Don’t Die Your Marching Band Will Need Their Badass Tenor Sax

I often am walking past someone I know from band in the hallway and slide to keep facing them

Roll-stepping through the halls so my shoes don't squeak (it was raining)

Math is really tiring, im so glad i finally get to relax and do some knitting and crochet and i oh god oh my what the fuck

My band director put a hole in the ceiling with a trumpet mute

the band room

When I first stepped into the place that we call

“the band room,”

I didn’t like it at all.

There was paint peeling

off the walls

and there were stains

on the carpet.

The room smelled like wet socks after it rained,

and instrument cases hung out of the cubbies.

But that was when the room was empty.

When my fellow band kids stepped inside

the stains on the floor magically disappeared.

When music filled the air 

no one cared about how much paint was peeling off the walls. 

When we came back in after a long marching practice

no one cared that they were sweaty or cold 

because the room felt like a warm hug.

After we came back from a long competition,

the band room was still waiting for us.

It always seemed to have that effect 

when the people I cared about most were in it.

On the last day I stepped into that room with my friends

they told me that the carpenters had finally painted over the off-white walls.

The old crusty carpet had been replaced with clean, gray fuzz.

I didn’t notice because to me

it had always looked that way with my friends in it.

When it was finally time to leave,

I stopped at the door

and smiled at the one place that had been a constant

when everything else in my life had seemed to change.

I guess that’s the thing about the band room.

It tricked me into thinking

four years

was a very long time.

Obligatory reblog

But the back also says “i love redundancy!”

shirt that says "i love redundancy!" on the front and on the back it says "i love redundancy!"

I like to think they kept in touch after the divorce

I just finish a book called The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill and it was very very good much enjoy

10/10 would recommend

Definitely sad it’s over though

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