Chapter 19

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Ya'll who pulled thru and waited this long — i love you :)

They had been practicing again.

There were only less than five days left for the competition and they were working hard to give the best performance possible. They wouldn't have been back to play for another four years in Japan, so they made the most of it.

The piece itself started off with half a minute of the piano being introduced, as if it were just a piano solo, but then a minute into the piece the rich sound of the violin joined along with it. The two were practicing very well, making it through half the song—that was...until Kaori stopped playing and stared at the score in front of her.

Kousei, himself, stopped as well and tilted his head as he looked at Kaori. "What happened?"

Kaori shook her head and grabbed her pencil, making a mark on one of the notes. "I just feel like this whole note should be a dotted half."

Kousei laughed and shook his head in disbelief. "Geez, Kaori, you really are a little picky on the violin. Have you ever played a piece or song the way it's written or do you have to change it up a little all the time?"

Kaori grinned his way after putting her pencil down. She shifted her violin to rest on her shoulder again more comfortably, as the shoulder rest she was gifted a while back cushioned her shoulder. "I like to have my way with things."

Kousei looked away and focused on his piano. "Gee, I never noticed," he mumbled.

"I heard you, you know!" Kaori exclaimed.

A laugh had erupted from the pianist. "Good," he said. He laughed even more when Kaori took a few seconds just to throw her phone's keychain at him.

"Really?" He was grinning, the keychain sitting in his palm. "You were that determined to throw something at me? And to take your time to remove it from your phone to do so, too?"

Kaori stuck her tongue out at him in response. "Let's just continue on with this piece, we want to get as much practice as possible before the competition."

Kousei nodded in affirmation and turned back to his piano, sitting properly and placing his curved fingers on the keys. He started off the piece once again, Kaori coming in at the right moment.

~0000000000~

They played for the rest of the minutes that remained of the piece, ending it off with a few intervals in between...since you-know-who kept changing up the notes to fit her liking.

"Finally!" Kaori grinned brightly and hugged Kousei as he stood up. "We finished!"

Kousei smiled and hugged her back, holding her close to his body. "It seems so. Now we just meet up to play it all together tomorrow so that when Saturday comes we will be ready, for sure."

Kaori pulled back and nodded with that everlasting grin on her face. She leaned forward to place a chaste kiss on Kousei's mouth and giggled—obviously, it had made him blush a little. She pushed herself away from him and went over to her violin and did her part of encasing it away.

Kousei smiled like an idiot in love and went over to his own instrument, sliding down the piano's cover and tucking in the bench. "So what should we do now? It's only—" Kousei checked his phone and turned back to Kaori—"it's only five."

"What if we ask the others if they can hang out? Or do you have something else in mind?"

"Um..." Kousei scratched the back of his head, "I was thinking if we could just hang out on our own here? For a little at least, so that we don't get too bored just staying in one area."

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