CH 5 - Natalie
"No! You can't have him!" Katie screamed, tears pouring down her face, "Give him back!"
"Huh?" Freddy slowly opened his eyes and found Katie beside him squirming and fidgeting. She was crying and she kept screaming, 'No, not him! Anyone but him!' Freddy soon realized she was having a nightmare. Freddy shook her and said, "Katie! Katie wake up!"
Katie stopped moving and opened her eyes, "Don't let them take daddy away Freddy!" She started sobbing some more.
Freddy felt his heart break all over again. When she was sad, he was sad, remember? Freddy once again cuddled her shivering body closer and whispered sweet things in her ear, "It's okay. Shh...no one's here. Just me. Just you and me. It's okay. I'm here. I'll always be here."
And that's how they went back to sleep at 4 AM in the morning.
"Aww…they look so cute together!" a familiar female voice squealed. Freddy slowly opened his eyes only to be greeted by the morning light. In front of him was the whole School of Rock band and crew.
"That's right! You two just look SOOO cute together!" Zack said in a mock feminine voice pinching Freddy's cheeks. Freddy growled and Zack backed off, "Morning to you too!"
"What are you guys doing here? How did you get in?" Freddy sat up, but then felt something pull him back down again. He looked beside him and saw Katie still sound asleep, her arms wrapped around him and her face buried in his neck. Freddy looked up at everyone smiling down at him – he felt his face warm up. Freddy gently unwrapped her arms and stood up tucking Katie back in.
"Your rents let us in. We just came to support Katie you know," Dewey said in a sad tone but suddenly started to grin, "But I see you have that department down." Freddy took a small pillow from the lounge chair and playfully smacked Dewey.
"And I have a girlfriend you know so it's not like that," Freddy said defensively.
"Dude, I was just teasing," Dewey said, "But seriously how's she doing?" Everyone else stared at Freddy.
Freddy sighed and shook his head, "Not so good. In the middle of the night, she woke me up because she was screaming and crying, but I don't think she knew it cause I think she was having bad dreams about Mike."
Suddenly a small noise came from the couch. Katie stirred slowly and when her vision became clear she saw the whole School of Rock band and crew and she smiled. A real one, too. My friends, she thought, Always there for me.
Summer sat beside her and once again acted like a mother by tucking a stray piece of hair from Katie's face, "How you doing?"
Katie sighed and rubbed her eyes, "I'm okay. I guess."
"Well, we just came by to drop off this card," Alicia said handing her one. It wasn't your ordinary Get Well Soon type of card – more like a card that said 'We're Always Here For You No Matter What'.
Katie sighed and laughed at some of the things that they had written, but then she sighed and her mood swiftly changed because she remembered why they had written it. Dewey, being the sensible one spoke, "Well, we better get going. And I understand if you don't wanna come to band practice for a while. It's perfectly fine."
"Thanks Dewey," Katie got up and hugged him. Dewey was surprised but soon hugged her back. His eyes were a little watery, "I better go before I start crying like a baby."
"Here," Summer handed Katie a brown leather book that was filled with blank pages and a fancy fountain pen, "It's a journal. I figure your in your new life and you might want to write some things down when you can't talk to us."
"Thanks Summer," Katie said and gave her a hug.
Then Dewey turned to Freddy, "As for you, I expect you to be there at practice every day." Then Dewey leant in to whisper, "Take care of her."
"Yes sir," Freddy gave him a mock salute and showed them the way out. When he returned, Katie was reading the card again and she was in a position where she was hugging her knees that only meant one thing: Katie was going to burst into tears again.
By now, Freddy knew her and her body language. When she would look at you for a long time, without smiling or frowning, it meant that she had bad news and when she would stare at you but smile; it meant that she had good news. And just how he knew that, he also knew that she was about to cry. Freddy didn't know why or how he knew this, but he just did.
And just like he predicted, Katie bent her head down and started crying. Freddy rushed to her and once again comforted her.
