Piano In The Dark

 

Just when the days start getting colder

I walk the streets I never knew

And there’s some words I never told you

The sound rings out like the truth

 

And if you could see

What’s come over me

Then you would know

Cause I’m walking free

The wind at my back

Bathed in afterglow…

 

She sat at the piano, enveloped by the music that was coming from the grand piano. She so loved that thing, it was her escape, her outflow, her discharge. Her fingers flowing ever so skillfully over the perfect ivory keys. She didn’t notice him at the doorway. She just kept playing.

 

 

And as I sit here in this dark room

All I seem to feel is light

And I see color

I see the maroon

In the blood of this life that’s ours

 

And if you could see

What’s come over me

Then you would know

Cause I’m walking free

Then wind at my back

Bathed in afterglow…

 

He often wonder if she loved that piano more than him. She treated it like her baby, every time after they make love she would seek out that piano and just play. It didn’t really matter what…she would go from Mozart to Vanessa Carlton any night. He walked the long floor of the parlor room in the enormous house that they shared together. She had insisted on getting this particularly one out of all the ones they had viewed, she loved the parlor, she said it would be the perfect place to set her piano.

As he reached the bench on which she was seated he stood behind her. He watched her fingers glide across the ivory. As the song came to an end she leaned back to feel a hard body behind her. She turned her head, her green eyes met with dark blue ones. She had felt his eyes before he even stepped across the threshold at the opening of the parlor.

 

“Hello.”

“Hey.”

 

She turned back to the piano, but before she could begin playing again, he was seated next to her and began playing. It was one of her favorite songs, she realized it was cheesy but she had always had a thing for Richard Marx and his love songs.

 

Whenever  I’m  weary

From the battles that rage in my head

You make sense of madness

When my sanity hangs by a thread

I lose my way but still you seem to understand

Now and forever I will be your man

 

Sometimes I just hold you

Too caught up in me to see

I’m  holding a fortune

That heaven had given to me

I’ll try to show you each and every way I can

Now and forever I will be your man…

 

He continued to play as she just closed her eyes and leaned against him. That was her favorite thing, that’s what made her fall in love with him, his voice.

 

She let his smooth voice sooth her, all the anxiety quickly evaporated as he continued singing. She continued to listen to his calming voice lull away all her worries.

 

The song ended much too soon for her and she was knocked back into the real world by the deafening silence all around them. She turned to him and he was still staring at the keys. He leaned back and turned his head towards her. She was just staring at him for what seemed like forever.

 

He took in all that she wore, she was wearing just a robe, his robe. It was big on him and she was much smaller than he was, she swam in it.

 

He had proposed to her that night and she was refused, saying she needed time to think. Claiming she wasn’t ready for that big of step yet, soon but not just yet. He said he would give her all the time she needed, but he couldn’t wait forever.

 

“I…I…”

“Shh…” he lifted one finger to her lips, she pressed them again his finger, lightly kissing it.  He removed his finger and replaced it with his lips. He gently kissed her, coaxing her into a deeper kiss. He skillfully untied the belt of the robe and let it fall. He reached his hand inside and caressed her soft skin, she had a slight stomach for she was pregnant, had been for three months now. That was the reason why she refused his proposal, she was afraid it was because she was carrying his baby.

 

If only she could know that he had bought the ring three weeks before there was even a slight suspicion of her pregnancy. He just didn’t know when or how to pop the question and he figured that night was as good as any other.

 

He laid his hand on her stomach, she slowly back away from his kiss and stared into his eyes. In the dark she couldn’t see what he was feelings. She just saw the reflection of the moon in them.

 

She covered his hand with hers and looked down at them together. Her robe was now slightly ajar, showing her small perky breast and her stomach. She loved the fact that was going to have his baby, but she still wasn’t sure how he felt about it quite yet. He always said he was happy and excited about it but he never really truly showed it.

 

Her left hand lifted to caress his face, he was strong features, a very handsome man to say the lest. The sharp cheek bones, the full lips, piercing eyes and a cute nose. He had always complained of it being too big but she liked it, it fit him perfectly. Her hand slowly found it way to his a hair stroking his scalp.

 

He leaned towards her and captured her lips in a passionate, slow, bone-melting kiss. He imitated with his mouth and tongue what they’re lower bodies had just done not even an hour ago.

 

He pushed the robe off her shoulders and she shrugged it rest of the way to the bench. She released her hand from his and the other from his hair and slid the sleeves off her arms She wrapped her arms around JC. He enveloped her in his arms and stroked her back. She immediately leaned into him and letting him hold her as they continued to kiss.  He released her from his kiss to look into her eyes. She had tears in them, she looked down at him, he was dressed in just his pj bottoms. She tried to blink back the tears but they just came. She loved him so much and it was almost overwhelming at times. The feelings she had for me was more overpowering than anything she had ever felt. She sought release from his arms and he relented and gave it to her. She stood up and put the robe back on.

 

She stood there for what seemed like hours just looking at him. He wondered if he had done anything wrong but he hadn’t done anything he hadn’t done before. Except…he held him hand on her stomach, he’s never done that. He’s never caressed her there, but what difference would that make.

 

“Do you want this baby?” She asked with inquiring eyes.

 

“Of course I do, what would make you think otherwise?”

“You never seem excited or happy about it. I mean you say you are but you never seem to show it. Then you, you touched my stomach…Josh that’s the first time to me that you’ve ever showed me that you like the fact that you’re going to be  a daddy. It’s such a little gesture but I just there were more of them. “

He didn’t quite understand. It was just a little gesture, but he guessed something like that meant a lot to her.  He  looked at the spot where she had been sitting on the bench.

 

She turned away and walked towards the entrance of the huge parlor. She walked towards the stairs. When she finally reached the master bedroom at the end of the long hallway on the second floor. She crashed onto the bed, she sought out sleep but knew she would not find any there, not alone anyway. She went to the bathroom.

 

Stepping into the humid sanctuary that was the shower she just let spray of hot water sooth her emotions. She didn’t quite understand why something so little as a touch could do that to her. She couldn’t grasp it all. All she knew was that he would not follow her. He would just play that beautiful grand piano in the dark.

 

 

 

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Piano In The Dark

Brenda Russell

 

When I find myself watching the time

I never think about all the funny things you said

I feel like it’s dead

Where is it leading me now

 

I turn around in the still of the room

Knowing this is when I’m gonna make my move

Can’t wait any longer

And I’m feeling stronger but oh

 

Just as I walk through the door

I can feel your emotion

It’s pulling me back

Back to love you

 

I know I’m caught up in the middle

I cry just a little

When I think of letting go

Oh no, gave up on the riddle

I cry just a little

When he plays piano in the dark

 

He holds me close like a thief of the heart

He plays a melody

Born to tear me all apart

The silence is broken

And no words are spoken but oh

 

Just as I walk through the door

I can feel your emotion

It’s pullin’ me back

Back to love you

 

I know I’m caught up in the middle

I cry just a little

When I think of letting go

Oh no, gave up on the riddle

I cry just a little

When he plays piano in the dark

 

 

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