80's and go! - Intro (Parker)

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She did not know where to start, not for what she wanted to get across but in not knowing where to start she knew that she did not want to stop. She knew that there had seemed to be times where she did but the truth was that she was a difficult child that her grew into a rebellious teenager and now was an awkward and non rebellious young woman but still she knew that if she did not do it now she never would. With that in mind she did what she always did and she knew that she was not the best at it but it fit her and as much as she tried to deny it, some things we can't deny.

She steadily blinked as she sat up on the roof, trying to figure out just how to convey it to her brother without Micah think that she had lost her mind because if she was honest to herself it would be her out of the two of them. She knew that because the good doctor had told her that she was made of delicateness and that balance: the one thing that she echoed even when the world was on fire. You had to have balance of fun and respectful, balance of leaning into doing what you wanted but also making sure that you followed the rules because without rules people tended to go off the path more than they needed and that was the last thing that she wanted to.

Still she was not doing this to impress anyone but more so to help herself. It was like..well that was where she found herself the most confused trying to find an..was the word still analogy? The English language and the dictionary change what seems like more often now with it's adjustments and what not that she was not sure if analogy was the correct word but it was the word that she was using. It was like being caught red handed. Still maybe that was just what she wanted to get caught but not caught like ending up in a jail cell, no caught and understood because for once she finally realized that for her the two went hand in hand.

Still she sat on that roof as she heard the footsteps and she did not look up because she did not have to. "Mom," she said as she nodded her head. "Come to see me I take it?" Faye shook her head. "I actually came to try to stop you," Faye said because as it was with parents they know us better than we ever know ourselves. Through all the fighting, all the tears, all the happy moments and moments that scare us to death. Ribbon finally turned and looked up at Faye and shook her head. "You would only need to stop me if you think that I can not handle it."

Faye chuckled and spoke. "I know you can handle it, it's just I don't want to get my hopes up and you change your mind." Ribbon shook her head. "Come on Mom, it's me, I'm not which is why I'm giving myself ample time to wrap up other things and then do this. Spring has always been my season and the best time for me because I do not get sad and shit like that and besides the winter is just, everything has been rough and still is for me but it also has made me realize that this is growth of the highest formula."

"Alright then," Faye said. "Time to prove it," Faye said as she got behind Ribbon and pushed her off the roof top. "Shit, warn me at least," she said as she felt the scales on her back began to spin and she felt the ribbon loop itself out and grab ahold of herself so that she could put her feet on the ground as she looked up at Faye. "Pushing is rude Mother," she said as she looked back up at Faye as Faye yelled down. "I know but old habits you know? Take your brother with you!"

Ribbon looked up. "Crap, she's going to catch me red handed," she mumbled under her breath as she watched the ribbon start to turn. "Uhm, yeah about? Can't Micah said he's going to sit this one out and work on something or other with..well I don't remember how he worded something about tables and such? Oh right I remember now, he's redoing Trove's kitchen table. You know they do that periodically. Take care!" Faye's eyes went narrow with slight concern. "No, he can't do that." Ribbon shrugged as she played with her ribbon. "Uhm actually he's probably already started so yeah you might want to get off that roof and take care of that. I'll see you soon and don't worry I'm not going alone!"

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It was no big deal though she had orignally thought this would be a six person mission at least but now cut to two? It was okay Parker had this and right now she simply sipped on her fifth cup of coffee because it was how she mused best. As she stirred the coffee and waited she did not think that Ribbon would actually show up because every time they were supposed to do this Ribbon stopped and honestly Parker did not blame her.

"At least I have my coffee to keep me company," she said as she stirred it with the small straw that otherwise she wanted to bend in half but for now the creamer hit the spot more than the actual coffee and so she was calm and for anyone that knew her this was good and perhaps a bit scary. She had told herself and probably also convinced herself that everything would keep her calm through this. Everything was good so far because if Ribbon needed time and had took it then how difficult would it end up being.

Though she had been kidding mostly about making it eighty centered it seemed that was the message that she had been receiving and so she started to hum lowly. "La, la" The power that was musical healing always kept her calm too but with coffee it was an unusual type of calm. She was not sure if it was because she felt like a song in her heart or if music was just better back in the day more so than it was now. "What I would not give to have music flow like it did back in the day as the younger crowd somehow still manages to say." For now she simply waited for Ribbon had said that she would come to her and maybe she would keep her word this time.

Ribbon Harmony

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In usual fashion she could not well no she refused to just rush into anything as she turned and gathered her bag and then began to walk. It was true that Parker actually did not live as far from her as she had told people over the years but that was neither her or there all that mattered was getting there and making everything 80's themed as she pulled her headphones out and put them into her ear. She could keep her eyes on the road but music always made the road easier as she hit shuffle.

She had everything on this playlist and it was true not all of it was 80's but the 80's music did not matter until she actually got to Parker so she simply hit play and turned her nose up. "Why does it always start me off on Taylor Swift?" She freaking..okay in her youth it was true that she had been a swiftie but now? No she was pass all that and it was not Taylor's fault just hers because according to Parker after her father's death she had abandoned all of her past and that included the music that she listened to. Ribbon could not argue because she knew that was true and it did not make her mad to hear it. "Oh shit," she said as she turned back and grabbed her guitar and strapped it across her chest.

