Chapter 3 The Concert
The instrument was on a stage in the dining hall of a really nice hotel, a western style building. There were a few waiters that helped the guests with their coat. Yeon Woo was already bored, he sighed as he noticed that his uncle was incredibly and surely excessively excited for that concert.
Yeon Woo looked at the piano, it didn't look much more than a big wooden box with strings and several ivory keys. He looked away, hoping that his torture would quickly reach its end. All of a sudden mrs Yoo hit his arm with her fan and leaned to him.
"Yeon Woo, look! He's here!" she whispered, he looked at the stage and noticed a guy standing in the centre of it.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, tonight, Maestro Jung Joo Haeng is going to play some of the most difficult etudes in the history of music... With the hope that you enjoy so much talent, I wish you good listening" the guy said clapping his hands as the young guy reached the stage.
Joo Haeng smiled at the public, he sat on the bench and as he gently touched the keys his almost adorable and quite naive expression quickly faded.
"Close your mouth dear..." Yeon Woo's aunt whispered
It was true, Yeon Woo was just too amazed to even control his body anymore. It was such a surprise, those little and slim fingers were playing so intensely, his hands were just running up and down the keys,one impossible chord after another... it was impossible.
Yeon Woo thought about the music he used to listen to when he was just a child, he used to hide behind one of the pillars of his family's house just to look at his mother practicing in the garden, he surely loved his mother and he missed her a lot... but this was so much better...
"Oh my God this was just fantastic, did you hear that? The solemnity of those slow and majestic major chords... the sparkle of joy in those rapid ornaments.. and then the sorrow of the notes of those minor scales...." his uncle said as they left the hall.
"Don't be ridiculous aunt... it is just music... and it is quite weird too... I will never come with you again... and surely not with these... clothes... I feel like someone is trying to choke me..." Yeon Woo whined
"I don't understand why you're complaining that much... you look quite good... the ladies couldn't take their eyes off of you... they were probably envious of your narrow waist" she said chuckling
"I will not go to another concert just because I want ladies to look at me, don't ask me to come ever again... I don't want to waste my time like this..." he responded.
They reached their house, Yeon Woo was about to go to his room when his aunt suddenly remembered an important meeting she planned weeks before that concert.
"Yeon Woo!"
"What do you want now... I'm tired... I want to go to sleep... these shoes are killing me..." he replied
"Tomorrow your cousin's soon to be husband will come here to meet us, I already prepared all the papers and we already reached an agreement... you just have to stay here since you're the only male left in the family..."
"Fine... may I go to sleep now?"
"Yes, you can do whatever you want now, just be careful, I love you but I know that you're not that kind with strangers..."
"I will kill him and sell his flesh to a butcher"
"Yeah... you got the spirit..." mrs Yoo murmured.
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