8 Singing a due (1/2)
The next day Sam sent Em to school and took the subway to university, he was starting to feel an urge to get his own car. One of his first things to buy except new clothes and a better computer was a car. He was still wearing his old saggy clothes as he didn't buy anything since the change of corpulence he had gotten from the 10 strength points.
On his back was a big guitar case and he was holding his backpack in his hand. He took his guitar to train a bit between classes as he always had a long time of boredom during the holes in his schedule. Soon the subway made it to the university station and lots of students got down there. Amongst them was Sophia, she had seen Sam and he had also seen here but none of them went to greet the other.
”Hey isn't it Sam !”
From behind him he heard a girl's voice, he turned around and realized it was Annie, Rika's big sister.
”Hey Annie, you get down here too ?”
”Yeah I study here, I didn't know you did too.”
”Yeah forgot to mention it, by the way you didn't mention it too.”
”Haha my bad.”
”Does your brother study here too ?”
”No there is no medical section in this university and he want to be a doctor so he go to another one.”
This scene didn't escape Sophia's eyes, she could hear them speaking but she saw very well how close they were walking and the way Annie looked at Sam, actually she was misunderstanding everything as she thought Annie was Sam's new girlfriend and Even though Annie had favorable feelings toward Sam she didn't look at him with these kind of feelings, that weird jealousy that was growing inside her made her misunderstand their relationship. The issue was that she couldn't do anything about it, she was the one who had left Sam for money so even if they really dated it had nothing to do with her anymore.
After entering the campus both Annie and Sam went in their respective direction, the morning classes went by in a flash and it was noontime, Sam had his own food he sat on the stairs in front of the football
(Author note : in France we call soccer football, so I'm speaking about a soccer field here.) field, a few dudes and girls were having fun there playing a unfair 3 versus 4 match but they had made a guy vs girls team so the 3 players team was actually dominating, the girls looked very clumsy with the ball but it was actually cute.
He still had 40 minutes after having eaten hit lunch so Sam took out his guitar and sang.
He first sang a very catchy song, Sugar by Francesco Yates. The sound of the guitar and his voice very soon traveled to all the people around him, they all got closer to hear him better and everybody was amazed. He was very good and was becoming even better with time passing, the skill books were good but he could still improve without them. At the moment he was somewhere around lvl 1 and a half singer maybe ?
Amongst the people watching him was Annie with a friend of her. She didn't expect Sam to know how to sing as he never mentioned it, actually Em had told it to Rika but the later didn't think it was an important detail.
Sam wasn't tired and sang another song after that one, very soon he had sang 5 songs but was too engrossed to realize he had been surrounded.
Annie came close and sat down next to him and started to sing with him, at the moment he was singing 'Islands In The Stream' by The Shires, it was originally a duet song but he sang only the male part and when Annie joined him she took the female part, he wasn't expecting this so he stopped playing the guitar for a second and looked at her. When he saw her smiling he did the same and started playing again and then they did the real duet. They sang perfectly, and their complicity was actually very good for a first time singing together, Annie's voice was smooth and appeasing while Sam's voice was deep and very energetic, it felt very different from the original but the result was impressive.
Finally they stopped singing and people started to leave, Sam and Annie were still seated next to each other.
”You actually can sing this well, I didn't expect it !”