A/n: okay enough with this depressing crap! It's even put me, the perkiest person ever, in a bad mood! Okay so on with the chapter.
Disclaimer: I wish…
To my only reviewer that had time to review before I posted this!:
kittygal-meow: Ah yes I know! Poor Zack indeed! That dude can never get a break can he? Ah well I don't think im gonna torture him and make him go to that school. that's just plain wrong. Your question about Marta shall be answered in this chapter! Read on, rock on!
January 25th , 2003.
Dear Diary,
Note to self: Never trust your parents when they tell you that they won't ever make you go to that horrid school ever again, because of course they are just going to tell you what you want to hear and then go back on their word! Anyways, I have to go. Irene (I disown her now, she is not my mother.) is making me get out of the car and go to school. So I will have to tell you later about what happens. Bye.
--Summer--
Summer got out of her mom's car and slammed the door as hard as she could, trying to make the point clear that she was absolutely appalled at her mom for making her go back to Horace Green. Summer watched her mom drive off and then ran and hid behind a bush. She didn't want to get into the commotion of all the kids trying to get inside of their classrooms, no, that was not the way that Summer Hathaway did things. Instead she waited until everybody got to their classes and went to the office to get a late slip.
"Oh hello Summer, feeling better?" Mrs. Phelps asked, handing Summer a pen and a late slip,
"Yeah, that was one heck of a cold I had." Summer said, writing out the late slip and then giving the pen back to Mrs. Phelps.
"Have a nice day, dear!" Mrs. Phelps called out to Summer as she was leaving the office.
"Bye!" Summer called. Then she walked as slowly as she could to Miss. Dunham's classroom.
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"I thought you said she was going to be here!" Zack hissed to Katie.
"Well ex-cuse me Mr.Grumplestilskin! Her mom said she would be here so blame her, not me!" Katie said out of the corner of her mouth, while trying to take down notes at the same time. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
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Summer sighed heavily as she reached Miss. Dunham's door and timidly knocked. "You can do this." she kept on telling herself. Finally Miss. Dunham came to the door.
"Well hello Summer! It's so good to have you back!" Miss. Dunham said excitedly, happy to have her favorite pupil back. Summer just smiled shyly and walked slowly to her desk. She could feel everybody's eyes on her, though she tried not to make eye contact with anybody. Slowly she took off her coat and put it on her chair. Then she took off her jacket and got out her books. It was almost like slow motion.
"Okay, well, enough with the notes, let's get working on our projects shall we?" Miss. Dunham said, ending the awkward moment for Summer and the class.
Suddenly the whole class was filled with noise as everybody took out their poster boards and began talking about the project. Summer just looked at her group expectantly.
"So, what have you guys got?" Summer asked. Not really wanting to know the answer.
"I came up with the title!" Freddy said, thinking that he was king of the world.
"Er…right, and me and Zack finished most of the research. We just need to make the poster board and then we're done. Have you gotten anything?" Katie asked.
Summer was impressed, she didn't think that they would get anything done without her. Then she realized that she didn't do any work on the project while she was home for those full four days. She looked at the three of them and smiled nervously.
"Hah!" Freddy half laughed, "She didn't get any work done, did yah 'tinks?"
"Give her a break will you? I'm sure that the past week wasn't exactly peachy keen for her." Zack said, speaking up for the first time. Summer smiled gratefully at him.
"Thanks Zack, and yes Freddy, for once, you're right, I didn't get any work done on the project, I'm sorry." Summer said, raising her chin and looking at him defiantly.
"Alright, let's just get started on the poster board." Katie said, ending the tension.
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Zack paid the lunch lady and sat down in between Freddy and Summer. Ever since the School of Rock had started the band started sitting at one large table.
"So, are you still coming?" Zack asked nervously, picking at his food.
"Coming to what?" Summer asked, confused.
"My birthday party." Zack said, embarrassed. Thinking that Summer had a way to busy of a schedule to come to something as little as his birthday party.
Realization dawned on Summer's face and she felt immediately guilty about forgetting Zack's birthday party.
"OH MY GOSH! Zack I am SO sorry!" Summer said. "I thought you wouldn't want me to come after what happened last week."
"Oh yeah, that." Zack laughed nervously, his face turning red. "Well if you still want to, you can come." He finished. Looking at his tator tot and wondering what really was in the mystery meat.
"Oh thank you so much Zack!" Summer half screamed. Giving Zack a big hug and knocking out his breath. Realizing what she had done, she quickly let go. She saw Michelle roll her eyes.
"I um…yeah I have to go get some of my leftover work, BYE!" Summer said all in one breath, and in a flash she was gone.
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"Summer, wait! Summer! Come here!" Marta yelled, running after Summer who had fled the lunchroom, thoroughly embarrassed. Finally, Marta caught up to Summer who had entered the girls washroom and was splashing cold water on her warm, red face.
"Listen, Summer, I don't know if you read what I put in the photo album, but I just wanted to say that I am SO sorry for being such a bad friend to you over these past few weeks." Marta said quietly, fiddling with her braids and looking at her shoes.
"You know what you and Michelle did really hurt my feelings." Summer said, washing off her face and looking Marta directly in the eye, trying to make her see how much she was hurt exactly.
"I know I was just so --sniffle-- jealous that you liked Zack too --sniffle-- and I was upset because everybody knows that he likes you back --sniffle--" Marta said. Summer handed her a tissue and she blew her nose.
"Well, I'm not sure that he likes me back, but I accept your apology." Summer said, giving Marta a hug. They linked arms and left the bathroom.
"Now what do we do about Michelle?" Summer said, half jokingly, half not.
