Chapter 7: What comes around goes around
The second day of school has arrived… Kaori waited for me at our usual spot and we headed off to school together. Watari and Tsubaki were not here with us since they had morning practice, being in a sports school must be tough, I thought that in my head silently as I dazed out and not realizing that the traffic lights were red, a speeding car headed towards my direction. Kaori shouted at me making me snap back to reality, I took notice of the car heading in my direction which did not seemed to have any intention of braking. I dodged the car just in the nick of time as Kaori ran up to my side worriedly to check for any injuries.
"Kousei! Are you alright?!" Her panicked-stricken voice made me feel embarrassed about dazing off and I pat her head gently, reassuring the anxious blonde haired girl that I was alright. She calmed herself shortly after and helped me up while calling me stupid for making her worried. I reflected on my actions and promised her that it will not happen again.
We arrived to school exactly before the bell rang, Hiroko-sensei walked into class and noticed how dirty I was, she demanded a reason and became infuriated as well as tense when we told her that I was almost knocked down by a car. I apologized to her and after she finally accepted my heartfelt apologies, Homeroom started. Classes went on as usual, music lessons, math, English and all the regular things a normal high school student would do, except with the strict 4 hours of music theory and lessons. When class finally ended after over an extensive duration of time passed us, We all heaved a sigh of relieve, Hiroko-sensei had to make a last announcement before we were allowed to be dismissed.
"There is a piano competition and violin competition for selected students, I will be reading out the names now. For piano there are 5 selected people, Arima Kousei, Aiza Takeshi, Igawa Emi, Sakurakou Shizune and Aizawa Yusuke. For violin will be Miyazono Kaori, Fujino Kande, Takeda Takemaru, Isobu Nozomi, Kirigaya Atsushi. That's all!"
Crowd of complains could be heard in the room, some were stating how it was always us who takes the spot, how unfair it was. When Hiroko-sensei finally managed to silence the class, she dismissed the rest of the class and wanted to talk to us in the staff room.
People were chattering about me when we were all walking to the staffroom, mostly all about how well I played during the orientation, the noise rose and died down when we reached the staff room.
Hiroko-sensei coughed a puff and began to speak to us
"Now for the people for are chosen to enter the piano competition, you are all selected to participate in the Huji Festa!"
We were surprised, our eyes widen up unable to process the words which were let out from Hiroko-sensei's mouth. The Huji Festa was a huge thing, People from all around the world would be entering this competition, all of which are top class players and renowned people who were always in magazines or newspapers, To think we were going to participate in this competition shows that we are all capable players.
"For violin will be a special case, Kousei!"
A haze of fear surrounded me, I knew when she called me, it would mean something big.
"You are going to be the accompanist for our entire group violinist!"
"WHAT? WHY?!"
It was as if a bombshell was dropped on me, I was suddenly appointed to play the accompanist for all of the violinist. I retorted back in disbelief and wanted a reason.
"Well you are the only one who have ever played the accompanist before and the school wanted to show off… so yeah! Good luck for the competition it is in a month's time! Set piece would be the sa"
"A MONTH? I ONLY HAVE A MONTH?"
"Hey stop shouting young man!"
I did a double take, hoping it was just a joke but my hopes were shattered when Hiroko-san did not seem to be saying another word. Silently, we all left the staffroom and headed home, Kaori went with me.
"Kousei… well this time I will allow you to break your promise okay?" Kaori tried to cheer me up but it had the opposite effects. I slowly remembered about my promise with Kaori and felt horrible, it has not even been a year since I made that promise and now… I am to break it before we became the people we yearn to be.
"I'm sorry Kaori… I have to break that promise so early on…"
Kaori had a look of concern on her face but she managed a smile a pecked me lightly indicating to me that she was alright with it. I smiled back at her and we headed home to rest.
Watari's POV
Sunday arrived and it was our one weekly holiday we deserve after the hectic long week of school, Me and Tsubaki decided to go on a date to tropical land. I checked my outfit I was wearing and began to worry about it, What if it was too plain?, What If this is too embarrassing for Tsubaki to walk with me ? Am I okay?! My anxiety reached its climax but I still managed to keep a poker face. While I was still thinking about my attire, Tsubaki patted on my shoulder, giving me a huge shock and making me jumpy.
"What's wrong Watari?" she asked with a slight look of worry on her face, making my heart pound faster and my blood flowing quicker. I fought with my inner self to keep up my calm face, while in fact I was actually blushing.
"Nothing… It's nothing. I looked at Tsubaki, she was dressed in a very formal yet casual t-shirt with a cute outer jacket wear and a pink mini skirt which seemed to fit her very well, I blushed a bit before regaining my composure and I started off the conversation "Wow Tsubaki you look great, Well then, since our lady has arrived let us go on our wonderful date, Shall we Milady?" I joked around to distract myself and held out my hand. Tsubaki smiled gleefully and took my hand and our fingers entwined with each other, We took a taxi and shortly arrived at the Kingdom of joy and laughter. After paying for all our tickets and taxi fee, we headed out to try the roller coaster.
