Escape & Freedom by Claire Highton-Stevenson

Author:Claire Highton-Stevenson [Highton-Stevenson, Claire]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, lesbian, Fiction
Published: 2018-07-09T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Four

Lucy drove, dropping Nicole at the store for her shift, along with the twins. She then headed over to the school to get Storm to classes on time. Once she was alone, she began to consider how best she could help her new pupil.

Firstly, she had to discover if the kid could actually sing, because putting her up on stage if she couldn’t would be horrific for her self-esteem. Having her humiliated in front of the entire school was not an experience Lucy wanted to create.

She found the store she needed and wandered inside. There was a certain smell that came with a music store. Wood and oil. She let her fingers dance across the smooth surface of the violins. They plucked at the strings of the guitars, the chord sending her memories hurtling backward.

“You can never find a better instrument than the guitar,” Mike argued, having just played a sweet riff.

Ben did a double take before beating his drumsticks down against his tom-tom several times and then crashing the cymbals to make his point. “No chance, the drums are the best.”

Sasha giggled and decided it was her turn to match the boys, fingers deftly flying across the keys of the board as she played an exquisite piece of Beethoven. “In your dreams, boys. The piano is by far the instrument of choice.”

She hadn’t even realised she had moved, but she had, across the room and past the drum kits. She found herself in front of the keyboards. Her fingers clenched into fists. She hadn’t played in years, wasn’t so sure that she even could.

“Can I help you?” A smart middle-aged man appeared from nowhere and was now standing by her side. “It’s a beautiful model.”

“I’ll take it,” Lucy said.

“You don’t want to try it first?” he asked. Most people did. It was the bane of his life actually; people would come in and want to play around with all the instruments with no intention of ever buying one.

“No, it’s the instrument of choice, isn’t it?” she remarked. “I know it will be perfect.”

~E&F~

Back at the cabin, she had a few hours before she needed to go and collect Nicole and the twins. Rain and Summer had been promised an afternoon by the lake if they managed to behave all morning at the store. It was highly unlikely they’d make it through; they found mischief in everything they did. Lucy smiled to herself, their antics often giving her reason to chuckle. But right now, she had something to think about, and it sat like a giant weight in her guts.

The keyboard was still in its box. The box was still sitting in the middle of the room, on the floor. She looked at it. Just a box, but what was inside of it was anything but just anything.

For the first 2 or 3 years of her life, she was much like the twins. Toys and chocolate were the most important things, but when she was 4, her uncle Rupert arrived.

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