“OLIVER!” I screeched.
“RAAAAAARR!” Oliver chased me.
“GO AWAY!”
“NO!”
“OLIVER!”
“ZEN!”
“SCOTT!”
“UHHHH…. ZEN!”
“HAHA! I HAVE NO MIDDLE NAME!”
“SYKES!”
“SYKES!”
“SYKES!”
“GUYS! Shut the FUCK UP!” Jona yelled.
Oliver and I laughed walking into Jona’s house. His mother bought us drinks since she was at the store. Oliver sat down on the couch and grabbed my hand making me sit on his lap. He opened my drink and his. As I grabbed it from him Jona’s dog jumped on us.
“God fuck Jona!” Oliver yelled.
“Hey! Leave the dog alone!” Jona yelled back.
“All of you shut the fuck up!” Yelled Matt coming out of the back room.
Oliver leaned back and I rested my head between his neck. He smiled down at me and kissed my cheek. I smiled and closed my eyes.
I feel weightless and calm. The water in my ears makes my head hurt. I shut my eyes tightly and try to shake my head but it’s no use.
I feel like I’m still in slow motion. This isn’t the end for me. It can’t. I still want Oliver, but I know that he doesn’t want me. I know I ended what we had, but I don’t know why.
He was the best that I ever had.
My fingers ran to the right then to the left of the piano keys. I instantly fell in love with this shiny, big, white grand piano instantly.
“Oliver, this is the one.” I whispered to him.
He looked up from another piano and walked over to me. He wrapped his left arm around my waist and got the price tag from the top of the piano.
“Are you sure?” he asked with a shaky breath.
“Yes. Most defiantly sure.” I said sitting on the seat.
“Well, I will buy it for you. But! You have to play it for me. Any song.” He said sitting next to me.
I haven’t played for him. This was a first. It’s not that I don’t want to but I’m really nervous because I don’t want to disappoint him. He’s so much better than me.
“Okay, but I might screw up.” I said placing my fingers on the keys.
“It’s fine love, as long as I can watch you practice it and play it with a smile on your pretty face I’m okay with it.”
I took a deep breath and played. It wasn’t something that I made up because it was an Alesana song. I heard the singer play it when they we’re warming up at a venue once and I’ve remembered it. I hummed the tune. I knew the lyrics, but I didn’t want to embarrass myself with my voice so I kept it shut.
“Sing.”
“What?”
“Sing, I can see your mouth slightly moving darling. So sing for me.”
I swallowed. I closed my eyes and kept playing. I almost wanted to cry. I knew that he wouldn’t like my voice. It was ugly. But I had to. I wanted this piano and I wanted to make him happy if he was going to buy me it.
So I had to sing, but I needed to slow it down to get it all right.
“The horizon now as dark as the crimes that brought them here, is filled with my impending dread… my foolish actions will cost so many good men, Achilles has come. A thousand sails approaching sent here in her name to reclaim the one I stole and destroy the walls of troy.”
I kept my eyes closed. I was so afraid. So I played with my eyes closed. My voice cracked on one note. I just hoped that he didn’t hear it. I kept playing the ending. Finally I stopped. I took another deep breath and opened my eyes.
I just wished that I could open my eyes now.
