Author's Note- Okay, now I am officially warning you, this chapter is going
to be REALLY mushy. But this is the last chapter where you aren't in it,
so...enjoy!
And remember, we left off with them doing homework.
Chapter 3: The Announcement
Zack's PoV
After about forty-five minutes, we finally finished our homework and I called my dad and he picked us up and drove us to Dewey's place. I'm still dumbfounded by the fact that my father is accepting that I'm in a rock band.
So me and Freddy walked inside and were surprised to that not just the musical band was there, but everyone else as well. They were all sitting around, waiting.
"Uhh...what's going on?" I asked as I sat down next to Katie. She smiled at me and said, "Hey."
"Well it's about time!" Summer exclaimed. She's our band manager and she tends to be rather...obsessive, "You're...three minutes late!!"
"Well excuse me." Freddy said sarcastically as he sat down on my other side, "My watch must be slow."
Him and Summer don't exactly see eye to eye... can you tell?
"You don't even wear a w-"But Summer was cut off.
"Alright!" Dewey shouted. Summer gave an annoyed sigh, and Freddy just rolled his eyes, "Now, the reason we're all here boys is because Tomika has an announcement to make. If you had gotten here on time, you would have known that. But since you weren't, it's no biggy. All right Tomika...the floor is all yours."
Dewey's gotten a little bit more responsible since our parents 'left us in his care', but he's still the same crazy old guy we know and love.
All eyes were now on Tomika. She was blushing furiously; she hasn't exactly gotten over her fear of speaking in front of a large horde yet. (A/N- Hehe, I just realized, horde is in my favorite Led Zeppelin song, Immigrant Song. "Fight the horde, singing and crying". Alright... back to the story)
"I...I-uhh..." she hesitated, "Well, I-it's kind of...hard to say."
"Come on Tomika you can tell us. We're all your friends." I said, and I couldn't help but notice Katie smile at me.
"I-I'mmovindisFFriday." She mumbled quietly.
"Sorry...what?" Leonard (security) asked.
"I-I'm moving this... Friday."
"What?!" Marta (back-up singer) exclaimed, "But Tomika, it's already Tuesday!"
"I-I know. But well, my dad lost his job a few months ago, and this is the only offer he's gotten. I tried to tell you guys, b-but it was so hard. And, well...the job's in California!!"
"What are we going to do Tomika? We need your voice." Alicia (other back-up singer) said, she always seemed to put the band before anything else. And in this case it was bad.
"Yeah! I was planning on having a girl lead singer... and I was hoping it would be you." Dewey said, rather gloomily.
"I'm sorry." Tomika said, I could see tears growing in her eyes, you could tell this was hard on her, "But I have to go."
"We know, Tomika." Michelle (groupie) said, "We're just really going to miss you."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and you could tell that Tomika was fighting hard not to start crying. There was an awkward silence for a few minutes, until Billy spoke up.
"Well...you can keep the outfits I made for you." He's our band stylist, in case you were wondering.
We all couldn't help but laugh. Even Tomika laughed a little bit, her eyes glinted with tears.
"Okay." Dewey said once the silence came back again, "I guess we'll just cancel practice for today?"
"Alright." Everyone mumbled.
I pushed through the group of people who were walking over to Tomika, and caught up with Freddy.
"Hey Fred, listen, c-could I-umm- well go with Katie...alone?" I asked. Or, more like pleaded.
Freddy grinned. "Sure man." And when I walked out the door I heard him yell from behind me "Go for it!"
I sighed. Why was I doing this? Could I go for it? Or more importantly, should I go for it? I mean,you don't go around liking someone you've been friends with for a while and just say "Oh, by the way, I love you."
I decided that I didn't necessarily have to be that specific. I just had to tell her that I liked her. Or I fancied her as those British people put it. It didn't mean I was going to ask her out though. That would be too much for one day.
I spotted Katie walking down Banks Street 9thankfully the way towards my house) and run up beside her.
"Hey Zack." She said.
"Hi Katie. Umm...are you walking home?" Oh, God. What a stupid question. Was it possible for me to sound more oblivious?
"Yeah. My folks are out, so they wouldn't be able to pick me up."
