Lights! Camera! Lyra! (open)

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It was late right now, and while Lyra did love her sleep....there was something she wanted to do. When Lyra first entered this school....she didn't know what to do. She barely spoke and she only did what she was told. She was a sophmore now...and as of last year, she had been getting braver, bolder. While she still didn't like singing in front of audiences for fear of a repeat of the incident that landed her here....she missed the stage. She missed performing. So, here she was.

Lyra slowly crept into the auditorium, somehow dodging the Prefect patrols. It was dark and the girl could barely see so, she felt along the walls for a switch. Suddenly, the room came alive. Lights and flickered on, revealing a stage with metal chairs organized throughout the room.

A wide smile grew on her face as the girl hurriedly ran up the steps and stood in the center. Should she try and sing a little? Maybe but, someone might hear her.....

A sigh escaped her lips as she began to walk off the stage. She didn't even notice the wires spread around the floor, with a yelp she found herself crashing to the ground. Panic soon filled her eyes. What if someone heard that? What if a prefect found her? Not good!

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Ren crept his way through the dark hallways. He was walking down low like a bear, a quick and quiet shadow in the school. He was passing the auditorium when the sudden light made him jump up. He peered inside, looking around he noticed not the girl, but the drumset laying alone back on the stage.

He opened the door and shuffled inside. He made his way down the side corridor, focused only on the drums. He used to be a great drummer until he stopped a few years back. He wanted to see if he could work some nice beats again. He slid onto the stage and sat in the seat at the drums.

Something made a loud crash and thump. He startled and fell back in the seat. "Owww." He groaned, peering over the drumset. He saw the source of the noise, the girl whom he had not noticed. He crouched there watching, deciding to get up and walk over to her. He picked up one or the wires and started to quietly untangle it from her.

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Lyra tried to scramble to her feet when she heard someone enter and she approach the stage. Godo thing was, whoever it was didn't seem to notice. Oh no! What if it was a prefect! She didn't want to get expelled or sneaking out or something!! Lyra wouldn't go do well in government prison...not at all!!!

But, soon she felt the wires slowly start to untangle from her ankles, and when she looked up...a cute boy was standing there? He didn't have the prefect insignia...so that meant she was safe right? With a dark blush, the blue-haired girl slowly began to stand up.

"T-thank you." She said. Then something occured to her....where had he been? She looked up and saw the toppled over seat at the drums....and a thought occured to her.

"Do you play?" She asked, gesturing to the set.

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Ren nodded his answer when the girl asked if he played the drums. He straightened himself upright and walked to behind the drumset again. There he uprighted the seat so he could sit comfortably and picked up the drumsticks. He tapped on the set piece by piece lightly to test each one. The set sounded fine so he was now ready to play!

"Can you sing?" Ren said in a friendly challenge kind of way. He proceeded to ready with a slight drumroll and felt he was warmed up now. He figured an old favorite of his would be great to play. He started up the beat for Why Should I Worry which was a song he loved by Billy Joel.

The light tapping on the cymbals began. His strikes were precise and accurate. He smiled when he realized he still had it in him. He looked to the girl as to let her know the lyrics would be helpful. He hoped she could get the idea before it was too into the song beat.

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Lyra blinked as he walked over to the drums...and did he ask what she thought he did? She couldn't help the small smile cross her face as he began to play a song that she knew. He began to play, and in her opinion the boy was quite good and she couldn't help but smile and feel the urge to move to the beat.

He was looking at her now. Did he really want her to...to to...sing? She didn't know if she still could anymore. She had never sung in front of anyone else...for fear of hurting them...You have to try, Lyra...she told herself. She had to. She couldn't keep such an important part of herself hidden.

Slowly, she began to add the vocals. Her voice started out as timid and quiet.....maybe she should just stop...No! She berated herself. She couldn't just hide from who she was. She took a deep breath, and she began to sing. To really sing. Soon enough, the auditorium was filled with her sweet sounding, soprano voice. A bright smile engulfed her features, as she began to move along to the beat as well.

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Ren smiled when she started to sing. He felt uneasiness go away as it was beat off by the pounding rhythm of the drums. His worries flowed into every beat, the sour pang becoming a sweet taste to the ear. This girl was a good singer too, he liked the fact of that. He realized how much better this would be with a guitarist though.

At this point he didn't care to let anything else worry him. He was here, drumming, and having a great time with someone he hardly knew. Soon enough he heard himself start to sing along with the girl. The strong melody thrumming the auditorium as the music sounded.

Soon enough he came to the end if the song, and gave a cross-beat to finish the song off. "Nice job!" He said cheerfully as the echoing started dying down in the room. He was significantly enlightened by the event that just happened. He figured they would be fine, if any prefects or whatnotcame, he could create a diversion to get away if so.

