Flashback
"Ohmigod! No way! This is awesome thank you so much Dad!" Katie exclaimed as she hugged her father.
"I thought you'd like it," he smiled.
Katie carefully picked up the gift and held it gently in her hands. She slowly examined the chrome exterior. She clicked it on and smiled as she looked at the digital display. Katie had always wanted to be a photographer. Now that dream would be a little more real.
End Flashback
Katie was 13 that Christmas. She had gotten a digital camera. The 16-year-old chuckled as she remembered all the pictures she had snapped that day. One of the dog, five of her dad, one of the TV, one of the radio, one of the Christmas tree, and then ten of the band the next day.
She was looking through one of her earlier scrapbooks. She giggled as she saw a picture of Gordon fiddling with the wires to the camera. He had set it up for her so that she could pull the pictures onto the computer. God bless his patience! she thought. She recalled the fact that that on December 27th she was deemed the historian for the band. She had taken a picture of the entire band and crew together. They were all laughing and giggling.
Katie sighed. Sadly School of Rock had ended the day before. She had taken one last picture of the band and they all looked sober. It was hard for anyone to smile that day. A silent tear ran down her cheek. Katie prayed they'd get back together.
She quickly wiped it off and came back to reality. They'd never get back together. Feuds had torn them apart. Tomika and Alicia had been fighting over who should take over as head back up vocalist. Each claiming they were better than the other. Freddy and Lawrence were constantly disagreeing and threatening to kick each other's ass. Dewey and Zack were constantly killing each other over whose songs were better. At practice Dewey was either always drunk or pissed with a hangover.And Summer had beenpushing them to the point of exhaustion.Katie knew that there was no way they'd get back together. She quietly prayed every chance she got that they'd come back together.
Suddenly rage filled her. They had killed the spirit! They forgot what rock was about! Lesson 1: Rock is about sticking it to the man! They had gotten so overwhelmed with being better than one another that they destroyed each other! Katie stood up and threw her scrapbook at the wall. It made a loud crash and hit the floor. She stormed out of her room grabbed her coat and wrote a note for her dad.
Katie stomped out the door and trudged to the playground. While she walked more and more tears fell down her cheeks. They weren't silent anymore. The air was bitter cold and she got to the park to find no one was there. She stomped over to the swing and sat down. She put her head in her hands so her eyes were covered.
THE BAND WAS MY LIFE! IT WAS MY REFUGE! THEY ALL TOOK IT FROM ME!
She pulled her raven hair out so that it fell around her face. She looked up at the grey sky, which now was dropping little amounts of rain, and whispered to a prayer to God.
"Please! I-It was the o-one place where I-I felt a-accepted. I felt l-loved," she stuttered through tears. "WHY?!," she began to shout. "WHY?! M-my only wish I-is that we may g-get back together. It was just a rough spot!"
"I agree," a male voice said.
Katie quickly jolted her head forward and saw Freddy. "URGH!" she shouted in frustration. "Why did everyone start fighting!?"
"Differences that would eventually boil up I guess," he stated firmly as he sat down on the swing next to her.
"First it was hints of Dewey and Zack, then you and Larry, and then Alicia and Tomika! I can't believe this! You don't understand what the band meant to me," she sighed. "It was the one place where I came out of my shell! Now I'll go back to being a shy nobody."
"I never noticed it before."
"What?"
"The way that you'd become bolder and stuff when you were around us. Around others you'd be shy and never say what you felt was right."
Katie let out a sad chuckle. "This majorly bites. This is some fucked up shit right here. The band was perfect…UGH!"
Freddy stared at her. "For some reason I don't think you'll go back to being a shy nobody. You just cursed. Kathryn Anne Rose Brown, you just cursed."
"Thanks Fred. You always make me feel better. You rock," she said as she stood up from the swing. "You want to go to Umm's or something."
"Yeah, I could go for a milkshake right now."
"Bye the way, when did you get all philisohpical?" she curiously asked.
"Being around you, it must have rubbed off," he laughed.
A/N: By the way, Katie's mom died and Umm's is an ice cream parlor. This might be a one-shot unless you guys thinkI should turn it into a full fic. REVIEW!
