Through Chaos As It Swirls//Coldplay

Chapter Two

The sounds of a beeping alarm clock strikes the room with a sound repeating like a broken record. I stretch my legs, yawning, realizing I got three exact hours of sleep last night.
'Us Against The World' has really sends chills down my spine and it chills the bone. That also makes me remember a few other lyrics. "Bones sinking like stones". I remember the sweet, soft, melody in my head. I remember the song was called 'Don't Panic' which was another song by this band called "Coldplay".
I eventually pull myself out of my dreamy daze and I put the best smile on my face while I still can. I walk out to the kitchen to make breakfast only to see my father with his arms crossed and a very big frown on his face. His foot was tapping with anger.
He reaches out to smack the back of my head and the palm meets flesh and the pain erupts. He yelled at me for staying up way past my bedtime and listening to music.

"Dad I'm sorry." I apologized. "It's just...."

He cuts me off by yelling and another smack in the head.
I sigh and pull out a pan and some eggs to make a few eggs for breakfast.
The lyrics flow through my head and I just forget everything in that moment in time. It's like the lyrics just run throughout my whole body and they've completely taken over.
I've never felt this feeling but it was warm and beautiful. I really hope these songs will be able to get me through everything that's gone downhill in my life at all causes.
I hum softly making sure my father doesn't hear. I start to smell something burning and I pull myself out of my dreamy haze and I realize my eggs are on fire.
I "don't panic". No pun intended and grab a pitcher of water and pour it gently over the pan and it sparks die out. The sight of sparks gave me another song I remember. Sparks was so soft and beautiful. I really almost did love it as much as Us Against The World.
My father rushes into the kitchen and he grabs the collar of my t-shirt. He screams in my face and asking why I burned the eggs.
My happiness shatters. I try to stay positive but the feeling in my gut was like I was at the bottom of some body of water and I had to swim all the way to the top with sacks of potatoes. And the closer I got to the surface, the heavier it got.
My happiness left. It just jumped out of me and moved on.
A simple tear rolled off my check and I again apologized to my father. He finally let go of me.
I recooked the eggs and I didn't get distracted, I stayed focused not letting my eyes leave the frying pan.
Once I finished cooking, I sat down and grabbed my ear buds to listen to one more simple tune.
The acoustic guitar filled my ears. It felt so good to listen to this song. It was power and it was so good like a piece of velvet cake, too good to be true. The melody filled my ears and it's like my ears were experiencing what heaven was like. It was so beautiful.
I looked down and saw my eggs and they were the color "yellow" just like the song.
I quickly finished my eggs and I changed into normal clothes.
I grabbed my backpack and walked out the door not caring to say a goodbye to my father.
Something in me has changed. I keep strumming and tapping my fingers. I'm into this band and I really wish I could thank Phil for showing me this band.
I push my glasses up against my nose and I place in my earbuds. I pull my hood up over my head as it quietly rained above.
I looked down and I noticed I had a rather large hole in my hoodie which made me think of one other song I almost forgot about.
"Fix You" really was beautiful and it brought me to tears.
I continue to walk taking in all of the beauty that I've truly never noticed about my small town.
It really makes me feel much happier than it should.
I raise my head high and relax my shoulders back. I put a small smile on my face and that I'll begin to ignore all the bullying.
I apparently raised my head a little too high and got carried a little too far in thoughts.
A figure fell over and I pull out of my thoughts thinking about what just happened. I look down to see a girl was in my grade. Her name was Ashely Ramirez. She had big, beautiful, chocolate, melting, eyes that seemed to be staring at me. She was short and had her hair in a small bun. I started to think about how similar her and I were. She's never been popular but she seemed casual and got along with majority of people.
I brushed my hair out of my face, blushing a little. I extended my arm for her to grab.
She smiled and did latch on.
I pulled her up with the best of my might trying not to doubt myself with my skinner muscles and physical weakness.
I ignored it and she was standing again with a cute little smile spread across her face. She wore a simple Coldplay t-shirt and scarf, with dark wash jeans and grey boots.
I noticed she spilled her coffee all over her scarf.
I blushed taking the scarf from her neck and I poured some water from
my water bottle on the scarf as some of it seemed to disappear in mid air.
"I'm so sorry."
I blushed.
"I really didn't mean it"
I said very awkwardly looking down at my shoes.
"No you're okay." she laughed.
"Don't be sorry it was only like two dollars anyways."
I look up into her eyes and I laugh a little.
"I am really. I am sorry."
"It's okay." she said playfully hitting my shoulder.
"You seemed a bit distracted there. What were you thinking about before you bumped into me?"
"Oh I uh was thinking about this really cool band I just learned about the other day."
"What band is it?" She eagerly asked
"Coldplay." I responded softly.
"Did you not see my shirt?" she practically yelled.
"I love Coldplay. They're my favorite band and you'll love them for sure."
I had to say something.
