《The Blind Note》


 Chapter 1 - Da Capo

    Again the birds along with the sound of vehicles woke up the young woman lying in bed, which meant she woke up about an hour earlier than expected.


    -Again... not sleeping well is putting me in a very bad mood in the mornings, I guess I''ll stay up until Violet comes to attend to me.


    Chisako stayed sitting on her bed, thinking about the things she had to do today, the more she thought about it the more she got depressed, she got to the point of humming a jazz song to calm herself down, after an hour and a half, Violet her maid came to wake her up.


    -Good morning, Miss Chisako, as always you look radiant as every morning.


    Violet greeted kindly as she always did, while bowing a little. Chisako greeted Violet coldly without even looking at her.


    Between the two of them they did their usual routine, Violet helped the young girl to get up, with her guide she took her to the bathroom, she turned on the shower leaving the water hot at exactly 40 degrees Celsius, then she helped Chisako undress with a smile on her mouth.


    -I see that your cute little waist continues to accentuate, and that ass is growing divinely, miss.


    -Always so sassy Violet, unfortunately my chest is still not growing.


    Chisako was taking her hands to her breasts that despite not being flat were not very big.-Calm down, Miss, give it time, besides, a gentleman will come along to steal your breath.


    That would be a great feat worth seeing my daring friend.


    Once Chisako finished bathing, she sat naked on a small stool for her maid to dry her hair, while they continued with their routine, in Chisako''s mind the doubt that had her nervous all this weekend was on her mind.


    Will it really be a good idea to attend that audition, if Fumeko finds out...?


    The young girl, who was now having her hair combed, clenched her hands due to the anxiety she felt.


    Violet approached her finger to Chisako''s back, delicately touching her while slowly moving her finger down the naked back of her mistress who couldn''t help but let out a small moan, the maid was even more daring, approaching her neck, she blew between the ear and the neck of the young girl, which made her moan again.


    -Stop it Violet... you know I don''t like to be touched," she said in an agitated voice.


    Violet laughed at the beautiful reaction of the fifteen year old Chisako.


    -Miss, I did it because you were making that stressful face, I just wanted to get you out of your thoughts that fill you with negativity.


    Violet asked her how she wanted to dress for this day, to which she had answered as usual, with her plaid model skirt, her black collared sweater and black glasses.


    -Why do you always do this Violet, you know I don''t like to wear a bra, it bothers me. - She said grumpily.


    I''m sorry, it''s just that you are already at an age that you should take care of your body in the sight of others... then we are ready Miss, you want to wait for your grandmother to have breakfast.


    Chisako quickly replied in the negative, so they proceeded to walk to the kitchen. At home, Chisako''s personal maid always walked about two steps ahead of her mistress, something not very well seen by people of high society, even so, they did it and at least the young mistress did not mind, on the contrary she felt at ease. They walked down long corridors until they finally came to eat in the kitchen.


    The cooks of the Yukihiro mansion were preparing the usual breakfast for the young heiress of the family and its large textile companies, a tea of fine red herbs with cinnamon and a drop of vanilla without sugar, accompanied by two toasts with egg in the cup.


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    -The water you put in for Fumeko is about to boil, Nimura.The cook quickly turned off the burner where the kettle was placed so that the typical whistle sound would not be heard when the water boiled, since Nimura knew that he did not like to disturb the young lady while she was eating, he simply said a simple "thank you".


    Chisako always drank her tea first when she ate egg so as not to leave the cup past the typical egg yolk smell, then she would eat her toast always taking small bites, watching the young miss''s way of eating, it was a kind of fine etiquette.


    When she finished eating she always brushed her teeth, with the help of her faithful maid, the last part of her routine was to spray two dabs of perfume on her neck, a very peculiar one that smelled like freshly roasted coffee beans with a sweet aniseed fragrance.


    No nonsense, it''s an illusion to go to the audition I was thinking about, besides Fumeko would never allow me to be in a band.


    The last thing to finish the routine of the young blonde long-haired young lady was to put on the single white glove on her left hand that covered the burns on her hand, which as a young girl when she was a sweet cheerful girl was burned in the fire at the old mansion, a memory that always came to her mind when she put on the glove.


