Zenith's Legend by Leanne Davis

Author:Leanne Davis [Davis, Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leanne Davis

CHAPTER 9

SITTING AT THEIR KITCHEN table one night, she faced her mom and Rob.

“I can’t get over how pure Xavier’s voice and musicality are. He’s right up there with the best,” Rob remarked.

“By the best, I assume you mean you?” Karlee rolled her eyes and gave him a teasing smile.

Rob was serious. “Yes, actually. Just like me. It isn’t often I meet my match. And by the way things are between you two I assume it’s serious?”

“Yes,” she answered simply. Blunt. Honest. Real. Karlee had no need to play games or explain herself.

“I’ve thought about helping him make some contacts, perhaps make a demo to shop around. What would you think of that?”

“I think it would change everything. He’s that good.”

“Yeah. He is. It’s the only reason I’ve considered it. But if you don’t want to risk your relationship going in that direction then we should leave everything as it is. You two can finish up next year at the college, and I’ll try to help him get into whatever business or economics program he chooses. That would be the sanest, best thing we could do for him… and for you too.”

It sounded so blissful. Ordinary. Real. Staying in school, holding hands between classes and cringing over homework. Having sex and fun and living easy, being relatively unknown, and totally unaffected by others. Xavier could get a normal job. Karlee could find something she liked to do. Whatever, as long as it was ordinary. Normal. That ideal kept popping up in her mind’s eye. Karlee’s home life was never what most people considered normal. So normal for Xavier and Karlee could be just about anything really. Anything they both got used to, and which became the usual could be normal for them.

“But it’s like turning a blind eye to someone with a rare gift and unused potential. It’s like telling an Olympic-worthy athlete to stay home and play on a recreation league. Sure, he’d be playing, but at the cost of such a shameful waste of talent…” She shut her eyes, then fluttered them open, straightening her spine like a steel rod. “It would be a terrible waste. And if I love him, which I do, I can’t bind his potential or hold him back from the star that he can be. Where his talent takes him is still unknown. He deserves every chance without feeling hampered or limited because I’m insecure about what might happen and who will have access to him. How it could affect or ruin us is my primal concern. And we all know it could.”

She let the heavy words fall like the silence around them. She did not receive a reply for a moment. “That’s all true,” Rob finally said.

Karlee sighed. “But I can’t listen to him play or sing without pangs of guilt slicing through me. I know how much we could provide for him to improve his chances of success, as well as giving him an outlet for all that talent. If we allow it to be wasted, we will be altering his destiny and the man he wants to be.

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