All Of This
Chapter Ten
Let It Be
(A/N: Titled for purposes of the chapter since the song "All of This" doesn't exactly have a real good chorus which would be the title of this chapter. Anyway... Enjoy! Happy reading.-Brooke)Going to school the next day was the last thing on Katie's mind. She didn't know what to do if she was to see Freddy. What would he do? Not only that... but was he still going to stay with that stupid blond haired bimbo? Or... was he going to come out of his hiding that everyone thought was just him?
Cautiously, Katie walked up the steps to Forest Green High School, wondering if Freddy was anywhere near her. She didn't really know why she was so nervous about seeing him again, it's just that... he told her he loved her. After everything that had happened between them, after everything that was said and done, he said that he still loved her? She was the one that wasn't to be trusted... but he trusted her.
"Katie!" She spun around, nervous that she might see Freddy standing behind her, but it was...
"Zack! Oh my god, you scared the hell outta me!" she said, punching him in the arm.
"Oww... it was just a joke and you know that I can't take your punches!" he said, grabbing his arm and rubbing it. She laughed.
"So, what do you want?" she said, as they walked down the halls.
"Have you seen Summer around?" he asked.
"Nope, I thought she'd be with you..." she replied casually.
"Oh, I was supposed to meet her at the corner today, but she never showed."
"That's weird. Summer not showing up? It's not everyday something miraculous like that happens," Katie said as she laughed.
"Yeah, that's what I thought."
"So have you seen Freddy around?" Katie asked him, stopping at her locker, and with a confused look on his face, Zack stopped at his since they were right beside each other.
"What about me?" Freddy said, Katie turning around almost instantly to see Freddy standing behind her.
"Uhhh... nothing," Katie replied, turning around quickly as she fiddled with things in her locker to get ready for class.
"Look, Katie-" Freddy started until he was cut off by the PA making an annoucement.
----"Could Katherine Brown please report to the office, Katherine Brown to the office."----
"That's me! Gotta go!" she said shutting her locker and rushing off with her bag over her shoulder down the halls.
Freddy had seen Katie numerous times that day, and tried to talk to her each chance he got, but she would always make up an excuse to try and get away from him and do whatever she could to avoid seeing him at all. She was finally revlieved when the end of the day had finally came. Not even as relieving as knowing that it was the weekend.
Katie walked home and walked up to her room and threw her bag on the floor.
Later that night, Katie was sitting on her bed, just strumming at her bass playing all different songs and things she had made up, when the phone rang.
"Hello?"
"Hey.. it's me, Marta," replied Marta's voice.
"What's up?" she asked as she nestled the phone between her ear and her shoulder.
"Nothing.. I was just wondering if you wanted to come over or something? We could watch movies and stuff.. like old times... we haven't done anything in a while!" she asked.
"Sure, I'll be there in a few, ok?" she replied as she put her bass down on her bed.
"Ok, I'll see you soon!" Marta said as Katie picked up her bass and put it on it's stand.
"Okay.. bye!" she said as she smiled.
"Bye," she replied as they both hung up the phone.
Katie ran around her room grabbing things that she didn't actually think she was going to use when she got there, but wanted to bring anyways. Just stuff like her notebook, songbook and music that she had gotten for new songs. She grabbed her jacket and pulled her bag over her shoulder and just as she was about to walk out the front door, the phone rang. She put her bag down and ran to pick it up in her kitchen.
"Hello?" she said.
"Hi, Katie?" a woman asked. It was Summer's mom.
"Mrs. Hathaway?" she asked, confused at why she was calling.
"Yes.. Katie..." she said, between heaps of air. It was as if she was crying.
"What's wrong? Is Summer alright?" she asked, concerned since it seemed like something was very wrong.
"No.. she's not," she replied. Katie felt a huge lump grow in her throat. She couldn't speak. She had a feeling this was going to be bad. "Summer..." he mother tried to speak. "Summer got into a car accident."
