A/N: My fourth attempt at writing, I hope this is better than the others. This one is different than my other stories (if that's what you call them j/k) They're about Harry Potter, usually. This one is about the movie Pearl Harbor. I saw it, I loved it, I'm going to see it again. I hope you enjoy! Review!
Disclaimer- I own nothing, other than Jo, and her parents, and Faith Hill and her writers own the title.
There You'll Be
Chapter 1- Girls Will Be Girls
"C'mon, Danny, help me out," said 13 year old Rafe.
"I dunno, Rafe. What if you break your arm or your leg again?" asked Danny, trying to change his best friend's mind.
"No, I won't. That's why I'm jumpin' in the swimmin' hole."
Jo came runnin' toward them, in overalls and her strawberry blonde hair in curls instead of their usual pigtails and her blue eyes dancing. Rafe and Danny burst out laughing. She crossed her arms and frowned.
"You- you look like a- a girl!" said Rafe through peals of laughter.
"I am a girl!" protested Jo.
"Wh- why is your hair in curls?" asked Danny, calming down a bit.
"Ma said that now that I'm twelve, I gotta act like a girl. So, she put me in a pink, frilly dress, and did my hair in curls. I keep a pair of overalls in the barn, so I ran outta the house when she wasn't lookin' and took off that stupid dress. She blindfolded me to get it on. She told me she had a surprise for me. I couldn't get the curls out. What're y'all doin'?" she asked, her hands now on her hips.
"Rafe's gonna fly into the swinnin' hole, rather than off the barn again," said Danny.
"Wow! Can I watch? Please?"
"No!" said Rafe.
"I'll tell Ma."
"Josephine! No you won't! Curly Head!"
"Rafe! Don't call me that! And that don't make sense 'curly head'? And I won't tell her if you let me come! I ain't gonna do anything."
"Fine."
She smiled and followed them. After many of having watched them, she was able to help Danny and Rafe. In spite the fact they acted as if they didn't want her around, they usually liked having her help. Whatever they were interested in, so was she. She always thought of them as her two older brothers, and they always helped each other out. When they were finally done making the wings, they walked to the swimming hole, and taped the wings to Rafe. He ran and jumped off the dock. For a second Rafe was suspended in air, and all three were in awe. Then he went down shouting.
"Mayday! Mayday! Uh oh-"
Then he did a belly- flop into the water. Jo and Danny raced to the end of the dock and were on their stomachs looking into the water. The wings had come up, but no Rafe.
"I think we killed 'im," said Jo.
Suddenly, he came up.
"Boo!" he shouted, pulling Danny and Jo in the water after him.
The three played in the water until dinner, then theey went to their houses. Jo and Rafe were walking home through their corn field and they heard a hiss and a green snake slithered in front of them, and before Rafe could stop her, Jo had stooped over and picked it up, putting it in her pocket. They hurried home and they went in to wash their hands. But before they were safe at the dinner table their mother caught them.
"Josephine Heather McCawley! You are in a lot of trouble for running out of the house this morning. What were you- what's in your pocket?" asked Mrs. McCawley.
Jo took out the snake and held it toward her mother.
"His name is Bobby. Wanna hold 'im?"
"Most certainly not. Get that thing out of my house!"
Jo looked at her feet and let him go outside. She didn't meet her mother's eyes the rest of that night.
"Molly, calm down, girls will be girls, let her be. She'll be a lady in due time. Give her time," said their father, Andrew McCawley
"Andy! I've given her twelve years, she spends too much time with Rafe. I don't even think he wants her around. I think the little Walker boy talks him into it."
"It's not Rafe who doesn't want me around! It's you! You're embarrassed of me 'cause I'm not pretty! Or perfect. Well, Ma! I'm sorry for not being perfect!" shouted Jo.
She ran out of the house to her favorite spot, a big oak tree. She climbed as high as she could and wouldn't come down, not even for her father or brother. Over the next few years Jo didn't change at all, and neither did her mothers pleas for her to wear a skirt to school, like the other girls. At fifteen, she still tagged along with Rafe and Danny. Once, in the middle of her History lesson, Rafe and Danny stood outside her classroom door and made faces, causing her to laugh.
"Is there something funny about the Civil War, you'd like to share with us, Miss McCawley?" asked Mr. Johnston, her mono- toned teacher. (A/N: Mono- toned means talking in the same, unemotional voice constantly. Just for those of you didn't know what it meant)
The other kids in the class began to whisper.
