"Oh thanks! The instructions say that these are for the cymbals I think."

Seeing Yashiro assemble one helped him figure out how a few of the other ones were to be assembled, and he would do so. Afterwards, he took out a crash cymbal and set it atop one of the stands.

"That's one down!"

"Alright, enough of that."

Chuckling, he put the bubble wrap down, then reached in the box and pulled out the huge bass drum, taking the packaging off of it, then pulling out the toms and some metal poles and looking at the instructions.

"....I don't know which of these poles is which..."

//BUT IT LOOKS SO FUN 😭😭😭😭

ahem. I will not FOMO Kirby Air Riders

"For real! I get it, though."

He would finally get the last of the tape off and open the box, revealing the REAL prize....a thick layer of bubble wrap!

His inner child came out immediately and he started popping the bubble wrap, snickering. Pop pop pop.

Sometimes I'll fall so deep into the pit that it feels impossible to recover from. No matter what, I will continue to learn and grow and improve. I will continue to love and trust myself and lift myself up, because if I don't, who will.

It's not over. I shall keep moving regardless.

"Heh! I'd hope you'd have better equipment than /that/ at home. I haven't used any of that stuff in years!"

Once he'd sat his box down, Luke excitedly began to rip the seemingly neverending supply of tape off of it.

"Jesus, there's so much freaking tape on this..."

"...What?"