"M-mind if I... join you?"
"Not at all." She said and grinned. I couldn't help but notice a slight blush growing on her cheeks.
We walked in silence for a little while (although it felt like hours to me) until Katie suddenly stopped and faced me.
"What?" I asked, worried about the look on her face.
"I-I-I just...oh Zack!! I'm going to sound like a total idiot and I know that I'm too young to be thinking the way I am... I just can't help it. B-but..." (A/N- If you think that was bad wait for this...please don't flame too much...I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE CORNINESS!)
"But what?" I asked her, as I absentmindedly took her hand. She looked close to tears, and it was really starting to worry me, "Katie, you know you can trust me."
"Of course I know that, I mean...it's not that kind of something that I need to tell you. J-just promise me that we'll never lose our friendship over this?" she was practically begging now. I stared strait into her gorgeous, chocolate-brown eyes...trying to see what she was getting at.
"I promise." I squeezed her hand a little tighter. Hey, I couldn't help it, all right?
She looked down at our hands. Our. Boy does that sound good.
"Zack...I lo-like you. A lot. Like, more than friends. Hell, a lot more than friends."
I just stared at her. Even though her face was now deep red because she was blushing so hard, she still looked beautiful. But even her gorgeousness couldn't snap me out of my utter disbelief. Had she really just said what I think she just said? Exactly what I had been trying to tell her? Was she kidding, or did Katie Montone, the girl (I think) I'm in love with, just say that she had feelings for me? Like, lust feelings? My brain was completely numb. Do something you idiot!!
But too late, she let go of my hands.
"Zack- I-I'm sorry. I didn't..." she turned to walk away.
Finally, finally my shock evaporated and my brain started working again. I could not let her go.
"Katie..." I said and quickly grabbed her wrist. Gently, but firmly enough to cause her to turn back around.
And luckily, she did. She turned her head around and stared at her feet. She slowly looked up, her eyes wide and filled with tears. A few had fallen and were slowly sliding down her cheek.
Then, I don't know what came over me. I don't know what made me do it. But the next thing I knew, I was brushing a strand of hair off her face and tucked behind her ear. Then I put my arm around her waist, pulled her into me, and kissed her.
That's right. I, Zachary Mooneyham was kissing Kathryn Montone the girl of my dreams. I was doing something that Freddy could never ever imagine me doing.
And that's when I realized what Freddy had meant when he said he would know whether the girl was the right one or not. Because her kiss made it definite. I might only be twelve years old, but this feeling inside of me made me realize right then and there that I was defiantly in love with her.
We both broke off the kiss at the same time. She looked into my eyes and smiled a huge, toothy smile. I couldn't help but grin back.
But there was this one thing that kept going through my head. It was a line from some movie that my mom had made me watch with her once. 'If you know you love someone, you tell them right then and there, otherwise the moment just...passes you by.' (A/N- 50 Brownie points if you can tell me what movie that's from) I didn't want to tell Katie that I was madly in love with her and all that, because I didn't want to scare her off. But I knew I had to say something.
So I took her hands (again) and said, "Katie...I like you too. More than you'll ever know."
She smiled a smile so bright that I haven't seen on her face since our first performance at Battle of the Bands. We started walking again, me with my arm around her waist and her with her head on my shoulder. The awkwardness was gone and we talked and laughed the rest of the way. I noticed that we had passed the way that led to my house, but I didn't mention it.
When we finally reached her house, she turned to face me. She kissed me smack dab on the lips and I kissed her back. She pulled back and smiled. Boy, do I love it when she smiles.
"Thanks for walking me home Zack. Bye."
"Bye, Katie."
She walked towards her house and paused as she turned the knob. She turned bak around a waved at me. I waved back and she walked inside.
I stood there for a few minutes, staring at her huge oak door, hardly believing all that had just happened. I finally snapped out of it, turned around and started walking back home.
Author's Note- Alrighty, there it is. The last chapter that you have to read before the whole You/Freddy thing starts. I'm pretty sure I"ll be getting lots of flames for this chapter, so go ahead. I enjoy criticism. Alright, I have to go now, my four year old cousin is spinning my chair around. I'm getting really dizzy... Toodles. Click the button.
