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Author's notes: The reviews make me happy. A couple people made a few remarks about Summer being very, annoying shall we say. Do not worry, it's all explained why in this chapter, and I have to say, one reviewer was right on the money. You might

Ch8

Summer had gone upstairs, and was now outside of Zack and Freddy's room waiting for Zack to open the door. She was angry, which is exactly what Zack could tell when he did open the door, rubbing his eyes, in his boxers. "Summer, what's going on? I thought you were gonna talk with Katie?"

"I would be, but Freddy's passed out down there." Summer entered, making sure she looked at his face, an interesting task.

Zack snapped awake. "What?!"

"He was drunk. They went to some frat party, and he drank the punch."

"I can't believe him." Zack ran a hand through his hair. "I better get down there and get him."

"I wouldn't."

"Why not?"

"I totally lost it with Katie. She had been doing the right thing and I was just so upset that he could be so stupid, I yelled at her. She's really mad. Besides, he's out cold. And there's no way you'll get him upstairs without raising questions."

"I just want to go check on him."

"Well, you might want to put some pants on first." Zack blushed, and then reached for his jeans. "Here are your keys. Be warned Katie looked tired. I think carrying Freddy across campus and controlling him wasn't her idea of fun."

Zack, full aware of knowing how cranky Katie could be, combined with the fact that she was already angry, hesitated. "Maybe I should wait until morning. We'll all be in better moods."

"Somehow I doubt that."

"Me too, but it might be a bit better," Zack tossed his jeans back down. "Are you gonna stay here?"

"If you don't mind."

"No. I'll just take Freddy's bed. Do you need something to sleep in? You can borrow one of my shirts."

Summer looked at him then gestured to herself, she was wearing a tank top and pajama pants. "I'm already in my pajamas."

Zack chuckled to himself. "Sorry."

"It's all right. Let's just get some sleep." Zack without another word began to lift her out of the wheelchair, and put her in his bed. "Zack, you are going to turn me into a lazy bum. You do everything for me. Not that I mind or anything, but it's the principle of it."

Zack pulled his comforter up over her. "Have a good sleep Hot Wheels." He kissed her forehead.

"Back at you Slick."

§ § §

When Freddy awoke the next morning, he was unaware of where he was, and he had a massive headache. He knew he wasn't in his own bed, his was on the ground, and he was in a bunk. He turned his head to find the room brightly lit by the morning sun, and winced going back to his pillow. "What the hell is with the lights?"

"It's called morning."

That, Freddy knew was Katie. "Where am I?"

"You're in my bed. You passed out there last night when Summer and I hid you from Cindy." Katie pulled the curtains down.

"Do you mind keeping your voice down?"

"Look, I know what happened last night was an accident, but Summer is pissed out of her mind, and she's going to be down here with Zack any minute, so you better get your act together."

Freddy turned back to face her. "I don't remember much after arriving at the frat party. Was I an ass to her or something?"

"I have absolutly no clue. She just went off on a rant and then left."

"Great. Is there any aspirin around here?" Freddy slowly sat up, as Katie handed him a bottle of water and two aspirin. "So, how out of it was I last night?"

"Well, let's just say nice and out of it."

"Hey, I didn't screw up whatever chance I might have had at a second date did I?"

Katie shook her head. "They had every liquor under the sun in that punch. It was an accident. Now if we can convince Summer of that..."

Freddy sighed, closing his eyes. "This is going to be loud, isn't it?"

"No doubt about it."

The two sat in silence until minutes later, the door swung open and Summer and Zack entered. Everyone muttered, quick hellos, and then Summer spoke, in a quiet, near sweet tone. "Freddy, would you mind coming down here?" Slowly and carefully, Freddy got down, thinking that this wouldn't be too bad. "Now, get down where I can look you in the eye properly please." Again he complied. Much to his chagrin, this was followed by Summer slapping him across the face. "If you ever do something stupid like that again, I will kill you."

Freddy winced, grabbing his face. "What the hell?"

"Dude, you got drunk last night." Zack said, as if he were explaining Summer's actions.

"I know. I figured that out from the hangover." Freddy nodded. "But why did I just get slapped?"

Zack found a seat."Because you got drunk last night."

"I know I got drunk. But it was a mistake, and its not like anybody got hurt." Freddy found himself a chair as well. "Aside from me." He added under his breath.

