Author's Note:
I know I haven't been updating my original stories for aeons (no ideas, plus quite a bit of writer's block) but now I'm back with a brand new idea. [Forgive me, fans of all my other stories…]
This story is based somewhat on a true story. You could say true, and you could say it's not. I leave that, and many more decisions… up to you :)
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Kahoko had figured it out. A few years ago, in that music shop, as she looked at the piano… she finally came to understand why her heart was aching. Why it felt like she had no motivation to play the violin, why she was always looking around her, why nothing seemed as fun as it used to be.
Kahoko Hino had fallen in love.
"Sasaki!"
"Ryou! Long time no see, man! How's the music thing going?"
The two best buddies from soccer club at Seisou had finally found a time to meet up. Sasaki, in the past few years, had improved on his soccer skills greatly. Ryou had drifted off towards music, continuing to play the piano, working with other talented musicians.
"Music thing's all good; I hear you've finally bested me in soccer?"
"Heh, of course… since you went no one could really fill your spot… so I've been working really hard!"
"Good for you, Sasaki. Good for you."
She could always picture it.
Ryou was sitting in the pianist's seat, weaving tunes as he always did. She couldn't help but close her eyes to fully listen to the tune that was being played, but opened her eyes as she realised he was looking at her. She smiled at him as he nodded back at her…
She would somehow find her way back to that music shop, and touch the dusted piano chair that Ryou had sat on several occasions. It had always earned her a queer look from the shop owner… but she didn't care.
That's all I have left of the person I love. Just memories.
Memories weren't going to be good enough for her, and she knew it.
The two guys had finally reached an ice-cream place… the day was hot and sunny, and the queue for ice-cream was beginning to grow.
"You want an ice cream, Sasaki?"
"It's a hot day. I'm not going to survive on just cold water…"
Ryou nodded and stood in line for ice-cream.
The strong tone of his voice, and the sudden embrace back at Seisou.
"Are you all right?", those first words he said.
I really did keep my head 'in the clouds' back then…
That warm embrace that she started to long for. That voice that she wished; she wished for nothing more than to hear it say sweet nothings in her ear.
The way he had come to her aid again and again; had always taken her by shock. The concours, where her pianist had decided not to show up; where instead he had jumped on stage to be her accompanist.
That music… and those arms. They really were… so dependable.
Sasaki stared at Ryou while he waited for the ice-cream to come.
I wonder, is it really true?
He had heard rumours from his old soccer-buddies that the red-headed violinist, Kahoko Hino, had always harboured something for Ryou. He had laughed it off at first; but as the rumours kept coming; he began to question himself.
I wonder, what Ryou thinks of that violinist…
"Yo, one ice-cream"
He blinked back to consciousness to see Ryou holding an ice-cream out to him.
"Oh, thanks"
She laughed thinking back to the times where Tsukimori-kun and Ryou would constantly bicker.
That was always a funny thing… watching them… except, back then, I had never thought of it like that
She refused to suffer silently anymore; she knew she needed to tell him all these feelings that were threatening to overflow.
She decided to organise a catch-up with all her friends and the concours participants from Seisou.
NEXT CHAPTER – the catch-up goes ahead, and an interesting development?
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