The Musician (3)

“That was just a coincidence, Gloria!” Gloria has repeated over and over again during the day. It was a great struggle for her really talk further with Jake earlier, so she asked him to leave when she pretended to be not feeling well.

Well, it was not entirely a lie. Because the only time she was not feeling well was when he was around.

What had happened earlier to her, was a big puzzle. Despite her trying to keep repeating to herself that it was a coincidence, she still could not help but wonder. It was baffling to her in such a way that she did not want to accept that the way that man had played had led her to feel that strange and inexplicable desire.

It was just a coincidence, so drop it, Gloria reprimanded herself silently.

It had to be because forty years of her life had passed without any kind of outbursts even remotely similar to that. How is it possible that at this moment that Jake's children that she did not even know could