Chapter Eight
Song Bird
Heading back inside the nightclub hoping that everyone had forgotten the ordeal, I tried looking as inconspicuous as possible. It didn't work.
"I didn't know you could play?" Daisy said as I walked in the front door from behind the registration desk. I sighed, "It's one of my many talents" "Really?" Daisy exclaimed, "Well I'd to hear it sometime" I rubbed the back of my neck, embarrassed that the situation had come back to light so quickly, "Maybe" I said sheepishly and slowly walking to my table. Daisy ran up to me and pulled out a small carnation, pinning it to my feathers, "For luck" she said, smiling as she kissed my forehead. Whatever Daisy was trying to tell me, I didn't want to know what it was. All I wanted was to go home, so why go back in?
With the tip of my wing, I bade goodbye to Daisy and flew out the front door heading for my hotel in the city. It's not Agrabah's palace, but it'll have to do. If there was one thing I could get right though, it was views. From the my window alone, you could see the entire Toon Town skyline, there were buildings everywhere for it was styled after New York and Chicago, making for an interesting and fun city just with appearance of the buildings.
My room didn't have much, for I didn't exactly have any possessions of my own. Taking off the small carnation I put it in a drawer and ruffled my feathers again. In addition to my travel piano, I kept a slightly larger one in the closet, pulling it out I tuned it and began to play.
One of my favorite songs was Aladdin's version of "A Whole New World" it should be considering that I taught him that back in Agrabah when he was still a boy. How do you think everyone knew the songs to sing? I wrote them and then sang it repeatedly into their heads. Every song in that movie you can thank me for. Your welcome again. I poured my heart and soul into that song for one reason and one reason only, it described me perfectly. But Aladdin's version to Jasmine was lacking, so here's mine:
I can show the world
See with your own eyes now.
Come closer and meet me
on the magic carpet ride.
I can lift your soul
Make you see things a new way
Can you hear it?
The sound of our love as it takes flight.
A whole new world
the landscape changes every day.
But I don't care, for what we share
is greater than the gold.
A whole new world
a brand new perspective.
The sun shines brighter when I'm with you.
I don't know where we'll go
the difference in our hearts that beat as one.
I can see you with him
The boy who I raised and knew.
Growing closer, it pains me
to see such romance in the bloom.
He can give you, your world
He can make it better.
What am I? Nothing, compared to him.
A whole new world. Someday the sun will rise
and when the morning comes, this heart knows
that your love was meant to be.
A whole new world
a dazzling place I never knew.
I don't know where you'll go
but always know
that my love shall never fade.
The world is yours,
see what's in store.
My heart will be,
waiting here,
forever more.
If only I could sing that to Jasmine. I wouldn't care what Aladdin thought about it, or Jasmine even liked it, it something that I needed to do for me, to give me closure. But with each passing day, that possibility got smaller and smaller. I began to lose hope that closure would ever come, so every night I sang that song, hoping that she would hear it.