salut et quoi de neuf (hi and what's new)! alright, here is All The Wrong Notes chapter 10: Midnight Meeting. i actually changed the name for the title three times (i wasn't sure which name captured the feeling of the chapter best). i finished the song Lonely Duet and the parts called "part 1" and "part 2" are the chorus and last line (just so you know). this story is really going to heat up now, so i'll try to write more (but i might not update as fast). read, review, and enjoy, s'il vous plaît.
disclaimer: i do not own full moon wo sagashite, but five-way echo and all new songs are mine
10. Midnight Meeting
You've got to be kidding me…they're singing that song…and I'm the only one who knows who wrote it. Masato had no clue what he would do. Luckily, most of his band members didn't hear any of his songs from a year earlier. Maybe Tetsuya had, but Masato was sure that he hadn't heard Lonely Duet.
Takuto:
"I watch you walk away
Every step echoes in my mind,"
Mitsuki:
"I wanted to stay
But I can't ignore it any longer,"
Both:
"We're drifting apart
Too fast to reconnect
I know you trust me
But why are you hesitating…"
This song…why does it communicate everything I'm feeling right now? Mitsuki noticed in her mind. Every single word in the lyrics had a soreness attached to it, and she was worried that she and Takuto were having more issues in their relationship lately. Was Masato really causing their problems, or was it realizing that they might have fallen in love too quickly for them to understand their differences? She continued to sing on and pressed her thoughts deeper into the back of her mind to prevent it from distracting her.
Takuto:
"It shouldn't hurt so much
Being in love
Don't make me sing a lonely song
Cause I don't want to give up…"
"Wonderful job!" Ooshige and Wakaoji cheered from the audience. They had no idea how Takuto and Mitsuki were slowly beginning to line up what had been going on recently with the song's lyrics. At the beginning of the song, they were close together and holding hands - at the end, they had moved apart far enough for Daiki to squeeze between them.
Mitsuki:
"We love like the sun,"
Takuto:
"When the sun goes down,"
Both:
"What happens then?"
Both (part 1):
"It shouldn't hurt so much
Being in love
Don't make me sing a lonely song
Cause I don't want to give up on us…"
Both (part 2):
"I don't want to give up on everything we had
Don't sing a lonely song
I don't want to lose this love…"
The entire room was in stunned silence for a few moments. Bit by bit, the applause finally came, but there was a certain feeling in the room that everyone could feel, and it was the feeling of a bond falling to pieces.
♥♪♥
"Ugh, what time is it?" Masato asked once they left the karaoke room for the night. The other band members - except for Suoh - looked like zombies, and he immediately regretted asking.
Daiki weakly rose his arm to check his watch. "I don't know…maybe midnight?" He let his arm slump back down to his side and yawned.
"Why don't you guys just call the hotel concierge?" Suoh suggested, wondering how he would get the other four members of his band back up the hotel room if they started passing out on him.
"What can they do?" Teruo attempted to argue with him, but his brain was stuck in a cloud of grogginess and he gave up.
"Maybe they can give you guys piggy-back rides?"
"Are you out of your mind?" Teruo questioned him, jealous that Suoh was the only responsible and alert band member there. Plus, Suoh would find a way to get revenge on Teruo for all of those pranks.
"Hey, I thought that they would treat us more…royally," Suoh stated while he took out a pair of drumsticks from his back pocket and began air-drumming the air. Teruo was about to fall forward, but Suoh lightly drummed on his head, and he popped back up.
"I'm gonna-"
"If I didn't use you for a practice pad, you're face would have beautifully decorated the floor," Suoh told him with a light laugh.
"Oh forget it," Tetsuya advised Teruo and they stopped at the elevator, waiting the most painful ten seconds of their life for the elevator to arrive.
"Yeah, you'll only…" Masato began, but he trailed off. Even if he was tremendously exhausted, was the person he saw at the check-in desk really who he thought they were?
"Masato, you coming?" Tetsuya tapped him on the shoulder as the bell for the elevator went off.
"I…I'll be up soon," he told the band members as they stepped into the elevator, and Suoh held the doors open - just incase someone stumbled or walked two seconds too slow.
Once the door was closed, he walked to the main lobby to get a closer look - but he was a little late. She had already left, and he scanned the lobby for her, wondering where she could have gone. After a few minutes, he gave up, and fell into a chair.
"Did you miss me…?" A familiar voice whispered in his ear and his vision was covered by someone's hand.
"Miwa?!" Masato jumped out of his chair and knew she was behind him, even though she couldn't see her. Her hands are warm…warmer than last time…
"So, Tsneo - like I said, did you miss me?" Her voice traveled softly through every inch of his body, giving him a slight shiver. He detected her lovely vanilla scent, and at once, forgot all about his plan to break Mitsuki and Takuto up.
"Miwa…you're back?" He sighed when she took her hands off of his eyes and turned around to face her.
His jaw almost dropped at seeing her. Her snowy white hair fell delicately around her face, the tips gently brushing against her cheek. When he met her forest green eyes, it seemed like she did not change one bit since the last time they saw each other, but the toll of the clock in the lobby brought him back to reality.
"I'm going to be performing here tomorrow." Miwa's fresh attitude was a mirror of her appearance. "What are you doing here?"
"My band is on tour with Full Moon - I'm under a stage name," he explained to her and they took a seat at a couch to chat. She's suddenly back…how much has she changed?
♥♪♥
"What am I going to do?" Mitsuki asked herself as she walked to the lobby to clear her mind. She told everyone else that she was going to the restroom, but all she needed was five minutes to walk and think. Everything was happening so rapidly that she wasn't certain if she was doing the right thing. She sat down in a comfy chair to watch the small display fountain for a few minutes. Along with the soothing trickling of water, she heard something else…maybe a conversation.
"Really, a tour with Full Moon? That's amazing! But…I can't help but think that a solo career would have fit you better."
"I told you, I didn't want that kind of life."
"Why not? Every word I heard out of your lips was about how you were going to have your songs be known world-wide and-"
"Miwa, that's enough…" Mitsuki could hear Masato's firm voice silence the other person. "When you left, do you know how much it changed me? Did you know that Anyday was written for you?" Mitsuki's eyes widened.
"Tsneo, I…"
"Mitsuki's here now, and she would probably stay by my side, unlike you."
Mitsuki? She thought, wondering how Masato knew her name - and why the girl was calling him "Tsneo". She gasped as the memories of her last day at school came back to mind. The boy who saved me…
random babble...oui, i have moved on to french music (it's french disney!). guess i listened to too much japanese, but oh well. désolé, i put another OC in for the plot to go a certain way. this story will probably be updated more often because i'm thinking about the ending of Like Snow. hmm...i don't think i've got anything else to say. a bientôt et au revoir (see you soon and good-bye)!