You Are Here side.A - Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso Fanfiction (Your Lie in April)

side.A-4: Your Lie

君がいる side.A (Kimi ga Iru side.A) | side.A-4: 君の嘘 (Kimi no Uso)

I opened the folded stationery and the piece of paper was filled with such familiar handwriting.

“Hey! You’re keeping your promise, right?”

To be doubted at the first line...

Oh, that’s right. You don’t really believe me.

“Just now, you were totally thinking of something rude, weren’t you?”

Why do you know that? An Esper?

“You are very predictable, that’s why!”

An Esper, just as I thought. But too bad, I’m properly keeping our promise.

“Well, whatever. You don’t have the nerve to break a promise with me anyway so I’ll continue.”

What a rude way to say that.

“First of all, Congratulations on being the overall champion! But if you didn’t win, sorry.”

You say that but I won’t know if you were glad to hear my performance or not.

“But I can tell that you did. After Maihou Competition, you’ve changed so much. With how you are right now, I know, for sure.”

Nope. I was totally a mess.

“That’s why let me say it. To you who did his best. Congratulations. Ah! But if you didn’t win, sorry. (lol)”

I bet you’re saying that on purpose.

“Now that’s done, I have some things that I want to tell you and to the others.”

And suddenly, her monologue started.

“You see, I… I lied to you.”

I read through.

“I wasn’t really a violinist. Not until I met with you once again. Then I became a violinist after that.”

That day, after I heard her performance, I looked up onto her past performances.

Such absurd and self-centered performance, the dynamics and the change paces were nothing like what was written in the score.

But even so, her performance, her timbre shone better than any other musician’s.

The sound was saying,

Look at me!

Besides, if you don’t hold such great technique, you won’t be able to do such a play. It will be just a performance. But for her, she had that ability. At least she had a great chance of getting through a competition.

That’s why I searched other information about her. In order to know who she really is.

But I couldn’t find anything.

Both in the winners and participants list, her name was nowhere.

“I was just an audience. And one of the people who was charmed by your performance. That’s why for you, I was just Audience A. After hearing you perform for the first time, I actually started with the piano.”

It’s no wonder I wasn’t able to find anything.

“Listening and watching alone was not enough for me. And above all, I became drawn to you. I became a pianist while thinking of how your sound is similar to a heartbeat, stiff and impeccable, a sound that made my feelings almost dance.