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Cellos, Guitars, and Basses! Oh My!; Pickles Isn't Clever - (Lýdie, Ash)
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The day was over at Ravencroft once again; as usual, half the students flooded out of the facility while the other hung around for a variety of reasons. One of these students was the redheaded student who came from the Czech Republic not long ago. She hadn't been attending Ravencroft for all that long; she had a hang of all her classes, she understood her schedule, but she still had plenty to learn about her new school. This was her reason for staying after today, she had asked her father to hold off on picking her up so she could explore a little. It only took her a matter of moments to find her way into the music room on the fourth floor.

It was unoccupied, weirdly; maybe no clubs were meeting here today. A smile grew on Lýdie's face; a place to practice. She pushed the door behind her; not knowing it didn't fully shut, and walked over to one of the many seats laying about, her instrument, carefully preserved in it's case, on her back. She slid it off her back as casually as one would slide off an old coat, and sat down before opening her case which had been placed carefully next to her seat. She lifted the comically sized instrument out and rested it against her person, making various quick checks of the device to make sure it was in working-order.

She looked through some of her songs and pondered which one she should play. After a while, she shrugged and decided upon the Russian National Anthem, as most of the other tunes she had she had played to death. She borrowed a sheet-music stand from the corner of the room, set her music up, readied her hands, and started and began to move her bow as dexterously as one would expect a musician of her caliber to move a bow.

Little did she know; she was about to receive an unexpected visitor.

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Little did she know indeed... as quite possibly her polar opposite happens to walk past the room, just as she starts playing. A buff, six-foot tall tan guy carrying a guitar case, the jacket of his uniform already lost to the backpack he carries as well, leaving him in just a worn out white tshirt with navy blue shoulder-sleeves.

He peeks in, wondering what the sound is, as he hasnt actually heard a cello in quite some time. Possibly ever. He's more curious than anything else, as he didn't really see the girl carrying the cello - more a cello case walking itself down the hallway, with feet and a bit of red hair off to one side. As would be the case for her.

Regardless, he walks in about halfway through the anthem, kicking the door closed as he grabs a folding chair from nearby, then wincing slightly at the heavy CLUNK of the door shutting. "...er... sup?"
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The Czech lass didn't notice the towering student who had entered initially; it took the loud clunk of the door to truly snap her out of the rhythm of the music. She stopped her bow abruptly mid-movement and looked up at the student from her seat. This man was like her antithesis; tall and stocky where she was petite and thin, and where she wore her uniform in only the neatest fashion, he wore his in a rather... careless fashion. At the man's side, in his hand, was a case for an instrument, likely a guitar of some sort, judging by the shape and size. She had no clue how to react in this situation; how was she supposed to react?

"...Err... sup?" he had asked, breaking the silence. "...Uhh..." the girl slowly started. "-Not... much... I guess?" Lýdie slowly responded in her Eastern European accent as her bow hung in her right hand lazily. She shifted her eyes about in an awkward fashion; she really didn't have any clue as to what to do next. "So... what brings you... here?" she asked, for lack of any other possible question she could think of, as she slowly started to raise her bow up and look for where she was in the anthem.

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"Just checkin' out what this place had to offer fer a band room." The australian accent was there, but not nearly as pronounced as her accent, be he was clearly a foreigner too. He walks in, looking at her large instrument, grabbing a folding chair as he goes.

"So... Oi gotta ask, how do you lug that bigass thing around all day? Looks loike its bigger than you." He opens the metal folding chair with a strong flick of his hand, then sets it down and sits on it, almost immediately slouching a bit. "Plus yer all fancied up for just school. You just move here too?"
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"So... Oi gotta ask, how do you lug that bigass thing around all day? Looks loike its bigger than you." the fellow student said in a noticeable Australian accent. Lýdie, momentarily confused by what "that bigass thing" he was referring to, looked around before realizing that he was talking about her cello. While she would've said something along the lines of "that beautiful instrument," or "that magnificent piece-of-art," she figured "that bigass thing" fit the bill as well. "Well..." she started slowly as she put her bow back in the cello case.

"-It's not the instrument that's the heavy part." she continued, demonstrating this by effortlessly picking up the 6-pound work-of-art with one hand. "The case, however..." she said, looking at the open case sitting next to her. "That one right there is about 8 kilos." she continued, gesturing towards it. "It, plus the actual cello and all of my other stuff, comes to around... 11 kilos? I'm pretty sure." she added, stopping for a moment to do the math in her head. She then remembered that he had asked something else as well; something about her just moving to Rockport "too"?

"And... yes, I moved in not too long ago." she answered, nodding her head.