    Both Miss Chisako and her faithful maid were coming down the long stairs that led to the grand entrance of the mansion and thus to the main entrance.


    -Have a nice day at school Yukihiro," Chisako''s grandmother said uninterestedly from the second floor, Mrs. Fumeko.


    Chisako had been frozen, she always avoided running into her grandmother in the mornings to avoid being with her.


    The maid put down what she had in her hands carefully on the floor, turned around to the Mistress of the house, to greet her as the staff should do, grabbing with her fingers the skirt of her maid outfit and bending her knees a little showing submission with her head down and never looking her in the eyes, but she was very careful to cover with her body the object so that the mistress would not see it.


    -Thank you Grandma Fumeko, have a nice day. - Chisako said as cold as her grandmother while bowing.


    The lady without another word continued on her way looking at her granddaughter without feeling.


    Violet saw the sadness reflected in the face of her beloved mistress.


    -I will go on foot today Violet, I prefer to walk, today is a nice sunny day.


    The maid had been surprised as always when Violet without mistake said the weather outside the mansion, she asked her mistress for permission to touch her face, which she accepted with a little mistrust, Violet sucked her thumb and removed the toothpaste she had on her cheek.


    -That''s why it smelled strongly of mint, thank you Violet, I''ll be going then.


    -Miss, forgive my impertinence, but aren''t you forgetting something?


    Violet handed her one of Chisako''s most precious friends, if not the only one, her Saxophone in its case.


    -I wish you good luck in your audition, and you can rest assured that Madam will be 2 hours later than usual today.


    -Yes, you are impertinent....


    Violet received her friend and took him away, before leaving she grabbed her faithful instrument, which she almost never needed in the mansion because she already had it memorized.


    She grabbed what seemed to be a small black rod that with a strong movement expanded, with it she began to feel what was in front of her feet and then began to walk.


    My dear mistress, I curse the day that destiny took away her vision.


    One of the little pleasures of the young mistress was to walk wherever she wanted, it made her feel an ephemeral freedom that when she arrived at the mansion after school was over because of the lessons she had to take taught by her strict grandmother.


    Chisako, already quite far from the mansion, took her fingers where Violet had left her saliva when cleaning her toothpaste, she brought her fingers stained with the saliva of her maid and took them to her tongue, where she ran over every place where there was saliva, to finish with a long sigh of pleasure, but her private moment did not last long, after having let her conflicted emotions take her, she returned to put her face as cold as that of a doll.


    Once she had arrived at Kimotori''s private school, one of the most prestigious and expensive in the whole country, she had to face the continuous comments whispered by her classmates, but she always managed to hear them.


    The ice queen arrived, the frozen blind, the blind heart, and comments of that nature was what the cold Chisako was used to.


    "You are going to the audition" was what Chisako heard from a small group chatting around, she had no friends at school, and it wasn''t because people didn''t want to interact with her, but because she was cold to others, there was only one person in the whole academy who had come to connect with Chisako, the upperclass model student Satomi Yokubo, a person she used to avoid as much as she could.


    She finally arrived at her classroom, where she sat waiting for her classes to begin, while having to deal with all the bustle her delicate ears could detect.


    This was the repeated routine she did almost every day without fail in her monotonous life.

 Chapter 2 - Ad libitum

    The long and boring classes seemed to Chisako to go on forever, many of which she had already mastered due to the number of hours of compulsory study she must do, but which, thanks to her maid, has diminished somewhat in the last year.


    Chisako was constantly touching the case of her saxophone to make sure it was still there, although she knew it would not move from that place, but she was not used to bringing her instrument to school, in fact, this was the first time she brought it, Chisako simply took out her saxophone when she went to see her teacher Luis, a great pianist who manages to take you to the farthest reaches of the world with his music according to the words of Lui''s former student.


    What do you think Lui should do... I''m sure he would encourage me to do it, no more than laugh in my face for hesitating, and drag me to the audition, that was my mentor''s way of doing things.


