"What's up, Dude?" Freddy asked Zack a little later in the afternoon.

"Huh? Oh, nothing." He replied, sighing a little.

"Don't give me that! We may not have spoken in, like, ten years, but that doesn't mean that I don't know you inside out. We were best friends for years, Zack. I know when something's up."

"Nothing's up, Freddy."

"You have something face. Tell me what the something is. You know me, if you refuse to tell me I'll keep guessing until I get the reason. And don't even bother asking me to drop it, 'cos you know I won't."

Freddy studied his friend's face. It was sad and had a certain longing in it, like he wanted something to happen which wasn't. Zack sighed again and his eyes sought out a person in the room. Freddy followed the gaze and his eyes rested on a beautiful young woman in a sun dress.

"Ah. Still got that crush, huh?"

"Am I that obvious?"

Freddy nodded in answer and Zack shook his head.

"I shouldn't still feel like this, but I do. I have to confess something to you, Freddy. Back when we were still a band, Katie and I were dating. We dated for about three years. I guess that big fight not only broke the band up but it was the end of us as well."

"Oh man! I never knew. Sorry, mate. I kinda suspected something was going on but I never realised that you were actually together."

"We didn't want to tell the rest of the band just in case it broke us up. I knew you kinda had a thing for her too, see."

"Dude! I never had a crush on her. I left her to you." Freddy looked slightly shocked at the thought. If he liked the same girl his best friend did then it was a violation of guy code.

"I've spent the last ten years missing her and hating myself for not doing anything about it. I still love her but I've never picked up the phone to call her and tell her about it. That's the part I hate the most. The fact that I'm too much of a coward to tell her I love her. She doesn't look like she's spent a second missing me. But I've spent ten years missing her."

Freddy took a fleeting glance at Katie and thought he saw a moment of sadness cross her face as she leant over the back of the sofa to look at a photo on a table that was standing by the back of the sofa. He saw her pick it up and press her fingers to the glass as if hoping to fall into that picture and into the happier times it portrayed. He thought it must be a picture of when they were still a band. Perhaps it was a very poignant memory for her.

She looked up and caught his eye and she looked as though she was going to burst into tears. He smiled comfortingly at her and she returned it with a small sad grin.

Zack then wandered off to talk to Dewey, which left Freddy free to talk to Katie.

He drifted over to her and settled himself next to her on the sofa.

Without even having to ask to see it, she handed him the photo frame. It was a picture of Katie and Zack. They were seventeen again and were sitting slightly separately from the rest of the group watching the rest of the band swimming in Freddy's pool. The pair of them were sitting on the edge of the pool and laughing at Freddy who was suspended in mid air about to plunge into the pool dive bomb style. Everyone's faces were open mouthed and anticipating what was about to happen.

In Freddy's mind he saw the picture come to life and him finishing the dive…and causing everyone to be soaked with water. Then it changed to evening and the band building the bonfire in his back yard and then singing rock songs around the fire and toasting marshmallows over it. Then them struggling to put up tents around the fire which was rapidly dying…and not succeeding very well.

Freddy laughed almost as hard as he had that night.

"We had fun that day, didn't we?" he said looking up at her.

"Indeed we did. Do you ever wish we could go back to those days? Be as young as we once were?"

"What? Before we all got old and wrinkly?"

They both laughed as ironically there was not a single wrinkle on either of their faces and twenty nine certainly wasn't old.

"Seriously? Yes I do. But nothing can turn back the clock and make us young again."

"Nothing except one thing!" she exclaimed excitedly.

She laughed her devious laugh at his perplexed look.

"What was the one thing that could make us what we once were? Stickin' it to the man!"

"The music." He said, apprehension dawning over him.

"Not just any music. One song."

She shot him the look she used to give him when she caught him staring at her ass during a practice or show. Despite him never having a crush on her he was still a guy, and could hardly resist taking the odd peek…or lengthy gaze.

He stuck his tongue out at her as was his usual response to that look.

They laughed so loudly then that the rest of the band fell silent and stared at them.

They exchanged glances and laughed again.

"Freddy did you give my model drugs again?" Billy said tutting at them.

They just kept laughing.