Chapter 3: The Announcement
Zack's PoV
After about forty-five minutes, we finally finished our homework and I called my dad and he picked us up and drove us to Dewey's place. I'm still dumbfounded by the fact that my father is accepting that I'm in a rock band.
So me and Freddy walked inside and were surprised to that not just the musical band was there, but everyone else as well. They were all sitting around, waiting.
"Uhh...what's going on?" I asked as I sat down next to Katie. She smiled at me and said, "Hey."
"Well it's about time!" Summer exclaimed. She's our band manager and she tends to be rather...obsessive, "You're...three minutes late!!"
"Well excuse me." Freddy said sarcastically as he sat down on my other side, "My watch must be slow."
Him and Summer don't exactly see eye to eye... can you tell?
"You don't even wear a w-"But Summer was cut off.
"Alright!" Dewey shouted. Summer gave an annoyed sigh, and Freddy just rolled his eyes, "Now, the reason we're all here boys is because Tomika has an announcement to make. If you had gotten here on time, you would have known that. But since you weren't, it's no biggy. All right Tomika...the floor is all yours."
Dewey's gotten a little bit more responsible since our parents 'left us in his care', but he's still the same crazy old guy we know and love.
All eyes were now on Tomika. She was blushing furiously; she hasn't exactly gotten over her fear of speaking in front of a large horde yet. (A/N- Hehe, I just realized, horde is in my favorite Led Zeppelin song, Immigrant Song. "Fight the horde, singing and crying". Alright... back to the story)
"I...I-uhh..." she hesitated, "Well, I-it's kind of...hard to say."
"Come on Tomika you can tell us. We're all your friends." I said, and I couldn't help but notice Katie smile at me.
"I-I'mmovindisFFriday." She mumbled quietly.
"Sorry...what?" Leonard (security) asked.
"I-I'm moving this... Friday."
"What?!" Marta (back-up singer) exclaimed, "But Tomika, it's already Tuesday!"
"I-I know. But well, my dad lost his job a few months ago, and this is the only offer he's gotten. I tried to tell you guys, b-but it was so hard. And, well...the job's in California!!"
"What are we going to do Tomika? We need your voice." Alicia (other back-up singer) said, she always seemed to put the band before anything else. And in this case it was bad.
"Yeah! I was planning on having a girl lead singer... and I was hoping it would be you." Dewey said, rather gloomily.
"I'm sorry." Tomika said, I could see tears growing in her eyes, you could tell this was hard on her, "But I have to go."
"We know, Tomika." Michelle (groupie) said, "We're just really going to miss you."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and you could tell that Tomika was fighting hard not to start crying. There was an awkward silence for a few minutes, until Billy spoke up.
"Well...you can keep the outfits I made for you." He's our band stylist, in case you were wondering.
We all couldn't help but laugh. Even Tomika laughed a little bit, her eyes glinted with tears.
"Okay." Dewey said once the silence came back again, "I guess we'll just cancel practice for today?"
"Alright." Everyone mumbled.
I pushed through the group of people who were walking over to Tomika, and caught up with Freddy.
"Hey Fred, listen, c-could I-umm- well go with Katie...alone?" I asked. Or, more like pleaded.
Freddy grinned. "Sure man." And when I walked out the door I heard him yell from behind me "Go for it!"
I sighed. Why was I doing this? Could I go for it? Or more importantly, should I go for it? I mean,you don't go around liking someone you've been friends with for a while and just say "Oh, by the way, I love you."
I decided that I didn't necessarily have to be that specific. I just had to tell her that I liked her. Or I fancied her as those British people put it. It didn't mean I was going to ask her out though. That would be too much for one day.
I spotted Katie walking down Banks Street 9thankfully the way towards my house) and run up beside her.
"Hey Zack." She said.
"Hi Katie. Umm...are you walking home?" Oh, God. What a stupid question. Was it possible for me to sound more oblivious?
"Yeah. My folks are out, so they wouldn't be able to pick me up."
"M-mind if I... join you?"
