~One~ The silence hanging in the background was broken by Graham. “I heard that Jessica had a baby” Jane looked up from the item she was distractedly reading on her phone. “Who with?” she asked. “I doubt she knows” Graham offered pessimistically. “I shouldn't have said that.” he quickly apologized. He went back to shuffling papers and trinkets around on the stand next to the piano. The room was already tidy but Graham needed something to get his mind off of things. He paused. The small antique clock hanging on the wall above the old upright seemed to pause with him. It was one of those crisp days that seem to exist outside of time. The white sky was preventing the sun from shining directly, and although it was bright out, it seemed impossible to tell the passage of time in the stillness. Only the birds singing on the bare branches at the far end of the hill marked the passage of minutes, or perhaps kept time stopped through repetition… Drops of cold water fell from