Traumatized

Chapter 18

IZUKU POV

"Damn did I forget anything?" I made my way down the street heading to Kyoka's house. I had my backpack on and my guitar in hand. I had woken up to a message from her saying I could come over whenever. Her parents were going to be out for the day but her mom said it was alright. The walk from her house to mine was nearly an hour by foot, but luckily the train made it a short fifteen minutes. As I slowly made my way up her driveway I looked around. I didn't realise how big her house was the last time I was here.I was too focused on trying to remember to breathe. As I approached the door I took a deep breath before knocking on the door. I stood there for a minute before she opened the door.

"Took you long enough." She gave me a smile as she motioned for me to come inside.

I took my shoes off as I walked in. "Yeah.. sorry about that."

"It's all good I'm just messing with you." She took my hand and led me upstairs. "Come on let's get started."

I found myself speechless as I looked around her room. "There are so many instruments in here." I looked along the walls before looking at her. "K..Kyoka how many of these can you play?"

She sat on her bed and crossed her legs as she began to think. "More or less but I prefer guitar and bass."

"Wow you're amazing." I looked at her in awe.

"Th..Thanks." A small blush came across her face as she tapped her jack together. "Well let's get started." She quickly grabbed a guitar before sitting back down on her bed.

I nodded as I grabbed my guitar and I sat on a stool. "So.. where should we start?"

"First you should do so finger warm ups. It will help with your flexibility in your finger and it makes switching chords easier. It's confusing at first but doing this daily will be a big help. First take your index finger and place it on the first fret on the first string and strum down. Then place your middle finger on the second fret of the same string and strum up. Then your ring finger on the third fret and strum down. And finally put your pinky on the fourth fret and strum down. Once you do those four move to the next string and repeat after you do all six strings slide each finger down a fret and do it till you run out of frets." She demonstrated the exercise as she explained it. Her fingers danced across the strings making it look as if it was second nature to her. "It's alright to take your time, don't rush. Just focus on making each note clean."

I nodded at her as I stared at the strings and slowly tried to copy what she did. I was much slower than her and my notes weren't as clean. I looked up at her to see her staring at my fingers. I looked back to my hand and continued with the exercise. After a minute I had reached the end and stopped. I let out a sigh and looked at her. "So how was that?"

She continued to look at my hand before looking back at me. "Not too bad for your first time. But now you're gonna do it again but start from the sixth string."

"S.. Seriously?" I looked at her confused.

"Does it look like i'm joking?" She looked at me with cold eyes.

I gulped as I looked back to the neck of the guitar before starting up the next part of the exercise. When I finished it I started to stretch my fingers. "Man why are my fingers so stiff?"

"Wow if they're already stiff we have a lot of work to do. That was just the first set of the warm up." She set her guitar down and stood up.

I looked at her confused. "Wh.. What do you mean the first set of the warm up?"

She leaned forward so we were face to face and gave me a devilish grin. "Well you still have two more sets of each for the first exercise then will move onto the next."