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"Huh... loighter'n it looks, oi guess."
He shrugs, lifting up his guitar case onto his lap, a more modern looking fabric and plastic case, with a few random bumper stickers here and there on it.
"Where you move here from?"
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It was at this point that Lýdie remembered that she had never even met this guy before, but for some reason he was acting as if the two of them knew each-other like the sides of a coin. "Wait, wait, wait..." Lýdie suddenly blurted out, putting her hands out in-front of her as though she were trying to stop a train from hitting her. She remained quiet for a moment, so she could thoroughly think out her next words in a methodical manner. She took a small breath in and small breath out and started to speak once again.

"No offense, if that's the right phrase here in America, but who are you, exactly? Have we met before?" Lydie asked in a neutral tone. "Ahem... what I meant to say was-" she started again after clearing her throat. "-That we have never been properly introduced; or introduced in any fashion, really." she continued, this time in a more gentle tone. She started to put her things away, as she doubted that she'd be practicing for a while thanks to her new-found company. "I figure it would probably be easier for us to talk if we actually knew who each of us is. So; my name is Lýdie Janoušek, yours is..?" Lydie explained, trailing off on the end to allow the Australian to give his name.

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"I can... almost pronounce that." He chuckles. "Ashl-- Ashton Kelly. Call me Ash."

He looks curious as she puts away her instrument. "What, you dont want to have a jam session?" He says with a big grin.
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"I usually don't do duets; I'm a 'Lone Wolf,' as you Westerners would say." Lýdie pointed out to Ashton as she remained crouched, placing everything back into the hard-case. "Last time I was involved in any group performance, some talentu kus-of-hovno with a tuba ruined the whole show." she said, with a bit of her native Czech-tongue mixed in, in an irritated tone, reminiscing of the time the bastard passed out mid-performance. She later learned that he apparently he had been holding out the fact that he had been developing respiratory problems at the time; the damn Spaniard. She glanced over her shoulder at his guitar case with a smile. "-Besides, I don't think Cellos and Electric Guitars mix all that well." she said with a small, playful smile on her face.

With moderate strain showing on her face, she lifted the case up off the floor before swinging it up and slipping her arms into the straps on either side of the case. She took a few small, deep breaths in and exhaled before turning to face Mr. Kelly once again. "I'm still free to talk, if you're wanting to join me to the door, Mr. Kelly." she pointed out, checking the time, noticing that her ride would be here in a few minutes.

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"She's actually more of a bass." He stays sitting for the moment, trying one more time to get a duet out of this. "Ya sure? Oi'm a play by ear sort, you can lead."

In fairness, he has no idea what he's doing or if that could work, but damned if he isnt going to be enthusiastic about it!
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With her cello on her back, Lýdie quietly contemplated the offer. It definitely wouldn't hurt for her to at least try her hand at a duet; the last time she did a duet it was a lack-luster affair but it had worked out. For a few more moments, she stood silently by the door in thought before turning back around and taking the case off her back. "I'll take you up on your offer then, Mr. Steve Irwin" Lýdie joked, saying the first Australian name that came to mind. She hastily started to empty her case's contents before grabbing a sheet-music stand and setting it up for both her and Ashton. She shuffled the many packets of music she had in her case, debating between several at a time.

"Sorry, none of my stuff is very modern." she stated over her shoulder as she continued to narrow down her choices. Finally she decided on a piano piece by Tom Lehrer, a "We Will All Go Together" which was written back in the 1950s. She set the packet up on the music stand gingerly and went about getting her instrument into proper position. "I hope you have no problems playing." she told Ashton before giving the packet a quick last look-over. Everything seemed to be in order, so she took a few breaths in-and-out before she tapped her feet a few times to get a proper beat in her head.

"One, and two, and three..." she counted off before she started the piece.

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Ash's eye twitched slightly at the Steve Irwin line, but he didnt comment. Mostly because once he was handed the music packet, he looked it over, and started growing increasingly confused as he flipped through it.

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"One, and two, and three..." she counted off before she started the piece.


"Wait, wait, wait... Uhh, not sure how you learned music, but I dont know what mosta this note crap means. I never took real music classes." He scratches his head, setting his guitar in place. "Learned everything by ear. Just, uh... Just play through it once and Ill figure it out the next time."

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The piece screeched to a sudden halt when Ashton suddenly cut in. "Wait, wait, wait... Uhh: not sure how you learned music, but I don't know what mosta this note crap means. I never took real music classes." he explained as the redhead lazily lowered the bow to her side. This duet of theirs was starting to take a little too long; her father was likely starting to get a bit impatient if he had arrived at the school to pick her up on time. As much as Lýdie wanted to actually play this duet; she had to get going.

She glanced up at the clock, making sure that they really had no more time. "Uhm, Mr. Kelly; I'm sorry to tell this to you, but I really must be going now." she said as she went about putting her stuff away. "I really do want to get together and play this piece though;" she told Ashton as she gathered up all the sheets of music and put it all back into her case. With the case all filled up, Lýdie shut it and slung it over her back. She started towards the door; "Just come and find me if you're still wanting that duet." she added as she twisted the door knob and pushed the door open before heading out into the hall.

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