Thanks for all my great reviews! And answering the question some of you asked, penultimate means second to last. Which means that... this is my last chapter! But thanks for the lovely reviews for chapter 13.
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The End Part III (the actual end)
Chapter 14:- Back to the Present
Katie flicked past the pages of photos of her last summer at home. She came to the final page she did just before going to college. It was a picture of the whole band together, crowded in the doorway and steps leading to the old practice apartment. She couldn't remember who had taken the picture, because the entire band and crew were in the photo. Probably another feat of technological genius by Gordon, she thought. She stared at the picture for a while. Then she looked closer at it. Just above Zack's head she could just about make out two fingers doing bunny ears. Freddy's evil grin told her who the culprit was.
Suddenly a rose petal fell out of the notebook and floated to the ground. She didn't remember putting any rose petals in it. Another petal was coming out from after what Katie had thought to be the last photo. She turned over the page.
There were more pictures and mementos stuck in there. Thing was, she didn't put them in. She turned the pages. There were pictures of her at college after Freddy transferred there, of the others at college; of Summer and Zack's wedding... the rose petals were a border for the picture of the whole band at the wedding. There were tickets and flyers from their first shows, mixed in with school photos and some of the School of Rock guitar picks they had made for their ten year reunion shows. She stared at the pages, touching a broken bass string glued in. On the last page was a pocket. Inside was the School of Rock's first album.
Just then she heard a voice. She looked up from the new pages and saw Freddy standing in the doorway.
'Katie, are you ready? We'd better get a move on, housemate.' She put the scrapbook in the box and picked it up, making a face as he took it out of her hands easily. They started walking through the empty rooms. She could hear Summer and Zack singing along to 'Highway to Hell' in the van in front of the house.
'You did the extra pages, didn't you?' She stopped on the porch and turned to him.
'No, it was the tooth fairy.' He deadpanned. 'I mean, uh, what are you talking about? Damn.'
She laughed. 'Freddy Jones, shut up.'
Chapter 14 ½ :- Epilogue
Katie opened the door to the attic and turned on the light.
'See Meg? No ghosts in sight. Where did you get that idea anyway?' Katie asked her four-year-old daughter.
'She probably just read a scary book,' Jack said quickly.
'What? No, you told –mph' Jack covered his little sister's mouth.
'Can we have a look around?'
'Sure.' Freddy and Katie sat down on some of the boxes and watched the two kids poke through old boxes.
'I haven't been up here since we moved, like seven years ago.' Katie sighed.
'Six years ago, wasn't it?' Freddy asked.
'No, because Jack is six. We were here for a year before he was born.'
'He's six? Oh.' Katie hit Freddy's arm.
'Hey, Mum? Dad?' Meg called from the far corner. Katie and Freddy got up and walked over to her.
'Was I really this small?' Meg held up a tiny sleep suit.
'Yep. So small and cute.' Freddy sighed theatrically. 'Where did it all go?'
'Ha ha. Did I wear this?' She showed them a tiny knitted hat.
'My friend Summer made that hat for you.' Katie took the hat.
'What about this? Was this mine too?' Freddy took the small shoe and they all examined it.
'No,' Katie pronounced. 'That's a Barbie shoe.'
'The other one's being surprisingly quiet, want to see what he's up to?' Freddy muttered to Katie.
The saw Jack rooting through a box and headed over to him. He looked up in amazement at them. It was Katie's Band Stuff box.
'What's this?' He held up something. They looked over his shoulder.
It was the scrapbook.
'It's something unpredictable,
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.'
That's it! Hope you enjoyed it. I've had a lot of fun writing the story and receiving your reviews, they've all been so great. I hope to start a new story soon about the band coming to London, email me if you want to help!
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