Chapter 9: Imperceptible Substantiation and Undesirable Verdict
January 23, 2010 ; Horace Green High; 9:30 am
It was a fair day that day. The band went out to calm down from everything. Katie, Eleni and Michelle went to school to get their homeworks from the past days they've missed school. While Eleni and Michelle went to Ms. Mullins to get some school papers and stuff, Katie went to her locker and got some notebooks. She looked at her left and saw Summer's locker. With continuous spying if any people get to see her, she unlocked Summer's locker. As she opened it, a chestnut colored paper tissue labeled 'Amazonic Horizon Coffeeshop' fell on her left foot. She wondered how it got there since when they opened Summer's locker, it wasn't there before. She picked it up and threw it into a trash bin but it got stuck in her bracelet so she fiddled with it. Whilst she struggled to eradicate the tissue paper, she saw something black on it. She turned it over and there was a note saying "You can't get anything out of me." Katie wondered who wrote this ugly sribbled note. A note on Summer's locker, Katie assumed it was slipped in mistakenly and that it wasn't for Summer. As she got some of her books, Michelle and Eleni came and gave her the list of homeworks given and went straight to their lockers.
January 23, 2010 ; SoR Pad; 11:00 am
Freddy dialed Katie's number on his mobile phone. When she answered, Freddy told her to stop by the pad reasoning out that the Hathaway's house was boring. Katie, unable to turn down her boyfriend, gave in. After a thirty minutes, someone rang the doorbell and Freddy immediately opened the door. It was the three girls.
"Hey girls!" Freddy greeted blissfully as if no one's lost. "What's up besides the sky and clouds out there? Come on in." then he gestured them to come in. As Katie passed by him, Freddy stole a kiss on her cheek. Expecting to get a smack on his face, Freddy quickly gripped Katie's nearest hand. But Katie just continued to walk for her bedroom upstairs.
"Hey what's wrong?" Freddy asked her as he walked beside her. Katie looked at him as she stepped on the sixth stair.
"I'm just not in the mood. With all these homeworks and Summer's loss..." she replied and dumped her school bag on Freddy's hand and continued to walk. Freddy heard her mutter "This is too much." He followed her to her bedroom. He just told Katie to call him if she needed something 'coz he need to go to the Entertainment Room to play Gordon's new videogame.
"Knock! knock! knock!" said the door after half an hour. Katie told whoever is behind that door to come in. It was Marta.
"Hey...what's up?" asked Katie as she motioned Marta to the foot of her bed.
"Well...uhm...I'm sorry for what I did yesterday. I didn't mean to advertise to you all Draco's profile. I'm really sorry. I only asked him how was the investigation coming but he said it wasn't good. They had a hard time tracing where in the world our manager is." Marta replied apologetically.
"That's okay." Katie assured her friend. "I understand you like him. He does too. I noticed him eyeing you when we found out Summer's lost. Besides why should you apologize to me? You should apologize to Michelle because Summer's her godsister." (A/N: Is there such word as God sister?)
"I already tried..." Marta replied quietly. "But when I knocked on her door...yeah she opened it with tears streaming down her face...but when I was about to say I'm sorry...she shut her door to my face." and then Katie crawled up to her and hugged her friend. After a while Katie decided to try and produce a talk with Michelle and Marta. After a trying too many times for a conversation. Michelle gave in and then after their talk, she accepted Marta's apology and Michelle also said sorry for shutting her door to her.
January 24, 2010 ; SoR Pad ; 9:00 am
Katie woke up early. She planned to print a "Lost: Summer Miranda C. Hathaway ; about 5"6 ; Eighth grader from Horace Green High ; and a picture with full description of Summer." She even added a reward coming fom the band fund. She knew if she did this with Summer's knowledge, she'd be double furious at her. After she printed the flyers, she spent the next three hours posting them on posts, bulletin boards, trees, buildings, walls, trash cans, and she even put one on someone else's car and a lost Siberian Husky. After the long walk around the town, she decide to get a frappe at Rockafe, Ms. Mullins's coffee shop inspired from the School of Rock. An hour rest later, she heard the door chime, which means a visitor entered. She saw Cedric, alone with one of her flyers.
"So she's lost ain't she?" he inquired Katie as he held the flyer up in her face.
"Isn't it obvious? Thought you Hogwarts guys were a bit aware of signs and posts and flyers. Never thought you couldn't read." Katie mocked him. "You're not that low right? Besides you like her and why aren't you kinda like 'worried?'" she added as she did air quotes to the word 'worried.'
"Nah...I'm over that damned biatch. I got Cho-" said Cedric as he ripped the flyer. But then out of nowhere, Katie slapped him hard in the face just in time when Ms. Mullins arrived at her coffee shop.
