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"Yes, we're going out. Is this such a hard concept?" I asked, exasperated. We were walking down the abandoned halls of my school, opened up for the band and the janitor. Jacklyn and Michelle, my flute and fellow clarinet friends, were chatting with me as we went along. My fellow Sophomores were so full of questions as to how I managed such a catch, Jack being the Junior and in general person he was.
"Well yeah, seeing as you two were just friends a little while ago."Jacklyn said. She was a pretty thing herself, soft-spoken to everybody except her friends, and smart. She really got into the whole help-Erica-and- Jack-get-together thing. In fact, she was the person that influenced me most to overcome my natural shyness and go talk to him at every chance I got.
"I think it's really great. You've liked him for a long time haven't you?" Michelle asked. She was the more quiet, but out-going of the two. Where Jacklyn had pushed me to go talk to Jack, Michelle had supported and suggested things to me the whole time. Michelle was as tall as me, with a light build and fair features. Her eyes were bright and she went into all of the 'smart classes'.
"Yeah, I did..."I said thoughtfully."One might think it too long actually."
"But you got the guy, so who cares?"Jacklyn pointed out.
"Oh, getting the guy is one milestone, no doubt..."I said.
"But keeping the guy requires work too,"Michelle finished.
"Too true, too true."I said, then pointed,"Hey why don't we settle here?"
We were on a lunch break, so we were wandering around the school looking for a place to relax and talk away from all of the other convienently close listeners. We ended up choosing, where else, the tables is the cafeteria. It wasn't as if we weren't going to be seeing enough of those in the year to come, right?
We talked there, mostly about Jack, but they also wanted to know how the show was coming along. Jack and I had actually finished the opener, which had required celebration, and we were both very excited. At least the opener would keep the band busy through band camp.
The opener was entitled,"One Last Shot." The piece in the movie itself covered a variety of situations. However, in the music, we chose to begin it softly, then rise to the action packed/mischievious movement. As far as visuals, nothing was planned for the opener. We were, however, working on some kind of scene for our second number,"He's a Pirate". Which was about finished. We were still working on a part for the flutes...since neither of us knew much about how to transpose music for them, the flute parts always slowed us down.
Jacklyn and Michelle were very excited to hear about all of our plans for the show, but then they abrubtly changed the subject to our plans for each other.
"Oh. Well...I hadnt really thought about it." I stated.
"I mean, you're going out, so are you gonna kiss sometime soon?" Jacklyn asked.
"Hehehe, well, actually..."I left the sentence hanging.
"...No Way!"Jacklyn exclaimed.
"Oh my gosh,"Michelle laughed,"You kissed him already?!"
I could just feel the blush creeping over my face. That burning sensation that you just know shows up on the skin's surface.
"Yeah." I said wistfully.
That seemed to fling them into a fit of giggles. I waited patiently for them to calm down, sipping my coke and closing my eyes.
"Yeah, that was great."I said when they finally calmed down.
"Hey, you have to tell us ALL about it."Jacklyn appealed."C'mon." Michelle nodded her head vigorously, pushing me to tell my tale.
"Well, ok." I began off with my story about going to his house and the music and the dancing and, of course, the kiss. They both seemed enthralled with the story as if it were some great romantic oratory. I couldn't help but giggle every now and then at the dreamy looks they were giving me. I could only think that they were hoping for the same with the guys that they liked.
At the end, they kind of sat in silence, until Jacklyn abrubtly cleared her throat and looked up above my head. "Lookie who it is!"
I turned with a slight suspicion of who it might be, and sure enough, it was Jack.
"Hello ladies." He said casually and sat down next to me.
"Hey Jack,"Michelle said politely, which was imediately echoed by Jacklyn.
"Hello sir." I said cheerfully, turning to him.
"I came a lookin' for you, Erica. Seems everybody wants to know what's up and they were determined to get it out of me. Right before I left, a couple of piccolos sat me down and started to tune themselves......trying to get OUT of tune of course." He grimaced.
I laughed, "So what'd you do?"
"Well, what any sane man would do, I ran!"
While we were all thoroughly amused, Jacklyn and Michelle actually had more questions for Jack about the show. Which, personally, I think he was relieved they didn't want 'news'.
"Soooo, is our drill gonna be hard? Is the music hard?" Jacklyn inquired.
"Well, we don't do the drill, and I don't know what you would consider.....hard." Jack smiled earnestly. "The drill that we got back from Dr.Orion looks good though." He shrugged.
"Knowing you, 'Mr.March-till-you-drop' I'd say that means hours in the sun." Jacklyn rolled her eyes.
"Ha, you know no matter how easy the drill is, you'd still be spending hours in the sun," I commented.
Michelle looked to Jacklyn,"It's true!"
Jacklyn looked off, disapointed.
My amusement soon faded. As we went along eating, an irritating silence fell over. I realized that Jacklyn and Michelle weren't comfortable with Jack. It's not like they'd been around him much before.
"Oh well," I thought to myself, "They'll get used to him in time. It's not like they have anything against him."
