The music hall was in complete silence. It had been that way for the past 10 minutes. I sat at the piano bench squeezing my sweaty fingers together, then resting them on the piano keys...and then wiping them off on my pants. I had repeated this process over and over while the audience sat there--watching. Some had even begun to giggle and whisper to each other. They all assumed I just froze. They were right, I had. But that day in the fifth grade, my life forever changed. I w