Rhythms of hearts

'The Beach'

Monday, 14 December 2020, 6pm

It was the day before the highly anticipated charity concert. Semi was making a few tweaks onto his songs; he was nervous that the audience wouldn't like it. The pre-performance jitters overwhelmed him. Lilith observed this and tried a new approach on calming him down.

With Lilith's overconfidence and charm, attempts to lighten the mood by flirting with Semi. Lilith thought this wouldn't fail as she had a lot of boys who were fighting over her in High School. She teased Semi by pulling his necktie he had on. She complimented Semi's musical talent and vocals as she grabs Semi's face. She leaned in to kiss Semi but Semi covered Lilith's mouth with his hand. Semi looked at Lilith, disgusted.

"What the fuck are you doing? Get off." Semi grimaced. He did not like what Lilith was doing. In fact, he feels uncomfortable.

Lilith got off and sat down next to him. She explained to Semi that she was trying to calm Semi down, but semi just sighed and shooed her away.

Semi needed something to calm him down. He tried to think of all kinds of different ways to do so.

A knock on the entrance door of his house interrupted Semi's train of thoughts. Semi acknowledged the knock of the door. When he opened it, the delivery man greeted Semi and gave him a parcel. Semi received it, and immediately went onto the kitchen counter. 'I didn't order anything, but if Lilith did, she would tell me.' Semi thought.

He unwrapped the parcel. The first thing he noticed was a little note. He skimmed through the wordings of the note.

Hello semi-san,   

   I will not reveal who i am, because it is embarrassing...i heard you had a charity concert tomorrow. And i know that you will get nervous. Sweaty palms and everything, just like you did in high school before a big game. Well, here is a guitar pick, in your favourite colour, purple. See you soon <3

  Love,

  the beach

Semi put the note away and saw the purple guitar pick that the note mentioned about. There was also a white orchid behind it. Semi closely inspected the guitar pick. It exactly matched his favourite shade of purple, and it was signed by one of his favourite singers. The person who gave him this must have known him very well. Who was this person?

Semi spent the next few hours, trying to figure out who was this mysterious "The Beach" is. It was obviously one of his teammates, they were the ones who knew that he gets sweaty palms before an important event, and the note mentioned "a big game", probably referring to volleyball matches. The beach could represent anything! The sand, the sea, the sun...everything was not making sense to Semi. The flower COULD represent something, but his assumption was that the flower was 'The Beach's' favourite. He was stressing even more then before. It was fun though. He was determined to find out the person. He got the Ushijimas to come over to help solve the case, since it couldn't be possible that one of them send Semi that. Unfortunately, they also can't figure it out. It was like an escape room puzzle to them.

Semi sighed, thanked them for their time and went to bed.