No Such Thing

Play every step by the song. Close your eyes so you never doubt. Follow the leader and do what Simon Says. It all seemed so simple. But that was exactly what it wasn't. Every beat is a lie, every step backwards is really a step forward. Open your eyes and see the truth. We all follow the leader who never was meant to be. Simon defies everything by simply existing. Move to the rhythm of the ballad. Look to heaven and see Hell. Don't climb the wall and you won't fall down. Follow the rules, and no one gets hurt. But people did get hurt. They always do. Cover your ears when the guitar starts strumming, run from the rhythm. Heaven is obscured from view, so we never did get a chance to know any better. Scale the wall and take a chance, we wait to catch you at the bottom. ~*~ Life for Trine Johnston has never been easy. She was always the middle child, and her parents always held her to the highest of expectations. Her younger sister was the typical little angel, and everyone knew it. Whatever she wanted, she would get. And when Trine's parents split, things just got worse. One day, everything changes. Trine receives a mysterious package in the mail, reading "DO NOT OPEN". What do you expect someone to do when it reads that? Open it, of course. And when she does, all hell absolutely breaks loose. She wakes up the next morning to find out that her entire life was a dream, and the reality she lives in is lived to the beat of music. Simon's music. But was everything really a dream?