"I'm sorry Freddy. I'm sorry for being such a bother," Katie sniffed wiping her eyes.
"It's no problem. I love having you here. It's better then you moving somewhere else where you can't be with us," Freddy reassured her and gave her a hug.
Katie wanted to cry some more but she couldn't stand being seen like this; weak and insufferable. She wanted to be known as tough so she held her tears back.
"Hey kids," Sarah stepped in and noticed something was wrong, "Katie, dear? You all right?"
"I'm fine Sarah. I'm just gonna go…freshen up," Katie said and ran upstairs.
Sarah sighed and turned to her son, "I'm so worried about her."
"Same here Mom. But she's strong. Not as strong as me, but she's still strong," Freddy mockingly bragged.
"Yeah but your definitely strong as your mother. Seeing as how I figured out this whole secret girlfriend thing. I don't get why you didn't just tell us. It's not like you haven't had any girlfriends before."
"Are you mad about that?"
"No, I just wish you'd trust us more. I can't wait to meet her," Freddy's mom said mixing some pancake batter for breakfast.
"Well if you let me go on a date with her tonight, she can come tomorrow night for dinner."
"Ok. Yeah, you're right. Give some time to explain why Katie's staying here," his mother nodded, "Remember curfew is at 11."
"What are you all dressed up for?" Katie asked as Freddy stood in front of a mirror fixing his spikes.
"Got a date tonight," Freddy said, "I hope you don't mind."
"Why would I mind? Just cause I live with you doesn't mean you have to be with me 24/7. Have fun," Katie said retreating back to her room and she shut the door.
Freddy looked in that direction and somehow he felt like he shouldn't have said that. Oh no you don't, Freddy told his heart, we are not falling for her. No damn way.
Katie sighed and silently yelled at herself. She could've sworn she had sounded jealous when she had said 'Have fun' a bit sarcastically. She was sitting on her bed and eyed the brown, leather book on the drawer. She grabbed it along the pen that Summer had gotten for her. She opened up the book to the first blank page. The journal felt like she was some distant traveler with it's leather bindings and it's ancient, crisp, pages.
"What to write?" Katie asked aloud hitting her head with her pen to come up with ideas. Then as if someone lit a light bulb in her head, she started scribbling some things.
Thursday, July 15, 2004
I'm not going to say 'Dear Journal' or anything like that because that's just plain cheesy, but I guess I'll still write in here. I mean I do have emotions that need to be 'expressed'.
Well the current situation is that my dad...
Katie paused. How do you write that down? My dad is dead. My dad has been murdered. It's so easy to accept, but to write it down…is a whole different story. It's as if she wrote it down, it would become official.
My dad…my dad passed away because of two idiots who broke in our house and just had to steal the guns my dad made. Why did my dad have to be in the weaponry business? Why couldn't he be something normal like Johnathan? A mechanic. Or a realtor like Sarah. Why'd he have to be a gun guy?
Well because of that, I am now living in Freddy Jone's house. Freddy is one of my good friends that I have always loved and I think I've known him ever since I was born. You see, my mom and dad were his mom and dad's best friends so it's only natural that he is one of mine. But lately, I feel…something different towards him. I don't want to call it a crush cause I don't want to have a crush on him – again. Having a crush on him before and not living with him was hard enough, but having a crush on him and living with him…that's something that's near impossible to get rid of. I hope it doesn't turn into anything too serious. I don't wanna mess up what we have. And I don't wanna move on.
Sometimes I wish I could just turn back time. Then I could've prevented the whole thing from happening! Then my dad wouldn't be dead, and I wouldn't be living with Freddy and feeling these things that I feel!! But I guess the only thing I can do is just deal with it. That's right…DEAL WITH IT.
Katie dropped her pen and started crying. Writing about it was much harder then she thought but then she decided that maybe Summer had a good thing going on here. If Katie wrote in it every day, the fact that this whole escapade happened would be easier to understand and she could live life much easier.
