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"Don't hate something you have no idea about."
"Dez, why the heck do you still have this old thing?"
The girl turned around to see Cathy pointing to her old keyboard. Smiling, the girl ran her fingertips over the old device.
"You can't even play it here. Didn't you say the landlord wouldn't let you play?"
"Yeah..." I placed my finger to my lips. "How about one more time? I haven't played once for the time I've been here, so once wouldn't kill anyone, right?"
Cathy raised her brow. Dez wasn't the type of person to break a rule, no matter how she wanted to. But when it came to music, Dez was a completely different soul...
Smiling, she nodded. "Yeah. Play Moonlight Sonata for me?"
"Okay." Dez smiled back, before dragging a stool to the keyboard, and switching it to tradition.
And before long, Dez was so absorbed in her memories, she forgot how to end.
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The piano is one of the most well known instruments ever created. Some consider it too quiet, some prefer keyboards, and other just don't know how to explain it. It's a matter of opinion.
But Faith Sugimoto, a world-known piano prodigy since the age of five, made it so everyone who heard her playing loved it. That is, until the accident. Then everything about her playing changed. It had lost her fire, her will to play and to inspire was gone from her songs. As the critques flew in, all the pain, harsh words, and killing words of pity, Faith vanished from one of her concerts.
Everyone tried to call her, tried to coax her back into the spotlight, and piano bench where she belonged, but she never turned up. Many people said she had commited suicide, others said she had been kidnapped and killed. But there a few who believed Faith had gone into hiding. Like Shakespeare, she needed time to be alone, and lost.
Across the country, in the small, dreary town of Loxville, a lonely and run down apartment complex gives shelter to a young woman with a multi-million dollar fortune, and a beat-up keyboard. In this apartment, though she is unable to play due to rules, the woman known as Desiree Tokizumo keeps Faith close. By playing only once late at night, Dez keeps the dying Faith Sugimoto alive inside her heart.
Next door, another young person is barely holding on. Filing for bankruptcy, and getting cheated on by his girfriend, Officer Trent Toshiro is on the edge of commiting suicide with his sleeping pills. So far, the only thing keeping him afloat is his sheer will.
The night Des/Faith moves in, Trent found himself falling asleep without the pills because of a song coming from her room. But when he tried to talk to her the next day, she said she had no idea what he was talking about. When he asked her where she was from, she got defensive. Even more so when he asked what she did for a living back then. Trent goes on a case to find out who this, "Desiree Tokizumo," was. But to his surprise, no one under that name exists. Anywhere. Not even globally. He checked the missing person file.
One stood out: Faith Sugimoto. A pianist from New York. But he shrugged it off. Why would a rich girl come to Loxville when she could go to a place like LA, or Las Vegas? Where she could be comfortable?
The man continued to talk to her casually. He tried sliding Faith's name into the conversation, and finally noticed a pattern. A twitch of the arm. The movements of her arms, and her finger's fluid motions. Dez had the characteristics of a piano player, right down to her well-cared for fingertips.
As Trent put the pieces together, he was happily lulled to sleep every night by Faith's songs of hope...
 Ukeire · Tue May 19, 2009 @ 03:45am · 0 Comments |
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