"Mom, I'm home!" said Jousuke with fear that his mom would yell at him.
His mom replied "Welcome home Jou-kun."
His mom saw the bags of prizes. She quickly walked towards Jousuke. She sighed as a sign that she's preparing something to say.
His mom suddenly shouted "Jousuke, what did you do again this time!? Did you steal!? How much did you spend!? That was your last allowance kiddo!"
She continued yelling at Jousuke. On the other hand, Jousuke was just standing there while sweating a lot.
"No, it's not like that mom. Asa treated both Natsu and I in the arcade. I didn't steal or spend anything." said Jousuke while trying to calm his mom.
She replied "Is that so? Then tell it immediately next time."
She went back to the kitchen as she was mad that her accusations were wrong.
-NEXT DAY-
Jousuke woke up and turned off his alarm. He went back to sleep. The alarm went off again but Jousuke repeated the same thing. The same thing happened at the third time. The fourth time he woke up, he realized it's already quarter to 8AM. He's late!
"Oh no! I'm late!" Jousuke screamed as he was shocked by looking at the time.
He quickly panicked and thought to himself "Should I skip class for today? Should I start getting ready? I'm so late! Please, help me, my dear ancestors. What should I do?"
His mom kicked his room's door open and shouted "Will you please shut up? Your siblings and I are trying to sleep!"
He turned around and saw his mom. Her mom was shocked to see him crying just because he panicked.
"Mom, why did you set an alarm in my room on a saturday morning?" said he while whining.
She bursted into laughter only to know that her son tought it's a school day. She walked away while laughing out loud. Jousuke was pissed as he panicked for nothing.
"Moms nowadays are more like a bully than a best friend." said he.
He grabbed his phone to calm his mood down and to check some notifications. He saw Asa's DM "Jousuke". His emotion was gone so quickly.
"Asa? What does he need?" Jousuke thought to himself.
Jousuke was typing on his phone "Why? Is there something you need?" He deleted all of it and called Asa instead.
While walking with Natsu, Asa's phone rang.
"Jousuke? Is there something he need?" said Asa.
Natsu and Asa looked into each other with blanked thoughts. Asa decided to answer the phone.
"Hello, do you need something?" said Asa and Jousuke on the phone at the same time.
"Eh? But you're the one who called." said Asa.
"Eh? But you're the one who messaged." said Jousuke.
Asa replied "Oh, I see. Yeah, about that, there's an upcoming event in our school; more like a competition—a music competition. It hasn't been announced yet at school, but you know, our pal's a part of student council, so we got an advanced announcement. He said it will be divided each classes. Their proposal participants is a minimum of 15 students each classes."
Jousuke asked "What exactly are you trying to say?"
Natsu replied "Come on Jousuke, it's obvious. Remember that music performance in class? The one that Kenji held?"
Jousuke asked "What about it?"
Natsu shouted "Are you dumb or an idiot!?"
Asa tried to calm Natsu. "Chill out Natsu, maybe Jousuke's just trying to interpret what we're trying to say. Give me that and let me talk to him."
"Jousuke, there are only a few people in our class that has knowledge about music; you are the best amongst all of them." said Asa
As Asa was speaking, Jousuke is blushing and smiling in front of his while repeatedly saying "Mhmm."
"Let me get straight to the point. Of course, we don't have any friends except for us 3 in our class. In spite of that we still want to join with you as our facilitator." said Asa
"Huh? Me? Have you lost your mind? Why would you want me to be your facilitator?" Jousuke asked with confusion
Natsu sighed. He quickly grabbed the phone at Asa's hand. He repeatedly shouted "You're an idiot, Jousuke!"
Asa's trying to calm Natsu by repeatedly saying "Calm down, Natsu!"
Jousuke covered his ears due to the loudness of Natsu and Asa. He quickly hung up on them. He then thought about what Natsu and Asa have said.
"Have they lost their mind? I mean it's impossible that I'm the only skillful musician in our class, impossible!" Jousuke thought to himself.
-FLASH BACK-
"All right enough lesson for today. I would wish everyone to put all ears on me only. You'll be having a music performance. You must do it by group, but limit it into 5 members only. You may use any song. You may use any kinds of instruments. Do y'all understand?" said Kenji, the music teacher.
Everyone responded with "Yes, Sensei."
"Any questions?" said Kenji
Everyone responded with "No, Sensei"
"Very well then! You may now take your break." said Kenji
The moment Kenji came out of the room, everyone rushed out for a lunch break. Meanwhile, Jousuke, Natsu, and Asa already talked about the music performance.
Natsu asked "So I'm thinking, what song should we perform?"
"Anything's fine." Jousuke and Asa replied while playing on their phones.
"Aw man, you should've killed it already." said Asa.
"I didn't see it coming!" said Jousuke.
Natsu asked another question "The group must contain 5 members right?"
"No idea." Jousuke and Asa replied as if they were being distracted by Natsu.
"If it is a must, who should we group with?" Natsu asked.
"You decide." Jousuke and Asa said while being distracted by their games.
Natsu saw their arts teacher Abe walking towards them. Natsu looked in Abe's eyes, seeing the intention of confiscating their phones.
"Guys..." Natsu murmured.
"Shut up, Natsu." Jousuke and Asa said while they're both busy playing.
"Uhmm, guys..." Natsu murmured again.
Jousuke and Asa shouted "We said shut up, Natsu!"
A shadow blocked their phones. They trembled and faced the person, only to see Abe's angry look.
"First, using your phones at school. Next, playing games on them. Now shouting on classmate? What kind of self-discipline do you not both have?" said Abe.
Jousuke and Asa apologized, a lot.
"We're so sorry, Abe Sensei!"
"We sincerely apologize for what happened."
"Natsu's our friend."
"Please forgive us."
"Please don't take our pho-"
"Enough! I'll let it slide this time. But next time I see you two violating school rules once again, you'll go straight to the principal's office. Especially you, Jousuke! You know your reputation in this class. You're one of the smartest students I've ever had, and you'll show me this!? Goodbye!" Abe shouted with disappointment.
"She seems so mad man." said Jousuke
"Whatever. You were saying Natsu?" Asa asked our of sympathy that they're ignoring Natsu's care about academics, which was rarely seen.
"All right, let's get this over with!" said Natsu.
-THE DAY OF PERFORMANCE-
"Good morning Kenji Sensei to our fellow students in this class. We'll be performing the song "Asleep among endives" by Ichika Aoba." said Jousuke, Natsu, and Asa.
The three of them sighed as a sign of readiness and started performing. The of them sang; Jousuke is playing the guitar. Moments later, the performance is finished and everyone is touched, some of them even cried.
"It's a masterpiece sung by my students. A round of applause for them everyone" said Kenji.
The three of them giggled and said "Thank you, everyone!"
-PRESENT-
"Yeah, I do remember now." Jousuke thought to himself while laying down.
He got up and looked into his mirror. He felt motivated and shouted "Let's start this day!"
On the other hand, Natsu and Asa didn't get any clues if Jousuke is willing to join them or not.
Natsu asked "What do you think is his answer?"
"He surely wouldn't let us down." said Asa.
What they didn't know is someone's listening to them while hiding at the corner.
"Music competition, huh? So exciting!" the anonymous girl whispered and walked away without being noticed.