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My Song

The crowd gets wilder when he starts to strum his guitar. He sings his new single, "Insensitivity", while people starts to sing and cheer for him.

He is looking at the crowd who are singing to the lyrics of the song, when all of a sudden, his eyes catches a certain girl at the back of the bar. The girl is wearing the bar's uniform, and she's staring at him with blank eyes and an expressionless face. Her difference among everyone else in the place piqued his interest. He stares at her for a long time, trying to captivate the girl with his charm but it seems that he failed because she doesn't even change her facade.

He still keeps on glancing at this girl when he starts to sing his next song. Caleb tries to distract himself by singing with the crowd, doing improvisations on his guitar chords, but he still couldn't help but to look at this girl. When his second song ends, and just as he is about to start his third song, the girl walks to an empty table and starts to clean up. She's not watching him anymore.

Caleb decides to change the next song that he's going to sing. He is supposed to sing something loud again, but this time, he just suddenly felt singing the song he just wrote last night. Last night, he couldn't sleep and so he ended up composing a song to describe his feelings but when he saw the result, he decided to just keep it to himself.... But this girl, because of an unexplainable reason, changed his mind.

"The last song that I'm going to sing was just written last night. It's more of a ballad though," he speaks over the microphone. "And it may be a piece of crap to you... but ya, here we go. It's entitled My Song, and I know that from its title you'll already think that it's crappy. Nevertheless, I just wanted to share it to all of you guys."

The crowd gets quiet when Caleb changes his guitar from an electric to an acoustic one. He strums the guitar and closes his eyes.

"Can someone take me to the safest place in this world?"

When the song begins, Eve comes to a halt. She raises her head and stare again at the person she really admires- Caleb Araneta, her favorite singer. She watches him sing with so much passion, as if his music is taking him to somewhere far away from this cruel world they are living in, to the safest place he could ever find.... and he's taking her with him. She could feel as if the lyrics are pulling every single strings in her heart, as if the lyrics and the melody are singing all the unexpressed thoughts in her. With his song, Eve feels she isn't alone... again.

Caleb tries to catch his breath when he finishes the song. He could feel the adrenaline rush. It's as if the heaviness that he feels parted him. When he opens his eyes, people are smiling and nodding at him, some are even crying... he can tell that all of them are truly happy. They give him a round of applause. Caleb bows after his performance and leaves the stage.

For some reason, he feels.... good. It has been a while since he felt that way after singing in front of an audience. It is as if his passion came back; but then afterwards, he shakes his thoughts away when he is in the backstage again.

No, I'm just fooling myself, because I'm certain that I no longer have the desire I had when I was just beginning my career. I'm not the same Caleb anymore.... And I'll never be the same.

"Eve," Bryan calls Eve for the third time. The crowd goes back to their partying and Eve is just there standing near the counter, still astounded about what just happened. She could still hear Caleb's voice ringing in her ears and imagines that the lyrics are flashing on her mind.

Bryan lost his patience. He taps Eve's shoulder and raises his brow. "Eve! What's up? I've been calling you for three times already."

Eve is brought back to reality. She turns to Bryan with her composure. "Why?"