The Outcasts
It was just another day of summer band rehearsal. We got to school and went into the band room to get music and put our instruments together. We all had a half hour to spare so we socialized with our friends. My group and I have had a designated place to where we always talked when it came to times like this, the picnic table under the tree outside the band room. As we gathered to the picnic table, we exchanged hugs and talked about what we planned to do this summer. Before we started to talk though, we noticed there was someone missing. But who? There was Jamie and Jackson who are going out, Heater and Jeremy who seemed to have a thing for each other, Josh who was just the coolest kid you could ever meet, Angie(AKA Shortie) was the hyper one of the bunch, Larry who was just plane awesome and the leader of the bunch, and of course me, Gloria, who was the one to speak her mind. And then it clicked! Bobby was not here! But where could he be? "Hey has anyone seen Bobby," I asked the group. Everyone looked around. Josh answered with a puzzled look on his face, "I don't know. Hold on I'll try calling him. He was supposed to be here by now." As Josh wondered off to go call Bobby, I noticed there was a freshman who seemed to be being left out. I went up to her to introduce myself to her. "Hello there. My name is Gloria and I was wondering if you would like to come and sit with my group." The freshman looked shocked that an upper class men was talking to her and then smiled and said, "Sure. I would love to come and sit with your group. Oh and by the way, my names Jesse." As I walked with Jesse to our table, Josh run up to me and said, "I just called Bobby. He completely forgot about the camp and it on his way now." "Okay. Guess I'll see good old Bobby soon enough. Hey everyone……This is Jesse. She is a freshman and is going to be in our group. Jesse this is Josh, Heater, Jeremy, Jackson, Jamie, Angie, and Larry." Everyone welcomed Jesse and it seemed she would fit right in with the rest of us.
We sat there for half an hour until it was time to get into some music. I went to the clarinet section and put my clarinet together. Once all the music was passed out, we were to take out "Man in the Ice." As I was looking at it, it looked pretty easy. We started playing and it sounded really cool. I did my bets with the piece of shit clarinet I had and we plowed through the song. It was a great arrangement and it became everyone's favorite song, just like that. After 3 hours of playing music, it was time to leave and get ready for another day of summer band camp.
Our group decided to get together afterwords by Larry's house for a bon fire. Everyone in out group was invited. We all piled into Larry's 6 passenger minivan and blasted the radio. He only lives within 5 minutes of the school so that is why we did this. When we got by Larry's, we all jumped out of the minivan and started to topple onto each other. This is what we called fun. We went into Larry's backyard and did what we normally did, Larry went to get the fire pit, I went to get the wood, Angie went and got the lighter, Bobby and Josh collected papers and sticks to burn, Heather and Jeremy flirted with each other, and Jamie and Jackson made out. Jesse was new to the group so she did not know what to do so we just told her to sit on the side and wait. Once the fire was started, we sat around and just talked and acted like the dorks we were.
At 1 in the morning, the fire finally died and some people were sleeping on the chairs and some people had left. The only people up were Larry, Josh, and I. Heather, Jeremy, Jamie, Jackson and Bobby had left to get some rest for tomorrow's rehearsal and Jesse and Angie were out like a light on the chairs. Since the 3 of us were the only ones up, we decided to clean everything up and call it a night. After we finished cleaning up, Larry had a great idea. "Let's get a black permanent marker and draw all over Jesse and Angie's faces." Josh and I agreed to this idea because it would be hilarious. We each took a black permanent marker and started drawing all over their faces. We then woke them up since their parents were going to arrive soon to pick them up. They woke up and didn't notice a thing until they looked at one another. With a look of shock, they looked at Larry, Josh and I and said, "How could you! This is so cruel." We found it to be the most hilarious thing in the world. Everyone's parents arrived at the same time so we all left and would see each other soon for another great day of band rehearsal.