An Empty Space
After 3 years....
The Music Industry has been innovated and have powerfully soared high, influencing worldwide in a "virtual way" through the birth of "New Normal Era" which happened 3 years ago because of the pandemic.
Concert Tours, singing contests, talent auditions and the like, has been done "virtually".
Its like the Music Industry had "hibernated" for 2 years and then had came back awaken amazingly fast forward since a year ago and onwards.
The band group of KM's Father, Karl, even have a comeback virtual world concert tours after more than 20 years have passed. And KM is handling all the productions, music arrangements of their new albums. Karl's voice never faded, it's still beautiful Rock but also Tenor voice. This time one of the songs in their new album was a duet with Mj, and Mj, sang it very well too.
KM was teary-eyed and emotional while listening and watching the recording of her Parent's duet at her very high-tech studio.
She remember her Parents' love story very well. How they started in online dating. Back then they were just using webcams and desktop pc to communicate with each other. And the sacrifices they had done for each other for their love. It was all worth the fight and love.
But, looking at her own love story with Michael, she's not sure of their future. Because 3 years ago, in the middle of the pandemic outbreak, Michael went missing and they could not find him anywhere. Some believed that he got hit by the virus and died eventually but did not find his body or remains if he actually died. No one really knows what actually happened to him, not even his own family and friends. They have tried to find him using all sorts of influence and so, but they could not find him. All of them who is very close to him, did not give up of finding him up until 2 years ago. His parents, were devastated too. If not for the comforts and help of her parents, they too would have been sick, breakdown and could have died from too much griefs and missing him.
She herself have been missing him much too. Questions still remain unanswered. How did it happen? What really happened to him? How come he went missing like a blur like that?
Did he teleported somewhere to another planet and wasn't able to come back coz his machine malfunctioned, or damaged beyond repair?
Or did he actually died from the virus? But he had no remains whatsoever and his body could not be found!
Even with the high tech equipments like drones, cctv's and online gadgets they were using, aside from the intel and mercenaries that they had hired, still, nobody could find him.
"Michael, where are you? I'm missing you so much!" she murmurred to herself that she didn't even noticed that tears have fallen already from her eyes to her cheeks.
Her parents have tried to cheer her up, even to the point of encouraging and pushing her to visit online dating websites and apps. She tried, but it only ended up to be so frustrating for her. Because there were men who tried to get money out of her, or too old for her, or just after cam sex or any other hidden agendas they had for her. No one really truly love her like Michael did loved her.
But he is nowhere to be found!
So instead of crying over spilled milk, she decided to be focus on her carreer and so as to helping out producing the comeback of her Dad's band, their new songs and their album. She's the one producing their virtual world concert tours too. And all the publicity and promotions needed. She's behind all of these.
Looking at the success of her Dad's career and marriage, she couldn't help but sigh herself.
"I almost have everything I could have asked for, but there's an empty space of my heart still. No one could ever replace you in my heart Michael! I love you still, and I'm missing you so much!" she exclaimed in her mind.
She calmed herself and tried to console her own heart. And after sighing 3 times and inhaling and exhaling puffs of air from her lungs, she concentrated her mind and heart back to the recording duet of her parents.
"That was amazing Mom & Dad! It's like you've never aged. You two still sings and blended very well. I'm very proud of you!" She then hugged both of her parents with all the love they shared.
"Oh, it's because we love each other through the years. And our love is just overflowingly pouring out from our hearts as we sing and blended together." Karl was just as proud as he was like some 30 years ago, when he flew to the Philippines and proposed and asked MJ to be his wife. And the rest was like a fairy tale that came true and still is like and everlasting love.
"Yeah, I couldn't believe what we have had gone through with our love, but it's worth fighting for." MJ smiled as she hugged tight her better-half Karl and then their daughter KM.
"Oh, I always got so touched with how you love each other Mom and Dad!" KM hugged them tighter too.
They indeed are a happy family. No one noticed of KM's eyes who, for a split second, displayed sadness 'coz of the empty space only Michael can fill up.
"Oh, I will just tire myself and sleep it off my sadness, and I will be fine again in the next morning." KM thought.
And that's what she always do.
Everyday when she wakes up, she would tell herself that...
"Another day has come beautifully, and I'm fully packed in my schedules and there's no time for me to whine nor get weakened. I'll just keep going and going and going like it's always a new day forward and onwards. Life has to go on, even with an empty space in my heart!" KM smiled but with a hint of sadness in trying to cheer herself up and conceal her sadness.