Nate focused only on his drumming and the rest of the world faded away. In his mind, no one else was there, it was just him and his music. Once the song ended, Nate held that position for just a moment, breathing heavily as the adrenaline rush from playing began to wear off once again.
Jason smiled as he watched Nate. Once Nate finished Jason stated clapping. "That was really good. Even if there were no other instruments."
Nate snapped out of his trance when Jason started clapping. "Um…thanks." He smiled sheepishly, "It still needs some work, but it's starting to sound better."
"Well it sounds good to me. I would really like to hear it when it's all done." The bell rang and Jason looked at the clock. "I guess it's time to go to class…"
"I guess so. Where are you headed to first?" Nate asked, hoping that maybe they'd have a few classes together.
"Here. My first class is band. I find of slightly weird." Jason shrugged, sitting back in the chair.
"Me too. What instrument do you play? I don't remember seeing you in band last year…" Nate thought aloud.
"Piano. I didn't do band last year because I took choirs instead, but this year I wanted to try band." Jason nodded as he spoke.
"Piano? Are you gonna join jazz band too? Our jazz band needs a new piano player." Nate grinned, thinking of how great it would be to see Jason in two of his music classes.
Jason pointed at Alex. "That was also another reason. The music teacher had to hunt me down. Apparently I'm the only student in the school that knows how to play piano."
"Well, you're the only one who can play piano well at least. I know we have quite a few classical musicians, but they can't play jazz music." Nate stated, thinking about the pianist from last year who was classically trained and couldn't play jazz music at all.
Jason pictured someone trying to play te piano classically but to jazz and laughed. "I like to learn the piano version of like all the songs I listen to. That can range from a slow ballad to music from my home country to 90s rock."
"That's a lot of music to have learned. Maybe sometime you could play something for me?" Nate asked, hoping to get to spend more time with Jason outside of school as well as at school.
"I forget most of the songs a couple weeks later." Jason laughed. "But I do know a few off the top of my head." Jason looked around. "I've never actually been in the band room. Where is the piano?"
"It's actually still in the choir room I think. They just haven't moved it back after their rehearsals this morning." Nate looked around too, thinking about where it might be.
"Oh. That would make sense." Jason stopped looking for the piano. "Maybe if we have free time today I can play you a song or maybe before class tomorrow…" Jason watched students slowly start to flood the band room.
(hey, sorry I was gone for so long. I had marching band competitions, but I'm back now :D)
"Yeah, that's definitely a must." Nate grinned at Jason but he was pulled off by his section mates. They dragged him to the percussion closet so they could get everything set up for what they were playing that day. He laughed and joked around with them while they set up the rest of the percussion equipment.
Jason laughed and waved as some people pulled Nate away. Jason went to go find the teacher so they could move the piano back into the band room.
(It’s fine. I have been really busy the past few days also)
As soon as Nate finished what he was doing, he went to find Jason again to see if he could help move the piano back into the band room.
Jason has found the piano and was staring at it. He was contemplating on how to bring it into the band room.
Nate walked into the choir room looking for Jason and found him trying to figure out how to carry the piano to the band room. "Hey, what if we put the little slide-y things under the feet and the corners of the piano? It would make it easier to push to the band room." He suggested.
Jason jumped at the sound of someone speaking. He turned around to see it was Nate and calmed down. “Yea. I think that would work. But how exactly do we get the slide-y things under the piano? I don’t think we can lift if that much…”
"They're pretty small. I think if we both lifted up on the piano on one side we could get it just enough to put them under the piano where we need it." Nate offered. "And sorry for scaring you. That wasn't my intent." He smiled at Jason.
Jason waved it off. “It’s fine. I’m startled easily.” He went over the corner of the room where he saw the wheelie thingys. “I think that might actually work. Let’s get this piano moving.”
"Alright, let's do it!" Nate practically skipped over to where Jason was standing to help him. "I'll lift and you put the slide-y things underneath the piano?" He asked, readying himself to life the heavy instrument.