Chapter 190 185. Terashima Aimi (End)

The Light Music Club was abolished.

Although my partners said it was not my fault, I still wishful thinking and took the responsibility on myself.

Losing the medium of the club, we are about to enter the third year of high school. With the pressure of study, we spend less and less time together.

As for Xiaoxing, who was in the same class as me, we never spoke a single word to her.

Christmas this year was much colder than usual, and my mother and sister asked how the band mates who came to the house last year were doing.

I smiled and said it was fine.

Looking at the falling snowflakes outside the floor-to-ceiling windows of the living room, I picked up the guitar and played alone in the bedroom.

……

After entering the third year of high school, as my studies became more and more busy, I almost lost contact with my bandmates.

Occasionally, I ran into them in the school building, and they would take the initiative to greet me, but I walked faster and faster, lied that I had something to do, and left without saying a few words.

I didn't make any more friends, and once again picked up the expression of rejection in junior high school. No one would take the initiative to talk to me, and I was happy to be free.

In such an environment, I graduated.

On the day of the graduation ceremony, Xiaoxing found me. This is our first conversation after a year.

She apologized to me.

But I don't understand why she is apologizing.

I also couldn't figure out why she didn't come to the live that day.

It's just that before she left, she said that she was no longer playing the guitar, and that after graduation, she would help out in the family's small hotel, and would inherit the title of proprietress in the future.

I questioned her why she gave up music and dreams.

She just smiled and said nothing, her smile was still very gentle, just like when I first saw her.

At this moment, I, Aimi Terashima, made a decision.

……

April.

I stood on the platform, surrounded by cherry blossom trees, the petals were falling, flying all over the sky, and falling on the palm of my hand.

My parents initially objected to the fact that I gave up my university studies and went to Tokyo to work hard.

But I have always been a stubborn person, and no matter what they tried to convince me, I still insisted on myself.

In the end, they compromised.

I am truly sorry for causing so much trouble to my family, but I will not stop.

Putting on the guitar and picking up her unwanted dreams, I embarked on the Shinkansen to Tokyo.

Outside the window, the scenery receded into an appearance I didn't recognize.

……

I started living alone in Tokyo.

I live in a cheap rental house, go out to work every day, and cook three meals by myself, which saves money and is healthy.

After living alone, I realized how hard it was for my father to make money, and I also understood how hard it was for my mother to take care of three children at home every day. When I called, I would tell them that I was doing well.

It’s just that they occasionally bring home the leftover half-price bento from the convenience store, and when they put it in the microwave, they will hear a “ding” sound.

He works part-time during the day, and at night he carries his guitar and goes to the music classroom to study.

Until one day, a tutor in the music classroom found me. He looks very handsome, he is an authentic Tokyo native, a person from a big city, and he seems to be born with an unusual temperament.

He said that I was very talented, and he was willing to recommend me to sign with a record company. He said a lot of things that I didn't understand, but felt very powerful.

At that time, I was troubled by my own situation. As a child who had just stepped into society, I always wanted to do my best to prove myself, and I also had that kind of arrogance.

So I believe it.

Then, I paid a large sum of money, including next month's rent, because he said that after signing the contract, the company will provide accommodation, and there is no need to continue renting.

Like many TV dramas, I was cheated. I had nothing but the 2000 yen I had on me and the guitar I brought from my hometown.

I went to the music classroom for a theory, but only then did I know that they had run away, and there were many students like me who had no brains and believed their words and were deceived.

So, after coming to Tokyo, I lived on the streets for the first time.

Sleep in the bridge hole, sleep in the park, and cover with cardboard.

He didn't ask for a penny from his family, and lied that he was doing well.

So, on that cold Christmas Eve, I sat on a park bench, watching the time on my phone go to zero, and I celebrated my first birthday in Tokyo.

I still remember the wind and snow that night.

When I woke up in the morning, the guitar beside me was gone.

When parting ways with them, I didn't cry.

When I learned that I was cheated and penniless, I didn't cry.

Until my silent friend, who was always by my side, left me, the snowflakes fell on my upturned face, turned into icy snow water, and flowed all over the ground.

……

I have changed.

Becoming cautious, becoming vulnerable, I would instinctively be on the alert no matter who approached me.

Relying on a few more jobs and saving a little bit of money, I lived in a rental house again, and bought an old second-hand guitar in a musical instrument store.

And when I passed by Akihabara one day, I came into contact with live house for the first time.

At this time, I had already saved some money, so I couldn't hold back my heart, bought tickets, and went to see the live scene.

The level of the band varies, some are particularly powerful, and some are at the level of ordinary high school students. To put it bluntly, I can do it myself.

So, I went on.

I started to hang out in the live house in Akihabara, and joined many bands back and forth, each time was very short.

People in Tokyo are very arrogant, and some people look down on country people like me, thinking they are superior to others.

But this is a live house, and music is the power to speak, so I am crazy because they are too weak.

Also, I hate Tokyoites.

Well, it’s prejudice to say so, and there are many gentle people in Tokyo, but now I don’t like to accept other people’s kindness for nothing.

Equivalent exchange has become my creed.

I play, he pays, that's fair.

And I don't want to be anyone's assistant now, there is only one band in the world that can let me play rhythm guitar.

I was so arrogant back then, so many people didn't like me, saying I was a stray cat wandering in Akihabara.

I do not mind.

Say whatever you like.

……

In a blink of an eye, it has been more than a year since I came to Tokyo.

I sang in the live house as usual, and the other girls in the band are all very skilled and arrogant guys.

It's just that for me, no one is bad, as long as you give me money.

When I first came to Tokyo, I dreamed of becoming a top singer, but when I got back to show off in front of her, I didn't know where I left it.

After all, I can't even live on music.

After a certain live was over, I left the live house alone after serving the girls who played house in the band, and there were maids with cat ears handing out flyers on the street.

After receiving it, he walked for a while, crumpled the flyer into a ball, and threw it into an empty canister on the side of the road as if venting his anger.

I hate myself like this, I hate Aimi Terashima.

Abandoning my youth, wasting my music, for the dream I picked up, is it really necessary to do this step?

After staring at the posters on the side of the road for a long time, I walked into this game center.

In front of the claw machine with my favorite doll, an uncle is concentrating on operating it.

It's delicious, and it looks like an outsider.

I thought so in my heart, didn't go up to speak, and watched silently behind him.

A few gangsters came to strike up a conversation, but were dismissed by my cold eyes.

Time passed like a coin in his hand.

I began to become impatient, the depressed emotions in my heart, and the anxiety that I would not be able to catch up with the final call made me take a step forward.

It's been a long time since I took the initiative to talk to anyone, but if I don't dissipate this anger today, I may not sleep well all night.

So I went up to him and reluctantly offered to say:
"Hey, uncle."

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  There will be more changes before dawn, work hard at the end of the month, and have a good year next month.

  
 
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