    The teachers always asked Chisako about what they were teaching to know if she was paying attention, as none of them realised what the young lady was doing, but she always answered the questions correctly, the academy was very prestigious, but almost no teacher knew how to deal with a blind girl, attitudes that I was used to.


    The end of classes had arrived, a moment that normally created a ball in Chisako''s stomach, because as much as she was bored at the academy, those were moments she didn''t have to spend with her grandmother, but today was slightly different.


    The young lady making use of her fine hearing and her faithful companion got to the place of the auditions without having to ask anyone, she determined by the hustle and bustle that there was a line, meaning that there was more than one interested in being part of the band of a group of boys who were Chisako''s classmates, she sat down on a bench, close to the room where the auditions were held in order to listen to how her competitors were playing. Not that Chisako was nervous about the audition, on the contrary, she had a lot of faith in herself, because she knew how good she was at playing jazz at least.


    A pretty young girl entered first, she was there for no more than 5 minutes, apparently she was a singer.


    That girl has no chance, she was out of tune 7 times and never managed to reach the necessary level of her voice timbre.


    Next up was a guy with an electric guitar.


    He really didn''t have a chance, or maybe it was my way of judging metal music, which was not to my taste.


    After an hour and a half of waiting there was finally no one there, Chisako was still debating whether or not to go to the audition, until she finally plucked up the courage.


    She entered without knocking, making as little noise as possible, but her cane for touching her surroundings gave her away.


    -I don''t think there''s anyone else, I honestly feel that this was a fiasco Sakura, I don''t think that any of us are good enough to replace Kiro.


    -You''re right Kou, although the first girl didn''t do badly, but I don''t feel that she fits with us.Chisako entered the stage with the help of a cane.


    -Sakura is the ice blind, but don''t tell me she''s going to....


    Sakura was surprised as well as Kou, it was difficult for them to assimilate that their classmate who had never talked with them now entered to audition for their band.


    -I''m Chisako Yukihiro, I play both the piano and the saxophone.


    The young lady began to take her instrument out of its case.


    There was an awkward moment, where no one said anything.


    -Saku, seriously let''s let this happen, it''s the blind one, besides a saxophone, what will we do with that in the band.


    -Don''t be like that, she could listen to us, look we don''t have anything to lose, let''s listen to her and then we tell her nicely that it is not what we are looking for.


    Indeed Sakura was right, as much as they were whispering between them Chisako had heard everything they were saying from the beginning, but she ignored it since she didn''t care about getting along with them, she just wanted to show that she was good.


    -Excuse us Yukihiro, go ahead we listen to you. - said Sakura.


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    -I insist that this is a waste of time, but go ahead Ice Queen.


    Chisako took some time to assemble the saxophone, she wet a piece of reed with her mouth, then she fished the mouthpiece with the tudel, she put the reed she had wet and put the clamp on it, then she put the tudel on the body of the saxophone and tightened the fork, she put her fingers on the keys.


    He licked his lips to moisten it in a very sensual way, brought his mouth to the mouthpiece of the saxophone, Chisako took a deep breath, and that''s when the magic appeared.


    It all began with a simple note that filled the room with an emotion unknown to all but Chisako, at the beginning she had left her two listeners speechless, as she played to perfection, but when Chisako began to feel her own music everything was transformed, she had stopped being still in the place where she started, and she moved with strong movements while she followed the sound of the own music that she created, no longer none felt in a room borrowed from some corner of the academy, but it was as if they had been transported to a bar where the jazz moved the place between tones. Sakura had closed her eyes letting herself be carried away, each melody that came out of Chisako''s instrument flooded the senses of those present.


    By the strong movements of Chisako her glasses went out shot thing that she didn''t care, leaving to see her two white eyes, this was the moment that she more enjoyed when the spots that she saw in that dark cloth that didn''t allow her to see began to waver making small explosions of colour, memories of her time of seer.


