EXTRAORDINARY WAY
CHAPTER 7
Right after Summer left, her phone rang. Instinctively I answered the phone and the guy on the other line was already asking questions before I could even say Hello. Summer is one tough chick to deal with these guys almost every day, I couldn't even last a second without getting angry.
"Sorry, she's not here right now. Try calling later." I said before ending the call not waiting for his response. Dewey gave me an appreciative nod, again with a weird looking expression. Katie took the seat next to me while the cheerful girl Marta, went to sit with her other band mates on the couch.
"You handled it alright!" Katie said with a chuckle. I just hope the calls would stop, until Summer gets back.
"Keyboards, front and center!" Dewey yelled for everyone to hear. I refuse to look up, and was hoping it wasn't me he was calling. But who am I kidding? I knew it was me, so I had to look up. And like hell heard me, everyone in the room was looking at my direction. Dang it!
"I'd rather not." I told him sheepishly feeling incredibly self-conscious.
"Come On! Front. And center." He urged. I sighed before standing up and walking towards the center of the room. I didn't like all this attention, especially the staring. I stared at Dewey, who had his hand under his chin.
"Now what?" I asked as I as hitched my shoulders upward.
"Do you play any instruments?" he questioned. I just stared at him. Did he think Summer brought me here to join the band?
"Dewey, what are you trying to do man?" Said the one who was sitting next to the blonde boy, who now had an amused expression on his face.
"Do you play?" Dewey asked again after shushing the boy. Well, I do know how to play the piano. But that was two years ago, and I probably would be rusty now if I play. So I shook my head in return.
"No, not really." I told him. He nodded while thinking it over.
"I figured. You don't zig, you zag like Tinkerbell." So that's why they call Summer Tink, she was nicknamed Tinkerbell. Boy, do I have a long road ahead of me, with this keyboard thing. "But you have that look. Do you listen to rock?" He eagerly asked.
"Not much. My brother likes that genre though, so I get some almost every weekend." I told him. My older brother was in college now, he still visits every weekend though. He's school is in New York, being not too far away, I always get rock education every Saturdays when he would play AC/DC music as loud as the speakers can hold it.
"Well, I'm Dewey Finn and this is the School of Rock." We announce as he opened his arms. "And if what Sumer said was true, then I guess you're gonna be spending time here everyday. Which also means you'll be hearing Rock music all the time." Is this a welcome speech or what? "Rock music. . . that's all. Can you handle that?" He said while doing a funny walk towards me, he is weird.
"I think I can." I said wanting the conversation to end already, it feels awkward standing in a room full of strange people.
"Stop scaring her Dewey." The blonde boy said before standing up and walking passed me, heading for the toilet I guess.
"Are you kidding me?" Dewey grabbed my shoulders to turn and face everyone. "This chick is tough, she spends most of her time with Summer." The gang cracked a smile at that.
"If that's the case then you are one tough gal." Said the boy with dark hair as he stood up and walked towards me. "Hi, I'm Zack." He said with a friendly smile. He was wearing a black shirt with a band name on it. Now that I've notice, almost everyone in the room seemed to love the punk rock style, even Gordon. I took his hand and was about to introduce myself but Dewey interrupted.
"Easy there Tiger." He told Zack before walking away, heading towards the kitchen. Zack just shook his head and laughed.
"He's unusual, but you'll get use to him." He said as we both took a seat in the couch. I sat beside Marta who was currently braiding her hair.
"You already met Marta and Katie." He said making both girls nod towards me. "Katie is our Bassist and Marta here, is a backup singer. That's Lawrence" He pointed at the Asian kid. "He's the band's keyboardist, rocks in his job I have to say." Lawrence smiled at what Zack said and gave me a wave. "Tomika over here is our lead singer." He announce when a tall black girl came towards us.
"And totally rocks on her job too." She added as she took the seat across us and smiled. "Nice to meet you girl."
"You too."I replied with a smile.
"You look familiar, do we have A.P. class together?" Asked the shorter black girl, who was sitting at thecorner.
"Not to my recollection." I shook my head as I said it.
"I'm Alicia, another back up singer." She stood up and walked towards me, she's so sassy that her presence made me stand up from my seat to properly shake her hand. "What's your name again?" She asked, in a sassy way.
"Avery." I told her, hoping they will stick to that name unlike Dewey. "Avery Montez."
"Cute name, it suits you." Marta said in a cheery voice, I had to smile. No one ever said that to me before. Just then Blonde boy came out from the restroom.
"Hey McGee! Introduce yourself man." I heard Zack say. I stared at the blonde boy. He slowly walked towards me, hands in his pockets and his hair all spiked up. He stopped in front of me and gave a one corner mouth smile.
"Hey, I'm Freddy."
"I'm Avery." I don't know if I should shake his hand or just smile. I'm not even smiling, realizing that, I tried to smile.
"Nice to meet you, Keyboards." He said with a huge grin. I froze in place. Was he teasing me? I gave a nod just as he went around me to take my seat between Marta and Zack. Zack told him to find another seat but I wave it off and went back to the table where Gordon and Katie were.
"So you'll be coming here every day?" Katie asked and I nodded. "Cool. It's weird that I haven't seen you in school."
"I tend to keep a low profile." I tried to say.
"Why is that?" Freddy asked from across the room. I turn to look at him, he was staring at me with a confident look on his face. I just stared at him, for some reason he didn't look away, well there's no way I'm backing down either.
"Don't mind him, he's just like that." She raised her hand for a high five. "But hey, you'll get to hang here from now on. That'll be fun." I raise my hand to meet hers. "So are you a long time friend of Summer's?"
"Keyboards here, is Summer's new Assistant." Dewey announced and like a bolt of lightning every one yelled a loud "WHAT?"
"Uhuh. . . I know right. I couldn't believe it either." Dewey said with an amuse expression on his face. "AND, not only that-" I closed my eyes, at what he's trying to do. "-she was the one who brought up the idea."
"Why the Hell would you do that?" Katie being the closest to me, yelled with a disappointed look on her face. Everyone looked pissed like I offended Rock n' Roll or something. Except for Dewey and Gordon who already heard it from Summer earlier.
"I don't know, why not?" I nervously said.
"Have you met Summer?" Freddy exclaimed, a little over the top if you ask me.
"Yeah, Tink is great and everything." Zack explained to everyone. "In Business and Managing stuff, hands down she rocks at it." Zack was looking at me now. "But she does this stuff alone, with a partner it could be a bit disastrous."
"So you're worried about her?" I asked nervously.
"Are you kidding? Tink's a storm. He's worried about you." Freddy pointed out.
I know what you're thinking, Summer should have been the main character. XD kidding. . . . I'm currently practicing typing with all ten fingers, and yes that's where i got the inspiration for Avery's nickname. =) wish me luck.
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