My eyes widen when I see the title of the song we're going to start with.

Synchronicity

I thought they'll be singing more higher class, you can say. This song is already quite complicating but calculating the rank this school is, I predicted they'll sing more intense songs. Scrunching my eyebrows, I scan the music sheet not realizing the stares from the others.

"Is something wrong?" Mr Edison asks with interest getting me to get my attention back to him.

"Oh! No. Nothing's wrong." I instantly reply shaking my hand getting him to smile.

"Then you won't mind taking the female lead part!" He cheerfully states getting me to be taken by shock wondering if he was serious.

And let me tell you. He was.

"Ha! Like she can actually take the role. I bet she'll fail on the first sentence." One of the girls cuffs not so quietly.

She had long straight brown hair that matches with her auburn eyes which glares at me. The two girls beside her giggle as the girl beside me fidgets shyly.

Not that surprised that popularity rank also happens here, in honesty.

Turning back to the teacher, I give out one of my fake but appreciated smile.

"Sure." I accept getting the brown hair girl to roll her eyes.

"Good then! Um, Shiro! How about you take the male lead?" Mr Edison asks with his usual bright smile towards the boy behind me.

"Sure!" Shiro chirps as I scan the music sheet to find my parts.

Mr Edison breaks the parts up for everyone else giving me time to practice the song in my head. The beats, the melody, the tune, the tone, and the feeling. Questions fill my head as I answer them from my perspective of the song.

Even though I'm concentrating on the music, I can still her the doubts from the people around me.

"There's no way she can sing the lead. She just joined."

"She's probably just going to drag us all down."

"10 bucks that she's going to fail."

Closing my eyes, I try to ignore the comments as I give in to a deep breathe. The girl beside me gives me glances of concern as I open my eyes. Glancing back to her, I smile which surprised her a bit before I look back to the music sheet. That's when a tap comes on my shoulder getting me to look back at Shiro who was smiling down with concern.

"Good luck. It doesn't matter if you mess up." he tries to encourage me to only get me to smirk.

"Who says I'm going to mess up?"

Before I could see his expression, I turn back to the front to look at Mr Edison who nods at me to begin.

Nodding back, the music starts getting Shiro to sing first. Standing up in a nice posture, I open my mouth as I start singing, my body relaxes as I do a few hand movements with my eyes closed.

> Shiro: Normal / Octave: Slant / Others: -- singing --

Toki no yurikago de

Tsumetai yume o miru

Kimi ga utatte kureta

Yasashii yasashii komoriuta

--owaranu sekai--

--sekai no owari...?--

--warai, itawari--

--tada, inoru--

--mamoritai, kono sekai--

--meguri meguru sekai ni yasuragi to shukufuku o--

--tsutawaranai yo--

Hajimaru

--mirai o terashite--

--towa ni tsuzuku REKUIEMU--

--hikari o, sadame o--

--yami o tokihanatsu--

--anata no mirai--

--modoranu ano hi...?--

--owaranai utagoe o--

--tada, inoru--

--hateshinaku tooku tooku--

Meguri meguru sekai ni yasuragi to shukufuku o

Hikari o, sadame o, yami o, tokihanate

Owaranai zetsubou o

--utagoe o, kibou ni kaete--

--sakebi tsuzukete tada inoru--

--hateshinaku, tooku tooku--

Uta yo hibike

Kimi ga nozonda no wa...

Ore ga nozonda no wa...

Nokosareta koe wa nageki

Kimi o omoi nagara

Hitori, kimi no tame ni utau

Hitori, kimi no tame

--meguri meguru sekai ni yasuragi to shukufuku o--

--sadame wa owari--

Hajimaru koe subete kanaete

--mirai o terashite--

--towa ni tsuzuku REKUIEMU--

--hikari o, sadame o--

--yami o tokihanachi--

Breathing out, I finally open my eyes to find Mr Edison staring at me with intensity and a super serious face.

Wait. Did I actually mess up? I didn't even look at the music even once when I was singing so of course I did! Ahhh, I'm such an idiot for not even reading the music while I was singing. This annoying habit can be so troublesome sometimes!!

Not even noticing I was holding my breathe, I bit the bottom of my lips as I try to look away from his eyes.

"Amazing, Octave!" Mr Edison beams.

Huh? Blinking at what he said as I let it sink in, I continue to stare at his happy face as he gives me a tight bear hug.

Huh? Huh? HUH??

"You got all the high notes and everything! It's not easy to synchronize with someone you've never sang with! Especially with a song like this! What's even more amazing is how you also added you own twist in it at a few parts and joined the back up singers too!"

"...Thanks?" I hesitantly respond not knowing what to say.

"Did you ever take any singing lessons before?" he starts asking.

Shakes head.

"Did you ever join any choir before?"

Shakes head.

"Have you ever been taught by a music teacher?"

Shakes head.

"Do you play any instruments?"

Shakes head. Wait. Nods head.

"Compose music?"

Nods head.

"Sing in public?"

Nods head.

He looks at me with sparkles in his eyes as I start to sweat drop at what is happening or going to happen. My eyes are quite wide from his happiness as I lean back a bit not wanting to be too close.

What just happened?

He then suddenly goes back to his stands and frantically starts writing something to get me to stop leaning back and get back into a straight position.

Glancing at the others beside me, I find their eyes widen in shock as they continue to gap at me. Flinching, I slowly get my eyes looking back to the front as Mr Edison finishes what he was writing down before once again looking at me with excitement.

That's when a bad feeling shivers down through my spine getting me to for some reason dread for what might come.