"WEEHEEE!" We screamed in excitement, adrenaline rushed to our face as we rode on the speedy dragon. Twist and turn, up and down, the Rollar coaster seemed to turn everywhere and it was really fun. We left the coaster and continued on to try the other extreme rides. Before we knew it, it was already 4.30pm. We decided to go to the food stand for some food.
"One vanilla shake, 2 plates of fried chicken, 4 croquette and 2 plates of fried rice with ginger all Large size" Tsubaki ordered with a smile on her face, knowing that I would be paying for all of the food, the chef just stared at us with a look of blank on his face, he probably must be wondering how is 2 people going to eat all the food we ordered. I paid for the food and sat down alongside Tsubaki who was waiting for me at the vacant table. As we waited for the food, we decided to chat about Kousei.
"So how do you think Kousei is going with Kao-chan?"
"Hmm… probably amazing, Maybe they even did it Hahahahaha!" I joked around trying to be funny, but all I got was a straight punch to the stomach.
"Ow… that hurts Tsubaki…" I faked being in pain as Tsubaki ignored me.
"It's your fault for saying something stupid."
I apologized for my joke and continued to talk about Kaori-chan and Kousei, the two lovebirds.
"Well knowing Kaori-chan is there for Kousei, I am more at ease but yeah… I am curious about how far are they! Let's go and visit them next Sunday!"
"Yeah! Let's do it!" We smiled and laughed together, the chef brought over our food, and we had a happy lunch before heading off for our final attraction. The horror House.
Tsubaki was shivering in fear and releasing cold sweat, when it was going to be our turn, she held my arm adorably, eyes closed and hands tightly gripping mine, her body was leaning on to my arm begging for me not to let her go. It was too adorably cute to watch.
"uh… Tsu…baki… We can… not go if you want." I could no longer could bear it anymore yet I want to see more of Tsubaki's afraid face.
But Tsubaki looked angry at me for some reason and told me.
"I want to go in with you Watari…" She said. My heart finally burst and my nose started bleeding, Tsubaki dealt the final blow. I bet if I were to die here and now, I would have no regrets, even the angels I hallucinated were putting their hands out to help me out. But I wanted to see even more, that's the greedy man I am.
"KYAAAA!" Tsubaki let out a scream and she held me by the hand I blushed internally, not caring at all about the monsters around me, just hoping I would be forever with this tom boyish girl. I let out a small laughter under my breath. Suddenly, Tsubaki hugged me and started to cry a little
"TSUBAKI?! What's wrong?!"
"I'm… Scared… Watari…"
Holding in her tears, even though she was like a fragile glass, so easily to be seen through and broken, her body might be courageous, but her heart was as if a pond, easily disrupted when disturbed, she may think she is strong, but it was the opposite, she was weak. And I, will be your knight in shining armor, even if no one is there for you, even if you are weak and alone, even if you have to face the world, I would be by your side, Till the very end. I held the timid girl and left for the exit.
"Sniff* Sniff* eweh… that sucked sniff* I was so scared" Tsubaki pouted while crying. I gave her a strawberry milkshake she liked the most and we headed home. On the bus, we saw a fireworks show and admired the fireworks being lit up in the night sky.
"Thank you Watari, it was an amazing date!"
"No problem Tsubaki."
We stared into each other's eyes and we slowly brought ourselves into a kiss… A traditional yet sweet way to end a date, with fireworks brightening up the night sky, it was the perfect way to end a date with a bang…
3rd person view
Arima Kousei was in his bed and Miyazono Kaori was in his room, wondering what to do about his boyfriend who was going to be late if he did not prepare everything in 15 minutes. She had tried everything, splashing water, hitting him, everything, but yet this young man is in a deep sleep and nothing could ever wake him up… except something.
Kaori had a flash of insight, but it was too embarrassing to be put in action, but it was a necessity to try it out, She moved closer to the young boy and her lips touched his… Kousei immediately woke up, feeling his lips touching another's women lips. Kousei's vision was really blurry as he did not wear his spectacles, he could only see a shadow of a girl, fearing it might be some other girl than Kaori, Kousei screamed in desperation
"AH KAORI I'M SO SORRY, I KISSED SOME RANDOM GIRL THIS MORNING. PLEASE FORGIVE ME I WAS SLEEPING SHE KISSED ME BY SURPRISE!"
"Kousei?!" Kaori panicked and made Kousei even more worried "AH YOU ARE HERE KAORI?! IM SORRY I DIDN'T MEAN IT I SWEAR!"
"Kousei! Calm down it was me!"
"Huh?"
The room became awkwardly quiet, Kousei realized what did Kaori did and blushed immediately she left the room to let him finish his preparation. Kousei quickly prepared everything and left the house with Kaori and the gang.
"Stupid Kousei! Why didn't you notice it was me?!"
