“What part did you read?” She looked up at him with her eyes but didn’t move her head. She already knew what his answer would be and that scared her. She knew he had read her entry about him. She knew what he probably was thinking at that exact moment. But she asked anyway, with a little hope that her intuition was incorrect.

“I read your song.” He said.

Carolyn looked at him skeptically. “Which one?” She was testing him. She knew there was only one song in that notebook but she wanted to see if he was telling the truth or not. For all she knew, he could have read through the entire notebook and knew not to say what he was reading when she caught him.

“The one about someone leaving you?” He asked, unsure if that was really what the song was about.

She knew what he was talking about though. She had written that song a while ago. It pained her to think about the memory behind the song. “Yeah…That’s what it’s about…”

“It’s a good song.” Andy said. “Could you…” He trailed off. He began to think that maybe she didn’t really want anything to do with him at the moment.

“What?” She insisted.

Andy took a deep breath. “Well, I was just… going to ask if… maybe… you could… sing it for me?”

Carolyn looked at the notebook in her hands and then opened it to the song. “Okay.” She agreed.

Andy looked shocked. “Really? Are you sure?”

“Don’t make me change my mind, Andy.” She warned.

Andy slapped his hand over his mouth and sat back in the chair. He wasn’t going to let his big mouth ruin this chance for him.

Carolyn folded her legs underneath herself before taking a deep breath to begin to sing:

I open my lungs, dear.
I sing this song at funerals, no rush.
These lyrics heard a thousand times, just plush.
A baby boy you’ve held so tightly
This pain it visits almost nightly
Missing hotel beds
I feel your touch.

I will await, dear
A patience of eternity, my crush
A universal still, no rust
No dust will ever grow on this frame
A million years and I will say your name
I love you more than I can ever scream

“That’s all I have so far…” Carolyn stopped and closed the notebook.

“It’s…” Andy had no words to describe the music that just escaped from this girl’s lips. It was like she sang him into a trance.

“You hated it, didn’t you…” She looked down at her lap.

“No, no I—I didn’t. It’s amazing. I just… I can’t explain to you what that made me feel. You have a real talent, you know.” He stood up from the chair and made his way over to her cautiously.

She scrambled to grab the notebook and shoved it under her comforter. Andy had revealed enough secrets for one day. She moved over on the bed and allowed him to sit down next to her.

He looked into her deep blue eyes and reached up to caress her soft cheek. He heard her breath hitch in her throat as he began to move his face closer to hers.

“I love you more than I can ever scream.” He whispered to her.

Their noses bumped together and he tilted his head to the side. She could feel his warm breath linger on her lips and he moved in closer to close the gap between their lips.

But before Andy could kiss her, the door to Carolyn’s room was pushed open and standing in the door way was a very unhappy looking mortician.

Notes

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