there's beauty in the breakdown

[burningbrighter]

Who: Sunset and OPEN
Where: Out in a common space.
When: Some Friday night. It's raining.
What: Sunset plays some tunes. It doesn't go like she planned.
Warnings: Bad music, rain

It's been a bit of a rough month for Sunset. Sure, she's been doing great with her classes, her friends are doing fine, and it's all good. She even has her guitar back! But her dreams of immediately starting a band are waylaid when she actually plays a chord.

It sounds rough. She tunes it and tries again. Still rough. No matter what she does, it just won't go right. She sighs, angrily plucking a string as she takes a seat on a sheltered stump. One quick bubble charm to ward the rain away from her guitar and she tries again.

"Is there beauty in those gray clouds..."

Is there? She looks at the offending guitar and sighs. "Rule number one: never trust the genie, or anything like that."

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[shiningkindness]

As Fluttershy is hurrying to get out of the rain, she pauses when she hears a familiar voice, coupled with some oddly out of tune music. With a slight frown she follows the sound until she comes across who she already suspected she'd find.

"Sunset?"

[burningbrighter]

"Oh, uh...hey Fluttershy," Sunset sighed, tucking the guitar away. "Sorry. I'm just kind of not myself today, I guess. Everything okay with you?"

[shiningkindness]

She nodded, taking a seat next to Sunset. "I'm doing all right. But what's wrong?"

[burningbrighter]

"I can't seem to play anymore. Am I really that out of practice?"

She tries to play a familiar chord from a song they sang together once, but it doesn't sound quite right.

[shiningkindness]

Fluttershy can't help wincing a bit, noticing how the chord sounds a bit off.

"I dunno. I guess we have been here a while." She'd been lucky to have come with her tambourine, but now that she's thinking about it, Sunset hadn't really been playing the guitar since they'd been here.

Still, that didn't seem right, even if Sunset hadn't been practicing.

"Is there something else going on, maybe?"