K-ON! Encore

Chapter 9: Let's get ready!

"Here. Give me my hoodie back" Rei held Emi's shirt to her face.

"Alright, just wait a bit" Emi grabbed the shirt and walked out of the clubroom and about 2 minutes later she came back "Here you go" She handed Rei her hoodie.

Rei immediately jumped to grab it and in less than a second somehow was already wearing it "Ah... It was too cold out without this"

I just sat quietly on my chair seeing the two comfortable in their clothes again. I waited till they had sat down to talk. "So, where are we going to go to practice?"

"Not my house" Emi said while looking at her phone.

Rei yawned and looked at me "The clubroom"

"I mean during the weekend, I think monday or tuesday we'll have the show so this saturday and sunday we'll practice" I explained to her

Rei cocked her head "But the song you said is easy... We won't have trouble learning it today" She grabbed her bass's case from the ground and hugged it.

"For us, it'll probably be not, but" I looked at Emi, still on her phone "She doesn't know a thing yet, I'll have to teach her how to even strum"

Rei put the case back on the ground "Right, right. I hope Emi learns fast... And also that she endures the pain well"

As soon as Emi heard the word pain, she put down her phone and looked at us weird "P-Pain?"

"From the strings" I grabbed the case of my guitar and I took it out "You press the string to change the sound they make" I made an example putting my fingers in the position of C "And after a while of playing, your fingers will start to feel like they are burning" I pressed the strings and strummed.

"With really fine strings like on an electric guitar, your fingers may even bleed" Rei added to the already kinda morbid explanation.

Emi stayed silent for a bit "That sounds more like torture than a fun hobby..."

Oh... She looks really demotivated... "B-But after a bit of playing your fingers will start to harden up and it won't hurt anymore!" I showed Emi my fingers "See, the tips are hard!"

I continued to help my hand to her, until she went and tapped my fingers "Hm... They do seem hard" She cocked her head still doubtful "But they'll hurt all this weekend... Well, I already have the guitar, might as well use it"

"That's the spirit! Now... Where are we going to practice?" I asked.

Rei looked at me "Your house"

"Does it always have to be MY house?" Since we met, 90% of the time it was Rei coming to my house and not the other way around

"Your room is spacious, it'll fit the three of us" Rei said "My room is small and it's all cluttered"

"You could just put your 'clutter' in your closet while we are there" I crossed my arms.

"I can't leave them in there, they'll suffocate in there!" Rei looked at me concerned.

"What...?" Emi looked at us confused.

I explained the problem to her "Plushies, mostly won at the arcade, this girl" I pointed at Rei "Has tons and tons of them, and she keeps them all over her room"

"They have to live free," Rei added.

"My room it is I guess" I said, since I knew Rei wasn't going to back down. "Well, I'll go to a store after school and I'll buy some snacks, so the practice isn't too annoying!"

"Hey... If we are going to practice at your house all weekend, why don't we go there after school and just stay until monday?" Rei proposed.

"Hm... I would have to ask my parents... Wait, you said until monday?" Rei just nodded to answer my question "We have done that... But" I looked at Emi. "Your parents would let you stay until Monday and go with us to school that morning?"