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Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the plot. The song 'Concrete Angel' belongs to Martina McBride.
Summary: Freddy is having strange and dreadful dreams about someone who is so familiar to him he can't recognize it. But, when he does find out who this mystery person is, will he be able to keep it to himself or will he run for help?
"Speaking"
'Thinking'
Story title: I'll never tellChapter title: Tears of an Angel
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Recap:
Zack was heading towards the door when he tripped again but this time not over a guitar.
"Damn! Not again..."
Zack looked up from the ground and saw the outline of a person.
"Ha ha Freddy. Real funny.."
Zack qucikly pushed himself off the ground as he brushed off his shirt.
"Freddy, you can come out! I see you! I'm not blind, ya know?"
Zack walked towards the figure when he heard a whimper.
"Freddy?"
He looked over at the wall next to him and hit the switch for the lights to come on. He slowly looked down again at the person before him.
"Katie?"
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"Katie?"
Zack bent down on both knees and got a good look at her.
"Katie, why are you in..." He looked around at the old dusty room. "... here?"
Katie quickly got up and ran towards the door. She flung it open and thrust her way outside to where she was in the hallway. She quickly took a left corner out to the front doors of the school.
Zack followed her out throught the door, but didn't catch site of which way she went when she was out in the hallway. "Katie!" Zach called as he took a right around the corner. "Katie! Come back!"But it was too late. Katie was gone.
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(Later that evening)
Freddy stood in his kitchen doing the dishes from last night's dinner. He looked out his window and saw Katie sitting on the curb. (A/N: Katie lives next door..)
"Stacie, could you please do the rest of the dishes? I have, um, band practice," Freddy said while emphasizing on the word 'please'.
"What's it to you?" His 16 year old sister called back as she walked into the kitchen.
"Stacie, PLEASE? For once, could you PLEASE do something for me?" Freddy started giving her the puppy-dog pout, sticking his lower lip out further than nessicary. "Besides, Dewey's gonna kill me if I don't show up..." Fredy lied.
"Ok, whatever. You owe me.."
Freddy grabbed his drumsticks and stuffed them into his back pocket while mumbleing a short 'Thanks' to his sister.
Freddy quitely opened his front door and sneaked out while trying as hard as possible to close it without making any noise. Unfortunately for him, it didn't work. And his shirt got caught in the door.
Katie turned around as she heard Freddy yank his shirt out of the door and fall backwards on to his grass.
"You ok?" She asked while getting up.
"Yeah," Freddy got up off of the ground and furiously rubbed the back of his head with his hand. "I thought you weren't talking to me."
"Oh, sorry about that. I was kinda, well, in a bad mood this morning."
Freddy looked at her cheek. "So what did happen?"
Katie quickly touched her cheek trying to cover up the bruise. "Oh, I umm.. ran into a door."
"A door did that?" Freddy touched her cheek.
Katie stared into Freddy's eyes as he examined her cheek.
Freddy noticed that she was starring at him also. He stared at her and they kept eye contact for at least 3 minutes. Although, while this was happening, neither had noticed that they had gotten closer to each other.
"Katie! Get your ass in here right NOW!"
Both Katie and Freddy broke contact and looked towards Katie's house. There, standing at the front door was her dad. Staring at them both. With only his boxers and muscle shirt on showing half of his stomach that hung out of it, which wasn't very attractive.
He rubbed the baled spot on his head as he yelled some more at Katie. Katie looked back at Freddy before turning around and walking towards her house.
"Bye," Freddy turned around and walked down the street. He couldn't go back inside his house. He told his sister that he was going to band practice. Freddy found an empty soda can and started kicking it along the sidewalk as he passed house by house.
He quickly turned around to a honking noise and the roar of a car engine.
"Hey Freddy! What's up?"
Freddy stared at the van that had pulled up on the side of the curb. It was covered in stickers of bands and sayings of all sorts.
"Hey Dewey..." Freddy said while looking at the guitar in the van's passenger seat. "What're you doing with Zach's guitar?"
"Oh, well, let's just say Zach got a little out of control today during band practice and totally messed up the end of his guitar. He kinda went on a head banging spree..." Dewey stared at Freddy. "So, why weren't you at band practice today?"
"Oh, I, uh, had to go out to eat with my parent's old friends," Freddy lied.
"Oh, sucks man. Well, try not to miss the next one. I mean, how can you rock without an awesome drummer?..."
Dewey went into something about how drummer's kept the band together or something or another. But, Freddy wasn't listening. He was starring down the street at Katie's house.
"Well, I got to go. I guess I'll see you later. Bye!" Freddy cut off Dewey before he could finish what he was saying.
"Uh, yeah. Bye dude!"
Freddy watched as Dewey zoomed away before walking back towards his house. He passed by Katie's and saw the lights flicker but thought nothing of it. He slowly opened his door still watching Katie's house until he went inside and ran up his stairs to his room, where he shut his door.