"No sir. I was just thinking what reaction the class would have if this class ever changed. Do you know the meaning of the word drone? D-r-o-n-e?" she said quickly, trying to keep Danny and Rafe from getting in trouble.
"Yes, Miss McCawley I know what it means."
"It means to speak in the same tone all the time. May I go to the bathroom?"
"Yes, I know that."
Jo stood up and left the class by the time he said 'Yes'.
"Sorry we got you in trouble," said Danny,
"Don't worry about it, they all think I'm crazy any way," said Jo.
"Nice excuse, though," said Rafe.
"Really? Thanks Rafe. What are you two doing here?"
"Roamin' the halls, makin' faces at people. Gettin' you friends," said Danny.
"We're gettin' her friends?" asked Rafe.
"With people seein' her with you that makes her the most popular girl in school, next to whoever your sweetheart is."
"I don't have a sweetheart."
"Every girl in school has a crush on you. Well, everyone except me. Well, I've got to go. Y'all go back to class" said Jo.
They nodded and walked down the hall back to their class and Jo went back into hers. At lunch a few weeks later, Jo was sitting with her so- called "friends" who all actually had a crush on her brother. Rafe came over to her table and all the girls began to straiten up and try to impress him.
"Hey, Jo, about this morning, sorry. You know I thought they were Ma's."
"Go away Rafe, did you have to bring it up? I'd forgotten about it. Thanks a lot."
"Well, I'm sorry, Miss Priss! At least Ma doesn't have to bribe me to wear proper clothes on Sunday!"
Jo took her mashed potatoes and threw them in his face, and left him standing there. Danny ran after her.
"God, I hate being the Peacemaker between those two," he said to himself.
He caught up to her.
"Danny, don't try to make everything good," said Jo, angrily.
"Okay, I just want to know what happened."
She started walking away from him. He grabbed her arm and pulled her in front of him, grabbing her other arm, looking her in the eye.
"Fine, Danny. Today, Rafe got up early and grabbed some undergarments off the line, thinking they were Ma's, well, I saw them after some others did, and I saw that they were mine. I was so mad, he couldn't figure it out until he actually looked at them," said Jo.
Danny had to try suppress his laughter, because he knew if he didn't she would take her anger out on him. Jo took this opportunity to go back to where her lunch was. Rafe came up to her, this time he came from behind her. He grabbed her arms before she could turn.
"Listen, before you do anything, I'm really really really sorry. Do you accept my apology?" he said.
"Yes. I forgive you, but remember, don't touch my things."
All of the girls stared at her like she was crazy after Rafe left. Morgan Jackson leaned toward her.
"Are you crazy? You just threw mashed potatoes at Rafe McCawley. THE Rafe McCawley," she whispered.
"Really? There's an A Rafe McCawley, other than my annoying older brother?" asked Jo, sarcastically.
Their eyes grew wide.
"He's your brother?" asked Jacqueline Smithe.
"Yes, I thought y'all knew that."
Everyone immediately wanted to come over to her house. Jo rolled her eyes, took her lunch and left. She sat in a corner all by herself. Danny and Rafe noticed this and went over to her.
"What's wrong Wings?" asked Danny, using her nickname.
"Why aren't you with your friends?" asked Rafe.
"They ain't my friends, they're your fan club, Rafe. You're all they talk about. It's sickening, 'specially since you're my brother," said Jo.
The boys had nothing to say.
"Jo, what do you want to become when you grow up?" asked Danny, as a change of subject.
"Pilot in the Army, but they won't let me because I'm a girl. Life is so unfair. Ma said that it's bad to want to do a man's job."
"Don't say that, my Pa says there are three pilots that are the best he's ever seen. And my Pa don't lie. He said they are me, Rafe, and you. He said he thought it was Rafe flying around last week, until he came over, while you were doing loop- the- loops over the corn field," said Danny.
"Really?"
He nodded. He had to convince her of this often until, when Danny and Rafe were twenty- four, they enlisted in the Army, leaving Jo at home.
The day they had to leave, Jo got up early and went up to her tree, and no one could find her. Danny came over about ten o'clock. Rafe and Danny came to the tree.
"Jo? Jo, we're leaving," Rafe called up the tree.
Jo came down gave them both hugs, not looking at them.
"Oh my God, Rafe, we're gonna die, she's crying!" said Danny, hugging her again.
"Shut up, Danny. I'm losing my brothers and only friends in one day. And you're leaving me here with Ma and Pa, they're gettin' older. I gotta do most of the chores without anyone to talk to or joke around with. I'm gonna miss y'all. Goodbye, come home soon. I love y'all."
