11. Memory
Every Mile A Memory
Every Song Another Scene
From Some Old Movie
Going back in time to You and Me
Every Day a Page Turned Down
Every Night a Lonesome Sound
Like a Freight Train Blowin' Through My Dreams
Every Mile A Memory
The first thing she had told herself was that she was crazy. Absolutely insane. She had decided to be impulsive and take a car trip after she graduated. Didn't know where she was going, or when she would be back. She just said she would call when she got to her first stop.
Her heart kept telling her she needed to get away. So, she unconsciously drove out of town, out of state. She may have kept driving until she hit ocean.
"This is a time to reflect," she told herself. "A very spiritual experience that will leave you a better person in the end."
She flipped on the radio, to the only station that would work. A country station.
"Well, that's just great," she muttered. "Nothing like the Grand Ole' Opry to completely drive me insane."
After a while of listening to nothing but broken hearted love songs that sometimes sounded like her own, she had finally told herself her life story up to the point of Jess. Then a song came on that wasn't so bad.
Country Roads- "Sounds like our town. Every little back wood road leads right back into town."
Ole Theatre Marquee Sign- "Old Movies. That's what he liked best. Where the focus was more on the writing and the great work of the actors than on how great the special effects are."
Parking Lots, Billboards Flyin' by- "We made out in a bookstore parking lot before, after a long argument about how billboards were diminishing society."
Spanish Monks- "He always said life as a Spanish Monk would be a great alternative for Taylor."
Little Hick Town Square- "That's where most of our moments took place. The town square."
Wild Roses on the River Bank- "First kiss. That little river bank. I don't think their were roses there, but it's still the same."
It's Almost Like Your There- "Somehow, you've always been there. All those places. The essence of you. Places they would never look."
Every Mile A Memory
Every Song Another Scene
From Some Old Movie
Going back in time to You and Me
Every Day a Page Turned Down
Every Night a Lonesome Sound
Like a Freight Train Blowin' Through My Dreams
Every Mile A Memory
This was their song, so far. There'd been ones that'd been for her and Dean. One or two that was all Logan. This one. This song was Jess. This was her road trip. This song wrapped itself around her and gave her comfort as they passed through unknown territory and into the memories that the sights brought.
Red Sun Down, Out Across the Western Sky- "California! Why'd he have to go to California? God! The least he could've done was say that he was going. If he told me that he was coming back I would've waited. But you know what, he didn't! Nothing! And when he did call he didn't even say anything!"
Takes Me Back To the Fire in Your Eyes- "That fire…guess that's what attracted me to you. So dangerous and…I don't know…alive. Dean never had that. Logan…well, let's not go there."
I've Seen 'Em With You, Baby, Oh They Never Do It Right- "That one girl in Stars Hollow that got under my skin. I don't see why in the hell you would even consider her. She was so wrong for you! I mean bloaty! Who says that?"
The chorus rolled back around. It was true. These miles were rolling by and all she could do was think of him. Didn't even matter where she was going, just thinking of him.
Funny No Matter Where I Run, Round Every Bend I Only See Just How Far I Haven't Come- "I've gone completely no where. I'm in the middle of no where!"
Tri-Chorus came in as she pulled into a independent bookstore and walked in to ask directions. It hit her like a ton of bricks when she saw the sign before her and the line forming from one end to the other.
The Subsect
Signing Today by Author Jess Mariano
All those miles and she never would have imagined she'd been led strait to him.
Every Mile a Memory (c) Dierks Bentley and all assosiated.