Enjoy!! It took me a little bit to write this: band concerts, homework, volunteer work, you know the drill. Thanks for reading!!
Chapter Seven Senior night and the performance
"Ahh! Henry get off of me!" I screamed.
"SHHHHHH!" hissed the band mom.
When all of the seniors settled into the lodge, we decided which pranks we were going to pull and when. Dani, Diana and I started to make the freshmen awards for our sections. Since I only had one freshmen I chose to make awards for the rest of my section.
"Um I need to see Layla and Henry for a moment." said Mrs. Smith, the head band mom.
Henry and I exchanged questioning glances and followed Mrs. Smith.
"So rumor has it that you two have the most saran wrap. That true?" she asked eyeing us in a very odd way.
"Uhhh yeah I guess so." Henry said.
"Great. Then grab it and meet me out side ASAP!"
I ran over to my bag and grabbed the four rolls I had previously bought. But when I glanced over at Henry, I noticed that he had a huge industrial roll of the wrap. I decided to leave mine behind.
"Why did you want our saran wrap?" I asked meeting the mom outside the lodge.
"I want you two to help me get someone back." said Mrs. Smith, giggling to herself.
"Um who? Mr. Blackmer?" asked Henry.
"No, just do this car."
I glanced over at the car, it wasn't Blackmer's or anyone else's car that I recognized. It was a burgundy colored Impala, plain and simple.
We silently got to work on the car, but it didn't go as silently as we wished it would. Every time we tried to use the saran wrap it would squeak very loudly. We didn't want anyone to come and see what we were up too, so Mrs. Smith decided to keep watch.
"GET DOWN!" she hissed.
Immediately Henry dropped on the ground with me and Mrs. Smith on top of him. A car was pulling into the parking lot where we were busy with our dirty work. A minute or two passed and the person in the car left and entered the lodge.
"It was just a worker."
It was almost four o'clock and the workers of the kitchen were coming in to start our final meal.
After a half an hour or so our job was complete. The car was successfully saran wrapped, it would take a lot of pulling and some scissors involved to remove the thick layer of wrap. With the job done Mrs. Smith, Henry and I walked back into the lodge only to get bombarded by questions of where we were and if we were ready to wake everyone up.
All the senior girls had gathered around one another to decided how we were going to wake up the rest of the girls. We had decided on using our noise makers again and run around to each cabin, screaming and yelling like a bunch on banshees.
Creeping out of the lodge and heading towards the freshmen cabin, we got ready.
"Ready?" Jasmine whispered.
We all nodded and silently crept into the freshmen cabin, careful not to slam the door behind us.
We all looked to Jasmine and waited for her signal, just a simple head nod.
Nod
"AHHHHH!!" we all screamed and twirling our various noise makers.
As soon as these frightened girls heard us, they screamed right back at us. Only with fear. We danced and ran around their cabin and knew one cabin was successfully awake. With that we bolted out the back doors and entered the other cabin containing the remaining girls. We didn't wait for any signal, just busted into the room screaming and twirling our noise makers.
Happy with our job done we bolted back to the lodge to find the guys waiting for us. Everyone was now fully awake, but some of the seniors looked like they were going to pass out any moment.
Sleep sounded comforting to me, so I walked to my bag to find a blanket or something for comfort. When I opened my bag I was surprised to see four untouched cans of silly string. I had forgotten that I had bought them for senior night. Looking around the lodge I noticed two other girls had just found their silly string too, Maria and Jenny (color guard captain).
"You got some too Layla?" called Jenny.
"Yup. What you say we use this on some freshies?" I asked.
"I'm in!" Jenny said. "What about you Maria?"
"Yeah me too."
The three of us, enemies, joined together for one purpose: attack the underclassmen. The freshmen were still recovering from their scare when we burst into their room and attacked. We each used about two cans on their cabin alone. Satisfied with their cabin, we each still had two cans left.
"I have an idea." I said.
