(8/16/09 UPDATE) Please take the time to actually read this author's note. I'm currently in the process of rewriting Being Thrown Into Reality. Hopefully you read through this, though you don't necessarily have to, before going to my rewrite. The title is The BTIR Rewrite I know, original. Thanks for your time
DisneyLady824
"Jet Black!"
I had heard that voice a million times before and turned around to greet my friend Orange. I know, who would name their kid Orange, but you have to look at him to get it. He ran up behind me, his books in the crook of his arm and his hair hanging in his eyes. You see, this is why he's called Orange. His hair is a really dark orange, and I'm serious, his momma always used to tell him it was because she had a craving for oranges when she was pregnant with him. I always called him Carrot anyways.
"What's up Carrot?" I called as he caught up with me.
"Me and the rest of the gang were wondering if we could hang at your house tonight"
"Is it just the five of us?"
He knew I questioning if it was just him, Battery, Cameron, Rex, and me. You see, the gang mainly includes me, and the four boys, but there's also the followers that hang around us when we go out somewhere. They get so annoying, I can't help it, but I always get into a fight with one of them at least once each day.
"Yep, just the five. And maybe your sister if she can"
Ah, my sister, I love my sister to death. That's probably because she's a motherly figure for me, considering out parents died not to long ago in a fire. She's the only other girl in the gang, besides me, and she's not a follower. We just don't include her in the after school activities since she's twenty-one and has a job.
"Yeah, sure, why not. She needs to hang out more. Like she used to, but she has a job. Why don't we just hang around the house and watch a movie"
Orange nodded and we both put our lips into an 'O' fashion and whistled our gangs whistle. Low in the beginning and high in the end. Our three other friends ran around the side of the building and past us, hollering for us to follow quickly.
"What'd you do this time!" I yelled as I jogged with them down the street.
Battery grinned and said, "Just you wait Jet Black, you'll hear in a moment"
We slowed down and as I waited for the chaos to start, I looked over my friends, seeing if any of them had evidence of their prank on their clothing.
Rex looked tired, but then again he always looked like that after running, hell who wouldn't if you just ran two blocks. He was bent over and had his hands on his jean covered knees. His black hair fell over his smoky gray eyes, making him a heart breaker in other girls eyes. I only saw him as a potential brother. But he was the tough one of the group, being able to get anyone out of a fight, but only by punching them before they punched us. He was the oldest, besides my sister, coming in at eighteen.
Cameron looked just about the same as Rex except he had a smirk on his face and a white bottle of some kind in his left hand. He raised his arm and wiped it across his forehead, and over his head, barely grazing the bleached spiked tips of his dark hair. His golden brown eyes were that of a child's, still in his early teens at fourteen. He was definitely the baby of the group, in fact, that's what I call him. Baby Bro.
Battery had his trademark grin on his sixteen year old tan face, His green eyes shining with excitement. His dark blond hair was shining, and probably getting lighter because of the summer creeping up on us. His clothes were wrinkled, of course, he was wearing regular jean pants, and his Dark blue shirt had Nemo on the front of it with Dory and his father along side of him. He's crazy about Finding Nemo, he has to watch it at least three times a week or he gets grumpy. But then again, your reading a story about a girl who fantasizes about Mickey Mouse actually being real.
I stood upright, still breathing a tiny bit hard and looked in the distance towards the school. My long Mahogany hair had started to fall our of the bun I had put it in and fell into my ice blue eyes, shading me somewhat from the sun brightly shining down on us. I was wearing my normal, tight black shirt with Mickey on the front, and baggy Blue jeans, along with my Black Converse, and my skateboard along side.
By now, now that I told you I have a skateboard, you can probably tell that we're skaters. And no, we don't steal…often. Only when we need to.
I was pulled out of my inspection of the school when a loud scream was heard from past the hedges behind the school. We all leaned a little bit, as if we were standing at the edge of the greenery and peeking around the corner, when a figure emerged into the parking lot.
"Damn guys, what did you do?" Orange asked inspecting the tiny figure.
Cameron held up the bottle so we could read it. Hair Coloring. Purple hair coloring.
Three more figures ran out next to the first one and were looking this way and that. "Who'd you color" I asked without turning around.
"Casey Kroft"
I spun around so fast I swear I almost twirled like a ballerina. "You colored who"
"You know, she's that girl in our gym class, thinks she's all that." Battery grinned.
I heard a loud yell from behind us, and turned back around. Six more figures had showed up, and these ones with Football jackets.
"I don't normally care for football," I began. "But ain't those Football players headed our way"
The figures turned our way and a few yelled, then started running down the street towards us.
"Cameron drop the damn bottle and get a move on it." I yelled putting my skateboard down and jumped on it. The others quickly followed suit and we skated the rest of the way home to my house. We lost the jocks about three blocks from the school and slowed down little. As we reached my house I noticed the black Chevy Impala in the driveway.
'Good, Ape's home'
I jumped off my board and ran up the sidewalk to the front door, it was unlocked, like usual, and we all made our way in. The house was small and simple, only because we don't have enough money to buy some fancy pants mansion. The house included a small living room, a kitchen that connected with the dining room, two bedrooms, and one bathroom. Usually when the guys slept over, which was almost every night, we all slept in the living room, except my sister, who has to go to work early in the morning.
"Honey, We're home!" I yelled into the house. I got that little saying from the show "I love Lucy," And I have to tell you, I always say it when we get home from school.
I heard a voice shout out from the kitchen, "Ok guys, I'm starting on dinner, what do you want?"
I looked the four boys as the stalked off into different parts of the house.
I walked to the kitchen and looked through the doorway at my sister.
