Always Together

25. Music

IMPORTANT:

This chapter has got music from the twenty-first century, even though it's the 1990's. Do not blame me I know nothing of old music.

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Chapter 25 | music

Ever since the incident of Mrs Norris, Caitlyn had stayed away from her father's diary and the Chamber of Secrets. She had spent her time with her Slytherin friends — Spencer, Pansy and Millicent. She had discovered the most wicked stuff about them — Spencer loved theater and she was planning on signing up for the Drama Class the next year — it was among the muggle classes. Once day, Pansy asked Caitlyn what she did in her spare time, for fun, and Caitlyn had no idea.

She loved singing. She never told anyone and she hated singing in public, but it was still a passion of hers. She had only sung in front of her music teacher. She had had some music lessons since she was six years old until she was seven, and from nine to ten. Her teacher, Mr Handerson, said she had an amazing voice. He also taught her how to play the piano.

Ever since those classes, she had started to really love singing. She was really fond of piano rock and therefore she loved Coldplay, The Fray and Christina Perri. She had also gone through an Elton John phase once, but she was only six.

One day, a rainy one for sure, Caitlyn walked around the castle alone, looking for an empty classroom where she could focous and do her homework. She searched and searched, but in most of them there were already other students in. In one of the rooms, she saw something that lit up her heart, a big pianoforte.

She gulped. She walked in the room and turned on the lights. There were tables all around the piano —- the walls seemed scratched and the white on them was crumbling. The floor was made of stone bricks. She jumped from brick to brick until she sat on the stool near the piano. She dropped the beginning of her Transfiguration homework on a desk and took her hands to the piano.

And she started playing. It was a pretty melody. And then the verses came. She sang, "Heart beats fast, colours and promises. How to be brave? How can I love when I'm afraid to fall, but watching you stand alone, all of my doubt suddenly goes away some how. One step closer ... I have died every day waiting for you. Darling, don't be afraid I have love you for a thousand years, I'll love you for a thousand more ..."

Her voice was truly beautiful. So thin and soft, high and perfectly nice. She sounded so much like an angel, really.

But she was then interrupted by someone clapping at the door. Caitlyn, shocked with the fact somebody had been listening to her, turned around, her eyes widely opened and her cheeks a bit pink. Who was standing at the door was Professor Flitwick — the Charms teacher. Caitlyn's fingers left the piano and began fidgeting with each others.

"Oh, that was wonderful, Miss Montrose," said Flitwick nicely. No need to remember that Caitlyn was one of Flitwick's best and favourite students. "It must be a muggle song, but it is very nice. I didn't know you sing and play the piano, Miss Montrose."

"I don't," said Caitlyn nervously, shaking her head. She quickly got up and picked up her Transfiguration homework. "I was just ... I have to finish this paper, Professor, so if you don't mind ..."

"Have you ever taken music lessons? I wonder where you got that talent," continued Flitwick. He had a big smile on his face. Like he was short, it was funny to see his smile from up to Caitlyn — it made it seem as if he was trying to scare her. She wondered if he was part-goblin. Most probably so, indeed.

"Thank you, Professor," Caitlyn said, now her face as red as a tomato. "And yes, I didhave  two years of lessons. But if I don't go now, Professor McGonagall is going to kill me tomorrow for not doing the homework."