A/N: The hitting with band folders and the chair thing actually happened between me and my friend last year on the bus. he he, I wish he was still a band geek. He's such a loser. He dropped out to be more organized. I have no one to hit this year.
SL is Section Leader
Characters that we care about:
Flutes:
SL
Sarah Bellbee
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Chair: First
Miley
Wyn
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Chair: Second
Anastasia
Tyki
Hair: brown
Eyes: blue
Chair: Third
Kiki Blude
(blue-day)
Hair: Blode
Eyes: Brown
Chair: Fouth
Dustin
Blue
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Chair: Fifth
Kent
Dulie
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Chair:
Sixth
Clarinets:
Anderson
Wright
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Chair: First (you get the
point)
SL
Anthony Breen
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Zoe Tayo
Hair:
Blonde
Eyes: Green
Maylee
Tsula
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Brown
Anita Anderson
Hair:
Brown
Eyes: Brown
Saxophones:
Maxwell
Gigherly shortened last name, see below
Hair: Blonde
Eyes:
Blue
SL Carter
Hayes
Hair: Red
Eyes: Blue
Ariwyn
Hana (said Ar-win)
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Alexander
Haynez
Hair: Black
Eyes: Blue
Percussion:
SL
Vanessa Cauldwaller-GigherlyMaxwell's sister
Hair: Blonde with
bright pruple streaks
Eyes: Gray
Gina Tala
Hair:
Brown
Eyes: Brown
Taylor Upbridge
Hair: red
Eyes:
Brown
Trombones:
Kaylee
Anastia
Hair: Brown
Eyes: hazel
SL(also
for baritone/Euph.) Andi Cyote
Hair:
Black
Eyes: Green
Brian Hanakaro
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
Baritone/
Eumphonium:
Tom Wreen
Hair:
Brown
Eyes: Brown
Trumpets:
Hannie
Lei
Hair: Black
Eyes: Brown
Ryan Hana (Ariwyn's older
brother, but Ari skipped pre-K, so she wound up in classes with her
brother)
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Brown
Harry
Jeimson
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Green
Don Calliope
Hair:
Brown
Eyes: Brown
SL
Mike Wrightwing
Hair: Blonde
Eyes: Blue
"We are band geeks,
and that is what we will forever be. Rock."
-Me
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Every
single band student was excited for the feild trip. One: we would't
be with our director, Mr. Tramontia, and the other... we were outta
school for six months.
"BAND!" bellowed Mr. Tramontia,
obviously in a bad mood at being stuck with no band except Jazz
"GO!"
We all walked out; Mr. Tramontia was having a bad
day. We all planned on playing a goodbye song for him, cuz we felt
bad for leaving him with twenty freshmen jazz members. In the end, we
just had Mike Wrightwing play a trumpet solo. Needless to say, Mr.
Tramontia was happy that he would have one good song that day.
The
jazzies were going to driver him nuts. on the bus, people were
singing loud, annoying songs. The bus driver was getting irritated.
The only female sax player was singing 'Bad Day' really loudly as it
was on her iPhone and everybody was singing something else. When the
song ended, she grinned and hit one of ehr fellow sax players with
her folder.
"HAY!" he yelled. They continuted to hit the
other and, to the mild amusement of others, she hit him so hard that
he fell forward and their heads smacked together as they hit a
speedbump at a particularly fast pace.
"OWWWWW, SON OF A
BISCUIT!" yelled the saxophone player, rubbing her head. "ow,
dammit, Carter, you have one fucking hard head..."
"So
do you, Ariwyn," he retorted.
Obviously about to get in a
fight, play or not, people turned away, not wanting to get into this,
for Carter had a bad temper know to all. But after that, they both
glared at each other, then laughed.
Ariwyn sat her seat back and
watched the scenery go by the window. After about five minutes, she
turned to talk to Carter, whom was leaning with his back against her
chair, then went back to the window, which was more enertaining that
Carter. Forgetting that he was against the back of her chair, she
pulled it into an upright posisiton. She heard a thunk.
"Thanks,
Ariwyn."
"Whoops," said Ariwyn, laughing. "I
forgot you were leaning on my chair, sorry..."
Carter sat
up.
"No, you're not sorry."
"No, I am... but it
was so funny..." said Ariwyn, still laughing.
A smile
twitched at the corners of Carter's mouth.
