Disclaimer: I do not own School of Rock…sadly. Borrowing. I also do not own any of the song references or music artists mentioned throughout my story. If they sound familiar to you then they're not my own original ideas.

Chapter 1

It was just a few days into the new school year and all of the kids in School of Rock were entering their junior year of high school. They were all psyched about this year, because this was the year that they could all travel out of state to go to competitions with their band. There was one competition that was coming up right after Thanksgiving, and during the summer Dewey was planning on taking the band up there for it. This meant that they needed to keep up their school work and focus or else they wouldn't be allowed to play in the band. It was the first weekend since school started, and the gang was at their local hangout in town, Danny's,a fast food restaurant.

"Hey guys!" Zack came running up to Freddy, Katie, and Summer. "What's up?" he said, taking a seat next to Katie on their table.

"Nothin' much." Replied Summer. "But I do know one thing. We better get working soon for this competition this year." She said, taking a sip from her soda. "Did you guys start on some new material?" she asked them.

"Yep, we're on it." Freddy replied, drumming his fingers on the edge of the table.

"Well good. 'Cause we definitely need it. Our old stuff is just so bland." She said, tossing her hair back over her shoulder. She looked and saw all three of them giving her a look of annoyance. "I'm mean, uh," she paused. "It's just better to have new material just in case our old stuff isn't…right for this competition." She said quickly.

Katie grinned at Summer and said, "Uh, right. Well, you can criticize our music once you start to help write it."

"Okay, sorry guys. I just think we should start working on it soon." She said finally. "It's kind of sad that Alicia and Marta aren't here anymore. It's gonna be tough this year…" she faded. They all sat in a moment of silence to remember their friends. Both Alicia and Marta move during that summer right before school started.

"Well, besides this whole band thing, you guys hear that rumor about that new girl that's comin' to school?" Zack asked, leaning into the table. "Ya know, that girl who's like good at everything. She's been all over the world, met so many famous people, she's like the ultimate student!" he said in amazement.

Katie turned towards Summer. "Oh yeah, I heard about that. She's like the best student ever! Good grades, great at sports, and she can do the whole music thing too." Katie said, impressed about this mystery student.

"Well, maybe she can sing, and join our band." Freddy said. It was sad to have Alicia move to Georgia with her family, as well as having Marta go and live with her aunt on the west coast. It was just Tomika left to be their lead singer of the band, but they all were going to try and make it work.

"All I know is that she's supposed to be something special." Zack said, finishing the conversation. They all hung out at Danny's for a while more until they all decided to head home. Summer drove Katie home since they didn't live too far from each other. Zack and Freddy actually lived at opposite sides of the same street, so they got to know each other more since the band was put together.

"So, what do you think about this new girl Freddy?" Zack asked as they walked home.

"I don't know, I mean I haven't even met her." He replied. "And why are you so interested in her anyway?" he asked Zack.

"Because, if she really is as good as everyone says she is, then maybe she can help us with the band. If she can sing, she can really help us this year with the whole battle and all. Don't you think?"

"Well, I guess. If she can sing, and if she can sing that well to be in our band." He trailed off as they approached one of the homes on their street. It had 2 moving trucks outside with men walking back and forth between the trucks and the house. Some were carrying furniture, and others were looking over a paper, pointing to different areas of the house. "I guess that's the new girls house huh?" Freddy said as they both stopped on the sidewalk.

Freddy and Zack both looked at each other. "Yeah, guess we got a new neighbor." They stood there and watched the men unload some more furniture for while. They continued on to their homes until they reached Freddy's.

"Well, looks like she lives closer to me." He said once he got to his driveway. "I'll check ya later Mooneyham." Freddy said.

"See ya Spazzy." He replied as they slapped each others hand. Zack continued down the street as Freddy turned up his driveway to go in his house.

"Hey mom." Freddy said as he closed the front door behind him. He took his jacket off and draped it over the couch that was in their living room. He walked into the kitchen where he heard his mom and sister talking.

"Hey honey." His mom replied.

"What up Freddy." His sister Stephanie said as she gave her brother a fist punch. "You saw the movers a couple houses down?" she asked him, following him with her eyes as he walked over to the refrigerator.

"Yeah, it's this new girl at school." He replied, grabbing a pitcher of juice and closing the door. "Zack was talking about it today at Danny's." he told them. "She's supposed to be like this all-star student."

Stephanie turned around towards their mom. "Oh yeah, I heard that too. Emily said that she's super good at everything at school! Sports, school work, she's nice, friendly, she's like some kind of goddess or something." She said in awe of this new girl.

"Wow, if she's this good, I hope one of you becomes friends with her." Mrs. Jones told them.

Stephanie wasn't quite sure why her mom said that. "Why, I don't get it?"

"Maybe all of her good qualities will rub off on you two!" she said as she started to laugh.

"Haha, thanks mom. But I know one thing she's not good at." Freddy told them, putting his cup of juice down. "She's not better at drums than I am!" he said, standing in a superhero pose.

It was Sunday night, so they had an early dinner once their dad came home. Freddy and Stephanie had to go to bed early since they had school the next day. Since it was only going to be their second week of school, their mom wanted to make sure that they started the year off with a good start. When Freddy said goodnight and went into his room, Zack and Lawrence called on a three-way line to talk with Freddy about this new girl. They decided that whoever would meet her first would ask her about her singing. Since it was only a rumor, they weren't sure if she really was all these things that they heard. They agreed to meet the band outside the school's entrance door to make a plan on how to meet this new girl. They were all anxious to meet this new girl that was the talk of the school. Once Freddy hung up the phone, he went directly to sleep, thinking about what this new girl would be like. But the only way he'd find out was to go to school that next day to see for himself.