After School Dulce-Mugen H

<sub>It's not often that Michiru isn't in the music room after club activities. I grumble...Geez-I just got out of track...I'm tired darn it-I want to go home and relax-and the more time Michiru spends lazing about the school-the less of a chance I'll get to relax.

"Maybe she's in the art room..." I muse, and glance at the corner of the piano. Ah, her Violin Case-so she was planning on coming back...I sit myself at the piano-a grand. Yahama? Not too bad-but you'd think that a school like Mugen would have a better one...maybe this is just the practice one? I know that the one I've seen on the school stage is nicer...

I tug the cover off the keys and my fingers find an opening chord easily. B in the center-balancing it out. No dissonance...I could easily cause the notes to sour-a flat or sharp thrown in this chord would easily turn the phrase ugly. But I play the B chord again-enjoying the sound, the full sound of my left hand joining the right on the keys.

I don't often play at the school-most times, if not all, I'll play at home, only for Michiru-or at whatever joint concert she drags me to next-but it's been a long day, and the breezes and winds are ripe with the sound of the chords that I can't help but lose myself in the music-Adagio at first-pleasant and simple-but quickly I find myself running into a phrase of Capriccio, the tempo picking up-I'm running, the calm of the previous music fading into a normal pace for me, quick and short notes.

Now a consonance, a respite-I'm slowing again, relaxing into an expressivo , a reprise of the opening, easing slowly into full chords. The air in the room has changed, and I know why. I greet the newcomer with a set of staccato notes, high and clear, and catch them on the down fall with the drone of a small chord below. The tempo slows and I fall from the trance of the keys with the opening B chord.

"You are late." I announce, turning my neck to greet the cause of my playing. She gives that smile-the one that is hardly there, but is so definitely there that it means something.

"And you told me that you refused to play the piano at school," she answered in rebuttal. Graceful as the sea, she bends over and captures the handle of her Violin case in hand, "Now, shall we?"

I grin, knowing that at home I'll surely be in trouble, and forced to practice tonight. But that's alright. The air is full of music, and suddenly I'm not so tired anymore.</sub>

Long Haruka narrative is long-but I never have any pictures of her at the piano in her school uniform-and I do like that outfit-though my mother finds it ghastly. She saw me walking out the door with it to go to CTcon and see gave me a look and said, "Could you clash any more? That looks horrible."

"But mom-It's a school uniform!"

"Doesn't mean maroon goes with plaid green." and I cracked up. Still though-I like playing the piano-I often just sit down and start playing nothing in particular, just to wind down-sort of like Haruka did here. Those are all real music terms too-stuff I've learned from years of playing instruments and singing. If you don't know one-google it! It's pretty easy to find them.

This is the first time I've put the Sailor Moon logo on a Haruka picture too-xD I like it. xD The title by teh way can mean After School Treat, sweet or Delight. =3 You choose which you like best.

Haruka (c) Takeuchi-sensei
Cosplay-MEH