Chapter 55 : Rayline's Dark Past

At that moment I was in his room because we both wanted to watch a movie after our exhausting dance practice, which was a pretty amateurish thing for me to do. So, while he was sitting at the foot of his bed, I set up a movie on his laptop. As I was typing, I heard the soft strumming of music and turned my head to see him playing his guitar. Then I get up and walk over to him, and he stops in his tracks at the sight of me.

"You're really pretty good with that." And I sat down next to him on the bed, and he went back to staring at the strings of his guitar.

"Well, not really. I haven't really practiced that much."

"Still, it's better than I can do," I said, and he laughed. "Is that the only musical instrument you have?"

"Yeah... My mom knows how much I love music, and a couple of years ago, even though we were going through some very difficult financial problems, she scraped together enough money to buy it for me for my birthday." He smiled faintly. "And after that, I tried to prac