...

*Sigh*

I... I shouldn't have been so blunt with Saki...

(Why is nothing going right...?)

(I was so sure that Saki would understand...)

(Even if we disagreed slightly on what we wanted our song to be about, I thought we'd be able to talk things out and produce something good...)

(But now...)

I regret not thinking this through more...

(I didn't realize how hard it would be to write a song with someone.)

(Saki has her own style in terms of music, and so do I...)

(That's completely normal...)

(But I honestly don't know how our song is going to turn out now...)

What are we supposed to do?

If coming up with melodies together and swapping chord progressions didn't work...

Oh...

What if we started over by writing some lyrics...?

That might help make things go smoother...

(No, wait...)

(That isn't the answer...)

(I'm thinking about the wrong thing...)

(I mean...)

(Saki cares deeply about showing empathy to our listeners.)

(We're disagreeing on how to express that fundamental aspect, so writing lyrics will probably just lead to another argument...)

(I thought I understood what Saki meant by showing our listeners empathy...)

(But keeping it all sad and gloomy seems like the wrong way to go...)

(And yet...)

(I haven't been able to get through to her...)

(Even when I did try to mold my ideas to fit hers, I just didn't see the song getting any better...)

(I thought I really liked her songs...)

*Sigh*

The more I think about this, the less I know what we're supposed to do...

(I've heard that it's common for bands to fight over what they want their music to be about. Does this count...?)

(I never thought that we'd ever end up fighting like this, but I was wrong...)

Am I more stubborn than I realize...?

...

(Still, brooding all by myself like this isn't going to solve anything...)

(Saki and I write music in different ways...)

(So we're just going to have to talk things out...)

(I don't know if we'll be able to reach a resolution by doing so...)

(But I think that's our only option right now...)

(If we want to produce a good song...)

I'll head back once I've finished drinking this.

She'll probably start wondering where I've gone if I don't soon...

(I'll go back, collect my thoughts and resume our discussion...)

Things might go south again...

But Saki and I need to talk about this.