‘It’s a good thing Homer isn’t here,’ Lisa thought as she played the blues on her saxophone. She had not felt well today at school and hoped that her instrument would help soothe her as it often did, but today it failed at the task. She had too much on her mind to let the music reach her heart. Even when she tried to do some homework to push her ill thoughts aside, she simply couldn’t concentrate and had taken the surprising decision to put it aside. Besides, she knew Mrs. Hoover wouldn’t mind since after all, Lisa was the best student in class and even without the home work, would be able to score straight As.
The ordeal had started the day before, as Lisa was cruising on her sax, deciding to play one last song and then write in her diary. When she played, she didn’t always consciously choose a song; sometimes she just let her fingers play by themselves and choose by themselves, almost as if the song were her master rather then the opposite. That night, she played a song by the late Bleeding Gums Murphy, one of her mentors and best friends. The soft rhythm had made her a bit melancholic and as she blew the last note, a tear in her eye, she had thought: ‘that was for you Bleeding Gums.’ She had then turned her head to the album of the artist she had, Sax on the Beach.
Even after so long, Lisa still couldn’t believe that she actually owned the very rare album. And more surprising was that her brother Bart had been the one to buy it for her in an unexpected selfless act. Just thinking about the circumstances, how he had been lucky to have that much money but still decided to spend it on her, brought another tear to her eye. Neither sibling had told anyone about the gesture, Bart wanting to keep the generous act a secret for some obscure reason.
She put the saxophone aside, her brother still the center of her train of thoughts. ‘Then again, I don’t really understand him. No one does.’ Every time Lisa thought she had him all figured out as a bad boy, Bart seemed to pull off a selfless caper which threw her off completely. Even their mother didn’t completely understand the boy but of course she still loved him all the same. After a while, Lisa accepted that to comprehend Bart would require more than simple deductive reasoning. Maybe…
Bart was disappointed. Sitting on his bed, in the room adjacent to his sister’s, he had been listening to the song for many minutes now. Although he would never admit it to a soul, he loved to hear Lisa play her saxophone and tonight especially since the notes seemed to reflect the melancholy of his soul. He hated that he had to hide his emotions like that to the world lest he wouldn’t get the respect he needed to survive school. But survival wasn’t a choice, it was a necessity and along the years, he had at times acted a bit too extreme for the people around him and his family. Those extremes still helped his case at school, but it did come at a price.
But under all of his misdeeds, Bart hid true and pure emotions. Some part of the untameable bad boy act was his true personality, but he still had a certain desire for peace and certainly did not want to make his family and friends miserable. He could never forget what had happened during hockey game opposing him to his sister who served as goal tender to the other team. The opposing team had roughed up one of their players and Bart had been offered a penalty shot. To the outside world, it had seemed like a simple game opposing two teams in the junior series finale. For the Simpson family however, it was able a brother and sister out for blood on the ice. This penalty shot would determine the victor.
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