Who: Laura Wingfield

I used to play the flute when I was a baby.

Guess in many ways I'm still sort of a baby. Jailbait, they used to call me, before I had my birthday. Well I've had my birthday now and legally I'm all grown up but I'm still a baby.

But when I was really a baby, like four or five, I used to play the flute for the talent part of pageants. I remember it was my favorite part. Momma says I used to be pretty good, I suppose, but I don't really remember that. I just liked the music.

Stopped playing the flute when I was nine, though, when I quit pageants. Momma says there's no use in a talent if it's not getting you somewhere. I do miss it, though, sometimes. Not the on-stage part, just the music part.

I didn't play anything all through school, not even tag or hide and seek or spin the bottle. I'm much too shy.

And I'm in college now and I'm still to shy to play anything. I asked Momma if I could try the flute again, but she's right that it's been too many years and I'd never get any good at it. Except I'm majoring in Music anyway. Theory. Music Theory is my major. So I learn how to play the flute and piano and the violin and the trumpet but I don't actually play any of them. I'm too fragile, Momma says, and she's right.


Still. Sometimes I think I'd like to try the flute again, but I'm too shy.