Chapter 4

School of Rock practiced hard to learn new songs over the next two months. The band wanted to impress the students at Hogwarts. They learned almost 100 songs so that they could have a different routine each week.

"We're going to show England how rocking is done!" Freddy cheered enthusiastically one day at a practice in Dewey's apartment. "We're going to rock out the "Englishness" out of their butts!"

"Uh Freddy? Hate to break your spirit, but they do have rock music in England," Zack said, chuckling. Katie giggled, knowing Zack was definitely right.

Freddy blushed, but began to argue. "Oh really? Prove it!"

"Fine," Zack said arguing back, trying not to laugh. "Where are the Ramones from?"

"England," Freddy said sheepishly.

Zack grinned.

Dewey who was listening in on the conversation looked at Freddy and began to tut and shake his head. "And we appointed you as the drummer. Such an embarrassment," Dewey said jokingly.

Freddy looked at Dewey and lifted his eye brow. "You know, you're getting kind of old you know," Freddy said teasingly. "We should appointment a new lead guitar vocal guy. In fact, I'll do it myself! I sound awesome on a guitar."

"Of course you do," Zack said sarcastically. Freddy had tried playing guitar once, but it sounded awful.

"Yup. I can play so much better than Jimmy Hendrix!" Freddy joked. "I'll be more famous than you even, Zack. You just wait and see."

"You're so cocky," Katie said mischievously.

"What did you call me?" Freddy asked pretending to be alarmed.

"Cocky," Katie repeated, giggling.

"Oh is that so?" Freddy pretended to be hurt. "May you repeat that word for me, just so I know what you're calling me?"

"I said..." Katie began to blush, than started to laugh. "Never mind..."

"That's what I thought," Freddy said and he winked at Katie.

Dewey began to get the group's attention. "Alright, band. Rock and Roll Positions!" Dewey, Katie and Joey began to put their guitar straps over their shoulders, Tomika, Alicia and Marta began to adjust their microphones, Freddy took the pads off the drums, and Laurence began to warm up with some major scales on his keyboard. The crew began to plop onto Dewey's couches to listen.

Katie noticed that Michelle was holding hands with Leonard while they were sitting down. Katie smiled and thought, "Perfect match!"

"What song are we playing?" Joey asked when everybody was ready.

"How about we warm up with The Reason by Hoobastank?" Dewey suggested. The band nodded.

Freddy raised his drumsticks over his head and began to tap them. "One, two, three, four!" Freddy called out in unison with the taps. School of Rock began to play awesomely, as usual. Frankie and Billy snickered as they pretended to be holding lighters and swaying them to the beat of the song. Then the boys got bored of this so they pretended to hold their imaginary lighters up to Marta's braids. When she realized what they were pretending to do, she laughed and whispered, "If those lighters were real, you would have no idea where I'd stick them up."

Frankie and Billy gulped nervously and looked at each other. "Yeah, we have some sort of idea," Frankie mumbled.

The song ended and the crew clapped. School of Rock moved onto about 5 more songs and decided to take a break. The band grabbed Cokes from Dewey's fridge.

Freddy walked up to Katie and Zack who were turning off their amplifiers. "Is it me or is it boiling in here?"

"Yeah, it's pretty hot in here," Katie agreed. She noticed that only the people who were playing were sweating.

Zack and Freddy took off their shirts and began to swing them over their heads. "It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes..."

Katie giggled and rolled her eyes. "Oh spare me."

"This is the part where the girl sings," Freddy said grinning at Katie.

"Exactly, Jones, so sing!" Zack teased. Freddy playfully punched Zack on the shoulder.

"Anyways," Katie said, raising one eyebrow. "Put your shirts back on. It's like winter!"

"Come on, Katie. Join your best friends! Take off your shirt and sing!" Freddy cheered jokingly.

"Oh you'd like that wouldn't you?" Katie teased.

"Of course Jones would," Zack whispered to Katie. They laughed.

Freddy blushed. "I heard that!"

Katie giggled again. "I'm going to grab a Coke. You guys want one?"

"Yeah," the boys replied in unison.

Zack turned to Freddy. "You like her, dude?" Zack asked putting his shirt back on, as Freddy did the same.

"Yeah, I do. Is it obvious?"

"Well, the drooling kind of gives it away," Zack joked. He looked at Katie, who had stopped to talk to Alicia. "She's hot..."

"Oh yeah! Definitely!" Freddy said, dazed. Then his expression changed. "Hey, man, I called her first!" Freddy argued.

"I know, I know! Just saying... It's funny though..." Zack's voice trailed off.

"What's funny?" Freddy asked.

"Well, all three of us grew up together, you know? She was like one of u s sever since we were little. Now that we're older... I never thought that we'd actually be calling her hot."

"Well, it's not our fault that she turned out to be attractive," Freddy complained. He winked at Zack. "We'll blame the parents."

"Eww dude!" Zack protested. He grabbed a pillow from Dewey's couch and threw it at Freddy's head.