    Even the stubborn Kou couldn''t help but get carried away, and as much as it hurt his ego Chisako by far was a better musician than him, it wasn''t what he was looking for, but he knew he couldn''t let such an opportunity slip away, but he had no idea how to take advantage of it.Neither listener was breathing, they felt trapped in a dance of captivating notes from which they could not escape as each reached their own ecstasy, giving way to slight tingles above their heads.


    Chisako had finished playing, the agile saxophonist who kept dancing as she played, was now once again pleased and pleased with herself.


    Both Sakura and Kou were shaken, they were speechless from what they had just witnessed.-What did I just witness, Sakura? Sakura...


    Kou when not hearing answer looked at Sakura, who was mute, totally hypnotized looking at Chisako.


    Kou gave a small elbow to Sakura so that she would wake up.


    -Excuse me, that was... I don''t even know how to describe it, but you were great, I think that''s it.


    How sweet is this girl''s perfume, very sweet.


    Chisako moistened her lips.


    -Yes I know, so you guys say? - Chisako answered very coldly.


    -I''m not going to deny that Saku is right, but we are a pop band, not jazz, I''m not saying that you don''t stay, just let us talk about it, we''ll let you know, good job Yukihiro, and sorry for what I said.


    -About the ice queen, or the blind one, by the way I heard him whispering.


    Kou took his hand to his head, he apologized for everything he said, Sakura did it too, but Chisako didn''t seem to be interested in the least in the apologies, she just continued with the same cold air with which she had entered.


    -Yukihiro, you don''t seem very interested in joining, why did you really come, we have been classmates since elementary school if I''m not mistaken, and I believe that this is the first time that he speaks to us. - Asked a very confused Sakura.


    -Tell me Chiye, would you be interested in speaking with the people who insult you behind your back, you have always spoken badly of me, that you do not tell it to my face or believe that I never listened to you, it does not mean that I did not do it, but if I am interested in joining, if not, I would not have bothered to spend my valuable time in coming.


    To Sakura Chiye it had fallen a bucket of cold water in effect she in her past always made fun of Chisako, habit that when she was growing up she stopped doing it, more for pity than for doing the right thing. Still, she was sure she had never said anything to him face to face.


    -How do you know... you''re right, I won''t ask any more stupid questions.


    Sakura Chiye was sorry and regretful, she wasn''t even able to look Chisako in the face since she wouldn''t be able to tell if she did or not.


    -We will send you a message to notify you of our decision.


    Chisako remained silent, hoping it wasn''t necessary to state the obvious, seeing that no one spoke she decided to do so.


    -Explain to me how I get the message Chiye. - she said somewhat grumpily.


    Even Kou had just fallen in Sakura''s mistake.


    -67769779 that''s my number, I ask you to call me only for the band, nothing else.Kou decided to call immediately to Chisako''s mobile phone, out of simple curiosity to see how someone like her could answer a mobile phone.


    Thanks to Violet, the young lady''s maid, who had configured her phone to accept calls with the side buttons, up to accept, down to reject, and then down again to hang up.


    -Excuse me.


    Chisako quizzically picked up her phone, and put the phone away from her ear, she answered, but no one answered back.


    -I''m sorry Yukihiro, my mistake, I wanted my number to be registered on your phone, but it was stupid, I didn''t think about what I was doing,'' said Kou lying.


    Chisako took a breath, basically not to insult Kou.


    -I guess that''s it, let me know.


    Because I think this was all a mistake.


    Chisako put away her saxophone, took her time to disassemble it and withdrew with the help of her cane for the blind.


    -What do you say Saku?


    -There is something to say, I have never heard anything like this, she has a unique talent, her music was as if she was urging me to slow dance with her.


    -What specific, but I can''t deny that I felt something similar, I just resent that frivolous attitude she has towards us, that''s going to be a problem, and the other thing is that we are a pop band.


    -Kou I don''t see the problem of us playing Pop Jazz, if you ask me I say yes, besides it was by far better than all the ones that came.


    -Let''s talk about it with Zendo and make a decision, what do you think dear Saku?


    -It seems good to me, but the dear one was left over, we are not a boyfriend anymore Kou.


    Kou didn''t avoid to make a bad face, for something that simply came out.