Chapter 106

"You know I won't mind. We were going to go to the funeral today and pay our respects to our friend and classmate. We'll just plan on doing that song. You do such an incredible job with it; I'm not surprised he asked. You were great last night."

So it came to pass that Mitchell was seated at the old piano in the Methodist church with Christine standing behind him. She held a microphone and Mitchell had one placed in front of him. He nodded to Christine and began playing. Christine delivered an extremely moving rendition of the song. He joined her for the chorus, the part that he sang solo the previous evening when Christine became too emotional to continue.

As he finished playing, Mitchell realized that Christine had been absolutely unbelievable. Those in attendance were totally silent except for the many sobs that echoed in the church. It was a fairly large church and almost every Highland high school senior was in attendance. It was actually slightly awkward because many felt that