With full regards to the real Abb-ster.
My favorite freshman from this year.
::Ry
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Hmmm…I guess you could say Evvy's "Thing" with Swanson really started the day they met. Most of the girls on the drumline had a crush on him somewhat at a point in their musical careers. Not me! Oh good GOD no…I hate mushy stuff in general.
I play tenors with Evvy…and I can't help but look at her and go "Wow. She could be a model, but she's sitting here, baking a semi-permanent harness tan into that gorgeous skin." For that matter, so'm I….but I can't really blame Matt for being obsessed with her…she's funny, nice to people she likes, and she's AWESOME at biology. Seriously. I wouldn't have passed that class without her. Pedigrees make no sense, no matter what my teacher says.
Wow, I've gotten totally off topic haven't I? Well anyways. I guess the first time I noticed that something was REALLY going on was about a month into my freshman season…I was staying after with Evvy to have her help me with my sixteenth note triplets…gosh, I still can't get the hang of those! Especially when they're randomly thrown in with like, sixteenth notes! Like West Coast Singles. Hate that warm-up. I actually think that's what Evvy was helping me with when all of a sudden, Swanson walked up and put both his hands on her shoulders and said "Evvy, I need you to help me tune this drum over here" which I thought was strange. I love Evvy, but she can't tune a snare drum for crap. So I watched them out of the corner of my eye…and all Evvy did was WATCH Swanson tune the drum, but all of a sudden, I saw them make eye contact and it was like BAMMM…you could just tell they wanted each other. It was like TRANS-PERSON-EYE-LIGHTNING…
From there on out it wasn't hard to pick out the little things that Evvy did to make Swanson respond to her…little glances out of the corner of her eye, touching him innocently while they talked about ANYTHING…
I don't really think it's gotten past that mutual attraction though from what I can tell. They're both very professional people, both obsessed with their music. It's actually kind of nice, having leaders with chemistry between them. I've heard stories about these god-awful power struggles that used to go on before I got to the high school. Chewy and Scotty, Adam and Tony…God, drum captains are so over dramatic. Oh! well, Evvy's not the drum captain, that's Heather. She plays snare, and her twin sister Krissy is the bass captain. The three of them-Krissy, Heather, and Evvy- are really the heart of this drumline. Everyone loves them…it's kind of funny actually because if you didn't look into it too closely you'd think they were all lesbians together. The only guy who's a section leader plays cymbals. That's Fish-boy, or Mike, like Swanson and Mr. B call him. There's too many Mikes in this world though, so I call him Fish boy as a general rule. The whole drumline does.
What more is there really to say? I mean, it's not like they're MAKING OUT in storage closets…I'm pretty sure even the whores in the flute section wouldn't stoop that low. Screwing in the practice rooms, maybe, but those can be locked if you have enough connections to get the keys for a little while. Eww, not like I would know, thanks very much. Stop looking at me like that.
-Abbs