A/N - So, I'm doing something I swore I'd never do again...posting an unfinished story. I have about 50pgs. written that I am very happy with, however I'm looking for a little motivation. Maybe you can be it?
Disclaimer - I do not own the outsiders, just some gross trapeze grips and a whole teams worth of high school baseball uniforms. Sue and you'll get the honor of doing their laundry...
Chapter 1 - At the Beginning
We were strangers, starting out on a journey
Never dreaming, what we'd have to go through
Now here we are, Im suddenly standing
At the beginning with you
No one told me I was going to find you
Unexpected, what you did to my heart
When I lost hope, you were there to remind me
This is the start
I may not have realized it for what it was, but Sodapop Curtis and I had fallen in love the first time we met, well for me it was the first time that we met. Soda swears he had fallen in love with me before that having seen me from across the school yard. However it wasn't until many years later that we came to recognize our friendship for what it really was.
Our story starts in elementary school, in the 4th grade to be exact. Long before we truly understood the differences between greasers and socs, the differences between us...long before I had met the Curtis boys and their friends, long before those boys became orphans.
It all started one fall day at school when Randy had pushed me down into a mud puddle. I had been mad, but, like a good girl in 1954 I didn't say anything, didn't do anything, I simply went inside said I'd fallen and asked to go home to change.
I lived in a nice little house on the "right" side of town, I knew my mother would be home with my two younger siblings (Amanda was 5 and Michael was 6 months) so I went straight home, fuming mad.
"Mom!"
"Alice! What in the world are you doing home from school?" My mother asked as she came down the stairs with the baby in her arms "Oh...did you fall in the mud hunny?"
"No! I got shoved by that horrible boy Randy!"
My mother laughed at my anger "Oh hunny, I'm sure that he didn't mean to make you so upset! I bet he just likes you! Come on let's get you cleaned up and back to school."
"Likes me! Why in the world would he be so mean to me if he liked me?"
"Well, sweetheart" my mother began as we went into my room and she handed me another school dress "boys mature a lot slower then girls do, they do really silly things to show girls how they feel about them. You'll see as you get older." She ran a brush through my hair and straightened my bow "There you go, all better!"
"I wanted to hit him" I said quietly looking at my feet. "I hope he dons't like me, I HATE him!"
"Now Alice, you must never hate someone, that is a very strong and ugly word. Secondly, his parents are very good friends with your father and I so you will be nice to him, not only because of that but because a young lady never engages in violence. Do you understand me?"
"Yes ma'am"
"Good, now how about you get back to school before the lunch bell rings?"
"Ok"
My mother kissed me on the forehead and saw me to the door.
A/N - The song is "At the Beginning" by Donna Lewis.
