• The guy is going to phase himself out of the youth band, sadly. He's basically the core of the band in several ways - he arranges (with a little help from the rest of us), he plays the keyboard (the base of the thing, as the guitar has been playing a lot of lead), he sings (his melody is the strongest, the one that I keep harmony with), and he is the rhythm which our drummers and guitar players work from. All personal feelings aside, that's quite a blow. We'll manage, really, but we'll be scrambling a bit. We're currently trying to figure out whether I'll be following his act on the keyboard, which is basically murder. I've mentioned before that he's so much better than anyone else in the world, but it'd still be possible for me to take over. I don't love the idea, but we could use a keyboard for filling . . . But then there are the personal feelings. Band practice and youth group are the only times I ever see him, basically. We go to the same church, but that's the time when we actually get to connect a little. When he leaves, my chance is over. Not that I have any chance anyway, but there's always hope. His leaving will take a fair amount of fun away from band practice, and that's not because of how I feel about him either. He's just pure entertainment. We had band practice yesterday, and I swear we have so much fun at band practice. I had to work that day, so I was about an hour late. The youth pastor mentioned briefing me, so the guy looks at me, sighs deeply, and, totally deadpan: "Rachel, we're kicking Erich out of the band." Erich is one of our two drummers - the two switch off. Erich's twin plays lead guitar for us. So Erich, sitting with our other drummer between the two of us, sighs as well and goes, "it's true." The guy laughs for a minute, cuts back to deadpan, and goes, "we caught him stealing. Again." And Erich goes, "yeah, again." We all dissolved into laughter. It was a beautiful moment.

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