"Where are you going?" Jiro asked Kuu as they just finished cleaning up the chairs that the audience used. Kuu was obviously trying to finish fast- and by the time he did, he was already splinting towards the exit.
"Nowhere! Believe me!" Kuu yelled and left the room while his smile was all over the place. Jiro and the other band members were surprised at how much lively Kuu was even after the tiring activities they did on the past days.
"Just ignore him. You know how he only sees sunshine and butterflies." Josef came out of nowhere and told Jiro that and made her just shrug off and approach the stage. They were supposed to practice their new song after ten minutes and Kuu decided to run for his life- which Josef did not even had a chance to protest. Josef sighed and left the music room.
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"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! THAT WON'T HAPPEN! YOU'RE LYING!"
A distant shout clamored into the halls of the school as the students started leaving the premises. It came from the fourth floor where the old music room was situated- and it was supposed to be empty-however, a number of people were there, and they were removing things away from it.
"I knew you'd go here Kota, you bastard." Josef said as he approached the crying Kuu- who looked like a little boy as he tried to stop the workers from removing the stuff from the room. "Ah, the renovation started already."
"Hey- did you know about this?" Kuu said and approached him- the happy-go-lucky expression was completely removed from his face. "I can tell from your expression that you knew. Why didn't you tell me?"
Josef wasn't able to answer. However- he intended not to tell Kuu that their sweet rendezvous was going to be a home to another club to protect his heart and to prevent the situation which was already taking place in front of him.
"Huh? Kota-kun. Hello, oh, hello, Josef-kun. Do you have any business here?" A familiar girl said.
"Yelda, why are you here?" Josef asked and tried to divert Kuu's attention- which was effective because he was crying again- trying to hug the workers. Yelda, Kuu and Josef were classmates at an elective.
"Yelda, help me- tell them to stop!" Kuu said as one of the workers tried to loosen his grip on his leg. However, Yelda just laughed at them.
"Sorry, it seems like this room is a very special place for you Kota-kun, however, the school gave this to the FIX club since no one was using it." Yelda said and the workers went off to have a break.
"Will they throw everything away- i-including the piano?" Kuu asked with a serious tone in his voice that was almost tyrannical, making Josef glance at him to see if he lost his cool.
[Ah, again.]
"Yes. It's such a waste. One of my members are really attached to that piano. She was too shocked the moment she knew that it'll be thrown away." Yelda replied and looked at the white piano. "We tried to negotiate to the school about having that piano stay here but they said it was too old and can never be fixed again- if it can, it would cost a lot. By the way, our meeting is going to start here soon. Don't you have somewhere to go?"
"Yeah. We need to go to the prac-tice…. se-ssion….."
Footsteps originated from the stairs made Josef stutter at his own words because the members of the club had all arrived- and as Yelda welcomed them, an interesting personality caught both of their attentions.
A girl whose hair covered her entire face.
Josef tried to not call the girl by her name and held Kuu's arms to prevent him from scaring her because he noticed that he was looking at her with his jaw dropped.
"Hey Kuu." He said and poked him as the girl went inside the music room and the others welcomed her. "Hey."
"What?" Kuu said and faced him, his face blushing intensely.
"eh?!"
"She's too beautiful- her peculiarity is beautiful." What Josef saw was a person's eyes who just saw the human he loved. Kuu knew that meeting her that way won't make her feel good at all because she kept her true self hidden from him and he respected that.
Akuji knew that he was present, but she tried not to glance at his way because somehow, she knew that the moment Kuu knew his secret, she will be hated intensely and she didn't want that to happen.
"Won't you at least approach her?" Josef asked Kuu who was starting to leave him behind.
"Why would I do that? She doesn't even know that I knew her secret- and you know what's funny? I saw her name plate." Kuu said and happily walked towards their practice room and got scolded afterwards for almost ditching practice.
"Are you, by any chance close friends with Camie?" Murase asked the two newbies- Suzuka and Shiro as they warmed up their voices.
"We're friends, sir." Shiro smiled.
"Is that so? How is she then?" Murase asked again and smiled as well.
"She's doing great sir!" Suzuka said. "But how did you know her?"
[So they didn't know]. Murase smiled. "I met her for the first time today and I think I can sense talent in her."
"Yep, right! Where is she?" Shiro asked Suzuka but they were suddenly called to practice and they completely rejected the question they threw at themselves.
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Sorry for the short update today! Here are the previews:
--> Camie's past
--> Murase's past
--> Akuji's past
--> The Announcement
--> The Selection of the Official Band
--> The Round one:Battle of the Bands