A/N: Ok, I know all of you are dreading for me to tell someone about Katie's homelife, which I was planning on doing really soon anywayz, but just FYI-ing all of you, it's not that I'm making them stoopid or anything, it's just that I couldn't let them know too soon cause then this story would be EXTREMELY short.. But, hey.. it's going to end soon enough.. so why not try to make it last? So anywayz.. my last chapter wasn't my best.. and I can even say that without regreting it, but this one will be better AND longer! Promise! But, as usual, before we get started, I'd first like to thank my reviewers!
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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: The Promise
Recap:
"Katie! Wait!" She turned around. It was Zack.
She stopped and let him catch up to her. When he finally did, he bend down with his hands on his knees breathing heavily. Katie laughed.
"What?" He asked.
"Well, sorry. Didn't mean to tire you," She smiled.
"Well, you walk pretty fast for a chick," Katie raised her eyebrows.
"And what is that suppost to mean?" She asked.
He rolled his eyes. "Nothing," He looked into Katie's eyes. "Look, Katie. We really need to talk."
Katie felt like she was facing her fear once again, for the hundereth time it seemed that night.
"About what?" Katie asked as she stared at Zack, her eyes as cold as ice.
"About-" Zack looked at Katie with an expression that he'd never given her before. A brotherly one. "About you."
Katie didn't say anything, just stared at Zack with the same icey expression that she had been wearing ever sense he said that they did need to talk.
"Katie, everyone's worried. What's going on?"
Katie gave him a confused look. "Who is everyone?"
"Everyone-" Zack sat down on the side of the curb. "The band, your friends-"
"My friends?"
Zack looked at Katie. She was still standing in the same spot that she had for the last 5 minutes of their conversation.
"Yes, your friends, Katie. Me, Freddy, Alicia, I should just say the whole band. We all are your friends, Katie. Even if we don't want to admit it."
Zack stared at Katie for what seemed ages before he patted the ground beside him. Katie took the hint and sat down beside him.
"Now, can we please talk without us trying to blow the other's head off?" Zack asked.
Katie laughed. "Sure, I'll try."
"Ok," Zack paused. "Katie, can you please tell me what's going on with you? Why you've been acting so weird?"
Katie let out a breath she hadn't even known she'd been holding. "Look Zack, if I tell you, you have to promise that you won't tell anyone and you have to promise that you won't try to help me."
Katie held out her pinky and Zack looked down at it, then back up at Katie while lifting one eyebrow.
"Are you serious?"
Katie widened her eyes, giving him a do-I-look-like-I'm-kidding kind of face.
Zack shrugged his shoulders as he embraced his pinky with hers.
"Promise."
"Ok," Katie said. "So, what do you want to know?"
Zack thought for a minute.
"Everythinng."
Katie let out a deep sigh. "Ok, Look: My dad's rough's me up, ok?"
Zack looked confused. "He roughs you up?"
"Yeah, h-he-" Katie felt her eyes water up as she lifted her shirt sleeve up and revealed the black and blue art-work across her arm. "He beats me."
Katie watched as Zack's mouth fell open. "He WHATS?"
"He beats me," Katie replied, acting as if it were nothing.
Zack immediately got up. "Katie, we HAVE to tell someone! We have to-"
Katie stood up at the same force and speed that Zack had when he found out Katie's dreadful news.
"Zack! NO! You promised you wouldn't tell anyone and I trusted you Zack! You can't tell! You know how much trouble that would cause me? You just can't! I did what you wanted, now you have to do what I asked in return. Promise?"
Zack stood there a while saying nothing.
"Ok."
Katie smiled. "Thanks a lot. You have no idea how much this means to me that I can trust you," She pulled him into a big hug. Zack hugged her back.
'How could she be so happy right now when her dad is beating her?' He watched as Katie turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
"Oh, and Katie?" He called after her.
She turned around. "Hmm?"
"Tell me if you ever want to talk about this again. I'm always here for you, just remember that."
Katie grinned. Probably, her biggest grin for a couple of years.
Zack had made it home a little later that day. He had stuck around the playground near where Katie and he had talked. He just couldn't get that conversation out of his head.
