vivien
06-06-2010, 08:48 AM
First attempt to write a story...
Please bear with some wrong grammatical errors...
but still~hope you like it.... :bow:
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CHAPTER 1: THE BEGINNING, THE BOY AND THE UNEXPECTED EVENT
My father drove me to my new school with a happy expression. He was happy that I agreed to go to school. It was a sunny day in Tokyo, Japan. Last week, we arrived here in Japan – an island nation in East Asia and which is currently governed by monarchs under His Imperial Majesty Emperor Akihito.
As the car stopped for a red light, I enjoyed the sight of workers who hurriedly crossed the street to go in their respective job destinations.
After an hour, we had arrived in my new school, the Tokyo Music Academy. It is a school for students who want to study music and different musical instruments. I decided to study the piano.
My dad got off the car and kissed me in the forehead.
“Valerie” My dad said to me before I entered the school premises. “Good luck, Honey…Have fun in your new school!”
“Yes dad, I will”
I lied. I had always been lying in dad about this. My dad is a traveling agent. We always moved in different countries and places due to his work. Well…I must say that I’m used to it but I haven’t made friends because of this fact. So…I became a loner. And now, in this new school, I think I will be a sore loser again.
“Dad, I will go now. You will be late in your new job too. Don’t worry about me okay?”
“Okay, Honey…Take care!” He kissed my forehead again and rushed to the car.
“Oh well, Good luck to me…” I murmured and walked in to the path leading to the school building.
Dressing a red velvet blouse, blue jeans and rubber shoes; I felt like I’m not wearing the proper attire in the school. I just saw girls wearing skirts, high heels and dresses and for the boys; long-sleeves, khaki pants and leather shoes. “They were so formal! What is this school all about?”
I arrived at my classroom, Room 206 [Piano Section]. “Here it goes!”
As I entered the classroom, I saw two girls chatting in their respective seats in the left side of the room. Three boys; also chatting and standing near the professor’s table and a boy who was asleep in the last desk at the back of the room. I thought that I may be too early for the class that’s why there were fewer classmates that I had seen.
I decided to sit one seat away from the boy who was asleep. Observing the boy beside me, he wears a brown long sleeve that was rolled up, black jeans and a pair of rubber shoes. [Guess there is a person here that fits with my attire]
A book was beside him in the table. Wanting to know what was the book about; I carefully walked towards him. The book is entitled “CHOPIN”. It is a well-covered thick book but scanning through the pages, you can say that it is an old book because of the evidence of stains and folds.
As I scan halfway, I found a picture inserted in one of the pages. It was a picture of a girl wearing a pink flowered kimono holding hands with a boy wearing a blue striped kimono. They wear cute happy faces and seem that they were in a festival. “Maybe these were his siblings….”
As I inserted the picture back and thinking to return the book; the boy woke up and noticed that his book was with me. I was startled and hurriedly placed the book to its original place.
“I-I-I’m sorry! I touch your book without your permission” I apologized.
He sighed. “Next time, ask permission before you want to borrow something that is not yours, okay?” he said with a serious face.
“Ye-Yes!” I rushed to my seat and bow my head. I heard my heart beating so loud. I was so embarrassed of what I had done.
The class went on by and it was time for meeting our permanent piano teachers. I was assigned by a Mr. Takashi Haruma. I heard he was a kind-hearted teacher but strict in terms of piano. As I was about to leave the room, a girl bumped me; resulting my books to be scattered on the floor.
“Oh! I’m really sorry!” the girl said as she helped me pick up my books.
“It’s okay” I said and put some of my books at my bag. “Are you hurt?”
“No! I’m okay…I’m really sorry…I was so careless! How I can repay you of what I have done?” she said with teary eyes.
I laughed.
“I’m sorry for laughing…you really got me there! No need to repay me…I was relieved that you didn’t got mad when we bumped to each other”
She smiled. She’s cute when she smiled.
“Uhm…I’m Aya Himori…Nice to meet you—?”
“Ahh…Reiko! Reiko Kawashima. You can also call me Valerie. That’s my American name.” I said as we began to walk.
“American name? Are you a half?”
“Well, no I’m not. But we lived in America for many years. My dad and my mom are pure Japanese. I was born here also”
“Ahhh…I get it now. Well, as we are in Japan…I will call you Reiko-chan.”
At that time, I was really glad. Aya was my first friend in that school. She was shorter than me and she was a cute girl with glasses. We talked a lot of things about ourselves until the time we arrived in our respective practice rooms.
