D/C I don't not own anything in this story
Landon watched the football game from her place in the stands with the rest of the marching band. She checked the scoreboard; 12 to 6. She didn't really know much about football, so every time people in the stands, her side of course, stood up and cheered, she did too. TOUCHDOWN! The score is now 18 to 6. She heard people mumble under their breath for the extra point. They sure enough got it and the band began to play.
By the fourth quarter the game was 32 to 13. The buzzer sounded and people cheered. The whole band stood up and began to play the fight song for the last time of the night. From the top of the stands, the band began to file out of the arena. She grabbed her music, drink, and trumpet. When the band reached the MVP parking lot, the band got in the formation; the same one they did when marching into the game, Two straight lines. "Mark time, mark time!" the drum majors called. They all started to march in place in sync. It was the drum cadence(Only drums played). Their band was very creative when it came to cadence.
They came to a stop and began to slide to the drums beat. They started to walk forward, still "sliding" to the left and right. Then the cheer that went with the cadence. "Leeeeets go mighty mighty horse men! WINNNSTERRRR lets go! LETS GO LETS GO!" The song went with the beat of the drums and the sound of the many marching band player feet shuffling. The song was cut off at the door of the school, as usual.
The students began to unbutton their jackets. When they reached the band room door, jackets were already coming off. Student went in groups of friends to bathrooms, the gym, and locker rooms to take off their bibbers and put on jeans. Others stayed in the band room because they already had something under their bibbers. You could hear people asking to hold up stuff for them. It was crazy around the school after football games.
About 15 minutes later, people we're back hanging their uniforms on the rack. The band directors (Even though one really wasn't a director) gathered the band-ians around a TV to see their halftime performance. They told the band that they did wonderful, but needed to work on the third song, A LOT!
Landon, walked up to the female director, Mrs. Dallwagger , told her that she loved her, and gave her a hug. She then waved to her friends and walked out the door. She got in her car drove out of the band parking lot.
Mrs. Dallwagger was Landon's band director in middle school. Landon spent a lot of time finding herself during the summer vacation of 7th grade and 8th grade. She felt horrible all the time, her confidence went down with her. Mrs. D, would get notes and emails from Landon. Telling her, about how she knew her best friend, Jacey, was a better trumpet player then her, and other things like that. Mrs. Dallwagger did her best to help her. She would talk to her out in the hallway, and she knew she had hit somewhere if Landon's eye began to tear up.
Mrs. Dallwagger, told Landon one day that she would have to do All District, which was an honor band. She knew that she'd been getting a note from Landon, She sure enough did. She had to talk to her again. She told she had so much confidence in her, and she had to try. She told her that Jacey was asking for help and their you were learning the part on your own. Landon went and tried out and made it. She got third chair. Landon from then on always told her she loved her. Plus, Her and Jacey had an inside joke that Mrs Dallwagger was her mother. It's not like parents were there for her anyways.
Her mother was a drunk and her father, well, didn't know about her father. Her mother was in jail and she lived alone. It all happened when she was 13. He mother got taken away, and she had no father. She proved to the court that could live on her own, because she would be sent to a orphanage.
Landon pulled up to her house, and got out the car. She unlocked the door, grabbed the phone, and headed for the den. No messages, what's new. She went and turned on her computer, to get on AIM and check her email. "Oh my god!" Landon said out loud. Her friend Tyler was on. She loved him to death. She had been crushing on him forever. She IM-ed him.
trumpet03: Hey Ty! I haven't talked to you on here in awhile.
brasshasclass: I know! How's it going?
trumpet03: good. I have something to tell you.
brasshasclass: what?
trumpet03: You did awesome tonight...and
brasshasclass: and what?
trumpet03: and I was wondering if you wanted to go out sometime...more then friends though. like a boyfriend and girlfriend, kind of thing.
brasshasclass: uhm, I don't want things to change between us when i say this, so promise me they wont. Okay? promise me
trumpet03: i promise.../
brasshasclass: I have a girlfriend already, its...Ryan the drum major...I'm really sorry.
trumpet03: oh, alright. Well, I have to go, see ya at practice Monday.
Landon checked her email, and watched a bit of television before she went to bed that night. She did the same Saturday night. Sunday, was a bit different, she went shopping, made dinner, checked her email, then went to bed at 10.
Landon looked across the field at the trombone section, there stood Tyler. She look back at the drum majors and saw Ryan. She couldn't look at Ryan, or Tyler, because she might break down right their in the middle of the halftime show. She continued to play, she didn't look at the drum majors at all, she marching in perfect sync with the rest of the band and stared at Daryl's head, the tuba player that stood before her. It was time for the third song. It was her solo, she would put her heart in it. The solo was in a love song called, "A whole new world", Yes, the one from Aladdin. The band separated and she knew it was time for her solo, she bent on one knee and began to play. She played it beautifully, she then stepped back and waited for the saxophonist, Andy, to come and play his solo. It was like the saxophone and the trumpet were singing together. They soon, stepped back into the the band and waited for their last solo. The band soon separated again and the two soloist stepped forward. The played in beautiful unison. BZZZZZZZZZZZZZT BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Landon woke up and her heart was pumping, just like when she finishes a great preformance. She had a new feeling also. One she had never felt before except for when with Tyler. Maybe she was starting to like Andy.
.:A/N; I hope more is to come but this is the end of this chapter so R&R and hopefully i can get the next chapter up...i might have to add it on to this though:.