Disclaimer – I do not own SoR. Just borrowing
The Woes of Summer
The band dissolved over five years ago, all the forming members were now all in their final year of high school. Things had defiantly changed, the band was no more and their lead singer Dewey Finn, was of on a world tour with his new band.
And I, Summer Hathaway am sitting down in the dinning room of Horace Green High School looking around at what used to be. The over crowded lunch hall was buzzing with the current news that the annual ditch day was fast approaching. I look around over the edge of my book, I can still see the familiar faces of my band around, all now split into different social groups but all still there.
Martha, Alicia and Michelle are sitting with the other cheerleaders, talking about the latest Orlando Bloom movie or fashion accessory, they are now part of what is called in high school the beautiful people or popular kids. Billy, Marco and Lawrence are all still sitting together practicing lines from the latest drama club production, Marco is standing up in his seat arm stretched towards the sky and shouting his lines towards the sky as his girlfriend Anne, watches on giggling to herself. My eyes continue on their journey round the room until they land on Katie Brown, my best friend is chatting with some girls in the lunch line, she is pushing her long brown hair out of her face as she catches my eye and waves to me. My eyes are still on their mission as they land on Zack and Freddy, still as tight as ever and in their own rights the most popular boys in the school. Zack Mooeyham is the captain of the football team and currently dating Lila, head cheerleader. Freddy Jones is the self-proclaimed bad boy of Horace Green High; he has a detention everyday and a different girlfriend or bed mate every week. Every guy wanted to be them and every girl wanted to date them.
You maybe asking yourself what high school life is like for me, well since my dream of being a professional band manager was abruptly cut short, I believe I discovered my true calling to be a writer. I am currently the editor of the school paper and general good student with the highest grades in the class. Of course by my fellow peers I have been classed as a nerd but I don't let the title bother me, everyday I can lose myself into the world of fiction. My tool of trade the pen helps in my escape.
"Summer Hathaway" someone shouted very loudly in my ear
"Oh God" I screamed turning and looking at the annoyed face of Katie "What's with the yelling"
"Well I have been yelling you're name for ages and you been either ignoring me or lost in you're little writer dream world again, so which is it?" She said looking extremely put out as she slung herself into the empty seat next to me.
"That would be option two" I said closing my book and facing her fully
"What you writing there?" She asked trying to peak over my arm to get a better look at my note book.
"That my dear friend is my secret" I said tapping my pen on to her nose, she retorted by laughing and squatting my head as I tucked my book into my bag. I turned back to her
"So what was going on over there?" I asked in the best suspicious sounding voice I could mustered
"Plans for ditch day" she answered grabbing the apple of my tray
"Am I going to be let in on them" I asked
"Now that my friend is my secret" she answered and I really hate the way she turns my argument around on me.
"Oh … look it's the fan club" she said snidely and pointy towards the area that Zack and Freddy was residing in
Hordes of girls swarmed around the popular table and this commotion could only have meant one thing, Zack or Freddy had flexed a muscle or yawed and the emotionally detached moronic girls and the one thought that they share between them had thought it 'oh so cute and charming' and they were all ready to roll over and sleep with them.
"Oh good … can we get out of here, if I watch more of this pathetic display I fear that my lunch will make a reappearance" Katie said nudging me and nodding towards the exit. I let out a sigh and follow her towards the double doors I briefly stop and glance back
"Katie" I ask and she stops to look at me, I turn and look over towards where the 'popular people' are "Do you ever think of the band days?"
Katie looked at me with a solemn look on her face "No" she said firmly and walked out the doors.
Okay I don't know why I am doing this to myself; as soon as I got home I pulled out a box of forgotten memories and started thinking about the past. Lately is has been running through my mind over and over again, looking through old pictures of the band and listening to old songs that were recorded before the big 'split'. 'Maybe it was something I did' I think this as I look at one of the demo cds and a picture taken after battle of the bands, 'Maybe with a better band manager, things would've been different' is the thought entering my head. As I put the photo back in the box and close the lid of the forgotten memories all I can thing about is 'Am I the only one who remembers how important the band was?".
