They say that a person shall dream big but shall not be obsessed with it. But I took it too far, and almost paid the price however before the chaos part let's start from the beginning where it all began.
"2020, December 7th, Jorhat Junction, platform 4"
It was the first time when I was heading alone to the city of dreams, Guwahati. I wanted to make music which was unheard before. Something dark, chaotic and crazy enough to turn one into super Saiyan and raise hell.
"[Announcement] Attention passengers enroute to Guwahati from Jorhat, your train has arrived at platform no. 4."
"Time to board the train I guess." I frowned.
It was a long ass journey to Guwahati and I was getting bored to death, so I took out my Acoustic and started playing BURNING UP.
"The pain found me again,
I am burning up and I am losing now…..!"
Suddenly some dude in his mid-20s Spots me along with his friends.
"Yo! Check that out!" He whispered to his friend.
"This is impressive!" another one said.
"Yeah, no shit!" another word of appreciation came from a random guy
They were taking notes it seems. And then he approached me, Zayne Baruah, a young hot shot guitarist from Jorhat heading home after a Bihu function.
"You play too good for a musician with an acoustic guitar, what genre is that?" Zayne asked me like he never heard this kind of music before, raw, emotional, painful, and rage fueled.
"It's post hardcore, kind of in existence since the Y2K!" I bragged like an emo encyclopedia.
"That's cool!" another guy Lohit joined the party along with Yugal and Riyan.
"The pain found me again,
I am burning up and I am losing now…."
The singing continued and the boys loved the energy I had.
"We shall jam sometime as MIASMA!" He said this like an invitation.
And then we shared each other's numbers.
"Sunday, 7th December." Jam day at MIASMA and I was sweating my pants.
Zayne calls me up like, "Bro, where you at?"
"On the way!" I exclaimed with excitement.
5 minutes later I entered the jam pad. And Zayne gave me a song to play, something softer for my taste which I improvised over.
"He is nuts!" Yugal said it like a complement.
"A clean slate to restart my life again
To erase all the drama…"
I screamed these words on the mic and the guys were like this is it, this is our break up anthem that will go viral.
5 minutes later, the boys were like, "respect sir, you are god gifted!"
"What should we call the band?" Zayne was curious enough to know.
"Something that defines Scars but in a more beautiful way like….. a gem!" Riyan suggested.
"EMBER SCARS!" I whispered and the name was locked in.
And thus began the foundation for a bigger dream, like a calm before the storm, A chaos before the bigger disaster, the evening before that night which changed everything.
SFX: -OH GOD NO! DAVID NO! SOMEONE HELP!