I then suddenly got a text from Alex, it read "Where are you i've called John and Tomas but they didn't pick up please just answer your phone i'm worried sick", i was confuced about the text, i looked at my phone, 4 MISSED CALLS. Shit i looked aroun...
The year is 2009 James is 7 years old and sitting on the floor in his room, watching a DVD of the shadows and his hero, Hank Marvin, James' eyes are completely locked to the red electric guitar Hank is playing, a red Fender Stratocaster he needs it in his life.
Time skip to the year 2017.
James. "Dad please, I won't ask you for anything else ever again".
Dad. "James you know that isn't true and for the 1 millionth time we can't afford it, why can't you just start with an acoustic guitar like every one else?"
-"Because i NEEEEED a red electric one, i just wouldn't feel right with something else, it's the only thing that will fit the bill as they say".
-"....It's been 8 years and you're still as obsessed with it as back then, you have to let it go".
- "No I won't, why can't you just understand that that's what I want to do with my life".
James then storms off to his room while his dad just looks at him as James shuts the door behind him. He goes to bed dreaming of standing on stage with Hank Marvin and playing his heart out. The next morning James' dad comes to James' room and knocks on the door, after about 30 seconds of waiting the door opens and James looks at his dad,
"Get your coat, we're going."
-"where?"
-"to get you that damn guitar"
-"REALLY, YOU MEAN IT?"
-"yeah, I'm tired of you always asking about it and it's clear that you're not gonna cut it out any time soon so lets go"
-"AHHHHHHH THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU".
James hugs his dad and runs out in to the car as his dad slowly follows behind. In the music store, James and his dad are standing in front of a wall of guitars looking at the one and only Fender stratocaster.
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-''Is that the one?"
-"Yeah that's it"
"and you're sure that thats the one you want?"
-"yeah"
-"alright get it down"
James grabs the guitar of the wall and just stares at it for a bit.
After paying for the guitar and getting a chord book with the guitar so James would have an easier time learning, James and his dad get in the car and start to head home.
James is sitting in his room holding the guitar and just stares at it.
"i can't believe it's mine...."
i grab the chord book that my dad bought for me with the guitar and i get to work, after a few hours James has gotten some progress done.
"So this is a D chord" *Strum*
"and this is an A chord" *strum*
"and this is a C chord" *strum*
"i think it time to turn this baby up"
i turn the volume knob on the guitar and strum but nothing changes "Uhm What? i don't get it, why isn't it saying anything, i mean i shou...... oh crap, i think i need an amplifier".
James of course didn't ask his dad for an amplifier because he didn't have the heart to ask him for more so he just stuck to playing it without one.
