Chapter 23: I wasn't staring you

***ESTHER***

“Are you ready?” the piano pedagogue asks me as I stand in front of the piano. It’s been few months that I haven’t played these keys. I had longed to play them but my melancholy wouldn’t just let me to.

“Yes, teacher,” I say and sit on the bench in front of the piano. I place my fingers on the white keys and start to warm-up with the softer music and gradually, without even realizing that I have become familiar with this new set of piano which I have never played in my whole life, I start to deepen into the music enunciating from those keys.

They’re just so much beautiful. I don’t even realize that I have been lost in that melody. I want to sing right now. I want to sing for him. That was his last wish. He wanted me to sing. He wished to die a melodious death.

My subconscious mind keeps on ringing my heart and making my tears to flow down without even thinking. Or maybe I have never thought at all. I was always thoughtless. I was always free minded and did the things