The next day an idea in my sub conscious was slowly making its way to the surface, it had been niggling at me all morning but I had ignored it claiming it to be stupid and would never work However on the bus ride over I began to think about it logically.
On the other hand, this was the day when everything became clear when I stepped into my science class a little bit late and stopped dead in my tracks. Freddy Jones was at the back of class gazing into space, softly banging a beat on his desk with his pencil, doing it so distractedly he probably didn't even know he was doing it. This is when I stopped and really looked around the room. Lawrence is reading, Tomaika was saying sweet nothings to her boyfriend, Billy is working on his designs for his drama production, Zack is chatting with Martha about the football game coming up Freddy is still banging on his desk vaguely looking interested in the conversations taking place and Katie has just noticed my presence and waving at me and it hits me like a fret train the band is still alive, looking around the room I can still see it in our hearts and souls the carefree, innocent look we all share is still with us. The rock is still with us and I, Summer Hathaway pledge that I will bring us back, because we are lost but I will bring back the School of Rock and give us all our chance.
Convincing the others may be a problem, though …
Telling Katie was the first step in my brilliantly plan, if this plan was going to have any kind of success. One major flaw back would be that over the years Katie's hatred for the other ex-members of the band had grown over the years and I thought that it might affect her decision. So I am going to be tactful and sensitive to her feelings.
"I want to put the band back together" I said, yer tactful right
"I am sorry, I thought I misheard you please repeat" Katie said eyeing me warily
"I said" I began
"I know I heard you, are you crazy or feeling really sentimental today"
"Katie"
"Summer" she said added extra emphasis on my name
"Take a look around Summer, the band is history most of them can't even get along any more, take for example me and Zack or me and Freddy and me and Martha …"
"You know" I said interrupting "I sense a pattern here" I added looking at her thought fully
"You know, no matter what you say I will never believe that I have a social problem"
"But Katie"
"Look Summer, it will never work. Too much has happened, too many hateful words have been said and too many lines have been crossed, so leave it alone" she pattered me on the back
"But let's try because no matter how small there is always the possibility that it might work and it could be what we all need". I looked at her "or what you need" I added
She looked at me and I could see that I have touched a nerve, she was not happy
"Lets all face facts then Summer, you never really got over the fact that you try you're hardest at being a band manger and you failed and you hate that you failed and you hate that you're mother had been proven right".
"Maybe or Maybe it's because I the old us" I added choosing to ignore the slur about my mother, not a great topic with me.
"Something's are better left in the past" she said patting my shoulder and slowly walking away. All I could remember at this point in my life is this is a horrible start, if I couldn't convince my best friend how was I going to convince the others. I left school that day feeling low and beaten I felt lost and don't know what to do. I know that I don't want to do this because I failed as a band manager or is it? Great now Katie as got me questioning my own motives
I kept on walking, not really knowing where to go so I ended up wondering. I wasn't ready to return home to my mother and her endless questions and how disappointed she is in me so I carried on wandering. Finally I looked up and gasped I found myself out side a place I haven't been in years
The corner house from the outside hadn't changed much, the walls had turned dirty white and the windows were filthy and covered in fungus on. I look above the door to see the familiar sign, it too is dirty and now some of the wording had faded away to read Th S hool Of R c. This had to be a sign I convince myself as I am pushing the stiff and rusting door in places and I head up stairs where I could just about here some noise it sounded like a dull thumping. I walk along the familiar corridors towards the familiar room; I can hear the light strumming of a guitar. I didn't think to knock so I just entered. The room was dark and the only source of light came from the only window that wasn't covered with a black sheet. I looked around the room for the source of the music, only to find…
A/n – My first ever cliff hanger… I will try and get chapter 2 out A.S.A.P.
Who is playing the guitar?!?!?!
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