Every Tuesday and Thursday, she came to the shop. Mr. Garcia taught her to clean the old wood, to mix special glue, and to slowly close the crack. Her hands trembled at first. She made mistakes. The glue got on her shirt. The strings broke twice.

Lena hesitated. She didn’t know how to fix a violin. But she remembered a chapter in her Inspire 3 PDF about

One afternoon, Mr. Garcia saw her staring. “You like this violin?” he asked, opening the door.