The world is unfair. Why do you ask? My little wiener of a brother forgot to give the money to Mr. Kramer to buy Guys and Dolls tickets!! I swear, if he forgets on Monday...there will be no surviving my wrath!! If I don't get to go see Rosie and Jilly...some heads are going to roll!!! Anyway, on with chapter five.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The next day was Monday, so they had to go to school. Zack had taken to driving Katie, Freddy and Eleni as none of them would be getting their licenses until December. No one was really awake, so the talking was kept to a minimum.

They pulled in the parking lot, and without another word they went off in their separate ways to their lockers. Then Katie and Eleni headed towards gym, while Zack and Freddy met up with Marco and Summer to go to chemistry.

Katie and Eleni walked into the locker room and were ambushed by excited female voices.

"Katie! El! Guess what happened!" Michelle asked, excited.

"Hmm..." Katie grinned, "I don't know. What?"

"My parents are taking me into the city for my birthday!" Michelle shrieked.

Katie's eyes widened. "Oh my goodness...you're so lucky!! What are you going to do?"

"We're going to go window shopping, to the some museums, and maybe take in a show. We're going for the weekend."

"Wow, have a good time Michelle. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to talk to Katie." Eleni said. She nudged Katie over to the corner where their gym lockers were. "So what'd you think of the movie this weekend?" she asked nonchalantly.

"It was pretty weird...very difficult to follow until the battle scene. I could practically hear Zack and Freddy's internal cheering." She answered, rolling her eyes.

Eleni laughed. "Yea."

"Why do you ask? I thought we'd already done the micro-pick the movie apart thing on the way home."

"We did...but it was mostly Freddy and Zack talking about how awesome the guns were. I know I personally thought it was weird...but I wasn't sure about you."

"Yea, well I suppose we could have seen Jersey Girl instead...but call me crazy, because I don't think the guys would have appreciated that."

"No...somehow I think your right." Eleni laughed.

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The teacher had finished passing the tests back, and Freddy was staring at the D- on his. He'd really studied for this...well as much studying as one could do while listening to music...and watching a documentary on how to get the most sound out of your drums.

"Oh Freddy...not another F." Summer complained from next to him.

He scowled at her. "No, it's not an F. It's a D-."

Summer stared at him. "Did you study like I told you to?"

He avoided her eyes. "Yes." She glared. "A little." She folded her arms. "Ok fine, I watched a drumming documentary instead!"

She exploded. "Freddy! What is wrong with you? Do you want to flunk out of school?! Do you want to have to leave the band? What do you want? Honestly!"

"Whoa, dude....calm down. It's one test grade. I'll make up for it. Why do you care anyway??"

She blushed slightly. "We can't win a competition with a mediocre drummer. You're the best there is, and we can't afford to lose your right now."

Zack rolled his eyes. "Lay off Summer. Freddy's his charming self. He'll manage to squeak by somehow. Doesn't he always?" She considered this, and then nodded.

"So Zack," Freddy asked, "what'd you think of the movie?"

Zack blushed quickly, and then it faded away just as quickly. "It was good." He murmured, turning his attention to his book. Freddy nodded knowingly.

"Right. Then you're not looking me in the eye because...I'm just so gorgeous I make you blush?"

Zack looked up, but over his friend's head. "Happy now?"

"Nope. You're still not looking me in the eye."

The brunette groaned, and stared at his friend, trying not to make his eyes and face readable. If there was anything Freddy was good at besides drumming and doing his hair, it was reading people.

Summer looked between the two guys. "What'd I miss?" she asked.

Freddy looked at her and grinned. "Zack, Katie, Eleni and I went to the movies this weekend and-"

Summer pouted. "You didn't invite me?"

"You were at that mangers thingy convention thing remember?"

"Oh yea."

"So anyway, we went to the movies. And El and I think that our Zack here has a crush on Katie." Freddy grinned triumphantly.

Zack narrowed his eyes at Freddy, his anger making looking him in the eye a lot easier. "I do not have a crush on Katie. Why would you think that anyway? We're friends."

"Gee, I don't know...maybe the fact that you couldn't stop staring at her?"

"It's not my fault she was in the corner of my eye when I was looking at the screen!"

"Right, like you didn't plan the seating that way." Freddy joked.

You cannot blame Zack for what happened next, with Freddy knowing him as well as he does; he really should have known his friend was going to burst. So when he kept taunting Zack, he snapped. He lunged for Freddy, hitting any part of him he could get. Freddy snapped to quickly, trying talk Zack off of him. His best friend may have been swinging punches, but he couldn't bring himself to hit him back. Besides, Zack wasn't hurting him that much anyway. He wasn't much of a fighter.

"Mr. Mooneyham! Mr. Jones! What on earth is going on back here?" Mrs. Jacoby asked. "Mr. Mooneyham get off of him!"

When the two of them had been pulled apart Zack blinked. It was almost like he hadn't realized what he'd been doing before he was stopped. He stared at Freddy's slightly bruised face, and took off out the door. Freddy followed closely behind, Summer trailing after both of them.

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