His Lie in April - 四月の彼の嘘 (Shigatsu no Kare no Uso) (COMPLETE)

A Heart-to-Heart Talk/The Best of Friends

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7AM. Kaori woke up as her clock radio came on. She was feeling somewhat listless. "Dammit, another day. What do I care, the violin is just not working out for me right now." With the gala now less than a week away, Kaori had spent the rest of her time mostly forgetting about the violin, only practicing sporadically. 

Even though Kousei had slowly begun to sink into a deep depression and his body had now looked altered, she tried not let this get to her, but this also was becoming a bit of a struggle for her, as she was now hitting the wrong notes more often, and even fumbling her fingers on the violin bow. 

She was, emotionally speaking, starting to be on raw naked emotion, running on fumes. She hadn't seen Kousei in days. All she had heard from him was largely information relayed to her from either Tsubaki, Watari or Hiroko. Indeed, since she had first met and befriended Hiroko, they had become fast friends, almost sisterly in their friendship. 

Kaori, having worn a tank top and biker shorts to bed, changed out of that and got into her green Rider jersey and jeans. There was no school today, so she was pretty much free. She took a swig of two cans of UCC coffee, and ate an egg sandwich, as a nod to Kousei. This was quick to get her back into a satisfactorily emotional state. Just then, Hiroko called Kaori. "Hi, Hiroko." Kaori said.

"Kaori.... how are you today?" Kaori let out a sigh. "Fine, and I'm not just saying that, I guess...." Hiroko said "Good to know. You know, we should spend some time together today, between us females. Would you be up for that?" "Sure...." "OK, Kaori, I'll see you 10 AM today. I'll be right by your home." Kaori agreed. "You got it, Hiroko." 

In between that time, Kaori decided to practice on her violin once more. As usual, she got it out of her violin case, and began playing. Indeed, while she had times when she played poorly and sounded almost cacophonous, there were times when the usual Kaori came through. However, on this particular time, her off-key self was showing. Kaori just quit after 30 minutes. 

"Dammit, what's the use? I haven't seen Kousei in days, and now this guy's creeping up in my thoughts. What do I care? I'll just play the Famicom again." This time, she played three games: Rockman 2 (she got up to six of the nine robot masters before quitting), Metroid (she didn't really get that far), and Super Mario Bros. 3 (she was got up to World 4 before she decided to go back into her room and retreat for a bit).

Just a half hour before Hiroko showed up, Kaori split her time between walking the WALK THIS WAY line she set up, and sitting on her bed, tossing her CFL ball up and down with her hands. For her, with her violin skills becoming inconsistent now, playing the Famicom and walking in her room on that taped line were the only things keeping her mind at ease. 

Before today, she hadn't practiced all that much in a good long while ever since what kept happening to Kousei. It was, for her, almost like a recurring nightmare; much like the movie Groundhog Day, she found herself reliving the same day over and over again. Just then, Hiroko showed up as Kaori finished playing with her CFL ball. 

A knock was heard on the door. Kaori knew it was Hiroko. And sure enough, as Kaori went to the door of her home, it was her. "Hello, Kaori. It's such a nice day outside, huh?" Kaori nodded. "Yeah......" She then took notice of her Saskatchewan Roughrider jersey again. "Look at that. Every time we've met so far, you've been wearing that green jersey of that football team in Canada..... Sas... Saskatchewan Roughriders."