Short Story #4: Marceline and Tony in high school
Tony Maxx sat in class, drumming his desk with his two pencils along to a song he had blasting through his ear phones. He sat next to Lloyd who sunk into his chair, listening to the lecture Mr. Martin was giving.
"God…" the boy in green groaned. His friend had been constantly drumming for half the period. "Dude…Knock it off…"
Tony kept drumming listening to the song.
Lloyd glared. He decided to look over the rest of the class. His sister was sitting beside her friend, Angel, but staring at the back of Tony's head.
When Marceline realized she was caught staring, she looked down at her book instead.
"Mr. Maxx?" the teacher called, asking a question.
Tony didn't budge, not hearing.
Mr. Martin sighed and went up to Tony. He ripped his earphones out and immediately the drummer stopped. "Mr. Maxx, if you like music so much do it on your own time, not in my classroom."
Tony nodded and put away his pencils. "That reminds me class," Martin said. "The Music Fair is in three weeks, if you desire to play during the fair, sign-up sheets are in the office." He paused. "Don't forget the cash prize for the crowd favorite is one-thousand dollars to spread amongst your band or donate to charity."
That got Tony to pay attention.
Soon the bell rang to end the third period and everyone poured out of the room for lunch. Tony raced out the room and caught up with Jayleene Walker who was leaving her History class.
"Jayleene!" he touched her shoulder. "Sit with me at lunch, I wanna' tell you something."
Marceline, who was only a few people behind, pushed through the crowd to talk to Tony but he already was discussing something with Jayleene. Discouraged, she backed away a bit, and then turned the other way.
…
Tony, Jayleene and Scarlet all sat at a table in the middle of the cafeteria.
"I get it, so you wanna' make a band." Jayleene said, downing more chips.
"Yeah," Tony nodded.
Scarlet pulled one of the Music Fair flyers out of her bag and placed it on the table.
"It says to participate you need a band of at least three people." She said. "And no more than five,"
"Great," Jayleene smiled. "Now all we need is another guitarist, a vocalist and a keyboardist."
"I can play keyboard." Scarlet offered. "And Lloyd is pretty okay at the guitar."
"Not really…" Jayleene sighed. "I gave him so lessons and he's not all that good yet. Not enough to play onstage."
"Oh…" Tony sighed. "Well, sis you can play keyboard but…we need another guitarist."
"And vocalist!" Jayleene added. "I am not singing."
"Yes, you are. You sang for the dance." Scarlet glared.
She fell silent after grumbling "fine" under her breath.
Tony rolled his eyes. "Who do we know who can play guitar just as good as Jayleene?"
Scarlet gasped suddenly. "What about…uh…Angel…?"
"Since when does she play?" Jayleene looked slightly shocked. "She was the one who pushed me to play for the dance a few weeks ago because we couldn't find anyone else!"
"I've seen her play in the band room after school on Thursdays!" Scarlet explained. "I guess she hasn't told anyone?"
"Maybe…" Tony pondered. "But we need her, so we'll watch her play after school today."
A/N: Short chapter, I know, I don't have all that much time to write a long one.