The man who was out
band director for the month, stood up and began to adress the little
terrors(us).
"Okay, everyone! LISEN UP! Today, you will start
practice right from the off, and it will get harder as the days go
on.-"
There was much groaning-"so I suggest you shut up
and study. Highlight. Make notes."
A few clarinets were still
talking in whispered.
"NOW, clarinets!"
The four of
them gave him dagger-eyes and took out their music, several
assoretd-colored pens, a pencil and several highlighters and began to
write. It was quiet, except for the ocasional squeaky eraser and a
'DAMN!' from either Carter, Ariwyn and/or Max on occasion. Ariwyn
nearly died of happiness to learn that Max was sitting beside her, as
they were sitting in pairs, alphabetically by last name and
instrament. She was thougholy red and Carter kept poking ehr and
going "Tomato" periodically, until Ariwyn threatened to
break his finger if he poked her again.
He resumed poking her with
a pencil. She turned around so fast ninjas everywhere would be
impressed, and grabbed his pencel and snapped it in half. Carter
stared.
"Knock it off, Hayes," she said dangerously in a
very low voice so Max couldn't hear.
Not even Carter had seen ehr
that mad. Or nervous.
"You over react, Ariwyn."
"Don't
make me break your neck, too."
'Mad' didn't cover it. 'Livid'
barely did.
Ariwyn turned back around, irritated at Carter's
calm-ness and vowed to murder him later. The best of friends, Carter
and Ariwyn were always shouting at one another. Ariwyn returned to
her music and kept writing notes to herself across ehr music.
She
and Carter didn't speak thoughout the next hour. Ariwyn stood up to
use the loo and paid no attentiong to the two boys.
Carter gave a
loud, sarcastic gasp.
"You like her!" he said to
Max.
"What, no I don't!" said a very pink Max.
"She
like you too," said Carter wisely.
"No she
doesn't."
"HA! So you DO like her!"
"Did I
say that?" asked Max, blushing.
"I said she liked you
too, and you said she didn't, instead of inquiring my
'too'."
"What?!" Max stared. "But I don't like
her!"
Ariwyn walked over.
"Hi, guys."
"So
you're talking to me again?" Carter asked.
"Maybe."
Ariwyn
turned around and smiled at Carter, then glomped him.
"Argh,
get off!"
Ariwyn obliged and smiled at him.
"I
forgive you."
"Wha-?"
"You give bad hugs,
though."
"I didn't even hug you!"
"My
point."
"Max, however, Max gives good hugs."
"I
didn't hug you either!"
"i know, but you
don't yell 'argh, get off'."
"Oh, shut up," said
Carter.
Ariwyn smiled at him again. This was their last band year
together. Next year, they'd be high school graduates. Ariwyn
sighed.
"I can't believe this is our last year as a band,"
she said to Carter. "We've been friends since we were three or
so, and now we're eighteen... well, I am, your still seventeen...
fifteen years later, and we still fight like we did in the 7th
grade."
Carter grinned.
"It's like you said-"
"We're
far too much alike to get along properly," they chorused, then
laughed.
The bus turned lanes in the freeway sharply.
"Eeep!"
Ariwyn found herself staring at the celing and Max's face. She
blushed. "Sorry, Max."
Ariwyn sat up and resumed talking
to Carter.
"Shut up," she mouthed as he silently
laughed, flipping him off.
"N... No thanks," he
said.
She whacked him.
"You can do that to M-"
"Carter,
shut up before I announce to the whole bus who you like."
"How
do you know?" he asked.
"I heard you talking to yourself
and doodling ehr name on a paper."
"I hate you."
"What,
it wasn't taht hard. I do sit next to you in ALL our classes, don't
I?"
"Note to self; get new seat."
"I alrady
know your dirty little secret, so shut up."
Carter
mock-glared.
"I ask myself; can I possibly spend a whole
month with YOU?"
"Yes," said Ariwyn. "If I
can put up with you
for twelve years, you
can deal with me for a
month."
"Yes, but that's seven hundred fourty-four hours
with YOU!"
"Not that long, Carter-dearest. I'm not
spending all night with you; that's just a little wrong for
me."
"Yeah, but you wouldn't mind that with Max,"
he retorted in Japanese.
Ariwyn blushed very hard.
"So,
you wouldn't mind sleeping with Kaylee," she replied, also in
Japanese.
This time, Carter turned red, then reverted back to
English.
