17 Original song (1/2)

The next day started like usual, Sam woke up and took a shower, prepared breakfast for Em and then took her to school. After all that happened yesterday it was weird that the day started so normally but Em seemed to have forgotten about it so Sam didn't say much and just left her be after a reminder, even if she spoke about what happened yesterday who would believe that Sam had a gun ? If someone believes her and called the police they wouldn't find anything so everything was fine. He was a bit worried about Tony and Leo trying to take revenge but they were just small time gangsters, of course they'll be too afraid to try him when he could be carrying a gun all the time. Back at the present Sam dropped Em at school, he greeted teacher Rose on his way and left for school. As the bike was way faster than the subway it took him way less time to arrive.

”Hey Sam you got a bike ?”

”Yo Eric, cool right ?”

Eric came closer to take a look and then looked at Sam weirdly...

”This sticker...”

He was speaking about a half torn Yamaha sticker on the front.

”Did you steal this from Tony ?”

”What do you mean steal ?! I'm not a thief ! I bought it from him.”

”Come on man he would never sell it, you shouldn't steal even from villains man...”

”I told you I didn't steal it, he gave it to me... from his own volition.”

Eric kept looking at him weirdly, would someone really give away his beloved bike to someone he hate?

”Let's go or we'll be late for class.”

Said Sam, the weird look Eric threw him really made him uncomfortable. When they arrived in the class Tony was already sitting in the front row, he looked back and slowly took a piece of paper from his bag. He walked with shaking legs toward Sam and then gave him the piece of paper with misty eyes, it seemed like he was gonna cry. He just wiped his eyes and left back to his seat, meanwhile Sam was checking the paper. Now the bike was his, he'd just have to change the name on the paper and everything was done.

After school Sam picked up Em and went toward the recording studio, he directly went into Keith's room without knocking.

”Yo Keith, I wanna do an original song. Can you help me ?”

Keith was sitting in front of his computer and playing a game, he looked at Sam and smiled

”Do you have anything ready ?”

”Yeah I've worked on the guitar melody, I'm busy with the lyrics at the moment and I'll need you to do the post prod work.”

Em was already sitting on the couch playing a game on Sam's phone, she never cared much about what they talked about. Whenever they came here she just sat on the same couch and played the same games.

”Yeah I can help you...”

Then they started working on the song, the instruments, the pace, the rhythm...

They were finally done around 7 pm. Em was tired and wanted to go home so he left Keith do the rest of the work, he gave him the instructions and now just had to wait for him to get done with his job.

Keith was a very nice guy, he didn't ask for anything in exchange and just helped him. They were getting closer for sure and Sam felt like they already were friends.

Time went by slowly, Sam had tons of works to do. With the help of Keith they came closer and closer to a satisfying result, since Sam couldn't keep Em with him everyday she'd spend a lot of time at Annie's place playing with her friend Rika.

Right now the song was written, recorded and produced. Sam's fulfilling feeling was accompanied by a confused one, 'what next ?' He thought, what was the next step ?

”Yo Keith, what's the next step ?”

He was sitting on a second chair in front of Keith's material and both of them were eating a sandwich they had bought from a convenience store not too far.

”What do you mean ? The song is ready, you'll have to publish it on streaming platforms I guess ? I don't know much about this.”

”You don't know either ? I guess I'll just keep going on YouTube for the moment, opportunities will present themselves.”