Daughter: Unknown

Summary: The band had just hit their big break. Their sophomore year of high school was finally over and this summer they were going on tour. Life seemed to be going great for everyone, but lately Dewey seemed a bit troubled. When the band finds out why they wonder if their summer tour was going to be over before it even began.

My first Fic.

Disclaimer: I have nothing, but I do own Riley. Yay me!


Riley Scott sat impatiently in the airport lobby.

"Where could he be?" she thought as she swung her legs back and forth underneath her chair.

Her father was supposed to be here at the airport to pick her up at least 30 minutes ago but he was nowhere in sight. He had promised her he would be here before the plane even landed.

"What a liar," she said quietly under her breath.

She supposed that she couldn't expect much from a man living a life of rock and roll. He had a new family now, his band called the "School of Rock." He brought them together before the band members were even in Jr. High. He had known them longer than he had known her, his own daughter. After all, she assumed that her birth was just a mistake, but now she had nowhere else to go. Her mother was dying of cancer and didn't even want her around the last few days that she was living so she was shipped off to live with her father. Riley did talk to her father every now and then, but their relationship was definitely not a healthy one.


Three Days Before…

The band sat around in Dewey's apartment not doing anything in particular. Freddy and Zack were sitting on a couch rummaging through this year's yearbook checking out all the "hot babes" or so they said. Dewey really seemed out of it as he was just sitting in a chair staring out the window instead of calling the band to their "rock positions." That's when Summer broke into her leadership role.

"Hello Dewey? Earth to Dewey!" she screamed in his ear before turning to give it to the band.

Dewey shooed her away with one hand.

"Incase you all have forgotten, we are going on tour this summer! This may be the greatest opportunity ever for the band and all you guys are doing is sitting around like you don't want the band to succeed. Do you guys want the band to succeed? I sure do and we can't waste one second sitting around like losers. This tour could be our big break, but it could also be our worst nightmare if we're not prepared," Summer yelled ripping the yearbook from the boys' hands.

"Hey Summer," Zack spoke up.

"What?" she asked giving him an evil glare.

"Cool it would you? You're working us overtime, we deserve a break." Zack replied

The rest of the band nodded in agreement.

"Yeah, besides I think someone over there has a hangover." Freddy added observing Dewey.

Dewey finally got up to address the band.

"Okay, I have something to tell you guys and I'm not sure how you're going to react, but hear me through," Dewey stated completely ignoring Freddy's comment.

"Is it something to do with the tour?" Katie asked before Dewey could continue.

"It depends on how you look at it. Now, no more questions till I'm done, okay?" Dewey said in an irritated voice. His news must have been so big that he just wanted to get it out already. "Um, let's see. I have a daughter and she's about your ages, 15 err, 16, something like that."

The band was astonished. Dewey had had a daughter for that long and no one even knew?

"She is coming to live with me in three days because her mother is dying. She has nowhere else to go. I have been thinking a lot about her the past few days and I've realized that although I've been hanging around with you guys for several years now I still don't even know the first rules to parenting," Dewey confessed.

The whole band seemed to be at a lost for words until Freddy spoke up and said, "I'm sure some book can tell you all about being parent. I mean books know everything right? So anyway, tell us more about this daughter of yours..."

Riley was starting to get impatient and hungry too. She hoped that her own father didn't expect her to starve. She sat there for a couple more minutes while her patience wore even more thinner and her stomach growled even more loudly. She rummaged through her pockets hoping to find at least one dollar to spend at a vending machine. She poked her finger through a hole in the bottom of her pocket.

"Shoot! How'd that get there?" she huffed.

Then she bent down and stuck her finger in her shoe. She pulled out $50 in emergency money. This was a good enough emergency. She walked over to a small souvenir shop so she could exchange her money for singles.

"Do you have change for a fifty?" Riley asked.

"Sorry kid. You'll have to buy something," the man at the cashier responded.

Riley rolled her eyes but set off to find the cheapest thing in the store. She picked up a five-piece pack of gum that cost a buck.

"What a rip off," she said to herself.

She brought the gum to the register and the man rung it up. It turned out that it cost $1.85. This made Riley groan causing the cashier to give her a dirty look as he handed back her change.

"Would you like a bag?" the man asked.

"No thanks. I'm perfectly capable of carrying a pack of gum myself," she replied talking back to the man. She didn't mean to sound so ungrateful, but she was really starting to lose it.

"Spoiled, rotten kids these days," the man said loudly as she exited the store.

She walked over to the nearest vending machine and slipped in a dollar. She pressed to the button 4A as a bag of chips slowly moved closer to the drop off and then it stopped. So close! Riley was so freaking close to getting some food and it had to get stuck!

"STUPID MACHINE! YOU ATE MY MONEY!!!" she yelled trying to get the chips to budge.

She knew she was creating a scene but she was oh, so hungry. Her father would not be arriving to a happy daughter. People were starting to stare.

"Stupid vending machines… curse them!" Riley said under her breath as she turned away from the machine.

And there he was.