Chapter 5: The Song
The band practice continued every Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday at the pad. So they are very confident that they'll get in the semi finals for the battle of the bands. And also months passed still Freddy and Katie's relationship is getting so much stronger while Katie's bestfriendship with Summer are getting so much weaker. Summer is still not talking to her even though some of the band members kept telling Summer to notice Katie. The whole band are still patching Katie and Summer's fight. Some of them even did a forced conversation and Summer just answered like a robot even though Katie would always answer including Summer like 'How 'bout you Summer?' and things like that. Katie really wanted Summer to stop ignoring her and be bestfriends again. She's always trying to do the first move but within 7 meters, Summer will walk away. Though Summer is still friends with the band, she still ignores Katie, yeah she'll notice her when she commands her to do something that only Katie can do. Every night Katie would try to call her but her mom always said thet she's either sleeping, or out with Zack, or busy. Summer always kept distance around Katie since July 10, 2006. She's not the good 'ol Summer Hathaway anymore a.k.a. Tinkerbell. She's now Winter Autumn Fall.(A/N: Summer if she's jovial, cheerful, happy; Winter when mad or angry or pissed off; Autumn/Fall if she's depressed, sick or sad; Spring if she's very excited or mixed emotioned) Katiewondered if her bestfriend would even say a syllable to her. One day after school she saw Summer alone at Ms. Mullin's coffee shop. She assumed that Summer's waiting for Zack. Then he saw Cedric Diggory with his cronnies Harry Potter Ron Weasley, Draco Malfoy, and Fred and George Weasley. Horace Green's Rival school when it comes to football. Their rival school is called Hogwarts. A public school who has teachers who doesn't do their jobs but just rests (Like Mr. S before) and wait for their salary to come. Even though Horace Green won for already 7 years in a row, any students coming from Hogwarts would always sabotage their team if there's an upcoming match. They'd make sure one player is sick, or has broken body parts, steal the school mascot, copy the cheerleader's dance steps and everything to make the team feel bad and angry and mess up during the game. Anyway back to the story, the star player of Hogwarts, Cedric is trying to make a move at Summer.
-----At the Coffee Shop-----
"Hey Summer," said Cedric from behind "What's up?"
"Leave me alone Cedric!" replied Summer angrily
"Oooh! A bad way to answer her crush!" said Cedric
"F.Y.I. Cedric, I. DON'T. LIKE. YOU.!" raged Summer "I have a boyfriend who has face, brains, and talents. Unlike a bozo freak like you who has a brain that can't even fill half an eggcup and doesn't have any face. You, who only know how to play football is a freakin' idiot. I don't even know if you know your address at home dork!"
"Respect your superiors little lady," said Harry "we know you have a freakin' geek for a boyfriend. Zack, he ain't even cool for us. He's only the lead guitarist of your little band."
"Well you're all more stupid than I thought," exclaimed Summer "just so you know, the little band you're talkin' about is like hitting the number one spot at all music charts in our generation!"
"Hey...slow down...don't you know that Cedric spends his time thinking about you when there's a lot of girls he can get in a blink of his eye?" Ron informed her "But oh no...he still wants you and if you were a Hogwarts student, you'd be the luckiest girl ever. Every girl would do anythin' to be in your shoes. Just to even talk to Ced will make you an instant celebrity in our school." he finished sarcastically and Harry, Fred, and George nodded to show their agreement
"Then those girls must be really big bitches and idiots." replied Summer coolly "And in your school where most idiot, stupid, big headed teenagers land will NEVER be my school. I can't even call that a school. Every kicked-out student lands at Hogwarts! Which I'm quite sure even the stupidest kindergarten student won't land in!"
Suddenly out of nowhere, Cedric grabbed Summer's arm and was pulling her to go with him and his friends. Katie now knows Summer by even a single move of her body. Summer was pulling her arm from Cedric's grip. Katie knew she wasn't going to come with them so she saw everything and immediately called Frankie, the band's security. Frankie quickly passed the message to the other guys until Zack knew. When Zack was called by Marco, he immediately went to the coffee shop along with the others. They satrted a fight. Zack and Marco was taking on Cedric, Frankie was taking on Ron, Gordon and Leonard was beating Harry up, Lawrence was kicking George in his stomach and pressing a certain part in his shoulder that made him groan in pain and pass out then he went to Frankie to help him out while Freddy was continuously using John Cena's finishing move, the FU on Fred since the twins were thin and light. They fought until Ms. Mullins stopped them by splashing them all with ice cold water and the Hogwarts students ran away, carrying George and cursing every School of Rock boys. The Hogwarts boys were banned from the shop for two months while she awarded all of her Horace Green students free food and drinks for two months beacause she hated Hogwarts for always sabotaging their winning team. After that fight, the boys and Summer went home then told the girls and Dewey everything happened.
