MWHAHAHAHAHA We finally got a day off from mini band camp and I got to update. YAY!!! I heart updating. Already working on the next chappie. I promise if its not up by the end of the week and I end up going to band camp before I can update it will be up when I get back and I should have at least one more additional chapter to put up with it, to make up for the length of time without it. I know how annoying it is to have to wait for another chapter to a story.
Shouts to my reviewers:
StellerSabre13: LOL, Jess. I heart the guardies. I thank you very much. Now I have to put in the dance. I really must...
Shannow; I answered your very good question in this chappie...I just made up some random answer btw...but it is in there...and bowling comes after the end of the band camp chapter...it'll be soon I promise. Maybe I should make it midnight bowling. And have Ashley drive all of us...Just kidding. That wouldn't be fun...especially cuz Ron's so tall...
Princess-Meg1415: It would be hard for a non band geek to read. Some people who aren't in my band but know everyone from my band understand it though. I really should do freshman initiations shouldn't I? Must do that in the next part of band camp. I never did mine. I flat out refused. I was a quiet rookie. Ours had 2 parts. We had to either stand on a chair and sing I'm a Little Teapot or twinkle twinkle little star in front of the entire cafeteria or propose to someone from another school. Then we had to run down the hall in nothing but our towels. Yay for Hicksville initiations. You shall find out whether or not he is using magic...::wink wink::
Eric2- LOL, I find my life more amusing than fiction sometimes, and these are real people for the most part. My band is so screwed up. Learning to march wasn't horrible for me...although I do sometimes wake up dreaming that the Doctor Beat is playing and Wyman isn't letting me sleep cuz we're still at practice doing drill. My entire freshman year I was so very sleep deprived...::BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP:: AHHHH HELP ME!!!
Jess Talon-There is nothing wrong with being obsessed with band. Its perfectly normal. Ok, so maybe its not...I really wouldn't know. It's been so long since I had a life without band that I get quite lost without it. Don't know what I'm going to do when I go to college. Probably visit every day. I think all bands are similar. And it is scary.
Disclaimer: I own nothing, nada, zilch, zip....I don't own the song beyond the sea or ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW...I only own the character Kristine cuz she's me...yay for blatant self insertion...
Marching band, Harry Potter Style
Chapter 5
She was thrilled to find out that Ron was on her bus, but was disappointed when she looked at the list and found that her two best friends had been placed on the other bus going up to camp.
The bus was now about 45 minutes outside of Hicksville. The band moms that were on the bus had just put on the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Ron sat in the seat diagonally ahead of Kristine, entranced by the movie. After watching the movie for a while he turned around to see if he was the only one staring intently at the screen.
When he did so he saw Kristine wasn't paying the movie any mind. She was instead scribbling quickly in her notebook, occasionally tapping the ends off her pen on the edge of the paper or sticking the pen in her mouth as if thinking. Ron got up from his seat and took the empty one that was next to Kristine, who didn't notice he was there until he made a move to read what she was writing in the turquoise binder in which she kept most of her stories and other writings. A/N: I WUV MY TURQUOISE BINDER!!!
"May I read what you were writing?" Ron asked as Kristine closed the book, which had once been her seldom used drama notebook, and held it tightly to her chest.
"Nope," she replied with a grin as she removed her headphones.
"Oh, come on. Why not?" he asked in a tone that was filled with mock begging.
Kristine couldn't help smiling at this, but that didn't mean she was going to let him read her notebook. She didn't let anyone read her notebook.
"That's cute," she replied, "but the answer is still no. No one reads my notebook. I don't like people that I know reading my notebook."
"Will you at least tell me what you were writing about?," he said, with a fake pout.
"It's a fan fiction." Ron looked confused. "It's a story I'm writing based on a book that I read." A/N-HAHA...I introduced fanfiction to Ron. In a fanfiction...please tell me that I'm not the only person that finds that funny, and i-RON-ic.
"Oh," said Ron. "What were you listening to? What is that thing?" he asked, pointing to Kristine's old, beat up, metallic blue CD player.
