All Of This
Chapter Six
Again I Wait For This To Change Instead
Two months later, Freddy walked up the steps of the apartment building to get to Dewey's for band practice. As usual, he was the last one there. Just like he was the last one there for anything. He was always just... late.
When he got in the door he was greeted by a soft kiss on the lips from Katie.
"Hey.." she said.
"Hey," he replied as he kissed her again.
"Alright, alright... enough with the sappiness... let's get rockin'!" Dewey said as he pushed Katie and Freddy over to their instruments as they got ready to play.
After a while a playing, Dewey decided to end practice that night. "Alright dudes, that was some rockin' practice but it's time for you cats to go home."
"Umm... Dewey," Alicia pulled Dewey over. "I have to tell them now.. we're leaving in 6 days, I can't leave it any longer.." she said as before anyone could get out the door, Dewey spoke up.
"Hey guys! Wait!" he said as they all turned around and focused their attention on Alicia. "Alicia... otherwise known as Braceface- who by the way is now free of braces- has something to tell you all.." he said as he gestured for her to speak and she laughed a bit at what Dewey said.
"Umm..." she couldn't get it out. "Well.." she knew what she wanted to say, but she just couldn't. She could feel the tears starting to well up in her eyes. "After 3 great years of rockin' out with you all... I have to leave the band.." she said as everyone's jaws dropped.
"What? Why?! Where are you going?" Summer asked out of the crowd of kids.
"My families moving to San Francisco. My grandma lives there.. and she's really sick so we're going to go live with her. My parents have already found work there, so.. I'm moving."
"When?" Marta asked.
"... in 6 days," she replied as everyone's mouths opened even more.
"You mean to tell us that you're moving to San Francisco and you felt that 6 days before you leave was the right time to bring us the news?" Tomika bursted.
"It was hard.. I didn't know when the right time was..." she said as she started to cry even more now.
"It's alright Alicia... it's just.. we're gonna miss you, I mean, who's gonna sing back up now with Marta and Tomika?" Michelle asked as she walked up to Alicia and gave her a hug, as everyone seemed to follow.
"I guess you'll just have to find a new one.." Alicia replied as she wiped her wet cheek.
"Just know then Alicia... no one can ever replace you," Marta said as she gave her a hug.
"Yeah... you'll always be our one and only braceface that doesn't have braces..." Eleni said as Alicia smiled.
Three days later, the band decided to have a going away party for Alicia at Katie's house. Like, a last get together that the band would have with her. A bunch of them were in the pool, laying beside it getting some sun, or playing volleyball with the net that was set up. The only two that weren't outside were Katie and Freddy who were inside.
Freddy walked across Katie's room to turn on her stereo and put in her new AC/DC cd. Then, he sat down on her bed where Katie was laying on her back with her head on her pillow reading a magazine. Since her bed was against a wall, he leaned up against the wall and flopped her legs on top of his stomach.
"So, are you gonna miss Alicia or what?" Katie asked Freddy as he smiled.
"Yeah, she always had something funny or cursive to say.. she was cool," he replied as Katie laughed.
"Yeah... I'm just kinda wondering who were gonna get to sing back-up now?" she said as she put her magazine on her nighttable and sat up as she leaned over and rested her head on Freddy's chest.
"I don't know..." he said as he started stroking his fingers through her hair and she closed her eyes.
"I'm tired..." she said as she made herself comfortable beside Freddy, keeping her head on him.
"Just go to sleep..." he said, continuing to stroke her hair as she drifted off.
A couple of hours later, Katie woke up to see Freddy laying there beside her... asleep. 'Aww..' she said in her head. He looked so cute when he was sleeping. When Katie looked over at her clock, she noticed that it was time for everyone to have something to eat.
"Freddy... wake up!" she said as she shook him back and forth, feeling bad for waking him up. Slowly, he opened his eyes to see Katie in front of him smiling at him. "Hey Jones... you were out there pretty good.." he laughed as she smiled and kissed him. "C'mon.. we gotta go feed everyone!" she said as he slowly got off the bed and she walked with him downstairs where everyone was still hanging around outside.
