Classical Love (Anime Love Story)

Flashback (Kazuo)

Kazuo's POV:

Part of me feels bad for doing all this, but part of me just wants my father to be proud of what I can do. Ever since I met Kumiko in middle school, I fell for her instantly. Just that one act of kindness changed my whole view of things.

I remember sitting at the bench in the forest next to the school. It was a pretty convenient place to get away from things at school. Anyways, I remember sitting there during lunch all by myself. But then Kumiko came along.

~Flashback~

What can I do to prove to my dad that I'm better than his other son. What's so special about him anyway? And my mom. Of all times, why does she choose now to go away? She didn't even tell me if she was coming back or not. I have no friends. No one to talk to.

"Hello, my name is Kumiko Atsune. What's your name?" 

A girl came up to me with the prettiest red hair and the biggest smile on her face. She looked like she have a care in the world. A normal girl with a normal life. Or so I thought. But that's what I wanted. To be a normal boy with a normal life. 

"My name's Kazuo Mirigaya." I answered shyly

"Are you okay? You look sad." she asked

"No, I'm fine, really." I tried to say

"You can't fool me. But it's ok. I know what it's like. I have family problems. I pretty much live by myself because my parents have to travel a lot for work. But it's ok because there are so many things to be happy about." she says

I look at her and she's just smiling looking up through the trees.

"You see that? Over there? The birds?" she says pointing to a nest

I look at the birds and there's five birds. Two of them looked like the parents and the rest were the babies.

"Look at how happy they are. Chirping and chirping. I thought that instead of being sad about my family, I should be happy that other people have a family so they don't experience the same pain that I did. Don't you think so? To just see that beauty in things." she said

"Ya I guess your right. But if you don't mind me asking, what changed your mind about how you thought about everything?" I asked

"Well, my teacher introduced me to the violin. After playing and learning how to play the violin, I realized that just because I'm sad now doesn't mean I should be sad forever. I just noticed how happy I was playing the violin and started to notice every other beautiful things in this world. You know what? I think you should learn how to play the piano. Then we can make other people happy by playing music together." Kumiko said

I was still kind of trying to process what she told me, but I got it for the most part. But she seemed so happy and cheerful that I couldn't say no.

"I guess I could." I say still not completely sure

I barely even knew this girl for 10 minutes and I know so much about her. She was offering me something I always wanted. A friend.  But after that day, we hung out a lot and became best friends. Hanging out with Atsune-chan made me feel like a normal person and I was happy when I was with her.

She took me to the teacher who is currently teaching her how to play violin. She said she was really goos at playing different instruments and teaching. Sometimes we'd learn at the teacher's house and sometimes we'd go to Atsune-chan's house. Her house was really big. And she had a lot of maids. But we had a lot of fun together. After a while, I realized that I fell for her. I didn't tell her, but I was planning to. Everything was going good. Until one day...