"That's my CD player." Again Ron looked confused. "It plays music when you put disks like this in it," she held up a CD. "Here," she said turning on track two of the CD that was already in the CD player. She placed the headphones on Ron's head and pressed play.
::Somewhere, beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me...my lover stands on golden sands and watches the ships that go sailing:: were the words that Ron immediately heard. He started tapping his foot and swaying back and forth in time with the music. Kristine knew he was in time because she had the whole song memorized.
When the song was over Ron handed the headphones back to Kristine, who put them around her neck. She was enjoying teaching Ron about things that she used in everyday life that were so foreign to him. It was fun.
Ron stayed in the seat next to Kristine for the remainder of the 3 hour trip, but didn't bother her. He still sat watching the movie like it was the greatest thing ever. Occasionally Harry could be heard a few seats back telling someone, presumably Hermione, that he missed playing quidditch and being able to do magic whenever he pleased. The person just sighed in exasperation.
When they arrived at the college dormitory where they would be staying Kristine saw a very familiar face standing at the sidewalk, apparently waiting for the band. The teenager boy standing there was about 18 years old with brown hair and glasses. He was standing with drumsticks in hand, drumming on a concrete pillar.
"Monti's here," muttered Kristine under her breath. Chris Monti was the pits previous section leader. He was a joker and a member of what Kristine called the 'Chris's' or "Kris's". If your name could be shortened to Kris or Chris you were automatically part of the little group. For some reason a lot of Chris's hung out together, and several of them shared the same warped sense of humor.
Another person that looked familiar to Kristine stood several feet from Monti. He looked like a shorter version of Zack for one reason and one reason only. He was Zack's older brother. He had graduated from school when Kristine finished her sophomore year. As soon as Mrs. Wyman and everyone else got off the bus Casey went up to her (in front of Mr. Wyman) and said "Mrs. Wyman, Will you marry me?" holding out a ring to her. Everyone who had ever been in band with Casey burst into fits of laughter. Zack just shook his head in disbelief and embarrassment that Casey was his brother. Then again, Zack did do funny things like that a lot of the time at band practice.
Immediately when Monti spotted Wyman he hugged him, saying, "Oh, Wyman, I've missed you soo much. Hold me. Hold me now."
"Not again," groaned Wyman. He had had to deal with this last year. A/N: To get the full story on that you have to read my friend, Jess' Marching band fic. Its called HHSMB meet ReiKai Tanti! And her pen name is StellerSabre13. Shameless plug for my friends fic, oh well. I used her idea and I had to say that it wasn't mine
"I love you, Wyman. I love you," cried Monti.
By this time Wyman had had just about enough of this. He pulled his wand out of his back pocket ( not a smart place to put your wand according to Mad Eye Moody).
"Petrificus Totalus," cried the annoyed teacher. Monti immediately fell to the ground, unable to move his body. He could not even move his mouth. Only his eyes could move. Monti hadn't been informed that Wyman was a wizard and this thoroughly shocked him.
"Someone carry him upstairs," said Wyman, almost sounding bored.
Everyone else stayed downstairs in a long line next to their room mate, waiting to get their room keys and band camp bracelets. Kristine and Shannon were rooming together. They were in room 515. When they finally got in the elevator with their huge bags they pressed the button and immediately went up to their room, which had an excellent view of a parking lot.
Kristine, who was familiar with band camp routine immediately ate the bag lunch that they had been required to bring, while Shannon, who was attending her first band camp, put her clothes away. They had gotten their schedules for the week with their keys and when Kristine looked at it she groaned loudly.
"This is yucky. We have until 2 to finish eating and getting ready, then we have to be downstairs and on the field by 2:15. We're having a practice block until 5:00 and then from 6:30 to 9:30 we have to practice again. Ewww...," she said.
At 5 to 2 the to girls walked down the 5 flights of stairs to the front of the building, where the drum majors, Ron, Draco, and a few other people were assembled. At 2 ,on the dot, the Erika and Genesis started to make 2 lines out of the band members. Shannon got to stand next to Draco, while Kristine was next to Ron.
"Hi, My name's Shannon," she said, holding out her hand politely to Draco.
