Chapter 14 – Moving On

Disclaimer – I DO NOT OWN SCHOOL OF ROCK!

Freddy's POV

I'm finally moving on. I won't lie, I still care about Katie but only as a friend now. At least I think so… And I've been thinking a lot about Sasha lately. But I don't know yet…

THUD

"Huh?"

"Hey, Freddy right?"

"Oh, Sasha. Hey." Calm down.

"On your way to practice?" I asked

"Yeah. Wanna walk together. It would be kind of awkward for me to just go there since only you, Zack and Rachael know me."

"Yeah, okay, sure." Why do I seem so damn uninterested?!

"Rachael told me that your guitarist before me is a…well…"

"A 5 year-old trapped in a 40 year-old man's body?" I guessed with a smile.

"So he really was that immature?!"

"Well, that's Dewey! Actually he's not that immature. He just doesn't act his age."

"Oh…and who was your bassist before Rachael?"

"Katie." I said flatly.

"Katie…?"

"My ex-girlfriend. She moved to Australia."

"Oh. Sorry."

"It's okay. You didn't know."

"Do you still talk to each other?"

"Not since I broke up with her…"

"Oh…"

"So, are you dating anybody?" why did I ask that?

"Uhm…no…why?"

"Maybe we can go out sometime?"

"Well aren't you the overly confident one?" she said to me half-joking.

"I guess I am!" I replied with a smug smile. She hit me playfully.

"I actually like guys who are confident…so yeah…we can go out sometime…"

"Great! Are you free after band practice?"

"Maybe…" she said with a smirk.

We finally got to the apartment. We're the ones renting it now since Jack left. It doesn't cost much if we split it between the band, roadies and Ned.

"So this is where you guys practice?" she asked while we were in front of the building, staring up at the "School of Rock" sign.

"Where we'll practice you mean. And yeah." I replied.

"Right…" As we were climbing up the stairs she asked me "So besides you three who are the other people in the band?"

"Lawrence, on keyboards. And we've got Alicia, Tomika and Marta on back-up vocals. Summer is our manager; you might want to be a little cautious when you're around her, she can be a little uptight sometimes but she's okay most of the time…well, once you get to know her."

"Oh. That everybody?"

"We've got roadies, you'll get to meet them…now." I told her when we finally got to the apartment. We stood outside as I looked for my keys. It was a Saturday and Ned didn't give lessons on weekends. We could hear ACDC blaring out of the speakers when we got in. Thank god the apartment had thick walls otherwise the police would be here constantly.

"HEY!" I screamed at the top of my lungs. Marta turned the music down then I introduced Sasha to everyone. "Everyone, this is Sasha. She's the guitarist Zack, Rachael and I were talking about. Hopefully you'll all make her feel welcome."

"Hi! Welcome!" everybody said in a joking manner.

"No really, welcome!" Summer said with a smile as she went over to Sasha. She held out her hand and said "I'm Summer; the manager. And those are Marta, Tomika and Alicia." Each of the girls waving when they heard their name. "Over there is Lawrence." Lawrence didn't look up, he was busy trying to read a crumpled piece of paper. It was probably written by Zack. He looked really frustrated. "That's our stylist, Billy."

"What on earth are you wearing?! Red and green? Honey it's not Christmas and even if it was that "outfit" still wouldn't be acceptable!" Billy screamed at Sasha when he saw the green shirt and red chucks that she was wearing.

"Back off Billy! She's new." Summer said.

"You might want to be careful with what you wear. Billy can be a bit…wound up sometimes." I whispered to her.

"I heard that Freddy Jones!" Billy yelled at me as he angrily pushed a pin into a small mannequin that was supposedly me making sure he pierces it somewhere down there.

"And those are the roadies. Frankie, Gordon…" Summer continued not noticing that Sasha wasn't listening anymore and was actually mimicking Summer making everybody crack up. When Summer looked at her she immediately stopped and had a "confused" looked on her face as if she didn't why everybody was laughing either. Then Summer gave me a death glare and walked off. Looks like this girl is gonna fit in just fine…

A.N. – yeah… R&R…