Disclaimer: I do not own Loud House.
"Oh wow you're stuck with him of all people." Aria said in shock as she Melody, Luna, and Ethan sat in the dinning hall. Luna had just explained to her friends what had happened in her Music theory class the previous day.
"Well we can't tell Isaac." Ethan said causing the girls to look at him confused.
"Why?" Melody said eating her quesadilla.
"Yeah wouldn't he feel hurt about not being in the loop?" Aria pointed looking tilting her head in confusion.
"Because Isaac would feel guilty and think he'd cause all this drama." Ethan gestured dramatically in a panic. "So we can't Isaac about this."
"Not tell me what?" Isaac asked walking over to the table. He sat down quietly as Melody was about to speak.
"It's nothing." Ethan said rather quickly. As he said that he glared in Melody's direction.
"Are you sure?" Isaac raised an eyebrow.
"Yes we're sure." Ethan looked over at the girls. "Right guys?"
Luna didn't do anything but notice Melody nod her head slowly. Melody's attention went towards Aria and Luna got the feeling Melody knew something.
"Luna got Buck as a partner in music theory." Aria blurted out suddenly before covering mouth. Ethan glared at her for spilling the beans.
"Knew she would tell." Melody leaned her chair and smiled.
"Sorry I couldn't lie." Aria said sheepishly.
"So there was something wrong." Isaac glared at his friends a little.
"Aria seriously." Ethan whispered under his breath.
"I thank you Aria. I'm glad I have one honest friend." Isaac started to eat his diner.
"Listen dude." Luna started to explain in hopes to clear things up. "Please don't feel bad about what ever happens in this project."
"We literally yelled out boobs in class." Melody said with no filter and a laugh.
Isaac sighed a little and looked away from the group for a second. "That's Buck for you. He has a smaller filter than Melody."
"No offensive taken." Melody said before Isaac could say anything else.
"Melody you had no filter since grade ten." Aria teased and Melody pushed her a little, causing the two to laugh a little.
"I just hope he doesn't drive you too insane." Isaac said before taking a sip of his drink. Luna could tell Isaac was currently experiencing flashbacks to what happened between the two of them.
"Were you ever paired with him in a project?" Luna asked having a suspicion that that happened.
"It was in one of my elective classes in high school. After a day I walked up and told my teacher about our." Isaac paused for a minute to find the right words. "Past experiences. She switched my group the next day."
Melody tuned to Luna. "Yeah I'm sure if you explain to your professor that you're uncomfortable they'll let you change partners."
Luna thought about for a moment. "I don't think I should."
"Oh come on Luna just because most of us never switch partners doesn't mean you suck with him." Melody explained as Ethan nodded in agreement. "Except Aria she's too nice. She put up with the b*tchest girl in our school for a project."
"It was only for a day." Aria protested with her arms crossed. "There wasn't a need to."
"Still you put up with it." Melody repeated. "But Luna you shouldn't."
"I still don't get why need these rehearsals." Ethan said as they started walking to the music building. "We have the entire show memorized and music is the most important part."
"You sort of answered your own question." Luna explained as they walked inside. "We got to keep making sure the music is prefect or else what show do we have?"
"A show with good visuals and bad music." Aria answered before shuttering a little. "Believe me you don't want that at all."
"I remember I saw a show like that my freshman year at a band competition." Isaac responded sounding bad for whatever band he was talking about. "I forget what school it was but the music was so bad. I think the show was about pop music."
"Oh I think I was there." Ethan said in remembrance. "They were like the last band in Division Three and in between two much, much better shows. If the Macca divisions weren't determined by size they would be in division one. I swear that their marching skills was the only thing that kept them in. That was pretty decent."
At that moment both Aria and Melody stopped in there tracks. The other three other turned to see them with looks of embarrassment.
"Oh was it your band?" Ethan asked and the two girls nodded slowly.
"If I knew it was your high school band I would have never." Isaac started to explain.
"No, no it's fine." Aria looked like she was going through war flashbacks.
"Our band director was fired after that year." Melody shuttered recovering from whatever was going on. "He had an affair with the choral director."
"That year was not pretty."
The five walked into the band room. They did their normal rehearsal routine of unpacking their instrument, organizing their music, and moving to their sections. Mr. Taylor walked to the podium and led the warm up for the band. Afterwards Dustin and Hallie walked to the podium and led a musical run through. When that was done Mr. Taylor went to the specifics of the show. This was either good or bad, depending whether or not you were playing. Since the alto saxes had some important parts they would sometimes spend a while on the important parts.
"Okay everyone we'll do some sectionals." Mr. Taylor announced and the sections disbanded to their normal spaces.
"Okay saxes let's run down 143 to 167." Betty said to the entire alto sax section. "It's our hardest part and every rehearsal Mr. Taylor always makes us run through. I think it will be good if we play the notes one by one."
"Boo!"One of the guys said and Betty glared at him.
"Ignoring him." Betty said with a smile. "Let's get started."
It took a little while but they were able to get the notes down better than more. The rest of sectionals went in a pattern they started to play the section they need they got faster every time they were masters of the speed. Luna found it rather helpful as she knew the notes better and with each run through. Still she could only hope that the rest of section would retain the practice they did in sectionals.
"Can we take a break?" Someone asked after about the twentieth run through of the twenty-four measures.
"No we have to keep working on this section if we want to get show correct." Betty said sounding weirdly hopeful.
"And to get Mr. Taylor off our back." A girl said with a eye roll. "He's on us more than percussion. And they have to keep the beat for the entire show."
"That isn't even his job."
"It doesn't matter band is a team activity." Betty started to explain.
"Wrong it's a sport." The girl who wanted Mr. Taylor of their back said. Betty took a deep breath in before continuing.
"Alright band is a team sport. If one group is of the entire band is off. Even one small person messing up one small section can throw the entire band off."
"Percussion yes alto saxes no."
"Actually if we have the melody and it is messed up the entire band is off." Issac explained to the section. Luna smiled at him helping the alto saxes. "I remember when I was a junior and the clarinets had the melody. It took so long for us to it right and the song struggled until we did. I had to practice a lot to get it right."
"Issac has a point." Betty replied with a smile as she looked through the music. "We should all be practicing on a daily basis. Has everyone been doing that?"
The entire section nodded and said yes in a agreement. Luna couldn't tell if anyone was lying or not but Betty was too nice to be let down. She loved the alto saxes more than anything. She was one of those people who saw her section as a second family. And since Vetty was one of three seniors and the only female off them, many saw her as the alto sax mom.
Soon the band was called back to the band room. Of course Mr. Taylor asked the alto axes to play the section they spent almost all of sectionals working on. They played their heart out and for once Mr. Taylor seemed pleased with section. He went on to the percussion and after a few minutes rehearsal was almost over. At the end of every rehearsal the band did one last music run though of the show. With each run through Luna had admit that it was getting better. She couldn't wait until the next game people were going to love it.