Together

It doesn't feel right at all

Together

Together we've built a wall

Together

Holding hands we'll fall

Hands we'll fall

- "Together" by Avril Lavigne
(KATIE'S POV)

I walked down the halls of my school, searching for Brad, my best friends' soon-to-be-ex-boyfriend. I had only seen the guy a couple of times, and knew he had red hair, same height as Summer, and had...orange eyes? Is that what Summer said? Orange? Alright, but I hope the guy looks good in red.

Zack came down the hall. God, he's a hottie. He had grown his hair out to be shaggy, and was kind of a rocker/skater/punk now, he's rather tall for 13, shorter than Freddy by about 3 inches and taller than ME by about 2 inches, while I hovered over Summer by exactly 2 inches.

Dang, Summer's short isn't she? Never really paid that much attention to her height before. That means she has a crush on a guy who's...7 inches taller than her.

Whoa.

Anyway, back to reality, Zack came down the hall towards me and turned around to walk with me when I strolled by him.

"Hey Katherine."

Katherine. God, he was trying to be so....proper these days. Somewhat makes me sickened.

But look at that smile!

I rolled my eyes. "It's Katie." I told him, smiling all the while.

"But that's short for Katherine." he replied.

I hate it when he's right.

"True. So....sup?" I asked. Zack took a deep breath and cleared his throat.

"Hey, after band practice, I was wondering...." his voice trailed off.

"Yea? You were wondering what?"

"If you would u-um, want t-to go get a milkshake w-with me later?" Zack asked, slightly stuttering. I looked down at the floor, slightly confused.

"You mean like-"

"-as a date? Yea." he finished for me. I smiled a bit, then looked up at him and grinned and nodded.

"Sure." I flipped my hair over my right shoulder. Zack smiled.

"Really? I-I mean, that's c-c-cool. I'll see you later."

"'Kay."

Zack turned and walked down the hall and I looked behind my shoulder and smiled.

Damn, he was foooine!

Just then, I saw Brad enter into New York history. Funny, I had that class next too.

WAIT, he was in my NY History class? SINCE WHEN?

I don't pay attention to the details obviously. I shook my head and entered after him. We didn't have assigned seats in NY History, so I sat down next to him for a minute.

"Hey, Blake right?" I asked, just to get him uberly annoyed. Brad jumped and looked at me.

"Brad."

"BILLY! How ya doin'?"

"My name is Brad." he replied in gritted teeth. Whoa, didn't realise he'd get mad over that.

"Sorry, just joshin' ya. So...Brad. You're going out with Summer, am I corrija?"

Brad looked at me confused.

"What does corrija mean?"

"Are you not taking Spanish II?"

Brad shook his head. "I'm taking Italian."

"My friend Gordon speaks Italian! Maybe you know him, he wears glasses and has this really cool Dell laptop that I used to sneak onto and change the wallpaper and screensaver to pictures of me just to annoy the hell out of him-"

"What were you saying about Summer?"

"Oh, yea. That." I made sure I said it in a rather depressing tone so he'd be somewhat concerned.

"What? Is something wrong with Summer?"

"Well, she wanted me to tell you that she's going in a different direction in your guys's relationship. I'm sorry, she doesn't have any attraction to you anymore."

Cricket. Cricket. Cricket.

"What do you mean no attraction? What direction is she heading?"

"One: she has no attraction to you anymore and Two: last time I checked she was heading west going to the chemistry lab...But, she doesn't want to go out with you anymore and since 2 minutes ago, I broke up with you for her." I stood up, patted him on the head and walked to a vacant seat next to Tomika.

(END KATIES POV)
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A/N: I'll respond to your reviews on Chapter 6 in a second, but, allow me to tell you this:

Those Screennames in the previous chapter AREN'T REAL! Some people may have them, but I made them up on the top of my head. For you stupid people: You can't IM Zack on iDontPlayAirGuitar, you may reach some person who's scared for your sanity, nor is Katie on PoshSpiccce, Eleni on Sk8rGirl or the random people you've never heard of on the Friends from Public Schools list. Just to inform you of that! :)

SHOUT OUTS TO MY REVIEWERS ON CHAPTER 6!!!!!

JewelKitten: Thanks for the comment on the AIM deal! Not yet....they just know they both like each other. :)

Phish Food: What happens to Brad will occur in this chapter and the next 2 chapters. Doesn't writers block suck? I have writers block on Diary of a Groupie...I don't know what's gonna happen....hmmmm. How about Summer calls Austin and confronts him. When he denies it, have Zack talk or something like that and say how he was messing with her mind with making her believe she was the only one in his life or something. That's just a suggestion. Hope it works out!

Maigian: Thank you! Humor and Romance put together is wonderful...i love that kind of stuff. A little drama here n' there is good too. :)

Chikin Wang: hehe! Preps suck (no offense to the preps reading this) sometimes. :( Good luck w/ur paper! :)