The singer behind the curtain

Chapter 2- Was this a mistake

Waking up the next morning, Tomioka could feel nothing but utter exhaustion from the night before and he knew that no amount of sleep would fix that. Mornings after concerts were always hard for Tomioka and even though he had gotten the reassurance from Shinobu the other day (albeit indirectly) it still didn't make him feel any better. 

Turning on his phone and seeing the notifications from the night before as he has the sleep schedule of a "grandpa" or at least that's what shinobu says. He scrolled through some Gen Z news websites to look up the newer trends in music and other areas of art as sometimes it gives him inspiration for albums and as Tomioka was scrolling he saw the headline ( A New Singer Emerges But Why Do They Cover Their Face?) 

The headline sparked an idea in his head and he realized, something that felt so out of touch wasn't actually so far. Tomioka got to work right away writing a new song but not for iguro obanai but for himself and his own emotions. Tomioka remembers that he had a few journals of songs that he made when..... Well when he lost someone but that's in the past. 

He revamps some of the best songs and uploads all of the songs to a spotify profile with a black profile picture and an alias and chooses to use a female name as it would make him much less recognizable (His alias is FAE) He waits for a little bit but nothing happens, nobody comments, nobody likes there's just nothing yet tomioka was as content as he could be feeling all of the freedoms that he had lost. As long as nobody knew it was him then he wouldn't be breaking the contract. Even though he had nothing to show for his hard work he had fallen asleep happy, well happier than he's been in awhile.

Waking up again still feeling giddy from the night before he quickly gets dressed and starts to head out the door deciding to take the longer route to see the sun rise above the lake near his cabin; as he stood watching the sunrise he saw a white haired man doing a dance over the sunset which honestly was probably a great idea considering the amazing view. Weird, never seen him before?Tomioka Thought as he was wearing the uniform from his school but he didn't question it for too long and got going. On his way to homeroom he passes Kyojiro who looks miserable. Well that's a snippet of what i'm gonna feel like after his class Tomioka thinks to himself. As he walks into the homeroom he sees the living hell spawn himself Mr.Rengoku. Tomioka sits down and over the course of 20 minutes watches as his classmates slowly pour inside the class.

Tomiokas pov

With an unusual smile Mr Rengoku with boastful glee announces a pop quiz but who could really call it that when it had 30 questions on it as he finishes passing around the so called quiz he went back to the front of the room for a quick announcement " Class you have a new student his name is Shinazugawa Sanemi treat him with respect, You can go sit next to that kid maybe he'll set you straight." he says pointing to me. 

The white haired boy I guess also known as Shinagawa looks familiar but I'm not gonna think too hard about it, the boy has an angry expression on his face and sitting down somehow making him look angrier. As class finishes people start to flock around his desk asking him a flurry of ice breaker questions. Bored out of my mind, as Mr.Rengoku for once in his sad miserable life gave us free time after the quiz, leaving us a fucking half an hour to chat I decided to listen in.

 Listining to ice breaker questions was always a bore because nobody actually gives a fuck about what your favorite color is. As they got into the "what are your hobbies section of ice breaker questions" that's when shit finally started to take off, he said something about dancing and how he's been dancing since he was little and how he was a famous dancer blah blah blah. I don't really care about fame, famous people are never good people, I mean after they hit fame they think they are above us "regular people"and forget the struggle of living paycheck to paycheck. After a while of talking their conversation finally comes to a close as the bell rings. For some reason the white haired boy and I have the same exact classes. 

He's probably a delinquent or something. Most of my classes are regular classes and some are what other may call "sped classes" back when my friends and family had sadly passed I had been a frequent class skipper I couldn't find any reason to go to school or reason to do anything at all, consequently my grades dropped and once I had sorta snapped outta my grief I realized what I had done but it's too late to change anything now. The rest of the school day felt like it went on forever. By the end of the day I was exhausted and was given tons of hw. On my way home I stopped by a local convenience store and decided to grab some food for the next few days. After selecting a few cheap and easy to eat foods I head to the counter and the cashier looks familiar like the new kid in my class is probably not him. 

Oh well, small world. As I walk to the counter I see the kids eyes widen and as I set the food on the counter as he scans my items, he starts making small talk " Hey you're the kid from my school that sits next to me right" I guess l was wrong. " hehe yeah" see and this is why I hate small talk so fucking awkward. As he finishes up scanning we give each other a quick goodbye and then I head home. Walking into the house I put away my groceries and as I start on my homework my phone, which hasn't been touched since the night before won't stop making that annoying ass notification sound I decide to take a quick peek at my phone and than silence it thinking it was another one of Shinobu's stupid ass group chats. 

As I take a look at the notifications I don't see any notifications from shinobu. I only see a fuck ton of notifitions from spotify which was wierd taking a look at my account I see it has went viral as fuck and that I had over 100k monthly listiners. The fuck, to see the sourse of how that happen I looked up the song name with the most views and than I saw the new kid in my class, Shinazugawa dancing to my song, over the sunrise I had seen this morning. Well shit I remember him saying he was famous but not this famous. I wasn't sure what to do, but like any person who hits viral I go to the comment section and surprisingly it was mostly praise for my writing luckily I has sung in a higher register than when I had sang for Iguro even though i'm not sure it would matter since I write most of his songs in the rap genre and use my low register. I pray that nobody finds out this coulda been one of the stupidest things i've done in my life. 

Well who gives

 a shit it'll die down soon......

AUTHORS NOTE 

hey hoes I'm back I still get notifications from this so I decided to continue it 

let me know what you think and if this gets more attraction ill do a 3rd chapter and 

continue it my writing style is a little different and I hope y'all like it let me know

'what u thought of this chapter