Ok I have a new story up… I hope you guys like this, just thought of it while in Reno in a hotel with my family, and wrote it. The sad part is I'm stumbling across it a year later and realizing I never posted it. Better late than never huh? Enjoy.

Chapter: 1

Ponyboy POV

"Hey." Two-Bit yelled, as he came through the front door, slamming it behind him.

"We're in the kitchen." Sodapop shouted back, a grin on his face. Two-Bit came leaping into the room, grinning as he got me in a head lock.

"How was school today Pony?" he asked, letting me go and patting Soda on the back.

Giving him a dumb look, I turned to face him. He and I have chemistry together, since he flunked out of it last year (Not a big surprise)…

Today we the class had been divided into pairs to work in the lab, and I had gotten the new girl, while Two-Bit and his partner sat behind us at the tables. She was tall, with long brown hair, which took on a reddish tint when she was in sun light, and hazel eyes that peered out behind her long dark lashes.

Slowly she took a seat next to me, and gave a small shy smile, then looked away. She wasn't a soc, but she wasn't a greaser either, you could tell by the way she dressed. So she had to be middle class, not that it really mattered to me. I didn't care what social class you were, we're all people aren't we? She was wearing blue jeans, but they were crisp and fresh, her shirt was a light blue, almost the color of the sky, and the sleeves were cuffed up to above her elbows. We both pretty much stayed quiet, but I finally talked when she started doing everything herself.

"Um… I can help you." I said, trying to make it sound like an offer, and not like a command. I didn't want to pressure her, I just wanted to help. So I was hoping she might have just forgotten I was there, and would give me something to do.

"I've got it." She replied, and kept mixing the chemicals, not even bothering to look at me.

"But… I feel bad if I don't do anything." This was the truth, whatever grade I got I wanted it to my grade not someone else's. Besides we had a half an hour of class time left, and I didn't want to be sitting here that whole time doing nothing.

"Listen," She finally turned to look at me, and for a moment I thought maybe she was done being stubborn. That is until she finished her sentence. "I don't need your help. I can do this on my own."

"Now Rachael, you have to let Ponyboy do half of the work understood?" Our teacher, Mr. Kendrick said, as he came up behind us.

With a sigh the girl, whose name was Rachael, sighed and nodded and glared at the teachers back as he walked away.

"Well are you going to do something, or just sit there?" she asked in a bored tone, twirling her hair around her finger. She may not be a soc, but she still had that prep attitude. I guess middle class can be just as stuck up if they wanted to. Yet for some insane reason, I still thought she was cute, and not just cute like any other good looking girl I had met. No, she was different for some reason, and I really liked her despite how she was acting right now. Maybe she had been through something that made her shut out everyone she met, that's why she was acting like this. You never know what could have happened to her in her past. Reaching for the testing tube and beaker I pulled them towards me, and slowly started pouring one liquid into the other. It started to fizz, but it never came over the top. That is until Rachael sneezed, making me jump in my seat, and accidently pouring everything in the test tube into the beaker. Foam flowed over the top, and almost reached my hands, but I jerked them back in time. Jumping out of the seats we were sitting in, Rachael and I backed away from the table. Glancing over at her I gave her a small wincing smile, as shocked covered her face. Laughing came from behind us, and I turned to see Two-Bit, who was cracking up, his head laying on his and his partners table. Rachael looked back at him, her expression turning helpless, before she ran out of class…

"Ha, I think you scared that chick today." Two-Bit smiled, as Soda looked between us with confusion.

"Why'd you scare a little girl?" He asked.

"I didn't mean to." I said, and I told him the story, which made him smiled at me. Shaking his head after I finished he was almost laughing as he asked. "Wow, as sneeze?"

Leave a review if you will, commenting what you think. Thank you for reading, and hopefully I'll have another chapter up soon.