"C'mon, let's head back to the band room. I miss the obnoxious noise." I stood up and gathered my things.
"Noise?" Jack looked perplexed,"...I always thought that was called Music."
I smirked and gave him a playful kick to get moving.
"Alright! I'm comin'."
"Us too,"Michelle chimed.
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As I had predicted, half of the band geeks were eating and talking. A fourth were running around doing who-knows-what and causing mischief. And the last fourth playing their new music....the music Jack and I had composed. Unfortunately, all save one were butchering it. Our 1st trumpet was practicing his duet, and actually doing an impressive job on it.
As we walked in, I had to refrain from covering my ears, though I did wince a little.
Jack was right, there were a lot of inquisitive to the opint of being obnoxious questioners. Eventually, I pardoned myself from all of them, grabbed Jack and waltzed staright into Mr.Jamous' office.
As the door closed, I relaxed. It was SO much more quiet in here. Mr.Jamous was busy slapping his monitor trying to get his computer to work.
"Well, I see everyones relaxed today." I commented. Not that everyone was a lot. Just everybody mooching off of the 'We finished the band's library!' party. Most had just come once and sat around, staring at the hard workers and making jokes.
Mr.Jamous gave me a glare. "This blasted contraption won't work."
"What are you trying to do,"Jack asked.
"I am trying to get it to print out copies of the new drill." He said tensely.
"May I see?" I asked.
He nodded and I checked the little 'Alert' window on the screen. Peeking back behind his desk, I restrained a giggle and pulled out the printer's cord...which was not connected to the printer.
Mr.Jamous saw it and snatched it out of my hand. "Lemme do this."
When he finally got it working, I took a look at the drill. I hadn't had a chance to yet.
"OH MY GOSH, did you guys not look at this?! I mean it's gotta be a typo!"
Both the guys looked at me quizically. "Uhhhh...no?" Mr.Jamous answered.
"Guys, our little feets can't move at 145 beats per minute. Especially, not with these distances."
"That shouldn't be a problem,"Jack commented.
I gave Jack a look,"Okay, we're not a Drum Corps. How are you going to get THOSE people - "I pointed out Mr.Jamous' window at the band geeks," -to march it?"
They both frowned.
Silence ensued...
"Well?" I asked
"Guess we have a problem." Mr.Jamous concluded.
I agreed,"Guess so."
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Alrighty, Chap 4 is up. Now, I'm not quite sure where we're going from here. Ideas anyone? E-mail me or leave a review!
"Yes, we're going out. Is this such a hard concept?" I asked, exasperated. We were walking down the abandoned halls of my school, opened up for the band and the janitor. Jacklyn and Michelle, my flute and fellow clarinet friends, were chatting with me as we went along. My fellow Sophomores were so full of questions as to how I managed such a catch, Jack being the Junior and in general person he was.
"Well yeah, seeing as you two were just friends a little while ago."Jacklyn said. She was a pretty thing herself, soft-spoken to everybody except her friends, and smart. She really got into the whole help-Erica-and- Jack-get-together thing. In fact, she was the person that influenced me most to overcome my natural shyness and go talk to him at every chance I got.
"I think it's really great. You've liked him for a long time haven't you?" Michelle asked. She was the more quiet, but out-going of the two. Where Jacklyn had pushed me to go talk to Jack, Michelle had supported and suggested things to me the whole time. Michelle was as tall as me, with a light build and fair features. Her eyes were bright and she went into all of the 'smart classes'.
"Yeah, I did..."I said thoughtfully."One might think it too long actually."
"But you got the guy, so who cares?"Jacklyn pointed out.
"Oh, getting the guy is one milestone, no doubt..."I said.
"But keeping the guy requires work too,"Michelle finished.
"Too true, too true."I said, then pointed,"Hey why don't we settle here?"
We were on a lunch break, so we were wandering around the school looking for a place to relax and talk away from all of the other convienently close listeners. We ended up choosing, where else, the tables is the cafeteria. It wasn't as if we weren't going to be seeing enough of those in the year to come, right?
We talked there, mostly about Jack, but they also wanted to know how the show was coming along. Jack and I had actually finished the opener, which had required celebration, and we were both very excited. At least the opener would keep the band busy through band camp.
The opener was entitled,"One Last Shot." The piece in the movie itself covered a variety of situations. However, in the music, we chose to begin it softly, then rise to the action packed/mischievious movement. As far as visuals, nothing was planned for the opener. We were, however, working on some kind of scene for our second number,"He's a Pirate". Which was about finished. We were still working on a part for the flutes...since neither of us knew much about how to transpose music for them, the flute parts always slowed us down.
Jacklyn and Michelle were very excited to hear about all of our plans for the show, but then they abrubtly changed the subject to our plans for each other.
"Oh. Well...I hadnt really thought about it." I stated.
"I mean, you're going out, so are you gonna kiss sometime soon?" Jacklyn asked.
"Hehehe, well, actually..."I left the sentence hanging.