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The second the song ended, Lyra smiled and jumped up and down happily just like a little girl would. "That was fun..." She smiled. "you were really good." It was still missing something vitally important though....but still. It was a lot of fun....and...it created a small tone of nostalgia in her heart. It had been awhile since she had actually sang with someone in the room.....she hadn't realized exactly how much she missed it.

During the course of that song, her worreis were forgotten . Nothing mattered, not even the risk of them being caught by a prefect....Nothing. All that counted was the fact that they had just sung a great song.

"Oh....um...my name's Lyra by the way." She smiled at him. "Whats your name?"

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Ren watched her jump up and down with a small smile. He liked to see people happy, it made his day much better too. She said it was fun just now, so she must have liked it a lot. He thought about how they could maybe make a band or something!

"Ah! I- I'm Ren! Nice to meet you." He said with a quick nod after he introduced himself. He looked the girl over, interesting anyways. He brushed a wisp of hair from his eyes and got up to stretch. "What were you doing here anyways before this?"

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"nice to meet you too. " Then he asked what she was doing here....and a small blush stained her fair cheeks. "Oh...well um....it's...hard to explain...." She said quietly. "I used to perform in front of crowds a lot....and I missed it....so I came here...Then well I...tripped." She stated

"What were you doing here?" She asked re-directing the question at him. She didn't think many people would sneak out at night to the auditorium...maybe to the courtyard or the beach...those places seemed pretty popular choices in late night rendezvous locations

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"I came here when I had half a heart attack in the hall when the lights in here came on, then I saw the drumset." He explained his reasoning quick and clearly. He took another stretch before pacing around, then over to Lyra. He in truth, actually liked that name, it had a nice ring to it somehow.

"I like your name by the way, sounds interesting." He said trying not to sound too interested, more just like a general compliment. He started walking for a second, until he caught his foot on a wire that is. So it turned out that he of course ended up toppling into Lyra. "Wooaahh!" He exclaimed during his fall.

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"Oh...I'm sorry...that was my fault." She said, afterall, she was the one who flicked the lights on. She watched as he paced about, studying him with a slight interest. He had a cute face, with that dark hair and big green eyes. The contrast was appealing. Then he said something.

"Thanks...I like it too." Lyra preferred unusual names. She wouldn't ever name a child of hers something ordinary and common like Brittany or Steven. Then all of the sudden Ren tripped and toppled into her. Lyra, being the petite girl she was, was immediately knocked off her feet. She fell hard against the ground with his weight placed on top of her.

A hard blush appeared on her cheeks. "A-Are you okay...?"

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Ren was dazed for a moment before he realized what had happened. "Ah! I'm so sorry!" He said scrambling off of her, shaking his head to clear it. "I'm fine, but are you okay?" He asked, his cheeks flushing to become as red as a poppy flower. He flicked his gaze around nervously, as he did skit when embarrassing things happened.

He sat there on the ground for a bit. Wow, she's cute, and she smells good too... He thought inside his head. "I- I'm really s- sorry about th- that..." He stammered, making himself seem pretty goofy. His face was totally reddened now, he felt butterflies in his stomach. Not real ones though, just the feeling.

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Lyra slowly sat up, lowering her head a bit as she stared at the ground. "I-I'm fine" She said, as she began to stroke one of her pigtails. Doing so was a nervous habit of her's....She slowly raised her gaze to look at him again. He was rather cute.....the dark hair and green eyes had an attractive contrast about them.

Things faded into an awkward silence, as that blush continued to stain her cheeks. "It's okay....I'm pretty clumsy too....I've walked straight into trees before..."

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Ren looked at her looking down at the ground. He rubbed the back of his head in thought at something. "Umm... Ah!" He said, as he just thought of something that may make the mood less odd. "Did ya know, I got my last name Wallis for one reason. I used to ram into walls!" He exclaimed with a slight chuckle.

"That one sucked didn't it?" He said dully. "That was worst than the time I saw my little sister naked when she was eleven... Eerhhh..." He said with an amusing shiver. He looked at her to see if she wouldn't seem so uncomfortable, although he figured he would get up. Crap, the wires! So it turned out that he took another tumble into Lyra.

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She giggled a bit. He was goofy wasn't he? That was probably one of the cheesiest jokes the blue haired girl had ever heard. "A little" she said honestly. Wait....did he just say he saw his...sister...naked? that was a rather odd thing to tell someone who you had just met. This boy was stranger than most, by far.

Lyra let out a little 'eek!' of surprise, when he suddenly toppled onto her again. The blush that was slowly starting to fade once again reached it's full capacity.