A Veil of Glass and Rain by Petra F. Bagnardi

Author:Petra F. Bagnardi [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi

Part 2

Eagan and Brina

19.

EAGAN

My name is Eagan Sherard.

I have to hold on to what I know. Otherwise

I'll go crazy.

I left the radio on. Songs keep playing.

They're like background noises. I'm not really

paying attention. But I need them to crush the

quiet.

One week ago, I took my girlfriend, Brina,

to the airport. Before kissing me good-bye, she

gave me a gift, a DVD.

During the weeks preceding her departure,

she shot a short film. Ivan and Alessio helped

her. I was glad about this new project of hers.

I didn't suspect the true reason why she was

making the movie, though: Me.

I watched the DVD as soon as I got home. It

gutted me.

The film is a about a young man who finds a

broken guitar and decides to repair it. Then,

he learns how to play it. After a while, he

begins to travel the world to let more people

experience and appreciate his tunes.

Eventually, he becomes a famous musician.

A simple and easy plot.

What was painful for me to listen to, was

Brina's voice-over telling an entire different

story.

A tale of a girl walking down a busy street

full of stores and people. The girl is sad and

lost. She glances at the windows and at the

passersby, but she doesn't really see anything.

Then she meets a boy. The boy shows her a

beautiful garden and the girl begins to truly

notice and feel things. When the boy leaves

her, though, even for a brief time, she ceases

to feel all at once. Everything around her

disappears. The girl is so scared, that she

decides to leave the boy and the garden

behind. However, it's not a permanent

separation. She just needs time to learn how

to sense the world by herself. After six weeks,

she returns to the boy with new knowledge.

She confesses to the boy that reality seems

brighter when he's beside her. But now she

also knows how to use her perceptions when

the boy is not with her.

My girl wants six weeks away from me.

Because we're too clingy and too needy. We

don't breathe when we're apart. We forget

about the rest of the world when we're

together. We resemble our parents. And we

both don't want to.

I keep repeating these words like a song in

my head. My temples throb. Violent rushes of

blood in my ear make me dizzy.

I know that we have to be better and more

open than our parents. Our greedy love can be

dangerous. I'm aware of all that.

But I ache.

I'm twenty-five years old.

I met Brina when I was fourteen.

She wrapped herself around my soul when I

was sixteen.

It was very early in the morning. The

annoying buzz of my cellphone woke me up. I

wanted to destroy the damn thing. I stopped

when I saw the caller ID.

“Hey, fur-ball. What's up?” I tried to stay

calm. She was calling from the other side of

the ocean. Normally we sent each other

messages or emails, or we talked over the

computer. Something was definitely wrong.

“A need a friend.” She sounded small and

fragile.

I didn't hesitate. My parents were

somewhere in China, working. So I called my

British grandparents. They helped me book a

flight. The next day I was at Brina's place.

At first she didn't want to talk. She didn't

even hug me when she opened the door for

me.

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