Katie walked through the sliding glass door with Freddy coming slowly behind her. "Hey everyone! Cake inside!" she called out as everyone came running inside.
Everyone came to the table where Katie's mom had set up paper plates for everyone and cut up all the cake for each of them. Everyone took a plate and returned outside.
Katie, Freddy, Summer, Zack, Gordon and Marta were all sitting together at the patio table beside the pool eating their cake. Everyone got huge pieces because they got a huge cake.
"Hey Freddy..." Freddy turned his head around to look over to Katie beside him and before he knew it, a huge piece of cake was shoved in his face. Katie sat there laughing as Freddy stuck his finger on his face and licked the cake off of it.
"Hmm.. not bad," he said as before Katie knew it, he had shoved a piece of cake in her face.
"You did not just do that Jones!" she shouted as she stood up before it fell on lap.
"Oh... I think I just did..." he said as all of sudden, Summer shoved some cake into Zack's face... and he returned the favour by doing the same back to her. Naturally, Marta being the one sitting beside Gordon, she just had to give into the urge to do the same to him and him, naturally coming back at her with one in her face.
Turns out, they spent an hour throwing food at each other until... there was no more food left.
The rest of the night, they spent having a campfire and roasting marshmallows, playing hide-and-go-seek in the dark and scaring the crap out of eachother and just having a great time enjoying one another. That was the kinda thing that Alicia loved about the band.. everyone always have fun together no matter what. It was all just... fun.
Finally, the day came that Alicia was leaving for San Francisco. The band all gathered together at the airport and said their goodbyes. Everyone got a little teary eyed, but it was only natural. As Alicia walked out of the terminal, everyone stood behind her, hands waving. Freddy stood with his arm around Katie as she leaned in with her head on his shoulder and waved to Alicia. Summer stood with her arm around Zack's neck and he had his arms around her waist as they both waved with one arm. The band stood behind her just waving, and she could just tell by their faces that as much as they were slightly smiling, they were torn inside. Those just weren't their real smiles.
The next band practice was held 4 days after that day. Katie and Freddy walked up the stairs together to Dewey's appartment, not exactly expecting anything that was ahead of them.
Freddy opened the door, Katie behind him, to a girl with long, wavy blonde hair, blue eyes, overly tanned skin, a little mini skirt on with a little tiny t-shirt, showing off her gigantic belly button ring. One of the ugliest things Katie thought she had ever seen. As the door opened from Freddy and Katie, the girl had turned around and given one huge flirtatious smile towards Freddy.
"Hi," she said as she gave a little wave to him. Freddy just seemed to stand there.
"Hi.." he managed to get out.
Almost feeling as if Amber would be the one person that was now in this band that would walk all over her, she needed to move in. "Hi," Katie walked in front of Freddy and gave her a weak smile. "I'm Katie," she said. "The bass player."
"Amber... new back-up singer." The girl replied as if not to care one bit about Katie as she pushed her out of the way and managed her way over to Freddy who seemed to be fighting looking at her at all. "And who are you?" she asked in somewhat of a seductive way.
"Freddy..." he said, again trying to not pay any bit of attention towards her. "And may I introduce to you my girlfriend, Katie..." Freddy said as he quickly made his way over towards Katie and put his arm around her. Katie stood there contently, Freddy's arm around her shoulder with not exactly a huge smile on her face.
"Whatever..." she said as she walked away from them and sat down on the couch and started reading a magazine and twirling her hair around her finger as she did so.
"What's up with you?!" Katie asked as she threw Freddy's arm off of her shoulder. "Drooling over the new girl already?" she asked.
"What are you talking about? I walked right over here and told her right away that you were my girlfriend! I wasn't drooling over her! Why do you just assume that I would just go ahead and flirt with her just cause she's the new girl?!" he asked as he kind of started to raise his voice.
"Why?! Because look at her! She's all over you..." she replied as she walked away and Freddy ran up to her and grabbed her shoulder to turn her around.
"Katie... you know that there is no one that I care about more than you, and there never will be. You are everything to me and I never want to lose you... especially to someone like her. I could never like her just because... she's not you," he said as Katie stood there almost in somewhat of disbelief that Freddy Jones had just said that to her.
