J is for ... ???

Thanks to all who dropped by yesterday! The answer to yesterday's post was, INDIFFERENCE.

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PS: this snippet is from String Bridge :o)

The first thing you see as you walk through my parents’ front door is my mother’s grand piano. It shines like a freshly glazed sour cherry tart. And whispers haunting melodies to me as if it were once a living soul; the mother of musically-triggered melancholy.

Last weekend, the resonance of my entering sandaled feet had hardly bounced off the walls when Mum said, “Why don’t you sit down and see if you can remember to play it?” Her eyes blazed with a need to swank her own musical skills and show me up. I tamed an irrational urge to scratch its glossy dark chocolate body with my wedding ring by shaking my dusty cardigan too close to the keys instead. Mum whipped out a duster from inside the piano stool and brushed it away — seething clenched teeth hidden by a civil smile.

 So, can you guess the emotion/feeling/state of mind (a noun) depicted in this piece that begins with the letter ‘J’? Please nip over to Nicole's blog to read her interpretation of our J-prompt word. Here’s the link!