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Chapter 5

Freddy's POV

"Hey Freddy," he heard Zack say.

"Hi Freddy," Claire said. "Okay so these are Carly and Julie."

"Hi," said Carly, the blonde one. She seemed pretty shy to Freddy and he thought he'd have a hard time getting to know her.

"What's up?" Julie, the brunette, asked. Freddy thought she was the prettier of the two, definitely more outgoing and daring. More his kind of girl.

"Hey you guys. Nice to meet you two. Come on him," Freddy replied to all of them.

They all trooped into Freddy's house and Zack led everyone down to the basement. Freddy was about to follow when he heard the doorbell ring again so he turned around, opened it and saw Frankie, Anna, and Leonard standing on his front porch.

"Hey guys," he said.

He brought them down to the basement where Zack had found Freddy's X-box and had put on a game of Halo. Except he was the only one playing as the girls were sitting on the couch eating some chips and looking quite bored.

"Um... Zack?"

"Yea Freddy?"

"Why don't we watch a movie or something... no one else really wants to play."

"Argh I guess."

"So what do you guys want to see? I've got Black Hawk Down, first and second Lord of the Rings, Remember the Titans, SWAT, and 007 down here."

His response was a bunch of mumbled "I don't cares". From what Freddy could see, Claire and Anna's friends didn't really want to be here and had only come along at the request of the two girls. "This completely blows," he thought to himself. No one seemed to be having fun or even trying to talk to each other.

"Okay then... I guess we'll go with SWAT then."

"Sure."

"Whatever."

"I don't care."

Freddy put in the DVD and sat back on the couch between Zack and one of Claire's friends. The brunette. He'd forgotten her name already. He looked around at everyone else. Zack and Claire were nearly on top of each other, they were sitting so close together. Anna was on top of Frankie in the big arm chair, Leonard was on the floor leaning against the couch, and the other girl was on the other side of Zack and Claire.

--------- An hour later --------

The movie was just getting good but Freddy had seen it so many times he'd been bored after the first five minutes. Looking around again both couples were majorly making out, Zack and Claire having somehow moved onto the floor in the corner of the room. Leonard was half asleep on the floor and the blond "Carly I think" was looking the same way on the other end of the couch. He looked at Julie sitting next to him. "She really is pretty," he thought to himself. She was the only one who actually seemed interested in the movie although it could have had something to do with the fact Colin Farrell was now running down the beach in a muscle tank. Her features weren't perfect or anything but there was something about her that drew him to her. At that moment her head turned sideways and her dark brown eyes stared into his.

"Where's the bathroom?" she asked.

"Oh um..." Freddy had been so lost in looking at her he hadn't realised she was talking to him. "It's hard to explain. Here I'll show you."

The two got up off the couch and walked upstairs into his front hall. He took her down the long hall, turned off into another passage, walked to the end of it and down a short flight of stairs before turning left, walking some more, and stopping in front of a white door.

"Wow. That really was complicated," Julie (he remembered her name now) said.

Freddy laughed. "I told you. Will you be able to find your way back alright?"

"Honestly? Probably not," she replied with a short laugh.

"Okay. Want me to wait then?"

"If you don't mind." And with that she stepped into the bathroom and shut the door behind her.

"Man she's hot!" Freddy thought as he leant against the wall waiting for her. "Funny too. Maybe tonight will turn out okay after all."

Julie's POV

On the other side of the door, Julie had finished peeing and was looking at herself in the mirror. She hadn't really wanted to come tonight but ever since Anna and Claire had started dating Zack and Frankie, her and Carly had barely seen them. The main reason for her coming tonight was basically to hang out with them more, but that plan seemed to be failing as they'd had their faces smashed onto their boyfriends the whole time.

"On the plus side, Freddy seems pretty cute," she thought to herself. "No. I can't think that. Claire warned me he's a huge player already." But another part of her was saying, "This would mean I'd get to hang out with Anna and Claire a lot more. We could triple date and stuff. That'd be pretty cool." She walked out of the bathroom and saw Freddy standing there waiting, looking really hot.

"You ready?" he asked her.

"Yeah."

She followed him back up the stairs and down the numerous halls. "I guess I can have a little fun," she thought.

"So Freddy... tell me something about you." There, at least she was trying.

"Um... I'm a drummer."

"Really? That's so cool."

"Ya think?"

"Yeah."

"Cool. Want to hear me play something?"

"Sure, why not." Better than trying to look interested in that crappy movie, she thought.

Freddy led her down some different hallways instead of back to the basement and up a huge set of spiral stairs. He took her into a room with a black door. She stopped, stunned for a second as soon as she stepped into the room. It was completely opposite from the rest of the house which looked like it had come out of a magazine. The walls and ceiling were painted black. Posters plastered most of the wall space and in the middle of the room was a drum set. She didn't really know anything about drums other than they looked pretty fun to play.

"Wow," was all she managed to say.

"You like?"

"Yeah, I like."

"You can sit down over there," Freddy said pointing to a black leather couch pushed up against one of the walls.

Julie walked over and sat down while Freddy walked over to the drum set and sat down behind it. He started out slow and worked his way up to some crazy sets. After 5 minutes or so he got up and sat down next to her on the couch.

"He looks so sexy when he plays!" was all that was going through Julie's mind.

"So, you play anything?" he asked her.

"No. Well piano but only cause my parents make me."

"Oh that sucks."

"I always wanted to play drums though."

"Really? I might just have to show you some time then."

"Cool," she murmured. She was staring right into his chocolate brown eyes, lost in her thoughts. They were both leaning a bit towards each other without realising it. Slowly, she let her eyelids droop close as she leant forward a bit more...