Random short stories

It Would Suck to be Them

It was an average day in Orchestra, we had chair tests the day before and the results were posted on the board. I sit there with my stand partner and high-five him, smiling. We had been sitting in the same order as before. Him as first chair in the Cellos, me in second chair. We start practicing one of our more difficult pieces and I was trying to get his take on a particularly nasty series of measures that was giving me problems. As he explains, we start to notice two violinists arguing over who sat first chair.

"IT'S ME! I'M FIRST CHAIR! I DESERVE TO BE CONCERTMASTER. I'M THE BEST!", the first shouts

"NO ME! I WORK HARDER! CLEARLY IT'S ME!" the second screams and stamps her foot

My stand partner and I look at each other and then at the board, 3 names had been cut off the list of seating. Right before it announced first chair. Yikes. This was gonna get ugly. Instead of problem solving and trying to find a solution or ask them to wait, we chose to feed the fire of anger and competition.

We break out into the Game of Thrones theme song. We start out soft and relaxed but our sound grows with more intensity and energy as the two go at it. Soon, it ascends above us, filling the room and a screaming match between the two of them begins, slowly it becomes a physical fist fight. These two were gonna kill each other over a seating chart. Ridiculous. We keep playing, now getting harsher and louder, enjoying every second of the free entertainment.

Some killjoy just has to go and grab the teacher and she breaks up the fight.

"What are you two doing! Stop fighting right now."

After they've been pulled apart, she has us stop playing and questions their rationale behind fighting. I quickly explain that they're fighting over which violinist sat first chair, causing my teacher to laugh.

"Neither of you. You both sit on the third stand. Didn't you see the board?"

"But what about the missing seats? Who will sit there?" the first violinist asks her innocently

My teacher chuckles again, "Not a student. We invited professionals to play with us at the concert. Now both of you look ridiculous. Detention for a week"

It would suck to be them.