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 Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:20 pm
"Mmhmm..." He propped his feet more comfortably over the arm of the couch and muted the strings as he thumbed them idly.
After several phantasms of unplayed chords (the music being in his head instead), he eventually settled on "Carol of the Bells." After one run, he added what part of the lyrics he remembered and, assuming Chel joined in at any part, supplemented a counter melody.
Or if she chose not to, Jack would eventually turn to the ever popular revised edition going Ding fries are done.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2015 11:36 pm
She didn't join in, but mostly because the song was a little too sophisticated for her to know the words. She hummed quietly, which was more than she usually did.
Chel smacked him on the legs when he got to that stupid version. Don't ruin it!
(She was snickering anyways).
Between his chords she said, "Do you know the home for the holidays one? Y'know like-" She began to sing a little, quietly. "Oh There's no place like home for the holidays~"
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:36 am
"Nn-nn. I don't even know the words past what you sang."
But still, Jack gave it a try. Chel was treated to a series of trial and error attempts to figure out the chord progression, made worse by the fact that he didn't even know how the song went in the first place. He had to consult her multiple times, but at least he was a fast learner. It was always a treat to get her to sing and well worth the effort to him.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 10:58 am
Though there was much insisting ("Nevermind then. No really, jus' play somethin' else-") Jack eventually won out and Chel sung what little she could in a very quiet voice, still fading out whenever Jack even so much as hummed. It was a start at least.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:29 am
Despite their mistakes, Jack was looking on warmly by the time they finally finished the song.
"You remember when we did that a year ago?" he asked a few moments. A year ago. "'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree'?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:37 am
Chel was looking on anywhere but Jack, already flustered by the end of one song.
"I remember a lot of stuff a year ago," she told him, finally standing up with a hefty sigh. She gestured that she wanted to take Barbara's place now, thanks.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 11:46 am
It was pretty obvious Jack was enjoying the sight. "Yeah?" He sat up and propped a couch pillow behind his back before setting Barbara down. Once Chel was gotten comfortable, he loosely tied his arms around her and asked, "Like what?"
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:10 pm
"Like you high as a kite and me scared as a mouse," she murmured. "And my face in yer neck just like this."
Her hand traced down his arms, along his veins. "This arm was broken 'an you took your cast off too early."
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:25 pm
"Don't even remember how that happened. But I wanted to play music," he explained with a small shrug. Like the determined dream version with cold fingers and a troubled look. "I remember you had to be annoying, sat right here, and made admit I wanted to be there too."
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 12:43 pm
"Sometimes you need a little push," she explained with a small laugh that she hoped he shared. Jack was nothing if not endlessly late to the party. Later. Chel would always be glad he showed up at all.
"I think I knew you was it- like the one- then, too. Even f'I couldn't say it." Chel's endless struggle with mushy words. At least she had said them by now.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 1:01 pm
He snorted softly in turn, but it wasn't denial. Jack doubted he would have ever found this sort of happiness without these pushes of hers.
"If we're being honest..." His fingers slipped under the edge of her shirt. "You know me, I don't do the soul mate thing. But I knew this—I knew you were going to be something. And I guess I just had to find out what that was."
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 1:07 pm
"A pain in the a**?" she said with a smile.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 1:14 pm
"That wasn't a mystery," he retorted with a smile of his own. "For some reason, I figured my assholeishness and yours would cancel out or something."
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 1:35 pm
"Well that was dumb," she told him plainly. No amount of canceling would ever be enough math to get rid of their assholeishness.
With the lights making the room glow and the tree dangling above her eyesight, Chel couldn't help but feel warm and at peace. She wanted to say something more, keep the conversation going longer, but it all got drowned out in the same way one felt lethargic next to a fire.
Eventually she did pull something up. "S'kinda funny. No one never thought I'd get married and now I'm here doin' it first."
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2015 8:43 pm
"What can I say? Curiosity, much like love, makes you do stupid things," he replied with a simple smile.
In the silence, it was Jack's turn to content himself with a resting spot in the crook of her neck, the familiar warmth and ease of it lulling him into a daze. For once, even thinking of marriage didn't throw him back into that stressful cycle of thoughts that so often put him in an irritable mood--for once, rather than the problems, Jack looked at the pluses. The knowledge that at least this moment was his, theirs. That even Christmas could be saved from his sour outlook.
"Both of us are pretty unlikely candidates," he murmured. "Shows those ********>
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