“What you see is not what they really are. You must not trust anyone.” Those words bother me since last week. It’s haunting me every single night, in my dreams. It’s more like an infinite chant. Before, I hear it only in my dreams but now it’s so awful, it infests my mind even in daytime.
I am Brielle Du Coudrey , a simple student from St. Celestine High. I play violin just like my best friend. We are both preparing for the upcoming audition for the famous orchestra in the whole country. We rehearse every afternoon after our classes. We are determined to join in the orchestra so we are working hard for that.
Our practices turn out well until my fearsome dreams ruined my concentration. At first, I perform my pieces with astonishing confidence but since that incident happened it became floppy. I don’t have any idea why it affects me that much but I have a strange enigmatic feeling towards it.
“Brielle! You’re out of focus again! Can you just set aside that dream thingy and put your mind to your piece!”, said Adrie in a pissed manner.
“I-I’m sorry. It’s just that it’s agonizing me too much and I don’t know…” I feel sorry for myself too because I can’t help not to think about it.
“Oh Come on! It’s on Friday! We only got three days to prepare! You know what? I think we shall continue this tomorrow and you better rest yourself that’s the smart thing you can do. I’ll see you in class.”, she said then walked out.
My best friend’s right, I should get some rest. I’m being more vulnerable this past few weeks, I need to find some way to make my dreams stop.
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“Reliable huh! She’s clever! Clever enough to fool all of you!”, words flying in my mind the whole day. And yeah right! It’s from my dreams again. What’s new anyway…
And this is the day! The audition! I hope this will end up well. I’m with my best friend Adrie and the other hundred auditionee.
“Oh Brielle! I can kill someone if ever I didn’t get this opportunity!”, she said with a heavy laugh.
“Yeah! You ruthless girl! I can see you really want to be on the orchestra huh!” She’s insane right? Sometimes I am thinking that she’s worse than an inebriated guy, just look at the way she talks.
After many hours, the audition is finally over. And thank god my piece turns out the way it should be, elegant! We just have to wait for a few days to see the results. I wish we are one of the lucky ten.
A week later, we finally got the results of the audition. And I’m feeling so ecstatic because I’m one of the few but I feel sorry for my best friend because she did not make it. I remember what she said last audition. I wish she is alright now.
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I feel worried about Adrie. She became rebellious this past days and it’s alarming. I found out that she is ditching classes and whenever I talk to her she became ill-tempered. I can see she’s really affected about the audition but its grotesque to ditch classes just because of that.
I decided to give her some space. I did not bother her for quite some time but one morning,
“Hey! I miss you! I’ve been looking for you! You’re ignoring me! Is there something wrong?”, she stated smiling.
“I thought you need some space so I did not bother you.”
“Oh! You silly! Why would I? If you are thinking that it’s because of the audition, well, it’s not. It’s because of some confidential problem.”, she said it while smiling again.
