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Birds flew away from their nests as the violinist played a wrong note. The girl who was playing the violin let her shoulders droop and sighed.
"Ehhh…this is the fifth time I got that note wrong! What is wrong with me?" said Hino Kahoko, scratching her head after putting down her violin.
"Still, as the old saying goes, try; try again so that's what I'll do!"
A few minutes passed and again screeches from a violin were heard. The birds were quite tired of them.
"Let me try again!" she said to herself.
Another screech from her violin. Only, after the screech, she heard a familiar sigh.
"Wrong again, Hino." said a cold male voice.
"Tsu-Tsukimori-kun!" said Hino, shocked by the sudden arrival.
"How does he always manage to be there when I make a mistake?"
"You played the wrong note." he said in the same voice.
"How long have you been here?" she asked.
"I've been here ever since you first started playing."
"Ieee! He's been here ever since I started playing? He heard all the screeches I made?" she thought.
"Your position wasn't right when you were playing." Tsukimori continued. "You were leaning too much."
"Yeah…I…just can't play that note. I guess now I know why." Hino replied, a bit sadly.
"Try again." said Tsukimori.
Hino picked up her violin got into position and started playing the piece again. But, try as she might, she could not stop the screech coming from the violin. A near by puppy moaned.
"Ahhhh…" she said, embarrassed.
"Like I said, your position is wrong. You need to stop leaning so much."
Hino tried changing her position into this and that, but Tsukimori sighed again and shook his head.
"That's not it. You have to put your hand here…lean…no not that much!" he said helping her into her position but could not help himself for turning a bit red. "Don't be so rigid…stand freely…there."
"Arigatou, Tsukimori-kun!" she said beaming at him, causing him to get redder.
But her smile turned into her mouth opening when she realized how close to each other they were. There was silence for a few moments as the two teenagers looked into each others eyes as though in a trance.
The door blasted open and Hihara Kazuki came in.
"Kaho-chan, I thought I'd find you here! I wanted to tell you-" he stopped half sentence looking at the red head and the blue head looking at each other in an interesting way.
Tsukimori and Hino broke off from their chance when they realized they were being watched.
"S-Sorry…I…I didn't mean to interrupt or anything…" said Hihara feeling ashamed and sad at the same time.
"H-Hihara-senpai! Its not what you think it is! Really, it isn't!" said a flushed Kahoko waving her arms around.
"Ah…okay." said Hihara, still a bit sad at the same time.
"S-So…what did you want to tell me?" asked Kahoko hastily.
"Oh? Oh yeah! About that…I actually wanted to first find everyone but since Tsukimori's here too(Tsukimori stared at him) so that narrows things down. I'm just wondering where the others are. They said they'd all be here soon…" said Hihara.
"Others? You mean Yunoki-senpai, Tsuchira-kun(Tsukimori's expression changed as if he had just swallowed a toad.), Fuuyumi-chan and Shimizu-kun?" asked Hino.
"And here we are." said a sweet voice.
The door opened again and in came a calm looking Yunoki, a sleepy Shimizu, a normal Tsuchira who looked slightly disgruntled that Kahoko was so close to Tsukimori and last of all, in came a shy Fuuyumi.
"Good! Everyone's here now! I can finally tell you all an important thing!" said Hihara.
"This had better be important." said a fuming Tsukimori, glaring at Hihara.
I had just had been enjoying a very beautiful moment and you just had to interrupt?
"Oh, it is, it is!" said Hihara enthusiastically. He paused. "Tsukimori…are you blushing?"
Everyone, especially Kahoko looked at Tsukimori. He quickly pushed the blush away.
"No I wasn't…" he replied quickly.
"Don't lie, ice prince! Your face was a bit red a second ago." said Tsuchira accusingly.
"Damn that Tsuchira…" thought Len.
"I thought you were going to give us an important announcement, Hihara-senpai." said Tsukimori, changing the subject.
"Is it something about the music classes getting rescheduled?" asked Fuuyumi shyly.
"Is there a new period in which we have to only sleep?" asked Shimizu drowsily.
"No, no!" said Hihara. "Its about a book I found in the library."
"You read in the library?" asked Yunoki, laughing.
"Well…actually I don't read that much…I was just so tired from playing the trumpet that I fell asleep and suddenly this book landed on my head and I woke up…feeling strange."
"What do you mean by that?" asked Tsuchira.
"It was…" Hihara took a deep breath and started his tale. "A book I'd never seen before. I mean…I know there are so many books in the library…so it could have just been another library book but when I held the book for a second I felt cold…even though the library was very warm…not the ususal coldness though…an uneasy coldness…and then it was almost like I had a vision or something…there was pain in my head and I closed my eyes and the picture of a man appeared in my head…a man who looked really scary…worse than a zombie…and then in a second the picture was gone…I felt scared…I decided to return the book to the librarian cause I didn't like this book but she said that it wasn't a library book and then I said I found it and it fell on me from one of the library book shelves. She told me not to lie and said that I should stop bothering her." said Hihara, in a most un-hihara-ish way.
"So?" asked Tsukimori, annoyed.
Had his senpai interrupted him just for a ghost tale?
"Well…I had this feeling that man might be a ghost or something…a school ghost."
Yunoki burst out laughing.
"Hihara, what a vivid imagination you have!" he said amused. "I haven't laughed like this in while.
"It-It wasn't a story! I really felt all this! I'm serious!" said Hihara desperately.
"Hihara-senpai, as much as it feels real, ghosts don't exist…that's logic." said Tsukimori.
"No! Its real! Here! I even brought the book as evidence."
Hihara rummaged in his bag and took out a rather moldy looking book, which had the number '1117' on its cover.
"Let me see it." said Tsukimori taking the book from Hihara.
Every one waited silently.
Tsukimori flipped the pages here and there and suddenly closed it abruptly.
"There's nothing in the book…its empty…no pictures…no text…nothing!" said Tsukimori.
"But what's up with the '1117' though? Is it any lucky number or something?" asked Kahoko out loud.
"Not that I know of, Kaho-senpai." said Shimizu.
"Maybe that's the year in which he was born?" suggested Fuuyumi.
"It doesn't matter. Its not important. We should be going home now. Look at the time." said Tsukimori pointing to a nearby clock.
It was 5.00pm. A very late time indeed. Hihara looked disappointed.
"Don't worry, ghosts don't exist. We've said that before." said Yunoki in his charming voice.
"Yeah! Do you hear that 'ghost-that-doesn't-exist'? We're not scared of you!" joked Tsuchira, talking to the walls.
He had hardly finished speaking, when there was a big 'DHOOM' sound. The girls both clutched each other, scared.
"Nice going, Tsuchira!" said Tsukimori angrily.
"You were the one who said in the first place that ghosts don't exist!" shot back Tsuchira with equal anger.
There was a blood curdling scream which made Fuuyumi shiver uncontrollably. She tried to stop herself from shivering when she felt a warm hand join hers and hold it protectively. It was Shimizu.
"Don't be afraid, Fuuyumi-chan." whispered Shimizu drowsily but kindly.
Fuuyumi blushed uncontrollably.
"Will you two get over here already? We have to see who made that scream and why!" shouted Tsuchira.
Fuuyumi and Shimzu looked up and found that their fellow students were outside the practice room waiting for them.
"Gomen!" said both of them at the same time, running to catch up with the others.
What had been that strange noise? Who had screamed and why? Perhaps our friends will find out the answer in the next chapter.
The day was going to be very dark indeed.
And its done. What do you think of it? Dumb? Stupid? Nice? Enjoyable? Tell me through your reviews! Thank you! ^_^
