Violet | Shinso x OC/Reader

47 - Jam Session

"No matter how much I cry,
My regrets all come back to haunt me.
I'm not so naïve to think,
That simple days are up ahead."

Togeike joined in again. "Follow my way."

Y/i: "And I'll bear it all till I can't take it."

T: "Follow my way."

Y/i: "Gotta set my sights on how to make it!
Can't be ordinary,
I want all my dreams to come true."

T: "I know what I have to do now."

Y/i: "So many pathways,
And this is the one that I choose.
'Cause I know that it's right for me!"

T: "Make my story!"

Y/i: "I'm one of a kind,
For the sake of this life that's enough.

Gonna make a promise,
I know that I want this.
I'll fight until I make it to the top!"

T: "Make my story!"

Y/i: "One day when our tears flow
Again and we want to give up.

I will be the light that
We need to fight back,
To turn it all around and never stop!"

The two of them were singing and playing along to a song that was all-too familiar to you. You quietly start unpacking your stuff so that you could join in.

Y/i: "To everyone I ever met,
Who never knew how much it hurt me,
Criticizing everything
I did to try to hold me back."

T: "Have it your way."

Y/i: "This bitterness all over again."

T: "Have it your way."

Y/i: "And still you just don't understand
That I fail whenever I try to succeed."

T: "I know what I have to do now."

Y/i: "Still on those days,
I can push past my limit and see.
Every day seems to suck for me!"

T: "Make my story!"

Y/i: "I won't say a word,
'Cause I keep all these thoughts bottled up.

'Cause the sadness grates me,
And it suffocates me.
I felt that I just couldn't trust myself!"

T: "Make my story!"

Y/i: "I feel all my tears flowing out,
I just want to give up.

Waiting for the day that
Will show me the way and
I'll finally know the reason I'm alive!"

The guitar and drums fade out at this point, and you finish up plugging in your equipment before flipping the switch on your amp. You then start slapping along to the riff on your bass and L/n turns around in surprise to see you playing along with them. She smiles and joins in on her guitar with Togeike on her drum set so that all three of you are playing together. You play like this for a few seconds longer before you and Togeike drop out simultaneously and L/n slides her fingers along the strings, bringing herself into the guitar solo.

And she was shredding it!! Your jaw dropped as she continued to play. You looked to Togeike and she was just as thrilled as you were! Rock was never your favorite genre, but today it was! You watched and listened in amazement as her fingers danced across the frets and strings. She was only fifteen years old, and she could already play like that?! How was that even possible?

She ended the solo and held up her guitar in the air as the last note rang out. In that moment, she was a rockstar. She brought the instrument back down to her and struck another power chord before silencing it and continuing to sing.

"Watching and waiting,
Enduring this hate every day.
I'm hoping the words they say are temporary.

Thinking that maybe,
Within all these lives led astray,
Is the answer that I'm searching for,
All by myself!"

T: "Make my story!"

As she continued to play and sing the last chorus, you couldn't help but wonder if there was a reason behind why she chose this song. "Is she singing about herself?" She'd told you about the incident that happened when she was younger. "She must still be affected by that... Losing your best friend after trying to defend them sounds pretty rough."

Y/i: "I'm one of a kind,
For the sake of my life I will fight.

What was in my heart all
Along from the start, no.
It never left,
It made me who I am!"

T: "I know what I have to do know."

The guitar rang out once more as the song eventually came to a close. Your thoughts were still on L/n... She must have gone through a lot. She sang the song as though it was her story that she was telling. Despite the exciting melody that this song had, she was singing about regrets, dreams, promises, bitterness, sadness and hate. Your fingers skipped across your bass strings as you played the closing riff and the three of you concluded the song together.

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Once you were done, L/n turned to look at you. "Shinso, I didn't know you were coming!"

You were confused and you point to the girl on the drumset. "But Togeike said that..." Your voice drops out as you look at Togeike and watch her swipe a finger across her neck, telling you to shut up.

But it was too late. L/n turned to glare at her. "Chikuchi... Why didn't you tell me that he was coming?"

"It must have slipped my mind!" she said, shrugging her shoulders and twirling her drum sticks between her fingers innocently.

"Why didn't you tell me you were that good?" You had to ask... She was amazing! Why would she hide that from you? Her face turned a bit pink and she took the guitar off of her shoulder before resting the bottom of it on top of her foot.

"I don't know... I guess I just get nervous playing in front of other people?"

"You didn't look nervous at all, though... Not even when you saw that I was here. And what do you have to be nervous about? You're amazing!" You repeated those two words from the other day without intending to, and you felt your face get hot once you realized it. Togeike looked between the two of you with a confused expression; Both of you were blushing and staring at each other.

"... Am I missing something?" she asks suspiciously.

You and L/n respond simultaneously, "No!" before looking away from each other.

"... Uh-huh..." Togeike wasn't convinced.

You quickly changed the topic before it could get any more awkward. "Anyway, let's play something else!"

"Yeah, let's!" L/n agreed, laughing nervously.

            This version of the song, 'Make My Story' by Lenny code fiction, is dubbed by Sam Luff on YouTube (video included below). To be honest, I much prefer the sound of the original recording by LCF (also included in the cover vid for this chapter), but I needed English lyrics, so...