So how did you think about him? Rachel asks.Hallelujah shrugs. We were friends. Good friends. He knewknowsa lot about me. I guess I know a lot about him. Stuff he likes and doesnt like.Rachel looks skeptical. And yet you never knew he liked you.No! I meanwhen Jonah and I were friends, I liked Luke. So maybe I missed some signs.So you just . . . hung out? Platonically?Yeah. I guess. Hallelujah thinks about how to explain it. How to distill a friendship down to its most basic components. We had choir together last year. We talked. For kind of the first time, even though wed been in church and school together since fourth grade.And, what, you found out you had so much in common?Actually, no. But we started comparing music we liked, and a month into ninth grade, Jonah made me this mix of songs. Based on what wed talked about. So then I made him a mix. And it grew from there. Wed go to each others houses, watch movies, listen to music, that kind of thing. Hanging out.So tell me about Jonah. Something only you know.Um. Hed probably deny it, but he got really into the Harry Potter books. Like, really into them. I loaned him my box set last spring. He got so mad at me for not warning him how Book Six ends.Rachel laughs. He didnt see the movies?No. But I told him we couldnt watch them until hed finished the books.
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Kathryn Holmes.
Themes
- Music — The universal language of melody, rhythm, and harmony