"So it was really because of Katie. That's why we were able to rescue Summer from those Hogwarts idiots." finished Frankie and started eating his Subway Sandwich.
SLAM! Summer walked out the door and slammed the door. The glass on the table beside the door she went out shattered into pieces due to her force. She is really mad.
"The hell with her. As if I can't take care of myself! So now what? I have life debt on her!" she muttered to herself and started messing her room because she is very, very angry.
----------The next day at school----------
December 12, 2009 ; Friday ; 8:15 am
Summer, Alicia, Eleni and Katie's locker were on the same unit case (34, 35, 36, and 37). They started to get their things but Katie wasn't there yet. Suddenly they heard steps running and as the steps came nearer, they saw Katie. She was late. She hurriedly got her things from her locker and quickly started going to Ms. Mullin's office to get a late slip. But she was so in a hurry that she knocked Summer on the floor but then she quickly helped her up by pulling her without her knowledge. She also picked up her books and gave it to her but when she was about to give Summer her last book, the bell rang which means she can't make herself present in Ms. Mullin's student list so she just said "I'll give this to you later." and she dashed to the principal's office. When she got there she quickly muttered an apology and got her late slip. She remembered that she has Summer's Math book. She opened the back and saw a scribbled note which said "Avoid Butterbeer avenue and most dead ends. They hang out there." then Katie thought who hangs out at Butterbeer avenue? Then she remembered that most gamblers, drug dealers and cutting students are often seen there. "But who?" she thought and started hurrying for her English class. When she went in, she showed Ms. Franco her late slip and Ms. Franco told her to take her seat. She started going to the seat saved by Freddy but she handed Summer her book first. While Ms. Franco is teaching stuff about the Japanese-Filipino Literature, Freddy called her attention by throwing a small piece of crumpled stick-it note. She read its content, "Kay, you and Summer in good terms already?" then she looked at Freddy who was obviously looking at her waiting for her answer and she shooked her head. After a few minutes of listening to Ms. Franco on who were part of the Veronicans, she recieved another crumpled stick-it note from Freddy and she opened it which said "So why do you have her book then?" then she replied it with "Long story. Tell u later at recess! Now will u stop bothering me!" then she threw Freddy back the note, read it then shooked her head in reply. Throughout the class, Freddy kept on making funny faces to get Katie's attention unfortunately, he didn't.
----------Recess----------
The band lined up after each other to get their food from the cafeteria lady. After they got it, they went to their long, reserved table given by the school as one of the gifts for winning battle of the bands for 3 years straight since 6th grade. As they sat, Katie and Summer are already apart from each other again so Freddy now took Summer's old seat since she and Katie had a gap. Summer was now sitting beside Zack where Freddy have been in their previous years.
"So tell me the long story Kay," said Freddy as he opened his Hunt's Choco-Marshamallow Pudding "C'mon."
Then Katie told him everything that happened on why she was late, and why she has Summer's book.
After school, Freddy and the boys (except Billy) bid them goodbye because they have football practice that afternoon.
Eleni, Michelle, Tomika, Marta, Alicia and Billy went to the mall to shop while Summer went to Ms. Mullin's coffee shop and she walked home to the pad because they have practice. As she passed by Butterbeer avenue to go to a music shop, she heard a small, short scream of someone. She wasn't sure if it's from a girl or a boy. The he heard a deep voice said "Summertime has come." then she thought "Must be Hogwarts. Can't believe they're still idiots when it comes to dates! Don't they even know school's just started the first quarter?" then she continued walking to the music shop and she entered when she got there. She asked a goth teenager boy for a pair of Shiela E.'s signature drumsticks. She asked for it to be customized. The teenager colored it black as she requested and he also carved "Posh Spice and Spazzy McGee" on both sticks and had it flaming red. When she got hold of it, it was very smooth. Even smoother than Billy's 'well-taken cared' skin. She paid the boy $40 (because it's a signature and customized pair that's why it's expensive) and quickly went home to wrap it. She got it for her and Freddy's fifth monthsary. After the boy's practice they went home to the pad because they have practic and rested first while Dewey wasn't there yet. Katie called for Freddy and he quickly went to her.
----------At Katie's room------------
"Spaz, look what I got you." said Katie and she handed him the drumsticks that are neatly wrapped "Can't wait for our 5th monthsary so I'm givin' it to you early." then she planted a kiss on his cheeks. Then Freddy opened it and he complimented it.
