[ MP ] Ca n't Help Falling in Love with You

`` That was so awesome!'' Sophie gushed before sipping at the straw of her milkshake. 
 `` Yeah,'' I pried a chunk of brown sugar out of my ice cream and pushed it around the bowl. `` That was something else.'' 
 Sophie frowned. `` C'mon, were are gon na be in a music video! How is that not exciting?'' 
 Sophie had dragged me along with a bunch of our friends to some Twenty-one Pilots concert, and they had been recording a bit where Tyler Joseph sang Elvis' `` Ca n't Help Falling in Love'' ( or as I always remember it, `` Fools Rush In'' ), and we got to provide the choral backing so he could make thousands of dollars off of us and we could point to a pixel in a youtube video and saw `` That's me!'' Yeah. Thrilling. 
 Afterwards the group had decided to go on a pub crawl. I, not being of age, waved off. Sophie seemed to think a pub crawl was n't her cup of tea either and so we ended up hanging out at Baskin Robbins. 
 `` I guess I'm just one for public singing?'' An obvious lie, seeing as the month prior I played Motel the Tailor for the school's production of `` Fiddler on the Roof''. 
 Sophie narrowed her eyes. `` You do n't like Twenty-One Pilots.'' *Damn. * `` Or you do n't like Elvis. Or Elvis covers.'' 
 `` Now hold on,'' I protest. `` Who does n't like Elvis?'' 
 `` So you do n't deny not liking Twenty One Pilots?'' 
 ``... I plead the fifth.'' I eat a spoonful of ice cream. 
 `` But Twenty One Pilots is an awesome band!'' Sophie was cute when she got really into a topic, hands gesticulating at the air in front of her as thought she were interacting with an unseen world. `` How can you not like them?'' 
 I shrug, wordlessly finishing my ice cream. 
 Sophie, for once completely still, sits and looked at me with confusion. I tried to avoid being captivated by her brown eyes as they danced behind a few straw wisps of her brunette hair... *Crap. Look away! Avert your gaze! * 
 I toss my spoon into the small bowl the ice cream came in and lean back. `` They are n't bad... I just do n't like them in particular.'' 
 Sophie cocked her head a bit. `` Then why go tonight?'' 
 `` It's like the song says,'' I almost whisper while holding her gaze. `` Fools rush in.'' 
 
 
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 I am really struggling with the tense and format of a first person narrative. This was a nice exercise, even if I am not happy with it. I will probably add more tonight, because I have a place I want this to go. 
 JTH.
