The Piano page 2
Todd (in the middle) arrived with his very good friend Sly 'MacNuder' Turgent. He sat at the piano and looked at his feet.
"Will you write me a song?" Waddell asked. "Before you answer, you should know that your contract won't allow you to tell me no for the next twenty-seven years without offering up your firstborn in exchange."
After a few moments, Todd stopped staring at his feet and instead looked at his hands. Then he progressed to observing every movement of his tonuge that was in his field of vision.
Waddell began to grow perturbed. He knew that Delzinko had acquired quite a reputation as a stonewaller, and Waddell didn't want to spend the next twenty-seven years sitting at a piano. They would starve to death long before Delzinko's contract was up.
"You will be paid handsomely!" Waddell blurted out, desperately hoping to prolong his life.
"I am already handsome," Todd responded. His voice was deep and booming and it cracked every time he had to make a 'd' sound. "Give me a bucket of apple pie filling to reference. You'll have your damn song!"
"Man, you are stupid. He offered you money and you want a bucket of slop," MacNuder snapped.
Apparently unhinged, Delzinko screeched, "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! I don't need you anymore! I am going to be big again! I am going to be a star again! My journey isn't over, it's just beginning! My life isn't on hiatus anymore!" Even though MacNuder had left at the halfway point of Todd's spiel, the former star heroically finished his speech.
Waddell smiled. Things were looking up.