Chapter 2
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As soon as Katie got home, she sat down at her computer and logged on to her Yahoo Instant Messenger to see if anyone was online.
My Girls
Summergurl12
GossipGirlA
PartayWithTomika1
IM2sexy4uM
ME
poshspiice16
Well duh, I'm on. Katie said to herself.
Ex Band Members
MrFancyPants1
PianoManL34
Gordon 75
SpazzyMcGee17
ZackAttack1
2Cute4UEleni
StickItToTheManFrankie17
HiImMarco17
ChelleBelle16
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Katie double clicked on Zack's screen name.
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poshspiice16: hey...what's up?
ZackAttack1: hey Katie, what do u need?
poshspiice16: do u think SOR can get back 2gether?
ZackAttack1: School of Rock?
poshspiice16: yeah...do u?
ZackAttack1: highly doubtable K...y?
poshspiice16: I dunno, it just seemed like we had a chance, everybody is talking again.
ZackAttack1: well, yeah, but not with everyone, just bits and pieces. Like Alicia and Tomika, you, Summer, and Marta, Freddy, Frankie and me, Billy, Gordon, and Marco, Eleni and Michelle...but that's it. And none of us are talking to each other, just our own little groups.
poshspiice16: so that's a no go on the band?
ZackAttack1: safe to say, yeah.
poshspiice16: alright, well I better get started on my English assignment, see u at school.
ZackAttack1: k, see u. bye Katie.
poshspiice16: bye.
Katie logged off her computer and leaned her head back on her computer chair.
Getting School of Rock back together was going to be harder than she thought.
She walked over to her bass guitar and started strumming even though it was only supposed to be one chord at a time.
She looked at a picture that still sat on her nightstand, it was in a black frame with silver guitars around it, the picture was of her and Freddy at the War of the Bands sitting on a couch backstage after they had preformed their encore presentation.
She smiled at the picture and began strumming out music.
"We need our band, we need it back," she sang slowly, "we need our time, we need the new track. We need the music, we need the life, and we need to sing our song tonight. We need our band, we need it back," she continued to sing and then made her bass full on rock out, she jumped up off of her chair and began to jump around her bedroom, "Without the music, without the life, we have no song to sing tonight. Tonight we need the music, tonight we need the life. Tonight we need you, tonight you gotta do. We need the music, we need the life, we need to sing our song tonight and everything will be alright. We need our music, we need our life, we need this song, and we need it tonight. Music is the key, music is the life, music is the fuel we need, to be, alright," she sang out and then stopped. She sat down her bass and then ran to her music composition notebook and began to write down the lyrics and the music.
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The next day at school, Katie arrived earlier than most students, most were still at home or on their way.
School started at eight and it was only 7:32, the doors had just opened two minutes earlier.
She walked to her locker and twirled in the combination and opened up her locker and put her backpack and guitar case inside, she reached in to pull out her notebook to think of more song ideas, but then stopped.
She heard the thumping of drums coming from the music room.
She walked down the hallway to the music room and peaked in through a window only to see Freddy Jones thumping on a drum set with head phones on.
Katie stepped inside and looked around the room, closing the door slowly and quietly.
She closed her eyes and immediately imagined the whole band standing around their fifth grade classroom with their instruments and the guys with their laptops all working hard, the music flowed through her mind.
"Oh, hey Katie," Freddy said, interrupting her thoughts.
Katie's eyes popped open.
"What are you doing here this early?" Freddy asked, removing his headphones.
"Um, I'm not sure. I couldn't really sleep last night so I was up by six and I just decided I'd get here early. What about you?"
Freddy looked down at his drum set and then back at Katie, "I'm always here this early."
"Why?"
"Practicing drums,"
Katie nodded and then an idea popped into her head, "I'll be right back," she said and ran out of the room and twirled her combination into her locker and pulled out her bass guitar which she had brought to school so she could practice after school. She ran back to the room and the closed the door behind her.
"Back," she sighed.
Freddy nodded, "Yeah, kinda obvious,"
Katie laughed and then looked at Freddy, "Do you think School of Rock has chance of getting back together?"
Freddy tapped his drumsticks on his drums for a minute and then looked back at Katie with a grin, "Hell yeah,"
"Well you're the only one besides me who seems to think so, I asked Summer and Alicia and Tomika and Zack and they all said no,"
"They're afraid of practicing, they're wimps." Freddy said, "I've been practicing my drums every day since School of Rock broke up, I want the band back together. I've asked Zack and Frankie before but they've both said no, so has Marta,"
"I thought you hated Marta?"
"We're kinda dating, and have been since last year...you didn't know?"
Probably not, Katie thought. She had spent so much time with Summer she would be lucky if she even know if she had a boyfriend, which she didn't.
"Nope, but congrats,"
"We're not married or anything," Freddy said with a laugh.
Katie laughed too, "So how are we supposed to get the band back together?"
"I'm not sure, we need to brainstorm," Freddy said.
To Freddy and Katie, brainstorming meant rocking out on their instruments.
So that's what they did.