Up in Arms - A Dave Grohl Fanfic

Chapter 1

Kat's POV

"Shit," I muttered while repeatedly hitting my alarm clock to shut it the fuck up.The time read 7:30am , and my bus left at 7:55am. I dragged myself out of bed and threw on my RHCP shirt, a pair of ripped jeans , my black leather jacket and my beloved black doc martens. There was no time for a shower, besides, I wanted to walk slow so I could have a cigarette on the way to the bus stop. I pulled my dark brown, wavy hair out of its ponytail and ran my fingers through it a couple of times, that's all I ever do. I applied my thick black eyeliner and some dark red lipstick, while adjusting my nose ring that I had left in all night. I shoved a pack of cigarettes in my pocket, as well as my purse and lighter before throwing my backpack over my shoulder and walking down the stairs. I called out a goodbye, not caring whether anyone heard me or not as I made my way out of the front door.

I figured I had some time to walk slowly, so placed the cigarette between my lips and lit it. I should really be nervous for my first day, but surprisingly I'm not. Besides, at my last school I spent most of my time ditching class and smoking pot with the other 'stoners'. I took the last drag of my cigarette before letting it fall to the ground and putting it out with my foot."Fucking brilliant", I muttered to myself as I saw the bus pull up at my stop that I was still a long walk away from. I picked up my pace and somehow made it onto the crowded bus in time.

I hurriedly shoved my ticket into my pocket after paying and made my way through the crowd of people stood in the aisle towards the back of the bus.Im slightly claustrophobic, you see, and planned to stand in the aisle towards the back of the bus rather than in amongst the crowd of people.
"Watch where you're going, kid!" exclaimed some middle aged woman with a bitter tone.
"I didn't fucking touch you, you menopausal bitch"
I really wasn't in the mood for her bullshit at 8am in the morning. By this point, pretty much the entire bus had their eyes fixed on me. She nudged an elderly woman next to her and tutted , "kids these days huh, so rude and disrespectful of adults", to which the woman smirked and nodded in agreement. I proceeded to flip them both off and , as planned, made my way towards the back of the bus, and held onto one of the overhead handles.Even for me, flipping off an elderly woman will not go down as one of my best moments.

"I've never heard anyone call someone a menopausal bitch before," spoke a boy around my age sat in the seat to the right of where I stood. He had shoulder length brown, wavy hair, a bit like mine,with dark brown eyes to match, and wore blue baggy jeans, worn out red vans, Ramones shirt and a black leather jacket.
"I'm Dave, by the way, Dave Grohl, and this is my friend Krist Novoselic," gesturing to the boy sat next to him, who gave me a 'hey' and a warm smile. He had short-ish brown hair, and wore a black SSD shirt with navy jeans and black converse.
"Kat" I smiled back.
"Are you going to Aberdeen high, just I've never seen you around before?"
"Yeah," I replied," me, my older brother and my mom moved here from Olympia after my dad left, we wanted a change but we didn't want to move too far."
"Ah, I see, you want me to show you around?"
"Sure Dave, just ditch me for some girl you met on the bus!" Krist joked, making me feel a little bad.
"You know Dave, it's fine, I don't want you to leave Krist alone" I spoke with some hesitation in my voice.
"I'm only joking, I'll go find Kurt and the girls," Krist replied, laughing slightly at himself.
"You dick!" I joked, leaning over and messing up Krist's hair. I immediately felt comfortable around Krist, I could tell we would be good friends.
"Anyway, that'd be nice, Dave."

"I'm so sorry," said Krist sarcastically, before laughing hysterical at himself again.
"Is he high or something?" I whispered in Dave's ear.
"He's always like this, you should see it when he's actually high, that's quite a sight," Dave whispered back. He had a deep, raspy sort of voice, and sounded incredibly sexy when he whispered in my ear. I snapped myself out of my trance , and laughed with him.
"I'll look forward to seeing that!"

About another minute of comfortable silence passed and we arrived outside of the shithole that was Aberdeen High. I hadn't even stepped through the doors and I already hated it. I walked with Dave and Krist through the front doors, chatting about anything that popped into our heads, like I'd been friends with them for years.
"We've got some time to kill, so I'll take Kat to the office to get her schedule , you go find Kurt and the girls and we'll meet you at my locker, ok?"
"Fine, mom," Krist joked, "see you's around".
"See ya," Dave and I shouted in unison, before looking at each other with that kind of 'did that really just happen?' look.

I followed Dave in whichever direction we were going. The walk was short, and he filled me in on who I should stay away from, and pointed out all of the 'pretentious dickheads'(Dave's words) that were the popular clique, it wasn't like I was going to talk to them anyway. We soon arrived at the office.
"Hi, I'm Katherine Allen, I'm new here," I spoke politely to the secretary.
"Ah, Katherine,let me see," she replied , scrolling down the list of names on her computer. A minute of painfully awkward silence and funny looks exchanged between me and Dave ensued as she printed out my schedule. "Here you go ," she spoke as she handed me the paper. I gave her a fake smile and turned around to walk with Dave.
"Ooh Katherine!"
"I swear to god, if you ever call me by my full name I will literally eviscerate you, understand?", I laughed, half joking , half serious.
"I'm sorry Katherine," he joked. I playfully pushed him into a wall, us both laughing hysterically.

"Here, let me see that," Dave spoke when we had both calmed down, scanning the paper.
"No fucking way! We're in all the same classes!"
"Ooh, cliché," I replied sarcastically.
"Well, apart for gym, but you've got Jennifer and Claire in that class"
"And who are they ?" I questioned as we made our way through the crowded halls.
"I'll introduce you to them, I think you'll love them," he answered, as he lead me down yet another crowded hallway.