>Memory Lane: A wooden chair. I like to sit here and listen to MARI play the piano.
>Basil: "MARI told us about how you always sit in the room with her when she's practicing the piano."
>Kel: "And there was even that one time I caught you trying to play your old mini violin, even though it was too small for you."
>Photo Album: MARI doesn't come home until late now because she's taking extra classes to prepare for college. Me and SUNNY have been hanging out a lot, but I'm sure he still misses her a lot.
>Mari's spirit: "But you always hated it, didn't you? How I'd lock myself away on the piano... All that practicing... Playing the same song over and over."
The underlying tragedy of this situation is the idea that why Sunny wanted the violin was so he could spend more time with Mari. She would always practice piano, she was staying out later for cram school, and she'd study a lot when home. For Sunny, a clingy little kid, Mari spending less time with him must have seemed like a horrific catastrophe. So he practiced with his toy violin thinking playing music means he could spend time with Mari doing the same, and then got a real one from his friends. Now he could spend more time with Mari.
>You remembered...
>The anxious feeling in your heart as you played the first note on your new violin.
>That it scared you, but you didn't mind...Because they believed in you. And no matter what...
>You didn't want to disappoint them. Because they were your friends.
All it did was take it away from him even more. He had to go practice with a tutor when he could have been spending time with his friends, and then when he did get to practice with Mari it brought him pain. Expectations from Mari he couldn't ever meet, his fingers bruising and hurting from the violin itself. Fear of letting her down, fear of letting their friends and everyone else down. And we can theorize what else must have been going on in his head at the time. It was all too much pressure for a 12 year old.