That tune. The one the boy in front of me was humming. It was so familiar, but i couldn't place why. The boy, Travis, was new this year. He sat in front of me in History, and was in my math class and gym class, but otherwise I had no classes with him. I wondered what he was humming. If only I could place the song. I debated whether or not to ask him what he was humming, but since i didn't really know him I decided against it. He continued humming, and eventually my curiosity, and annoyance, got the best of me.
"Hey Travis," i said softly so my teacher wouldn't hear me.
"What?" he whispered back.
"What song are you humming?"
"I dunno it kinda just popped into my head."
"Oh," i leaned back in my seat disappointed and weirdly frustrated. I wanted to know what song it was.
"Why?" he asked.
"It sounds familiar for some reason," he nodded and I tried to listen to the lesson on Napoleon Bonaparte, but I couldn't. It was annoying me, not knowing what song it was. Annoying me more than it should. I started doodling in my notebook instead of taking notes, but instead of doodling my hand starting writing song lyrics. Early one morning, just as the sun was rising, I heard a maid sing in the valley below "Oh don't deceive me, Oh never leave me, How could you use, a poor maiden so?" The lyrics were familiar but i had no idea why. It wasn't a modern song that was on my ipod, or on the radio. For some reason I believed it was an older song. The bell rang, dismissing the class and bringing me out of my thoughts.
I showed the song lyrics to my best friend Gwen, but they didn't seem familiar to her. The rest of the day i wondered about those lyrics until finally, eighth period i had a study hall so i went to the library and got on the computer. I typed the lyrics into google and found they belonged to a song called "Early One Morning." Reading the rest of the lyrics I still couldn't place where the song came from. I listened to the midi of the song and found it was the same tune that Travis had been humming. I wondered at this, and was kinda weirded out that Travis and I both knew what seemed like a pretty obscure song. I didn't share with Gwen my findings, I wasn't sure what they meant myself.
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