A best friend

On that day, we become more than just friends. We share the things we want to, manage things together, practice together, reivise and do homework together and even read together. We are more than friends, best friends.

That day when I listened and watched him play the piano for the first time, he managed to let me remember my childhood memories, my heart recieved a message, "to live on". Now I want to confidently play the piano untill the day of competition. I have a friend to support and teach me. He was great, I felt like he was a better pianist than me that day. It was amazing. Maybe, no wonder he eagerly wanted me to join the competition, maybe he felt sad that music makes someone lose their hope and dreams.

But to think it again, why didn't he joined the competition too? He knows how to play which I didn't know before. This is strange to me.

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timeskip in music club

In the afternoon, we went for practice in the music club. He teaches me more than I teach him. He is really a master pianist. I can't imagine that a master teach me to play the piano. He is calm and relaxed while teaching me. Nothing is bothering him when I make mistakes all the time. He's good.

"Yi Chuan, Why didn't you participate in the competition? "

I slipt my tongue, I ask him all of a sudden. He stopped playing for a while and have a deep think for about 20 seconds.

"Hmmm, nope, it has to be you performing on stage, to shine the most. "

"////...but it could be a waste of your talent if you don't do so. "

"Have I ever told you a secret? "

"What? "

"I... "

What is he going to say? Why am I feeling so excited?

"I was wandering if you have a bestfriend as good as me."

"Huh? "

"It feels like you didn't really have any besties. Am I the first? "

"Bestfriends?... Hmmm... I do have, a long time ago, my childhood days. "

"Oh, looks like you do have friends."

"He was the first one to beg me teach him play the piano. I didn't exactly know a lot that time because my father just recently take me as his student that time. "

"Really? He must've been a great friend to you. "

"I don't know, I haven't met him for a long time, There is this once that he didn't want to see me, I was so mad because It was the last day I get to see him, I move her with my parents that time. Although he knew but he doesn't want to see me. But anyway, its been a long time already, and I almost completely forgotten about him. "

The blue sky slowly turn into a red one, the sunlight accompany us practicing with smiles on our faces. Its been a long time since I practice with someone, its good, its warm. It feels like I am very glad to have him be my teacher. He was happy and so do I.

I wish that things will go on this way. I realize that I'm starting to love piano again, starting to fall in love with the music like the first time I listen to music. I started to realize that I have been cutting ties with the world of music, the world that I love the most, I left that world a long time ago, but when? I didn't even knew that I treating music as a dark world that trapped me inside.

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Timeskip bedroom

I opened my study drawer, inside, there is a book that is still in new looks, I only wrote a few pages, then I stopped for no reasons. Maybe because of the time that makes me forgotten about it.

"When was the last time I write on my diary? " I flipped through the pages and to the very end the date of my last diary was 1st November 2018. So, its been 9 months.

#1st November 2018, Two more months and its a new year, another new life, up till today, I'm still the same, no improvement. That day when I was 13, I thought that things would change, but I'm still trap in the darkness. I hope I could find the light.#

I hesitate, I ask myself, why am I so dump? I mean, why can't I just go over it and live a new life? Without worries and improve myself in music, I think... This must've been his last wish. Dad, can I really do this? Whenever I play the piano, I think of you, I miss you so much that It kills me, it makes me feel sad and heart broken. If you didn't leave, maybe you and mom can see me become a successful pianist like you.

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#21st July 2019, I decided to change my life and continue music, I will play the piano so that I will never forget you dad, I promise that I will wim this year's competition and I will fight till the end. Dad, I think I finally get out from that dark world, I found the light that gives me hopes and dreams, that light helped me realize that I have been wasting my time, that light, shine my world.#

I write that on my diary and put it inside the drawer, I feel more hopes in me, I will never be that girl from before. I need to live my life and shine bright, I will appreciate every single time of my life and make use of it.

I close the drawer and explore into other drawers. At the first drawer, I saw a photo album. I took it out and look inside the album. There are pictures of me and my mom and dad. My stories from the first to the next and the next and continue all the down. I love the smiles on our faces. There was also the picture I play the piano with my dad. Aww, Those memories hit me back, I miss those times so much.

As I go through the pictures, I suddenly stopped and saw a picture of him, my long lost childhood friend, right, he didn't tell me his named, we address each other casually (you & I), why didn't I thought of asking his named? How silly I was, no, he is also another one, why didn't he told me his name that time?

I wonder how is he now, does he even remember me? I bet that we didn't even realize that we walk through each other before, How does he look like now?

"Yue, dinner... " my mom called out for me suddenly. I close the album and put it back in the drawer.

Delicious homemade foods on the table ready to be eaten by the two hungry wolves, with some juice of our favorite, both of us enjoyed our dinner joyfully. Chat and laugh together, the night become happier than it was.

"Mom, I joined a piano competition. "

"really? "

"Yes. "

"I can't believe it, you finally decide to play again. "

"I have thought it through, its time for me to fulfill dad's wish. "

"I am very happy for you, Yue. You made the right decision, I believe your dad will be very happy for you up there."

"I will make both of you proud. "

The night become a beautiful memory. Maybe some people are having problems, but believe me, even if the world goes dark and you can't see anything, don't give up on finding the light to the right direction.

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