The Melody That Wasn’t Mine
Cassius Motegmery
(Headphones on, laptop open)
Alright… final mix check.
Let’s see if we actually made magic.
[Track 7: “Silent Fire” – starts playing softly]
Cassius Motegmery
(thinking):
Intro’s clean. My verse sounds tight.
Drums hit just right.
Cassius Motegmery
(frowns, pauses) Wait… hold on.
Cassius Motegmery
(thinking)
What is that melody in the bridge.
rewinds, replays
That piano line.
So delicate… haunting. Like… it’s bleeding.
Cassius Motegmery
(Takes off headphones slowly)
That’s not mine.
[Phone Buzz – Incoming Call-: Arees]
Cassius Motegmery
(Picks up)
You. Talk. Now.
Arees Knight
Well good morning to you too.
Arees Knight
You checking the final mix?
Cassius Motegmery
Yeah.
Who added the melody in Track 7?
Arees Knight
Oh. That.
It was a last-minute suggestion from the label.
Cassius Motegmery
Suggestion?
That’s not a suggestion, Arees. That’s the heart of the song now.
Arees Knight
Chill. I thought you’d like it.
Cassius Motegmery
I do.
That’s the problem.
I like it too much.
It’s real. Like someone bled it straight from their soul.
Arees Knight
Wow. Dramatic much?
Cassius Motegmery
Tell me who composed it.
Arees Knight
Fine. Her name’s… Caliya Parker.
She’s a composer under the label. Works freelance. Quiet. Kind of a mystery.
Cassius Motegmery
*Thinking*(Caliya.
Never heard of her.
But I feel like I have. Through that melody.)
Cassius Motegmery
Keep her name in the credits.
Cassius Motegmery
You heard me.
Put her name on the track.
Composed by Vox Nova and Caliya Parker.
Arees Knight
You sure? Most artists wouldn’t—
Cassius Motegmery
I’m not most artists.
That melody made the song real.
She deserves the credit.
(*thinking* Hell, she deserves the world if she can write like that.)
Cassius Motegmery
I want to meet her.
Cassius Motegmery
Because I don’t like strangers writing pieces of my music…
…better than I do.
Arees Knight
Oof. Ego bruised?
Cassius Motegmery
No.
Something about it felt too familiar.
Like she wrote what I felt… before I even knew it.
Arees Knight
Wow, you’re really spiraling over a piano.
Cassius Motegmery
No.
I’m spiraling over how it sounded like me…
…but somehow better.
(thinking):
Caliya Parker.
You didn’t just play a melody…
You cracked something open.
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