People in the music show, the band girls will not be lonely

"I thought I could give little Su Shi a surprise..."

Nagasaki Suyo felt her mother's warm embrace and this rare moment of tenderness. All the suppressed emotions suddenly surged up and she couldn't stop crying.

"Mother...I..."

Nagasaki's mother took out a tissue and wiped her tears, her voice gentle,

"It's okay, Xiao Sushi, you can talk to me anytime you want, I'm always willing to listen."

After calming down a little, Nagasaki Suyo raised her head from her mother's arms, looked at the only person she could rely on, and decided to ask her for help.

"Mom, when I was in the third grade of junior high school, I joined a band. Do you remember this?"

Nagasaki's mother nodded.

"Of course I remember. When I first joined, Xiao Su Shi was very happy every day."

"Are you sad today because of the band's matter?"

Nagasaki Suyo lowered her eyes,

“The band fell apart months ago.”

"Now the members don't keep in touch with each other much, and some even avoid each other on purpose."

There was a look of surprise in Nagasaki's mother's eyes.

"Ah~how could this happen?"

Nagasaki Suyo shook her head.

"I don't know why Xiangzi left suddenly. Xiaomu should have known about it, but she didn't want to tell me."

"Deng-chan thought it was his fault and stopped contacting us. Li Xi also left..."

Nagasaki's mother felt a little guilty when she saw her daughter showing weakness to her for the first time since the move.

For a long time, because she is so well-behaved and sensible, it is sometimes easy to overlook the fact that she is just a teenager.

No matter how mature she is inside, she will have her own worries and problems in growing up, and troubles that are difficult to solve.

The Nagasaki mother held her daughter's hand and listened to her quietly.

"Because from the beginning to the end, we have never sat together to have a good chat, so I want to try to contact everyone so that everyone can sit together and communicate face to face."

"If there are problems, we solve them, and if there are ideas, we discuss them."

"But the reality is more difficult than I imagined. In addition to Xiangzi, another key person, Dengjiang, has not been contacted. Even if we contacted him, we couldn't meet him."

"I recently met a friend of Dengjiang's now, and I just met him. I wanted to ask him to help me ask Dengjiang out, but he refused."

"This is the best I can think of right now, but it doesn't work."

"So... I don't know what to do now..."

After listening to her, Nagasaki's mother looked thoughtful.

"Xiao Sushi, is this friend of Dengjiang you mentioned related to the band you formed before?"

Nagasaki Suyo shook her head.

"It doesn't matter."

"He and Deng-chan are classmates. They just met after the start of this semester."

Nagasaki's mother nodded.

"Then what kind of awareness do you have when you ask for help?"

"Put yourself in his shoes. If you were him, would you help him?"

Nagasaki Suyo was shocked and felt that her soul had been seen through by her mother.

Nagasaki's mother continued, her eyes gradually becoming serious.

"I know you want to mend your relationship with your former bandmates, but your approach needs to change a bit."

"For example, when you ask someone for help, they actually have nothing to do with your previous band. If you ask them to help, you are actually asking them to force themselves to do something their friends are unwilling to do, which actually hurts the relationship between them."

"If everything goes well after you meet, it would be fine. But if it doesn't go well, it would be very difficult for him to be caught between you two."

"So it's only natural that they reject you."

"Xiao Su Shi, I think you care a little too much about your own feelings in this matter."

"And you acted too hastily and didn't consider many things."

Nagasaki Suyo was speechless after listening to her mother's words.

The seriousness in Nagasaki's mother's eyes eased a little, revealing a gentle look.

"Xiao Sushi, if you really need him to serve as a bridge between you and the original band members, you have to make him your friend first. Otherwise, he will have no position or reason to help you. Do you understand?"

"The friends I'm talking about are not those who only have a casual relationship with you, but friends with whom you can be close and honest with each other."

"Now that it has just happened, go and apologize to them and try to smooth things over."

Nagasaki Suyo nodded, said "thank you" to her mother, then got up and walked into her bedroom.

Volume 1: Chapter 24 Does this count as having dinner together?

Shirakawa Ze, who was watching the live show at STARY, received a message from Nagasaki Motoyo.

"I'm really sorry, Shirakawa-san. What I said this afternoon was a bit too emotional and I didn't consider your feelings."

"If you have time tomorrow, I would like to invite you to lunch and express my apologies to you in person."

After reading the message, Baichuanze turned off the screen and put away his phone.

At ten o'clock in the evening, all STRRY's performances were over. After saying goodbye to Ijichi Koka and Yamada Ryo, Shirakawa Ze left the performance hall and walked slowly towards his residence.

After walking for a while, he opened his phone and sent a message to Nagasaki Suyo.

"I feel your kindness, so there's no need to eat."

In less than a minute, the other party sent a message back.

"Thank you for your understanding. If there is anything I can do to help you in the future, please feel free to contact me."

Baichuan Ze did not reply. He put away his phone and walked towards a convenience store not far away.

Because I was watching a live show at night, I didn’t have dinner.

