Chapter 2- A Disruption

The next afternoon Katie and Freddy sat in his room listening to his thoroughly well rounded CD collection.

"Freddy? Yesterday at practice you said you wanted to tell me something. What is it?"

Freddy didn't listen. Well actually he did but was trying to avoid answering the question. He was inserting a Ramones CD into his CD player. When he realised that she wasn't going to drop it he asked her, in an infuriatingly polite way, to repeat her question. She glared, knowing full well that he had heard her the first time. He realised the mood she was in and hastened to correct his mistake.

"Oh! Well- I- well- I- kinda- sorta-um…"

"Spit it out Freddy!"

"Well- I…"

Someone knocked on his door as he spoke and Zack put his head in the door.

"Hi guys!"

"What do you want, Hendrix?"

His nickname had changed to Hendrix; it rolled off the tongue better than Zack Attack.

"Nothing really Spaz."

Freddy shot Katie a look then glared hard at Zack, who flinched and realised his mistake. They had discussed their plans to tell their crushes about their feelings and Zack had just realised that he must have interrupted Freddy in the middle of telling her. Oh dear. Freddy was going to murder him.

"Can I talk to you outside, Hendrix? Now!"

They hurriedly left the room and Katie heard shouting from the next room. He he! She liked hearing Freddy shouting at someone else when they had just got over a quarrel. Mind you she hated it when they quarrelled. After about five minutes they still hadn't returned so she went over to Freddy's drum kit and started beating out the drum riff to Queen's Hammer to Fall and Alright Now by Free. She was actually pretty good. After a while she saw the boys standing in the doorway gaping at her.

"Sorry, got bored."

"That's okay. You can bang on my drums anytime."

Zack collapsed into giggles and Katie tried to give him a scornful look but she too laughed. It took Freddy a little while to cotton on to what he had said. He blushed violently. This just spurred on the laughter.

"You never told me you could drum." Zack asked Katie, still emitting little chuckles every now and then.

"I was playing drums before I started bass."

"We should arrange a drum-off between you two. Personally I don't think you stand a chance, Katie. He's the best drummer in the city. But if you practice some more you might be a sixteenth as good as him, and that'll be a start."

"No worries, you think I'd let myself get beat by a girl? Come on, dude, I'm way too cool for that!"

Katie wanted to hit him at that moment. How dare he be so misogynistic? She had known him for, like, ever and he had never been like this.

"Is your brain even connected to your mouth? I really don't think it is! You boys may say things like that when it's just boys but how dare you say something like that in front of me? I thought you were cool, Freddy, but it turns out I was wrong."

She threw his drumsticks at him and tried to storm out but because of her ankle she couldn't do more than limp out with an extremely p'd off look on her pretty face.

Freddy glared at Zack who looked back in a guilty fashion.

"You do know that this is all your fault?"