Freddy was sitting at Starbucks café with his girlfriend, Natalie Thomas, opposite him. Natalie was indeed a pretty girl. She had light brown, permed hair that went up to her elbows and she had a figure that would make guys whistle at her as she walked by. Her skin was creamy white and her eyes were an emerald green. Natalie was a nice girl – she was one of the more girly girls at Freddy and Katie's school, but not to mention she was extremely popular because of her looks. Just like Freddy was with his looks. The majority of the school looked at them as the perfect couple. Most wanted guy and most wanted girl together.
But people – such as School Of Rock – had disagreed saying that Freddy had a much more compatible match. When Freddy would ask, "Who?" his fellow band members wouldn't tell him or they would lie and say, "I don't know but I just know it's not her or any of your past girlfriends."
And that frustrated Freddy. It was as if they all knew something that he didn't. And he didn't like it when his family and friends knew something that he didn't.
"Freddy? Is there something wrong?" she looked deep into his eyes as if she'd find the answer there, "You don't look like your having much fun."
"No I am. Trust me. It's just my parents want to have you over for dinner tomorrow night," Freddy squeezed her hand.
"You were worried about that?" Natalie giggled, "I don't mind coming over. I've wanted to meet your parents for some time. Especially since you've met mine already."
"Well, there's something else," Freddy felt his heart beat faster, "It's about Katie."
Natalie took her hand back and folded her arms against her chest. Katie. The sound of it was disgusting. When Natalie wasn't with Freddy, she would hear people say, "Why is Freddy with her? I thought he was dating Katie," or "Katie's way better then her." And it pissed Natalie off. Katie didn't even know anything! She was all brains and no beauty! She played football for crying out loud and she didn't even wear lip-gloss. For heaven's sake, the girl couldn't even wear a nice pair of jeans. It was always an oversized t-shirt and jeans or sweats.
"What about Katie?" Natalie frowned.
"Well um…you see…uh…"
"Freddy…."
"She's living with me," Freddy said softly. He could already tell that she didn't like it. He knew she wouldn't. For some reason he wasn't aware of, Natalie hated Katie. He didn't know why and he didn't know why she should even hate Katie because Katie had nothing against her.
"She's what?" Natalie frowned again and stared at Freddy coldly, "She's living with you?"
"Well…yeah," Freddy nodded.
"It's only temporary right?"
"No, she's living with me. It's almost as if my parents adopted her, which they didn't. I don't get why you should be so upset. There's nothing going on between her and me. I've told you about a billion times that she's like my little sister to me," Freddy said. That's not what you were thinking yesterday when you saw her in shorts and a tank top, his mind told him, but Freddy dismissed that thought.
"Look," Freddy sighed not happy with the way his girlfriend was staring at him, "Katie's dad was murdered. And you know that my family is the closest thing she's got to family."
At the news of Katie's dad, Natalie's heart softened up a bit. That is awful, she thought. "Okay, fine. I trust you," she gave in, smiled, leant over the table and gave him a light kiss.
A/N: Ahhh…another chapter done! Was this one longer? I can't tell, but anyway, hope you like! Please review!
A/N 2: I got a lot of reviews! Yippie! =)
Shout Outs:
RockinBassGurl: Arizona huh? My dad is thinking about moving my family over there and it's funny cause we just moved to where I am now. Hehe.
Swimmerkitti: yeah I guess with the uniform thingy…and pool-parties, but if she did go to pool parties, she'd probably just wear long shorts and an oversized black shirt. That's what I do…yeah I'm not so girly myself.
Strokes: if you based on your username on that band, just gotta tell you I love em!Alyssongregg: sorry about all the shoutouts, but I think I owe it to my readers to give them some kind of recognition, but I promise I'll work on making my chapters longer
M0rbidity: As you probably already know, Freddy's gf is Natalie Thomas
SarahLou: I know it seems like there aren't any major events, but even though it seems like it, trust me, it is.
Pineapple Cube: Yeah Freddy's dad is completely based on my dad. They have the same features and everything…except for the fact that my dad's not a mechanic. Hehe.
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