He never really talked to her and the only conversation that they ever had which was proper was about great chick drummers. Other than that they just exchanged the usual "hi" and "bye" to each other. It wasn't that they were true enemies. Sometimes they made rude remarks to each other and they shrugged it off the next day. But it was also because she was the quiet goody two shoes who never really said anything in class and a kick-ass bassist. While he was a trouble making girl-loving hot drummer. Yeah they were different but opposites attract right?

It had to be that lesson that changed everything between them. Citizenship. She took notes; you could tell by her face she was tired, her brown hair merely covered her face as she yawned. And him……he was half asleep not even making notes but playing around with his drumsticks. They were exactly like the ones one of the drummer's had in Slipknot. Black with the silver handles and a skull pattern. Needless to say Dewey thought he rocked so hard and bought him the pair. Or you could also say that since he was early for once, Dewey bought it for him……it was kind of like a bribe…. Like a come earlier and I'll get you an even cooler pair of sticks but Freddy laughed it off and came in early every band practice making sure Dewey didn't really buy him a load of stuff. And at the time their teacher was about to start the new project.

"Okay, the project class could you listen please! You'll be put into pairs, a boy and girl and you're to be married for 2 weeks……with an electronic child that stores the data of what you've done to it from the coming 2 weeks." The class groaned and Katie slumped further into her chair. She didn't really socialize with many boys and she only had 2 best friends which were Eleni and Summer who hung around Michelle mostly anyways. She knew that she would hate the project throughout the whole 2 weeks. What about band practice. Bringing a baby to a rock school band practise. She didn't even know who her "husband" was gonna be.

The teacher ran his hands though his hair. The class knew this as a sign of "stress" and they all stopped talking. "Thank you," was all he could get out sarcastically. "The pairings are all out on the board. After this lesson before you head off to lunch…please take notice because the project starts tomorrow. Pronto? Good. You can't switch partners if you wish to and you must learn to get along if you dislike your partner. Got it? Good. See you all after lunch."

Freddy Jones, 15 like all the other teenagers in his class raced to the door and ran out as fast as he could. You'd think he could last 2 more minutes but he was dying in there. He passed the board on the way there and skimmed through the long list for his name. As his finger traced along the sheet of paper his eyes widened. A lot of the other people were pushing and shoving to get through as he got out of the hectic crowd heading to his locker. He met Zack and the some of the band there eventually except for one who was trailing behind the whole lot. Freddy smiled.

"Zack Attack! Who'd you get?" Zack smiled, he didn't know if it was a good thing…or a bad thing.

"I got Eleni."

Freddy's eyes grew wide once again. And then they got into serious mode. "You hurt my sister and I'll kick your……"

"Okay okay okay, I get it. Why would I anyways. You're my best friend." Freddy smiled and smirked at him. "That's what I like to hear." Freddy went closer to the rest of the group locking his locker after having put his drumsticks back in. "Hey Summer, who'd you get?" Summer held a confused face. "I got Marco?" Freddy let out a laugh and Summer stood closer. "What huh?"

"Tell the poor guy I said good luck." They all laughed and Summer hit Freddy playfully. "Gordon……what about you?" Gordon looked up at Freddy.

"Oh, I got Michelle." Freddy nodded as a sign of "that's cool". He attempted to walk away as he could but Zack stopped him.

"Okay Freddy, I got Eleni, Michelle got Gordon, Marta got Kevin, Marco got Summer, Tomika got Laurence, Alicia got Leonard and you got?"

Freddy smiled looking behind the lot.

"And I got……Posh Spice."

The gang all turned to look at Katie who was behind the whole group fidgeting with her fingers with her bass guitar tied behind her. She looked up questioning them. "What? Is there something on my face?" She asked curious. The band shrugged it off. Zack knew Freddy well. They would have nothing to talk about. They had to look after a baby child even if it was fake and they barely even talk at band practise.

They all headed off to Band Practice after school as Katie Browns came in late. She sighed and took the bass guitar out as Dewey told them all to get into their "rock positions". Tomika started singing the first verse. That girl had the beautiful voice, along with Alicia who was second best and lastly Marta who had a great voice and could reach the high A on the piano. And above that? Dewey's voice….and his was like serious rock mode……that's how the band liked it anyways. You could hear the guitar booming out of Advanced Rock and just enough for Rock 101 to year where Ned was teaching some kind of Bm chord. After the whole song finished Freddy did a solo on his drums and Dewey laughed him telling him to stop. Yep. It was just another day of band practise. Except for the constant gigs that Summer got them into that was totally cool. Katie fixed her bass back in the case as Freddy contemplated as to whether she should go over and talk to her. In the end he didn't and went home with Zack even though their houses were different directions. They parted after the 5 minute walk.

Freddy walked in front of his house which was next to Katie's and met her and Eleni there. He unlocked the door for Eleni and they both went inside as Eleni invited Katie in. Freddy let her in before him as her head was kept down the whole way.

