Gradchanted

Chapter 55

I was improving. I could tell.

It no longer sounded horrible when I tried to play a Taylor Swift song.

And the people that wandered past—I now knew them all, and exactly when they would show up—now nodded at me occasionally.

Some of them even stopped to listen. This was a huge improvement, since not that long ago, they’d been wincing and speed-walking away.

I played a chord, breathing out as my fingers found their proper positions easily. I could finally do it without having to check the diagrams I’d found online, and without having to place each finger down deliberately. It was finally second nature.

I smiled, pulled up the chords, and started to play “Begin Again.”