"Uh oh, this doesn't look good...for them!" giggled Jenny.
My plan was simple, run into the bathrooms and spray everyone! In the showers, in the bathroom, brushing their teeth, anyone and everyone! Jenny and Maria caught on as I sprinted towards the bathroom.
The three of us ran in, kicking the door back as we entered. Once again we started screaming like banshees as we 'attacked' the bathers with our silly string.
"AHH! What is this?!" screamed a freshmen in the shower.
"EWW! What the hell?! I'm gonna kill you guys!" screamed one of the annoying juniors.
We sprinted out of the bathroom and ran back to the lodge giggling all the way there.
"And now, I'm pleased to introduce the seniors of the 2007-2008 Carson City Marching Bulldogs!" announced Mr. Blackmer later that day at the performance. "Alex Anderson, Derek Benson, Rachel Clarke, Layla Davis, Danielle Ferguson, Andrew Gardner, Maria Kramer, Jenny Smith, Jenny Turner, Jasmine Taber..." He continued to announce the names of the seniors, and cheers where heard from friends and family members as their name was announced.
After the seniors were called, pre-game was over and they were about to start their halftime preview.
"Taking the podium first is senior drum major, Jasmine Taber. She will be conducting Part Oneof our halftime show. Jasmine, the field is yours." Blackmer announced.
She nodded towards him and started to count the band off.
"You guys sounded great hunny!" my mother said wrapping me in a giant bear hug.
"What were you listening to? Obviously not us." I said back.
We were terrible, the worst I've ever heard us in all my years of being in the band. We were not together, no one was watching Jasmine in the first song, and in the second song, no one watched John and we almost fell apart. Rushing so badly, it was hard to keep up with the different tempos being heard. Trying to follow John and one tempo and follow the drumline at another was simply too much. Half the band gave up and stopped playing to try to focus on their marching.
"Ok so it was a little bad. But did you have fun?" my mom said planting a kiss on my cheek.
"Of course!" I shouted.
"Where's your stuff I'll grab it for you and put it in the car." my father said.
I told him where everything was and gave him my mellophone so he could put it in my case for me.
I found all of my friends and their families and said my goodbyes to them and the camp.
I walked up the giant hill realizing it would be my last time walking up it, as a student. As I climbed over the railing, I caught my shorts on a loose nail and laughed. Realizing again it would be the last time I could get them caught on that nail, when over the duration of summers I had snagged every pair of shorts I owed on that nail.
Reaching the basketball courts, my parents still struggling to find my case I was ambushed by a hug from the side.
"Layla! Don't look so sad." coming from the shouting voice of Annie.
"I'm not sad." I lied. "I'm just wondering why my parents can't find a simple thing like a case that has a bright lime green ribbon on it." I said chucking a little.
"LIAR!" she shouted, she always saw right through me. "Don't be sad. By the way, I know something happened last night between you and Mike, when are you going to tell me about it?"
"Umm, later." I said planting a big grin on my face so she would know not to be mad.
"Ok you better. Call me tomorrow sometime and tell me ok?"
"Alright Annie. Talk to ya later."
She gave me a hug and ran after her parents, who were waiting in a near by minivan.
"Is this it?" my mom called to me.
"Yes mom, you've only walked by it a dozen times." I said back giggling.
"Oh...Well you ready to go?"
"Yeah, hang on."
I looked around the basketball court hoping to find Mike, but he wasn't there, and neither were his suitcase and instrument.
"Yeah, lets go." I said sadly walking over to my waiting family.
I got in the backseat of the car to find my pillow and blanket waiting for me. We drove towards a small town that had a Subway in it, I ran inside and grabbed a sub and went back to the car. My mom laughed at me telling me that I ate that thing in record time. It was the first real food I had had all week.
After satisfying my hunger with that delicious sub, I nestled down in the backseat, and drifted off to sleep.
Mmmmkay! Chapter 7 done, 8 is coming soon. XD