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The Girl Next Door

Freddy's POV:

It all began on the summer that Katie came back. She'd been gone for almost 3 years now and we've had zero contact ever since she had left. Her family was moved to New York because her father's job was relocated. The band was never the same since then. Finding a good bass player as good as she was never easy. But in the end, we found a bass player to replace her. Her name was Carmi. She was around my age who had nice brownish blonde hair and hazel eyes. She was the like Katie but she never got that close to being exactly like her. There was something in her that made her... well, not Katie. But anyway, we've ben going out for almost 10 months now and things have been going great, I guess. There would be a couple of fights here and there... and maybe a little arguments but we we're pretty much still fond of each other.

Back to Katie. No one knew she would return. The day just came when the moving truck parked right in front of the empty house beside ours and staretd unloading things. At that time, seeing Katie was at the least of my expectations. I was in my room listening to some hard rock music while Zack was on my computer. Then I heard my mom calling Zack and I to come downstairs to greet our new neighbors. Zack and I hated doing those kind of stuff so Zack took off right away leaving me to greet our new neighbors. I walked out the door with my hands inside my front pockets. I didn't see any of the family members except a teenage girl around my age standing with her back faced me. She had brownish black hair and was pretty tall. As I got near her, I stopped and took a deep breath. I reached out a hand and tapped her on her shoulder. She turned around and there she was. Katie was wearing black sun glasses and her hair was up in a pony tail with some of her hair falling on her face. As she saw me, she had no expressions on her face. I, too, had none. We were both too shocked to see each other.

"Freddy?" She finally blurted out.

"Uhm... Katie?" I blurted out. Just then, a wide smile crept up her beautiful face. And before I knew it, she grabbed me into a tight hug.

"Oh, I missed you!" She exclaimed just a bit near my right ear. She let go of me and took off her sun glasses and smiled.

"You're back?" I asked her. She looked at her house and back at me.

"Uhm. Yeah! Duh." She replied back. 'Duh' was Katie's over used expression. I missed her saying that.

"You're staying for real aren't you?" I asked. She nodded with the wide grin on her face.

"I can't believe we're neighbors!" She exclaimed. "You have no idea on how much I missed you!"

"I missed you too..." I replied. Katie stopped smiling. "Are you okay?" I asked.

"No... I'm- I'm fine. It's just that... I can't believe that I'm back. You know?"

"Oh yeah. Everyone misses you! How come you never told us that you we're coming back?"

"Oh, I thought that you guys might have already moved. Went to different schools and stuff."

"What! Us? The band? NEVER."

"Right. Speaking of the band... How are you guys? Been succesful lately?"

"Couple of gigs here and there... and we've got a new bassist."

"Really! He or a She?"

"Carmi... We got her a few months after you left."

"You make her sound like a pet." She commented. I chuckled.

"Oh well... Hahahaha... She's actually really good, you know.."

"Well.. Chyah! She better be! If she's replacing me and she's no good... Then forget it. Kick her out and get me back in!" Katie said.

"Honey! Please show the movers your room!" Katie's dad said from the front door.

"Oh, Hi, Mr. Brown!" I said greeting her dad. Mr. Brown smiled and waved at me.

"I have to go, Freddy. You should come by later on and you know... Hang-out and we'll catch up on things..." And with that Katie turned on her heel and walked to her house.

I walked back to my house and called up Zack to tell her about Katie coming back.

"Dude, Guess who's my new neighbor!"

"Uhm… Cameron Diaz?"

"No, dude! C'mon guess!"

"Uhm... Let's see... Okay, dude. Just tell me..."

"Alright... It's Katie!"

"Who?"

"Katie! You know... KATIE..."

"Oh right! Right..."

"You don't remember, do you?"

"Uhh... N-n-nope..."

"Katie Brown!"

"OH! That Katie!"

"How could you forget, man?" I asked him.

"Uh, I dont know. So, dude, how is she?"

"She's great! She's changed a lot."

"Really? How much?"

"She doesn't seem like... into rock anymore, you know? And she's definitly got something going on... Let me tell you... She has gotten hotter."

"Woah. Are you sure that's Katie?"

"Dude, I'm not stupid."

"I know... I know..."

"We should have a reunion! I'll set up the party here at my house... My parents are going away in two days and I'll have the whole house to myself. It's party time!"

"Oh hell yeah! I'll call up the others and tell them about it!"

"Cool."

And with that, I hung up and ran up to my room.

Katie's POV:

"Mom, do you know where my box of CDs are? I cant find them anywhere!" I screamed from my room as I looked around at the scattered boxes. My things were a huge mess. All the boxes were opened up and none had revealed my collection of CDs. I screamed for my mom twice as I opened my closet.

