Chapter 5
Michelle walked into class seeing the band gathered together. Their gazes turned to her as she walked towards them.
"Hey guys" Michelle said quietly.
"Hey" they replied.
"Any news about Marta?" Summer asked as she stood up from her seat.
"No" Michelle sad sadly, "have any of you heard anything else?" The group shook their heads. Michelle sighed taking a seat, "I feel terrible, like it's my fault. If I would've walked with her this wouldn't have happened" she said.
"That's not true, this isn't you fault." Eleni said while hugging her.
"Yeah you couldn't have stopped this from happening" Alicia pointed out.
Michelle nodded, "but she's my best friend and I can't help feeling bad." she said, resting her head in her hands.
"Dude it's not like she's dead" Freddy said.
Summer looked up and glared at him.
"What!" he complained.
The bell rang and the students hurried to their assigned seats.
Michelle grabbed Freddy's arm, "you may fool your friends by acting all cool in front of them but remember we're related and you don't fool me!" she said before letting him go.
Freddy sighed watching her sit down. He knew exactly what she meant.
After school the band headed to Dewey's for practice.
"Still no sight of Marts?" Dewey asked as Summer sat down at the kitchen table.
"Nope" she replied taping her pen against her clipboard. She sighed watching the rest of the band set up for practice. "What's the use?" she complained, "I mean with one singer missing and a competition coming up, we have no chance at winning!"
Freddy looked up from the drum set and walked over to Summer overhearing what she had said, "one of your friends is missing and you are to busy worrying about wether or not we can win!"
Summer stood up, "yes she is my friend Freddy but with out her we're nothing! We can't win with only two back ups and you know it!"
Freddy sighed, "is that all you care about? Winning? Being perfect?" he yelled.
Summer shook her head in disbelief, "you care about that too if you were in charge of an entire band but no you–"
"Quiet both of you just– shut up!" Michelle yelled interrupting the two.
"But I–" Summer began
"No, Summer listen, don't talk for once just listen." Michelle said, "I'm agreeing with Freddy on this."
"Well of course you are he's your brother" Summer said rolling her eyes.
"No, well yeah he's my brother but, for once, he's right. We can't be worrying about winning right now when Marta is missing. I mean we don't know what happened and if we want to help find her we have to stick together. Fighting isn't going to help this." Michelle said.
"She's right" Dewey sighed, "you two arguing with each other isn't helping the fact that Marta is gone."
"Well then what do we do?" Zack asked.
"I uh-I don't know. How 'bout we figure this out later, like after practice and lets just try to get along normally the rest of the time. Okay?" Dewey replied.
Freddy rolled his eyes, "yeah right normal Dewey as if nothing is wrong" he said.
"Just end it Jones" Dewey yelled.
Freddy blinked surprised to hear Dewey yell at him.
Dewey sighed, "look, just get on the drums." he said pointing to the drum set.
Freddy nodded slowly and took a seat behind the set knowing not to argue with Dewey.
'This is going to be one long practice' Dewey thought to himself.