Thank you to everyone that read this story. This is my first Pride and Prejudice story and I want everyone to know that you don't need to know a lot about band to get this story but it my help.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pride and Prejudice
It's going to be a good day Lizzie thought sitting in the front seat of Jane's car on her way to school. So far this morning she had woken up on time and was able to have blueberry waffles for breakfast and Lydia didn't complain that she had nothing to wear, and that can be very annoying coming from an 8 year old. I didn't care about clothes when I was 8 Lizzie thought I liked Poke'mon. So she was having a good morning and she turned up the radio as Up! by Shania Twain came on.
"Lizzie turn it down a bit" Mary shouted from the back seat.
"Sorry Mar" She yelled as they pulled into the student parking lot and they got out of the car. Mary ran off fast to be with some of her 7th grade friends. Jane went towards the middle entrance of the school said she needed to pick up some forms and Lizzie went to stand with some of her friends by the cafeteria entrance.
"Hey guys what's up" Lizzie said coming up to her friends who included her best friend Charlotte, her boyfriend Nick( I hate Collins I couldn't put Charlotte with him), her best guy friend West, the twins Abby and Amber, and some other people that are only somewhat friends.
"The sky" Charlotte said with a smile and moved over to let Lizzie into the circle. Lizzie and Charlotte had been best friends since Pre K at Westside School.
"That's cool I hear that it's looking bluer today then normal. I heard that it's a beautiful shade of cerulean this morning."
"You two are nerds" West said from their right.
"You're the nerd" Lizzie shot back "I'm just a witch remember". Charlotte and West both knew that she was talking about Halloween a few years back. She had dressed as a witch and Lydia had come up and asked what she was Lydia had only been 6 at the time. Lizzie of course couldn't just say she was a witch no she told her sister she was the wicked witch of the west and that every Halloween she was allowed to be wicked again and ended it all with an evil laugh and smirk. Lydia had took off crying for their mom and Lizzie joined West and Charlotte to go trick of treating. Before they could talk more the bell rang telling them to go to 1st period.
Two periods later Lizzie was glancing at the clock in the math room. She hated math she never had a problem with it until this year. She knew it wasn't her and she liked the teacher but he couldn't teach. He thought like it was a review and every thing should come back after a few problems. So now Lizzie was staring at the clock begging it to ring so she could go to lunch and then band class. Band was one of her favorite periods because it was so much fun and they were the best marching band in the county and in a few others to.After what felt like an eternity the bell rang and Lizzie left for lunch and dropped her things of in the band room.
She got in line and got a cheese pizza before the cafeteria got crowded because if you were buying and came in late you would have a lot of people cut in front of you. Today how ever things went quickly and she was headed to the table she normally ate at. A few minutes later she was joined by Alex and Britney (another friend). Behind them Jane came up to Lizzie and dropped her purse in an empty seat next to her and hurried to get in line. After about 15 minutes Jane came back but she wasn't alone two boys came behind her. Jane sat next to Lizzie and the two boys sat down too. One was a red head and was looking every where with a smile on his face. The other looked like he didn't want to be here he was tall and had really dark almost black hair and was very handsome.
"Who's this Janie?" Lizzie asked with a smile these must be the new kids she thought.
"This is Charles" she pointed to the red head "and this is William" she pointed to the tall one.
"Nice to meet you I'm Elizabeth you may call me that or Lizzie nothing else. If you do I will hurt you" She said all this with a smile her green eyes sparking.
"Nice to meet you" Charles said
"Hello" William said. Lizzie had a weird feeling in her stomach but ignored it.
"So what do you guys play" Lizzie asked
"Well I play soccer and Will…" Charles was cut off by Lizzie's laugher. "Why are you laughing?" he asked with a frown. Lizzie couldn't stop laughing so Jane replied for her sister.
"She meant what instruments do you play in band?" Jane told the boys.
"Oh." Charles said and got a little red in embarrassment. Which Lizzie thought was because he made a fool of him self in front of Jane but he replied "I play trumpet and so does Will" who nodded at his name and added.
"I was first chair at my old school"
"Really that's cool I'm going to be first chair next year and Jane is this year and section leader" Lizzie said "I play drums/percussion and I'm 2nd Snare drum I was first but that was at the Christmas parades when Blake was drum major (for those who don't know drum major is the person that conducts the band during a parade performance). Now he's in to drum line again with is fine by me because I don't think I would like being the judges like in a big parade like Apple blossom." Lizzie informed them.
"What's Apple blossom?" Charles asked who seemed to want to know everything.
"Well…" Jane started but was interrupted by Lizzie who saw Alex had an m and m cookie and said she wanted half. Alex handed over part of the cookie and Lizzie started to eat it and smiled at her sister.
"They do this all the time if she has a cake or something he gets half. If he gets a cookie she gets half. What was a saying before I was rudely interrupted" Jane said and glared at her sister.
"Apple blossom" Will reminded her who although he hid it will looked interested.
"The Shenandoah Apple blossom festival is the 1st weekend in May. Our band travels every year to go play in the firefighters parade on Friday and the Grand Feature Parade on Saturday. It's about 2 miles give or take up and down hills. There is also a symphonic band competition that we compete in" (This is a real Parade I'm not making this up).
"Where's the festival?" Charles asked looking a Jane with a smile. Lizzie smiled it had been so long since Jane had had a nice boy like her.
"Winchester, Virginia about 4 hours from here. We normally leave around 5 or 6 in the morning to get there."
This topic carried on a bit more but Lizzie shut it out Jane was telling them everything so there was no need for her to listen. She started talking to Jeff who said the Orioles were going to have a good year this year that was his prediction. Lizzie liked baseball but couldn't follow major league, there are just so many games it would confuse her. Football she could follow, every team played only once a weekend and there where only 17 weeks of it not 6 games a week or more like baseball. If she could she would leap at the chance to go to a major league game though.
Lizzie said good bye to her friends and went up to the band room. She thought the new kids were nice Will was confusing to her though. She could normally read people like a book but Will was a mystery. Oh well she thought he doesn't seem like a bad guy, oh man. The band room door was locked. She took a card out of her pocket and went to pry open the door when voices came down the hall.
"Come on Will she's wonderful"
"You just met her"
"I know but she's so nice and pretty" Wholly crap Lizzie thought that's Will and Charles she slid the card up though the locks on the door and realized that they can't see her so she held the door open for a quick exit and listened.
"She may be Charles but every time you meet a new girl you do the same thing over and over again." So Will can speak in full sentences he hadn't at lunch. "All I am saying is to be her friend before you start crawling at her feet."
"All right what did you think about her sister Lizzie? She was nice." Charles said. Thank you Charles Lizzie thought I think your nice to.
"Alright I hardly know her sitting at the same table at lunch is hardly enough to make an opinion." Will curtly responded.
"I saw you looking at her do you like her"
"She was very childish, like a little girl in ways." Childish, Lizzie thought I just like to have a good time that's hardly childish. I wouldn't like an arrogant guy like you liking me anyway. She felt her temper flare first he brings Jane down who would love to go on a date with Charles and now he's calling me childish. A part of her new that Will was just being a little honest but it sounded ignorant to her. She slipped in to the band room and set up for class. If she had stayed she would have heard Will compare her with his sister in some ways and she would have known that she just reminded him of his sister and he wasn't belittling her.
Please review for this it would make me very happy and I'm sorry it took me a while to update end of the year school stuff has kept me busy but schools over in less then 2 weeks so after that I should be able to update faster. And thank you to all the people that reviewed for this.