He slid off his matalica shirt and jeans. He threw them aside on the floor and grabbed his pajama bottoms carefuly putting them on. He jumped in his bed and lay on his side staring at his red wall full of posters before falling asleep.
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The girl lay in her bed asleep as a shadowy figure opened her door and walk up beside her.
"Get out of bed."
The girl turned over before mumbling a 'what' to the man.
"I said, Get out of the fucking bed, you deaf whore!"
The man pulled the covers off of the girl revealing her bare body which was only covered by a simple tank-top and some shorts.
The man feircly grabbed the girl by the arm and yanked her out of her bed before throwing her on the ground.
"Get up!"
The girl stumbled while trying to get up, trying to recover from her sleepiness.
"Get outside. Now."
The girl went out the back door of her house and turned around where she was knocked out by a wooden bat hitting her side.
"What're you doing?" The girl muttered as the black figure hovered over here.
"Get away from me! What's that bat for? Please! Don't!" The girl dreaded as she tried to scoot away.
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Freddy fell out of bed with a big 'thump'. He looked around his room.
"Freddy! Breakfast is ready! I made your favorite! Pancakes!"
"Ok, I'll be down in a minute," Freddy wiped his head, and to his surprise it was covered in sweat.
"What the-"
Freddy looked up and saw his sister standing in the hallway, peering through the door at him.
"Freddy, take a shower! I can smell you from here..." She held her nose, trying to prove the fact that he smelt bad from his sweat.
Freddy walked to his bathroom and took a quick shower. He ran to his closet and put on his black shorts with his greenday shirt before departing from his room and heading downstairs. He quickly slipped on his converse before heading towards his kitchen for his breakfast.
Quickly, he grabbed a seat at his table and shoved the pancakes down his throat.
His mom looked at him in astonishment.
"Did you even taste those?"
Freddy gave her the thumbs up sign and left the kitchen. He grabbed his back-pack and skateboard and headed towards the door. As soon as he was outside he saw Katie walk out of her house. Walking down his steps, he waited for Katie as he gave her friendly wave.
But she didn't notice.
"Hey Katie!" He called. She looked up and a faint smile appeared on her face.
"Hey Freddy.."
She quickly walked over to him, giving him a hug. He returned the hug and wrapped his hands around her waist. She pulled back forcefully as she winced.
"Sorry," Freddy appologized as he watched her hold her side.
"It's ok," She put on a fake smile.
"Run into another door?" Freddy smiled.
Katie looked up into his eyes trying not to tear up. She smiled as well.
"Not this time. I was outside my house and I tripped over our lawn mower and landed sideways on the edge of our fence."
Freddy laughed as he watched Katie looked away from him.
She walks to school with the lunch
she packed,
Nobody knows what she's holding back,
Wearing the
same dress she wore yesterday,
She hides the bruises with the
linen and lace.
"Hey guys!" Zack called while he got out of his dad's car and stumbled to get his back-pack on right.
"Hey man," Freddy called while smiling.
Katie only stood there. Not saying a thing. Only observing the two boys talk to each other.
Zack looked over at Katie, "Hey..."
Katie gave him a faint smile.
The bell rang to signal that they had 7 minutes to get to their first period class. They left the entrance to the school and ran up the stairs to get to their lockers. Both Katie and Freddy left to their math class as Zack went down the next hall to his health class.
"God, I can't wait until summer..." Freddy said while trying to hold up all of his books.
Katie gave him a smile as she entered her classroom, Freddy following closely behind. They took seats next to each other.
No sooner had they walked in the teacher came up to her desk and pulled out a stack of papers.
"Hello class, today is an extremely good day. Would you all like to know why?"
All the students looked around the room as they shrugged their shoulders.
"Today, we are having a pop quiz!" The teacher practically squeaked while walking down the first row of the classroom and passing out the papers.
The whole class groaned.
Katie silently took off her jacket, placing it on her lap. As the teacher passed down her row, she stared in astonishment at Katie's arm
"Hello Katherine, sorry we didn't see you yesterday," the teacher asked while continuously looking at Katie's bruised arm. Katie gave her a weak smile.
The teacher
wonders but she doesn't ask,
It's hard to see the pain behind the
mask,
Bearing the burden of a secret storm,
Sometimes she
wishes she was never born.
Freddy looked over at Katie as the teacher passed them both by. He glared at her arm. Watching as Katie picked up her pencil and accidentally bumped it into her desk and yelped in pain. She noticed Freddy staring at her and mouthed the word 'what' to him. He silently shook his head at her. Katie shrugged it off and looked back up at the teacher who was now standing in front of the chalkboard.
"You may now begin."
Katie started writing on her paper as Freddy starred at her.
Through the wind and the rain she
stands hard as a stone,
In a world that she can't rise above,
But her dreams give her wings and she flies to a place where
she's loved,
Concrete Angel.
Freddy shook out of his thoughts and began his quiz, not quite getting his mind off of Katie.
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(Later at lunch)
"Hey Zack," Freddy called over to the table where he was sitting, Katie traveling closely behind.
