His First Love, My Last Goodbye novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: Fairchild
Clarissa Fairchild had practiced this fall in her head for eight months.
It had never looked like this.
In the dream she was alone in a practice room and nobody was watching.
Now a hundred and forty people watched her hand.
She tried it with three fingers.
She dropped the phrase an octave and fingered it with the three that still worked.
The sound that came out was a thin, sawing wheeze.
It was not a note.
It was the sound of a woman who could no longer do the one thing she had ever been for.
"Clarissa," someone said, from the front row.
She lowered the violin.
The ring finger sat curled against the fingerboard, and she could not make it open.
It had locked in March, in the middle of the Brahms, in front of eighty musicians.
The orchestra's doctor had said surgery, and six months of therapy, and perhaps.
She had not wanted perhaps.
She had wanted what she'd always had, which was the world turning to look at her.
So she had gone home on the plane with a story, and the story had worked.
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