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When school ended, Katie walked outside with Zack and they waited for Zack's dad to pick them up and take them to band practice. They carpooled on Fridays because Katie's mom had to work late every Friday. Mr. Mooneyham got there quickly and dropped them off at Dewey's apartment. Katie was beyond excited, so she dashed up the steps, with Zack trailing behind her, walking at a normal pace.
Katie reached the top of the steps and almost tore down the door. She got it open without breaking it and saw Freddy sitting at his drum set, scratching his back with one of his drumsticks. Summer was sitting on a sofa writing furiously on a notepad. With the album came a ton of work for Summer, but she had proven that she was capable of handling it. Dewey was tuning his guitar, but looked up when he heard Katie come in. He pulled the mixed CD out of his pocket and said, "You wanted me to listen to this, didn't you?" Katie nodded solemnly, realizing that her plan hadn't worked.
"Look, I was really dumb, okay Katie? You can have a solo, but make sure you don't disappoint. I'm really stressing over the album and everything, so you'll have to write your own solos and parts. Do you think you can handle it?"
She was surprised, she hadn't expected her plan to work. She nodded so hard that her head hurt. She grabbed her bass, tuned it, and started experimenting. It was only then that she realized that this was going to be way harder than she thought. Katie tried tugging at a couple of the strings, trying to get a good melody to come out. After a few minutes she found a note that she really liked. She took out a pen and wrote the note down on her hand. Okay, she thought, that's a good start. Now to just get down a lot more notes and make it flow together coherently.
She pulled another string but didn't like the sound. Before she could try another chord, Dewey called everyone into their rock and roll positions. Katie looked up and realized that everyone else had arrived at practice. They played School of Rock, their signature song, which was to be the opener on the album. After that they played a new song by Zack called Watch Out (a/n this isn't a real song as far as I know, I just made up a song title!).
Before they could play anything else, Summer interrupted. "You guys, come on! We've got a gig in an hour, so everyone get in Dewey's van!" The roadies, who only came to practice on Fridays, got all the instruments and loaded them in the van. The band got in the back of the van and they went off to Ziggy's.
They played a great show, and all their parents came to see them. Everyone took a solo except for Katie. She was a little bit angry about that, but reminded herself that she had just been given permission to write her own solos. When the gig was over, Katie grabbed her bass and took it home for the weekend.
When she got home she worked all night on putting together a solo. She got about six more notes and they all flowed together. It was a good start, but she would have to keep working on it. Exhausted, Katie went to bed at three A. M. The next day she worked some more on the solo. It was far harder than she thought anything could ever be. But when part one of it was done, she picked up her bass and played it. It sounded great! Now to get part two down.
Katie took a break from slaving over her bass and watched some TV for a while. Then she listened to her Who CD again. She knew that her solo could never be better than the one that The Ox (a/n another nickname for John Entwistle!) played in My Generation. But she was going to try her very, very hardest to make it just as good, and to prove to everyone that there could be bass solos! Katie's solo would be the best thing to happen to School of Rock since Dewey had walked into their class a little over a year ago.
-I know that these chapters have been really short, and I'm really sorry about that. I don't know, I guess for this story it's just easier to write shorter chapters. REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!-