3. performance
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Back with a chapter!
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Let the story...
warren
Late in the school year came the day that I learned what she'd had in store for me from the beginning.
Not only for me, I might add, but for Johnny McCrickard and Tina Truman as well.
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The horror of it all nearly destroyed me, and I think the time she announced it was the first and only time I ever hyperventilated uncontrollably.
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Johny and Tina didn't have such strong reactions, but the dread showed just as plainly in their eyes, and their chalky faces.
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The rest of the class, of cource, cheered and sang their praises to mrs.weiler, no doubt relieved that none of them had been similarly singled out.
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Johny, Tina, and I were to sing. Solos
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Not only infront of the class, but in front of the school.
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We had shown such superior achievement that mrs.weiler was certain we would shine, and make her and our parents, and everyone else so proud.
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Johny would sing "The impossible dream."
Tina would sing "Love is blue." And I - I would sing
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Somewhere my love," Lara's theme from Dr.Zhivago, the big blockbuster of the day.
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Mrs.weiler looked pained and fear ful when I began breathing and sobbing so hard- and came immediately to me and stroked my hand, and gazed at me with such sadness in her green eyes.
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And almost immediately the paroxysm passed
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Kneeling before me, she looked truly beautiful, and i wanted to kiss her.
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But she said, "warren, you can do it, I know.
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Won't you sing for us? Won't you please?"
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And taking a deep breath, I said, " yes,"
because I could not refuse her.
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The big event would happen two weeks later, at a special assembly held in the evening so the parents could come.
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There was plenty of other programming: scholastic awards, athletic awards, a farewell presentation for Mrs. Clairmont, who would be retiring at the end of the term.
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The music event would not occur until almost the end of the assembly, which gave the three unlucky participants all the more time in which to sweat and fidget.
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And through it all, mrs.weiler stayed by me, whispered little sweet encouragements
in my ear, ran her finger affectionately through my hair making me melt as her power coursed through my body like an electrical current.
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She was kind enough to Johnny and Tina, but her attentions were focused on me; an attempt, I suppose, to cast her spell upon me like none she'd ever conjured before.
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The multitudes of eyes on me, all those expectant faces, including my mom's and dad's, meant nothing.The multitudes of eyes on me, all those expectant faces, including my mom's and dad's, meant nothing.
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I glanced at my teacher, who nodded at just the right moment, giving me the cue to begin.
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Curtain gazing at me with such tenderness had any influence on me whatsoever.
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Stepped up to the microphone and the voice that came out was no longer mine.
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Speakers, an instrumental version that left the vocals to be provided entirely by me.
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It was a rich, hearty stranger's voice, entirely on-key and without a trace of quaver.
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"Somewhere my love," I sang, surprised and shocked by the entity that must have entered me for the sole purpose of releasing its voice via my mouth.
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Her eyes flashed, and this thing of mrs.weiler's making, it seized my lungs and my vocal cords, and it had its way with me until the music ended, and I stood there alone in a vaccum, without so much as a whisper of breath to break the silence.
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I Saw my teacher leave her place behind the curtain and make her way down stairs, coming slowly close to stand at the edge of the platform before me.
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Until I looked down at the green eyes, and saw them smiling.
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