Hannah wasn't looking forward to her first lesson for the piano. Her friend, Rain Jones, said there was only her and one other person taking the class. Rain never mentioned who it was.

So, almost zombie like, she entered the room where the lesson took place and the first thing she saw was Gabriel Silk practicing scales on a piano that was set up by the window. Hannah remembered that Gabriel was Abagail's crush. This was going to be fun.

Gabriel looked up from the music in front of him and saw Hannah. "Oh, are you the new girl in this class?"

Hannah nodded and sat down at the second piano placed by the door. "So, where's the teacher?"

"He'll be here soon. He's always late," Gabriel explained.

"Rain never said that," Hannah grumbled. She just wanted for class to be done, and since the teacher was late, he was most likely scatter brained and this lesson would go on for a while.

"Sorry I'm late," A tall man entered the room and sat down next to Gabriel. He ordered Gabriel to start working on a piece of music he just handed him, not paying any attention to Hannah.

It took the teacher about a half hour to realize Hannah was in the room. "Oh!" He gasped when he noted her sitting at the second piano. "I'm sorry, Ms. Daily, I'm so used to having just one student." He hurried over to sit by Hannah and put a piece of music in front of her. It would have looked complicated to most people, but to Hannah, it was easy. She breezed through it. "Very good Ms. Daily. I see you don't need my help. Lesson is over!" And he left the room.

"You're very good," Gabriel told her as she packed up her stuff.

"Thanks, you're good to," She told him.

"How long have you been playing?"

"As long as I can remember. My mom had me behind the piano the day I was born, according to my sister, Abagail."

"That's a long time," Gabriel gathered his stuff and hurried to catch up with Hannah as she left the room.

"I guess." Hannah looked up to see Fidelio Gunn walking with Abagail. Why were they walking together? Fidelio was holding a violin case, while Abagail played guitar. Hannah would have to ask her later.

Abagail skipped into her guitar class and was greeted by a group of students who all had guitars. One of them was Rain, her new friend.

Abagail sat next to her just as the teacher strolled in.

"Good morning, class," She greeted them and put them to work. First they practiced scales, then a couple songs.

The teacher ended class early because she said they sounded so good. While Abagail was leaving, the teacher caught her arm. "You have talent, Ms. Daily."

"Thank you," Abagail blushed. She didn't think she was all that good.

"It was a pleasure having you in class today."

"Okay," Abagail hurried out of the room and ran into someone. She looked up to see Fidelio Gunn, Hannah's crush. "Sorry!" she apologized and helped him up.

"No, it's okay." Fidelio assured.

They walked down the hall together and talked until Abagail looked up to see Hannah looking at her while standing by Gabriel. They must have had the same class. It wouldn't be hard for Abagail to figure things out about Gabriel if that was the case. All it took was a little sister who would do anything for you.

Tancred spotted Emma sketching away later that day. He approached her and looked over her shoulder at the beautiful drawing of a tollroc, Emma's favorite bird, one that she made up herself.

"Hey, Em. That looks really good." He said, startling Emma.

"Oh, Tancred," She turned around and smiled at him. "Thanks. I've done better though, and you've seen it,"

Tancred nodded. "I guess."

"So, how's that sculpture of your coming along?" Emma wondered. She had heard Tancred blabbing on and on about a sculpture of a knight he'd been working on for the past week.

"Oh, it's fabulous! I've finally finished the armor. You should come see it some time." Tancred told her.

"I do that later. I have work to do now," she promised and put her pencil back to the paper.

"Okay, bye, Emma." Tancred stood and hurried over to the paints so he could find some red paint for his sculpture.

"Charlie, hey!" Olivia called to Charlie when she saw him in the hall.

"Hi, Olivia." Charlie blushed. "Why are you in the music department?"

"Oh, I'm here to talk to some of the music teachers about the play musical we're putting on at the end of the term. It's a very big production." Olivia explained. "I'm waiting for Ms. Johnson to call me in so we can talk about the background music. I'm in charge of it all because I'm the lead."

"Oh, well, Olivia, I have to tell you something." Charlie told her.

"Okay, what?"

Charlie took a deep breath and was about to say what was on his mind when Ms. Johnson called for Olivia.

"You can tell me later, Charlie," She promised and hurried inside the classroom.

There's a little twist I have in mind for the story and it will show in the next chapter, hopefully. please review.

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