Hi I'm Jake Winston, I'm forty-nine, married to the most beautiful girl in the world, we have two beautiful kids. But that has nothing to do with the story. The story starts a few days before the incident.
It was September 19. Everyone who was in the talent show was practicing for tomorrow. I was preparing to pour my heart out to a girl named Courtney Shelton. I was preparing a song called Private Fears in Public Places. There were a lot of other people there. My brother, the football player, was there to support me. Greg is his name, I have another brother named Vincent, but he's in prison. Greg was my ride home and at three we got to leave and throw football back in forth. He always complimented me for have a good arm, but I don't wanna live in his shadow. He has a scholarship to Oklahoma, and I have a record label lining up in Florida.
We were finally home and he started giving me advice to help me make Courtney fall for me. I wanted him to stop, so I got the football and walked outside. We threw back in forth until bed.
I was standing behind the curtains waiting for them to call my name. They finally called my name, I walked to the front of the stage and adjusted the Mic. "Courtney Shelton can you come up here?" She made her way up there right next to me. After the song I asked her "Courtney, will you be my girlfriend?" She shook her head no and ran off the stage. The whole school laughed at me, I ran the other direction to where Greg was. The school never let me live that down. At the end of the school year we moved away to Miami, Oklahoma hopefully where I could make a new life. Greg went to Oklahoma University, he moved into the dorms so I wasn't able to see him for a long time.
