After rehearsal, I walked out of the band room as fast as I could. Anthony followed me and placed a hand onto my shoulder. "Yo, are you okay?" I pulled my arm away.
"I'm fine!" I walked into the wall instead of turning. He chuckled and tried holding back his laughter while I took a moment to realize exactly what had just happened. "Wall hurts." I said, rubbing my head.
"You just walked right into it." He agreed and held onto a chair to keep himself from falling over. I rolled my eyes.
"I TOTALLY planned that…" Andrew and Lisa, followed by Carolyn and Melody came out. They stopped and were about to fire a million questions when they saw Anthony's face.
"What are you on?" Andrew asked, looking him into the eye. "Hellooo?"
"She walked into a wall." I was still rubbing my head and I cast a glance at them. They chuckled a bit.
"Ah…Casey…"
"Football games are here again!" Dan announced, walking into Band the next day. "You know, these are one of my favorite parts of Band!" Andrew looked up.
"You mean besides State of the Art?"
"Yeah, what I meant!" Dan said. I took the reed out of my mouth.
"What's State of the Art?" Andrew put his mouthpiece on.
"Didn't I tell you about that?" He asked, looking at me and flipping his brown hair out of his eyes.
"Well…no."
"Yeah I did, that one time." He said, returning to tending to his worn out baritone sax. I looked at him with a puzzled look.
"What time?"
"You know…the time we did something."
"Oh, yeah, because I can TOTALLY pick that out." Andrew looked at me while grabbing his music.
"You can take your sarcasm and…take it elsewhere." He said, struggling with a comeback. I smirked.
"Wow…I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that was the FUNNIEST thing I've ever heard. Good job Andrew…"
"Well, I'm cool. So don't knock it." Dan shook his head when he was sitting down in his chair.
"I don't know…remember that one time during freshman year when you were…" He did not get to finish.
"AH! Didn't we say we'd never speak of that again?"
"Right. Sorry. But that was pretty funny…."
"What was funny? When was Andrew stupid? Besides what I can see?" Dan looked at Andrew and leaned over.
"He…"
"AH!"
During rehearsal, we just went over some of the marching pieces and our halftime show, which was the music from the Pirates of the Caribbean movie. We were let go after about two hours and just wandered the school grounds. We ended up walking to the softball field. "OOH! LET'S PLAY SOFTBALL!" I said, grabbing one of the random bats. Andrew went to pitch and tossed the yellow ball up a couple times.
"I don't know…I don't wanna, you know, strike you out and embarrass you or anything…" He said, looking down sheepishly.
"JUST DO IT!" I said, gripping the bat. He wound up and pitched, very slowly. I let it go and Melody caught it. "COME ON!"
"Alright!" He said, winding up and shooting the ball over the plate. I swung the bat. CRACK! I had made a connection and the ball zipped. I was about halfway to first base when I saw Andrew fall over.
"ANDY!" I said, running to the plate.
"Oh…my…damn….that hurt SO BAD!" I then noticed where I had hit him.
"Hehe…oops." He glared at me.
"Die."
"Get up!" I said, pulling him to his feet.
"Die twice."