Chapter 1: The first melody
Chapter 1 – The First Melody
The Christmas season had filled St. Luke's School with excitement.
Students were busy preparing for the annual Christmas celebration. Choir practices echoed through the corridors, decorations covered every classroom, and the sound of musical instruments could be heard from the auditorium.
Among the students was Jazlyn clara, a quiet ninth-grade girl who loved singing.
One afternoon, while walking past the auditorium, she heard the gentle sound of a keyboard.
Curious, she stepped inside.
A boy from Class Eleven was sitting behind the keyboard.
His fingers moved gracefully across the keys as he played.
The entire hall fell silent.
Jazlyn had never heard someone play with such beauty.
As the music came to an end, the boy slowly looked up.
For a brief second...
Their eyes met.
Neither of them smiled.
Neither of them spoke.
Yet something about that moment remained in Jazlyn's heart.
She quietly asked one of her friends,
"Who is he?"
"That's Benedict," her friend replied.
From that day on...
Whenever she saw Benedict walking through the school corridors or carrying his keyboard for practice, she couldn't help but glance at him.
They rarely looked at each other.
They never exchanged a single word.
Still...
A small hope quietly grew inside her heart.
"Maybe..."
"One day..."
"We'll talk."
She never imagined that hope would remain only a dream.
Months passed.
Then another year
Benedict graduated from school.
Jazlyn watched him leave through the school gates for the last time.
Without a goodbye.
Without even knowing she had admired him from afar.
After completing her tenth-board examinations, Jazlyn returned to school for higher secondary.
She tried to move on.
But every time she stepped outside her home...
Her eyes searched the streets.
Sometimes...
From a distance...
She would catch a glimpse of Benedict
He never noticed her.
And she never had the courage to call his name.
Her first love remained nothing more than a beautiful memory.
Little did she know...
God was quietly preparing someone else to enter her life.
Someone whose story would one day become deeply intertwined with her own.