"Draco," he said nonchalantly, running his hand through his hair. He smiled, which was the first time Kristine had seen him do so since coming into the band. Shannon smiled back at him.
For no reason in particular Ron and Kristine turned to look at each other and at the same time they raised their eyebrows in disbelief. Both had a slight smirk on their faces. Kristine's smirk widened to a grin when she saw the light strike Ron's eyes. Ron laughed and then turned around, but not before Kristine saw the bright shade of red that he had turned.
"Take a good look at the person standing next to you," shouted Erika.
"They will be your buddy for marching to and from the field for the rest of the week. You will get to know your buddy," finished Genesis. Erika started to go down the line with a clip board and a pen, which she handed to each person in turn. Everyone signed their name in one of two columns next to the name of the person that they were currently standing next to. Despite the long practice schedule, Kristine was already enjoying this year's band camp.
The band spent the next few hours on the field, all sweaty from marching back and forth in the blistering sun. When they broke for dinner no one felt like marching back to the dorms. Everyone was willing to go to dinner though.
Dinner was in the school cafeteria, one of the few air conditioned buildings that the students had access to. Shannon, Jess, Kristine, Hermione, Harry, Draco, and Ron all walked up to dinner together. When they entered the cafeteria a woman scanned their key cards and they each got themselves a tray and utensils.
The cafeteria contained a plethora of appetizing foods but Kristine and Jess, who had been to band camp 3 times before, knew what to stay away from. The salads and hot dinner foods were safe for the most part. Kristine went and quickly made herself a salad, before finding a table with enough chairs for everyone she was with.
Kristine sat with Shannon and Jess on either side of her. The boys sat across from them. Hermione, who hadn't really been associating with the six students since they arrived that afternoon, took a seat next to Bonnie and her sister Becky, at the opposite end of the table.
Draco, Ron, and Harry had their plates piled high with food. Ron took one look at Kristine's salad and cranberry juice and paused.
"Is that all the blood food you're going to eat," he asked, mouth full of mashed potatoes.
"Nice to see you're so concerned," said Kristine jokingly. "And no. It's not. I was planning on checking out what we have in the way of the sugar rush department later. I wanted to see if they have a piece of pumpkin pie. Oh, and you might want to stay away from the cookies," she added as an afterthought.
"Why?" inquired Draco and Shannon at the same time.
"Found a piece of wax paper in one my sophomore year. Not a tiny piece either. It was about half a sheet," Kristine explained.
"Yuck," muttered Harry, half to himself. He had just taken a bite of a French fry to find that it was half frozen. Jess giggled as he pushed the plate aside and moved on to his hamburger.
Suddenly, and unexpectedly, Kristine gasped loudly. She turned to Jess with a mix of fear, shock, and sadness on her face. She started tearing a bit.
"Jess, I just realized. We're seniors. This is our last band camp here at ESU. I think I need a hug." A/N: ESU is East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania and I think I need a hug is from Donkey in Shrek, the whole quote is " I can't feel my toes, I DON'T HAVE ANY TOES...I think I need a hug..." I heart that quote... Jess and Shannon reached over and hugged her and, without warning a pair of ver freckled arms wrapped themselves around her. They were Ron's arms.
Jess, Shannon, and for some reason Harry, sat there with devious looks on their faces. When Ron stopped hugging her Kristine noticed this. She knew that Shannon and Jess were planning something, she just didn't know what that was.
The group of new friends finished dinner about an hour early and decided to go back to the dorms. They would get that they needed, then head sown to the game room for a while. Shannon, Jess, and Kristine decided to take the stairs up instead of the elevator. As freshmen Kristine and Jess had had a very bad experience in the camp elevator. A/N: I remember this one time at band camp...when I got stuck in the elevator with seventeen (17) other people from Hicksville and Quinn, an instructor from Nutley H.S. in NJ
On the way up Shannon and Jess told Kristine just what they were planning on doing.
"Kristine, we're going to tell Ron you like him. And ask him out for you," said Jess.
Kristine simply nodded.
"Jess is actually going to be the one to tell him," said Shannon.
"When were you two planning on doing this?" questioned Kristine, trying not to sound too ticked off at her friends.
