This is my first fanfic so all I got to say are two things; please be nice and review please :D Oh and little criticism is okay but please dont go over the edge. Mmkay? Enjoy! :D

Maybe mature for sexual content in later chapters.

It was now the seventies. Not the sixties. Early seventies. Make that 1971. A lot of things have changed by now. We were greasers and things just started to change around here. Such things as no more rumbles, no more talking about who was running away, who was in jail, who could wip who, who stole what, no more Socs who jump Greasers, wreck houses, throw beer blasts and get editorials in the paper for being a disgrace to everyone around them, no more Greasers who steal things and drive old beat up cars, hold up gas stations and have a fight with anyone they can get too, it has just changed since a year from now on. It was scary just not seeing anyone like you had known and you thought that they were gonna be like that forever. No, its a new decade and everyone just has to change...

It made me really sad how nobody greases their hair or nothing or wear leather jackets and old torn up shoes. Now you have people that are wearing these weird clothes like high waisted jeans with wide flair legs, big dark sunglasses that cover half of your face and weird looking shoes that the men wear called platform shoes. And don't get me started with the hair. I don't really like the new style. A lot of girls always have their hair long with spiral curls in the front. I am not particularly a big fan. I just like the girls that wear their hair normal. The hairstyles today that men wear, I don't really like and I am glad that my brothers just leave their hair alone. There's one that I always see all the time I think its called "The Bob". I don't really like it that much because it makes your head look way too big. But hey, that's just me. The hairstyle that I really dig is the Elvis hairstyle from the 70's. Now that's tuff.

I guess I just have to live with this... I have to get used to it because I don't want to be made fun of by any of the popular kids who were most likely Socs just because I am not getting into the style with my clothes.

I was walking down the street on 1345 E. Independence St., that's the street where the park is. The park that me and Johnny got beat up by Bob and some of his Soc friends that night. I still remembered how I almost died that night because of Bob... Bob... That Soc that got killed by sweet, little, innocent, Johnny.

I just kept on focusing back to where I was looking ahead of me. But something distracted me. There was a girl sitting on one of the benches near the fountain. She looked beautiful. But wait!

I walked into the park and I stopped. I think I knew who it was... But... I couldn't believe it! Is that Cherry Valance? Walked a little further and the girl who was sitting on the bench looked at me.

I examined her since now I was a couple feet away from her. She had that shiny red hair of hers, slightly wavy and her beautiful green eyes were shining when she saw me. Yup, that was Cherry alright. The girl that is called Cherry because of her hair. She had on one of those rayon strapless dresses. The dress looked great on her, it was black and had pink Hibiscus's on it.

"Pony is that you?" She asked me her eyes opened wide.

"Yeah its me. I surprised you remembered me. I haven't seen you since you graduated high school!" I said. I walked to her and sat on the bench with her.

A slight breeze came. Her hair was flowing on the right side so she tucked her hair on that side and said, "Yeah I know. Haven't seen you since tenth grade."

"Yeah. So, how are you doing? You get into college?" The sun started to shine so bright that I had to squint my eyes a little.

"Me? No. I actually work with my father now. You see, my dad runs a company so he let me work with him. It was horrible at first but then I got used to it. I like my job a lot. How about you? Are you going anywhere?"

"I haven't decided yet. Darry has been bugging me since June about college. He's been giving me all the brochures and pamphlets. Its driving me crazy!" I said loudly. It was so loud that she was looking at both sides to see if people were looking or not. "Oh... Uh.. Sorry about that. I got carried away."

"Its fine. Well, if I were you, I would be looking around for some more pamphlets. I mean its not too late. You can go whenever really." She said.

"Yeah... I guess so." I said looking down at my bell-bottomed trousers.

"Well... I gotta go. My mom wants me home to cook dinner for my family tonight." The red haired girl said.

"Alright. I will see you around, right?" I asked looking up at her while she was standing up.

"Yeah. You will see me. Hey. There's a party going on at my friends house, wanna go?" She asked while tucking her hair in again once more because of the breeze.

"Uh yeah. When is it?"

"Its on July 14th. That's on a Wednesday. Are you free?"

"Yeah probably. I mean Darry doesn't go that hard on me no more. So I am sure I can go."

She chuckled and said, "Okay then. Party starts at 9 okay?"

"Yeah alright." I smiled.

"Okay, bye!" She said, while walking away. She turned back and waved. She got smaller and smaller each step she took. I smiled to myself and I looked up the sky with my arms laying out on each side of the bench.

-I didnt like this chapter too much but I hope you guys enjoyed it! Please keep on reading and reviewing! I will try to update as soon as I can!