Recovery

Silence

A pretty sophomore came up to him, requesting for him to play the drums during the music festival where all the freshmen celebrate the survival of hazing as well as first year of university. He accepted the request with a smile. Of everything that had failed him, music had always been the one thing he can fall back on.

He was just about to finish his first warm up set in the small music room as he waited for the rest of the band and singer to arrive post their afternoon classes. The loud creak of the door startled him as someone opening the door to the room. Dark eyes met his own, an eyebrow arched at him. Singto pulled down his headphones as Krist wai-ed to his senior. The older nodded back at him, before turning around to leave.

"Wait"

Singto paused and turned back questioning him. Krist scratched his head sheepishly, not really knowing what to say but at that moment for some reason, he just didn't want the other to go. Something in the lean frame in front of him, the man who usually walk alone with his headphones as he traveled between different classes with his headphones. Someone who feels like the total opposite of him. And to have that sole attention on him? It's a heady addictive feeling.

"How do I become a head hazer?"

What the hell did he just ask? Singto stayed silent before stepping back into the room to face him.

"Why do you want to become one?"

That's a good question to his question, as if the older know that he had pulled the question out of the air. But as Krist thought about it more, seeing how Singto had carried out his tasks, how the older had manage to awe and inspire everyone around him, he couldn't think of why not. For some reason, his eyes had been drawn again and again to this man for the entire hazing duration for some reason.

It was when they finish their conversation, he sat in the room in silence by himself, he then recalled one of the reasons why he didn't want Singto to leave just yet. He picked up his drum sticks and started to tap yet another beat.

But when I'm alone, they show up on their own