"Thanks for this awesome gift Kay," he said "sorry, still don't have your's 'coz you're really early. I'm gonna use this for practice later. It's even smoother than Billy's skin!" then he hugged her.
After sometime, they heard Dewey scream "Get down here all you lot!" then those who are in their room quickly went down and they started band practice. Suddenly Summer came, Katie didn't realize she wasn't present and she was late for the first time. Very late. She muttered an explanation to them saying that she fell asleep at the coffee shop. They all understood her because she always had something to do then they resumed practice again after Summer's interruption. After 3 hours of continuous playing of "First Day Back At School" Dewey finally called a wrap.
"Ok. Guys, we're perfect. We're gonna blow those people's mind off with our high voltage rock!" sai Dewey triumphantly "Oh and Summer here had an idea," then everyone looked at Summer who was sleeping on the couch. Everybody thought how she could sleep with all the noise. "so sleeping Summer here had an idea that every band member should have an understudy." Everyone nodded to show their agreement.
"That's cool with me." said Zack "But we get to choose who'll be our understudy."
"Okay," replied Dewey "I choose...Billy!"
What? No way Dewey! I don't even know how to play!" raged Billy and everybody except sleeping Summer laughed at him. "and if I play that guitar, my nails will be broken! I can sing back up if you want as an understudy!"
After an hour of deciding who'll be their understudy, they finally went to each of their rooms without eating anything (it's Friday, the band will sleep overnight every Friday and Saturday there.) Dewey doesn't have an understudy because no one wanted to play guitar and sing at the same time. Zack chose Marco because last, last summer, Marco asked him if he could teach him jow to play the guitar and he's getting better. Katie chose Michelle because if she chose Eleni, she might have a hard time. Michelle's fingers were longer then Eleni's. Freddy chose Frankie because he wanted to play and now Freddy will give him lessons. Lawrence chose Eleni who now knows how to play keyboards because her mom forced her once. The back up singers chose no one because there were no more girls or guys that has a good voice so they don;t have their uinderstudies. Around one in the morning, Summer woke up and she went to her room and dressed on her sleeping clothes. She tried to sleep again but she had a hard time so she decide to write. When she had her paper, she didn't know what to write, so she started to write a song. She had a lot of erasures and mistakes and changes but in the end, it looked like this...and she started singing it.
(Lyrics"How Come" by Summer Mirands C. Hathaway (A/N: I really wrote the song! Ever wonder where Summer dedicates this song? hint: not DEWEY!)
I thought you're my friend
But you didn't tell me the truth till the end
I'm so sick, this friendship shouldn't be over
But you're making me to make my life better
You're my bestfriend but you kept things from me
Here's your friendship ring, thank God I'm now free
Chorus:
How come you didn't tell me?
We're supposed to be bestfriends
But now we can just be friends
'Coz this bestfriendship has now come to it's end
How come you didn't tell me?
You use to spill me all your secrets before
Now I just looked like a fool
Now we're just friends and torn
Why didn't you tell me this one?
Why not this one?
Why not this one?
I guess you really don't trust me now
Well I don't really do with those who can't
It's just like you're promising to pay me
'coz I paid all your share of the rent (Dewey!)
I hear your voice before calling my name
Ready to tell a secret to me
But when I was expecting one, you didn't
make yourself free
(Chorus)
Bridge:
You caused me so much pain
I said before that you can tell me anythin'
So here's your friendship ring (back)
You told everyone but not me
You caused me such painful feeling
(Chorus 2x while song fades)
(End Lyrics"How Come" by Summer Miranda C. Hathaway)
Little did Smmer know that she wasn't the only person up. Katie who saw her come up to her room was listening to her from the outside. She was now in the verge of tears because she now knows whom Summer dedicated the song. She just went back to her room and cried until she fell asleep. Meanwhile Summer, who has been given by her boyfrend Zack guitar lessons, got her acoustic guitar (electric is quite loud and noisy and everyone's sleeping.) and started strumming the right tune for her song. In the end the chords were: A minor, A, D, A, C, G, D, A, C, G, D, A, C, G, G, G, G, G, G, A, D, A, D, A, D, A minor A, D, A, C, G, D, A, C, G, D, A, C, G, G, G, G, G, G, A, D, A, D, A, D, A minor, A, D, A, C, G, D, A, C, G, D, A, C, G, G, G, G, G, G, A, D, A, D, A, C, G, A, D, A, D, A, C, G, A, D, A, D, A, C, G, A minor, A, A, A
Then after playing, Summer drifted off to sleep.
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