But as i lay there, it only seemes like silence filling my ears. And the thing was, it was so freaking loud.

Just me and the future, finally together. Now there was a happy ending I could believe in.

This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.

What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed there, regardless.

I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and it was the same for me now. As long as I had something to listen to, I could blur the things I didn't want to think about, if not block them out completely.

Stop it. Seriously. This isn't funny.' 'You're right.' A pause. 'It's pathetic.

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.