[ WP ] Your entire life has theme music . Every day up until now it has been upbeat and melodic , today you wake up and it is sad and ominous .

Avalon woke up and in his groggy state he was n't sure if he heard it right. Distant echoes of a dream still rang in his ears and it was only after a couple of minutes that he realized the music had changed. When he heard the sad and ominous tune he was wide awake with fear. 
 
 He jumped out of bed and ran around the house, checking for fire, checking for gas leaks, checking for disasters. All seemed well. But the music remained the same. He called his girlfriend. The phone rang and rang and finally she picked up. She was all right. Avalon would n't tell her what was wrong, and why he was worried so she came over, against his wishes. Avalon was n't in the mood to see her. She tried to cheer him up, but he was unresponsive. She tried harder and harder to make him happy, but his music remained the same and he shouted at her to get out. 
 
 He sat on his couch and he stared at the wall and the music was still sad and when his sister called him he rejected the call and a few hours later his sister knocked on the door. He talked to her through the closed door. She heard from his girlfriend what happened. He told her to leave. He did n't want to talk to anyone that day. He just wanted to be alone until the music changed. 
 
 But the music remained the same. His friends invited him to a party but he told them he was n't feeling well. His girlfriend came over again in the evening and Avalon turned off all the lights and pretended he was n't home. A part of him wanted to see her, so she could hold him and kiss him and tell him that everything is going to be all right. But he knew he would probably just shout at her again and he did n't want that to happen. 
 
 After sitting in his apartment in the dark and listening to that damned music which would n't change, he decided to go for a stroll. He passed a lot of people and but he did n't look at them. Avalon kept his head down and his hands in his pockets and he kept walking. He kept walking until his feet hurt but the music remained the same until Avalon fell. 
 
 The wind was knocked out of him and when he managed to start breathing right again, he realized he had slipped on something and when he sat up and looked at his shoes he saw a banana peel on the ground and he started laughing at how ridiculous it was. 
 
 Then it started raining. Avalon looked to the sky and laughed. People passed him by. He tried to get up but the bottom of his shoe was still slippery and his leg slipped from under him and he did half a split. People walking by stared at him from beneath their umbrellas and he laughed and looked back at them and he began to breakdance as well as he could. 
 
 That's when he realized his music had changed. It was no longer sad. It was n't even the same as the day before. It was happier and louder and so care-free. Avalon stood up, wet and dirty and he ran to his girlfriend's apartment and when she opened the door he kissed her. 
 
 `` I can control it,'' he said. `` I can choose the music. All I had to do was fall in love - with my situation, with being miserable, with myself, with the world. All I ever have to do is fall in love and dance and I can control the music. I'm sorry for how I acted. I did n't know then. I know now. I love you.''
