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years old when he sat at the
piano at his church and banged out Scott Joplin’s Maple Leaf Rag , a song
he remembered hearing on a cartoon just days before. His mother immediately
enrolled him in piano lessons then added guitar and drum lessons when he showed
an interest in them too. Jennifer Myers would do anything to keep her boy from
running the streets.
    By the time he entered middle school, his dad had completely
disappeared from his life, and his mother was working two jobs to support them.
He was a latchkey kid. Music and sports kept him busy and out of trouble. There
were guitar and piano lessons, baseball, football, and soccer. One way or another,
Cash Myers was going to be rich. Either he was going to play a sport or become
a musician.
    In high school, people really started paying attention to
Cash when he joined a band. Even though Superpower broke up after six months,
but Cash’s friends and mother saw something in Cash that he hadn’t seen in
himself…star potential.
     Jennifer didn’t push him, but his best friend, Donnie, did.
Donnie signed Cash up for solo gigs at open mic nights all over the city. He
pushed him to play at any gig that would let him. By the time he was a senior
in high school, Cash knew he wasn’t going to be a professional athlete since
not a single school had offered him a football or baseball scholarship. He
began to see music as a way out of Roxbury. He quit the football team and
focused on music.
    After graduation, he packed up his song books and sheet music,
took his life savings and the three grand he’d gotten from his mother’s friends
and co-workers as graduation gifts and moved to Los Angeles, California...the
home of Sony and Colombia Records. He was determined to get a deal with one of
them. When every one else doubted him, he knew he was going to L.A. to become a
real musician.
    It only took two years for the musical prodigy to get a
major record deal. Now here he was, sitting at a $30,000 baby grand piano in
his seven million dollar condo writing a song while his sister spent thousands
of dollars ordering clothes online and his mother was two floors below in her
own apartment cooking up a vat of his favorite clam chowder.
    “You know, you can’t be depressed,” he scolded himself. “You
have a good life.”
    “That you do, brother.”
    Cash turned around at the sound of his best friend’s voice.
Cash was completely surprised to see Donnie. His best friend hated New York.
    “What the hell are you doing here?”
    “I could smell your mother’s clam chowder back in Boston,” Donnie
joked.
    His brown hair was tucked under a Boston Red Sox cap. In his
t-shirt, boat shoes, and shorts, Donnie looked like he’d just stepped off the
boat Cash bought him for Christmas.
    “You feel like goin’ to Yankee Stadium and causin’ a little
trouble? You know they’re gonna get spanked by the Orioles today.”
    Cash nodded. “Sounds like a plan. My publicist is on her way
over though so I gotta talk to her about something important, I guess. Must be
a pretty big deal since she flew in from L.A.”
    “That’s that Cash Myers sex appeal,” Donnie joked. “Broads
will do anything to get a piece of you.”
    “Dude, I’m not screwin’ my publicist!”
    “Why not? Tracy’s hot!”
    “And not into me,” Cash finished. “But you, big time Boston
lawyer, with your Harvard law degree, she’d definitely be into you.”
    “Then hook me up! I’m down with the swirl! I’m okay with
being the milk in her coffee.”
    Cash grinned. He had no idea how Donnie got into Harvard,
let alone graduated. He was always more interested in ‘booze and broads’ than work.
Which also explained why he was in Cash’s house in the middle of day on a
Wednesday.
    Cash sat his Martin Standard on top of his baby grand piano
before walking upstairs with Donnie.
    “So, have you heard from Victoria since she moved out?”
    “No. We’ve said all that needs to be said.”
    “Did she give you