaming about him.

 I had not been up long when my phone started ringing, it was an unknown number.

Lyric:  "Hello."
Forrest: "Hi, its Forrest I'm not sure if you remember me........"
Lyric:  "The park yesterday, yes I remember."  (Like I could forget!!)
Forrest:  "I hope you don't mind me phoning you."
Lyric:  "No, its fine, really!!"  (Hell, he phoned me, why on earth would he want to phone me?)
Forrest:  "I was just wandering if you wanted to hang out sometime."
Lyric:  "Eerr when?"
Forrest:  "I don't have to go to work till 3pm today, how about this morning?"
Lyric:  "Ok, where?"  (My mouth is saying yes and my brain is screaming NO!!)
Forrest:  "Mine if you like - do you know Chapel street?"
Lyric:  "Yes."
Forrest:  "No. 12, I'll see you soon then."
Lyric:  "Ok give me half an hour."

Hell, what have I just done!!  I should have told him I was busy, I should be avoiding him not hanging out with him, I had a feeling seeing him this morning was just going to make me feel worse.

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Chapter 4

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