Allegro- (Your Lie In April)

Chapter 4- Connections lost

In a random street in Tosuhura city.

He walked along the streets, his body swung in one confident motion after the other. 'If I all goes according to plan, he'll be attending one of the greatest music schools in the world, under my supervision.'

Marvin Bludsworth was the head principal at the Orange County School of the Arts program overseas in California. A man of tall stature with a bald head, wearing a black suit with an orange tie. He was one his way to the boy's house who caught his attention from the States. Davis and Rhodes were not the only ones who had been touched by Arima's playing. Marvin saw the Arima boy perform and knew he had to have him. OCSA bested any school here in Japan and would easily provide Kousei with everything he would need to go professional in the piano. He held in his arm a suitcase with all the proper registration forms and documents. Everything he needed to convince Kousei Arima to join him at OCSA. There would be absolutely no issues, or so he thought.

"That kid's, I mean Arima's house has to be nearby right? We followed the directions the GPA said to follow." It was Dr. Rhodes speaking to Davis.

"It can't be that much farther. We'll keep on going this road, and then if all else fails we can ask for help."

This caught the attention of Bludsworth, who was a few feet behind. He spoke up, "Excuse me," the two doctors turned to look back at him, "you say you're looking for the Arima residence?"

They turned to look back at him, confused. Davis replied, "Um- yes? You know the way?" They were all confused at the sight of other Americans.

"Yes, I see you two are from the U.S. as well. I am Marvin Bludsworth, principal at Orange County School of the Arts, and you two are?"

Rhodes answered him first, "I am Alicia Rhodes, and this is my assistant, Dr. Luciano Davis."

Davis greeted him, offering him a hand, "How do you do?" They were all shocked by each other's names, for all of them were from the same area, Bludsworth realized this and began to talk again.

"Oh you two are from the Santa Ana area?"

"Yes, Dr. Rhodes is a surgeon and I am a head researcher at one of the disease centers in the city."

"Well it's nice to see some familiar faces. I am also on my way to the Arima residence on behalf of the school to recruit him," stated Bludsworth.

"Oh really," Rhodes said smiling, "that kid has an enormous amount of talent. We just performed surgery on one his friends." It got quiet, as Bludsworth had no idea about this and didn't know of whether to congratulate them or not.

"She survived, before it gets too depressing," chuckled Davis, "we were able to perform a 12 hour operation that was the first of its kind."

Bludsworth smiled, congratulating them. "So what are you two looking to find at his house?"

"We were hoping his other friend, Watari Ryota, would be there as the patient requested we personally bring the news of her surgery's success to him, and she figured he would be Arima's house." replied Rhodes.

"Well that makes sense, follow me, I drove through here the other day so it's not a problem to show you two the way."

"Thank you," the two doctors said in unison.

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Back at Kousei's house

The three teenagers were all still fast asleep. It was nearly 11 in the morning and none of them had stirred once. Hiroko and Koharu were in the kitchen, cleaning up the mess from the night and putting up the bottles.