As soon as the lads were gone, Billie went to search her boyfriend. She found him in the garden, with their cat Raischa on his lap.
“Are they away?”he asked, without looking up at her.
“Yes.Love..”she sighed and wrapped her arm around his neck. Raischa fled away and sat down on his lap.
“I know how much this must hurt you, but you must go on. Go solo, and show them they were wrong to dump you.” Rich slowly shook his head.
“I shall never sing again.”
“But love..”
“Didn’t you hear me?Never!!!”he suddenly shouted and set her from his before walking into the house again. Billie sighed, looking at his back when he disappeared into the house. It would take a lot of time to get him over this.
Scott hardly noticed anything to happen that night as he was out with Kerry andhis mates. Rich had been his best mate when Five started and it would be too sad to loose him this way.
”Honey, are you thinking of Rich again?”his girlfriend asked concerned. Scott slowly nodded.
“Yeah. I can’t help it. He saved my life and now i’ll perhaps never see him again.”
”Maybe he’ll grow over it.”Kerry said to comfort Scott, but her voice revealed she didn’t believe that herself. Scott let out a sad laughter.
”Darling, if Rich can grow over this, he’ll be greater than Ceasar.”
Rich walked in the house, leaving Billie behind. No matter how much they loved eachother and how well-meant her advice was, he couldn’t do it. She could never feel the pain he had felt when they told him this, because music was the meaning of his life right now and he felt like it had abandoned him like a fed-up mistress.
He sat down behind his desk, where ideas for fivesongs had been born. He sighed. They wren’t necessary anymore.Then, at a sudden impulse, he opened his drawer and took a piece of paper out, which contained the lyrics of “courage” a song he wrote going through a strange fase in his life.
His face grimaced, to a devillike grin that his face had never shown-off before and softly he muttered:”Okay, if you wanna do a game, I’m play…”
Rich’ song:”courage”
Chorus-who could find the courage to survive/who could the courage in this life/ who could find the courage to forgive/ who could find the courage to live?
You wanna hear nothing/ nothing still after all spent time/ you’re such a stereotype/ you cannot feel my pain/ And there’s nothing i wouldn’t say/ if it only brought you back/ to me to me to me
Repeat chorus
You refuse to speak/ to say anything to me at all/ you’re not anything special/ you never loved at all/ but there’s nothing I wouldn’t say/ if it only brought you back/ to me to me to me
Repeat chorus
You don’t wanna know/ not even after all spent time/ you’re such a stereotype/ you’re ignoring my pain/ Still there’s nothing I wouldn’t say/ if it only brought you back/ to peace to peace to peace
Repeat chorus to end