The Secrets We Keep To Stay Alive (JohnDave)

Chapter 8- Melodies and Chords

John's PoV
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   I scurry down the hallways, making my way to Art class. Sitting down in the back corner, I pray that this hour goes by fast.

•Time Skip•

Unless the universe just decided to hate me, or if my prayers weren't heard, that hour felt like forever. Anyway, I made my way down to Study Hall, planning to go to the Music room later anyways. I reach the class with a couple minutes to spare so I sit for a bit until the bell rings. Making my way up to the front of the room I ask the teacher if I can go to the Music room, with the answer of course being yes.

Quietly opening the door, I slid into one of the practice rooms and let all my stress out. I began to play some of Showtime, but then I went on to play Once Upon A December. I don't quite know why, but I guess I was in one of those moods. My fingers glided across the black and white keys with my foot pressing on the pedals below. About halfway through the song I heard a small voice behind me, singing along.

"Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember
Things my heart used to know
Once upon a December

Someone holds me safe and warm
Horses prance through a silver storm
Figures dancing gracefully
Across my memory

Far away, long ago
Glowing dim as an ember
Things my heart used to know
Things it yearns to remember

And a song someone sings
Once upon a December"

   Once the song was finally over I turned around to see if the voice was just a figment of my imagination or not.  Behind me stood a short girl with long black hair and circle glasses accompanied by a taller girl with short, bobbed, blonde hair.  My face started turning red with embarrassment and I could feel the blood rushing to my cheeks. 

   "Hi, sorry for interrupting and bothering you, but you're really good at playing the piano!" The shorter of the two exclaimed, breaking the awkward silence.

   "I, um, well.  Thanks." I try to reply, forgetting how to speak.

   "We should probably introduce ourselves.  I'm Rose and this is Jade, nice to formally meet you," the taller one, newly named Rose explained.

   "I'm John," I replied, sheepishly sticking my hand out for a handshake.  Jade jumped in the opportunity and might I say she grips very hard.

"Rose here and I had a schedule change because the some kids needed theirs changed and there were too many kids in our Language Arts. So now we have Music this hour, and I'm glad we do, we got to hear you! Did I mention before that you're really good at piano?" Jade went off rambling. I'm surprised they're still here and talking to me nonetheless. Not that I'm complaining, it's nice to have someone notice your existence every once and a while.

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Dave's PoV
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   During Music we had to watch a video on the history of music style and that shit, it was pretty boring if you ask me.  But not long after the bell finally rang, one more period left for the day.  Hopefully John was actually in Science today, I need a chance to talk to him.  If all else fails I can always message him, but that doesn't guarantee a response.  Then again neither does talking to him face-to-face either, but it's more likely.

I make my way to my seat at the back of the class, seeing as that was where the only open seats were at this point. Throughout the 4 minutes of passing period, people begin to file into the classroom and take a seat. Still no sign of John.

With about a minute left, I see a big blob of blue sweatshirt. So John decided to be present today. I watched as he made his way to his seat, just so happening that it was next to mine. That'll make this a lot easier for me.

"Sup John, sorry it seemed like I ditched you at lunch, Miss Spiderbitch literally dragged my over to where she was sitting," I tried explaining to John. He just nodded in response, seeming to be in a daze.

"Sooooo,". I dragged out, trying to bring up the topic of the note. John didn't respond.

"I think I found a note that belongs to you, Egderp," I started, not mentioning that I read it at first. That definitely caught his attention. John almost instantaneously looked at me with a somewhat frightened look in his eyes.

"What note? Did you read it? Do you still have it? Did anyone else see it?" John started spewing out questions faster than I could answer, never mind process them.

"Woah there dude, chill out. I have the note with me don't worry, no one else saw it," I replied, handing John the note and not saying anything about whether I read it or not.

"Oh thank Gog," I heard John mumble under his breath. Whatever that secret is must be very important to him to keep. Again, I'm not really one to talk, but still, what could possibly be that bad?

"So did you read it?" John asked hesitantly. I debated whether I should tell him or not. The teacher was going on lecturing about convection currents and continental drift theories, in short she wasn't paying attention to their conversation. It's now or never.

"Yeah, about that, I kinda took a little look at it," I tried to play it off as cool as I could. There was a moment of fear frozen on John's face, but he tried to collect himself.

"So, about the, ya know," I started to trail on, hoping he knew what I was leading in to. I imagine he did, but I didn't want to just upright shout in the middle of class 'So hey what's that big secret you got that you don't want anyone knowing about?'.

"Please, just drop it Dave. I promise I'll tell you eventually, but I just can't right now. I'm sorry, I just can't," John said quietly, looking away from me to avoid eye contact. I wish he could just tell me, I still love him no matter what. It can't be that bad, can it?

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1059 words, not too bad I'd like to think.
Sorry for the late update, I had my German exams yesterday and today along with Honors Geometry exams tomorrow and Thursday.
As for the picture at the beginning, the whole John plays piano to keep his mind of things? Yeah, that's a big head-canon of mine, hence why you'll see it a lot.
Finally the plot starts going places, wow
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