* * Shattered Dreams * *


The last lingering strands of the song were washed away by an explosive start of applause from the audience. Maria looked out into the sea of faces with pride. A huge grin of satisfaction graced her cute oval shaped face as she bowed before the masses.

She basked in the euphoric feelings that she received knowing that these people were there to see her. They were all there to listen appreciatively to a talent that she displayed so well. Nothing could knock the smile off of her face.

She looked over off to the side of the stage and smile seemed to grow even wider when she spotted the totally hot guy that was standing next to her manager. Michael Guerin, the guy she’s been in love with ever since she first moved to Antaria, Florida.

She gave one last wave to the crowd and then made her way over to him. “Hi Maria. You sounded really great out there.”

“Thank you.” She smiled shyly. “I was really nervous out there.”

“You couldn’t even tell from the way you were moving. You looked like you’re been performing for years, not just six months.”

“Thank you. So, Michael, what brings you out here tonight?”

“Well I wanted to hear you sing and I also wanted to see if you were busy tonight after the concert is over.” He gave her one of his all time sexy smiles

. She melted even more, if possible. Mentally she was crossing her fingers in excitement. This was it. Michael Guerin was finally about to ask her out. He was going to as her, plain little Maria Deluca from Nowhere, New Mexico, out on a date. She wanted to scream from the pleasure of just the thought of her and him dating.

Casually she said. “I’m not busy later. What’s up?”

“Well, my parents are going out for the evening. It’s their anniversary. Anyway, I’m going to have the house all to myself and I was wondering…”

Just then he was interrupted by the archenemy of Maria’s existence, Elizabeth Parker, Michael’s steady girlfriend. “He was wondering if you could baby sit my little brother for us so that I could go over to his place.”

With that simple statement she had managed to shatter all of Maria’s hopes and dreams. For it was in that moment that Maria realized that not even in her dreams would Michael Guerin stoop so low as to ask someone like Maria to be his steady. Not when he could easily have someone like Elizabeth Parker. Elizabeth was smart, beautiful, popular, and rich: everything that Maria Deluca was not. He would never be interested in dating her. She was nobody from a nobody place.

My shattered dreams and broken heart
Are mending on the shelf
I saw you holding hands
Standing close to someone else
Now I sit all alone
Wishing all my feelings was gone
I gave my best to you
Nothing for me to do
But have one last cry

One last cry
Before I leave it all behind
I gotta put you out of my mind this time
Stop living a lie
I guess I'm down to my last cry
Cry.....

I was here
You were there
Guess we never could agree
While the sun shines on you
I need some love to rain on me
Still I sit all alone
Wishing all my feelings was gone
Gotta get over you
Nothing for me to do
But have one last cry

One last cry
Before I leave it all behind
I goota put you out of my mind
For the very last time
Been living a lie
I guess I'm down, I guess I'm down
I guess I'm down...
I guess I'm down...
To my last cry...

{Brian McNight, One Last Cry}