happy the hard way!? [open]

[lionel]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i40.tinypic.com/2ih5tzl.jpg); width:400px;] how could a love hurt this bad? how could we lose all that we had? why do we follow through? what keep us hanging on? we lived like a storm and let it ride for all of the times we felt alive but sometime love just can't make you stay when you're happy the hard way -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- if there was any of day like this, lionel would be happy to enjoy it. then again he would be happy to enjoy anything. away from family and past life, things were much better. things were more pleasing to handle and overcome. there was no one breathing down his shoulder about what choices he had to accomplish and succeed at. there was nothing like that here. here was different, it was a new home. a fresh start. a place were he can start a new. create a new band of his own. make a name for himself besides having the name of his powerful rich father who was back home in michigan. a fresh start was needed for him. after so much trouble and disappointment that occurred when he was home brought a lot of limelight on him, and once out of it, well he actually felt so much better. there was no attention on him, he was the center of attention. he can finally be himself without making the news for something stupid or wrong. no one really knows him here. he can't be known as the guy who tried to commit suicide over a cheating girlfriend, then again it's sure to pop up some time or later, but that's later, not now. now it was happening. now the is the time to be. the time to get things done. to get what needs to be accomplished for his own interests. not the interests of others. lionel was a person who was known to keep the darkest secrets from people, basically from everyone. no one knows he's filthy rich, or that his dad pays his way through life and his living expenses. he didn't want anyone to know that, really. he just wanted to be known as the person who was there to live through life to the fullest, to overcome those hard times, which by the way having actually happened already, but now it doesn't count. it's a fresh start and everything. a new beginning. for a while now, lionel as been in the hiding as one could say. staying out of the light of a few things wondering what to actually do with his life. for one thing he has a voice like no other, all the girls scream for his attention when he sings. then again, he was once in a band and they all adored him, they also all wanted to be band sluts and get in bed with all the band members. too bad that didn't happen with lionel as he was taken with a slut of his own. a cheating one. though that's besides the point. today was the day that lionel was going to reappear in public, doing who knows what really. maybe run into a friend of sorts or meet someone new. he didn't know, the only thing he did know was that he needed to get out of the house, instead of being the hermit he's been for the last few months. he even took his dogs with him. three big huskies out. what a handful to take care of, but the joy of loving them was tremendous. they adore him so much and haven't quite settled down yet as they slowly grew older. lionel had two leashes in one hand and one in the other. each pulling at the same rate, as each dog wanted to sniff every little thing they could while they could this time to get enjoy their life outside the prison they called home. though it really wasn't a prison, it just appeared to be because lionel was busy with making music by himself. singing tracks, strumming on the guitar, tickling the ivories of the electronic piano sitting in the living room. basically doing what every musician would do in their freedom i guess. he sat there on the wooden bench holding on to three leashes as three different colored huskies sniff around wondering where to make their mark and wondering what dog as already been there. lionel on the other hand sat there thinking about what he actually wanted to do after taking the dogs for a walk, but nothing really occurred to him. maybe something interesting would come along and brighten up the mood.

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