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The End Part IChapter 12: - Who cares about Prom? Part II
Over the next pages was a montage of photos, Katie flicked through them, finally finding the 15 she was looking for.
FLASHBACK
Katie walked back into her room in a bathrobe. She wandered over to the window, meaning to close it, but found a rose trapped under the window. She quickly lifted the bottom but the flower fell down to the fire escape on the other side. Just then, the phone rang. Katie looked at the rose, then the phone, then the rose, then the-
'Katie, can you get that?' she heard her mother call from the bathroom. She sighed and picked up her extension line.
'Hello?' Katie had no idea who would call her, especially on the night of their senior prom.
'Katie?' It was unmistakeably Summer.
'Summer, it's 6.30pm. Shouldn't Zack be picking you up now?' she asked, itching to see who the rose was from.
'He's here, calling Freddy. I just wanted to check, are you sure you don't want to come? It'll be fun.'
'Summer, this is the fourth time you've called today. I don't have a dress, a date, a ticket, the inclination...' Katie glanced at the window with the plastic glow in the dark shapes she and Freddy had stuck on in the sixth grade, and wished that Summer would give it up.
'I'm sure we could find you someone. And you have that dress you wore as a bridesmaid for the formal gig last year.' Summer was getting impatient.
'No Summer.' Katie sighed. 'Just... no.' She hung up the phone quickly, leapt over her bed and almost dived out of the window. She carefully picked up the rose and took it into her room.
There was a small white card attached to it. Katie turned it over and read it quickly.
'Katie,' she read, 'it's time.'
She grinned, tossed the rose onto her bed and dressed as quickly as possible. She searched through her drawers, found the tiny key she was looking for attached to a piece of Silly Putty in her bedside table and left the apartment.
'Mum, I'm going out!' she called, running down the stairs.
She didn't stop running until she reached her destination: the playground. She could see him sitting on one of the swings, kicking up the dust as they had used to when they got into fights as kids.
'Hey,' she said, sitting on the swing next to him.
He turned and grinned.
'Ready?'
'Of course!' she said, holding up the tiny key that he hadn't been trusted to look after.
He got up and held out a hand.
'Miss Brown?'
She smiled and got up.
'Mr Jones.'
They walked along, hand in hand until they reached a tree by the edge of the park.
'Sure this is it?' Katie asked Freddy.
'Yep,' Freddy dusted off some moss from the tree. There was scratched 'FreddyKatie Friends Forever.'
Katie touched the carving. It was exactly seven years old and had held out surprisingly well, considering that it had been done with a skewer.
'Would you like to do the honours?' she asked Freddy.
'Go for it.' He said.
She reached into a hollow at the bottom of the tree and pulled out a small box.
They sat down under the tree. Katie unlocked the tiny padlock with her tiny key and gave it to Freddy. He ceremoniously lifted the lid and unceremoniously tipped the contents onto the grass.
They gazed at the things they had hidden in the box seven years ago. There was Freddy's first pair of drumsticks, which were actually Dewey's; the first strings Katie broke on her first bass; a CD they'd burned that day; Freddy's Maths homework ('Freddy! You told Miss Dunham that you lost it in a tragic iodine accident!'), and more junk like Oreo wrappers and a hair band that they'd packed in. But there was one important thing
'The piece de resistance!' Katie announced, picking up the Polaroid camera. They checked the back. It had fifteen shots left. Exactly half a roll of film.
'Remember what we swore to do?' Freddy asked, taking the camera.
'Yes.' Katie answered seriously.
'Ok then.' Freddy lifted the camera and they spent the next half hour or so taking ridiculous pictures and laughing crazily.
Katie sighed and lay down on the grass as soon as she heard the camera rewinding.
'Why the big sigh?' Freddy asked, sitting down beside her.
'I just have this feeling... that life isn't ever going to be this good again. I've had the best times these years with the band, but I somehow feel like I can never be this happy anymore. The band's breaking up, we'll never see each other. These have been the best seven years ever of my life. The beginning and the end of it all are right here on this camera.' She tossed it onto the grass.
'Katie, we've had seven whole years.' Freddy looked at her sad face. 'Some people don't ever get to have the kind of fun we've had. We're lucky. And of course we'll see each other again. At Summer and Zack's wedding for one thing...'
Katie sat up.
'What? They're engaged?'
Freddy rolled his eyes theatrically.
'If he doesn't propose to her, she'll propose to him!'
Katie laughed and flopped down again.
'I'm glad I didn't go to Prom.'
'Me too.' Freddy said quietly.
Without their noticing, it had grown darker. Freddy stood up and so did Katie. They cleared the things back into the box in silence, apart from the camera, which Freddy put in his pocket, and they wordlessly put the box back into the hole.
They started to walk back to the gates, hand in hand.
Freddy stopped suddenly.
'Um, Katie, do you want to dance?'
'There's no music.' Katie, said, wrapping her arms around him.
'There's always music.' He said, looking down at her. 'Sometimes, you're just not listening.'
They stood under the stars in the playground, swaying slowly.
'Another turning point a fork stuck in the road
Time grabs you by the wrist directs you where to go
So make the best of this test and don't ask why
It's not a question but a lesson learned in time
It's something unpredictable
But in the end is right
I hope you had the time of your life'
END FLASHBACK
Urgh, that was one of my worse chapters. Flame me if you must.
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