100 words - defiance
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Two of us were studying music for the exams at the end of high school, and I was the only one also in the school band, private piano lessons, the village brass band, a swing jazz band doing gigs in the evenings. Music, as someone said, was my life. But I wasn’t on the list of the school’s best musicians, I’d just found, left by the school music teacher at the end of last term for his successor. This adult was wrong about me and for once, I wasn’t going to accept their judgement. I was going to prove the adults wrong.