"We'll be in my room if you need me. C ya." Eleni and Katie emerged up the stairs and Freddy went up to his room.

"So I heard you got my brother for the project."

Katie nodded and gave out a small laugh. "And I heard you got Zack?" Eleni smiled.

"Yeah...I guess its okay since he is Freddy's best friend."

Katie nodded agreeing with her as she got out her bass guitar once again and started playing it while Eleni hummed along to the tune. She didn't know why Eleni didn't raise her hand. Her voice was like Alicia's...but she got stuck as a groupie in the end anyways. And to Freddy...he thought it sucked having a sister who was way smarter than him.

Freddy put on his Led Zeppelin C.D and blasted it out on his system. When he turned around he saw Katie standing at the doorway.

"Eleni told me to tell you to quiet down."

Freddy put his arms out. "Why can't she tell me herself?"

"Because she doesn't want to talk to you." Katie continued.

Freddy shrugged. "Fair enough." He went over and turned the volume down so that only Katie and Freddy could hear it.

She left the room after that and went back to Eleni's who was now playing around with her bass guitar.

Eleni laughed at her. "I can get used to this thing you know."

Katie laughed back at her. "And this is coming from the girl who thinks that rock is all about getting wasted!"

Eleni hit Katie with the pillow and they both laughed.

"Whatever."

Katie looked at her watch.

"I should get going." Eleni raised her eyebrows.

"Is it me or do you even remember where you live……in case you forgot let me remind you……..next door!"

"Yeah but my mum's gonna be wondering where I am."

Katie got up and said goodbye to Eleni as she opened the front door for her and went back to her house.

Eleni never actually realised why her brother and Katie never actually talked much. They lived next to each other and Freddy insisted that he didn't want to be seen with his sister going to school…….that's why Eleni always walked with Katie as Freddy turned up late as always.

She opened the front door and picked up the note that was in front of her on the floor.

Katie,

Me and your mother have gone out for the week, will be back next Sunday or later because your grandmother is sick. You're responsible for everything and do not make a mess…….you're 15……

Love Dad and Mum.

Katie got into her room and put on a C.D which School Of Rock had recorded. It wasn't a record deal thing or anything it was just one that Dewey gave…..he gave one to each of them as a present.

"Baby we were making straight A's, but we were stuck in the dumb daze. It doesn't take much to memorise your life. I feel like I've been hypnotized."

Katie changed into her Led Zeppelin t shirt and a pair of trousers which had red checked patterns on it. She started to sing along with the lines.

"And then that magic man had come to town, whew he sure spun my head around. He said recess is in session. 2 and 2 make 5. And now I'm finally alive."

She switched it lower after that to the chorus. Sitting down on the bed she picked up her bass and started to practise thinking about tomorrow. She never really talked to Freddy even though he was one of her best friend's brothers. Both way, he was her partner and she had to live with it. What Eleni and Freddy didn't know was that Katie had a crush on Freddy since Kindergarten. She remembered the first time he ever helped her which led to her becoming best friends with Eleni. It never actually became a blur. Some boys were making fun of her hair and Freddy had gotten into his first fist fight as well as his first ever grounding and 3 week detention. After that he never talked to her again and she started to talk to Eleni a lot more. That was all in the 4th grade. It was either he hated her for that or he just never really wanted to talk to her. There was also something else that happened when they were both 14...a year ago but they both thought the other forgot about it. Or so they thought. Katie tried to forget but failed and the same went with Freddy...maybe that was why he made rude remarks sometimes and she did so vice versa and the reason why they never really talked much these days. She went downstairs and grabbed a coke going back upstairs and turning on the MTV music channel. She wasn't paying attention to it much and her eyes kind of wondered over everywhere until it came to her window she started to blush. There in the room across her house perfectly visible was Freddy Jones topless. He was cute and she would admit it...but only to herself. He pulled an AC/DC shirt over his head and Katie smiled quickly turning her head when Freddy looked opposite him. She pretended to do something until he quickly turned back around. She never usually looked at Eleni's house because she always had her blinds down. She just put them up today for some reason she didn't even know herself.

She looked back at him changing the CD into My Chemical Romance and sitting down at his large drum set. It was loud enough so that Katie could hear it and practise along with him without him knowing until he started to go solo and just hit perfectly incredible beats on his drum. She tried to improvise like he did and she was concentrating hard she didn't even realise; she just kept on trying until she heard a voice come from out the window in Freddy's room.

"Try a D, then E, and then C and G then keep it going."

Katie looked to her left and standing by his window, head out, was Freddy telling her what to play. She showed a little smile, playing what he told her to as she sent him a simple "thanks" as he started to play again. You could hear it from outside and it came together perfectly. She stopped after half an hour of that and went down to grab a pizza leaving Freddy there who also stopped turning off the CD player.

Katie came back upstairs and his blinds were drawn. She sighed and climbed into bed falling asleep.