The happy expression of my face was turned into chaotic expression. The boy who I had encountered earlier was in the practice room that I was supposed to be in also.
“What is this? What am I going to do?” I complained while looking at him at the glass pane outside the window. I sat down, leaning my body to the door, thinking of what to do. Suddenly, the door opened and the boy looked at me.
“Why are you sitting there?” he asked.
“Uhm…” I stood up. “This is the assigned room for me. But…when I saw you, I thought that I am mistaken. I’m sorry!” I bowed and walked away.
“Wait!” he shouted. “Come here!” he waved his hands signing to let me in the room.
I followed his command and got in. I sat down and observed the room. The room was big with 2 pianos. As for the boy, he just sat quietly in the corner, reading his book. It was so silent. None of us make even a small sound.
Breaking the silence, I decided to try playing the piano. It was been 8 years since the last time I had touch a piano. I sat in the wooden chair and started playing the piece “Canon in D major” by Pachelbel. It was my favorite piano piece. Hearing the music, the beautiful notes emerged in my senses and I reminisced the time when my mom was alive.
I didn’t notice that my tears flow from my eyes. I forgot about the boy at my back. It was just only me and the piano. And just as the piece ended, the boy stood up and offered me a handkerchief.
I accepted the handkerchief. “Thank you...but-I’m really sorry! I just directly play the piano.” I said while wiping my tears.
“No…it’s okay. You play a beautiful piece. But somehow it made you cry.”
“Ah, yes. ‘Canon in D major’ was the first piano piece that my mother taught me. But she died when I was 8 years old.”
“Oh…I’m sorry for bringing this up” he said with a sad expression.
“It’s okay. Uhm…Thank you for the handkerchief and also for listening about my boring life story.” I said as I handed him the handkerchief.
“It’s fine…” He took the handkerchief and smiled.
I smiled back. “Well, he’s not a bad guy after all.”
After that, the door suddenly opened and there came our piano teacher.
“I’m really sorry for being late guys. Ah! ...you are…Reiko Kawashima and Keito Mitsukuni, right?”
“Yes!” we both said.
[“Keito Mitsukuni…his name is Keito.”]
Hours passed and school had ended. I walked with Aya going to the school gate. We slowed our pace in order for us to chat longer.
“Reiko…is your piano partner a boy or a girl?” Aya asked.
“Well…he is a boy. His name is Keito Mitsukuni. At first, I really had a bad impression of him. I thought of him as an unsociable and serious guy. But when I talked to him in the practice room, I realized that he was a charming and a good guy.” I answered.
“Oh…that’s good! Well, I had known Keito when I was in middle school. We’re classmates. But I hadn’t really grasped his true personality. He just talked to a person if it was important and most of his day, he just spent it in reading. Mmm...He has some mysterious side.”
“Hmm…Really…” I replied as I looked at my feet while walking.
“Ne~Reiko…are you interested in him?”
“WHO?? Keito?! N-NO I’m not!” I blushed and didn’t know why.
Aya laughed. “Ooohh…is that so? Oh well, just tell me who are you interested with, okay?”
We realized that we had arrived in the school gate. “Uhmm…I’m going to the east direction. How about you?” I asked Aya.
“My house is at north. Oh well, we must separate in here. So bye bye, Reiko-chan! See you tomorrow!” she waved as she as she crossed the street.
“Bye Aya-chan! See you tomorrow too!” I waved at her. And then, I started to walk going to the bus station.
As the bus arrived at the bus stop near my house, I alighted on it and walked going to our temporary home. But as I walked for a few meters, I noticed a guy who was walking ahead of me.
Judging by the man’s appearance, I’m sure that it was Keito. The brown long-sleeve, the black jeans and the thick book; no doubt it was really him.
“What is Keito doing here? Ahh! Don’t tell me…we’re neighbors?!!” I mumbled.
Because of this thought, I decided to follow his trail going to his house. It has the same route to my apartment. But as we had arrived on an intersection, he turned right (the road going to my house is at the left).
“Ohh…guess we’re not neighbors after all…but…better know where his house is” I decided to be a stalker and followed him. After a few minutes, Keito entered a small store house.
“What is he doing in there? Is that---his house?” Judging from the looks of the house, it was just like a four-walled room with a roof in it.
But as when I decided to go and confirm it from Keito, a girl came out from the store house and I was stunned.
“WHHHAAATTTT????”
