The Unexpected One

Band Class

I walked into the band room and grabbed my instrument, my trombone, out of the lockers in the band room. I sit down in my seat and put together my trombone. I love band, I feel like I can express myself throught music and all of my problems melt away during it. It makes me feel at home between all the drama in my social life. It's just my escape from reality and I love the freedom to be who I want in this class. It's my free time.

I get ready to start warming up, when what do you know, Jason walks in the door. We have a moment of staring at each other, then he walks over to the band director, Mr. Maestro. They talk for a few minutes and then Mr. Maestro exclaims, "Looks like we have a new bass clarinet player." Oh geez, I think. Now he's going to sit next to me in this class too. My secret boyfriend. That nobody can ever know about. My gosh my life will be hard now. Trying to keep myself from showing too much interest in Jason, in every single class it seems like. This is going to be a very hard challenge and secret to keep.

He walks over and sits next to me with his new bass clarinet. He pulls it out and puts it together. "Hey, what's up?" he whispers to me.

"I'm in band." I whisper back with a smile. I have only known this guy for a couple hours but he's just so, you know, perfect. Yeah I know I'm only in 6th grade but, I really like him. Ugh, now I'm sounding like Olivia when she talks about her current boyfriend. Oh my gosh, I really like him. This is reminding me on how the counselors are always saying you're too young to date. Well, I really like him and I know I'm only 12, but I think this could really last.

We start class, and I realize that he is really good at playing. I love that he's into music, because music is my life.

We start a new song and it's just so great. It has a great romantic vibe and is very fluid and relaxing. It almost makes me want to fall asleep it's so calm and comforting. It's a pretty easy song, but it sounds so pretty and complicated and just so beautiful. I love how amazing and calm and pretty it is. I also love how it's in a very low note area, so it just sounds so cool.

Band sadly comes to an end, and it's time for the rest of my classes. I go to the rest of my classes and realize, I have every single class with Jason, and I sit next to him in every class. It makes me so happy and annoyed. Happy that I can sit next to him and be near him, but annoyed that I have to worry about people to over hear us talking and staring at each other. My life is so complicated!

I go home on the bus as usual, and luckily my bus is one of the first stops. I go inside and start on my homework. I want to delay having to get ready for the dance as much as possible. This is not going to be fun. I have to pretend that I'm interested in someone I hate for an entire night. Luckily, I can break up with him at the end of the dance.