The Darkest Note by Nelia Alarcon EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Author: Nelia Alarcon
- Language: English
- Genre: Coming of Age Fiction
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AUGUST, FOUR MONTHS LATER—
CADENCE
The saddest key in music is Dmajor.
It’s the key that rings through my head whenever I think of my mother,
fingers trembling, arms dotted with pucker marks, body stretching far
beyond the empty cupboard to the stash she keeps in the jar.
Some mothers store cookies in those potted tubs shaped like bears or
seashells or flowers.
My mother stored weed.
She’d puff it in my face and laugh, low and haunting. It was always that
tone.
D#major.
Like a vampire coughing up blood.
I love you and Vi more than anything in the world.
The line from her suicide letter plays on a loop in my mind.
I thought if I burned the words they’d disappear, but the ashes rose from
the dead and started haunting me.
I love you and Vi more than anything.
Mom had nothing but audacity.
Love? Her twisted version of love was a descent straight into the
darkest chords, full of brokenness and black keys.
I always saw the chaos in her, but I never let it stain me. I created a
space inside my head where the music would die. Because if I couldn’t hear
music at all, then I wouldn’t hear her notes either.
But now that she’s gone, music has tiptoed its way back into my life. Or
more like it slammed into me at a hundred miles an hour and now I find
myself on a ride with no idea how I got there and no clue how to get off.
“Like a wreeeecking ball!” A soulless, upbeat version of Miley Cyrus’s
hit blasts from the speakers on the stage.
I’d descended into my thoughts to escape the noisy cover, but it seems
like the music’s gotten even louder.
Three girls wearing dressed-up versions of bras and booty shorts gyrate
to the rhythm.
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