"Okay band, time to warm up before we head out to the football field." Mister Barnett exclaimed to his boisterous band class.

"Yeah! Which scales, Smit-myster?" Asked Kayla. She was the most enthusiastic girl in the band at the moment, because she had recently been in the instrument room sniffing up crushed Smarties. Mister Barnett held his stomach and laughed sinfully, his man-boobs flopping up and down. The class made 'ew' noises.

"You stupid mortal! We no longer warm up with scales, we warm up with Tai Bo! Everybody up! I'm feelin' crazy!"

The class mumbled incoherently and they all got up from their seats. "But mister Barnett! Hayley just went into a coma-"

"Then that's her problem, isn't it miss Dadis?" He asked Julie, and slapped her across the face.

"We've got to escape!" Sarah whispered to Julie. Julie nodded and tapped Kayla on the shoulder, then whispered it in her ear. Kayla's eyes lit up.

"No way, Jose! I can feel the burn!" Kayla was doing some kicks and squats, and was obviously still doped up on the Smarties, unless she really like Tai Bo or something.

"Forget Kayla! We have to make a run for it!" Sarah yelled over commotion of the band room. There was a scream every now and then and a "Woo hoo" from Kayla. Sarah and Julie crawled under the chairs and spotted the door ten feet ahead.

"Do you think we should just run for it? Should we risk it?" Julie glanced at Mister Barnett to see if he was paying attention. At the moment he had Jim on all fours riding him like a pony.

"Coast is clear! Okay..one..two..three..go!" The two girls sprinted out from under the chairs and started in a run. They reached the door and burst outside to freedom. "Yes!" They stopped running, high-fived, and stood panting, but soon there was an odd sound coming from behind them.

"Yee haw!" It was Mister Barnett atop his noble steed, Jim, and they were gaining fast.

"Crap! What now?" Julie whimpered as they got closer and closer. Jim looked quite triumphant with his hair flowing and his graceful trotting, but how he stood the weight of Mister Barnett was a mystery.

"Do you think Mister Barnett put steroids in Jim's oats?" Julie asked, scratching her chin. Sarah grabbed her arm.

"There's no time to think about…hey, maybe you're right. Ah what am I doing?! Come on! Quick- this way!" Sarah and Julie dashed down the sidewalk, leaving the school behind. "We'll have to steal one of these babies." Sarah was talking about a tractor. They were in the parking lot and for some reason there were about fifteen of them.

"Hey! This isn't a story about the Murray County Band!" Julie screamed towards the sky. Sarah stared at her funny.

"Who are you talking to?"

"The author! She lives in the clouds! There's a whole world up there! I've seen it!"

"Julie, have you been watching The Little Mermaid again? You and your Disney movies. Now come on, do you know how to hot-wire a tractor?" Sarah put her hands on her hips and stared at the tractor with her lips pursed. "Hmm.."

"We could take this." Julie pointed at a airplane that was parked next to the tractor in the parking lot. It had a welcome mat that read "Welcome Sarah and Julie. This plane has already been gassed up and is ready to fly. You both can fly a plane because you went to airplane school, because I said so...and also because I'm too lazy to write a whole new chapter about how you have to get your flying license."

"It's the author!" Julie exclaimed, with her finger pointed towards the Heavens.

"Julie- don't be silly. There's no such thing as authors, you know that."

"But I sit out milk and cookies for them on Saint Patrick's Day."

"That's just an old superstition. I bet you also believe in janitors, too." Julie looked down and blushed. "Ha, I knew it." Before Sarah could rub it in, the two girls heard the neighing of Jim. It sounded close. "Quick! Into the band-mobile!" They scuttled up the plane's steps and shut the door tight behind them.

"Do you know how to fly this thing?" Julie asked Sarah, looking nervously at all the levers and buttons. Sarah pushed up her sleeves.

"Since three minutes ago." Sarah positioned herself in the pilot's seat and glanced over all the switches. "Wow, that sure is a lot of buttons. I like buttons. Especially this red one." Written below the red button in small print was the warning 'Do Not Push.'

"Well, we better push it." Sarah said calmly.

"No Sarah! Don't be naive!"

She pushed it. A small tv dropped down and hung from the ceiling. On the screen was Dora the Explorer.

"Ah! Educational television ahh!" Sarah covered her eyes.

"I think I'll take Mister Barnett over this. How about you?"

"Yeah okay."

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Mister Barnett was standing on the podium and in his hand was the tv remote for the band room's tv.

"Kids, I've decided Tai Bo isn't very effective. That's why I've ordered us Telletubbies on Pay Per View."

"Noooo!" Julie and Sarah screamed in unison.

"Yes! Woo hoo!" Cried an enthusiastic Kayla who was doing kicks and squats.