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( introduction part . i) 1 / ONE turning loneliness into art.
June Jimenez had always been one to keep to herself.
Always watching everyone from afar, wondering what being part of the big crowd would feel like, yet staying as far away from it as she could; listening and being the reliable shoulder to cry on, yet never having someone to listen to or console her.
For years June struggled to find her own voice. In everyone's eyes, she was the quiet kid, the one who they would say, "Oh, look, she does speak," every time she dared to share her opinion without fail; and, because everyone in her life viewed her that way, she too, at some point, started believing that was all she would ever be — the quiet kid, the uptight kid, the one person who never managed to fit in anywhere — until she reached seventh grade and her music teacher changed everything.
Without Mr. Solis' guidance, June would have never found solace in her art. It'd been he who sparked that interest in music inside of her, who showed her the ropes of everything she would soon dedicate her life to. If he'd never insisted on her taking that guitar home for the weekend, lied and told her it was his and not the school's just so she would, she might have never written that crappy song in the back of her old school notebook, and she might have been stuck in her hometown forever.
