'Play a song that no one has heard before.'
What kind of song is that?
If someone has never heard classical songs, then that person will never know classical songs, but classical fans will know classical music. Likewise, if a classic person has never listened to a pop song, even a modern pop song famous to the world would not even be known to that person.
Now Mr. Declan Black asked her to play a song that no one else has heard?
"Uhm… can you be more specific? What kind of song do you mean? Classic, jass, contemporary, modern pop?"
"Any song as long as no one has heard of it." was the flat answer from the expressionless professor.
Kaylee sighed, thinking about the list of less popular songs. Even though Declan told her to play a song that no one else has heard, it doesn't mean that man knows all the songs in this world, right?
Kaylee just needs to play a song Declan has never heard of!
"I'm going to play Bach's Prelude and Fugue in B flat."
"I've heard of it."
She knew it! Declan did want her to play a song the man had never heard of.
"Chopin's piano concerto?"
"Ever been."
"Rhapsody in Spain by Malachy."
"A boring song. Think again."
Kaylee bit her lip then thought of a song she was sure Declan wouldn't know.
"What about Require to Kill? I'm pretty sure you've never heard of it."
The corners of Declan's lips twitched at the confident tone of the young man before him. Plus, he didn't expect a child as young as Nicholas to know this dark-themed song.
"Bad news for you, Larson. I've heard it so many times it makes me bored."
"What? Impossible."
"That was Black Moon's first musical piece for some movie's soundtrack. Now, think again."
Kaylee stared in disbelief at this. How could Declan know that Require to Kill was created by Black Moon? And that, too, the man knew it was Black Moon's first musical piece. Kaylee even did not know about that.
More importantly, how could Declan knew such an unpopular song to the point that almost no one would recognize the song.
"H... how do you know that it was Black Moon who created it?" Kaylee was sure that no one has ever heard this song.
This song was played as a movie's soundtrack in a cinema once, but the movie received such negative criticism that they had to stop it. As a result, all the music that became the film's soundtrack disappeared and was no longer played on radio shows or anywhere else.
Even though the movie was not that good… er… it was very bad because, according to Kaylee, there were too many scenes that were not appropriate to be shown to the public, but the soundtrack song entitled Require to Kill impressed Kaylee.
Because of this song, Kaylee began looking for the creator's name, who turned out to be Black Moon. Since then, Kaylee has followed and purchased all of Black Moon's albums and has become that guy's number one fan.
Apart from songs that the public has forgotten, Black Moon's other songs have become famous and are Kaylee's favorite songs.
Unfortunately, Black Moon did not prioritize his career as a songwriter, so the album he released was still only around two to three albums.
Nonetheless, as soon as Black Moon released the album, the album's songs hit number one in the country for an entire year.
"How do I know the song is not essential. It looks like you don't have any more songs available. That means you will change classes to Mr. Harvey starting today."
"Wait a minute. What does this have to do with my ability to play the piano and play songs that no one has ever heard? Isn't this unfair? You could not impose my desire to enter guitar class, let alone change classes."
Declan felt his patience is running out because he wasted his precious time bickering with this young man. He looked at 'Nick' with a cold gaze and did not hide his obvious displeasure at all.
Kaylee swallowed nervously and immediately felt regretful. Because she felt used to her role as Nick, Kaylee wasn't aware that she consciously convey her feelings through her voice.
Now, this scary person was looking at her with an annoyed and cold gaze.
"Mister Larson, I'm sure you already know our assessment standards when you enter this campus. We will not allow students who do not intend to develop their true potentials to slack off. We think you have more potential to play the piano than the guitar. That's why Mr. Harvey wants you in his class. If only you could prove you can play guitar well, then we won't force you. But you could not. Now, if you want to stay at the guitar class, can you guarantee it you will get the best grades on it?"
Kaylee clenched her hands on both sides with a pounding heart. The man asked her for guarantees which she could never give.
She was a piano player and not a guitarist, but the real Nick was a guitarist. A genius one.
Until whenever Kaylee would never be able to get the guitar class scores as best as in piano class. Unless she practiced guitar for ten hours every day on holidays like when she used to practice the piano, she might reach it.
But she had no time to practice, and there was no way she would change class in risk her undercovers would be exposed.
Or… maybe there is another way to get her out of this problem.
"If... I play a song that no one else has heard, am I allowed to stay in guitar class?"
Declan nodded his head in answer to her question.
"Okay. I will play this song. "
"What is the title?"
"There is no title. This song was never played anywhere."
Kaylee has one more song… her own music. The first song she composed when she was in high school.
She never showed it to her family nor Wendy and Nick. At that time, she felt ashamed and did not dare to play her first song publicly. She was afraid that people would criticize her and insult her song because she thought the music she composed was horrible.
That was why Kaylee never continued the song or improved it. All she did was bury the composition and compose a new piece. Since then, she had never played that lousy song, and she was absolutely sure Declan had never heard this song.
Kaylee walked over to the black piano and sat on the piano chair in a relaxed manner.
Then…