Disclaimer: I don't own School of Rock or anything associated with it.

This is my first story so I'm sorry if it's not that good.

Chapter 1:

Marta Hale smiled and rolled her eyes as she and two of her best friends, Michelle Green and Eleni Afflerbach listened to Katie Brown tell yet another "Freddy Story." Marta and Katie have been best friends for over four years now and Marta was used to her "obsessive tendencies." Katie has had a crush on Freddy Jones for a while now, and she was always looking at him, trying to find out things about him, or talking about him and Marta, Michelle, and Eleni were very used to it by now.

Marta got bored and turned her attention away from the rambling Katie and toward Leonard Hawkins' table. She had secretly liked him ever since the fourth grade when she moved to Horace Green Elementary. She was in eighth grade now, and well, it wasn't exactly a secret anymore. He knew, and she knew he knew, but they never really talked about it and had managed to keep a really good friendship going. But when he wasn't looking, she was always staring at him....in the cafeteria....and in Algebra...and English...and Reading & Writing....

"Perfect view?" Michelle asked laughing.

"Shut up!" Marta exclaimed and jabbed her in the ribs.

"It's okay, Mar," Eleni said with a fake dramatic sigh. She turned her head to another table of guys. "We all do it," she said and winked.

They all burst out laughing. "So...." Marta said, "anything interesting happen this morning besides Freddy spitting sunflower seeds at seventh graders on the bus?"

Katie laughed. "Not really," she said, "but Zack Mooneyham explained to me this theory he had about how chocolate chip cookies are racist or something. You know, it's weird, we did that whole band thing in elementary school, but I've never really talked to him."

"Yea I know," said Marta, "I've talked to him like once or twice but it was only just this year. He sits in front of me in Science, he's pretty funny I guess."

The four girls talked for a few minutes more before the bell rang. They all said their good-byes and headed off to their classes. Marta walked into the English room and took her seat. Several seconds later, Leonard strolled into the room, counting to himself, same as every day. "7...6...5...4...3..."

"RINGGGGGGGG!!!!" The bell rang for class to begin.

"Man! I'm always a few seconds off!" Leonard exclaimed.

Marta laughed flirtatiously and rolled her eyes. "You'll get it right someday..." she said and smiled at him. He smiled back. She hated that about him. He would always do that, smile at her, flirt with her, etc., but he insisted to everyone that he didn't like her. "Ughhhhh..." she thought, "there he goes again...."

Marta had Science eighth period. She walked into the room and sat down. She didn't really like her Science class much because none of her good friends were in it.

As soon as the bell rang, the teacher announced to the class, "All I am going to do today is tell you your grades for the final grading period and for the year. Then you can talk and do whatever you want as long as you keep the volume down." There was a whisper of "yes!'s" throughout the whole class.

There was really no one for Marta to talk to, so she started looking through her pile of books and realized that she forgot to bring one to read. "Ahh!" she thought to herself and pulled out a notebook. She began doodling and got lost in her thoughts.

"Hey, is that Trogdor the Burninator?" someone said a few minutes later.

The voice startled Marta and she looked up. It was Zack Mooneyham. She laughed, "Oh yea," she said, "I love Homestarrunner."

"Me too, I think I can imitate all the voices from the site."

"Really?" Marta asked. "I didn't know you were into stuff like that."

"Oh yea," said Zack, "there's a lot of things that people don't know about me." Zack was a pretty shy kid. He had a few pretty good friends but he was really shy around everyone else. He had a lot of talent though. He could play the guitar really well and even sing and act.

They talked for pretty much the rest of class and both of their lab partners just kind of sat there and stared. The bell rang and Marta had a weird feeling like she didn't want class to end yet, it had gone by so fast talking to Zack. "Nice talking to you," he said.

"Oh, you too," said Marta.

Later that night Marta logged on to AIM. She smiled when she saw that Katie and Michelle were both on. She clicked on rockergirl22 which was Katie's name.

Heartofglass05: hey, what's up?

rockergirl22: hey, nm, just talking, you?

Heartofglass05: cool, who you talking to?

rockergirl22: just you, michelle, and zack

Heartofglass05: really? i talked to zack like the whole science class today

Heartofglass05: what's his sn?

rockergirl22: gobletofrock00

Heartofglass05: oh cool, thanks

rockergirl22: anytime