Beginnings and Endings. ~ James only ~

[James Carter]

Seeing the girl curled up and crying in her bed from his bedroom window, James thought about getting his mother for help. The thought of getting his overprotective mother involved in the neighbor's fights soon vanished from his thoughts. She would only make things worse. She'd probably send him to counseling classes for overhearing their arguments. Instead, since there was a lull in the fighting,James opens his window in the hopes the pretty girl would notice him and want to talk. Seeing her lying there in tears made him wish he could do something for her. After pacing his room for a minute, letting go of various thoughts of calling her house, calling the police, or knocking on the door, he grabs his violin. He brings it to his chin and raises the bow, for a moment he second guesses himself, then without thinking starts playing Vaughan Williams "The Lark Ascending" letting the notes echo through the air to her window...