"Hey," Zack looked up from his plate and noticed Katie with Freddy. Watching them both intensely as the sat in front of him.
"Hey Katie."
Katie looked up. "Hey." She remembered seeing him in the band room the day before and hoped he wouldn't bring anything up about it.
"So, I saw Dewey yesterday and he said something about Zack and headbanging. I'd like to hear more," Freddy peered at Zack.
Zack let out a quiet chuckle before he started going into detail about him going crazy yesterday during band practice.
"But Dewey DID say for us to get some energy out, he didn't say anything about not being able to go total rock star on him," Zack smiled.
Freddy started laughing while Zack stared at Katie with a worried look in his eyes. Katie looked up at him, but he quickly looked away hoping to be unnoticed. She got up quickly and walked towards the back entrance to the school.
"Where are you gong?" Freddy called to her.
"Bathroom..." Katie said back.
Freddy turned around back towards Zack as Zack watched Katie walk into the school.
Katie opened the doors to the school and went down a long hallway filled with door until she came to the one that suited her.
'The Girl's Bathroom'
She opened the door and walked in. Nobody was in there. She went into one of the stalls and sat on the toilet. She burried her face in her hands and cried. Cried about everything. Freddy, Zach, her friends, her life.
She cried for everyone.
Then she heard the door of the bathroom open and she quckly pulled up her legs and cuddled into a ball before giving one more sniff.
'Have you seen that Katie girl lately? I saw her today and she looks like a walking accident. I think she beats herself up so people will feel bad for her.'
Katie's heart broke down. She felt so much pain and anger and frustration build up inside of her at the moment the girl said her name. She didn't know who it was. She couldn't recognize the vioce. Katie casually opened the door to the stall and walked out as the girl stared at her, wide-mouthed.
"So, I heard about this girl too. Yeah, she does look like a walking accident, being roughed up by someone she loves, huh?"
The girl gazed over Katie in astonishment. But Katie didn't really care. She walked out of the bathroom and out through the front doors to the school where she ran out of site.
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(After School.)
Freddy walked home with Zack in pure silence. The only thing you could hear was the slight breathing coming from each boy.
"Well, I guess I'll see you later. Bye," Freddy bid to Zack as he walked up the entrance to his house and through his door. He ran upstairs to his room where he put his back-pack on the floor along with his skaterboard. He ran back down his stairs and outside of his house towards the sidewalk, which led him to Katie's house. He took his time walking up to her door, thinking about what to say. As soon as he got the nerve to ring her doorbell he regreted doing so.
The door silently opened and a man appeared. He had on his boxers and a bottle of beer in his left hand.
"What doya want?" He hiccuped.
"Um... is, uh, Katie here?" He looked behind the man to see if anyone was there, and sure enough, there was Katie. Standing a few feet being the man, half undressed, holding her body as tears stained her face.
"No, she's not here. Now get lost!" The man scooted over a little bit after noticing that Freddy was looking inside his house.
Freddy looked up at the man and nodded. He couldn't tell if Katie was just upset about something or if there really was something wrong with her. He walked home just as silently as he had arrived. He opened the front door of his house and quietly walked up his stairs to his room where he collapsed on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.
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(a few hours later)
Freddy woke up to the smashing of something hard. He flung his legs over his bed and ran to his window to look outside. He saw Katie being shoved outside and a door being slammed. He took a quick glance at his alarm clock, 1:27 a.m. He opened his window and jumped down on his roof, quickly sliding down the rain water pipe to the ground. He walked over to Katie who was sitting outside of her house down by her driveway.
"Katie?"
She looked up in dread. She looked awful. Her eyes full of tears and her hair messed up. Freddy walked over to where she was sitting and squated next to her.
"Katie, what's wrong?"
Katie stared at Freddy.
"Freddy. Please. I know you are playing stupid," She stopped and wiped her eyes. "Isn't it obvious enough what's happening?"
Freddy stared at her in astonishment.
"Katie, please. Tell me. I want to know what's wrong with you. Missing classes, dissapearing out of nowhere, your dad being so mean to you. Please, Katie-"
Katie had shushed him with her finger. She quickly got up and stared down at Freddy.
"Freddy, I know your trying to help. But, really, you're only making things worse. If you really don't know what's happening, quit trying to help. I'm sorry."
Somebody cries in the middle of the night,
The neighbors
hear but they turn out their light,
A fragile soul caught in the
hands of fate,
When mornin' comes it'll be too late.
Through
the wind and the rain she stands hard as a stone,
In a world that
she can't rise above,
But her dreams give her wings and she flies
to a place where she's loved,
Concrete Angel.
She walked off through her back gate and behind her house. Freddy watched as she closed the gate before getting up and walking back to his house. He really didn't know what was happening to Katie. But he was sure enough, he would find out.
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A/N: I hope all of you enjoy this chapter! It's a LOT longer.. I think it's becuause of the song I put in it though. Anywayz.. sorry it took so long! I'll try to update the next one sooner! Lub you all! R&R!
-ashley