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Who: Puck, and open to anyone who happens to be passing by.
Where: Starting in the entrance hall, and possibly moving elsewhere, depending on who shows up.
When: Sunday afternoon.
Rating: PG-13.
Summary: Puck finds himself in need of a little music therapy. Busking, Puck-style, is what follows.
The Story:

Puck is definitely not the type of guy who reads. He avoids picking up books as much as he can, and now that he's away from home and school, there's even less reason to waste time on that. But he remembered hearing or reading something about how music can relax people, and in his experience, he knows music has the ability to make him chill out.

And that is exactly what he needs to do right now. So he goes over to the entrance hall, and camps out for awhile with nothing but his guitar and the songs in his head. He's not really expecting to get anything from this, but in case anyone has any cash or other valuable stuff on them, he'll just see that as an added bonus on top of making himself feel better.

"Any requests?" He feels stupid talking to the empty hall, but an imaginary audience is better than none.

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Puck assumes that Ryuu's reaction means he's impressed. And, oddly enough, the fact that someone is actually impressed by his singing lightens Puck's mood just a little. He knows he's good, but to have that knowledge validated by someone besides himself feels entirely different.

"What'd you think, man?"

"It's not what I'm used to, but I liked it." Most of what he hears is video game music and terrible J-pop, so this is pretty different. "You're really talented."

"Um, okay." Where is this guy from that it's not what he's used to? "So I guess you're more of a R&B guy or something?" Or maybe he likes show tunes like Rachel does. Not that that's unheard of for a guy but it is kind of wussy. But whatever, people have different tastes. Puck gets that.

"And thanks. Seriously, girls think guys who can sing and play the guitar are hot."

"Uh...more like J-pop, I guess? I don't listen to a lot of music."

He rubs the back of his neck, not so sure about that. So his next question's not quite sarcastic, but not quite serious, either. "Does the mohawk help?"

Okay, that is a genre Puck has never heard of before. "J-what? You're gonna have to break that one down for me, man."

Puck smirks and runs a hand over his hair. "Yeah, dude, the mohawk totally helps. Without it, it's like my awesomeness decreases by a lot." Which is why he became such a whining loser when it was shaved off.... but he doesn't talk about that, and certainly won't start now.

"Japanese pop? It's mostly a lot of girls who look really young and girly looking guys." ...Come to think of it, he's not really sure why he actually listens to it.

...Well, that's different. "That sounds kinda weird, man. But whatever, it's cool." It's not the weirdest thing Puck's ever heard, after all.

"Yeah, now that I'm thinking about it, it is kind of weird." He shakes his head. "What else can you play?"

Puck raises an eyebrow. When someone insults your choice of music, the last thing you should do is agree with the person doing the insulting. That's how Puck rolls, anyway. "...Dude, I just called your music weird. Shouldn't you, like, get angry or something?"

He just shrugs. Maybe the guy's a pushover or something. Puck really doesn't care either way. "Oh, lots of stuff. I got every badass song known to man up in here," he says, pointing to his head. And yes, that is totally an exaggeration. But again, that's just how Puck rolls.

Edited 2011-07-29 03:01 (UTC)

"It's not really my music. It's the music my best friend listens to." Besides, that's a stupid thing to get angry about, at least as far as Yuu is concerned. There's a difference between saying the music is weird and saying Yuu's weird for liking it--the latter would annoy him.

He smiles. This guy's okay. "The last one was good, but I wouldn't call it badass."

"What? Queen is one of the most badass groups ever." Okay, maybe that song wasn't the best example, but whatever, they still are awesome. "Try this one on for size."

The song he sings this time is Aerosmith's "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)".

Yuu laughs when Puck finishes. "Okay, you're right." He is seriously considering a change in music preferences. Puck, you have converted him.

"What's your name, anyway?"

"Huh? Oh yeah. I'm Puck." He's been too busy rocking out to even think about introductions.

"I bet you could get all the tunes you want from the closets. I haven't tried yet but seriously, I'd be surprised if it didn't work."

"Yeah, I'll try. I need to hear more of that." Because Puck is a good source of viral marketing.

"My name's Yuu."

"Yeah. There's a ton of good stuff out there."

Is that a smile? "You're pretty cool, man." Anyone who doesn't piss him off or treat him as just a delinquent is all right in his book.

"Yeah, so're you." Yuu smiles back a little and gets up. Because they don't know each other well enough to have much to talk about, so this will probably get awkward before much longer.

"I'll see you around."