"Octave, this may be sudden for you, but I believe you're the most fit to do this. Next month, our choir is invited to the International World Choir Competition meeting for the first time after 10 years. It is where choirs from all over the world join together and show their cultures. This year, we, Japan representatives, are chosen to sing a song that involves the whole meeting. Meaning it has to be an international song. And, I would like you to compose that song!" he grabs my hands together tightly.

Huh?

Silence fills the whole courtyard until bunch of shouts explode.

"WHAT?!"

"I can't! Even you said it! It's international meaning everyone will see it!" I start to panic as my heart starts to pump really quickly.

I've never done anything that was international before! Never! And I rather not!

"Octave." he grabs my hands more tightly, "I know you can do it. Why else did I choose you? Before, I was suppose to do it, but since I have no clue how, I'm giving this opportunity to you!"

Also known as, you're dumping your work on me.

"But!" the brown hair girl starts to argue but Mr Edison raises his hand interrupting her.

"No protests. Ms Octave will be composing the song and all of you have to participate in it. I'm not going to accept any arguments. And since we have time right now and I don't know what to do, I'll let all of you plan what to do for the past classes to prepare for the event!" He lets go of my hands and quickly packs his things before waving at us while walking away, "Have fun! Oh! Also the topic is 'being blessed'!"

With that, he was gone.

Did he. Did he just ditch us?

Everyone gives out sighs as I just look at the air for not believing what is happening.

"So what do you have in plan?" the brown hair girl asks but I still look in disbelief.

"Am I the only one that's just shocked of how he just, I don't know, dumped his work on us like it was nothing?! I thought he was a teacher!" I take deep breathes before looking at them as they sigh and shrug.

"We've gotten used to it." the brown hair girl states before repeating herself again, "So, what do you have in plan?"

I shrug not able to think still, "Getting this dumped on me so suddenly didn't really give me anytime to think about it."

"How about we introduce ourselves to her first!" Shiro happily suggests now getting me to realize that I don't know any of their names.

"Fine. I'm Rika Utalite." the brown hair girl introduces herself quite high-classed.

At least she's not like him. 'Bow to me you peasant'.

Shuddering inside my head from the memory, I just nod to her as I look to the girl next to her.

She had short brown hair with her right side partially tied up and light brown eyes.

"Uni Oshiwa." she smiles but it looks more like a smirk.

Since I started from the end with Rika, I just continue going down the first column.

"Violet Andrews." a purple hair girl with red-auburn eyes introduces before brushing her hair back.

Now, it was a boy with white hair and red eyes. He didn't even look at me in the eyes as he yawns looking at nothing with boredom.

"Maki Nerons."

Next, the shy girl beside me. She starts fidgeting looking at the ground as she looks up to me. Her red eyes look at me as her light blond hair waves down to her waist. She was quite petite, but I ignored that as she blushes lightly.

"Naya Yashiko....It's nice to meet you." she whispers getting me to barely hear her.

Looking up to the second row, skipping Shiro, I look to the boy beside him. He looks at me with boredom but also with a hint of interest, his cold blue eyes stare at me as his yellow hair covers part of it.

"Arions Langrid."

And then there were triplets. But can I say that they look but also the same as the only difference were probably the eyes and hairstyle. All of them had black hair and red eyes. The first one beside Arions had spit front bangs, the second had his hair moved all the way back as the last one had a bowl-cut bang.

"Hi! I'm Derick!"

"Jason."

"I'm Owen!"

" And we are the Abel Triplets!" they all sync together getting me to sweat drop.

Cool...?

Next was a black hair boy with red-brown eyes. He brushes his hair back as he looks at me in a quite scary way. But it doesn't frighten me.

" Sung Gun Hwan."

Lastly was a boy with pure white hair and bored red eyes as he stares at me for a while before introducing himself.

"Lero Portens."

Since the introduction was done, I thought it'll be proper for me to introduce myself again.

"Well, I'm Octave Reiner and it's nice to meet all of you." I greet getting small nods while I continue talking, "Anyways, since I was suddenly dumped into this situation, I have no idea what to do."

As I bluntly tell what is on my mind, they stare at me before they all laugh friendly in their own way.

"You may look like an ordinary girl but you sure are interesting." Rika compliments smirking with her arms crossed.

"Thanks, I am very much proud of my weirdness." I raise my chin up a bit to get more laughter.

"But seriously, what are we going to do about this? With Mr Edison suddenly throwing this to you." Shiro asks as he looks at me with concern.

The others do the same as I frown.

"I just need a few minutes. Do your own things for now, first." I reply getting small nods as I start heading to my belongings on the side of the garden.

They start to talk with each other as I take out my iPod and headphones. Sitting there, beside my bag with a notebook on my lap, I put on the headphones before playing a random song and closing my eyes.

Okay, lets think. If I remember correctly, the topic is 'being blessed'.

First, that's quite a complicating topic but also easy if you think calmly about it. Like being blessed for having a family or being bless with life, friends, and so on. Easy. Okay, I've got that question done, but next is that this song has to be international. How can I get 'being blessed' of feeling international?

That's when I gasp while snapping my eyes open getting the group to look at me instantly. Ignoring their stares while they ask me questions, I start quickly writing down on my notebook my notes and the music not wanting to leave a detail out or forget it.

When I was finished, a shadow blocks the light to get me to look up at Shiro.

"What's up?" he asks with a worried face after minutes of not responding to them.

I smirk before standing up and heading over to the group with him following. There, both the girls and boys look at me with confusion.

"I've got it."