Our Entwined Fate

Chapter 4

Brianna started moving down the lane and after taking a bus she moved towards her destination. After a journey of 40mins she got down at her stop and started walking, after a walk of 10 minutes, she reached near a big house kinda thing.

At the entrance, there was a  board, "Alle Music classes". She entered inside after knocking at the door. She saw her teacher Alle sitting and tuning his instrument.

Alle was an old man. He was a grandfather to his little doll. He though old was a child at heart. His heart was owned by his wife, granddaughter, and his only music. He though liked and played jazz and Rap but he loved and was passionate about his rock music.

Alle had honey-brown eyes. He was a healthy man. He despite his age loved to go for evening walks on the beaches. He had white and grey hair along with a small beard. He was almost 6 inches tall. He was a jolly man and he considered me as his own daughter.

She moved towards him and said, "Hello sir, am I late?"

" No, you are on time Brianna. Now come on let's sit and start practicing we just have 2 weeks before the results come out", said Alle looking at her.

" Yes sir! I'll just sing rock today and you could point out on my flaws and we could together solve it", said Brianna.

" Bri, till when will you hide this from your mother? It's been 2 years since you have been singing here and have been trained to be a rock musician. You have applied for the LA college of music to fulfill your dream of becoming a famous rock musician", said Alle softly trying to make her understand.

" I know what you are trying to speak Alle, but I can't do anything right now. You know how much Mumma hates Rock music and the reason is still unknown to me, if she would come to know about this she would eventually lock me up in the house and beat me until I don't back off. I am waiting for a reply from LA college of music, once my scholarship is accepted I'll tell her this until then I'll have to hide it", explained Brianna.

" I am proud of you, I am sure that they would accept you too. They don't really accept African American's there. The college is the most famous one In LA and best for rock music. But I know that in the end, they won't lose a talent like you because they know if this news comes in public their position would go down", said Alle after analyzing everything.

" I just hope that I get into that college, then there would be no turning back, I'll complete all my dreams and live a happy life", said Brianna with a shine in her eyes on the thought of completing her dreams.

" You would but you need to fight there, getting admitted is only the first step. The teachers and students would try every way that you run away from there. So you will have to be strong and determined", explained Alle warmly.

Brianna got a call from her mother asking her about her whereabouts, so she immediately left Alle's place after giving him a warm hug. After an hour she entered inside to see her mom sitting on the brown couch in the living room.

She looked more beautiful and presentable then yesterday because she was sober. Brianna moved inside and sat opposite to her mother.

" Where were you? I didn't see you since morning?", Asked Adah dangerously.

" I was out for important work, then was with Joey, and anyway you shouldn't care because I have been taking care of myself since along time", replied Brianna with a straight face and immediately left the living room and moved inside her room and closed it with a bang.

She threw her bag and phone on the bed and moved towards the washroom after taking her change. Peeling her clothing off, she stood under the shower, and after that moved towards the mirror to see the marks from yesterday have turned blackish and purplish.

The cigarette marks were still not healed and were blood-red from the corners. Applying the medicine she wore her simple loose shirt and fell on the bed.

She was thinking about her future. Brianna hoped that her application gets accepted by the LA school of music and she could go and study rock and be the one who the world admires.  Getting up from her bed she moved towards the mirror and pushed it aside and revealed a door.

After opening the door, she moved inside, and there she actually felt like she was alive and breathing. All her pains and tiredness flew away, why wouldn't it? She was so drowned in her passion that she couldn't feel and care about anything.

The little room has few rock music instruments like bass guitar and keyboard etc. Those were the most important ones for her because she bought it after working overtime and earned the money to buy them.

The room was covered with posters of famous personalities, her inspirations, her idol's. The room has posters of  Morrissey, Ian Astbury, Steve Miller, Tim Buckley, Phil Collins, and Ray Davies, etc. She had a stand full of their CDs and many books related to rock music, jazz music, and rap music.

She definitely loved Jazz and rap just like her mother who loved it to death. Her Mother has sung beautiful Rap songs before she fell in love and that marked the end of her carrier. Her downfall started immediately after her husband left her with a 7 months belly.

Ignoring all those thoughts she moved towards the rack and played her favorite song ' That'll be the day' by Buddy Holly and after relaxing herself self she moved outside closing the door and kept the mirror properly so that it doesn't catch her mother's attention.

She knew If her mother cones to know about it, she would force her to leave it and would also forbid her to step out of the house. So until her form doesn't get accepted she would have to hide her little secret. Thinking about all this she slept.