'He beats her. I just can't believe he beats her. Katie. The sweetest most nicest girl ever. And she happens to be the one who it happened too. One in a million. And she's the one. Ok, now I'm sounding pathetic. She said she could handle it, right? But, I just can't understand it all. Katie.'
Zack sat at his desk upstairs in his room strumming his guitar that was gently cradled in his lap. His head jerked to the side when Freddy walked into his room.
"Gee, whatever happened to knocking?"
Freddy laughed as he strided over to Zack's bed and sat on it. "Ha ha, since when do we knock anyways?"
Zack got up and put his guitar on his 'specially-made' stand before he went and sat back at his desk chair again, but this time propping his feet on top of the desk and all of his homework.
"So, what're you doin here?" Zack asked.
"What? Can't a friend just come over to talk to a friend every once in a while?" Freddy smiled.
Zack immediately put his feet down and sat up. "What do you want?"
Freddy smiled. "Well..." He got up off of Zack's bed and walked over to a picture on Zack's dresser. His smile widened as he stared at it. It was a picture of School of Rock at there previous year for Battle of the Bands. He was staring at one person in particular. "Do you know anything that's going on with Katie? I feel like there's something I don't know and she's not telling me. I mean, I'm pretty sure there is."
Zack let out a big sigh. 'He just had to ask that.'
"No, what do you mean?" He lied. He lied to his best friend. He couldn't believe it. Freddy. He lied to Freddy. He told Freddy everything. He told Freddy things he wouldn't have even told his dog or write in a journal or anything. And he had just lied. God, what kind of a friend was he?
"Well, I mean, she's been acting really weirdly lately. Ya know what I mean?" He put the picture in Zacks lap and Zack stared at it. He wondered if Katie was being beat then. Maybe it had just happened recently. Yeah, recently. She was too happy then to have been beat during all of it. Right?
Freddy stared at Zack looking at the picture. He could hint the smile forming across Zack's lips. It stayed like that for about 5 minutes before Freddy took control of the situation.
"Zack! Zack! Earth to Zack!" Freddy waved his hand in front of Zack's face hoping to alarm him. Zack's head shot up in confusement.
"What?"
"You never answered my question!" Freddy took the picture frame from Zack and put it back on his dresser as he was headed over to the black leather couch across from Zack.
"Question?" Zack asked.
"Yes, question! What's wrong with Katie? I know you know there's something wrong with her, Zack. You can tell, I know you can," Freddy slammed his fist down on the armrest. He looked like he could have killed someone and made them come back just to kill them again.
Zack got up and walked over to Freddy.
"Dude, you must be seeing things or something 'cause I have no idea what you're talkin about," he grabbed Freddy's arm and guided him to his door. "You need to get out of here and go drink some – some coffee or somthin.. "
When Freddy was half way out of Zack's door and Zack was beginning to slam it on Freddy, Freddy quickly turned around.
"Coffee? What the hell? Coffee!! That's what you think is going to help me find out what's wrong with my friend?"
"Umm.." Zack stopped. "Yeah, sure. Bye now!" He slammed the door in Freddy's face with out a second notice and went and sat on his bed, quickly falling into a deep slumber.
Freddy walked home in pure silence, every once in a while catching a neighbor turning off their lights to go to sleep. Sleep in their warm beds and dream. Dream with no worries. Freddy hoped Katie was in her bed dreaming. Dreaming about a better place than here. Maybe even dreaming about him – he hoped.
As soon as he reached his house he ran upstairs to his room and slammed the door. He got out of his clothes, all but his boxers (A/N: omg! I wish this were really happening right now! Yummy!), turned off his lights, and climbed into bed. He stared at his white wall full of posters of different bands before falling a sleep.
"Daddy? Daddy, where are you? Dad, please! Don't!!" the girl ran down a hallway in hopes of not running into the man whom she dreaded. She ran into the next room closest to her and hid behind a large dresser with a man following behind her. He ran over to the dresser and pushed it down revealing the girl. She ran through his legs and struggled to get up, but when she did, head down the same hallway she had come from to a steep staircase and down it.