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end of chapter 1
please leave comments and suggestions : http://otaku-streamers.com/community/showthread.php?4607-Musique-de-Redevance-Reviews-and-Comments&p=83293#post83293
thanks : )
Please bear with some wrong grammatical errors...
but still~hope you like it.... :bow:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
CHAPTER 1: THE BEGINNING, THE BOY AND THE UNEXPECTED EVENT
My father drove me to my new school with a happy expression. He was happy that I agreed to go to school. It was a sunny day in Tokyo, Japan. Last week, we arrived here in Japan – an island nation in East Asia and which is currently governed by monarchs under His Imperial Majesty Emperor Akihito.
As the car stopped for a red light, I enjoyed the sight of workers who hurriedly crossed the street to go in their respective job destinations.
After an hour, we had arrived in my new school, the Tokyo Music Academy. It is a school for students who want to study music and different musical instruments. I decided to study the piano.
My dad got off the car and kissed me in the forehead.
“Valerie” My dad said to me before I entered the school premises. “Good luck, Honey…Have fun in your new school!”
“Yes dad, I will”
I lied. I had always been lying in dad about this. My dad is a traveling agent. We always moved in different countries and places due to his work. Well…I must say that I’m used to it but I haven’t made friends because of this fact. So…I became a loner. And now, in this new school, I think I will be a sore loser again.
“Dad, I will go now. You will be late in your new job too. Don’t worry about me okay?”
“Okay, Honey…Take care!” He kissed my forehead again and rushed to the car.
“Oh well, Good luck to me…” I murmured and walked in to the path leading to the school building.
Dressing a red velvet blouse, blue jeans and rubber shoes; I felt like I’m not wearing the proper attire in the school. I just saw girls wearing skirts, high heels and dresses and for the boys; long-sleeves, khaki pants and leather shoes. “They were so formal! What is this school all about?”
I arrived at my classroom, Room 206 [Piano Section]. “Here it goes!”
As I entered the classroom, I saw two girls chatting in their respective seats in the left side of the room. Three boys; also chatting and standing near the professor’s table and a boy who was asleep in the last desk at the back of the room. I thought that I may be too early for the class that’s why there were fewer classmates that I had seen.
I decided to sit one seat away from the boy who was asleep. Observing the boy beside me, he wears a brown long sleeve that was rolled up, black jeans and a pair of rubber shoes. [Guess there is a person here that fits with my attire]
A book was beside him in the table. Wanting to know what was the book about; I carefully walked towards him. The book is entitled “CHOPIN”. It is a well-covered thick book but scanning through the pages, you can say that it is an old book because of the evidence of stains and folds.
As I scan halfway, I found a picture inserted in one of the pages. It was a picture of a girl wearing a pink flowered kimono holding hands with a boy wearing a blue striped kimono. They wear cute happy faces and seem that they were in a festival. “Maybe these were his siblings….”
As I inserted the picture back and thinking to return the book; the boy woke up and noticed that his book was with me. I was startled and hurriedly placed the book to its original place.
“I-I-I’m sorry! I touch your book without your permission” I apologized.
He sighed. “Next time, ask permission before you want to borrow something that is not yours, okay?” he said with a serious face.
“Ye-Yes!” I rushed to my seat and bow my head. I heard my heart beating so loud. I was so embarrassed of what I had done.
The class went on by and it was time for meeting our permanent piano teachers. I was assigned by a Mr. Takashi Haruma. I heard he was a kind-hearted teacher but strict in terms of piano. As I was about to leave the room, a girl bumped me; resulting my books to be scattered on the floor.
“Oh! I’m really sorry!” the girl said as she helped me pick up my books.
“It’s okay” I said and put some of my books at my bag. “Are you hurt?”
“No! I’m okay…I’m really sorry…I was so careless! How I can repay you of what I have done?” she said with teary eyes.
I laughed.
“I’m sorry for laughing…you really got me there! No need to repay me…I was relieved that you didn’t got mad when we bumped to each other”
She smiled. She’s cute when she smiled.
“Uhm…I’m Aya Himori…Nice to meet you—?”
“Ahh…Reiko! Reiko Kawashima. You can also call me Valerie. That’s my American name.” I said as we began to walk.
“American name? Are you a half?”
“Well, no I’m not. But we lived in America for many years. My dad and my mom are pure Japanese. I was born here also”
“Ahhh…I get it now. Well, as we are in Japan…I will call you Reiko-chan.”
At that time, I was really glad. Aya was my first friend in that school. She was shorter than me and she was a cute girl with glasses. We talked a lot of things about ourselves until the time we arrived in our respective practice rooms.
