MUSIC¹

Tight headphones are secured onto my head, as music blasts through my ears…

I hummed along to the melody, trying to forget what this day means and what this day has brought me...

Yet, it's weird… Here I'm blasting 'happiest year' by jaymes Young, but I'm wallowing in my own misery....

I guess you could say it's unusual, but there's a reason for everything right?...

One year ago today my best friend died… Her favorite thing was listening to music...

Sometimes she'd rather listen to her music than listen to me.

Though I didn't mind it... That was her way with coping with everything. It wasn't until she was gone that I realized what music meant to her.

Music was her only escape from the harsh world around her... It was her way of dealing with all the pain and anguish she was enduring...

Music meant much more to her than just her listening to her favorite Songs.....

Her last words to me before she left forever was that she hoped the afterlife was as peaceful as music....

Now, I didn't think much of what she meant until after I got a call from my second mother - her mom telling me that my best friend took her life......

I suppose that's why I started listening to music in the first place to find what she did, the tranquility it brought to her..

So here I was on the top of this hill playing this song on repeat while gazing down at the Hollywood sign and the lights of Los Angeles....

Can't deny it was a beautiful distraction from reality.

The lights seemed to brighten up the dull reality that surrounded me. Not to mention the stunning sunset which was disappearing as it grew darker by the second...

Just as I was about to check the time I felt nudge on my left shoulder. I looked at the left raising my eyebrows when I found a girl around my age--- probably seventeen...

I took out one of my headphones and adjusted the volume so that I could hear what the girl next to me was saying.

"Yes?" I asked, my voice was weak and scratchy, no doubt from all the tears I've shed today...

"What song are you listening to?" she questioned, her finger pointing at my phone...

I turned on my phone and showed her the monotonous song that kept repeating in my ears. She offered me a warm smile as she scanned the title.

"I'm listening to 'here' by Alessia Cara," she spoke.

I didn't said anything in response to her song choice just nodded....

Only when she slipped a strand of her hairs behind her ears did I notice the wireless air-pod she had inserted into her ear. I guess that made sense why I didn't see her wires connected to her phone as mine were.

"I'm moon" she added.

to be continued ~

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