"Remember the first actual song we learned together as a duet?" Schneider asks.

"Twinkle twinkle little star?"

"We were terrible,"

"Utterly horrible," I added, we both laughed. Just like old times, like that one time, we decided to just make painful scratchy sounds all day instead of practicing only to get caught and scolded by our mentor.

"Hey Hide, play a song for me."

"I don't have my violin with me."

"No, use mine," He opens his case and pulls out his violin and placed a shoulder rest on it, it's the thing you use to elevate the violin under your neck. He also tightened the bow afterward and started to play a melody. The sounds filled the air with the tune he played. 'Spring'. It was a very joyful tune.

"Vivaldi's Four Seasons, classic Schneider," I smile. He's probably just playing it nice, but just wait 'til you actually hear him rock out.

"Now you try Hide."

"If you say so, although I am a little rusty," Schneider hands over his violin that I gladly accepted. Streben, still the same old brand he has, the same as the one I have. Not as grand as the Stradivarius or anything like that. That shit costs money. No joke.

"Oh boy," Arum says. They both yearned in anticipation. I properly positioned and held the violin in between my neck and shoulders and locked it into place and I brush my fingers on to the fingerboard, I also held the bow onto my other hand and made sure I was properly holding it right, fingers tilted and wrapped around tightly, pinky finger on the edge of the frog. This stuff is really tricky the first time, learning the violin is not a walk in the park. But you eventually get used to it after a period of time, unless your neck and arms get sore when you do it wrong, it varies from person to person.

I place the bow just a little close to the bridge and aligned my fingers onto the fingerboard and played my own tune. I played what I felt like playing, and the sounds start to reverberate, multiple strings played at once almost like a chord.

"Bach, that is so him, " Schneider muttered and smiled. Chaconne, From Partita No. 2 in D minor. It's one of my favorite pieces, our mentor taught us well. After playing for a short while a few people around us started to clap their hands before they walked away.

"You're way too deep," Schneider remarked sarcastically.

"Bravo Hide, very Magnifique I must say," Arum crosses his legs and plays with a nonexistent long mustache in the air as if he was one of those stereotypical exaggerated versions of a french Beourgoisie. I just laughed a bit in response.

"Thanks, Schneider," I returned his violin and he immediately returned it back in its case.

"Why didn't you join the music club?" Schneider asks.

"Clubs are not my thing," I replied.

"Too bad," He suddenly gets something out of the pocket of his case and hands me some sort of flyer.

"If you're interested why don't we join together!" Schneider said enthusiastically. I take a look at the poster he gave me.

"It's a school duo music competition for next month, only pairs can enter, I could not think of a better partner than you Hide."

"Ah I see, I'll think about it I guess."

"C'mon Hide, you should consider it, try something new, you love music," Arum nudges.

"I'll see you some other time guys, let me know when you made a decision. I really have to go," Schneider gave us a fist bump once more then left. I have to admit, I really did love music, I don't play as much as I used to back then, and joining in a competition can be quite too much for me.

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