Katie felt like her whole world was beginning to fall down before her eyes. "What?!" she asked.
"Her brother and her were out late last night and he was driving.. and a drunk driver came and hit the side of the car... Summer's side. Matt's alright.. but Summer's not good at all.. I think she would want you to be down here at the hospital... please come," she said as she hung up. Katie could feel the wet, cold tears falling down her cheeks. She leaned up against the wall and just slid down until she slumped on to the floor. She felt like she just got every bit of energy she had in her body taken from her.
The only thing that she could think to do was... well she didn't know what to do, she just ran out of her house to the only place she felt like going. The only place she knew where there would be some sort of comfort for her... probably the only comfort she could feel at that time. She ran down the street as fast as she could.
She slammed as hard as she could on the door to try and get someone to come as fast as they could. He opened his front door to see a slumped over Katie on his front porch, trying to wipe the tears that were so obvious away. She ran to Freddy.
"Katie?" he asked. "What happened?" All she could do was run into his arms and feel the only warmth and comfort she could at that moment. "Kay?" he asked as he rubbed her head and her back and tried to comfort her as much as he possibly could. "What happened? What's wrong?" he asked, now looking at her teary eyes, wiping one away himself.
"It's Summer.." she said between huge breaths. "She's in the hospital.. she was in a car accident," she said as Freddy started to feel every bit of pain that she was feeling too. He embraced her in a bug hug as she held on to him as tight as she had ever tried to hold on before. She never wanted to let go.
"C'mon... I'll get my mom to take us..." he said as he called her down and explained to her and they all got into the car and drove to the hospital.
Sitting in the car, Katie leaned in on Freddy as her head rested on his shoulder and she cried uncontrollable tears and he tried to comfort her by rubbing her shoulder.
In that moment, Katie felt like she had jusy got everything in the world, and nothing at the same time. The one person that she had loved all along, was with her and he was everything to her, and... she was everything to him. And, at the same time, she was almost about to lose the one person who, no matter what, had never failed to be there for her every moment of her life she needed her. Summer was like the one person in the world who seemed to truly understand Katie for who she really was, and when she hurt, Summer felt every bit of pain, because in some ways, they would say that they were connected.
Just like she connected with Freddy, because when she didn't have the strength to be tough enough, he was tough for her.
Little did they know, or so they may have figured, what lied ahead at the hospital was the last thing that Katie had had on her mind for happening that night.
September 14th. A rainy day. Typical kind of a day when there's funeral. Katie looked out the church window and watched as the rain poured. Summer had died that night in the car accident. As a matter of fact, she was already gone when her mom had called Katie that night. The paramedics said that, she died instantly. Not the kind of way that such a strong peron such as Summer would leave the world. For Summer, never instantly. It had been 4 days since that night... the night that Katie would had engraved in her mind... forever.
Everyone was there. Every friend that Summer had ever made in her life, which happened to be a lot for such a cheery and upbeat person like Summer. The band was there. The teachers from Horace Green and Forest Green were there- the only teachers who ever got the great priviledge to teach such an amazing student, as 'perfect' as she was. Her parents, Katie's parents, Freddy's parents, Zack's parents... everyone's parents.
"We are gathered here today.." such a typical beginning to a funeral. Why did everything have to be so typical? Summer wasn't a typical person... if you ever got the luckiest chance to meet her, you would know that she's not like the typical person. She was just... Summer. Not one way to describe it. You'd have to know her.
Black. The only colour that you could see on every person, since it was a funeral. There Katie stood, with her parents on her left, and Freddy on her right, arm held tightly around her as she leaned on his shoulder, sniffing her life away.
"And now, Katie Brown.. would you like to come say a few words?" the minister asked as Katie nodded. She walked slowly up to the podium stand, which was next to the casket. She stood there, looking out at the wet crowd of all the amazing people that had the amazing priviledge to know Summer. It was unbelievable the crowd she pulled in.
