'Why me? Why must he hate me so much?' These were the thoughts of Zachary Joseph Mooneyham on the morning of September 7th as he lay in his bed staring at the ceiling. He'd be starting at Abernacle Middle School today. The start of his 8th grade year. He wouldn't have his best friend Freddy, his girlfriend Katie, and he'd even miss the nagging of Summer. But the person he'd miss the most was Dewey Finn, the "substitute teacher" who hadn't really been a teacher. 'I'm gonna go back…' Zach thought to himself, 'I'll just do really bad on purpose here and then, it'll just… happen. The thing will realize I was better off at Horace Green. And send me back. That's my dream.'

"Zach!" The scream came from his older sister Jamie. "Get up loser! Dad wants you up so you can get to school on time for your first day."

"That's just what I want to do…" Zach said, continuing to stare at the Hendrix posters on his ceiling.

"Don't make me go get Dad!" Jamie said, continuing to pound down her little brother's door.

Zach got up and opened the door, causing his sister to fall forward, "I'm up. See?" He said to her, standing in front of the door with his hand on the doorknob.

Jamie looked up at him from the floor, "I'll go tell Dad you're up." She said, pulling herself up and walking downstairs to the kitchen, where her father was.

"ZACH!" This time the scream came from Jamie's twin sister Jaclyn.

"I didn't do it. I swear!" Zach said, in a pair of jeans, and was pulling on his black Hendrix shirt.

"Zach. Dad wanted me to tell you to hurry up, because he has to go to work by 8:30, and you have to be at the new place by 8." Jaclyn said, leaning in the doorway.

"Well, I'm just about ready." Zach said, pulling on his black vans. "If people would just leave me alone. I could've been ready 10 minutes ago."

"Someone's a little touchy." Jaclyn said, walking downstairs to the kitchen.

Zach ran a comb through his hair and walked downstairs, standing in front of the door, "You wanted me down here, I'm down here and ready to go." He said to his father, leaning against the closet by the front door.

"I'm coming." His father said. David Mooneyham was a bit of a jerk, and Zach certainly hated him. But he would never let his father know that, for certain reasons.

Zach walked out the front door and sat in his dad's car, listening to his MP3 player, repeating the song School of Rock over and over again. 'The memories will never fade…' He thought to himself as his dad started the car and they drove towards the new school.