"Not at all." She said and grinned. I couldn't help but notice a slight blush growing on her cheeks.
We walked in silence for a little while (although it felt like hours to me) until Katie suddenly stopped and faced me.
"What?" I asked, worried about the look on her face.
"I-I-I just...oh Zack!! I'm going to sound like a total idiot and I know that I'm too young to be thinking the way I am... I just can't help it. B-but..." (A/N- If you think that was bad wait for this...please don't flame too much...I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE CORNINESS!)
"But what?" I asked her, as I absentmindedly took her hand. She looked close to tears, and it was really starting to worry me, "Katie, you know you can trust me."
"Of course I know that, I mean...it's not that kind of something that I need to tell you. J-just promise me that we'll never lose our friendship over this?" she was practically begging now. I stared strait into her gorgeous, chocolate-brown eyes...trying to see what she was getting at.
"I promise." I squeezed her hand a little tighter. Hey, I couldn't help it, all right?
She looked down at our hands. Our. Boy does that sound good.
"Zack...I lo-like you. A lot. Like, more than friends. Hell, a lot more than friends."
I just stared at her. Even though her face was now deep red because she was blushing so hard, she still looked beautiful. But even her gorgeousness couldn't snap me out of my utter disbelief. Had she really just said what I think she just said? Exactly what I had been trying to tell her? Was she kidding, or did Katie Montone, the girl (I think) I'm in love with, just say that she had feelings for me? Like, lust feelings? My brain was completely numb. Do something you idiot!!
But too late, she let go of my hands.
"Zack- I-I'm sorry. I didn't..." she turned to walk away.
Finally, finally my shock evaporated and my brain started working again. I could not let her go.
"Katie..." I said and quickly grabbed her wrist. Gently, but firmly enough to cause her to turn back around.
And luckily, she did. She turned her head around and stared at her feet. She slowly looked up, her eyes wide and filled with tears. A few had fallen and were slowly sliding down her cheek.
Then, I don't know what came over me. I don't know what made me do it. But the next thing I knew, I was brushing a strand of hair off her face and tucked behind her ear. Then I put my arm around her waist, pulled her into me, and kissed her.
That's right. I, Zachary Mooneyham was kissing Kathryn Montone the girl of my dreams. I was doing something that Freddy could never ever imagine me doing.
And that's when I realized what Freddy had meant when he said he would know whether the girl was the right one or not. Because her kiss made it definite. I might only be twelve years old, but this feeling inside of me made me realize right then and there that I was defiantly in love with her.
We both broke off the kiss at the same time. She looked into my eyes and smiled a huge, toothy smile. I couldn't help but grin back.
But there was this one thing that kept going through my head. It was a line from some movie that my mom had made me watch with her once. 'If you know you love someone, you tell them right then and there, otherwise the moment just...passes you by.' (A/N- 50 Brownie points if you can tell me what movie that's from) I didn't want to tell Katie that I was madly in love with her and all that, because I didn't want to scare her off. But I knew I had to say something.
So I took her hands (again) and said, "Katie...I like you too. More than you'll ever know."
She smiled a smile so bright that I haven't seen on her face since our first performance at Battle of the Bands. We started walking again, me with my arm around her waist and her with her head on my shoulder. The awkwardness was gone and we talked and laughed the rest of the way. I noticed that we had passed the way that led to my house, but I didn't mention it.
When we finally reached her house, she turned to face me. She kissed me smack dab on the lips and I kissed her back. She pulled back and smiled. Boy, do I love it when she smiles.
"Thanks for walking me home Zack. Bye."
"Bye, Katie."
She walked towards her house and paused as she turned the knob. She turned bak around a waved at me. I waved back and she walked inside.
I stood there for a few minutes, staring at her huge oak door, hardly believing all that had just happened. I finally snapped out of it, turned around and started walking back home.
Author's Note- Alrighty, there it is. The last chapter that you have to read before the whole You/Freddy thing starts. I'm pretty sure I"ll be getting lots of flames for this chapter, so go ahead. I enjoy criticism. Alright, I have to go now, my four year old cousin is spinning my chair around. I'm getting really dizzy... Toodles. Click the button.