Hi everyone.
This is my first story in the SoR fandom. Hope it doesn't suck to much.
Disclaimer: Dont own it.
"This is the best idea you have ever had"
Zach Mooneyham stood in front of the microwave and watched sleepily as his burrito turned around on the rotating plate. The little green numbers counted down slowly, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...and then the machine beeped. The noise woke him, and he jumped slightly, pressed the door-opening button, and reached into the appliance. He hissed as he burnt the palm of his hand on the hot Microwave snack.
"I wouldn't go that far Zach, I do have a few other good ideas," Freddy Jones laughed as he reached into the microwave, and as though it was not at all heated, lifted his friend's burrito out and threw his own in. He was used to the sensation of burning food. "But do you think that Dewey would go for it?"
"Sure, I think he would...but it is Summer that you have to convince." Zach replied as he carefully handled his food, and then crossed to the other side of the store to get a bottle of soda.
"That was something I was hoping you would help with" Freddy replied, speaking to his friend over the isles of snack food. "I was hoping you would overlook your sweet, sensitive new age guy but still rocker exterior and take advantage of the crush that she has on you"
"I would never do that to her" Zach replied, coming back to the microwave and handing Freddy a bottle of coke. Freddy accepted it, nodding his thanks to the other boy. "There was no way I would do that to her."
"See, sensitive new age guy" Freddy grinned. "What is it that Marta calls it? Being a S.N.A.G."
"Oh, go snag yourself" Zach sighed. They both made their way to the counter and paid for their purchases, and then made they're way back out to Zach's car. "But seriously, how are you planning on asking Summer about this"
"I wont ask Summer...I intent to...plant the seed"
"Plant the seed..." Zach began, unlocking the driver's door, getting in and leaning across to unlock the passenger's side door for Freddy. "I am sorry, I must have an overload of hormones...you intend to plant your seed in summer?"
"No, I intend on planting the seed, the idea...make her think that she came up with it." Freddy replied, getting in and sitting, throwing his unopened burrito on the dashboard. He thought for a second, and then cringed. "I can't believe that you would think that. She is Summer for petes sake."
Zach bit into his burrito, threw it onto the dashboard, and then started the car. As he pulled out of the convince store parking lot, he glanced at his best friend who was riding shotgun. "Oh, come on, I wish you wouldn't talk about her like that. Summer isn't that bad"
"You are right, she isn't. She is actually quite cool once you get used to her. It is just that she is summer. She is...summer. Summer is Summer" Freddy peeled the wrapper off of his burrito, bit into it, and then cursed. He turned to the driver. "Cold in the middle"
"You are having one of those deep days where nothing you say makes sense right?" Zach replied, and then mimicked Freddy "Summer is Summer is Summer. Summer is as Summer does. Summer begets Summer."
"Life is like a box of Summers" Freddy replied, and then picked up his Burrito once more. Sheer hunger was the only thing that was making him keep eating. He took a swig of his drink, and then looked out the window. "And Summer likes you"
"Oh, would you get over it already." Zach replied, hitting the button on his CD player and tapping his fingers on the steering wheel. Usually he would play air guitar, but not today, especially considering he was driving. He didn't really want to have to explain to Mr. and Mrs. Jones that Freddy got injured because he was to busy ignoring a Summer related interrogation.
"Ok, I get it, I get it...x-nay on the Summer-ay" he mumbled.
"Not so much X-Nay...more like shut the hell up," Zach replied softly. Freddy nodded and looked out the window at the passing world.
"OK." he mumbled to himself. It was always a lot of fun to tease his friend about their band manager's crush on him. It wasn't so much that Zach was ashamed, he had admitted to Freddy that he was actually quite flattered that she would like him, but other then that, Zach, the poor kid who didn't really think about much more then music, didn't know how to deal with things. He could hardly work out his own feelings, let alone the feelings of Summer.
There was silence between the two boys as they continued their daily morning cruise. Every morning before school they drove around, centering themselves before the long and tedious day at school. They would usually go cruising during one of their classes, but Dewey had threatened to kick them out of the band for a little while if their grades didn't rise and they didn't start going to more classes. They had to attend school, and stay there for as long as possible.
Freddy decided to break the silence between them. A silence like this would always mean that he "Did you know that giraffes can clean out their ears with their tongues?"
And as always, an interesting yet completely random fact got Zach Mooneyham, the lead guitarist of the school or rock, smiling again. "Honestly?"
