Rhonda got out of her brother's car and walked with him to the main doors on a Monday morning. Over the weekend she hadn't done much, just catch up with her homework and read. Her brothers, like usual, had spent most of the weekend in the garage with her father, going over different methods to get her car running again.
She went to her locker and opened it, putting her books into her bag when someone wrapped their arms around her from behind. She grinned when she saw her boyfriend, hood extraordinaire, David Carlson.
"Hey baby doll." He said, kissing her neck.
"Hey, how was your weekend?" Rhonda asked, closing her locker and locking it.
"Alright. Had a rumble 'gainst the Sheppard Gang, but we came out on top like usual." He said, wrapping his arm around her shoulders, steering her to his locker on the other end of the hallway.
"But you're not even scratched." Rhonda said, raising her eyebrow with a playful glint in them.
"I know, I'm just that good." He winked and kissed her roughly, before opening his locker and grabbing his water bottle and throwing it into his ragged and old back pack. Rhonda stayed against his side, but watched as a few of her brother's friends goofed around and talked about football. She'd always had a thing for one friend, named Darrel Curtis, but he was out of her league, not to mention her brother's friend.
Darrel looked over at her and smiled, before seeing one of his friends flirting with a soc, and he let out a howl before laughing with his other friends and closing his locker as well. David walked with Rhonda to the cafeteria since there was still time for them to hang out before classes had begun, so she sat beside him and listened to his gang talk.
"Damn man, that broad that came down on me yesterday night, mm." One of the gang members said, and the other guys began to chuckle.
"Oh yeah? How long? Ten, fifteen minutes?" Another asked, and the first one grinned,
"Half hour." Rhonda swallowed hard and pretended to look at something that was in her nails.
"Damn man, but you'll never last as long as me and Rhonda," David said grinning, leaning to put his arm over Rhonda's shoulders, "An hour." His guys howled and high fived each other.
Second period that day, Rhonda walked into her senior biology class. She sat in the middle of the class room, beside a lower class girl named Lori Jackson. David sat beside the captain of the football team, Darrel Curtis. From what she heard he got high marks on most of his tests while David failed most of them. He said often that the only reason he took this class was for Rhonda.
Half way through the class the teacher told the class to get into pairs to work on the review package he had given out. As David was making his way over to Rhonda's desk the teacher quickly changed his mind.
"For this review package I'll assign partners, maybe that way you can help each other." As he started reading down the list, he mixed most socs with greasers.
"I want Jack Clark with Lori Jackson, and Darrel Curtis with Rhonda Johnson," The teacher said, and Rhonda picked up her pens and text book, making her way over to Darrel's desk.
"So, I've already worked through the first page, but I think that we could maybe split the package up and-" Darrel cut Rhonda off when he held up his package, which already had scribbles all over it. "Oh... You're already finished?" Darrel nodded and Rhonda nodded, sitting down and beginning to work.
"So, what're you getting in this class?" He asked and Rhonda smiles,
"Well... Currently I'm getting a ninety two." She said quietly and he grinned,
"Wow. I'm only getting an eighty six." Rhonda smiled,
"Yes, but your also captain of the football team. All I do is sit at home and study." She sad smiling,
"Well, I'm sure your boyfriend keeps you busy enough," Darrel said, testing the waters. Rhonda shrugged,
"No, he only wants to go out when he's not busy fighting or running around town like he doesn't have a care in the world... Playing cops and robbers." She said with a grin on her face. Darrel looked at her with a raised eyebrow before chuckling when he realized he was only joking.
"Do you hang out with your brothers then?" Darrel asked and she nodded,
"Yeah sometimes, but most of the time they're in the garage with the car trying to fix it. Matt is a mechanic and Timothy is in school to be a doctor, however they both know a car inside and out. My dad was a mechanic, an old school mechanic so he knows a lot."
"Oh yeah? How about Daniel?"
"Well... He knows the basics, how to change a tire, how to boost a battery and what not. Danny was never really interested in cars like my other brothers. He preferred to stay inside and watch football, or drive up to my grandma's ranch and ride the horses." Daniel was Rhonda's twin brother and often the two of them would hang out more like best friends then siblings.
"Who got him into horses?" Darrel asked, getting generally interested now; cars were never his strong suit but he did enjoy horses.
"My eldest sister. She dropped out to be in the rodeo circuit full time." Rhonda said, before starting on the homework again. Darrel sat quietly and watched her as she worked on it, taking in the small things she did while she concentrated, like furrow her eyebrows or bite her lip.
At the end of class they quickly took up the answers to the package before students packed up and went on their way to their next classes. Rhonda caught up with her best friend Cheryl on their way to her locker,
"Hey Ronnie," Cheryl said grinning. Rhonda grinned and nodded at her, unlocking her locker and getting her English books out,
"How was culinary?" She asked and Cheryl shrugged, and the two walked to English together.