Chapter 2

     "Alright everyone, settle down." Mr. Letwitcs called out to my band, and as always, no one listened to him.
     "Every day guys, well I guess I'll just have to start handing out detentions, that's cool with you guys right?" he asked. And as usual, everyone shut up.
     "Good, now then. Welcome back to school, the class your in right now is Varsity Band. This means you don't suck as much as symphony band, but you suck a lot more than Wind Ensemble. Now I know you all want to be in Wind Ensemble, and the only way to even have a chance at that is by taking lessons, so you are all required to take lessons at least once a week and if you take lessons with me, you won't have to..." Mr. L started to drone on and I started to block him out. I was a little more focused on a 'Dear Daisy' letter I had recently gotten. And for once... it was a love confession... I'd never gotten one before. It read:
    "Dear Daisy,
             This summer, as every summer since I was born, I went up to our family's lake with my best friend and her family. We've been friends our entire lives and up until now I've always looked at her as a little sister. But sometime in August, we were singing a Karaoke duet and when we where singing we looked into each others eyes. And as I looked deep into her beautiful eyes, I realized  that I'm in love with her. And now I don't know weather or not to confess to her, because what if she doesn't feel the same way? I don't know if that would ruin the relationship that we have. Please help me!
             Ruffled Romeo"
      "Alright everyone, get out your scale packets, we're going to start on scale number twelve." Mr. L said as I snapped back to reality. I put the letter away and picked up my trombone. As I played, I tried to think of something to tell Romeo, but I had no clue. Love was about the one thing I didn't know a thing about. I knew that a logical answer would be that if she was really his best friend, that his feelings shouldn't change hers. But then I thought what if I were this guy? Would my telling Ren about my feelings for him scare him off?

        Ren and I sat together at lunch, just as we always had since kindergarten. We sat at our usual table and pulled out our usual lunches, tuna, and a PB&J. We took out half and traded. It was a gross ritual, but we always did this. We don't know why, but we apparently liked the tow tastes together. As I began to nibble on my half of the tuna, Brittney and Meaghan Gilman ran up to the table.
       "Oh mi god Jeanette,did you hear the rumor?" Brittney asked.
       "Yeah did you hear it?" Meaghan followed her green eyes a glow. Meaghan and Eleanor were twins and basically looked the same except for Meghan was a blond.
        "No, did you guys take something? Like sugar? You know it's like crack to you guys." I told them. Ren laughed and I just grinned. Brittney was not amused with my joking.
        "Seriously Jeanette you'll want to hear this. Go ahead, tell her Meaghan." Meaghan looked about ready to burst.
        "Nate Jeffery is transferring to our school!" She squealed as she jumped in the air. I just looked at her in disappointment. When she looked for my excitement she got a worried look on her face.
        "I said, Nate Jeffery is transferring to our school!" she did a jump and some jazz hands. I still wasn't cracking though.
        "Nate Jeffery... Oh come on Jean! It's Nate freaking Jeffery!" Meghan started to yell which is when I squealed,
        "OH MI GOD ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!" Meaghan and Brittney got huge smiles on their faces.
        "I knew you'd be excited!" Brittney said. We all started to laugh and Ren just looked at us  in disbelief.
        "I can not believe you guys. All this over Nate Jeffery, Really?"
        "Do you expect any more or less from us?" I said and smiled at him, "And admit it you love us!" I giggled. He rolled his eyes.
        "Sure I do. Hey is that my article?" he asked as he reached across me for the paper. And just then someones bag walking by knocked my head into Ren's and I kissed him on the cheek. The really awkward part was that I couldn't make my self move away, so I was stuck, my lips on his cheek, for what seemed forever. It felt so wonderful. Until he pulled away and I realized that Brittney and Meghan were staring at us. My cheeks turned so red that they matched my lips.
         "I'm sorry Ren." I said to him completely embarrassed. He looked at me with his gorgeous blue eyes and started to laugh. I was completely confused.
         "It's not a big deal Jean. It was a complete accident." he said.
         "And it's funny why?"
         "I don't actually know." He smirked at me. I rolled my eyes and laughed with him the rest of lunch.