Julie walked into the band room, her flute under one arm and her flip folder under the other. In her actual hands, however, were her black socks and hat, complete with the plume. It was highly difficult trying to manage all these things as she made her way to her seat, which was occupied by her friend Sarah.

"Erm..Sarah..can I have my seat for a second..?" Julie asked, her legs wobbling under her as she stood at Sarah's side. Sarah turned around from where she had been talking to Hayley, Julie's other friend, and hopped up quickly, looking embarrassed.

"Sorry! I mean, I didn't know you were here and..well anyway do you need help with any of that?" Sarah waited, her hands outstretched. Julie sat down in her seat and let out a long breath of air. She handed Sarah her black socks and put the rest under her chair. Sarah stared at the socks for a bit, then sniffed them discretely.

"Did you just sniff my socks?" Julie asked.

"Yes. They smelled like teddy grahams."

Before Julie could reply to this odd statement, Mister Barnett, the band's director, had stepped up on the podium and had told everyone to take their seats. Sarah took off with Julie's socks and Julie stared after her, her eyebrows rasied.

"First off, I just wanted to let you all know how proud I am of you all. We've had practice for two weeks straight and tonight we finally pulled it off. You guys were great! You sounded the best you had ever sounded, in my opinion. And I'm a hairy old man who enjoys wearing my wife's pantyhose when she isn't at home." Mister Barnett clapped his hands together three times, slapped his hiney, then jumped off his podium and ran out the door. Everyone sat in silence.

"That was peculiar." Kayla Pierce commented. Everyone turned to look at her.

"I guess we go home now?" Julie asked uncertainly.

Then there was sudden commotion as everyone started packing up their instruments and putting things away. Julie sighed and turned to Hayley Thatcher who was a flute player and one of her closest friends. "Um, Hayley?"

"Eh?" Hayley raised an eyebrow.

"Did that seem even a little bit strange to you?"

"What?"

"You know, the sudden statement about pantyhose. Didn't it seem...unlike him?"

"No."

"Are you sure about that?"

"No."

"Are you even listening to me?"

Hayley, who was known for her ADD, ignored this question and was too busy watching her pinky finger wiggle. Julie sighed and got up from her seat. She then stood on tippy toes trying to spot Sarah, who had taken custody of her socks.

"Looking for these?" A familiar voice asked from behind her. Julie spun around, and sure enough her eyes met those of her friend.

"Gimme mah socks!" Julie exclaimed so fast it sounded like one word. Sarah laughed and wiggled the socks out in front of Julie's face. She moved them back and forth, and Julie's eyes followed them. Her pupils moved from left to right, and Julie began to feel very sleepy.

"Woah Julie. You look all high. I knew it wasn't just powdered sugar on those brownies before the game today." Hayley was now standing next to Sarah, who was still coaxing Julie with the socks.

"You will kiss anyone who says the word 'flamingo'." Sarah said in a low voice, the socks still swinging. Julie watched them, drool starting to form at the corners of her mouth.

"I will kiss anyone who says the word 'flamingo'." Julie repeated slowly in a droning voice.

"When I snap my fingers, you will come out of your state-" Sarah started, but Hayley put her hand over Sarah's mouth.

"Wait! I wanna say something too! You will sniff anybody's butt that asks you your name." Hayley said in giggles. Sarah scowled at her.

"I will sniff a duck when I burst a blood vein." Julie repeated in the same droning voice.

"No! Crap- she heard you wrong!" Sarah said, smacking Hayley upside the head. Hayley seemed to be amused though, because she was now holding her nose to keep herself from snorting.

"Um, when I snap my fingers you will come out of this trance." Sarah continued.

"When you tap dance with lemurs I will take off my pants." Julie repeated. Hayley burst out in laughter, snorting with glee. Sarah's mouth dropped open. She threw the socks over her shoulder and started shaking Julie.

Meanwhile, the socks landed on Kayla Pierce's head and she began running around flapping her arms like a headless chicken. "The sky's falling! The sky's falling!" She then ran into a wall and the room became much quieter.

Back with the three girls, Julie blinked and Sarah stopped shaking her. Julie looked at Sarah, then Hayley, a look of confusion on her face. "What's everyone looking at?" She asked, backing up a bit. Hayley opened her mouth to say something but Sarah stomped on her foot.

"We're just..um..looking at your beautiful face." Sarah lied. Hayley was clutching her foot sobbing.

"If you're going to look, pay the toll." Julie tried to make a joke, but crickets chirped.

Suddenly, Mister Smith, the band's student teacher who comically wasn't any taller than a three year old, walked up to the girls with his hands on his hips. "What are you girls up to?" He asked, eyeing each of them suspiciously, eyeing Hayley the longest because she now had her foot in her mouth sucking on it.

"Mister Smith, what's your favorite animal?" Julie asked suddenly for no reason. She just had the sudden urge to ask someone that. Mister Smith scratched his chin and thought for a moment.

"Well, I must admit I enjoy the occasional flamingo." Sarah and Hayley exchanged wide-eyed looks.