***Hope to get a lot of reviews!! The song to listen to while reading is The Sacrifice by Michael Nyman***
Chapter 2
When the driver of the Mercedes entered the house he found all his adoptive children waiting for him in the living room. Ever since his wife Esme had left them to live with a coven of
"Non-vegetarians" things were different. He knew his children were worried about him, he had been hurt by Esme´s behaviour and he had almost gone insane when she'd told him that she felt a love stronger than theirs for a member of the Argentinean coven she lived with now…He couldn't blame them for caring about him, but he'd have preferred if they just behaved like the lively, brawly bunch of teenagers that they were before Esme had left.
He knew they had a long way to go until things would be back to normal again-the children wouldn't let him know but they missed their mother a lot and especially since he was gone half of the day, working in the hospital, they had a lot of free time now…
Suddenly he realized he'd been standing there deliberating all this while everyone was watching him, waiting to say hi.
"Sorry, guys…I guess I was lost in my thoughts right there "he said and sat down on a leather sofa adverting theirs. After a short silence his son Edward stood up and asked" Carlisle-will you play a song for us?!" while he folded up the top cover of the antique piano next to them.
The other children were eying him pleadingly, knowing that once he started playing the piano he was back to his usual self, forgetting all his worries and problems and his past with Esme.
He smiled and sat down at the piano and as usual: as soon as he touched the familiar keys of his piano he forgot the world and became one with the music. His children were listening tensely, even though they'd heard their father playing the piano so many times before and through the half open windows the girl walking on by, going for a walk with her neighbours´ dog, could hear his song. For a moment they had been united in the music.
All the way home she couldn't forget the tune, found herself whistling to it when she was cleaning the dishes after dinner and finally decided to take another walk the next day, hoping that she could hear the sound of this piano again, the sound that made her heart stop for a moment, the sound that made her feel part of something bigger, a world so beautiful she'd never been able to imagine.