1. Chapter 1 (1/2)

an: hi! well this here is just a one shot that i wrote for a friend, and i thought i'd post it here since maybe someone would like to read it. i hope somebody does. like always, enjoy!

i just walked into the music store i always go to in london that i go to at least once a week. i was going there today to look at strings, cases, picks and that sort for my bass. i walk in and greet the man whose always at the desk and i wander around the store looking at all the books, little trinkets, instruments, and just all that they have. i wander to the back seeing if they had gotten any new basses since i was here last week and i see joe one of the employees whose job is to do the fixing up for when people

ing in their instruments. i notice he was talking to a dark haired man who was somewhat tall and in a proper suit and conversing with joe and occasionally gesturing to his bass that was in the middle of them on the counter. it was honestly beautiful, his bass, violin shaped and i recognized it to be a hofner. i shrug off whoever joe was talking to, not paying much attention to them and wander through the little aisles of guitars and basses. i walk by the counter again and notice that the man who was talking to joe earlier isn't there anymore.

"hey joe, how're you?" i ask joe as i walk up to the counter and let my eyes wander across the guitars and basses in the back customers had

ought in.

"i'm pretty good jamie. how're you, dear?" he asks with me a smile as he writes something down on a pad of paper.

"i'm good, thanks. so what're you up to?" i ask him making casual talk.

"just writing down a order for a customer who i was just talking to. he's a bass player as well, a hofner he has." he says and continues to write some things down.

"oh yeah i saw you too talking. his hofner was beautiful." i say back.

"ah and here he is now." joe says looking up and i move over so "the customer" could talk to joe again and i was extremely surprised when i see paul mccartney from the beatles walk up and my jaw just about drops but i control myself.

"ey joe, i forgot to get those strings from ya and i was wondering if you had a nice cloth i could use." paul says walking up to the counter and resting his arms down on it and he looks over to me and flashes me a smile and i smile back.

"here you go paul and jamie here are your strings also that came in for you today." joe says handing us both our stuff.

"you play bass too?" paul asks me and i nod.

"gear, i've never met a girl bass player before. no offense or anything, but it's cool to meet a girl who plays bass." he says with a warm smile.