"Yay for finding a sturdier amount of ribbon to actually hold this guitar up," she said as she gave a slight twirl and watched the colorless ribbon flow in the air and she could not help but bob her head along to the song. "Fearless" by T. S. is such a fucking classic," she said because while it hurt her to admit it she still felt that the words here and there were a message. She slowly began to strum as she walked making sure to look up and back to make sure that road stayed clear. She got to an intersection and sighed as she turned right and began to play.

"Hmm," it was still what she considered modern and Parker had been very specific though for the love of her own mind Ribbon could not remember why. She spoke. "Shuffle please," she said as she heard the music stop and take a slight second and listened. "Oh god, not country," she said. "Shuffle again," she said as she laughed because it was nothing against the genre but it was not her cup of tea. "Oh thank goodness for rock," she said as she listened and began to strum and then stopped as she let her guitar hang down.

"Well, no going back now," she said as she crossed her arms. "It's almost like this came out of the blue I know but trust me it's been in the work for a while," she said as she wathed as the ribbons around her arm began to turn blue. It was true Ribbon was like everyone else for the most part sad in times when she should be happy and that was throwing her harmony off but after this she would be okay. "Yeah," she said as she put her hand up in the air and began to rock out. "Fucking rock always," she said as she began to yell because the girl had no musical skill at all.

"WE'LL GIVE IT SHOT!," she said as she flung her wrist around and that blue ribbon rolled out and she sighed. She was getting there, very slowly. She picked it up and stepped to the side of the road and looked at it. "Crap, okay, I got this." She said as she sat down and began undo the strings from her tennis shoes and then put the blue ribbon in and made a tie, under the loop because that was how she had been taught. She took a minute to hold her foot up and look at it as the ribbon slightly shined due to the sun. "Wow this is the leg I broke when I was younger," she said as she stood up and spoke. "Shuffle, I need something a little lighter," she said as she heard her playlist shuffle. "Perfect," she said as she began to dance or that was what she considered it anyway. To the car that was passing by her though she simply looked like she was doing a bad version of walking like an Egyptian which to her since she did not have the time to go to Egypt was just as well.

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Normally she would be the hyper one but having aged a bit she knew it was a time of sit and wait and that did not drive her as nuts as it usualyl would, she just simply attributed that to the fact that she had matured completely. Over the years it had came across in sections and she would never change her mind but there were still times where she went back and that was not bad. She closed her eyes and the wind blew as it always did but this felt as if it was ushering in something completely different as far as what she knew.

"Closer than before," was the only phrase that escaped her lips for it was true and she did not know, was not fully aware if it was big but subtle changes were best these days. The truth was on her end she supposed that she had been trying to force the musical side, put the product out before it was ready and as a former musician then she should have known that was a mistake but mistakes do not just happen because we are older. There is no way to stop them but we are always taught to learn from them and she knew that she was never too old to learn a thing or to though she, well in it's on way it was more of a truth that she did not want to accept and swallow and yet at the moment her patience was better and that she was, in the most of ways accepting of it.

Ribbon Harmony

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She knew that there was no way to do this in one setting, one enviornment even and that scared her because it meant that as much as she did not want to she was having to pace herself and that was new and new was scary about ninety percent of the time but still you had to push and she knew more than anything else that it meant that what she had planned would eventually go to hell and she would end up having to wing it but right now all she did was finally take the last turn and spotted Parker.

"Woo," she said. "Sorry it took me so long to get here but hey better late than never right?" She knew that from the walking and the amount of time that it was still something missing she just had no idea what but maybe today she would be able to find out and go from there. "Ready? I brought myself and you still bring the music right?"

She supposed if her mother knew what might happen then she would have a fit and she did not need that negativity in her life and so at the moment she was being calm and that was good. "Ready, still got it in you right?"

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She had been thinking because the truth was that she did not know if she had "it" in her whatever it was. "I am still me if that is what you are asking just as I am assuming that you know that you are still you so yes?" She shook her head as her short blonde hair came down a little bit and she had no choice but to push it back. "I still got it but there is something that questions if you do." There was a little spark there but so far while she had been promised ignition she had not exactly seen it yet.

"I'm here for whatever you need well within reason of following the rules that you have set out and what not." It hurt her to say that a little bit but she had promised herself that if nothing else she would be honest and being honest was best. "I'm going to let you take the lead since that is also another thing that I think would be best." The younger generations as she had often referred it to almost always wanted to butt themselves into something and the last thing that she wanted to do was get knocked down in the rush.

Ribbon Harmony

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Ribbon knew she was complicated more than she needed to be but even as a grown woman she was still processing a lot of internal things and growing every day and a lot of that meant doing things, facing them alone and then telling people about them later because she did not want sympathy she simply wanted understanding but it was hard to know the difference between the two as it were. Hell even now she simply knew that she was trying to use some sense of music to understand it all and still she did not think that she was quite there but she did feel closer than she had in a few months and that had to count for something or so she hoped.

Ribbon looked at her? "The lead on something to do with music?" She was not nervous she just much preferred to be in the background now and well as comfortable as it was one day she knew that it would no longer be like that. She took a second to sit down and do her best to relax though it was hard as she took a second to turn her body and back to the left and the right. Her parents had taught her deep breathing exercises but so far nothing seemed to work these days. "I mean as long as you are sure I think I might finally be ready at least."

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