What Yulia looked surprised Yeah I continued There’s a close-up of Luca Mrs Tudor’s bulldog in an I Heart My Dog picture frame on her desk Luca’s bottom teeth stick up over his top lip And if you look real close you can see Mrs Tudor’s bottom teeth too even when she’s not smiling Just like Luca I never noticed that Yulia said That’s weird So weird Try diagramming sentences with Mrs Tudor and her teeth staring at you Yulia laughed That explains your grades Very funny I frowned If my grades weren’t good I couldn’t be in band I reminded her Anyway what’s even weirder is that it’s true for musicians too That’s your big discovery Yulia asked Yep I nodded People look like the instruments they play Yulia shook her head like she didn’t believe me So explain Kori Neal 8
Easy I said She’s tall like her trombone And Baylor Meece Her hair is long and black just like her clarinet Sherman Frye Yulia asked Even easier I said Flutes are thin and Sherman’s the skinniest kid in seventh grade So we’re both signing up to play trumpet Yulia said How do you look like a trumpet Okay Yulia had me there Trumpets are shiny They’re the stars of the band And I’m never the star of anything Plus trumpets are small Yulia might be small but I am definitely not I look more like the whole brass section combined I’m not sure I finally said I’ll probably have to play the trumpet for a while before it happens to me It’ll be like metamorphosis or something Yulia shook her head again By then we were next in line Mr Byrd stood up Attention His voice echoed off the cinder block walls and everyone froze 9
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For some reason everybody wants to play trumpet this year Mr Byrd began At this time our trumpet section is full He held up a folder If I already have your registration form you’ll receive your instrument tomorrow He took a breath For those of you in line who wanted to play trumpet I’m sorry I’m putting your forms in here without an instrument checked off Each day you’ll shadow a different band member before making your final choice of instrument Understand No I don’t understand I wanted to say You just squashed my dream Byrd But I didn’t say anything Nobody did Good Mr Byrd sat back down At ease Yulia looked as disappointed as I felt There goes your metamorphosis Davis Yeah I mumbled Yulia was right Now I’d never shine like a trumpet So which instrument would I look like 11
