Enjoy Things While We Can

Kokomi's hardwork

"Kokomi! Come here and help me out with the juke box!," Beyond yelled.

"But I need to finish sorting the records!," Kokomi protested.

"You can do it later! A client's gonna consider buying it, so we need to make it look like a million bucks," Beyond explained as he walks out of the back room with a wet cloth in hand.

"You're saying bucks like our currency doesn't exist. We use 'ringgit' Beyond, 'RINGGIT'," Kokomi explained.

"Yeah I know that, I'm just making it sound expensive," Beyond stated.

Kokomi sighed and got up from her kneeling position and proceeded towards the back room. Santoro's Music Store was understaffed, so Kokomi had to cover a lot of shifts. The store was filled to the brim with all kinds of music records, DVDs, and posters galore. Mostly classics, of course.

'He's lucky I'm working for the money because I really need the extra cash to continue studying' Kokomi thought as she began polishing the juke box.

A male figure walked into the backroom and gave a slight nod to Kokomi who nodded back. The figure proceeded to sit by the drum set that was near the back wall and pulled out his drum sticks from the satchel he carried in.

"Are they tuned, Simon?," Kokomi inquired as she continued to polish the old juke box.

Simon positioned himself properly and began stepping on the bass drum. Whilst the bass drum is in beat, he began hitting the snare drum with his left drumstick in one beat and his right drumstick hit the hi-hat cymbal in a faster beat. The beats he produced; the crashing from the hi-hat to the low boom of the bass all lined up in one tempo in sync.

He then stopped and turned towards Kokomi.

"Yep, the tune is on point," Simon said.

Kokomi nodded and then continued on working.

After she's done, it's time to prepare for the evening because a special chance awaits in the basement of the store.

"Are you studying hard or hardly studying, Koko?," Beyond asked.

"I wouldn't be helping you if I was barely studying. I'll already be kicked out from Uni if I failed," Kokomi remarked as she polished her blue bass guitar.

Santoro's Music Store will be having a jam session in their underground live house. Of course, not many know of this, so only a few tickets were sold.

"You're singing tonight, right?," Simon, their drummer, asked.

"You bet, I'm gonna be singing a classic," Kokomi replied.

"Go easy on our new pianist, by the way," Beyond said while setting down his violin bow and then proceeded to clean his trumpet's mouth piece.

"Of course we will; we can't afford to lose another one after that fiasco," Simon emphasized.

"Yes, yes, I still remember that. Ugh, ruined the entire night," Beyond said.

It will definitely be a special night.

Author's note :

Thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed it. The first two chapters are to introduce the cast of characters to you. You'll learn more about them as the story progresses.