"And I'm from a different world entirely," Karla said with a laugh. "Kiss kiss--I'm Karla, by the way."

She pulled up the song list and paged through until she found the songs with keyboard parts. Marshall didn't want to know how long it had taken her to learn even that much of the game.

"Shall we pick a song neither of us know?" she offered, picking up a guitar. "This way, we'll both be on equal footing."