"You know, I don't know, but I'm sure she'll come around sooner or later. You know those things she said at Dewey's apartment were all of her feelings right? And not the opinion of the entire band. Geez Summer, all of those things Michelle said we're lies. Without you in the band, we wouldn't be anywhere!" Marta paused to take a breath "And I'm not sure if anybody told you, but Dewey is turning the band into an after-school rock program. We're a real band now!" Marta squealed. Her and Summer jumped up and down in the hallway, receiving weird looks from the teachers who passed by.
"Oh I'm so excited! We can play gigs now! And we…we might even do a TOUR one day when we're older!" Summer said excitedly.
"Yeah, but now we have to get back to lunch. Come on I can't wait to tell the rest of the band we made up!" Marta said. And with that, they skipped down to the cafeteria, laughing the entire way.
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"Alright guys, let's get this poster board done fast, then we can go to our first ever band practice." Katie said, excitedly.
Summer looked around Katie's room. It was totally opposite then what she expected Katie to be. Her walls we're painted a powder pink and her carpet was white. She had a computer on one side of the room and a large bookshelf in the other. She had lots of picture frames around too. She found two with her in them. One said "Best friends forever!' in big sparkly letters. It was a picture of her and Katie right after battle of the bands. The other one said 'Rock chicks' in red, gothic lettering and it was of her and Katie pretending to be angry-girl rockers at Alicia's slumber party. Summer smiled when she saw both of those pictures.
But then again, Katie's room did have some of her rock-persona of her in there too. Her comforter and sheets were black and so was her closet door. She had posters of her favorite bands up on her walls and even a few on her ceiling. She had painted 'stick it to the man' on one of her walls and on the other she had drawn a bass guitar.
"Cool room." Freddy said, sitting on Katie's bed. He patted a spot next to him and winked suggestively.
Katie blushed, "Thanks Jones, now get off my bed and on the floor where you belong." She said, as usual hiding her emotions with sarcasm.
While Katie and Freddy went on with their usual banter, Zack and Summer were left to the project.
"Okay Zack, you get the scissors and cut out he lettering for the poster, I'll make the charts, then we'll paste on the letters, sign our names, and then we'll be done!" Summer said in her usual bossy voice.
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One hour later Zack and Summer were done with the poster. They smiled at their work and gave each other high-fives. They didn't even notice that Freddy and Katie had stopped arguing a long time ago and were now watching a movie in the living room.
"Where are Katie and Freddy?" Summer asked, just now realizing that her friends were nowhere in sight.
"I think they left us to do all the work." Zack said accusingly. Then him and Summer eyed the last of the sparkles and glue and gave each other sinister looks. Zack grabbed the glue and Summer got the glitter and they went to attack their targets.
"Okay now I'll go first, they won't be able to see me because the couch doesn't face Katie's room. Then I'll pour the glue on their heads. By the time they realize what's going on I'll give you a thumbs up and you come in with the sparkles. Got it 'Tinks?" Zack asked.
"Got it, Zack attack." Summer giggled.
Zack crept into the living room onto the unsuspecting Katie and Freddy who were busy eating popcorn and laughing to 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' and he slowly put the glue on top of their heads. Katie reached back to scratch her neck and felt a sticky substance. She put it between her thumb and index finger and examined it. Realizing that it was glue she was about to turn around when suddenly she got a bunch of sparkles in her eyes and face. She screamed and reached for Summer who was now attacking Freddy with the sparkles too.
Summer and Zack were laughing heartily at Freddy and Katie as they tried to attack them. Which was nearly impossible now that they both had sparkles in their eyes. Finally when Freddy and Katie had gained their composure they were out for payback. They got Katie's washable markers and paint out of her bedroom and were running after Summer and Zack. Finally Katie had caught Summer and put her hands behind her back while Freddy drew on her face. Then Zack came up behind Freddy and started chucking cotton balls at Freddy's already sticky head. (a/n: I know what you're thinking. And yes it's rated pg for a reason for all you perverts out there who are giggling at the 'sticky head' comment. I am ashamed of you.) Then Freddy went around chasing Zack with some of Katie's lip gloss that he had gotten out of her room and was putting 'Strawberry kiss' all over Zack's clothes. The little war was stopped though when Katie's mom came home from work. Needless to say she was less then pleased.
"Alright guys, first you clean this up, then you clean yourselves up, then we go to Dewey's." Mrs. Brown said sternly. The kids nodded their heads sullenly and went to get the vacuum and other cleaning materials.
"But first, we should take a picture." Mrs. Brown said, smiling at the four kids surprised faces. Then they all jumped in front of the couch where most of the mess was and made funny poses. Zack had his arm around Summer's shoulder who had her arm around Katie's who had hers around Freddy. Then they all made funny faces and the picture was taken.
"I am so not going to that New York Academy thing or whatever. I'm gonna stick it to the man." Zack said to himself quietly while he was scrubbing paint out of the carpet.
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By the time Summer, Katie, Zack and Freddy got to Dewey's most of the kids were already there working on what they were supposed to do. And soon they were all caught up in the mayhem.
"Whoa, Tinks, Posh, Spazzy, Zack Attack, what happened?!" Dewey asked, laughing at the kids. They were a sight. Summer had an array of sparkles in her hair and face and clothes. Not to mention a couple marker and paint marks on her face.
"Oh nothing. Just a project that got out of hand." Summer answered. The rest of the band snickered and got back to what they were doing.
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SooOo?! What did ya'll think. I know it was a bit cheesy but I just NEEDED to make some more fluffiness in there ya know?! Well it's 3:55 in the morning now and man am I tired! Looks like I'll be running on empty when I go to Michigan Adventures!