"Sorry I didn't had my glasses on so I did not realize it was you…"
"Man Kousei… As a fellow male friend of ours, I sympathize with you… NOT HOW DARE YOU KOUSEI, BEING ABLE TO GET WOKEN UP BY A SWEET MORNING KISS!" Watari was jealous of the poor young lad but was jabbed in the stomach by Tsubaki, she whispered to him softly but due to Kousei's sharp ears, he could hear the whole conversation
"You want me to wake you up like this?" Tsubaki asked Watari curiously while Watari became red-faced and replied back "Uh…. Its okay if you don't want to… But yeah I would love it!" "Ok… then…" Tsubaki murmured under her breath. Kousei let out a small giggle and parted ways with the other couple.
Homeroom started and the blonde haired beauty as well as the black haired pianist made it in time, Hiroko-sensei began her daily activites and after all the lessons, school ended, The couple were about to head home but was stopped by Fujino Kanade.
"Arima Kousei! I want to practice my concert piece with you!" the girl shouted to Kousei, making him very shocked. He was unsure of what to reply but Kaori encouraged him to practice with her. They sat in the music room and Kousei adjusted his seat before giving the sign to the girl that he was supposed to play the accompanist piece for. She gave the signal and they began Dvorak Romance for piano and violin op 11. The song started out slowly and began to accelerate, louder and louder, softer and softer, the song played, feelings of sadness could be described as adam and eve being separated and the nature crying out for them as endless petals and flowers rises in the the ever softly blowing wind, carrying the will and faith of the two partners forever, tears of sadness stream down the two of them as they became separated, their warmth of each other, disappearing like the spring wind blowing away the cherry blossoms petals, further and further away it flies never coming back. Then time passes and it was the time of the year which allowed the two romance to be reunited with each other, but the man has changed, he was more prideful, eve chased after adam, but to no avail, the man she loved was gone, he will not return… Cries and sorrow, sadness… all gone. But then… a miracle occurred, Adam returned and was back to normal, an embraced between the 2 was the last sensation before time was up, waiting for the next time of the year, they will wait… Till they will be once again reunited for life…
The song ended, leaving Fujino crying in tears and thanking Kousei.
"Thank you Arima-kun"
"No problem… It was good. But I think you should try to play it a bit more freely, let your emotions run wild."
Surprised at Kousei who was once known as the human metronome, Fujino Kanade's eyes widen up and looked at the timid boy, she gave a small laughter and made a shocking statement.
"Um… Arima-kun…"
"hmm?"
"I…I…I"
"What's is it?"
"I…I… I LIKE YOU!"
… The silence in the room was heavy and seemed to be unbreakable, the awkwardness of the conversation brought Kousei a deep and weird feeling in him. He was unsure of how is he supposed to respond to the sudden confession by his classmate and suddenly, The door slid open, making Kaori fall on the ground in shock.
"Wha?!"
Fujino became very embarrassed and ran out of the room, Kousei had no idea what to do, that's when "KOUSEI! GIVE CHASE!" Kaori words made him chase after the embarrassed girl. Kaori was left in the room dumbfounded while Kousei gave chase while apologizing to his girlfriend in his heart.
Fujino ran until she reached the back of the gym store, Kousei soon caught up with her.
"Wait! Fujino-san!"
She stopped running and turned towards the boy with dark ocean blue eyes, looking at him seriously eye to eye. Hearts were pulsating and bloods were flowing. Embarrassment was at it's peak, but Fujino managed a conversation.
"Um… Arima-kun… can you um… forget about it?"
Kousei couldn't come up with a reply on the spot but he nodded to her. Kaori came up to the scene and was trying to drop in the conversation but Kousei spotted her, he walked up to her timidly but saw Kaori sobbing, Kousei was really angry at himself for letting this happen but Kaori suddenly embraced him and drew Kousei into a kiss. As they kissed, the regrets Kousei held dissipated and he only wanted to focus on the women he loved, they released the kiss and began to speak to each other.
"Kousei… I…"
Kousei immediately cuts the conversation and explained everything
"Kaori… listen to me. I do not love Fujino-san, I only like her as a friend but nothing more than that, the only one I love is you Kaori, You are irreplaceable in my heart and nothing will ever change that. "
"Kousei…"
" I will deal with this quickly and return to your side okay?"
"mmhmm…"
They kissed once again and Kousei decided in his heart. That it was his fault for letting everything be like this, if on that day he didn't make Fujino notice me, none of this would happen, as people always said, What goes around comes around and thus, he decided to end it all and return to his beloved side again.
Hey guys, proud to bring you all another chapter, this is getting interesting to write and this is for all of the readers, I will be having a 2 week hiatus to focus on exams, so yeah hope you all would forgive me and I will see you all in the next chapter, leave reviews on what do you think you want to happen in the next few chapters and maybe even favorite or follow this series, it is great motivate, I will be writing a bonus chapter based on what you guys want me to write, I will choose in the reviews so yeah hope people will participate and Merci… Till next time.