"...No Way!"Jacklyn exclaimed.
"Oh my gosh,"Michelle laughed,"You kissed him already?!"
I could just feel the blush creeping over my face. That burning sensation that you just know shows up on the skin's surface.
"Yeah." I said wistfully.
That seemed to fling them into a fit of giggles. I waited patiently for them to calm down, sipping my coke and closing my eyes.
"Yeah, that was great."I said when they finally calmed down.
"Hey, you have to tell us ALL about it."Jacklyn appealed."C'mon." Michelle nodded her head vigorously, pushing me to tell my tale.
"Well, ok." I began off with my story about going to his house and the music and the dancing and, of course, the kiss. They both seemed enthralled with the story as if it were some great romantic oratory. I couldn't help but giggle every now and then at the dreamy looks they were giving me. I could only think that they were hoping for the same with the guys that they liked.
At the end, they kind of sat in silence, until Jacklyn abrubtly cleared her throat and looked up above my head. "Lookie who it is!"
I turned with a slight suspicion of who it might be, and sure enough, it was Jack.
"Hello ladies." He said casually and sat down next to me.
"Hey Jack,"Michelle said politely, which was imediately echoed by Jacklyn.
"Hello sir." I said cheerfully, turning to him.
"I came a lookin' for you, Erica. Seems everybody wants to know what's up and they were determined to get it out of me. Right before I left, a couple of piccolos sat me down and started to tune themselves......trying to get OUT of tune of course." He grimaced.
I laughed, "So what'd you do?"
"Well, what any sane man would do, I ran!"
While we were all thoroughly amused, Jacklyn and Michelle actually had more questions for Jack about the show. Which, personally, I think he was relieved they didn't want 'news'.
"Soooo, is our drill gonna be hard? Is the music hard?" Jacklyn inquired.
"Well, we don't do the drill, and I don't know what you would consider.....hard." Jack smiled earnestly. "The drill that we got back from Dr.Orion looks good though." He shrugged.
"Knowing you, 'Mr.March-till-you-drop' I'd say that means hours in the sun." Jacklyn rolled her eyes.
"Ha, you know no matter how easy the drill is, you'd still be spending hours in the sun," I commented.
Michelle looked to Jacklyn,"It's true!"
Jacklyn looked off, disapointed.
My amusement soon faded. As we went along eating, an irritating silence fell over. I realized that Jacklyn and Michelle weren't comfortable with Jack. It's not like they'd been around him much before.
"Oh well," I thought to myself, "They'll get used to him in time. It's not like they have anything against him."
"C'mon, let's head back to the band room. I miss the obnoxious noise." I stood up and gathered my things.
"Noise?" Jack looked perplexed,"...I always thought that was called Music."
I smirked and gave him a playful kick to get moving.
"Alright! I'm comin'."
"Us too,"Michelle chimed.
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As I had predicted, half of the band geeks were eating and talking. A fourth were running around doing who-knows-what and causing mischief. And the last fourth playing their new music....the music Jack and I had composed. Unfortunately, all save one were butchering it. Our 1st trumpet was practicing his duet, and actually doing an impressive job on it.
As we walked in, I had to refrain from covering my ears, though I did wince a little.
Jack was right, there were a lot of inquisitive to the opint of being obnoxious questioners. Eventually, I pardoned myself from all of them, grabbed Jack and waltzed staright into Mr.Jamous' office.
As the door closed, I relaxed. It was SO much more quiet in here. Mr.Jamous was busy slapping his monitor trying to get his computer to work.
"Well, I see everyones relaxed today." I commented. Not that everyone was a lot. Just everybody mooching off of the 'We finished the band's library!' party. Most had just come once and sat around, staring at the hard workers and making jokes.
Mr.Jamous gave me a glare. "This blasted contraption won't work."
"What are you trying to do,"Jack asked.
"I am trying to get it to print out copies of the new drill." He said tensely.
"May I see?" I asked.
He nodded and I checked the little 'Alert' window on the screen. Peeking back behind his desk, I restrained a giggle and pulled out the printer's cord...which was not connected to the printer.
Mr.Jamous saw it and snatched it out of my hand. "Lemme do this."
When he finally got it working, I took a look at the drill. I hadn't had a chance to yet.
"OH MY GOSH, did you guys not look at this?! I mean it's gotta be a typo!"
Both the guys looked at me quizically. "Uhhhh...no?" Mr.Jamous answered.
"Guys, our little feets can't move at 145 beats per minute. Especially, not with these distances."
"That shouldn't be a problem,"Jack commented.
I gave Jack a look,"Okay, we're not a Drum Corps. How are you going to get THOSE people - "I pointed out Mr.Jamous' window at the band geeks," -to march it?"
They both frowned.
Silence ensued...
"Well?" I asked
"Guess we have a problem." Mr.Jamous concluded.
I agreed,"Guess so."
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Alrighty, Chap 4 is up. Now, I'm not quite sure where we're going from here. Ideas anyone? E-mail me or leave a review!