Roof, Sunday Night

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Pip was up on the roof plunking on his guitar, staring up into the stars.

Jesus. Poor Marie. And to think he started this day planning on soaking everyone.

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Agnes hummed along a little and approached the boy who had auditioned the same day she had. "Hello. You're Pip, right?"

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Pip nodded. "That I am. You're the really amazing singer from yesterday?"

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Agnes' ears turned pink. "Maybe? I'm Agnes."

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"Nice to meet you Agnes," Pip said. "And you were an excellent singer."

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"Thank you. You played very well, too." Well enough that she wasn't really sure why he wasn't in the band, too. "What are you playing now?"

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"Flooding Down in Texas," Pip responded. "By Stevie Ray Vaughn."

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"I don't know much of this world's music yet," Agnes said. She'd been trying to get used to the idea that this wasn't her world. "Just what I've heard on the radio so far."

Ask him to teach you.

Shh.

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"Oh?" Pip said. "What have you heard?"

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Agnes looked wistfully happy at the music she had readily available at her fingertips. "What they play on the radio. There are so many different styles."

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Pip laughed. "So, rock? Pop? Rap?"

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"I don't know?" She said almost apologetically. "Some of it sounds like music with rocks in, and I heard some opera on one station, but then they started asking me for money, so I changed it."

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Pip laughed. "So did it sound anything like... this?" Pip switched to something progressive and hard-rocky.

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"Yes!" Agnes started humming along and then singing wordlessly, Perdita joining in in her somewhat reedy voice.

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Pip blinked for a moment as he continued to play. Was she singing a duet with herself?

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Yes, she was, and not really noticing when she did. It was entirely possible that Perdita was trying to show off for the boy with the pretty hair and eyepatch.

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Pip was impressed. He finished off the guitar solo and clapped.

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Agnes didn't blush. Much. She covered it by taking a small bow. "When did you learn to play?"

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"About seven years ago," Pip said. "Half self-taught, half-kind of taught by a sort of family member."

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She leaned closer to get a good look at the strings. "It's a new instrument to me. We have things with strings like that, but they don't sound the same."

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Pip nodded and held it up. "This is an electric guitar. Slightly different sound than an acoustic."