"Yeah, my little sister told me that. She learnt it at Horrific Green" Freddy replied. "Bloody fifth graders, they learn some pretty random shit huh?"
"Yeah, what did we learn in the fifth grade?" Zach smiled, and then glanced in the rear view mirror to see his white guitar there, the one that Dewey had given to him in the fifth grade. "There was that rocking thing we learnt about"
"You don't have to win, or be perfect, to rock," Freddy added. "That is all I remember learning. That and that drums are cool"
"What do you think life would have been like if we had never met Dewey?"
"Fucking boring" Freddy replied, opening the glove compartment and throwing his burrito wrapper in there.
"You have to clean my car Spazzy." Zach told him, eyeing the compartment suspiciously. It was almost overflowing with bacon and egg muffin wrappers, burger king papers and burrito wrappers.
"I have no idea what you are talking about..." Freddy grinned, closing the glove compartment again. "That mess is not my mess"
"Not your mess" Zach repeated. "Whose mess would it be?"
"Who is Billy?" Freddy replied sarcastically in his jeopardy answer voice.
"The boy who said he would never, ever set foot in my car because it was a bomb, and that I am tacky, I have no taste, and nothing could improve this piece of shit"
"He actually said shit?" Freddy asked, surprised, taking a swig of his carbonated beverage. "That is amazing"
"Well, it was more like 'sugar' " he replied. "Remind me never to fall asleep in Geography, last time I did that, Billy was trying to cut my hair."
"Maybe he thought that if he got a lock of it he could do a love spell" Freddy grinned at the longhaired boy.
"Shit...Damn, I would rather Summer being in love with me" Zach sighed. "You really think that if you convince Summer that it was her idea to go on a promotional road trip she will go along with it?"
"Worth a try I recon. And I think Dewey would be into it, I mean, ho many times has he said he wanted to go to Seattle, and New York, and all the other great places. Do gigs along the way, make a little money, and spread the school of rock ideals out. Have some fun before we all have to go off to collage...even if the others don't want to come, I will go..." Freddy admitted. "What about you"
"Road tripping with my best bud in the universe before we head off to collage, of course I am in, whether the others are or not" he replied, smiling at Freddy. "Invite the others, but if they don't want to come..."
"That was the intention. Get away from it all..." Freddy sighed. "I would love to take Katie with us though.
"Ohhhhhh, Freddy likes Katie" Zach sang sarcastically.
"Ohhhh, Zach likes Summer" Freddy replied in the same tone. "And besides, lets be honest with each other, you know what I think of Katie"
"Future mother of your children?" Zach smiled.
"That, My friend, is Liv Tyler, you should know that by now. Katie is just...some one special to me." Freddy corrected. Zach shrugged. Freddy eyes his mate and asked. "Zach, be serious with me for a second, you like Summer don't you?"
"What? No, I mean, no. She is summer, and she is..." he paused and changed lanes. "Ok, sure, I kind of maybe like her, as a friend, a sister. She is not as annoying as people say she is, and well, I was talking to her the other day"
"God man, you do like her"
"I just" Zach paused the think about it. "I just realized how much I am going to miss her next year when we all go off to different places. I am going to miss Marta and Tomika and Alisha, you know, and I am going to miss Lawrence as well. And Dewey...And Ned"
"I get it, big old 'I miss you' party going on there." Freddy replied. "I am going to miss them to."
"So it is settled, feelings or not, we should stop teasing each other about it?"
"Agreed" Freddy smiled as they pulled into the school parking lot. He reached into the back seat where he picked up the two book bags. He reached into the front pocket of his own and pulled out his blue and gray stripped tie. "Lets get back to this shit"
Zach turned off the car, got his cold burrito, his bag and got out of the car. The pair tied their ties sloppily as they made their way to the front door of their educational establishment and entered the halls of Olsen Grove High School. Olsen Grove was the pushes school in the district, and most of the School of Rock went there. And most of them hated it.
Freddy pulled the door open and allowed Zach to enter before he closed it again. He could not believe that there were only a few weeks left before he never, ever had to be here again. He personally could not wait, others, like Summer, on the other hand, never wanted to leave.
They stopped at Freddy's locker, and Zach watched as Freddy span the combination lock, and then slammed his hand down onto it to make it stop. Freddy grinned to himself, and then tried to open the locker. He cursed under his breath when it didn't open.
