Preston had never truly been happy. His parents got divorced early on and never stopped arguing. His mother’s tears only lead to drinking, then while the kids played in the yard, Chloe got too close to the well…she fell in and died on impact. She was 2. Preston was 5. Things were never the same again. But life went on as it always does.
He felt he didn’t know how to love, but managed to make strong attachments – anything that gave him the idea of some normalcy. They always left though, they pitied him, stayed for a while feeling sorry for him, but left when they couldn’t understand the intensity of his life. Then he met Jenny. She managed to channel his distress into music. With the smooth synthesized sounds of her keyboard played under the acoustic riffs of his guitar – they could let out all their sorrows. Together they even found some success. Playing at their local bar, their band “The Teardrops” had a small following.
Then, on an April morning, tragedy hit. Preston bought a ring to propose to Jenny. He pictured the movie script ending of the proposal, but he never could have imagined the accident that followed. He planned everything out. He waited for a rainy day – they loved rainy days. He found a vintage boom box and found an old cassette of Peter Gabriel’s “In Your Eyes.” He told her to meet him in the middle of the park. When she saw him there in the rain, she welled up with tears and enjoyed the scene. She ran up to him and he started to put down the boom box so he could get down on one knee. The boombox slipped out of his hand and hit her on the head, and then she was struck by lightning. Preston died right then and there of a broken heart.
People still listen to the haunting sounds of their music, and their “indie” album went double platinum.
--By Farrah R., MS1 at UTCOM
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