The Life of a Musician

Chapter 1

   "Atsumi!" yells a voice. "ATSUMI!" the voice yelled again. "What!?" I mutter. "Take your headphones off. It's rude."

" You're meaning to tell me what now?! Again?! Haven't I told you to make sure you don't have your headphones on in class?! Now, I hope you learned your lesson, go back to class."

   "Hey, Atsumi!" someone said across the hallway slowing down from a run and ending in front of me panting for breath as I hold my bag carelessly as it swings behind me. He was a tall boy with brown hair and brown eyes. He had a black hoodie on, and around his neck was a large pair of headphones. He was also wearing a saggy white T-shirt under his hoodie and a pair of jeans. "Hey, aren't you Atsumi?" he says, still panting for breath. "um, yeah why?" "Well, I have been meaning to find you, I have been looking for you for a long time now." "Why? Who are you?" "Oh,sorry, my name is Onoda Tasuku. And I have been looking for you so that I could invite you to our new music band club starting soon and we want you to be in it!" I was shocked "Me? I don't do anything but listen to music, much less play it. Why do you want me to come into your club?" "Well, about that... I kind-of asked everyone in this high school if they would be interested and you are the only one left that we could think of." "Oh, now I get it, you are coming here so that you can have enough people  to keep your band going and I was just the last on the list, so that you can." I say about to leave. "No! Please don't leave, how about you just try for a little while and you can tell us if you want to leave or not, I promise we won't ask you any more if you just try it out for a little while." I have always known that music was my escape. And to tell the absolute truth, I have always wanted to try it. Maybe if i try this once I can. It would be great as well to be able to tell my Mom that I am making friends. Just this once...  "Okay." I say "Oh my gosh, thank you! I can go tell the band!".  

   After that epoisode, I finally get home. I open the door to my two sister's and my brother. My parents just decided that it was a good idea to leave Japan and go to America to live a new life. And leave us four to live with each other in an apartment. Well, I make the best of it. We don't have that much money so we all have to manage. To add to that the only one of us that is not still in school is my oldest sister Konishi Shidito. She makes all of the money for our small apartment and the life we have, so basically if she disappeared, so would our whole living. But gladly I don't believe that will happen soon. The other members of my family are Ashia (who we call Ash) my other older sister. And our younger brother Oniki. We all get along fairly well though I really am not sure that Oniki enjoys living with three girls in a single apartment. But besides that I'm pretty sure we get along well. I go upstairs after saying hi to everyone and start studying for my test tomorrow. I'd been finishing the last page of my English 1 book when I slowly drifted off into sleep on my desk.