The happy expression of my face was turned into chaotic expression. The boy who I had encountered earlier was in the practice room that I was supposed to be in also.
“What is this? What am I going to do?” I complained while looking at him at the glass pane outside the window. I sat down, leaning my body to the door, thinking of what to do. Suddenly, the door opened and the boy looked at me.
“Why are you sitting there?” he asked.
“Uhm…” I stood up. “This is the assigned room for me. But…when I saw you, I thought that I am mistaken. I’m sorry!” I bowed and walked away.
“Wait!” he shouted. “Come here!” he waved his hands signing to let me in the room.
I followed his command and got in. I sat down and observed the room. The room was big with 2 pianos. As for the boy, he just sat quietly in the corner, reading his book. It was so silent. None of us make even a small sound.
Breaking the silence, I decided to try playing the piano. It was been 8 years since the last time I had touch a piano. I sat in the wooden chair and started playing the piece “Canon in D major” by Pachelbel. It was my favorite piano piece. Hearing the music, the beautiful notes emerged in my senses and I reminisced the time when my mom was alive.
I didn’t notice that my tears flow from my eyes. I forgot about the boy at my back. It was just only me and the piano. And just as the piece ended, the boy stood up and offered me a handkerchief.
I accepted the handkerchief. “Thank you...but-I’m really sorry! I just directly play the piano.” I said while wiping my tears.
“No…it’s okay. You play a beautiful piece. But somehow it made you cry.”
“Ah, yes. ‘Canon in D major’ was the first piano piece that my mother taught me. But she died when I was 8 years old.”
“Oh…I’m sorry for bringing this up” he said with a sad expression.
“It’s okay. Uhm…Thank you for the handkerchief and also for listening about my boring life story.” I said as I handed him the handkerchief.
“It’s fine…” He took the handkerchief and smiled.
I smiled back. “Well, he’s not a bad guy after all.”
After that, the door suddenly opened and there came our piano teacher.
“I’m really sorry for being late guys. Ah! ...you are…Reiko Kawashima and Keito Mitsukuni, right?”
“Yes!” we both said.
[“Keito Mitsukuni…his name is Keito.”]
Hours passed and school had ended. I walked with Aya going to the school gate. We slowed our pace in order for us to chat longer.
“Reiko…is your piano partner a boy or a girl?” Aya asked.
“Well…he is a boy. His name is Keito Mitsukuni. At first, I really had a bad impression of him. I thought of him as an unsociable and serious guy. But when I talked to him in the practice room, I realized that he was a charming and a good guy.” I answered.
“Oh…that’s good! Well, I had known Keito when I was in middle school. We’re classmates. But I hadn’t really grasped his true personality. He just talked to a person if it was important and most of his day, he just spent it in reading. Mmm...He has some mysterious side.”
“Hmm…Really…” I replied as I looked at my feet while walking.
“Ne~Reiko…are you interested in him?”
“WHO?? Keito?! N-NO I’m not!” I blushed and didn’t know why.
Aya laughed. “Ooohh…is that so? Oh well, just tell me who are you interested with, okay?”
We realized that we had arrived in the school gate. “Uhmm…I’m going to the east direction. How about you?” I asked Aya.
“My house is at north. Oh well, we must separate in here. So bye bye, Reiko-chan! See you tomorrow!” she waved as she as she crossed the street.
“Bye Aya-chan! See you tomorrow too!” I waved at her. And then, I started to walk going to the bus station.
As the bus arrived at the bus stop near my house, I alighted on it and walked going to our temporary home. But as I walked for a few meters, I noticed a guy who was walking ahead of me.
Judging by the man’s appearance, I’m sure that it was Keito. The brown long-sleeve, the black jeans and the thick book; no doubt it was really him.
“What is Keito doing here? Ahh! Don’t tell me…we’re neighbors?!!” I mumbled.
Because of this thought, I decided to follow his trail going to his house. It has the same route to my apartment. But as we had arrived on an intersection, he turned right (the road going to my house is at the left).
“Ohh…guess we’re not neighbors after all…but…better know where his house is” I decided to be a stalker and followed him. After a few minutes, Keito entered a small store house.
“What is he doing in there? Is that---his house?” Judging from the looks of the house, it was just like a four-walled room with a roof in it.
But as when I decided to go and confirm it from Keito, a girl came out from the store house and I was stunned.
“WHHHAAATTTT????”
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
end of chapter 1
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thanks : )