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Chapter 3: Excuse me, Mr Bowbridge...

On the next page was an absence note that Dewey had faked for Katie on the day he moved apartments. She remembered how he'd wanted as many of the band members as possible to help him move his extra equipment out of the old apartment; because Ned was getting married to a substitute teacher he had met in Butlins, or something like that. Even though most of the things were kept at the School of Rock practice apartment, Dewey stored an incredible amount of stuff at his place. So, Dewey had made notes for the band, and they had to try and pass off as many of them as possible...

FLASHBACK

'Your gerbil died, Miss Brown?' Katie's homeroom teacher looked at the note in her hand. 'And so you need to leave after lunch for its funeral.'

'Um, yes.' Katie said, silently cursing Dewey's incapability to think of more than two decent excuses.

'And this note is from... Hurkleman Bowbridge?' Her teacher was incredulous.

'Yes it is. Mr Bowbridge is my family's funeral director.' Katie offered.

'And now what is this on the bottom of the note?' the teacher asked, pointing at a smear near the bottom of the sheet that Katie had ripped from her notebook and given to Dewey.

Katie leaned over to look.

'That, ma'am, is chocolate.'

'I see. And would this absence note have anything to do with the kickboxing competition Lawrence has suddenly remembered, Mr Jones' emergency pedicure appointment, or Summer's afternoon visit to the vet's to have her cat put down? Miss Hathaway, do you even have a cat?'

'Not for much longer! The note explains...' Summer said, pointing to a monogrammed note on top of the mountain of notes on the front desk.

'I know perfectly well what your note says, Summer!'

They all left the school after lunch, and were picked up by Dewey in his van round the corner. All apart from Marta and Billy. Her male homeroom teacher sadly did not accept Marta's excuse of needing to get her roots done, while Billy actually was going to get his roots done. Freddy had been late to practice the day Dewey wrote the notes, and due to another unfortunate incident when he'd accidentally said to the form tutor that he loved Brad Pitt in French oral, she thought he was gay already. Playing rock music as loudly as possible, and stopping at the lights for Dewey to play air guitar riffs with the music and yell random words, the van moved towards Dewey's old apartment block. He was moving into a 'swinging' singles apartment block. The same one as their old headmistress, Miss Mullins, incidentally enough.

Summer had not been happy about missing school just to do something that Dewey couldn't be bothered to hire men for. At the time he told them, though, Dewey had a hangover, and so wasn't in the mood for much discussion.

'Look, um...' he began, and then stopped, having forgotten who she was during her half hour long tirade.

'What's her name?' he mouthed at Katie, who was behind Summer.

'Sarah.' Katie mouthed back with a thumbs up.

'Yeah... Sarah. Look, I have the worst headache ever and I wasn't even drinking last night, I just -' Dewey rubbed his forehead as Katie laughed silently in the background.

'Wait, wait, wait.' Summer interrupted. 'Did you just call me Sarah?'

'Freddy! Quit it with the drums!' Dewey yelled, ignoring her. Freddy looked up from where he was tapping a box with his finger and gave him a huge grin.

They carted as much of the stuff Dewey had piled in the sitting room to the van. Mostly it was CDs, instruments and posters. Although they found an old photo of Dewey, Ned and some other guy dressed up like rockers, which they decided to keep for future use. Dewey had scarily few clothes. As he explained,

'It's all in the wearing of them, guys! I can make anything work, so why do I need more clothes?'

Freddy and most of the girls didn't understand how he could possibly think this, and it was a good thing that Billy hadn't been able to make it. When all of Dewey's junk had been stuffed into the van, he drove it to the new apartment. Ned took the kids in his new 7-seater, sitting two or three to a seat, while Freddy make stupid jokes about Ned being optimistic about his new wife. Katie was forced to stuff her school tie in his mouth for the duration of the journey.

Dewey's new apartment was small, and undeniably for a single guy. The kids all helped to put the band stuff into the apartment, but flatly refused to help carry Dewey's XXL underwear. They then found out that he owned no pyjamas. After that none of them would touch the mattress that Dewey was trying to drag up the stairs.

END FLASHBACK

More hopefully by Wednesday!

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