“Jack, are you ok?” Alex asks his best friend.
The lanky man has been sitting on the couch in the back lounge for over an hour doing nothing. His eyes are staring into space, and his mouth is moving as if he is singing to an unknown song.Alex waves his hand in front of his face, but Jack doesn’t do anything. He stays the same way he is as if Alex hadn’t even come into the room and sat down next to him. Finally, he breaks out of it when Alex shoves Jack so he falls onto the floor. Jack shakes his head as he comes out of the trance and looks up at his friend.
“What the heck was wrong with you?” Alex questions. “You were stuck in this daze that didn’t end ‘til I pushed you off the couch.”
“I’m going insane,” Jack mumbles.
“What?”
“I can’t get her voice out of my head. I still hear her right now. She’s singing ‘Let it Roll’. Her voice is so beautiful, but it won’t go away.”
“Have you gotten any sleep?”
“Some, but I keep having that same dream, and now I hear her voice whenever I’m awake too. It won’t go away!”
Jack covers his ears with his hands, but that doesn’t do anything. His knees make their way up to his chest, and he starts to rock back in forth on the floor. He is slowly losing his mind. Alex really has no idea what to do. He’s never seen his friend this way before. Hell, he’s never even come close to this.
“Why won’t it stop? I just want it to stop!”
“Why don’t you come up here, and we can talk about it?” It’s the only thing that came to Alex’s mind. Jack nods as he gets back up to where he was sitting, but this time he brings his legs up and holds them in place. “I don’t really know what to say... Um... What does her voice sound like?”
“Well, it depends on the song that she’s singing.”
“You said that she’s singing ‘Let it Roll’ right now. How does she sound when she sings that?”
“She finished that one. She’s singing ‘Poison’ now.”
“Ok, well, what does she sound like when she sings that? Is her voice higher or lower than mine?”
“Higher but not by much. Her voice is in between, so it’s not that hard for her to hit the high notes and low notes in the song.”
“How does her voice sound. Is it smooth? Is it rough?”
“Smooth, I guess. Some parts it isn’t, but that’s because your voice isn’t on those parts.” Jack paused. “Hey, Alex?”
“Yeah?”
“A name that I saw once just flashed into my head.”
“What name?”
“Moon Rock. I... I have this feeling that she uses it like a stage name. She doesn’t want people to know her real name, so she uses that name when she sings... Alex, will you go grab my laptop.”
“Sure.” Alex walks out of the room and comes back shortly after with the lanky man’s laptop in hand. He hands it to Jack, who turns it on and goes to the internet. “What are you looking up?”
“I’m looking up Moon Rock. I have this feeling that she puts her songs online somewhere. Here’s a page.”
Jack clicks onto a page that has an account by the name of Moon Rock. On the page, there are various videos that are all black, but when Jack clicks on one, he hears the voice that he’s been hearing. The voice on the computer makes the voice in his head temporarily go away. The song that he put on just happens to be their song, “Poison”. There is no doubt in his mind that this is her.
“This is her.”
“Wow. You’re right. She is a good singer. Does her account say anything about her like where she lives?”
“No. There isn’t even a picture of her. The only thing that I know of her is that she has brown hair, but I still don’t know what she looks like even after this.”
“Maybe you should comment on one of her videos and ask to get in contact with her.”
“That won’t work.”
“Why not?”
“There are some comments already asking that, and she told them all no.”
“But you’re Jack Barakat. She can’t say no to you. Just private message her. There’s an option.”
“She probably won’t believe me, and even if she did, she’d probably freak out. I don’t know if she did something to me or if I’m just going crazy. She hasn’t tried to contact me other than that one tweet, but it seems like she isn’t sure if what she did worked and wasn’t planning on it working. That’s what I’m getting from it.”
“Yeah, but there has to be some way that you can contact her.”
“There won’t be until I end up seeing it or hearing it.”
“Fuck. If I could take all of this away from you, I would. I hate seeing you like this. If I meet this chick, she is getting an ear full from me.”
“Don’t. I’ll be ok.” He hopes.
After the song finishes, the singing in Jack’s head starts up again. This time, it’s the song “Vegas”. He sighs when he hears it and shuts his laptop. Jack gets up and starts to make his way to his bunk. Alex gives him a questionable look.
“I’m going to see if I can get some sleep. Who knows? Maybe I’ll get the next piece to the puzzle.”
Jack puts his laptop away before crawling into his bunk fully clothed. It doesn’t matter what’s he’s wearing when he sleeps at all anymore. He closes his eyes. It doesn’t take long for the lanky man to fall asleep as he listens to the beautiful voice of the mystery girl.
Jack opens his eyes to find that he’s laying on someone elses bed. He looks at the sheets and sees that they are purple, and the bed seems to be a queen sized bed. He sits up and looks around the room. There is a bass in the corner along with an amp. In another corner is some recording equipment. By the looks of it, this room belongs to the mystery girl. He eyes look around the room more, and he sees that the walls are covered in posters, signed and unsigned, of her favorite bands. Jack wants to get up and get out of her room, but he doesn’t have the strength. He can’t move at all.
A short female comes into the room. Even though the hood of her jacket is covering her face, he knows that it’s Moon Rock. She doesn’t notice him for some reason. He tries to speak, but no words come out of his mouth. He can’t move or speak. That’s just lovely.
The girl sighs and makes her way to her bed and sits down next to Jack’s feet. He tries to move his foot over to hit her, but he has no energy. It’s like he’s paralyzed. Actually, he is paralyzed. She starts to grab a black laptop off of her bed, but she stops. Instead, she grabs a black notebook that was in one of her front pockets of her oversized jacket. She grabs a random pen that had been laying on the floor and starts to write.
Jack doesn’t know what she’s writing, but he has this feeling that they are lyrics. She is tapping her foot along and mouthing words like if she’s trying to find a word that rhymes. He also has this feeling that she’s getting out her feelings which are very hurt and upset. His thoughts are confirmed when he hears a sniffle. She had been crying and may still be crying. The lanky man really wishes that he could do something now, but unfortunately, he can’t.
“Why does this always happen to me?” she sobs in a tune. “Why can’t I be normal and pretty? I’m useless, pathetic. No one will ever get me. No one will ever see that they are slowly killing me. I’m useless, pathetic. Don’t tell me twice because I know. I’ve already taken that blow, but every new one breaks me even more.”
Jack finally gets the strength to say something. “Please don’t cry.”
The girl’s head shoots up in surprise. She starts to turn her head to him. Maybe this time he’ll get to see her face...
Jack opens his eyes to find that he’s back in his bunk. He wasn’t even asleep for twenty minutes. That’s not what annoys him though. He was finally going to see her face, but of course, he didn’t. She did hear him though. That has to count for something. Jack sighs. Every time he solves a piece of the puzzle, he still has another one to get the answer to.

Notes

This chapter wasn't long, so I put the dream in it. Jack's getting closer, but he still hasn't found out who she really is yet. It's still going to be awhile. It's not like ten chapters though. The next chapter is going to be Selene going to an ATL concert.
Hope you like it so far!