New York, The Juilliard School is located on York Avenue in the Upper East Side. This is a private aristocratic school. Not only the campus facilities are beautiful and luxurious, but the area around the school has a feeling of being close to a park.
Although nearby Carl Schurz Park has less green space than Central Park, it has a unique space for children to play. The school has a long history. It not only teaches full-time courses, but also cleverly and dynamically integrates modern science and technology into the classroom atmosphere. It also cooperates closely with local cultural organizations to carry out many artistic and creative extracurricular activities, so its teaching resources are unprecedentedly excellent.
Of course, the high enrollment sponsorship fees exclude most children from ordinary income families! Children who can go to school here are generally rich or noble, so don't think too much about others.
And now, this is the school Anne will attend! She is now a transfer student! In order to forge a complete set of identity documents for Annie, a SHIELD archives team worked overnight and finally forged all her birth certificates, parents' details, enrollment records, medical records, insurance records, etc.!
S.H.I.E.L.D.’s professional archives team stepped in and found that there were no flaws in Anne’s information! All information, whether paper or electronic, is archived in the federal government's central database! Even if the paper files are old, no one can find any clues! For the powerful SHIELD, it is not easy to create a set of identity information for a little girl!
Although it is not the admission season, usually the school no longer accepts new students! But under the power of SHIELD, the school dares to say no? No matter how inconvenient it was, no matter how substandard the procedures were, they could only grit their teeth and find a place for Anne!
"Good morning, classmates! Today I will introduce a new classmate to you, everyone welcomes you with a round of applause!"
Sally Carter, the female teacher in charge of teaching English (English Languages Arts, or ELA), took Annie's hand and walked into the classroom, introduced her to the fourteen students in the classroom, and motioned Annie to come to the podium to do herself for everyone. introduce.
In order to improve the quality of teaching, Juilliard Academy generally has no more than twenty students in each class, or even less! There are fourteen people in this class now. If Anne is added, it will be exactly fifteen.
Annie was holding two books in her arms. She changed out of the magic dress in the style of Little Red Riding Hood and put on the long skirt school uniform of Juilliard School. She carried a schoolbag on her back, but there were no books in the schoolbag, only the Her little bear Tibbs!
In fact, at the beginning, Coulson and Melinda were unanimously opposed to Annie taking Tibbers Bear to school due to its powerful deterrent power and this extremely dangerous pet toy!
But then Annie said that if Tibbers was too far away from her, it would probably break the contract and transform back into the shadow bear form of the giant flame bear. That would be too dangerous!
! So in the end, after consideration, Colson and Melinda agreed to Annie's idea of taking Tibbs to school, but they asked her to put Tibbs in her schoolbag and not take it out casually!
If Tibbers could speak, he actually wanted to refute it at that time! Anne's words can only deceive the natives on Earth who don't understand magic! Is the soul contract so easy to break away from?
Look at those warlocks who enslave demons! They are separated by countless planes, so summoning those contracted demons is as simple as summoning a dog? Do you think those demons dare to break free from the contract? The contract between Tibbers and Annie is much stronger than the contract to enslave demons!
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I was led by the teacher to stand on the podium. Looking at the dozens of pairs of slightly curious eyes staring at her below, Anne was a little happy. Is this a school? It seems like a lot of fun!
"Hello everyone! My name is Anne! Anne Hastur! Nice to meet you all." Maybe this will be a pleasant day, Anne thought.
...
Annie was very honest in the morning class. She didn’t do anything unnecessary before she got familiar with the place! She is still observing, observing this novel school of humans on earth! It turns out that they really don’t teach magic, they only teach simple and strange things!
Afternoon, school music classroom. It is said to be a classroom, but in fact it is better to be said to be a small theater with a stage and auditorium. At this time, a teacher was playing a piece of music on the piano on the stage. Anne and a group of classmates were sitting in a row in the audience below.
This is the last music class before school. The music teacher is a long-haired male teacher, John Philip, who is said to be a very famous Hollywood music producer. Next to Anne, there is a The fat classmates admired him very much and said how good and powerful he was! But Anne said she didn't know this old man at all!
"Aha~! I seem to have found a new face! Let me see, Annie?" After John Philip finished playing a song, he picked up the roster and found the newly added name easily. , that's Anne.
"Yes, teacher! Nice to see you." Annie stood up and gave a slight salute.
"Oh! Okay, I'm glad to see you too, Anne. But..." John Philip closed the roster and thought for a while, "According to our rules, new people must give their classmates Let’s play a new tune!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a chubby student immediately raised his hand. His name was Jack Harper, the son of an entrepreneur, and he was the fat man who admired the music teacher! My hobby is eating, so I have grown very fat. Of course, it is also possible that the talent points were added incorrectly, and all the points were added to the fat, so the brain is not very good! Usually he appears to be very upright, honest, and resigned to death!
"Teacher, we don't seem to have this rule." After raising his hand and gaining the teacher's consent, Jack Harper stood up and said.
"Now we have it! Okay, please sit down!" The teacher asked him to sit down impatiently and looked at Annie.
"Classmate Annie? What instrument can you play? Piano? Or violin?"
Annie bit her fingers and thought for a while. She knew how to play, but the piano? violin? do not know! But she can play the Yueqin, and her mother once taught her a few tricks!
"I can play the lunar instrument!" Annie pointed to the musical instrument storage room on the right side of the stage, where a variety of musical instruments are stored. Among them, two exquisite harps, one large and one small, are placed there. The large one is obviously for adults. , probably prepared for teachers, the smaller size is just right for primary school students with smaller arms and legs.
"Wow! What a surprise! Even my teacher doesn't know how to do this! It's called a harp! Annie, not a yueqin. Are you sure you know how to do it?"
