OOM: Open-Mic 2

[mogget_cat]

Yrael and Teja step through the door and out into a deserted alleyway in New Orleans. It's evening, here, around eight o'clock with the sun just having fully set. The people in the street before them haven't noticed them yet.

"All right... to find a clothing shop."

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[mogget_cat]

The applause after the song is enthusiastic, causing the singer and his friends to grin, waving to a few audience members they know.

Their next song is slightly faster, a walking pace, still with the ache of the second song. Still bluesy, with that sense of 'having been done wrong.' Alas, the song says, love is cruel. But we can't help it.

"Just as I thought I'd made it
You walk back into my life.
Just like you never left.

Just as I'd learned to be lonely,
You call up to tell me
You're not sure if you're ready.
Oh but ready or not,
you'll take what you've got
and leave.

Leave me alone with my heart
I'm putting the pieces back together again.
Just leave, leave me alone with my dreams.
I can do without you, you know what I mean...

I wish I could write a love song,
To show you the way I feel.
Seems you don't like to listen-
Oh but like it or not,
you take what you've got
and you leave.

Leave me alone with my heart-
It's broken in two and I'm not,
I'm not thinking too straight.
Just leave, leave me alone with my dreams
You've taken everything else,
you know what I mean."

[ostro_goth]

Teja listens, sighing. Who knows what he may be thinking of?

Something in this music resonates in Teja's soul. He looks at Yrael, trying to convey his approval without disturbing the music.

[mogget_cat]

Yrael smiles slightly, understanding. As the band finishes their set and moves off the stage, Yrael stands to get ready for his own performance.

"I'll find you some CDs of blues music when we get back to the bar," he says under the general applause for "Felix White," who will be performing next.

[ostro_goth]

"Thank you!" Teja says, reaching out to touch Yrael's arm. "Good luck, Yrael!"

[mogget_cat]

"Thanks," he grins as he passes, climbing the stairs onto the stage and taking up his guitar.

The crowd is applauding, but isn't going wild over this performer.

Yrael means to change that, if one can read the set of his smirk.

[ostro_goth]

Teja cheers, moderately -- no point in overdoing it. But he cheers!