It was very strange walking through the halls the day after I went to G-Major for the first time. I heard Sadie make some snide comment to me, I shot back a half hearted retort, then went off on my own until Jamie and Kat came upon me. I laughed with my friends as we walked down the hall, Jamie only slightly pushing me away from walking into a pole once. I'm usually really good at walking anywhere, particularly with my cane, but I was just out of it that day.
"Oh my God, Kat, they're playing my song on tubas." Jude cringed and for once was thankful that she couldn't see what was going on in front of her. The principal came up, they took a few pictures where Kat thankfully tilted me in the direction of the cameras.
Then I started to get that feeling that someone was watching me, I turned quietly to Kat, "someone's watching me, I think a little past the crowd." Kat looked, or so I assumed. She spoke in my ear, "Tommy, about two hundred steps away. Go to your left" I smiled, "thanks." then I walked away, briskly counting the steps as I walked away from the crowd. I didn't know if anyone noticed and frankly I didn't care. I had gotten away from most of the noise of the crowd, when I said, "Quincy?" He answered, "right over here." I smiled inwardly, he had just been more helpful than he knew. I walked towards his voice, then I was next to him. "What's up? Why are you here?" I heard him sigh, he sounded a little weary. "Georgia got you a gig at the Vinyl Palace." I felt myself start to get so excited, "Seriously, the vinyl palace?" The Vinyl Palace was this awesome club downtown. I heard the smile in his voice, "seriously. But, we have like zero time, the show's in four days. We need to rewrite the lyrics, get in." I frowned, "where?", his voice was sarcastic, "somewhere where you can't run away from me again." I laughed, and slowly walked to the other side of the car.
We rode silently to wherever we were going, but when we parked I knew where we were. At least I knew where we were by. I smiled and took a breath of the fresh air, "we're at the water…" I said, I heard him laugh, "how did you…" I laughed, "blind, but not stupid Quincy, blind but not stupid, so where are we?" He opened his car door, "the marina." I opened the car door and got out my cane and got out of the car.
I sat on a bench, messing around with chord changes when I heard a hoarse laugh. "Something funny Quincy?" I asked, he said, "that's your tenth chord change but you still haven't touched the lyrics." I shrugged, "I want to get it right.", he laughed again, "you want to get it right or you want to get it right now." I snorted, "funny, Kurt Cobain made Nevermind when he was twenty three, that leaves me only eight years to create my master piece." Tommy laughed, "guess that leaves me a year then."
Then he was sitting next to me, telling me that I just needed to coax the chords out of the guitar. I sucked in my breath quietly, he smelled so good, and he was telling me all this amazing stuff and I just wished I could see him. But I couldn't, and I dealt with that.