Flower Crowns

Elle

I tap the pencil on the desk and glance at the clock. Finally, I mutter. Five more minutes till the bell dismisses us. I give Michael a tight smile. He smiles back though neither of our smiles seem real. Last few months have been tough for all of us. Ever since we came to know that Nick has lung cancer, we’ve all been concerned. We’ve always been there for each other--- Michael, Nic, Scott, Em and me. When we were in fifth grade, we would ride our bikes, talk for hours, go for movie nights, spend hours in the library building fantasies and cook together. Although now, we resort to mostly video calls and chat groups. After class ends, I go meet Em. I have an idea in mind, something I’ve dreamed about for a very long time.

“Hey” I say.

“Elle!!!! Hiii! How are you? We need to meet up sometimes, seriously it’s been too long.”

“Yeah, about that, I was thinking, and your absolutely free to interrupt if its terrible, your kinda the only blunt person with me, you know what its probably terrible, infact I----”

“Elle, get to the point”

“Right that. I was thinking, what if we made a band, you, me Michael, Scott and Nick. We could make remixes, put our own take on songs, recreate old ones and maybe even make our own.”

“Sounds great”

“Seriously? I mean it’s kinda sounds cringe. Even for me”

“I know, I’m fully aware but I have a feeling we all need this. Nick, needs this. And even if it doesn’t work, which quite honestly, it won’t, we’ll have fun, together, like old times.”

See that wasn’t so bad. Three more to go.

Scott seemed reluctant but other than that pretty much everyone agreed. The idea of having a band was cringe. I knew that. Right from the start. But I wanted us to be together. Nick could use more company; she seemed really dull the last time I saw her. In my idea of having a band, I couldn’t really see it going anywhere. But I saw the chance of having something more than that. Something that would be engraved in our memories. Something that we would remember to be a part of our youth and our friendship.