Humoresque (OHSHC)

II | Humpty Dumpty's Stone Wall

  "Flawless people can make mistakes too, right?"
- An All-Nighter

|Chapter 2|

  "Oi, Natsume! Why're you late?" The blond yelled from the brightly lit stage. Today was the second to last practice day as the actual show will be opening in two days.

  "Sorry! I had to, uh, shake off some people." I grabbed my black violin out and proceeded to polish it.

  Yumi raised an eyebrow and sighed. "Just come early tomorrow. I talked to the executives and they allowed us an extra thirty minutes of rehearsing." Yumi is our manager/ backup pianist because Kito, our usual pianist, is very sensitive and gets sick easily. She's sometimes strict but is a great manager even though she's a third- year in high school.

  She flipped her braid. "If you ask, Sakura is backstage and Kito is in the bathroom. He ate too many donuts the people had brought." Yumi sighed and sat on the stage. "I want to hear your part of the song. Plus, I get to see if you've been practicing or not."

  "Okay!" I eagerly put the rag I've been using down and picked up my violin, swiftly getting into playing position. "1, 2, 3..." It was a habit of mine  to count right before any type of performance namely because it calms me. Consider it a good luck charm... Sorta.

  (The song that they will be playing is called Koibumi by Yanagi Nagi. It should be the second link.)

  Once finishing my part of the performance, Yumi clapped. "Good, good. You should be-" Her phone suddenly rang and she picked it up. "Yello! What's up?" She paused and looked at me. "Eh? Do I really? Mom! Please? Yes... Fine!" Yumi finally snapped her phone shut and looked at me with disappointed eyes.

"Did something come up?"

"My mother said that the pizza is late so I have to pick it up," she said as she picked up her things. "See ya! Tell Sakura I took her pads!"

"E-eh? She's going to release her rage on me!"

"I know!" The last of her words echoed after the door was shut leaving me alone with my violin. I sighed. "Might as well hurry up."

Sakura was changing when I carelessly walked into her room. I had heard music so I came to the conclusion that maybe she was practicing. Maybe. The first thing I saw upon entering the room was Sakura's kitty panties. She was bending down doing some sort of exercise.

"Ah!" I shrieked and immediately covered my beaming red face with my hands.

Sakura stopped the music. "Oh! Natsume! You like what you see?" She winked, showing off her cleavage as she was only in her sports bra and underwear. Her curly blond hair had sweat dripping out of it and her playful onyx eyes radiating happiness.

"N-No! I mean- Yes? No?"

  "Oh?" She raised a playful eyebrow and proceeded to put on a loose shirt. "How's practice?"

  "Yumi said I've perfected it but I think I can do better."

  Sakura tied her hair in a ponytail and pushed up her glasses, "You're the overachiever as always," she said with a smile. "By the way, did Yumi leave? I heard her bidding farewell."