They hugged her again, and left her standing there, crying.
A/N: I hope you liked it! Sorry it's so short. Please, please, REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Disclaimer- I own nothing, other than Jo, and her parents, and Faith Hill and her writers own the title.
There You'll Be
Chapter 1- Girls Will Be Girls
"C'mon, Danny, help me out," said 13 year old Rafe.
"I dunno, Rafe. What if you break your arm or your leg again?" asked Danny, trying to change his best friend's mind.
"No, I won't. That's why I'm jumpin' in the swimmin' hole."
Jo came runnin' toward them, in overalls and her strawberry blonde hair in curls instead of their usual pigtails and her blue eyes dancing. Rafe and Danny burst out laughing. She crossed her arms and frowned.
"You- you look like a- a girl!" said Rafe through peals of laughter.
"I am a girl!" protested Jo.
"Wh- why is your hair in curls?" asked Danny, calming down a bit.
"Ma said that now that I'm twelve, I gotta act like a girl. So, she put me in a pink, frilly dress, and did my hair in curls. I keep a pair of overalls in the barn, so I ran outta the house when she wasn't lookin' and took off that stupid dress. She blindfolded me to get it on. She told me she had a surprise for me. I couldn't get the curls out. What're y'all doin'?" she asked, her hands now on her hips.
"Rafe's gonna fly into the swinnin' hole, rather than off the barn again," said Danny.
"Wow! Can I watch? Please?"
"No!" said Rafe.
"I'll tell Ma."
"Josephine! No you won't! Curly Head!"
"Rafe! Don't call me that! And that don't make sense 'curly head'? And I won't tell her if you let me come! I ain't gonna do anything."
"Fine."
She smiled and followed them. After many of having watched them, she was able to help Danny and Rafe. In spite the fact they acted as if they didn't want her around, they usually liked having her help. Whatever they were interested in, so was she. She always thought of them as her two older brothers, and they always helped each other out. When they were finally done making the wings, they walked to the swimming hole, and taped the wings to Rafe. He ran and jumped off the dock. For a second Rafe was suspended in air, and all three were in awe. Then he went down shouting.
"Mayday! Mayday! Uh oh-"
Then he did a belly- flop into the water. Jo and Danny raced to the end of the dock and were on their stomachs looking into the water. The wings had come up, but no Rafe.
"I think we killed 'im," said Jo.
Suddenly, he came up.
"Boo!" he shouted, pulling Danny and Jo in the water after him.
The three played in the water until dinner, then theey went to their houses. Jo and Rafe were walking home through their corn field and they heard a hiss and a green snake slithered in front of them, and before Rafe could stop her, Jo had stooped over and picked it up, putting it in her pocket. They hurried home and they went in to wash their hands. But before they were safe at the dinner table their mother caught them.
"Josephine Heather McCawley! You are in a lot of trouble for running out of the house this morning. What were you- what's in your pocket?" asked Mrs. McCawley.
Jo took out the snake and held it toward her mother.
"His name is Bobby. Wanna hold 'im?"
"Most certainly not. Get that thing out of my house!"
Jo looked at her feet and let him go outside. She didn't meet her mother's eyes the rest of that night.
"Molly, calm down, girls will be girls, let her be. She'll be a lady in due time. Give her time," said their father, Andrew McCawley
"Andy! I've given her twelve years, she spends too much time with Rafe. I don't even think he wants her around. I think the little Walker boy talks him into it."
"It's not Rafe who doesn't want me around! It's you! You're embarrassed of me 'cause I'm not pretty! Or perfect. Well, Ma! I'm sorry for not being perfect!" shouted Jo.
She ran out of the house to her favorite spot, a big oak tree. She climbed as high as she could and wouldn't come down, not even for her father or brother. Over the next few years Jo didn't change at all, and neither did her mothers pleas for her to wear a skirt to school, like the other girls. At fifteen, she still tagged along with Rafe and Danny. Once, in the middle of her History lesson, Rafe and Danny stood outside her classroom door and made faces, causing her to laugh.
"Is there something funny about the Civil War, you'd like to share with us, Miss McCawley?" asked Mr. Johnston, her mono- toned teacher. (A/N: Mono- toned means talking in the same, unemotional voice constantly. Just for those of you didn't know what it meant)
The other kids in the class began to whisper.
"No sir. I was just thinking what reaction the class would have if this class ever changed. Do you know the meaning of the word drone? D-r-o-n-e?" she said quickly, trying to keep Danny and Rafe from getting in trouble.
