★Encore★

[Devyn]

"Oh... right now?"
Rose hadn't really expected that, although she probably figured she ought to when it came to Embry.
"Well, mind if I use your guitar?"

[PirateOTC]

He handed it over and sat infront of her now with his legs crossed on the couch

[Devyn]

Rose took the guitar and seated herself down on the couch, smiling uneasily at him.
"Umm..." She flipped through some of the pages on her notebook and stopped at one in particular. She chewed her lip a few times, debating whether or not to play it. It was an emotional song and she had yet to play it aloud, only written it-- but if anyone was going to understand it, it would be her brother.
"Okay, just... this one..." She didn't know exactly how to start explaining. "This one is kinda like... well it's for--" She stalled and shook her head and just started to play. She was pretty sure that he would understand it was for their dad.

"I don't want to talk about it to you
I'm not an open book that you can rifle through
The cold hard truth that you'll see right to
I'm just basket case without you

He's not a magic man or a perfect fit
But had a steady hand and I got used to it
And a glass cage heart and invited me in
And now I'm just a basket case without him

You're begging for the truth
So I'm saying it to you
I've been saving your place
And what good does it do?
Now I'm just a basket case
Now I'm just a basket case

I don't say much and it'll stay that way
You got a steel train touch and I'm just a track you lay
So I'll stay right here underneath you
I'm just a basket case and that what we do

You're begging for the truth
So I'm saying it to you
I've been saving your place
And what good does it do?
Now I'm just a basket case

Won't somebody come on in and tug at my seams?
Oh, send your armies in of robbers and thieves
To steal the state I'm in I don't want it anymore

You're begging for the truth
So I'm saying it to you
I've been saving your place
And what good does it do?
Now I'm just a basket case."


( www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTt4hFBek4 )

[PirateOTC]

He was silent after she had stopped singing and playing, taking in the lyrics and the emotions in her voice.
"It's really good" he said after awhile of silence. "Seriously, it's a great song, you should be out there singing to audience and not just to me"

[Devyn]

Rose smiled at him, glad that he didn't make it awkward at all. She shook her head, "No, I don't want to sing those songs for anybody else. I just... I don't know how to write anything different yet. But those... well, those I don't think people will want to hear."

[PirateOTC]

"So..I guess you've been writing since...since they died? I mean, you never really talked about it so I figured you must've had some other way to deal with it" he nodded towards her notebook.
He hoped she wouldn't close again now though, as he wanted to hear more of her songs, but he knew she hated to talk about their parents and the death.

[Devyn]

Rose shifted, getting uncomfortable with the conversation. "Well, umm... dad taught me to play the guitar a while ago. I mean a couple years before he... died." She looked at Embry for a long moment. "Did they ever tell you what happened, Embry? Like how it happened?"

[PirateOTC]

He looked at her a bit confused.
"What do you mean how it happened?"
of course he knew, or was she talking about something else? He felt confused by her question.

[Devyn]

Rose could see that he didn't full understand and immediately she felt silly for talking about it. She clammed up again and shook her head, "Nothing, stupid... never mind." She leaned down to hand him his guitar, changing the subject.
"Is that a new guitar?"

[PirateOTC]

"wait, what?" he couldn't drop her question.
"I know how they died, they were high and committed suicide"