6 Superstition

After that day I had a good feeling I would enjoy my Freshman year now, knowing I have a girl to talk to and also now that Diego and I are starting to talk more again. But having that feeling of not knowing what could happen, after all anything that happens good, will have a downfall and I am believer of that. Especially of what's to come..

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/Summer, July 2016/

Next day in band camp>

"Hey Sean!"

Garcia says as he is walking towards me.

We had just got done marching outside and the entire band was tired enough, but our directors wanted full band inside the main band hall, and everyone was not having it.

"So today's marching was tough huh, now time for the music right?"

Garcia says as he comes up to me,

"That was only the first part?!"

I say surprised, but of course ready for it. This was the time for all the sections to meet up in the big band hall to practice the part for the show together. Joe comes up to Garcia and starts to talk to him. As everyone sets up, Angela comes up to me,

"Hey Sean!"

I try to reply not to happily but calmly,

"Oh hey whats up, how was it outside?"

"Oh it wasn't to bad, and i was looking at you and I could tell you weren't really having it, by the look on your face,"

After she said that I felt a little unwary, she was looking at me the whole time? I mean im ugly but she had the time to do that? I didn't want to feel bad and say i didn't look at her, but I carried on the conversation,

"Yeah I was feeling tired doing all those fundamentals and carrying that big ass horn,"

"Oh yeah I know! I could tell you were having trouble with it, I mean I was having trouble also,"

After she said that I questioned myself, 'is she talking about holding the flute that long?' I wondered and asked,

"What were you having trouble with?"

"Oh my gosh dude, my flute, Mr Moon wants it parallel to the ground and i was just tired of it,"

After she said that , I was trying my best not to say anything smart to her so I agreed with it,

"Oh for real?"

She was following it,

"Oh yeah Sean its tough for a flute player, I know your horn is bigger but stilllllllll,"

I just had to put in my two cents,

"Oh yeah because you have to keep it parallel to the ground, and I gotta hold it above parallel so my sound can go up, makes sense."

I tried to say that as sarcastically as I could, but of course she didn't buy it,

"Aww Sean you know so much! Thank you, everyone thinks we complain to much it's a hard job for us,"

"Yeah of course."

I thought to my self, if she is this dumb then I know she isn't the mean type, I mean most girls in my grade are like that, and I know I get the most ugly looks, but this one is different, and I wanted to talk more with her, and probably ask her on a date this early on so we can continue to be MORE than friends,

"So with that aside what are you doing aft-"

"Alright everyone get in your sections we are going to run through the show once, hurry up we are on time!"

Mr Moon blurted out loud in front of everybody, so excitingly Angela said bye and took off to the flute section, and I myself took off to the baritones.

As I took off to sit down, Garcia comes up to me and starts talking,

"So you are talking to Angela now huh?"

I looked up not surprised,

"Yes I am, and I probably have a chance, were you talking shit about us? Or Joe"

"Oh no we talked about the other girl that likes you"

He says, I wondered who he talked about, some other girl is looking at me? I wondered and asked,

"Who are you talking about?"

"Oh you know, Carol?"

When he said that I thought, oh it's her…

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I don't know if all, but we have that one person in our life that we do not like, but later on will stick together as friends and wonder why you yourself kept distance from each other, you didn't know anything back then, you were young, as for me she liked me liked me, but I let her down and ignored her, I feel this passion now, but back then I was scared, scared to have something I didn't want to waste…

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"Oo Sean you got someone else on the menu!"

"Garcia keep it down, I don't want her to hear us, I don't want Carol to get jealous,"

"Aw man Sean I know what you mean, you don't want to start something huh, two girls fighting over you right?"

I already knew this conversation was gonna go far to what I don't want,

"Okay yes Garcia, we don't need to talk about this, I don't want you to jinx me,"

"I won't jinx you, I'm letting you know, Carol will keep staring at you, and maybe come up to you, so watch out,"

"Yes Garcia I know, there's no problem to that, I just don't want no interaction between them, I don't want to think anything else alright?"

After I said that I had to ask a question,

"Did she look at me while I was talking to her?"

"Well yes, she always looks at you so Ik she is gonna give you more looks now,"

"Yeah I made it worse now huh, well it don't matter we'll see how it goes,"

"Alright Sean I'll talk to you after,"

"Later."

Garcia moved away my stand and walked down the aisle.

The way we are set up in front of our director is like a big arch, light wood winds in the front, and continues to the brass, I was on the left side of the director, and Angela was on his right, so intimately we seen each other from far ends,

"Alright everybody, are we settled?"

Mr Moon blurts our as everyone is nearly done setting up, and as the room gets quiet he gives us a heads up on his conducting, of how he will start off, and everyone understood, so without anymore hesitation, he lifted up his arms, and took off.

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Getting into the slow movement of our marching piece, I see in the corner of my eye Angela looking at me, so I decided to look back at her, and of course she smiled, and thought maybe, just maybe I have a good chance, and I looked back and smiled then looked back at my music and continued on, but I noticed someone else looking at me in the corner of my eye, almost an unforgettable memory..