One cold, lonely, rainy day...........

[AJ]

It was just another day in New Orleans. The dark clouds covered the city and rain poured continuously(sp?) everywhere. This was a day where there was nothing to do. No one was walking along the sidewalk, no one stopping at small market-stands that were located in front of apartments and local stores. Everyone was inside, warm and comnfortable.

Well.....not everyone......

A familiar german shepherd was trotting along the wet concrete sidewalk, his paws splashing through the small puddles that filled the sidewalks. His fur was all soak and wet from walking through the pouring rain, head hund low, looking down at his big paws as he walked. He then came to a stop at a puddle, looking at his rippling reflection. As he looked at his reflection, a song that he learned a while ago was flowing through his head then starting to sing it........

"Can you picture mother earth
In the palm of your hand
The entire universe
As a tiny grain of sand
And it feels impossible to do
As I can't imagine love without you

Think of drinking every sea
With it's salty waters dry
Sprinting 'round the world three times
Faster than a rocket flies
And the thought of it you can't persue
As I can't imagine love without you"

He continued to walk ahead.....

"Some thoughts are just no-brainers
Not worth an ounce of time
Yet others inconceivable
So they never cross your mind

Travel back through life and times
One Atlanta summers night
Add up every single star
Since the day the first was light
How and where to start you have no clue
As I can't imagine love without you"

As he stopped, he sit downs and looks up at the cloudy sky, rain still pouring dwon onto his face. He closed his eyes and continued with his song......

"Travel back through life and times
One Atlanta summers night
Add up every single star
Since the day the first was light
How and where to start you have no clue
And the thought of it you can't persue
As it feels impossible to do

As I can't imagine love without
I can't imagine love without you."

After that, he just sat there motionless as more heavy rain, his fur becoming more soaked........

OOC| The song is by Stevie Wonder and it's called "can't imagine love without you"

[Harli]

OOC: I hope you don't mind me wanderin' in. I haven't been on for a while and I'm not a person who favors inactivity.

BIC: Not too far away from AJ, Harli was digging in a trash can in hopes of finding some useful items or at least something worth eating. She stopped and glared up at the sky. "Why today?" she grumbled, "Of all the days it could've poured down rain why'd it have to be today?"She returned to digging through the can. Unknown to her, the box she'd been standing on had weakened from the recent rain. It collapsed and sent Harli flying to the ground. The trash can tipped over and landed on the top half of her body, pinning her to the ground. "Oh, come on!" She yelped, her voice echoing strangely inside the can.

[AJ]

OOC| Not at all

IC| As he sat in the pouring rain, he heard an echoing yelp not too far away from him. He looked around to detect where it came from. He found where it came from and headed towards there. Once he was there, he saw a dog pinned down by a trash can, covering her top half. "Hold on there." he called out as he walked towards the dog, putting all of his strength to pull the can off of the dog. After a while of pulling, the can finally popped off of her. "There yu go." He tossed the can away from them. "You alright now?"

[Harli]

Harli shook an old slice of pizza of her head. "Yeah, I'm OK. Thanks for pulling that off of me." She stopped and looked at AJ. "Have we met before? You look kinda familiar." She winced, realizing just how lame she sounded but it was all she could think of at the moment.

[AJ]

"No problem." AJ looked closely at the dog he was speaking to. "Dunno. You look familiar to me too. Oh well. If we haven't, I'm AJ."

[Harli]

OOC: Sorry for typos. Dunno how to type on a laptop. Getting vey annoyed.

BIC:"I'm Harli." She gave AJ another curious look. "What're you doin' out here anyway? Most dogs are inside.

[AJ]

"Good to meet you, Harli." he looked up at the raining sky. "Just walking and doin' a little singin' in the rain." He looked back at Harli with a grin. "What about you?"

OOC| Same here....

[Harli]

Harli smiled at AJ's 'singing in the rain' remark. "Diggin' through trash cans looking for stuff I can use. So far the only thing I've found worth keeping is that old radio." She nodded to an old battered looking radio sitting off to the side next to a cardboard container of fried chicken. "Haven't got a clue what I'm gonna do with it."

[AJ]

AJ walked over to the old radio that Harli found and mentioned. "I think it still works. Just need some batteries."

[Harli]

"I think I've got some batteries back at my place. We could take it back to there and check it out. Get out of the rain too." She glanced up at the sky. Clouds were starting to gather up again indicating another downpour.

[AJ]

AJ nodded and picked up the radio with his maw. "That's a good idea."

[Harli]

She nodded to the corner. "It's right around there." She got up and went around the corner. She crawled up the fire escape of an old apartment building. "It's on the second floor." She called to him.

[AJ]

As he carried the radio, he followed Harli up the escape to the 2nd floor.

[Harli]

Harli forced the window open and crawled inside. The inside was a bit shabby. It was an open room with an old sofa and table sitting in the center. Off to the side was an unused kitchenette. She smiled apologetically. "I know it's not the best in the world but no one bothers me and humans haven't turned the electricity or water off." She went over to the kitchenette and began digging through the drawers. "I know I saw batteries around here somewhere." She mumbled.

[AJ]

AJ was lookin' around the home of Harli, a bit amazed by it. He placed the radio on the sofa and curiously walked around. "It don't look that bad. It actually looks nice."