Thank you to all of you who stuck by the story! This is the last chapter! Lets go!
Chapter Seventeen: The End Of Summer, The Beginning Of Hope...
Neither of the girls remembered very much after that parade. Nothing really happened. Life went on as it should. Marching and was over, leaving nothing for the two to do between then and the beginning of the school year.
They were juniors now. They could hardly believe it! After that year, they were going to be seniors, but neither of them wanted to think that far ahead. Their sophomore year was behind them. It was all in the past and nothing could bring it back. Marah was gone. He had packed and left, leaving the band room empty and the office hollow.
The two had gone back to the school, however, before the school year began, to pick up various items and fix scheduling errors. Arianna and Elissa stole away, down to the music department, to take one final look at the rooms. Marah had left, the new director had not come. The band office was without an owner.
Peering in through the window, Elissa could see that there was nothing left but a desk and a chair. The closet door was open, the closet itself empty. It was still hard to believe that Marah was not there and that he was not coming back. Perhaps it was a bad thing. Maybe, after all that went on during the year, the band wouldn't come back. Maybe the program would finally fall victim to the ever-growing budget cuts and there would be nothing left.
But, perhaps it was a good thing Mr. Marah had left. The band would come out of it's trance Marah had put them in and everyone would see him how he was seen by Arianna. Maybe his betrayal was bringing something better than expected, more than one could hope for. Perhaps it was for the good...
Elissa looked up as the lights Arianna had turned on when they had entered the room were going out, one by one. Slowly, the bare room was plunged into darkness, except one light.
Turning the corner, she could see Arianna standing by the light panel, her finger hovering over the final switch, the one that would bring darkness to the room until the new director would come and turn it back on.
For a few moments, the girls stood, looking at the light over the podium, not saying a word. Finally, Arianna smiled. With that smile, Elissa opened the door, Arianna turned off the light, and the two left the band room, the door locking itself behind them.
The End.
Thanks so much! Please review! I'll bring you more, I promise! This was only the sophomore year, so I still have three other years to go... Thank you again! I hope you enjoyed following my friends and I on our band adventure, for, although this was fan fiction, these characters are based off ourselves. Goodbye!
