(A/N: Yet again, the line of the song doesn't really mean much and it's basically all the same lines except with one different word from all the others. So, I might happen to add my own chapter titles in from now on, I'm just using titles of songs since I usually end up putting a song into my chapters. By the way, so I don't get sued or anything, the song in the last chapter was Dear Friend by Stacie Orrico. Don't really like her, but the song suited it really well. So, I hope you all enjoy my new chapter and as before, I'll try as hard as I can to update! Thx bunches! Toodles. -Brooke)

All of This

Chapter Thirteen

Living In Your Letters

I'm always assuming the worst,

But you're going on none the less

And there's nothing to cushion your heart led fall

Another half of the year had passed and it had been just about that long since Zack had run away, and the good thing was, he hadn't done it again. Everyone was really close after that happened because they noticed that sometimes all that they have is each other, and when it comes down to that, you can't just let someone slip like that.

It was now the summer of their junior year (a/n: I think? I don't know! lol I'm Canadian! haha oh well, they just finished their first year of high school... and on with it!) and by the way things had been going, it seemed as if they were graduating that year. It had been a long, tiring, and extremely difficult year. At some points, they didn't feel like they were going to make it at all... but they now knew that they had each other, and that that wasn't going to change.

Letters from further away

Keep pulling me close to home.

And there's something to cushion my callous sighs

That was the summer that Katie had decided to go to a music camp for the whole two months of the summer. She was going to miss Freddy more than ever, but they had promised to write each other as much as they could.

Katie sat on the top of her bunk bed in her cabin as the rest of the girls that were staying with her all read magazines, listened to music, or just kind of laid there. She was leaning over her notebook with her pen in her hand, writing a letter to Freddy.

And I know that you hope for longer good-byes

Embracing for forever and falling in your eyes.

"Freddy! Get the mail!" Mrs. Jones yelled from inside the kitchen as he sat in his living room playing video games.

"But Mom! I'm almost at the top score! It's the 10th level!"

"Freddy! You're almost 16 years old! When are you ever going to stop playing those stupid video games?!"

"Never!" he shouted back, just like a little kid.

"Just go Freddy!"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm going!" he replied as his car crashed and he got a saddened look on his face.

He walked out his front door and walked up to the fancy looking mailbox and grabbed the pile of letters that had been shoved inside. He walked his way up the driveway, shuffling through the letters until he saw one that had his name on it in Katie's writing. He walked in his front door and threw the other letters on the table for his mom as he ran upstairs to read the letter.

Pouring over photographs

I'm living in your letters

July 1, 2005.

Dear Freddy,

Hey! What's goin on? Well... camp's been pretty awesome so far! I love it! I just wish that you were here... you'd love it! Well... I've made a few friends. My bunkmate Kyra is from L.A. and she's so superfantabulously fun. Don't ya love the word? Haha... so, I hope things are all good back at home. I hope the band is doing good and that they all don't miss me too much!

So we've been having music lessons and stuff, not that I really need them at all. Just put the stuff in front of me and I'll play it! Geez. So there are a lot of drummers here. Not that any of them can compare to you. lol. So today we played Let It Be by The Beatles. Kind of brought a lot back to me but I tried to hold it in. It was hard though. So, I MISS YOU! I seriously wish that you were here sooooo much! I miss you, you good ol' spaz boy! Haha... so, I'm listening to Vindicated by Dashboard Confessional... so typical of me, huh? It reminds me a lot of you, and that's probably why I listen to it soo much! Hehe... Well, I can't WAIT to get home, but I'm enjoying the stuff here. I miss you tons and I love you so incredibly much!

Love- Katie

P.S. I Katie Brown hereby promise not to fall for any boy other than the blond kid with the spiky hair that seems to spaz a lot (hence the nickname) and is an amazing drummer. (Hmm... wonder who that kid is? Haha... Love ya!)

Breathe deeply from this envelope

It smells like you and I can't be without that scent

He smiled at the letter and thanked god for the mail system. A whole summer without Katie was like a year without air. He lay down on his bed as he looked over to the picture of Katie and him as they were soaking wet from swimming. It was taken just a little while before she left at the end of June. He wanted her there with him so badly, and he just wanted to hold her in his arms.

He then decided that he'd write her back since he really had nothing else to do anyway. A summer without Katie was no summer at all.

It's filling me with all you mean to me

July 3, 2005.

