Chapter 9: A Day in the Pit

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You wait for Alby for fifteen minutes. You grab your guitar and writing materials (including the poem you wrote that Newt gave back to you) fixed your hair into a ponytail,  and headed to the pit.

You slid yourself in carefully in the pit as Alby shut the doors. "Well," you said to yourself. "Time to get started on my oh so lovely day." You mentally laughed at yourself for your own sarcasm. 

You get out the piece of paper and read the lyrics

I can't be alone here
I can't be the only one who feels like i'm going nowhere
Just wishing somehow this dream will carry me
And I swear just one last time
They say the world is yours so I'm making mine

Cause nothing is stopping you
You could set the world on fire
Nothing is stopping you
And if I go out, I'll go out screaming

It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing

You then think to yourself and what words you should write next. You couldn't think of anything, so you started to play random chords on your guitar to see how it matched the notes.

"Sounding good." you hear a familiar accent say. "Oh hey, Newt." you reply. "Are you playing that song you wrote?" he asked. "Yeah, I'm trying to finish it." you tell him as your playing another random chord. "I'm sorry about this morning. I wasn't exactly sane and I had nothing to eat." you apologized to him, putting your head down in embarrassment and shame.
"-No, no! It's totally alright." Newt said as you looked up, surprised. "I'll just leave you to it, then. But, I just came here to sneak you in some lunch." Newt handed you a plate that had a sandwich on it.

You thanked him as you took it. He gave you a sweet smile and left. You ate the sandwich hastily. Then, you found more words to put into your writing. As you swallowed your last bite, you came up with this...

Cause nothing is stopping you
You could set the world on fire
Nothing is stopping you
And If I go out I'll go out screaming

It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing

You then fiddle with the guitar , matching the chords with your notes. You find more words as you go along and write them down

And it's here
Right Now
And you've been waiting for so long
Forget fear
And just run
Your past won't catch you now

It's all or nothing
It's all or nothing

You play more chords for a few minutes before you find the right chords you end it on. Your song was about six minutes long and not with many lyrics, but you were satisfied with your work and it was nearly sundown.

After a couple minutes of waiting, Alby comes and fetches you. "Your brother would like to speak with you."


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