She gave in, "It's alright Freddy... I guess it's her I should be worrying about trying to make all the moves... not you," she said as he kissed her softly on the lips.
She smiled as Freddy smiled back at her. "Okay!" They heard Dewey say above everyone's voices. "Now that World War 3 is over, let's get musical fusioning!" he said as he clapped his hands and everyone went to their positions.
The entire practice, Amber wouldn't stop staring at Freddy... and non-stop, he just kept staring back at her just wondering what was going through her mind. Let's just say, Freddy thought that she was kinda weird. Katie noticed it all going on the entire time. The entire time she noticed that they couldn't keep their eyes off of each other. 'Who is she to keep doing this to my boyfriend?' she thought. It wasn't like Katie to normally get so protective like this but, it was.. Freddy. Freddy meant more than anything to her... he was the world to her.
When practice ended, Freddy walked Katie home together as usual since they only lived down the street from each other. Katie tried to just shrug it off because she knew that she could trust Freddy. She just tried to let it go.
"So, what did you wanna do tonight?" Katie asked as Freddy stood on her doorstep.
"It doesn't matter... what did you have in mind?" he asked her, as he leaned up against her porch railing.
"I don't know... just felt kinda like hanging out or something,"
"Wanna come over to my house? Watch a movie or somethin'?" he asked.
"Sure.. I just gotta get some food. I'm starved. Fifteen minutes and I'll be over, k?" she asked.
He smiled. "Sure, see ya," he said as he kissed her quickly on the cheek and walked down the steps to start walking home. He got about 2 feet down the sidewalk until he saw someone vaguely familiar walking just down the sidewalk just across the street.
"Amber?" he thought loudly out loud.
She turned her head around, and Freddy could see that all her make-up was smudged and that she was crying. He walked across the street to her, hands in pockets wondering what she was crying about. She stopped when he walked up to her. "What's wrong?".
She just looked down at her feet, trying to avoid showing him her messed up make-up. "No one wants me here. I mean, no one actually had a conversation with me or talked to me at band practice, not even Marta or Tomika. It's obvious that Katie doesn't like me already and that's about it for the girls of the band. I mean, Summer was the one who found me but she just seems too wrapped up in Zach to talk to me... and I'm just kinda centred out and I feel like I don't belong..."
Freddy tried to think quickly about what to say. Just thinking about how mean she was to Katie, he didn't want to be mean to her, but he didn't want to be the nicest person in the world. "I know since you're new and all it's probably hard to feel like you fit in right away but you've gotta think about what you've done or said to possibly make people not like you in the band. I mean, the way you were treating Katie wasn't exactly the coolest thing to do to get someone to like you,"
"I know... I'm sorry for the way that I was acting towards her, it was wrong and I never should have been like that. It's just... hard," she said as they started walking together. Then, Amber stopped them from walking and look up at Freddy. She looked behind him at Katie's house and noticed that she was just closing her door. "Freddy... the reason that I was like that was because..."
Just Before That
Inside, Katie put on her flip flops quickly and ran through her main hallway as quick as she could to get to Freddy's. "Bye Mom! I'm going to Freddy's!" she shouted as she heard her Mom reply something that she couldn't hear. She raced out the door quickly, shutting it behind her and she turned around just in time to see Freddy walking with...
"It's because..." then, she did it. Amber kissed Freddy. Just the right time for her plan to work. The thing was, Katie didn't stay on her front step long enough to see Freddy push her off of him. Katie ran in through her front door and straight up to her room where she threw herself on top of her bed as the tears instantly poured from her dark brown eyes.
"What are you doing?" Freddy asked her, wiping his lips off in disgust.
"Freddy... you're hott... and I could tell just by the way that you were staring at me all practice today that you have a very strong attraction to me..." she said, kind of licking her lips after kissing Freddy in what he thought was somewhat of a revolting way.