Her light Mahogany hair was up in a tight complicated twist on her head, and the jacket from her suit was hanging off the side of one of the dining chairs.
Her pale dark brown eyes were tired as she noticed me walk in, and I looked at her with sympathy.
"How about we just have something easy tonight. Like Mac and Cheese and Hot dogs." I said while opening up the fridge and gathering up two Pepsi's, one Root Beer, one Mountain Dew, and a Coke.
"Thanks, Jet, I know your just letting me take it easy tonight, kinda like having a night off huh?" April said while opening up a cupboard and getting the dinner materials ready.
"Your welcome, we're going to be in the living room, I betcha the movie we're going to watch tonight is Finding Nemo. When will he ever get tired of that show."
"When will you ever stop fantasizing about Mickey Mouse living in the attic"
I glared at her as she laughed and started dinner.
"Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim." Battery sang along to the movie as it got to the so called "Good Part"
My eyes glanced up from the book I was reading, then went back to the words on the pages. I was reading the book "The Outsiders" for English class. At first I didn't really think much about the book, but once I read into it, I compared it to real life. There were the Preps, the Geeks, Rejects, Skaters, Goths, and Normies here in 2006. Back then it was just the Socs against Greasers, Rich against Poor. But today, it was basically an all out war between each group. Well, for the Skaters we have a few allies, like the Rejects, and Goths. And the Preps have the Geeks, We get into fights a lot at school, we steal every once in a while, the only thing we don't do is kill people. I finished the last page in the book and looked around at my friends.
Rex was basically a copy of Dally, always acting tough, like nothing in the world could hurt him. Cameron was like Ponyboy, the fourteen year old who was smart and skipped a grade. Battery was an almost replica with Two-Bit, always making wise cracks, and acting drunk when he hadn't even had a sip of alcohol. I looked over at April, she could relate to Darry, having to mother me, and letting all my friends stay over each night because their own parents couldn't care less where they were. Orange, I would say that he was like Steve, didn't really like Cameron hanging around, but was still friends with him, he didn't let him get on his nerves because he was best friends with me. And well, me, I don't know who I would relate to, whether it be Pony, Dally, Sodapop, or even Two-Bit, I'll have to let you know in the future.
I let the guys know I was going to get some fresh air and went out onto the porch. Looking up at the stars, I couldn't help but think that it would be cool if Dally and Johnny hadn't died in the book. They were a few of my favorite characters, besides Two-Bit and Soda. At that moment I saw a shooting star streak across the sky and I made a wish. Now I can't tell you the wish or it won't come true, but what I wouldn't have believed if someone told me what was going to happen, was that the wish actually came true.
The next morning I woke to a screaming coming from the kitchen. I lifted my head off the floor where I had dropped off to sleep the night before to see most of the guys also lifting their heads up. Battery was still sleeping, drool running down his chin and onto the couch. I threw one of the couch pillows at him and he shot awake. The screaming stopped, and we all stumbled up from the floor and to the opening of the kitchen. All four of the guys were in front of me, and one after the other stopped and ran into each other. And with me coming in last, I hit them with a little to much force, and we all fell to the floor.
"Jet, have you been letting strange people in the house again? 'Cause if you have been, you have to let me know before they get here"
I didn't even lift my head to acknowledge my sisters voice. You see, I'm not really a morning person until I've had my morning Mountain Dew. The four bodies underneath me started moving and shoving their way out from underneath each other. And soon enough, we were all standing, and when I looked up for the first time to see the kitchen my heart stopped. The cupboards had been ransacked, the floor was covered in cereal, the fridge was open and most of the food taken out and there were seven boys standing in the middle of all of it. I looked at my sister for a minute, who was waiting for an answer from her earlier question.
"Uh, you know how she is in the morning Ape," Orange started. "She needs her soda first before she'll talk"
At the word soda I jumped an realized the fridge was open.
"I don't think there's any left Car, just look at the fridge." I slowly made my way between all of the boys in the kitchen, picking my way from boys in T shirts and boxers, to boy in blue jeans and their long hair greased back. I stopped my walking just behind the Greased up boys. I turned and stared at the seven of them, each of them staring back.
"Ape? Who are they?" I asked.
She let out a groan, "That's what I asked you? You don't even know who they are. I thought they were your friends, since you bring in a whole army almost everyday. When I came in here this morning to start breakfast, I saw them, they all had switchblades out, there's food on the floor, the cupboards are empty, the fridge is probably warm by now. And you don't even know who they are. Boy this is just my day."
I looked at each of the boys once, then turned to the fridge and said "Oh well" Like it was no big deal.
"Is that all you can say is 'oh well?' Well you've done it now Jet, I bet you did let them in here last night after I went to bed, didn't you"
I picked up a semi cold Mountain Dew and opened it up, took a big gulp, then looked from April, to the seven boys.
"Never seen 'em in my life sis."
My sister looked aggravated and she let out a loud sigh. "Figure out who they are, if their your friends then fine, but if not, get them the hell out of the house. I gotta get to work." My sister left the room and we were all silent as the front door opened and then closed. I looked from boy to boy in the kitchen, considering there were eleven filling it. I suddenly felt self-conscious. I looked down at my clothes and saw that all I was wearing were pajama bottoms with Snoopy on them, and a purple T-shirt.
I sighed deeply and all eyes turned on me. "I need a shower." I said as I made my way back through the kitchen and to my bedroom. Grabbing blue jeans with a picture of Mickey Mouse on the right leg, A white shirt with Mickey on the front and took off towards the bathroom. Before I closed the door I yelled, "Whoever you guys are, make yourselves at home till I get out of the shower!"