Playing the violin makes you feel everything a musician should feel. Jessica Russo was well aware of this. She enjoyed playing. Above anything else. She was completely unnoticed at school. She was like a ghost. A fairytale. Nobody paid attention to...
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Imagine an empty concrete hall. With no one else inside except you. Well... Also, with your violin. What would your reaction be?
Are you alone? Frightened? Exciting? Are you worried about what will happen next?...
There are numerous ways to describe it. However, this does not imply that one of them is accurate.
Jessica Russo. That was the actual name. The name of the girl, who was all alone right now, at this very moment. Who has no one, but just the violin and the music, that she is playing right now. Vivaldi. The Four Seasons.
She is already playing it for the third time. For more than an hour. Was it draining? Yes, on occasion. It was. But she was famed for her flawlessness.
She was always too flawless for everyone. And to live up to this label, she had to train all the damn time. Almost in a nonstop mode.
It was not, however, torment for her. It was her entire existence. A life she has fashioned for herself.
It was entirely her fault. (Well, not exactly "fault". But something close to it...)
That she was now on her own. In an empty hall, where she would practice the violin. Why? Because she was just another girl at the school. Who even did not want to go here!...
Who was so insignificant that even bullies did not notice her!...
She was just some Italian girl... She was too picture-perfect to even be heard about... Almost like a fairytale...
Was it painful? To know that she was nothing?
Did it sting to realize she was merely a ghost to someone? And not just someone, but an entire school?! Even an entire world?! Yes, absolutely!...
But she had no idea that things would soon alter when a particular new glee club director, Will Shuester, saw her performing in that vacant concert hall...