"Shut up, Arli."
"You shut up then,
too," said Ariwyn, as though that settled the matter, also back
to English. She handed him a soda from ehr back pack(she'd brought
enough for her and her cluster of friends, but that plan was defeated
by the arrangement, so there was plenty for her, Max and Carter and
those folk that sat around her)
"Thanks," said
Carter.
Max actually stole one from her hand.
"Asshole,"
said Ariwyn, taking her own from the bag and closing it.
"You
know you love me," said Max.
Ariwyn made a face at him.
"You
keep thinking that," she teased.
Max made a pouty-face.
Ariwyn sighed.
"Don't do that."
He gave her the
wounded puppy-eyes.
"Quit it!"
His lip trembled.
"I'm
ignoring you now."
He sniffled and tilted his head to the
side.
"Alright!" Ariwyn couldn't resist The Face. "I'm
sorry!"
He just continued to make the face. Ariwyn wasn't
going to play his game, no, cuz he usually won.
"Alright, if
that's how you want to play it, I'll cange the game a little,"
she said. Carter watched the couple in mild amusement. Ariwyn kissed
Max on the cheek and smiled flirtily at him, batting her eyelashes.
Max's mouth fell open in surprise.
"I win," Ariwyn said
softly to him, grinning.
"Clever, little cheater," said
Carter.
"Psh, call it whatever, I call it dramatic
improvising on the rules."
"So cheating."
"No,
improvising the rules for my benefit."
"Isn't that
lying?"
"No, lying is
twisting the truth to fit my needs."
Carter laughed and
rolled his eyes.
"You're weird."
"And you just
found this out?" Max asked, coming to his sences.
"No, I
knew that thirteen
years ago."
Ariwyn stuck her tounge out at him. He returned
the gesture. The bus pulled into a rest stop and when everyone got
back on, most of Ariwyn's friends sat with them in the back. The very
very back.
"We should play a game," said Andi.
"We
should," agreed Ariwyn.
"You know what game I want to
play that I never have?" asked Miley.
"What?"
"Truth
or Dare," said Miley, an evil smirk.
"You never played
that?" asked Andi, shocked.
"Nope," chimed Miley
and Ariwyn.
"Okay, let's play. Miley, you
first."
"Okaaaaaaaaay, Carter!"
Carter looked
horrified.
"Dare?" he asked.
Miley tapped her
chin.
"I dare you tooooooooooooooooooo... kiss Ariwyn
on the cheek."
Both Ariwyn and Carter looked disgusted, but
Carter did it anyway. it was quick and they were twice as disgusted
after than before.
"Ariwyn!"
"Truth."
"Tell
us, Ari, who is the
lucky guy who YOU like?"
"I hate you so much right now,
Carter you evil bastard."
"Well, answer."
She
muttered an answer.
"What? I can't hear you!" said
Carter.
"Carter, if you don't shut up, I'll kill
you."
"Well?"
"Mrx..." muttered Ariwyn
a little louder.
"Can't understand you!" said Carter in
an annoying, sing-song voice.
"Max!" Ariwyn snapped.
"There, happy, you scheming jerk?"
"Very."
"You're
going to hell. I will put you there myself," Ariwyn's face was
crimson. "Kaylee."
"What?"
"Truth or
dare?"
"Urm... Dare."
"Kiss this asshole,"
she pointed to Carter. "On the lips. Now. Oh, and it can't be
really quick. Has to be slow."
Carter glared at her and she
just grinned.
Kaylee leaned over and pressed her lips to Carter's.
It was amusing. Carter put his arms around her waist and she put her
hands on his shoulders.
Cat calls, wolf-whisles and cheers echoed
around the little group. Kaylee pulled back slowly, blushing.
"Wow,"
they both said in shock.
"Told you," said Ariwyn.
"Oh,
shut up," said Carter.
They pulled into the
airport.
"LEEEEEEEET'S GOOOOOOO!" cheered Ariwyn. Ariwyn
was the happy caffine-drunk. She took her bag and whatnot and walked
off the bus. She flung ehr arms around Carter's neck from behind.
Carter, far to used to the Caffine-happy Ariwyn, continued walking
with her hanging on him. He picked up her bags too. He turned to
max.
"Hey, Maxxy, carry your girlfriend's stuff, she's
attatched," he said, pointing to Ariwyn, whose arms were wrapped
firmly round his shoulders, her toes not even touching the
ground.