Dear Katie,

Hey! Well... not much going on here at all. So incredibly boring without you here! Wow, do I ever wish I was there too. I'm so mad that my mom said that I couldn't go because I didn't clean my room one night! I mean, how crazy is that?! I'd say quite too crazy to really understand. Anyway, the band's doing great, but not exactly that great since we don't have a bass player all summer! Hmm... I wonder why? Haha... well, I HOPE that no drummer's can compare to me! lol. I'm glad that you're making friends... just stay away from that blond spiky haired drummer... he seems too good to be true. Haha, well I know it must be hard to hear the song cause every time I heard it I almost break down it takes so much outta me.

I miss you, too! You have no idea how horrible this place really is when you're not around. You know how Zack is, all too good to be true. He's really getting to love life a lot now, knowing that everything's well and that he's got nothing else to worry about. I'm really happy for him. You know what's funny? We're talkin like we haven't seen each other in FOREVER, and haha... it's been like 5 days? Ah well... I still miss you more than I can imagine! Nice, nice... Vindicated is some good stuff. Can't wait till ya get back, I miss ya more and more everyday. I got something for ya by the way. I guess you'll have to find out when you get back though! Haha... I'll c ya! I love you!

Love- Freddy

P.S. I Freddy Jones hereby promise not to fall for... Lawrence. Haha... jokes! I love you too much to even look at any other girl! (Miss you!)

Continually failing these trials

But you stand by me nonetheless

He put the letter in an envelope and labelled it with the necessary. He ran down his stairs and out the door to put it in his mailbox and then went back inside. He ran back up into his room and lay down on his bed. He stared up at the ceiling just thinking of Katie for what seemed like forever.

Did they have too much in common or what? Katie lay in her bunk once again, just staring at the ceiling thinking of Freddy. She was so mad that he wasn't allowed to come to the camp; it would've been one summer to remember. But, she had to admit, she was still having a great time.

And you won't let me sink

Though I'm beggin you, I'm beggin you

"Hey Katie, who's the beautiful boy?" Kyra asked as she lay on her bed on the bottom bunk holding a picture of Freddy that must have fallen off Katie's bed.

Katie sat up and laughed at her friend's remark. "That's Freddy," she replied.

"You've got yourself quite a looker there, my friend."

Katie smiled as she climbed down the ladder to get the picture from Kyra. "Oh, I know..." she said as she and Kyra both laughed.

Phone calls from further away

And messages on my machine,

But I don't ever tell you this distance seems terrible

"Let's see that picture!" Emily called from the other side of the cabin as she got up from her bunk and walked over to the two. She looked at the picture, "Hey Kyra, I'd have to agree!" she said as she smiled, looking happily at the picture of Freddy. By then, all the girls in the cabin were surrounding Katie and the picture.

"So where'd you guys meet?" Kyra asked as Katie climbed back up on to her bunk with the picture in her hand.

"We've been going to school together since kindergarten... we're both in a band together."

There is no need to test my heart, with useless space

These roads go on forever and so do you and I

"Awesome, what's your band called?" Kyra asked from her bunk.

"School of Rock."

"That's your band?" Emily asked.

"Yeah... why?" Katie asked.

"Everybody at my school is crazy about that band... we went to see you guys at a gig one time. It was so awesome!" she said as she smiled.

So I'll hit the pavement

It's gotta be better than waiting

And pushing you far away cause I'm scared.

"Wow... I didn't know we were known that well..." Katie said, a little bit surprised.

"You're telling me that you're going out with Freddy Jones from School of Rock?" Phoebe asked from another bunk, getting interested in the conversation.

"Yeah," she said, not really knowing that all these people really knew her band.

"You're so lucky..." she said, in a somewhat dreamily way.

Katie smirked as she looked at the picture and smiled, "Yeah... I really am."

So I'll take my chances

And head on my way up there.

Cause turning to you is like falling in love when you're ten.

(A/N: I hope you guys didn't think that it was that horrible!! Just bare with me... I've got some ideas to come. Well, I hope you all still like it... and go and press that button on the bottom of your screen and REVIEW! It would be really nice of you:D Anyway... the song is Living in Your Letters by Dashboard Confessional... yes, Dashboard Confessional again!! They're so great... so be ready to see more of their songs in my chapters! Well... I better be going, so, REVIEW. Toodles. -Brooke)