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As silence fell, the auditorium quickly filled with the fluorescent light of cell phones and the flicker of lighters amongst the darkened crowd. Ami paused for a moment, then began to play. She closed her eyes and imagined herself sitting at the piano as she had done that night at Edward’s.
The calmness and overwhelming peace she felt mixed with the emotions she’d once thought were dead.
“I wrote this for someone special. I hope he knows how much our time together meant to me.” The chords from the piano echoed around her as she started to touch the keys. Her voice quietly started to sing the words to the music Edward had inspired in her.
The pain I feel is from the hole in my heart
Leaving you before we could ever start
Bleeding souls from wounds of the past
Scar the truth we told trying to make it last
You gave me everything yet asked for nothing
My insecurity washed away trusting someone again
Hearing your voice in my dreams makes me see
That you were much more than just a man to me
For you came and inspired the best sides of who I am
You are simply the music man…
Ami kept her eyes closed, remembering how good things were for the brief time they shared. She shed a tear as she continued to sing.
You cared more than you should have
The shattered pain from tragedy long past
Instead you showed strength while I showed weakness
Every day we grew closer blinded by our bliss
Why did life’s burden sacrifice our dream
For people like us things aren’t what they seem
Hearing your voice in my dreams makes me see
That you were much more than just a man to me
For you came and inspired the best sides of who I am
You are simply the music man…
Ami stopped, her eyes swollen with tears. She wanted to cry. The auditorium was quiet, and the tones of the last piano chord rang out into a second of silence. She turned and looked out at the crowd. They were all there for her. She was never alone.
Her eyes drifted to the front row.
Standing dead center holding a red rose—was Edward. He wiped his hand across his eyes and offered her the flower.
Epilogue
Ellen stood in line at the supermarket. She was stuck behind Belinda Smith who had a tendency to buy everything in the store with coupons and discount cards. Ellen was polite as she sighed and saw Depends undergarments and a large assortment of prune and fiber enhanced breads. Someone must be bound up, she thought. That’s probably why she bitches so much at the Senior Center. Belinda had two shopping carts full of items and was taking forever as usual. Ellen looked over to the tabloid rack and smiled.
Under the latest headlines about politicians and movie star scandals and the story of Bigfoot’s lovechild, she saw “Wild Rocker Goddess Has Change of Heart” with a picture of Ami and Edward in sunglasses.
