K-ON! Encore

Chapter 2: Getting Started!

My first day at Sakuragaoka had ended, and everything was going just as planned. Well, maybe not the part about having to clean up the music room, but everything else was.

As I walked home I decided to make a small detour, to where? a small local music shop near my home. It had everything you could want; well, aside from instruments itself, the place sells CDs, accessories for pretty much any instrument, old magazines, and they also offer fixes.

I've been going to this place for about seven years. The shop owner is a nice lady, she's pretty relaxed. The shop has become almost a hangout place for me and Rei, although most of the time I go alone.

I entered the store and just as I thought, the place was empty. "Oh, Hey Yumi." The owner greeted me while waving.

"Hello, Akiyama-san." I waved at her back.

"So, looking at that uniform, first day?"

"Yep! It was awesome, incredible, fabulous, it was pretty good!"

"Well, I'm glad that you liked it."

"Also, the plan is going just as I wanted."

"A-Ah, the thing with that music club, r-right?" I don't get why but every time I mention my plan to Akiyama-san, she gets all nervous and usually brushes me off.

"Yeah, they say that the clubroom hasn't been used for years so they've been keeping some audio equipment there, so Rei and I have to clean it up to be able to use it."

"It's been unused for years?"

"Yeah, the music classes are held in the classrooms, and no one has tried to open the club so... yeah." I shrugged, but then I noticed the expression on Akiyama-san. It wasn't the usual nervousness, she had this kinda bitter look on her face.

I thought for a few seconds, but no, I've asked her too many times if she was part of the light music club or at least if she knew the members, she already told me. When she was in Sakuragaoka she joined the literature club, she didn't know any members of the club personally, just by name, although she's forgotten them by now.

Honestly, it was kinda frustrating that the only two persons that went to Sakuragaoka I knew didn't interact with the music club at all.

Akiyama-san noticed me staring silently at her and tried to move the conversation. "So, have you checked what stuff you gotta move?"

"Nope, the third floor was closed today so I just went home without checking."

...

We talked until Akiyama-san had to close the store. I said goodbye to her and started to make my way back to my house.

...

The day had passed and today is the second day at Sakuragaoka. Just like yesterday I woke up early and made my way to school, got into the classroom and took a seat at my desk.

"Yo." I jumped a bit as the girl at the desk beside mine looked in my direction.

"H-hey."

I couldn't help but feel a bit intimidated when she talked to me, the girl seemed kinda older, with long blond hair, and earrings and various rings on her hands.

"Oh right, Emi Hidetoshi, that's my name," she said while extending her hand to me. "Uh... Y-Yumi Doujima." I accepted her handshake, still feeling a bit overwhelmed. "So, Doujima... what's up?"

"Uhhhh... well, nothing really."

"Yeah, right? This class is boring as hell," the girl said while chuckling a bit.