John Philip immediately felt that this new girl had an unusual identity! Because the harp is a relatively uncommon instrument, it is a large stringed instrument. It is one of the oldest plucked stringed instruments in the world and originated in ancient Persia.
The modern harp was designed by French piano maker S. Herard in 1810. It has forty-seven strings of different lengths and seven pedals that can change the pitch of the strings and play all tones. The appearance of the harp is exquisite and beautiful, full of artistic temperament, elegant and pure as crystal as pearls, and has a sound as clear as morning dew.
Of course, the most important thing about harps is that they are expensive! Very expensive! Especially a harp made by a famous master is definitely not something ordinary people can afford! If Juilliard wasn't an aristocratic private school, it probably wouldn't be able to afford these two very good-looking harps, right?
John Fili walked over and played the big harp twice in a pretentious manner. Then he stopped in embarrassment and did not dare to continue, so as not to be embarrassed.
"Okay! Annie, you can come up and perform!" He moved the trumpet harp to the front of the stage, put down a small square stool, and then motioned for Annie to perform on stage.
"Then, let me play a little song for you, called: The Embrace of the Moon Goddess."
Annie walked onto the stage with a little jump, stood in front of Wu Qin, faced her classmates and teachers and gave an elegant Valoran princess salute, then sat on a small square stool, plucked the strings for a while, and stepped on Pedal, getting used to this harp which is slightly different from Valoran Yueqin, then the little hand stopped and took a deep breath.
Teacher John Fili and his classmates immediately became quiet because they knew that Annie was about to start her official performance. They had never heard a performance of this kind of instrument before, and everyone's face was filled with expressions of curiosity or anticipation.
Annie was just about to start playing, but her cunning eyes rolled, and she suddenly recalled a little trick her mother taught her, and the corners of her mouth curled up proudly, like a little fox who had stolen grapes.
A trace of magic flowed to the fingertips, and as the fingers plucked the strings, an invisible ripple of magic rippled along with the sound waves...
One sound, two sounds, three sounds, and the beautiful sound of the piano continued, as if a ray of gentle moonlight passed through the window and sprinkled on Annie on the stage. The moonlight was like a moon elf beating on the strings of the piano, one by one. Flying from the harp. Sometimes they are light clouds and flowing water, sometimes they are leaping with passion, sometimes they are singing and weeping, and sometimes they are soul-stricken.
The audience in the classroom felt like they had disappeared from the world one by one, and plunged into the boundless universe. Everything around them disappeared, except for the white and vast moon in front of them! And the notes floating in my ears...
The song in less than five minutes is over! The audience was still sitting blankly, their eyes distracted, as if they were still staring into the void.
Music teacher John Fili was the first to react. He looked at Anne with shock and shouted, "Oh my god, what did I just hear? I just hugged the moon!"
That's right! He had just been immersed in the sound of the piano, drifting along with the notes, and when he finally reached the end of the music, he actually embraced the moon in the void!
"A genius-like performance, oh! No! Annie, you must be an angel sent by God! I was lucky enough to hear the voice of heaven! I will definitely give you an A+ in this course!"
"Wow! Wow~!" The little audience members also reacted at this time, but a little blond girl suddenly burst into tears. The teacher John hurried over and comforted him. "What's wrong? Angelina?"
"Wow~! I, I saw mommy! Woohoo!" It turned out that the little girl cried with joy. John remembered that in the student information, the little girl's name was Angelina Roberts, and she came from a single-parent family. Her father was A company president’s mother reportedly died of cancer two years ago.
Annie stuck out her tongue in embarrassment, made a face, and jumped off the stage. She wouldn't tell them that she wasn't actually playing very well, but she secretly used magic in the music to create a charming trick. This magic would lead people to be immersed in the music, and sometimes induce Memories that are strongest in some people's hearts, or allow them to see the loved ones they miss the most.
(Master, are you really okay with this? Isn’t it inappropriate to use the magic that enchants people’s hearts on piano music? If I remember correctly, it seems that Valoran’s performance convention explicitly prohibits this! I think you really should Seriously learn how to play the piano! Even if you can't play as well as that person named Sona, you can't play too badly, right? Your performance just now, to be honest, if the charm effect of magic is eliminated, it is really Very bad! I missed several syllables, played several wrong places, and the rhythm didn’t seem right...)
"Shut up! Tibbers! You know too much!"
After walking off the stage and sitting back in her seat, Annie punched her schoolbag twice! How dare you say that she plays poorly? She decided to go back and take a bath for twice as long tonight. The little bear seemed a little too dirty recently and needed a good soak!
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Colson and Melinda had a great time today. After sending Annie to school in the morning, they drank coffee and talked about life in a cafe next to the school until they saw Annie walking out of the school gate after school. .
They took a big risk when Annie went to school this time! Although they have told Annie many times not to use magic in the school and not to let the bears loose! Anne also made a promise! But there are always worries! I'm just afraid that Annie will get violent and burn some unlucky guy to ashes! Then the matter will never end!
Now it seems that everything is fine! Annie also respected the rules of the agreement, which made Colson and Melinda secretly relieved!
"Annie! How was your day?"
Colson pulled up to a stop next to Annie and opened the door. Originally, Juilliard Academy had a school bus to take her to and from school, but Anne lived in the suburbs by the sea and was not within the pick-up and drop-off range of this school bus neighborhood, so she had to drive herself.
"Very good! I had a few classes today. Although they were a bit boring, I played a piece of music in the afternoon, and the teacher said I could get an A+ in my music class!" Annie got into the back seat and closed the car door. He took out Tibbers from his schoolbag and smiled proudly at the two people in the front row.
"Is that so? That's awesome!"
