The Dreamer

THIRTY-ONE - Music Teacher

I attended my afternoon class and had a talk with Taeyeon and Boyoung. They were both scolding me why I ditched our morning classes so I just told them I stayed in the library the whole time.

"Shin-ah, it still hurts," Taeyeon started again. "Why does it still hurt that much?"

I patted her back and whispered, "Everything will be okay. In God's timing, you will be healed."

Boyoung looked at me like I just said something impossible.

"I never knew you believe in God," she remarked.

"Ya,"

"Kidding."

So there, we sat together, listened to our teachers and waited for 5:30pm before we walked home. I'm planning to open up something to them, but I forgot about it. What's happened today was already too much to bear so I guess, I'll just do it tomorrow.

When I returned home, I was surprised to see Yoongi...

... Sleeping on the floor.

"Ya! What are you doing here?!" I asked as loud as I could but still, he wasn't waking up.

"Ya!" I shouted again. "You have no ri---- ya!"

"Even in my sleep, you're still childish," he said as he covered my mouth. His eyes still closed. My heart is going crazy. How dare he doing this to me now?!

"Why are you still talking to that Luhan guy? He'd done so much to hurt you and there, looks like you're biting at him again."

"Why do you care? You don't even own me in the first place."

His eyes fluttered open and looked at me fiercely. He got up on the floor and sat in the chair instead like a B O S S.

"The day you went in the office, what do you need?" he suddenly asked out of the blue.

"I want to thank you for saving me again."

"The day you saw me in the cafeteria, what do you wanted to ask?"

"I want to ask if I'm important to you."

"The day you wore the button I gave you as a necklace, why did you do that?"

"To receive a positive answer from you."

"And what kind of answer do you want?"

"Dream with me."

He looked up to me with the same mischievous eyes, and threw me a pillow. Now, am I dreaming? Is he really here in front of me?

As soon as the pillow landed on my face...

"Miss Cardinal! Did you have a nice sleep?" our teacher suddenly asked. Shit shit shit. Why did I fall asleep in the middle of our Music class?

I stood up and answered her, "Yes, Ma'am. I had a nice sleep. Thank you for not waking me up."

I saw the suprise in her eyes which made my classmates laughed so hard. I looked at Taeyeon and Boyoung. They were hiding their faces from embarrassment.

"What did you say?!"

"I'm sorry Ma'am if you got offended but I am just giving you an honest answer here," I replied back. "Do you still have some questions, Ma'am?"

She looked at me from head to toe, from toe to head and exhaled before asking me a question.

"Could you share something that is in relation to our topic for today?" she challenged. I looked at the board and there, I read Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven, etc.,

So there, we're discussing about these pianists which have interesting pieces but I fell asleep. Someone tell me who is at fault? My teacher? Yes, my teacher.

"Miss Cardinal?"

"I... just wanna share that, when I was 5 years old, my cousin taught me on how to play a piano. The first piece I have learned was the chorus of 'Love Is All That Matters'. I have loved that song since then because it sounds good in the piano. That's when I became interested in learning it. Sadly, I couldn't because we left Philippines that day. I reached elementary still pondering about learning that instrument. We had no piano at home so what did I do is just, I searched some pianists in the internet and read the biography of Cecile Licad. I printed it and read it many times. She is a famous classical pianist, also known as the 'pianist's pianist' and received several recognitions. She is a great inspiration to others who pursue to play piano."

"So how about Mozart, Chopin and Beethoven? Haven't you read their biographies?" she queried.

"I started searching in Asian countries that's why I have no idea about those people until I met someone who knows them very well," I answered as honest as I could.

"Very well? Better than I? Your teacher?"

"I didn't say that."

"Get out of my class! Now!"

I sat down in my chair and decided to stay inside of the class. Why would I leave when I payed my tuition and miscellaneous fees for the whole fucking school year?

"What are you waiting for?! Didn't you hear me?!"

"I heard you, Ma'am. It's just that you still have 10 minutes before I get out of your class, 10 minutes to learn something from you, and 10 minutes to watch my safety. I don't want to waste my 10 minutes of knowledge just because my teacher misinterpreted what I've answered. Overall, I'm waiting for you to end up the class."

"You!"

"I guess you need now to wrap up what we have discussed for today, Ma'am."

Our Music teacher wrapped up her things instead and left our classroom.