"Andrew Young's new album has stayed number 1 on the billboard carts for over 6 weeks now, marking him as a global phenomenon" could be heard from the screen just at the entrance to a bar. Overhearing it a young teen boy with torn dirty clothes turned his head to look at the screen and sighed, whishing he could become a musician and thus spends his time singing when he isn't scavenging for food or trying to find shelter for the night despite being 14. And even though it wasn't necessarily fun living like this, it still outstripped the orphanage and. Just thinking about it sent shivers down is spine.

The boy soon started walking, still looking at the screen and hit a man.

"ow","watch where you're walking kid" the man said in an annoyed tone.

"oh I-I'm so-sorry mister" replied the kid, shaking in his boots because he was scared the man would hit him.

"Where's your parents, didn't they teach you to watch where you're walking?"

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The very instant the teen heard these words, he ran, scared that the man would bring him to the orphanage. Soon the kid reached and alley way and turn in and look around to see if he was followed. After finding that no one was, he strolled out in a casual manner, acting as though he never ran in the first place.

A few hours later.

A pair of legs moved their way into a a dive bar with musicians playing at a stage, took a chair from a table and sat in an unnoticeable corner where a man also sat. A frown crept up on the person who had the chair in his hands for he would usually sit there but this man took his spot. And althoug his spot was taken the person decided to sit next to man on his right side and enthralled himself into the melody of the music and just sat in admiration that those people were able to play music so well.

Soon the band stopped playing and the mysterious person was about to get up but when he looked to the left he saw a familiar face, it was the one of the old grumpy dude he bumped into before. The "old grumpy dude" also realized who the person was and notticed it was that young boy.

The boy made a run for it but before he could get away the man grabbed his arm. The boy struggled to go but the man pulled him with him into a staircase that lead uptairs. The teen couldn't help but think will I die, is he kidnapping me. On the contrary the man put him on a chair and asked...