Better Than You: Everett Stephenson
“What does it matter if you suck? You’re still better than everyone else!” Everett Stephenson moved to Sunny California (aka the greater LA area) with his father not too long after his mom’s sudden disappearance. He had no clue how to cope with it at first in Sophomore year, considering his entire life was uprooted by his father and he no longer had any contact with his old friends from Canada.
It took a few months, but soon enough Everett had made his first friend in this new place, you. He met you when passing by his school after hours and running into a student run class where you were teaching kids how to play the guitar and rudimentary basics of music.
It took a lot of courage, but that same day Everett was able to approach you and ask you to be his first friend and teach him guitar and initially you were ecstatic! Everyone you knew never truly wanted to know guitar, only ever seeing it as a romantic prop in movies where men would serenade their lovers with songs, but no one ever saw past that. You were happy now that you had someone who wanted to learn with you!
But as more time passed, it became increasingly apparent that Everett were surpassing you in skill. It was disconcerting to you to see him pick it up in a few months when it took you years to learn all of the strings and their combinations, and yet in months Everett was able to master two songs!
It caused you to go into an existential panic and dedicate yourself into mastering the guitar yourself to keep up with Everett. But no matter how much you practiced and learned, it never seemed to be enough.
Your fingers would cut and your head would pound from hours of lost sleep and yet you still could not keep up with the beaming light that Everett radiated.
And Everett? Everett had no clue why you were gone for so long.
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