Overgrown Melody (In My Heart)

Rooftop Songs

I walked into the school grounds feeling embarrassed, not even noticing staring that plagued my very existence at the school. I began to wonder about whether Toya knew what music was. No wonder he seemed so uninterested, he is missing something pretty important in his life, huh? I want to share that with him... He definitely deserves to be happy.. Just to see him smile.. I want to share my passion with him! Ugh, you're so insufferable Akito! I began to run through the halls to clear my mind, a flush filling my face.

"Hey, douche bag! No running in the halls!" A girl with long black hair that faded into a blue, and strict amber eyes yelled at me. "An, don't be such a pushover." I said nonchalantly slightly smiling and narrowing my eyes. "Give me a break, I am the hall monitor, it's my job." she said with a pep in her step. It seemed she was just as energetic as usual, a real pain.. "Anyways you should get to class, no skipping you troublemaker!" She said in an effort to end the conversation. "Yeah, yeah.. Tell Ken I said hi~" I began to walk away but she put her hand on my shoulder to prevent my leaving. "What do you know about my father..? ...I barely know you... When.. How did a delinquent like you ever....?"

So, now even An doesn't remember who I am... Great. She looked concerned and on guard. "..Just keep his name out of your mouth..." She said letting me go. Despite the obvious negative feeling that this interaction gives me, it also opened my eyes to the first possible clue to this mystery. It seems that not even the closet people to me remember me... However Ena has some sort of disordered memory of me.. Maybe my memory has been replaced with that of someone else entirely? Not sure how's that even be possible, though I am sure of it.

Not only that, the people here don't seem to have any recollection of music, or anything to do with it. The missing radio in the car.. The strange reactions I get when I hum or make any kind of rhythmic noise. This is strange indeed.. I don't have a particular idea as to why this could be, however this is a sad world, that's for sure. I arrived to class and go to my seat after dealing with a nasty stare from the teacher. I go to my seat and lay my head down. Man I'm exhausted. I passed out.
I woke up myself to see that school was almost over, it seemed that no one, not even the teacher, spent the time to wake me up. I decided I need some fresh air to lighten up, and seeing that I was already extremely late to my last class, I headed toward the rooftop.

As I made my way up the steps, at appeared that there was no one at the top of the rooftop, seemingly leaving it all to myself. I walked towards the edge to get a good look at the view, and slightly smiled as the cool breeze came through my orange hair that shined like golden in the sunlight. This, if not ever inspired me to sing. The next part of the song just came to me.
I sighed of happiness.

"I am ambiguous and therefore sympathetic
My fearlessly sensory
Don't worry, don't worry, it's alright
Because I'll make you laugh
That's why I can give you a gift
Stay here in order to not disappear you know,
And then
"Please give me a reply too""

It felt good to bask in the sunshine and to sing a song, especially a song as important to me as this one. Of course, the lyrics stoped coming to me from there. "So it was you." A handsome voice said walking out from the shade in my direction. "Toya.! Uhm..tch" I was flustered as he just heard me sing a song.. that we made together... Of course he doesn't know that, but it's still embarrassing! "You were the one who helped my father escape then.. He described you as one with a talent of making words sound like an indescribable.. dream.. I didn't see what he meant until I heard it myself." Toya said as he walked closer to me.

"I also heard from An that you started talking about her father out of nowhere...What is your relation to our parents anyway? What do you know about my dad, why did you save him.?" I chuckled. Toya was just as curious as ever, it was cute. "Didn't you tell me to not talk to ya?" I said putting my arm around his shoulder. I felt like I could let loose a little around him. "Why are treating this like a joke..? And what was that thing you just did.. The sounds..?" Toya said backing away from me a tiny bit. "It's called singing... You manipulate your vocal cords to produce a certain sound." I described while putting my fingers on my neck where my vocal cords would be.

Toya seemed interested, interested enough to forget about his previous questions. Obviously he had his guard up as he didn't trust me, but I was melting in his presence, it's not like in all reality he had anything to worry about in regards to me. So, it was just cute to see him so worked up.. I couldn't say that to his face... I had a faint blush throughout our whole conversation. "Wanna try?" I asked, desperately hoping he'd say yes. "Err..." Toya seemed hesitant, as he had no reason to trust me. "Yeah...But only because I am interested."

"Okay tray saying the words "I am ambiguous and therefore sympathetic my fearlessly sensory".
He echoed me. No imagine there is a tapping sound you have to follow. Like this. I took a pencil from my bag and started drumming a simple rhythm on the floor of the rooftop. To Toya's silent amusement. "Try saying the words as if the vowels had to land on each tap of the pen. I'll give you the beat." I said sitting on the floor.

"Beat..? As in someone getting defeated?" I shook my head."No idiot! It's the string of sounds put together to help make the singing one does sound better, Just try it!" I begin to drum the rhythm again. "I am ... ambiguous and... therefore ... sympathetic my fearlessly ... sensory". I smiled. "It's like you're a natural! Now say the word huh" "huh." he echoed "Now say it again but as if you're questioning it." "huh." He averted his eyes as I grew closer to him. I grabbed his hand and placed it on his neck. "No when you're questioning something it'd be more like 'huh?' not 'huh'. Feel the vibrations of your voice as you go from saying 'huh.' and 'huh?'."

"Toya..? An told me you'd be up here... Are you busy..?" Kohane seemed to come over from her school to find Toya. "Oh yeah.. That reminds me.. You've been distracting me from the other questions haven't you..?" Toya pushed me away and walked over to Kohane, grabbing her waist to my dismay. She blushed... "This isn't over Akito." I couldn't stand to hear him say my name while holding someone else.. It was agonizing. I felt my very soul leave my body, and that sunshine faded away as clouds moved to cover it.