"Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose" -Kevin Arnold
"What's this daddy?"
"My son, it is a sheriff badge, a family heirloom, my grandfather gave it to my father when he was your age and then my father gave it to me when I was your age, now I want you to have it"
That was the last time Johnny talked to his father before he [Johnny's Father] passed away to heart failure. Johnny was only 8 years old when his father passed away, Johnny was
distraught because him and his father were thick as theives, they'd were always together, heck at the age of 6 Johnny's dad gave him his first acoustic guitar, which he still uses today.
Now the story Johnny gonna tell you is about a fateful day when that badge proved to be good luck, enjoy.
Man I can't believe it's been 20 year's since my father's passing, I cry every time I think about him, looking at pictures of us two together, the one picture when we went camping, I caught
a fish bu It fell in the stream, good times. All of a sudden my phone rang, it was Tails;
"Hey Johnny boy, can't wait for your concert tonight!"
"I take it you got the tickets I sent you?"
"Heck yeah! Me and Cosmo can't wait till tonight, and in two weeks our first child will be brought into the world!"
"I wouldn't miss that for the world! Trust me when I say me and June are gonna be there to witness our good friends first child being brought into the world"
"You're a real pal John! Well see you tonight and good luck!"
And the conversation ended, I can't believe Cosmo is pregnant, me and June are thinking about having kids, we don't know yet. I took a look at the clock and it read 10:55am, only 9
hours and five minutes until the concert. I wasn't thinking much about the concert though as my mind was set on my father, I always wished he was alive to see me perform and tell me
how proud of me he was, but sadly I'm never gonna see him again. Just then I decided to take a drive up to the cemetary where he was buried, June was fast asleep so I felt it in my best
interests not to bother her because she can be a little testy when she gets awoken up out of a good sleep, so I stepped outside and got in my car, turned the key and drove off. Whilst
driving I turned on the radio and I was listening to some good old fashioned country music, then the radio DJ came on;
"And that was Ray William Sirus with Aching, Breaking Hearts! Now we only have two tickets left to the Johnny James Cancer Awareness Concert tonight! We now go to line 3 with Billy!
Billy are ya ready to win those tickets?!
"Sure am!"
"OK... in order to win the tickets you have to finish the lyric of Johnny James' song All Springtime Long! OK here we go!"
and my song began to play, kinda felt weird to hear myself on the radio.
"It was 2089 my thoughts were long my hair was short, turning from a boy into a man she was..."
and the song stopped, "eighteen and far from in between" I sang
"EIGHTEEN AND FAR FROM IN BETWEEN!!!"
"CONGRATS! YOU HAVE WON THE TICKETS YOU AND A FRIEND ARE GOING TO SEE JOHNNY JAMES LIVE! AND NOW HERE'S JOHNNY'S SONG ALL SPRINGTIME LONG!"
I felt happy for the guy who won those tickets, and after a while of driving I got to the cemetary where my dad was buried, I got out of my car and grabbed my guitar out of the backseat.
I walked up to where my dad was buried and saw his headstone and it read
Taylor James
Born on
August 27, 2034
Died on
November 23, 2079
Great husband
Great father
He will be missed
I knelt down and put my hand on the headstone, I began to cry "Hey dad, it's your little boy Johnny *sob* *sob* I got a concert tonight, I know you'll be watching me from up there *sob*
*sob*" I broke down, it was hard. I broke out my guitar, sat next to his headstone and began to play, I sang a song him and me used to sing all the time;
"Oh Dinah won't you blow? Dinah won't you blow your horn?"
It was saddening.