"Katie!" shrieked Ms. Mullins as she went over her and saw Cedric touching his now crimson cheek, staring at Katie very hard. "What are you doing!"
"She called Summer a...a...a damned biatch..." replied Katie furiously sad. "Please bann every Hogwarts student Ms. Mullins. Your shop isn't a hang out place for stupid people." she pleaded to her principal.
"Cedric...no Horace student is a damned biatch." replied Ms. Mullins angrily facing Cedric with fists curled ready to punch. "Dare you to tell that to your mom infront of everyone. Your school, especially you and your little friends, are banned here forever! Thought two months are enough for you to change. You are all banned here FOREVER! I don't care if my shop won't earn that much even if your schoolmates don't buy anything from us!"
With that, Cedric ran away. Ms. Mullins quickly called a security agency and hired four guards. Both two for the backdoor and frontdoor. Katie stayed at the shop for three more hours. Thinking about the band. How she can't play or sleep thinking that someone she loves and lost is angry at her. Then she went to the mall to look for clothes and CDs. Around 7 o'clock at the evning, she went home for the pad with her Porsche. (A/N: The whole band has cars with a really early student driver license!)
January 24, 2010 ; SoR Pad ; 7:00 pm
Freddy looked for Katie and Gordon told her that she left early for posting of flyers. He became fucking worried as he blamed himself for waking up really late and not being able to help Katie with the flyers. Imagine waking up at 4 pm. He asked everyone why they didn't bother to help Katie. Each and everyone of them said that she said she didn't want company. Then she heard a click on the door. It opened and Katie was behind it. She went straightly to her room, groggy and sleepy. Freddy followed her and 'scolded' her why she didn't bother him for company.
"I did...try to wake you up but you were all sleepy..." she said as she yawned and dropped her stuff on the floor.
"Nevermind. Just tell me if you're going out again okay?" Freddy replied calmly.
"Please close the door..." Katie commanded her boyfriend.
Freddy closed the door as he started to go out.
"NO! Freddy...no...come back..." she exclaimed. "I need to talk to you."
Freddy nodded and went back to her bed and sat on it.
"Freddy we need...to...uhm...I don't know how to say this..." muttered Katie.
"What is it?" Freddy asked worriedly.
"We need to separate..."
"What! Why! Katie no! Please no!"
"I don't want to just so you know Freddy! But I can't deal with this anymore! There's you, Summer, the band, homeworks! It's too much! I need space. Time! If you freakin' like me like me...please set me free. And please, don't shout at me..."
"So that's it! Huh! Why you wanna be an astronaut? Get space huh?"
"This is damn serious! I can't deal with this anymore! Please understand me!" exlaimed Katie in the verge of her tears.
"You're the last thing I don't wanna lose! We lost Summer, I did. She's my friend. I don't wanna lose you too! Can't we just cool off!"
"Cool off! No! In MY love meter that's the middle. It's just love or goodbye for me. Cool off means that you're still tied. Wrapped. Constricted!"
"Why you don't like me anymore huh! I'm gonna die without you!"
"No! I do! I really do like you! Do you think I wanted this decision! Huh! Hell no! But I'm so full of problems!" and with that Katie stormed out of the room, crying. Leaving Freddy dumbfounded, miserable, loveless, droplets of tears from his brown eyes, and lonely. In his mind, he'd rather freeze to death than watch himself in misery just because of Katie. There's no more Katie and Freddy.
Freddy's thoughts
"Why'd she have to do that? I know everything happening right now is too much! Once everything's back to normal, I promise myself that I will get Katie back. In whatever way. I will, and if I don't I WILL commit suicide."
End Freddy's thoughts
After a couple of minutes, Michelle and Billy called everyone for supper. Not wanting to see Katie, Freddy didn't take his meal. So did Katie. The others wondered what happened to the two. Frankie asked Freddy what the matter is after supper. The boys learned about their break up. So did the girls. Katie explained her reason to the girls. While the boys said that there's still others and that it's Katie's loss - just to make him feel better.