Both Max and Ariwyn blushed.
"Shut up, Carter,"
said Ariwyn. "Before I tell everyone your most embarassing
monets from when you were five on."
Carter blushed.
"You
wouldn't."
"I would, my Cartery-poo, because that's how
much I love you."
"Go away."
"No."
"Get
off my back."
"But you're fun to cling
to."
"Midget."
"Tall freak."
"You
know you love me."
"Go away."
"That's
right, you love Kaylee."
"Shut up, Ari."
"Don't
wanna."
"I'll tell everyone about your first day of the
seventh grade."
Ariwyn's face went very red and she let
go.
"Please don't. That was more humiliating than when Maya
said I was humping you that one time..." she shuddered. "ew."
(true event... shudder)
Carter made a face.
"That was
gross."
"Indeed."
Best of friends, Carter and
Ariwyn were never one without the other. They absolutely loved each
other like family. Ariwyn and Carter had grown up together, and been
best friends since they were three. The first photo of Carter and
Ariwyn together was a photo Carter's mother had taken. Ariwyn was
hugging Carter from behind and they were both all smiles. Every year,
they had a picture taken at the same time in the same way. Even the
year Ariwyn had been hospitalized. She'd sat up just for the picture,
and leaned on Carter to get the picture.
When Carter learned who
Ariwyn liked, he teased her constantly. She did the same. This year,
their picture was going to be right on time; they day after they got
back.
"So, Max," said Carter, moving so he was standing
on Ariwyn's other side. "When's the engagement?"
Much to
Ariwyn's heart's dismey, Max was to marry a girl whom he only wanted
to be friends with.
"When we get back," he said.
Ariwyn
looked down, tears in her eyes. She took her bags from Max, who
rushed off, and walked a little faster. Carter took her arm. She
turned to him.
"Carter, stop," she whispered.
"I'm
sorry, Ari," he said. Her lip trembling, Ariwyn hugged him
tightly. He calmly wrapped his arms around her in a hug and patted
her head. SHe trembled.
"Carter?"
"Hmm?"
"I
think I love him."
He looked down at ehr and Ariwyn pulled
away.
"What?" he asked.
"I think I love him...
Max, I mean."
"Oh, Ari," sighed Carter. He walked
with her to the plane. He didn't really know what to say. Ari had
been his best friend for years and he was watching her die inside
because of Max.
Ariwyn sat between Max and Carter and found
herself playing with her hair, ignoring the boys. Sure, Ariwyn liked
Carter, her brotherly figure, and she was in love with Max. It was
almost too awkward.
Halfway through the plane ride, the
movies were switched. (Yes, they rode first-class) Ariwyn was getting
very sleepy. She looked blearily out the window. It was dark. She put
her head on Carter's-or was it Max's?- shoulder and dozed off.
Max
began to blush.
"Ariwyn... Ariwyn," he said, gently
shaking her. Ariwyn didn't move. Carter sniggered.
"She likes
you, you know."
"Shut up," Max muttered.
"You
want ehr off?"
Nod.
Carter leaned over.
"Ari...
Ariii..." he said eerily into her ear. "Ariiii."
Ariwyn
stirred.
"No use," said Carter, shrugging.
"Carter,
please.."
"Admit you like her."
Max
blushed.
"No!"
"Admit it or I won't tell you the
one other thing that wakes her up."
Max looked
awkward.
"Fine... I like her."
"You gotta kiss
her on the cheek."
"What?"
"Fine, i'll do
it," said Carter, whom had done this many times before when
Ariwyn fell asleep in one of their rooms when he'd been talking to
her. He leaned over and kissed her on the cheek and she sat
up.
"Cartuuuuuuuuuuuuuur!" she said. "Youre mean. I
was having a good dream."
"Yeah, well, your boyfriend
there was wigging cuz you were using him for a pillow," said
Carter slyly.
"Hey, I resent that, I was sleepy!" said
Ariwyn, not noticing what he'd said. "hey... wait...
HAY!"
Carter laughed.
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A/N:
Carter and Ariwyn are just really really good friends, nothing more,
nothing less. They concider each other siblings, so yeah. The only
reason Carter was uncomfortable kissing Ariwyn on the cheek before
was because he didn't want people to think he liked Ariwyn, so yeah,
um... just tell me what you think.