"Are you outta your mind? I DON'T LIKE YOU! The entire time I was staring at you today, I was wondering what the hell is going through that girls mind to make her think that I would have any interest in her? You know that I'm with Katie, Amber, and no matter what you try to do to me or what you say to me will never change that. I love her," he said as he walked off and continued on to get to his house... not even noticing what he had just said. 'You just said that you loved her, Freddy' he thought to himself. 'Do you really love Katie Brown?' he asked himself. "I love Katie Brown," muttered to himself confidently under his breath as he smiled and went on home to wait for Katie.
Little did he know, Katie wasn't coming over that night. And, 10 minutes later when Freddy called, she decided that she wasn't going to talk to him either.
After filling all her pillows on her bed with tears, Katie rolled over on to her back as she lay there on her bed just staring at the ceiling. "I can't believe I loved him..." she said out loud. 'You loved him?' she asked herself inside. She lay there for a while, tears finally calmed, until one more fell down her pale cheek. "I loved him..." she said to herself as she leaned over and looked out her window across her room as the what used to be clear blue sky, filled with dark grey clouds and rain began to fall.
As every bit of strength had been taken from her body, she finally built up the strength to stand up and walk downstairs, as much as she didn't want to leave her room. She walked out her front door and just walked out into the rain careless as she had all her clothes on and just stood out there and just let the rain fall on her as she continued to cry her tears.
Wondering so much about where Katie was and why she wasn't answering her phone, Freddy decided to go to her house and try to talk to her about what was going on. He walked out of his house, not caring about getting wet at all and walked down the sidewalk to see a small, slender figure standing down the street ahead of him.
"Katie?" he said, as he gradually got closer to her.
"What do you want?!" she shouted at him, now that he was near and she started to walk away.
"Why didn't you come over? And why weren't you answering my calls? What's up?" he asked her, as he followed her quick pace and she just seemed to keep going down the sidewalk.
"What's up?" she said, loudly through the rain. "What's up?!" she bolted around at him. "I saw you kissing her Freddy! I saw you kissing Amber down the street! I guess it must not take you long to move on to someone new since you've only known her for a day!" she said, tears falling down her face continuously, but only noticable since her eyes were puffy and red from before and he could tell from her voice. "You just must not care that much! Is that it? You know, I can't believe that I even remotely once thought that you were it. It didn't get better than Freddy Jones. But- of course, I was very wrong. You're nothing but the girl playing, self centred jerk that everyone thinks you are!" she said as she paused and he just looked at her like he was about to say something. But she did before him, more quietly this time, "I can't believe I ever thought that I loved you..." she said as she just looked at him deep in the eye, as she continued to cry and then just walked around him.
But not before he caught her arm and turned her around, "If you even knew me like I thought you did you would know to trust me, and you obviously don't since I wasn't the one who started the kissing you saw!" he paused as she looked at him. "She kissed me! She came on to me and kissed me and you obviously didn't even see it long enough to see me push her off of me! I was going to tell you about it when you came over tonight!" he began to talk more quietly. "But you obviously don't even know me well enough to know that I'm not the girl playing, self centred jerk that everyone thinks I am and that I would never once in my life think of betraying you or cheating on you... especially with someone like Amber. Katie, you were the one person in my life that I thought I could trust more than anyone and that I thought that I could count on above anyone else..." he paused and looked at her, to see all the tears that were falling down her face, as well as the hundreds of drops of rain falling all around them both. "And only if you would've stood there for 15 more seconds to hear me tell Amber that no matter what I would never like her and that I loved you..." he said as he turned around and walked home, leaving Katie with nothing to say but just to stand in the rain as the further he got away, the smaller he became until he was gone... and everything that they had, was gone with him.
(A/N: Well I hope you all liked it! It was the big 'stuff' chapter. Well, that's the only word that I could come up with for this chapter. But anyways.. I hope it wasn't too 'fluffy' in any way with everything that Freddy was saying to Katie.. but if it was, I'm deeply sorry and I'm glad you bared with it to be reading what I'm writing now and accepting my appology... THX! I think I know what I'm gonna do with the rest and I'm not sure if this is going to be an extremely long story.. possibly only 15 chapters or so.. but I could possibly start a sequel after it.. just depending on how I end the story and if I can even think of anything that I could possibly put into a new story. But REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW and tell me what you thought or what you think I should do in the upcoming chapters! Thx a bunch! BrOoKe)