"Where the hell is it!" I said under my breath. "MOOOOOOOOM"

"Katie! Stop screaming!" My mom said popping into my room. I turned around and saw her with hair rollers on her head. I made a face.

"What's with the" I said pointing at my head and twirling my finger around.

"What did you want?" My mom asked ignoring my question.

"I can't find my box of CDs!" I said pointing at the scattered and opened up boxes on my bedroom floor.

"Good heavens, Katie-Kay! I thought there was something more important than your box of CDs missing!"

"It's Katie, mom. Not Katie-Kay. for the nth time! STOP CALLING ME THAT!"

"Oh, honey. I don't know why you hate your nickname so much! Why you used to love it!"

"I used to love it. And that was when I was 5 years old and when Barbie was my best friend."

"Oh don't be silly!" My mom said as she chuckled. She got annoying sometimes.

"NEWSFLASH, mom. I'm not 5 years old anymore! I'm 17 years old!"

"I know, honey. Now quit being such a drama queen and go fix your things. Its such a mess."

"NO. I need my box of CDs first!" I said stomping my foot. I know, I'm totally sounding like a brat right now... But I really needed my box of CDs!

"Its probably under those messed up boxes." And with that, my mom turned on her heel and walked away. I needed my box of CDs badly so I walked out of my room and looked for my dad.

"Dad! Daaaad? Daaaa"

"Yes, honey?"

"Dad, do you know where my box of CDs are? Im in desprate need of them! If I don't find them... I might as well die the most tragic death known to the face of humanity!" I said stepping inside the living room where my dad was sitting on the couch reading a piece of paper. My dad chuckled at what I had said.

"Katie... don't be such a drama queen..." He said looking at me then shaking his head a bit. My mouth dropped open.

"Why? Why do you think I'm being such a drama queen? I'm in a real out-of-hand situation here!" I said in whining tone.

"Okay... Go call the police."

"UGH. You're not helping, dad." I said trying to be a bit more patient with him.

"They're just a box of CDs, Katie. You'll find them, dont worry."

"Just? JUST a box of Cds? You are so lucky right now that they're not even here... You could have hurt their feelings!" I blurted out. My dad looked at me as if I were high or something. I probably was. That was the first time I ever though about the feelings of an object. I shook my head.

"Did I just say that!" I asked my dad.

"Yeah, you did. I was quite surprised..."

"I was just... a bit... nevermind. If you find my box of CDs, could you please... please just tell me as soon as possible? Thanks." I said turning around and walking to my room. My room was such a mess right now. All the boxes were topped over. I sighed and sat on my bed. And then I saw Freddy in his room walking around. The window was in front of my bed and so was his window. I could see the things he was doing. I went over to the window and called his name.

"Oh. Hey, Katie!"

"Hi... Uhm, I was wondering... Do you have an AC/DC cd there? I'm kinda craving for some rock music..."

"Uh yeah! Hold on..." Freddy disappeared and came back in less than 10 seconds.

"Could I borrow it?"

"Sure! Hold on..." He said. Then he started going out the window.

"What are you doing!" I looked below us and there was like this cemented bridge connecting his house and my house. It wasnt very wide, but if I layed down on it, I would fit. Freddy reached my window and handed me the AC/DC cd. I took it from him and smiled.

"Thanks."

"No problem... If you need anything else, you could just get down here and tap on my window..."

"Hahaha... Alright. Cool. Oh, by the way, what's this thing doing here?" I said reffering to the cemented bridge like thing. He looked down at where he was stepping.

"I'm not sure... but its pretty useful if you ask me..."

"Yeah... I think so too myself..."

"Nice room..." Freddy said looking inside my room.

"Its pretty decent... Kind of a mess right now..." I said and chuckled. "You wanna come in?"

"Uhm... I cant..." Freddy said looking at his watch. "I've got to go somewhere... Maybe tomorrow though?"

"Sure." I said nodding and giving him another smile.

"Alright cool. See you later!" He said then walked to his window and went inside. I watched him walk out of his room then out of his house. Then after that he was out of sight. I started unpacking all my things and as I did that, I listened to Freddy's AC/DC cd. By the end of the night, I was pretty much done with all the unpacking. I even did some graffiti stuff on the side of this white wall. I painted a portion of the wall black and used pink paint to draw a Daisy Rock bass guitar on it and even wrote some things like, "Rockstar", "Rock N' Roll", "Bass Chick" and those other stuff. In the end, My room looked pretty nice. It was so rockstar-ish. I loved it.