"Freddy man, give it up" Zach chuckled. "You have been trying to come up with a cool way to open your locker for years, and you are yet to succeed. Just because you saw a blind guy open a locker that way...you are not blind"
"You know..." Freddy began as he started doing his combination correctly. "I should be blind"
"Why do you figure?" Zach asked.
"The number of times I have poked myself in the eye with my sticks, I should have some sort of damage" he smiled, opening his locker and shoving his bag in there, and then pulling out his school blazer. He hated this good for nothing school and its good for nothing uniform. "And I should be deaf to, the amount of times I have been standing beside an amp and you have started shredding without warning."
"You should also be a mute as well," a voice said from behind them. Freddy and Zach turned to see Marta and Summer coming up behind them. "The amount of times we have told you to shut up over the years."
Freddy laughed at Marta and then cut himself short. "You are so funny, so very very funny"
"Ready for home room?" Marta asked him. Freddy shook his head. She asked him the same question every day, and every day he told her the same thing, that there would be no chance that he would ever be ready, but he has to go anyway. The pair said a quick good bye to their friends and then disappeared down the hall in the direction of their homeroom.
"See you in Gym" Zach called after them, and Freddy waved as they disappeared into the crowd.
And then Zach and Summer were left standing by Freddy's locker. "My blazer is in my locker," he muttered, and the two of them made their way down the hall.
"Freddy has finally realized that us graduating means leaving" Zach told her conversationally. "He would never admit it to anyone other then me, but he is really going to miss everyone."
"Who is going to miss everyone?" Katie asked as she came up the other side of Zach. Zach smiled at the bassist.
"Freddy" Zach replied, and Katie nodded. Katie seemed to understand the boys in the band better then anyone gave her credit for, so no further explanation was needed.
"Yeah, we are going to miss him to" she replied nonchalantly. "Summer, I was hoping later we could have a chat about that thing, with the thing and."
"Sure, definitely Katie" Summer said with a stupid grin on her face. Katie rolled her eyes, shook her head, muttered something about catching up with them later, and then disappeared down the hall.
"Never knew Katie was fluent in girl" Zach shook his head. Katie was the anti-girl, don't wear a skirt when pants will do, don't wear make up when you don't have to, and most importantly, do not shop unless it is for food or music. "I am sure that that meant something important..."
"She wants me to help her find a prom dress. Something that is her, but not to...prissy, I think she worded it" Summer explained. Zach nodded, and watched the ground as he walked the familiar halls to his locker. It was just bad luck that his locker was furtherest away from Freddy's, which was closest to the parking lot. He stopped before his locker, opened it, and watched out of the corner of his eye as Summer stood beside him.
He glanced at her, and she looked away quickly. "So..." he began.
"Are you going to the prom with anyone?" Summer blurted just as he was about to make small talk again.
"I wasn't planning on going at all," Zach admitted and it was the truth. He didn't want to dress up in some suit, looking like some penguin, slow dance to some crappy song with some chick. He didn't want to have to pay for the limo, and a corsage, and everything else. He and Freddy were just planning on making an appearance at the after party.
"Oh" was all Summer said, and she embarrassedly looked away.
"Why, who are you going with?" Zach asked her, pulling his blazer on and getting his books from his locker.
"No one...I, well..." Summer began. "No one has asked me, so I probably wont go"
"Why don't you ask some one...it is the new millennium after all...girls can do anything, and all that rot" Zach replied. Summer didn't really look like the type of girl who would wait around for the boy to make the first move.
"I was going to" Summer began. "But they guy I wanted to ask doesn't seem to be into the idea. I will save myself the shame."
"Sum, come on, you never know. He might want to go with you" Zach told her. "You never know if you don't ask him."
There was a slight pause and then "Go to the prom with me Zach?"
Zach was taken a back. He should have realized. The boy who was not interested in the prom, it was him.
"I mean, it is not a date, I don't expect anything to come of it, I just, well...it is the prom Zach, and well, we can go as friends right, we have hung out together on a purely platonic level, and we always have a lot of fun. The rest of the band will be there, so it is not like we will be alone or anything" she tried to explain quickly. "I mean, that is, if you want to go at all. You don't have to if you don't want to, there is no obligation for you to go with me just because I asked you to."
"Summer!" Zach interrupted "Just as friends?"
"Just as friends" she agreed.
"Then I would love to go to the prom with you"
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