Can't Stop the Shine by Joyce E. Davis

Author:Joyce E. Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2007-08-28T04:00:00+00:00

About a week later, Kalia had three finals in one day, including one where she had to play a piece by Mozart, and the chorale had a Christmas performance at the end of the week. She was stressed and really needed to relax. Luckily her parents had let up enough to allow her to practice for at least an hour after school. She was on her way to a practice room when she spotted a familiar-looking guy in the hallway. As she approached him, it became clear that it was Malcolm. She stopped for a second, trying to decide what to do. They hadn’t spoken or seen each other since the night of the Fire preliminary show.

Malcolm started walking toward her. She just stood in the middle of the hallway, watching his features get clearer the closer he came. She loved his confident, laid-back stride. By the time he was close enough for her to see the words on his T-shirt, If It Ain’t Real, It Ain’t Right, she’d sworn to herself five times that she wasn’t going to let him apologize his way back into her good graces—and she certainly wasn’t going to hug him, even though he looked good enough to eat.

To her surprise, Malcolm didn’t say anything. He walked straight up to her, grabbed her by the waist, pulled her to him and hugged her so tightly, she thought she was going to faint, then he took her hand and escorted her to her favorite practice room. He led her to the piano, sat her down and walked over to the corner, sitting down in a chair. Kalia didn’t really know what to do. She put her hands on the keys, but nothing happened.

Malcolm got up and kissed her once, very softly on the lips. He walked back over and sat down in the corner. Kalia started slowly playing a tune she’d never played before—something she hadn’t heard before. New lyrics of love, patience, forgiveness and understanding spilled out of her mouth. Malcolm came over to the piano, whipped out a notebook and started writing down the lyrics.

“You’ve got something here, baby,” he said. “That’s real emotion there. Go with it.” Kalia looked up at Malcolm and felt a surge of creativity. They spent nearly an hour writing what ended up being, “Just Us.” She’d never really written a song before. She’d flirted with lyrics and had ideas about songs, but she’d never put them down on paper.

When they were done, Malcolm told her he’d hold on to the song and maybe one day she could record it for her debut album. Kalia almost jumped his bones. Just like that, he was forgiven and they were back together. They never spoke of the night he left her performance and ran off to meet with his record company connection.

Kalia drove home in a daze, only to find Mari meeting her at the door. “Dewayne has stopped by here like three times looking for you,” she said. “Are you not dealing with him anymore or something? If so, I wish you’d tell him.

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