Boulevard of Broken Dreams

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Late at one evening, in a School hallway, Lights are out, moon shines in via windows. Lily is walking through the hallway carrying a pile of papers.

:: Of all the things.. I had to be the one to be selected to gather and return all the papers... Some of them took like hours to even find them, and some of them weren't even done! It's gonna be midnight before— ::

{ I walk a lonely road

The only one that I have ever known

Don't know where it goes

But it's home to me, and I walk alone }

Suddenly there's singing in the air. A soft voice, filled with so much emotion you'd think you can touch it. The voice is airy, ethereal, but carries through steel and bone. Lily glances once into the direction she was going, shrugs and starts towards the voice.

{ I walk this empty street

On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps

And I'm the only one, and I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk a- }

:: What is this...? I've never heard anything so beautiful in my life. It's like I could see the emotion in it. The feelings in the song are so palpable I think I touch them in the air itself. So deep the sorrow, so strong the longing in the song... Where is the singing coming from, who in this school can even—:: Lily thinks and her eyes get slightly wet for no particular reason, other than the palpable emotions in the voice that's singing.

{ My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me

Till then I walk alone

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

I'm walking down the line

That divides me somewhere in my mind

On the borderline

Of the edge, and where I walk alone }

A classroom door is slightly ajar, there's a faint light coming from the doorway. As Lily peeks into the room, she sees one person, standing near the windows, looking outside to the moon. The entire room is light with her glow and her hair is glowing faintly pink.

{ Read between the lines

What's fucked up, and everything's alright

Check my vital signs

To know I'm still alive, and I walk alone }

:: What? Cotton Candy? But.. she's a Natural? All these feelings... :: Lily stands in the doorway for a while, completely stunned. Then she turns and presses herself against the wall beside the door on the hallway.

{ I walk alone, I walk alone

I walk alone, I walk a-

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me

Till then I walk alone }

:: She's so beautiful.. But I never knew her voice was this heavenly.. There's so much to her than first meets the eye... I—I can't deny it anymore, not here in the darkness to myself. I'm falling for that girl. I'm falling for her hard. I'll have to admit part of it is her power, part her being so mysterious, but.. There's so much more of here that I learn each time I see her... Cotton Candy.. there is someone out there who wants to find you... ::

In the room, Rose sings to the moon, with tears in her eyes. She's looking at the reflection of the glass, which shows the classroom door...

{ Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aaah-ah

Ah-ah, ah-ah

I walk alone, I walk a-

I walk this empty street }

{ On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Where the city sleeps

And I'm the only one, and I walk a-

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me

My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating

Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me }

{ Till then I walk alone }

Lily leaves, her eyes wet. Towards the dorms and away from Rose, she walks alone.

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