That night before sleeping I decided to check my mail as I haven't done that in a while.
I scrolled looking for important ones, nothing. So I left and went to Instagram to see what my friends have been up to, I smiled when I saw the crazy picture Vanessa took in the plane, awwwn she had gone sky diving. I've always wanted to do that! I began to imagine doing it in my head and that was when a sight caught my attention the guy she was with was among the judges at my audition today, the cute one. I zoomed in to get a clearer picture and it was really him! I got up, looked for my phone and dialed Nessa's no. We've been best friends since kindergarten, she was practically my sister, I knew everything about her, well mostly everything seeing I didn't even know she went skydiving with a juilliard judge/teacher. "Yo, what's up"I heard from the other line, "when did you go skydiving with the cute judge from juilliard??!" I screamed rushing my words that I doubt she'd understand half of what I said. "What?, are you okay Aubrey?" She asked sounding sorta concerned. "Yeah I am" I inhaled and exhaled then calmed down to repeat what I had said , "when did you go skydiving with the cute judge from juilliard?". I waited patiently for her response but it never came, "speak!" I ended up screaming even though the intention was to be calm. "Okay, I remember skydiving in miami last month and let me just tell you I have no idea of who you're referring to when you say "cute juilliard judge..."
I didn't even wait for her to complete the sentence before I added "in your IG post!" I think that was really when she got the message because then she replied "oh, ...wait, what? Brad's a juilliard judge?" She asked sounding more surprised than me. There's no way she wasn't aware that the person she went skydiving with was a judge in one of the best art schools on earth. "Its not like I know him know him anyway, he's just some guy I met that one time and I just thought he was cute so we took a picture together" oh, so she doesn't even know him. "Okay then, thanks, bye" I said and didn't wait for her to reply before clicking on the end button.
I went back to the post, I saw that she tagged him so I went to his profile and began my stalking. I didn't find much...so I left. I shut down my system and decided to go back to sleep.
Two weeks later, I went out to help dad in his shop. Dad sold vehicle spare parts and stuff relating to that. The shop for dad was practically his second home as he was there for a substantial amount of time. In fact he was always there. After mum died, dad decided to make the shop his shell and haven. He became too dedicated to his work and always gave the excuse that he was only "satisfyingly his customers". He was a really good father though, always supporting me. I remember when I decided to go to juilliard, everyone was shocked my elder sister Joyce, who's in medical school now, my uncle Jojo and my grandma. Everyone didn't agree with me, well except dad. I can't blame them though, its not like I had a solid reason for wanting to go there other than that mum finished from there and lectured there. I remember when mum was still with us, she would always praise the school anytime the subject came up and it always ended with a smile on her face. Dad was also an arts person. He was a writer, a very prominent one at that, his book had won awards several times as bestselling in different categories. I remember he used to love writing, having the shop was just a hobby for him because he loved exploring vehicle spare parts, (I have no idea why). But he doesn't write anymore and now he does the shop work "full time".
I guess the reason the rest of my family don't get why I was so adamant on going to juilliard in particular was because they weren't sure I was "juilliard material" and I don't blame them, really.
I wasn't sure or didn't know what I wanted to do with my life until mum died. Mum and I always argued about this, we didn't exactly have the perfect "mother/daughter relationship", I always felt she valued her work more than family as she was always at work, always having a recital, always traveling to attend shows, always having something to do. That was my reason for not getting so close to her, besides she always made me feel like the unserious child. My sister, Joyce always knew she wanted to be a doctor, from elementary school, but me, I was always indecisive when the topic came up. Then again my sister always had good grades in high school but me nothing to write home about. She was the "perfect daughter" and it was like I was the "black sheep".
Anyway, I regret all those things I did, not getting close to her and isolating myself from everyone. Its when she died I began to really see that all I had exhibited was foolishness in the name of an "I don't care nature" or rebellion. I started to see that I needed everyone, even my mum. So I decided, made up my mind to do what mum did that always made her happy, and the starting point was attending juilliard.
Dad brought me back to reality, "Aubrey!' ....I snapped out of my thoughts and turned to face him, "uhhh?" I asked looking really confused. "This is the third time I'm saying this Aubrey ...gosh what are you thinking about so deeply, a guy?" I smiled and turned my back to him. But then he continued oh no, "cuz if its a guy, you know I'm cool with it, yeah? C'mon Aubrey, you haven't had a boyfriend in ages! People are beginning to think you're not straight", that was it! I couldn't take the boyfriend speech today, so I turned to face him again, "dad, what is it that you wanted to tell me?" It was like that question made him remember something, suddenly be began smiling strangely, I didn't understand the look until I saw his gesture, he was directing me with his right hand, pointing to a table bear us, my eyes scanned the table and I saw a big envelope. It was hard to miss it, it was big and it had the name "JUILLIARD" boldly written on it, I ran immediately to open it and read it out loud. "Dear Aubrey Parker, we from juilliard's administrative body are happy to inform you of your acceptance into juilliard....." I didn't even bother to finish reading the rest.
I gasped.....then fainted.
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