"September April 23rd," Katie said quietly. "I'll never forget that day." She paused. "Summer walked up to that great Mr. Dewey Finn during a band practice and told him that she had been practicing her singing over the summer. The second that she started belting out a song that I have never even heard of and managed to put a smile on every person's face that was in the room... if that look of pure life, love and enjoyment on her face wasn't enough to lift you to a higher place.. then I don't know what is." Katie took a breath. "Summer blew us away with her amazing power to sing... and if you can believe it, she blew Tomika away.. and that's a pretty hard thing to do!" Everyone laughed as Tomika smiled in the crowd. "Though, she didn't want to take the place of Alicia in the band when she had to move, seeing that for some reason, she felt guilty about it and decided to get a new person for the job." Katie thought of Amber and what she had done... but in no way could she put the blame on Summer.
"Not only her amazing power to sing, but the amazing songs that she would write and sing to us all the time. While being in a rock band, it's nice to have some change from the hard core rock songs all the time.. but don't get us wrong... we love our rock! But Summer gave us something... different for once. Summer did that for us with her ability to write music that... meant something to anyone who heard it. For anyone who never knew Summer... well, you truly missed out on someone so unbelievable. As much as she tried to teach me, I never really got anywhere with my singing. But, it meant a lot to her when I would sing for her, seeing that I usually never would, so Summer..." Katie paused and looked at the casket, "... this one's for you."
Everyone got an interested look on their faces when they found out that Katie was going to sing for everyone. She had never sung for anyone in her life before, except for Summer (and Lawrence who was playing the piano and keyboards for her), and she had never been anywhere near as nervous as she was there.
She then walked back to pick up her bass from the stand that was beside another electric guitar and near a drumset that was in the back, and put it over her shoulder as Lawrence took his seat at the piano with the keyboard next to it, and she walked up to the mic.
"When I find myself in times of trouble
mother mary comes to me
speaking words of wisdom, let it be
and in my hour of darkness
she is standing right in front of me
speaking words of wisdom, let it be
let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be"
Once Lawrence began to play the familiar tune, Freddy then decided to get up and take a shot at playing the drums for the song, for Summer.
"But when the broken hearted people
living in the world agree
there will be an answer, let it be
but though they may be parted
there is still a chance that they will see
there will be an answer, let it be
let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
yeah there will be an answer, let it be"
Then, Zack noticed as well just as Freddy took his seat, that he would play the guitar for the song since it was coming up... just for Summer.
"Let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be"
Then, Zack took his solo. Picking up every ounce of hurt and pain that he felt inside of his body and putting it into that one piece. Taking out everything on his guitar, a few tears started falling from his eyes.
"Let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be
and when the night is cloudy
there is still a light that shines on me
shine until tomorrow, let it be
I wake up to the sound of music
mother mary comes to me
speaking words of wisdom, let it be
let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
there will be an answer, let it be
let it be, let it be, let it be, yeah, let it be
there will be an answer, let it be
let it be, let it be, let it be, let it be
whisper words of wisdom, let it be"
Katie, Freddy, Zack and Lawrence all silently looked over at the casket that had hundreds of flowers on top of it and they just let all the tears fall. As she finished, millions of tears tried to find their way out. She couldn't believe, they all couldn't believe that it had really happened. Summer was gone... and she was never coming back.
(A/N: I know! Why Summer? I don't really know.. but I had that chapter written a long time ago so I decided to put it in with a bit of revised stuff to fit it in with the previous chapters. Anyways.. I hope you all liked it! Review Review Review!!!! And by the way, that song is Let It Be by The Beatles if you didn't already guess that one. Also, I don't own that song blah blah blah... I disclaim it obviously, otherwise I'd be a Beatle... and any other bands, movies or songs or anything that I mention in this story. If I did, I'd be out spending all my money on awesome clothes and writing from some really expensive laptop and not a huge bulky computer. Anyways, Review! Toodles. -Brooke)