"Yes, Miss McCawley I know what it means."
"It means to speak in the same tone all the time. May I go to the bathroom?"
"Yes, I know that."
Jo stood up and left the class by the time he said 'Yes'.
"Sorry we got you in trouble," said Danny,
"Don't worry about it, they all think I'm crazy any way," said Jo.
"Nice excuse, though," said Rafe.
"Really? Thanks Rafe. What are you two doing here?"
"Roamin' the halls, makin' faces at people. Gettin' you friends," said Danny.
"We're gettin' her friends?" asked Rafe.
"With people seein' her with you that makes her the most popular girl in school, next to whoever your sweetheart is."
"I don't have a sweetheart."
"Every girl in school has a crush on you. Well, everyone except me. Well, I've got to go. Y'all go back to class" said Jo.
They nodded and walked down the hall back to their class and Jo went back into hers. At lunch a few weeks later, Jo was sitting with her so- called "friends" who all actually had a crush on her brother. Rafe came over to her table and all the girls began to straiten up and try to impress him.
"Hey, Jo, about this morning, sorry. You know I thought they were Ma's."
"Go away Rafe, did you have to bring it up? I'd forgotten about it. Thanks a lot."
"Well, I'm sorry, Miss Priss! At least Ma doesn't have to bribe me to wear proper clothes on Sunday!"
Jo took her mashed potatoes and threw them in his face, and left him standing there. Danny ran after her.
"God, I hate being the Peacemaker between those two," he said to himself.
He caught up to her.
"Danny, don't try to make everything good," said Jo, angrily.
"Okay, I just want to know what happened."
She started walking away from him. He grabbed her arm and pulled her in front of him, grabbing her other arm, looking her in the eye.
"Fine, Danny. Today, Rafe got up early and grabbed some undergarments off the line, thinking they were Ma's, well, I saw them after some others did, and I saw that they were mine. I was so mad, he couldn't figure it out until he actually looked at them," said Jo.
Danny had to try suppress his laughter, because he knew if he didn't she would take her anger out on him. Jo took this opportunity to go back to where her lunch was. Rafe came up to her, this time he came from behind her. He grabbed her arms before she could turn.
"Listen, before you do anything, I'm really really really sorry. Do you accept my apology?" he said.
"Yes. I forgive you, but remember, don't touch my things."
All of the girls stared at her like she was crazy after Rafe left. Morgan Jackson leaned toward her.
"Are you crazy? You just threw mashed potatoes at Rafe McCawley. THE Rafe McCawley," she whispered.
"Really? There's an A Rafe McCawley, other than my annoying older brother?" asked Jo, sarcastically.
Their eyes grew wide.
"He's your brother?" asked Jacqueline Smithe.
"Yes, I thought y'all knew that."
Everyone immediately wanted to come over to her house. Jo rolled her eyes, took her lunch and left. She sat in a corner all by herself. Danny and Rafe noticed this and went over to her.
"What's wrong Wings?" asked Danny, using her nickname.
"Why aren't you with your friends?" asked Rafe.
"They ain't my friends, they're your fan club, Rafe. You're all they talk about. It's sickening, 'specially since you're my brother," said Jo.
The boys had nothing to say.
"Jo, what do you want to become when you grow up?" asked Danny, as a change of subject.
"Pilot in the Army, but they won't let me because I'm a girl. Life is so unfair. Ma said that it's bad to want to do a man's job."
"Don't say that, my Pa says there are three pilots that are the best he's ever seen. And my Pa don't lie. He said they are me, Rafe, and you. He said he thought it was Rafe flying around last week, until he came over, while you were doing loop- the- loops over the corn field," said Danny.
"Really?"
He nodded. He had to convince her of this often until, when Danny and Rafe were twenty- four, they enlisted in the Army, leaving Jo at home.
The day they had to leave, Jo got up early and went up to her tree, and no one could find her. Danny came over about ten o'clock. Rafe and Danny came to the tree.
"Jo? Jo, we're leaving," Rafe called up the tree.
Jo came down gave them both hugs, not looking at them.
"Oh my God, Rafe, we're gonna die, she's crying!" said Danny, hugging her again.
"Shut up, Danny. I'm losing my brothers and only friends in one day. And you're leaving me here with Ma and Pa, they're gettin' older. I gotta do most of the chores without anyone to talk to or joke around with. I'm gonna miss y'all. Goodbye, come home soon. I love y'all."
They hugged her again, and left her standing there, crying.
A/N: I hope you liked it! Sorry it's so short. Please, please, REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!