"I know a few songs. Maybe five or six and they're all so beautiful. I can't wait until I learn more."
"Coldplay will really change your life I promise." she winked.
"So do you know any of the members names?"
"No actually I don't." I said stupidly "Sorry." I responded.
"No you're fine. So we've got singer songwriter Chris Martin who also is a guitarist and pianist. Jonny Buckland who is lead guitarist. Guy Berryman who plays bass and sometimes keyboard. Last but not least, Will Champion who is the drummer, backup vocalist, and he also plays the guitar."
"Wow" I said surprised. "These guys sound really talented. I play guitar but probably nothing like them."
"I don't know. You'd be surprised. They're not super hard songs to play because I also play a little myself." she said tucking a piece of her hair behind her ear.
I checked my watch and realized that school started in two minutes.
We ran and talked about Coldplay basically the rest of the way to school. I had a smile larger then Alaska printed on my face the entire time. It wasn't fake. It was real. I don't have all the time in the world to live. I have to live every second like its truly my last and be thankful today that, although separated, I at least have two parents.
I at least go to school and I have a shelter and food to eat.
The glass doors were in front of of my face.
"You coming Reese?
"Oh uh yeah coming."
"Breathe" my mind spoke
"Breathe in and out calm yourself down don't work yourself up."
I exhaled, grabbed the handle, and walked right in.
I said goodbye to Ashley and we went our separate ways to find our lockers.
I frantically ran to my locker and flung my backpack inside. I grabbed whatever supplies I needed for my first couple classes.
I ran into the room and just as I sat down, the bell rang and Ashley ran in blushing. She winked at me and took her seat towards the back of the room.
I felt confident in myself. I opened up a little more for what it seemed and I wasn't dreading something for once in my life. I was living in the moment and hanging onto it.
Soon as I knew it, my first three classes were over for the day and I honestly seemed way more relaxed.
Ashley is in four of my classes which is actually really cool because if we become good friends, I've got someone to talk to and hang out with sometime.
I kept my smile on my face and my shoulders relaxed. All the usual people who beat me, I actually smiled at and gave them a little wink and some even a high a five. They were too shocked to do anything and I just kept walking keeping my head high.
I walked into the cafeteria and sat at my usual section at the end of a table. I was alone with two other guys I never spoke to really ever until Ashley set her stuff on the table plopped down next to me. She smiled. "Hi Reese" She twirled her finger into her hair.
We ate our lunch quietly but quickly so we could talk about Coldplay even more. The word talk flowed into my mind and I also remembered last night, at some point, I also listened to the song "Talk". It was a lot quicker and faster pace and I loved it. Everything about it like all the special features and mixtures of things in it seemed to make it unique. Especially the guitar solo. It seemed way more different then the songs on the radio today which were all the same songs and lyrics. They were simple notes and beat with words which it didn't seem like a song to me at all but it was whatever. We all know what band here really is better to be honest.
Ashley and I chatted about the members and she ended up quizzing me over which member was which and I surprised myself getting all the names and instruments they each played right.
I smiled and I felt proud that. I've accomplished something and I would only get better from here learning chords on my guitar, listening and learning more songs, talking about each member and how cool it must be to be them.
I'm so excited to open up to this band a ton more. I want to learn about them more and that I may even learn a little bit more about myself in parts of all this that's occurring.
The rest of the day actually flew by and before I knew it, I was walking home by myself. I was a little disappointed Ashley couldn't walk with me but she had to stay after school for marching band practice.
I walked to the finial block and I heard the velvety beautiful tune in my ears from a distance. Us Against The World I immediately thought and all the lyrics came back to me and I remembered how happy I was listening to this song and how a work of art it was.
A familiar sight caught my attention. There he was in his car. It was Phil. He pulled his car on the side of the road and placed it in park. He took the keys out of his car and the engine shut off.
"Hey kiddo" he said smiling climbing out of the car. He gave me a small fist pump and he did those little explosion noises. It made me smile.
"How was your school day?"
"Actually for once it went really well and you know that band Coldplay you told me about? Well you really got me hooked. Thanks for that." I laughed.
"You really do like them?" He said
"Wow that's nice. They are really a great group of guys. That's for sure." he chuckled.

We ended up sitting and talking for a while and I noticed the sky turn in a shade of pink and I knew it was time to go home.
"I really don't have anything else to do" Phil said "and I would love to stay and chat with you but you don't want to make your parents worried and you probably have homework so I should be going now." he smiled and gave me a pat on the back. He jumped into his car and just like that, he was gone.
I smiled and I walked home quietly with Coldplay buzzing in my ears and the pink sky following me behind.

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