Chapter 2: Orchestra

Thanks to WhittyWereWolf and thechimera for the reviews. To answer Whitty, The reason they are teens is I couldn't have full grown Nightmare characters going to middle school. That would be so demeaning! Plus teens mean more chaos! To answer all those lawyers reading this, I DON'T OWN THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS OR STRIPLING! GET OVER IT!

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Oh god, I thought as the tardy bell rang, oh god this is not good! Orchestra was usually my favorite subject. Today I was seriously considering ditching it. Let us think now. What do you get when you give Oogie and the Trick-or-treaters instruments? I don't want to know!

"Okay, we have new students, so we need to get them instruments." The director had never watched the Nightmare Before Christmas so she had no idea what she was doing. This would surely end in destruction.

When the instruments had been given out, this was the setup:

Jack: Cello (With me! Yes!)

LS&B: Violas (With my TNBC obsessed friend Nethaniel)

Oogie: Bass (With an unhappy looking Rachel)

Sally: Violin (With several friends)

Nethaniel was glaring at me. He had tried to get Jack to play Viola with him, but Jack decided on cello. Nethaniel was convinced that when he died he would be the next Pumpkin King, and practically worshipped Jack. Rachel looked very angry about the setup. She wasn't an obsessionist, but she had watched TNBC.

Well, the least I can say is they learned fast. Within five minutes they were playing on the same level as us advanced players. But the day was hardly salvaged.

There were several problems. Lock, Shock, and Barrel would get into whisper arguments, which all ended in them whacking each other with their bows, or Lock getting his plunger out. Where he pulled it out of, the world may never know. The director was about to confiscate it, but Nethaniel and I got to her before she could sentence herself to certain doom. Halfway through a song, Sally's bow caught some of her stitching and her hand fell off. Jack abandoned his cello to go help. I caught it just before it hit the ground. That's not the worst of it.

"Show off!" taunted Oogie when Jack sat back down. Jack glared death at him.

"Shut up, Oogie!" I said angrily, giving Jack his cello. I was seriously getting annoyed, partially because Lock, Shock and Barrel were fighting again. I was sure it had something to do with Barrel, because I heard the word 'Lolly Pop.'

"Shut up, I was talking to Romeo here!" Snapped Oogie. For a second time that day, Jack and Oogie fought. Only this time was a lot worse. Jack swung the cello around and narrowly missed Oogie's head. It hit the bass instead, and both instruments shattered. Uh oh. The director would not be pleased. Instruments were expensive. The two were now brawling on the floor of the stage. The class had ran off stage with their instruments for fear of having them broken. And to watch from a safe distance. The group was divided in two, Oogie supporters and Jack supporters. Nethaniel leapt in to help immediately, closely followed by Shock and Barrel. Lock got out his plunger and started hitting random people, including me once.

Next thing I know Sally gets one of the extra flagpoles and starts whacking Oogie in the face, yelling "Hands off my boyfriend!" I stared as the fight continued in this manner for about five minutes. Jack struggled free, Shock and Barrel clinging to his long limbs. He shook them off. Lock stopped hitting people with his plunger, Nethaniel stopped trying to hit Oogie (He wasn't winning, he had a bloody lip), and Sally put the flagpole away, and the fight stopped as the bell rang.

"Would someone fix that damn bell! It keeps going off randomly! Why?" I yelled angrily, and me and the six nightmare classmates headed off for history.

Just kill me now.

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Author's Note: Nethaniel really was mad when I wrote this, because I had Jack play cello instead of viola. I have this so that the Nightmare classmates have my schedule, but Nethaniel had wanted them to have his schedule. Then he said we could split them, me get the four bad ones, and he gets the two good ones. Not happening. I only see him one period a day. Then he said that they switch schedules every other day; me Tuesday and Thursday, him Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and then I get them on the weekends. Very tempting, but this is the way it turned out. Just some background info.