At this time, I remembered that there was still a system task that was not completed, so I bought two rice balls and prepared to go to the park in front to eat them, which could be considered as completing the task.

Although it is called a park, it is actually very small, with only a perfunctory rockery, some common flowers and plants, and some conventional facilities such as slides and parallel bars.

When he reached the park gate, Shirakawa Ze saw a man sitting on a bench inside with his back to the park gate.

This piqued his curiosity.

As he walked into the park and got closer, he could see more clearly under the dim street lights.

Although the person had her back to him and his face could not be seen, he could tell from her long blue hair, the two buns of hair tied with ribbons, and the uniform that had become hardened and white from being washed so many times that it was Toyokawa Shoko.

"classmate……"

Shirakawa Ze kept a distance of two meters and made a sound.

Then he saw Toyokawa Shoko's body tense up instantly, and then she raised her hand to rub her face.

Then the other person turned around and looked at him.

It turned out to be Toyokawa Shoko.

Although the visibility was not very good at night, Shirakawa Ze could still see that there were tears in Toyokawa Shoko's eyes.

"Classmate, are you okay?"

Baichuan Ze spoke again.

Toyokawa Shoko had no expression on her face, and her voice was somewhat cold.

"I'm fine."

"thanks for your concern."

Shirakawa Ze nodded, then sat on the stool on the other side and started eating the rice ball in his hand.

He knew that given their current interactions, the other party would not easily communicate with him, so he did not ask more questions.

After eating a rice ball, Shirakawa Ze turned his head and looked at Toyokawa Shoko.

"Are you also taking a break here after finishing your part-time job?"

Toyokawa Shoko looked at Shirakawa Ze in surprise, thinking, is he the same kind of person as me?

It turns out that everyone is struggling for life and worrying about food, clothing, housing and transportation...

Thinking of this, she felt better and responded to the other party with a soft "hmm".

"Cuckoo~"

Her stomach suddenly growled twice, reminding her that her friend had not eaten anything since noon and it was time to eat something.

Because the surrounding environment was very quiet at that time, the two sounds of my stomach growling seemed particularly loud.

Toyokawa Shoko was shy and embarrassed, but she managed to keep herself together on the surface.

She glanced at Baichuan Ze calmly and found that he was eating rice balls while looking into the distance, as if he didn't notice the growling of her stomach at all.

Shoko Toyokawa calmed down a little and looked at the sandwich in her hand that had become a little deformed.

She bought this sandwich at a convenience store on her way home from get off work and planned to have it for dinner tonight.

After buying the sandwiches, she walked into the old two-story building, walked up the creaking stairs to the second floor, and pushed open the door. A pungent smell of alcohol hit her in the face. There were a few more empty wine bottles on the floor. Her drunk father was lying in bed, snoring loudly.

Toyokawa Shoko, who had long been accustomed to this scene, had a look of indifference following numbness on her face.

She walked into the room, closed the door, then bent down to pick up the new wine bottles, preparing to put them together with the previous ones and sell them together sometime tomorrow.

But when she picked up the bottle, by the moonlight, she found that today's bottle was different from the previous ones.

She didn't know much about wine and didn't know how much this kind of wine cost.

But she knew that the wine in the past was the cheapest type available in the store, and if it was different from before, it would only be more expensive, not cheaper.

But the money she gave before leaving in the morning could only buy a few bottles of the cheapest wine...

Toyokawa Shoko suddenly realized something, and immediately stood up and walked to her desk and took out a thick piano score.

Sure enough, after opening the music score, some of the money was missing.

"why?"

Shoko Toyokawa looked at the remaining banknotes in disbelief. She didn't understand why her father did this.

The two of them have fallen to this point, shouldn't they understand and support each other better?

It’s bad enough that he drinks all day, but why did he have to steal her dream fund!

Toyokawa Shoko slammed the music sheet shut, walked to her father's bed, and wanted to get to the bottom of things.

But the visibility in the unlit room was dim, and she did not notice the small steel beads scattered around the floor.

Because she was walking in a hurry, Shoko Toyokawa stepped on a pile of small steel balls, her foot slipped, and she fell to the ground.

The burning pain from her knee hitting the floor immediately broke down her psychological defenses. Endless grievances burst out, and she could no longer hold back her emotions, and tears kept falling.

At this moment, she really wanted to escape, escape far away, and never return to this so-called home.

She grabbed the sandwich and rushed out the door. The wind blew the tears off her face, and after staying in the air for a short time, they fell to the ground.

When she ran to the vicinity of the park, she felt a little tired and had vented a lot of her emotions, so she walked into the park and sat down, ready to rest for a while before eating the sandwich.

I had just rested for a while when I heard Shirakawa Ze's voice.

When she first heard a man talking to her, Toyokawa Shoko was a little nervous. She turned around and saw that it was Shirakawa Ze, whom she had met at school, and that he was keeping a certain distance and not moving. Only then did she feel relieved.

She still had a deep impression of Baichuan Ze. After all, he could accurately feel the emotions in her piano playing.