The Drummer and The Guard Member •Lashton•

Chapter 1

The picture above is how Ashton looks in this story^^^^

————————————————————————Ashton woke to the annoying beeping sound of his alarm. He knew today was gonna be amazing. His Senior year of high school. 1st day of Marching Band camp.

Ashton loves All things with band, but Marching Band is by far his very favorite. He's been in percussion since the summer before his 6th grade year in school. And has played in the Marching Band's pit since his 8th Grade school year.

But this year is special. This year he's the only senior in Pit. So naturally he's gonna be the section leader.

He quickly got up and made his way over to his closest to find a good outfit for today. He needed something good for working out in the hot sun.

After a couple of minutes of rummaging through his stuff. He found a plain white tank top, a pair of black basketball shorts, and pulled back his messy short curls with a black bandanna.

After getting dressed, he headed down stairs into the kitchen to fill his giant water bottle with a mountain of ice and a gallon of water.

Then he rushed to get his stuff together for the day. After he was ready he put on a pair of black converse and went outside to his car to drive to the school.
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The band room was crowded when he arrived, everyone was patiently awaiting the arrival of the directors so they could get on with the first day of band camp.

Ashton looked around for his friends, catching a glimpse of His friend Michael's bright green hair and his other friend Sierra.

Michael was the section leader of the trombone's starting today and Sierra, this being her Junior year, was a color guard member.

"Hey homie"Michael and Sierra said in unison as Ashton walked over to them.

"Hey guys" Ashton said back.

"Are you ready to partake in the next 3 weeks of hell?" Michael said with a playful smirk.

"You know it" Ashton said fist pumping the air.

"Sierra do you know if Leeroy or Marcel are gonna be here today," a quiet yet angelic voice said to my friend "because I wanna know if I have to  lead practice today."

I turned my head along with both of my friends and looked at the beautiful boy with curly long hair standing in front of us.

Luke Hemmings. A senior. The guard's section leader. My crush for like ever.

"I have no idea, but I'm sure you'll be fine if so, you practically teach the rookies and the vets everything they need to know for the season to begin with" Sierra said laughing slightly at the end.

"Do you think they'll respect me this year??" Luke said painfully insecurely, so much so that I wanted to give him a hug.

"Duhh" Sierra said in a tone that made it seem like something everyone already knew.

"Luke, babe, you're the section leader and by far the most skilled performer in the guard, they'd be stupid not to respect you" Sierra told him sweetly giving him a genuine smile "plus, if a Freshie or an 8th grader wants to disrespect you, the vets got your back."

"Ohh ok Sierra, thanks," he said shyly staring at the ground.

"Ohh it's no problem Lukey" Sierra said smiling at him, letting an embarrassing nickname slip, probably one given to him by the guard.

"Alright I'm gonna go" he said turning around and walking away.
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"Hey guys, who's ready for Band camp this season!!" Our drum majors Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson said excitedly. Everyone cheered in response.

Louis is a Senior in high school, which makes him our head drum major because he's the oldest out of the both of them. Liam is a Junior in high school. Louis is head drum major so this year he gets to conduct at the front of the field. Liam will conduct back field.

"Ok so uhh let's not make this meeting too long and formal cause we got some warmups and fundamentals to attend to" Louis said happily while everyone groaned.

"Here's some packets that we'll be handing out that will explain everything since Mr. Cowell isn't here just yet" Liam said whilst holding up a large stack of papers high above his head.

After the packets were passed out and read over slightly from everyone in the room, everyone in band and guard headed outside to the parking lot to start practice.

The band was in the middle of the seasons warmup song when a beautiful matte black Range Rover pulled up next to the tower.

The door of the car opens to reveal the band director. Simon Cowel.

Ashton, along with the entire band, watched in silence as Mr. Cowel unlocked his tower and climbed the stairs to the very top.

Once he was ready and all situated at the top of the tower. Mr. Cowel stared down at the entire band with a bored, stern expression and said: "Are we gonna get this show on the road or are we just gonna stand around gawking for another 2 hours."
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Ok so that's the first chapter 😌. What do you think?? Is it good??