January 27, 2010 ; Browns's Alaska Resthouse ; 8:43 am
Katie went there by herself through their family jet. She's settled there for a while to get her mind off her problems. Freddy and Summer. The band practice wasn't doing well because of Summer's loss. Freddy too. He started playing badly since their break up. Whenever they needed a 'clang!" sound, he gives them a 'dong!' sound or sometimes he gives them 'ting!' if they ever needed a 'tsk!' sound. In fact, he even made a drumstick fly and snap into two accidentally and made Dewey's drums have duck tape because he poked one of it by accident - again. So, Dewey decided to give them some time to cool themselves up. So here she is, Katie at their resthouse at Alaska. To literally cool herself up with mounds of ice. During those times when Freddy really killed his drum practice, Katie was playing like she has no problem. Little did everyone know that everytime she played her old bass (the one that WASN'T given by Freddy) with her back turned from everyone, she cries softly seeing Freddy use his old drumsticks. (the one which WASN'T given by Freddy) Freddy showing that he's a man, didn't cry whenever Katie plucks her bass, instead he hits the drum kit very hard with the wrong sound. She put on her snowboard and sloped down the hill. As the cold breeze of ice touched her face, she remembered her happy memories with Freddy. She tried to knock those memories by swerving her snowboard left and right continuously until she hit a rock and landed lopsidedly on both the rock and her snowboard on her arms. She cried in pain, both remembering those damned, fucking memories of Freddy and the physical injury she attained. Her resthouse butler saw her from the terrace and hurriedly came to her aid.
February 14, 2010 ; Brown Mansion, Philadelphia ; 10:21 am
Katie just recovered from her jetlag and she decided to call up some band members. She asked for questions dealing with Summer's presence - who is still lost. The band knew what happened to Katie's arm so they didn't have a bassist. Michelle took over Katie's place when Katie called her over to her house and taught her since she's her understudy. When Freddy recieved the news about Katie's arm, he was just like "Fine. Whatever." Things were back to normal. Freddy played normal and eventually got over Katie and vice versa. They've been practicing the song of Frankie "Whale Burger" for their show in Rockafe for four days. Unfortunately, Katie acted as an audience since her arm is still injured that night.
Lyrics"Whale Burger" by Frankie Angelo Massagu (A/N: I really wrote the song!)
Chorus:
Mustard, cheese and mayonnaise
Whale Burger fillings, good taste
Coleslaw, carrots and stuff
Whale Burger bacteria cough
Whale Burger is my favorite
Whale Burger every corner of the street
Whale Burger! (repeat this line 4x)
The whole town loves the burger
The problem is ther's no more butler
To chop the whale from the ocean
Dammit he's the only man
Every day, every meal
Whale burger's a good deal
Baseball, basketball nd football team
Loves whale burgers that are steamed
(Chorus)
(Solo by anyone)
Just dial 84253287437
That's whale burger oven
Whale Burger craze
Where it came, you have to trace
Even dead live for the whale burger
Whale Burger fever
Unstoppable forever
(Chorus 2x)
End Lyrics"Whale Burger" by Frankie Angelo Massagu (A/N: I really wrote the song!)
Standing ovations welcomed the end of the song. After that performance, they went to the V.I.P. cubicle. A place where the performers and their company stays. Freddy was about to sit beside Katie but Katie quickly stood up for the restroom. Zack replaced her seat.
"What do you think you're doin' man?" asked Zack as he slapped his bestfriend on the shoulder. "Don't tell me you forgot that you already broke up. Because that is fuckingly mental!"
"I did..." Freddy muttered to himself.
"What's that?" asked Zack again.
"Huh? Uh...nothin' I mean all of you already took your seats and beside Katie's the free one." replied Freddy as he drank his iced tea.
After a couple of minutes, Katie got out of the restroom. She only saw a free seat beside Freddy (Zack left the seat) so she decided to tell Lawrence to move there so she could chat with Eleni. Good thing, Lawrence said "Ok." After sometime, Katie recieved a special drink from a waiter who motioned her that it was from a guy in the other table. Freddy saw this and was heating up furiously. Katie shooked her head and went back talking with Eleni. They left after an hour. Katie drove her Porsche with Lawrence, Eleni, Gordon, and Billy hitching a ride because they didn't bring their cars. When Katie got in, a guy stopped the driver's door from closing.
"Excuse me. But who are you?" asked Katie politely.
"I gave you the drink you didn't accept." said the guy. "I'm Chad by the way. Chad Michael Fuller Murray."
"Ok. But you see I have to go. Bye. Nice meeting you." said Katie a she struggled to close the door. Chad let go of the door and said sorry but threw a calling card as Katie opened her window and said "Thanks for the drink, but no thanks." and she started her car and drove for the pad. When they got home. Katie parked her car at the garage and shut the engine off. She picked up the calling card and placed it in her pocket. She went upstairs to her room and fell asleep immediately.
February 15, 2010 ; 3:14 am
Katie woke up in the middle of the night. She remembered all those things regarding Summer's loss. She put every little detail she know in a paper. It was like a jigsaw puzzle wherein you're in a labyrinth looking for pieces. She set the paper aside and went back to sleep again.
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(A/N: Pls. R&R people! Thanks you guys! Oh yeah and please let's write to Paramount Pictures to make School of Rock 2! RocK oN!)
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