"Tomorrow? We definitely wanna do it before Wednesday," replied Jess.
"Does this mean you'll let me tell Harry and Draco that you like them?" Kristine asked. They were nearly to their floor.
"I'm fine with that," said Jess.
"Whatever," replied Shannon. She was really rather indifferent to the whole thing. She didn't care what Kristine did. Kristine had seen how Draco had smiled for the first time and really started opening up once he had met Shannon.
A/N: Next part of the story is going to be in script format, i.e. it's going to have "Draco:" then what ever he said and stuff like that...I'm trying to save you guys reading time...and my fingers some pain from typing soo much.
Interior- Cafeteria: Morning
Kristine, Shannon, Jess, Draco, Harry, and Ron are waiting on the line for French Toast, eggs, etc.
Harry: What do they have to eat for breakfast here?
Kristine: Everything. Just stay away from the scrambled eggs.
Harry ( about to take the scrambled eggs): Why?
Kristine ( to Jess): Shall I tell him, or shall you? Jess: I think I will.
Harry: Ok, why shouldn't I take scrambled eggs.
Jess: Our first year here I found a hair in my eggs. Not on top but literally IN my eggs.
Kristine: She picked up the hair and a giant clump of eggs came with it. It was gross. ( takes some sausage and French toast)
Ron: I want a muffin, anyone want to come with me?
Jess (winking at Kristine): I'll go. I have to talk to you anyway. (walks away to the counter in the middle of the room, where muffins and pastries where in the morning and salads in the afternoon and evening, talking to Ron as they walked)
Harry ( confused ): What was that all about?
Kristine: She went to go tell him that I like him...crap...I didn't just tell you that...oh well, while we're on the subject of liking people, Jess likes you.
Draco: Potter's got a girlfriend! (laughs)
Shannon: Draco! (hits him hard on the arm)
Draco: OUCH! That hurt. (rubs arm gingerly)
Kristine: Oh yeah...and this one here (points to Shannon) likes you.
Draco: I bloody knew that.
Kristine (confused): You did?
Shannon: I told him this morning (whispers) he said yes when I asked him out.
Kristine: But Malfoy. I thought you didn't like muggles?
Draco (slightly angry): Who told you that? Potter, Granger and your boyfriend?
Kristine (quickly): Ron told me...
Draco: Did you ever stop to think that maybe I was trying to save face at school? (narrows eyes) I did have a family image to portray there. Here it's different. I can be myself.
Harry (sarcastically): So, Draco Malfoy's gained a conscience has he? Must go tell Ron and 'Mione
Shannon: Lay off, Harry.
Draco: She's right, mate. Do lay off. As a matter of fact, why don't you just shove off?
Kristine (trying to act as mediator A/N: My constant role, always and forever): Ok guys, no fighting. Lets just go sit down.
(All sit down at the table where Jess and Ron had saved them seats.)
Jess (whispering to Kristine): I told him. I'll tell you about it later.
( They eat their food in silence and then go to practice)
Exterior-Football field-11:30 a.m. Morning practice has just ended. Kristine, Jess, and Shannon are walking up the hill to the dorms.
Kristine: So, you were going to tell me something?
Jess: Yes, I was.
Shannon: Soo?
Jess: Ron likes you.
Kristine (shocked): He does?
Shannon: What exactly did you say to him this morning?
Flashback to breakfast
Ron: You were going to tell me something?
Jess, Yes. But first, what do you think about Kristine?
Ron (blushing): Well, umm, she's, well, she's cool. She's a great musician and, I, er, kinda like her...(he said the last part quietly, while turning almost the same color as his hair)
Jess: Perfect (sly smile)
Ron (scared): What are you planning?
End flashback
Kristine: What are you planning?
Jess: Nothing. Nothing at all. ( goes to dorm while Kristine and Shannon head to lunch)
Together (looking at each other): She's planning something.
That's all folks...for now...Hope you liked it. Read and Review. And read Jess's fanfic about marching band...tis very interesting. And read Shannon's too. Her pen name is Gold Eyes. Again, shameless plug for my friends fanfics. But to bad, so sad. And as usual, Read and Review. I will love you forever.