Sunday 24 March 2013

#ASMSG extract from chapter 1 'Break A Leg'



The morning song birds have sung their songs, the dawn chorus, all ready for their days busy lives, flying here and there, catching the first moth, bug or butterfly for their own breakfasts, stretching their wings whilst flying high on the lightest of breeze in the skies first light, colours so wondrous, red, orange, yellow, with the glint of the skies blue hue, nothing breaks their silent world, except for the chirping to each other, it is their time where the other world is silent and still, no hazards, no perils, except for the felines that are still out and about, waiting for their last prey before going home and sleeping the day away, ready and waiting for the next prowl at midnight.
Meanwhile, in a quiet sleepy suburban, out-of-town village, stirrings and wakening’s are slowly happening, workers coming home from their night-shifts, the rail maintenance workers finishing  after a long night work replacing the old for new track   exhausted, and ready for a good days sleep, the milkman making his deliveries for their morning cups of tea or coffee and breakfasts cereals, the glass bottles clinking and clanking on doorsteps, nestled and secluded in the  corner of the cul-de-sac, sheltered all around with leafy bushes and trees, where there are no deliveries and the bushes and trees are silent not a sound the birds had left long ago at dawn.
 Within these walls there is a quietness, stillness peacefulness and a warm glowing feeling that welcomes family and friends to come and visit when nearby. Princess, Jelena’s cat snuggled up on her warm blanket on the bed, where she always sleeps every night, the distant noise of a ringing tone, now getting louder, louder, persistently, annoyingly, Jelena trying hard to block it out.
 “I am not answering it Princess, they can leave a message, and wait till I get up and about so go back to sleep Princess, and I’m joining the land of nod too, thank goodness silence its stopped ringing”
Trying once again to get back to sleep, Jelena tries to settle, but now feels restless after being woken, and knows that once she has been disturbed it is hard to get back to sleep, tossing and turning, quietly cursing whoever it was for the disturbance, now the only sounds that keep her awake are the morning commuters opening and banging their car doors, the engines being revved, the crunching of gravel on their driveways, Jelena now getting to the point of being nauseatingly annoyed, the first train through the town, blowing its horn too loud for comfort.
 “Heck why does it have to be so loud? I am sure you do it on purpose to wake every soul up who needs their sleep after the night shift is over”.
 At this point even Princess is getting annoyed and starting to growl and hiss, oh yeah the cat growls and loud enough to make Jelena jump in shock and horror that her cat just growled like a dog.
 “Princess you are not a dog, so shut that up please, go growl at that lot outside and maybe just maybe the pair of us can get some sleep”.
 Silence reigns once more, nothing moving, nothing and no one making a sound, the silence so deafening, so strange, making Jelena wonder what will happen next.
 “Nothing is going to disturb us now Princess, love the quietness, peace shall reign hooray”.
 Both Jelena and Princess snuggle down once more, Jelena looking at the clock for the last time.
 “Four o’clock this is a joke Princess, no one rings me at this hour of the morning unless it is or was important, and oh heck what do I do Princess? I am exhausted after the long day yesterday when anything and everything went wrong all at once, it can wait now and I’ll  pick it up later, when I have had my full hours sleep, oh yes and yours too Princess, ok head down and back to sleep we go”.
Once again silence and stillness falls within the household’s walls, the only noises remaining are the ones outside; the world is really starting to waken.
 The first empty commuter train rattles at a speed of seventy miles an hour through the out-of-town village any other driver would have been booked for speeding at any time of the day or night, but this has been let go as the train service runs at a schedule for every commuter waiting to get here, there and everywhere especially the early morning commuter who has a long distance business meeting and needs to be there on time, the family leaving their holiday hotel after spending two weeks watching the recent Olympic events, much to talk about when they get back home to their destination, so maybe this driver needs to be let off, the customer and the services the Network provides is far more important in some cases, with the exception  when there are strikes and disruptions to commuters schedules, then there are irate customers left stranded not knowing when or if there will be a next train arriving to or from their destinations.
 The local parish community  complained about the rattling commuter train that runs through out-of-town village, then there was a pursuing debate, and arguments, from  both sides, in the end the local community   won the battle with the Service Provider to stop all train drivers pulling the horn to long and too loud awakening residents to early at six o’clock in the morning when the By Law is that all motorists do not sound their horns after eleven o’clock in the evening and not before seven o’clock the next morning, people power in the community won the day can now sleep a little more peacefully, especially residents living so close to the tracks.

Time is rolling along with the minutes passing by, the dawn has long gone, the sun shining in its glorious colour, not a cloud in the sky, the beginning of a great day for many to get and about, instead of being cooped up indoors after all the rain and the dreary grey skies that has been of late, but there is one person right now Justin O’Hanagan, from a small town west of New York, where he grew up and schooled and gained a scholarship to the best College that his parents hoped that one day he would attend, studying Law as his major subject, long hard years followed before qualifying as a Junior in a Law Firm working his way up the ladder to being a senior, gaining much experience and earning the wage he so wanted and dreamed of, then going onto establishing his own Legal Firm, along with some of his old college buddies, at this present day and moment,  Justin is  wishing that it was not his role or job to be Legal Advisor to the whole troupe at times  his role of making sure that every detail of their performances and music that they choose to use is requested to the original artist’ or artists is granted beforehand.
 “That role should be the musical directors job, not mine jeeps as if I haven’t enough to do with running my own Legal Firms here in England and the States”
 Justin ensuring that each and every member is in receipt of the equity membership card, this ensures that they have proven themselves to be performing artists, wherever they perform and also those they have proven that the work that they are performing is of a substantial amount whether in the States, England or any part of the World.
 “What a headache to keep checking up on them, which I do not need ever, they are all old enough and experienced enough to deal with such things instead of asking and begging at times, creepy bunch of oh heck they are all friends in need and I guess I am always the person they come to for advise, how can I refuse?  and how long have we all been together, years and years, must be all of over twenty odd years or more, hey I must be going crazy with this talking to myself, and all this reminiscing is not getting the job done just prolonging that all important phone call to Jelena, who is going to be absolutely mad with me when she finds out that it was me that rung her at an unearthly hour of the day, or should I say her night time, oh Jelena is not going to like what is in store and who is involved, she is going to come out yelling and possibly screaming and questions after questions, oh how I know my dearest of friends”



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