"Come back here you whore!" The man ran down the stair cases as well. Halfway down he stumbled and fell the rest of the way, the bottom bringing him to a hault. He grabbed his leg in agony. The girl turned around and watched as the man groaned in pain. She hesitated for moment before walking over to him. She bent down by his side and touched his leg.
"Are you ok?" she whispered.
All the man could do is smile before he grabbed the girl by the arm and got up, dragging her with him down another deserted hallway and into another room. The door was shut and the silent screaming of the girl began.
Freddy turned over off his bed with a thump.
"Damn, is this just a ritual lately?" He asked himself. He got up and went to his closet putting on a pair of shorts and going downstairs to his kitchen.
"Mom? Dad? Stacie?" Freddy called out as he entered his empty kitchen. He walked around to one of the many cabnets and pulled out a cup. He strided over to his refrigerator and noticed the note with his name, 'Freddy', on it. He took it off and sat on the stool behind him next to his counter.
Freddy,
Sorry we didn't wake you up this morning. We thought you'd rather not anyways. Your father went out to do some office work and I went to Manny's Café with Mrs. Ginger, I should be back in a few hours, if not a little bit later. You're father should be home later tonight. Your sister is at Charlie's house, she should be home around 5:00. Call me if you need anything. I love you!
Mom
Freddy crumpled up the note and through it in the trash can.
'Great, a empty house and nothing to do.'
Freddy went over to the refrigerator again and pulled out a container of orange juice. 'No point in using a cup.' He opened the lid and drank out of the carton before setting it down on the counter and strolling out of his kitchen.
He walked into his living room and and grabbed the remote. He sat on the couch and sprawled out his legs until he was comfortable and then continued with turning on his TV. By the time he had flipped through every channel twice before he came to one he was satisfied with.
'Ding Dong'
Freddy sat on the couch and rolled his eyes.
'Only when I'm comfortable or busy to they bug me.' He continued watching the TV before the door bell rang again.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!!" He called as he rolled off the couch and jogged to the door. He slowly opened it to reveal the last person he though he'd see. Katie.
"Hey," Freddy said while running a hand through his hair.
"Hey," Katie stared at his nearly naked body, shockingly taken with it.
Freddy noticed this and took the first step into starting a conversation.
"You wanna come in?" He asked while giving a polite wave of the hand to signal that she could.
Katie looked around his house. "Are you sure?"
"No- I'm not sure. I just felt like inviting you in cause you can't," He said sarcastically. Katie must have not noticed the sarcasm and began to turn away.
"Yes, I'm sure." Freddy laughed.
Katie smiled and entered his house.
"Wow, it's been a long time since I've been over here," Katie said while looking at the ceilings, pictures, and staircase.
Freddy just nodded. He walked into the kitchen, Kaite following closely behind him.
"So..." He began.
Katie replied as well.
"So..."
"You want something to drink?" Freddy asked, once again walking over to the refrigerator.
"Yeah, sure."
"Ok, what do you want?"
"Whatever, it doesn't matter," Katie sat on one of the stools in his kitchen as she watched Freddy pull two sodas out of the fridge. He closed it with his foot and walked over to Katie handing one to her and walking on the other side of the counter and sitting on it.
"So, what did you need?" Freddy asked after a long period of silence.
Katie shrugged. "Just wanted to umm.. see you, I guess."
"Oh, me?" Freddy smirked.
Katie played with the hem of her shirt.
"Look Freddy, I came over 'cause we really need to talk."
Freddy's smirk turned into a confused frown.
"About?"
Katie looked at Freddy as he stared back.
"About me."
A/N: whoo! Hello all! I think this was one of my hardest chapters to write.. talk about MAJOR writer's block. I've been going through a lot of emotional shit over here with school and boys and friends and boys.. you know the drill. Well neways, I know this may have not been my best chapter! But Katie finally spilled, I thought ya'll would enjoy that – after how many reviews I've gotten saying that she should.. they were in denial! Lol, newayz.. I hope ya'll DID enjoy it, I g2g do muh homework now! Lub you all!
-ashley