"People could have gotten hurt though." Summer began. "Do you have any idea what could have happened if Katie hadn't been with you? You could've been caught by campus security and thrown out of school then end up in jail, or maybe you would've have decided to go for a little drive, and end up rolling off the road into a ditch, or worse, colliding into other cars. You were lucky. And you're not going to be lucky forever. I'm sorry if I sound like a total bitch but it's only because I care about you guys. My parents along with 16 other people were killed because of a drunk driver, and you know what, he had gotten drunk at a frat party too. So don't tell me to calm down, or to be thankful that nothing happened, because it could have very easily."

Katie looked at Summer. "Oh my god, I had completely forgotten. No wonder you were so upset last night. I'm so sorry."

"Me too Summer." Freddy bowed his head. "I screwed up bigtime. I should've known better and I'm sorry."

"Just don't let it happen again, Whacker."

"I won't. Trust me I won't. This whole hangover thing is a bit much for me." Freddy rubbed his eyes.

Zack laughed. "Go upstairs and sleep it off man."

"I think I will. I'll talk to you guys...whenever this headache is gone." Freddy left the room walking slowly."

Summer almost immeadiatly looked at Katie. "So how was the date?"

Katie shook her head. "He was a perfect gentleman the whole night. Well, until the frat party. He brought me my favorite flower, and took me to this place that shows some of the most classic movies of all time, and we watched Reality Bites. It was so much fun. And then I kissed him. Twice."

"And you thought the night was going to go horribly wrong." Summer teased. "Shame on you."

"Yes I was wrong. It has happened. What about you two, what did you end up doing?"

"Mostly I was showing her some stuff on my guitar." Zack leaned back. "We did go for coffee though."

"Did she show you what she has on her computer?" Katie asked.

Summer shook her head. "I didn't see a need to tell him."

"Tell me what?" Zack sounded intrigued.

Katie made her way to Summer's computer. "Summer, has a very interesting song on her iTunes account."

"Katie, I told you before keeping the demo and putting it on my computer was no big deal. I liked the song, so I kept it."

Zack smiled. "You kept the demo? Man, I've wanted to hear that forever."

Katie began to open iTunes. "Why?"

"It was my favorite song of ours. Besides, I wrote it. I have a right to hear the song I wrote."

"You people are so weird. Why you guys want to dredge up the bad past is beyond me." Katie rolled her eyes.

"Not all of it was bad. We had some great stuff too. Who can forget playing at the senior prom when we were in the seventh grade?" Summer began.

Zack finished for her. "And are you telling us that you don't want to remember the thrill of performing for the first time at Battle of the Bands?"

"I didn't say that." Katie began playing the song.

"Sure sounded something like that." Summer said before Zack motioned for the two to be quiet. "I'm going to go get out of my pajamas and into some real clothes."

§ § §

"Do you think they'll stay together?" Summer inquired about Freddy and Katie to Zack, as they walked around campus on the breezy fall day.

"Well, Freddy is near obsessed. I swear, if he were gay, and she were a guy, he'd be looking at bridle magazines."

"Thanks for the mental image."

"Anytime."

"You should've seen Katie getting ready, she had torn apart her closet looking for something to wear. She really likes him too. It said so in her online journal."

"I still can't believe you went in that."

"Well, it worked didn't it? She was so impressed that he had her favorite flower for her."

"And the whole chivalry thing worked out well."

"Not to mention our research to find that movie place. She hates most new movies."

"Well, so do we. So it worked out well for us to help Freddy do his research."

"You are supposed to be thinking like a good person and say you were only doing it to help Freddy, Slick." Summer teased. "Then when we go, we claim, we got rave reviews from Blacky and Whacker."

"Have you done this before or something? You seem to have everything worked out, to a t."

"Well, I had to get my aunt someone that would loosten her up, or I would have lost my mind, so I set her up with the manager of the best music store in town, a good friend of mine. They had a lot in common, even if they didn't realize it at the time."

"So, why are you wasting your time with this whole college thing?" Zack joked. "It's obvious you were meant to be a matchmaker."

"If I'm going to be a matchmaker, I'm going to be one who cuts open dead people for a real living. End of discussion."

Zack nodded. "I see. We're going for the beauty and the brains."

"You better believe it."

There is chapter eight.

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