Music was what got me through life. I had songs to get me pumped for games, songs to celebrate victories and pick me up from losses. There were songs to fall in love to, songs that got me through my breakup and I’m sure there were songs for moments of my life I’d yet to experience.
Sometimes I even wrote songs when I couldn’t find the exact ones I was looking for. It’s what got me through my parents’ separation, then reunion. Music was how I made sense of my emotions and worked through things. It was the only thing that ever filled my soul and made me feel like I was floating on air.
Football was a close second and for a while there, so was Lexy. But she had been a mistake.
That was another thing I loved about music. It couldn’t lie. It was raw and vulnerable and always laid the truth out there—take it or leave it. Come to think of it, football was kind of the same way. Sure, we could boast and razz the opponent before the game, but once the clock started it was truth time. There was nowhere to hide on the field. You brought what you had and were forced to lay it all out there, hoping it was enough.
Perhaps that’s what I hated so much about dating. Nothing was really what it seemed. At least not after I found out that Lexy had only been telling me what I wanted to hear. It was almost comical that I faced three-hundred pound lineman rushing me without batting an eye, but a ninety pound cheerleader could take me down for the count.
It’d been almost a year since she dumped me, but I could still feel the sting of her betrayal like it was only yesterday. I thought I’d be past all of this pain by now. How long does a heart take to heal?
I sat down at the piano, letting my fingers find their place on the keys. I hadn’t played in years. The guitar was my instrument these days, but my mom had signed me up for piano lessons when I was too small to hold a guitar.
I let my fingers tinkle out a tune, grinning as my muscle memory kicked in. Even after all the years away, it seemed my fingers still remembered how to play. Of course, my hands were larger now and much more calloused, but the feeling the sound generated as music flowed from the ivory was still the same—pure joy.
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