CHAPTER1
Riiiiiiiing! The warning bell rang. Everyone scampered off to class first period was about to begin. Briiiiiiiiiiing, first period. Time for Mr. Lee to take role call.
"Steven, Richard?"
"Here," a boy said from the back of the room.
"Walker, Liz?"
"Present," I said. My name is Elizabeth but my friends and teachers call me Liz. I have brownish red hair and greenish gray eyes. I wish they were gray because I don't know that many girls with green eyes. I don't like being different from everyone else, it bad enough that I am a greaser. They are bright green around the outer layer and gray in the middle. I have three friends, and part of our gang of friends are Jen, Keith, and Michael (or Mike as we call him). I'm the youngest in our gang at the early age of 14. I'm a junior and I skipped two grades. Jen is a soch (a Soch is the abbr. for socials. Sochs have money and can go to more parties and don't get jumped). She is 15, like Mike the other soch, who is also 15 and they are both sophomores at East Central High School. Jen has black hair that goes down to her midback, purple eyes, and rosy lips. She is tall for her age about five foot seven she loves to play basketball even though she is a girly-girl. Mike is a football player six-foot two bleach blond hair, and brown eyes. He loves to read mysteries and loves to work out. Keith... What can I say about Keith? Keith is 17 and in the same grade as me. He is also the only on I can relate to. We are the only greasers (greasers are people with less money than sochs. We also have to work for a living and we do get jumped) at our school. When he was twelve he saw his friends Two-bit and Dallas Winston bust out two school windows and the fuzz (cops) busted him. He didn't deny the charges (that's a rule in the gang; don't rat out on your own kind) and went to jail. He got busted for stealing awhile back. He loves to watch Mickey Mouse. He has jet black, greasy hair and cold black eyes. He loves to fight and tries, like Dally, to break the law.
I started to drifted into a daydream 'bout Keith, until Mr.Lee, the science teacher, asked me what I thought about Einstien's
General Theory of Relativity. "... umm Keith is... oh wait... Einstien's General Theory of Relativity is well informed and complete." I could feel them laughing at me. I was blushing and so was Keith.
Briiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing! Time for 5 period, gym. Today we are playing football. I was hoping that everyone forgot what happened in first period. Miss. Davis, the gym teacher, put Josh Greene (my ex boy friend i dumped for 2 reasons one he hated how close me and Keith wore. The other reason is because he jumped Keith). Keith was the other team captian. since Josh had 16 people kieth went to go pick me. When Keith picked me Josh got mad and slugged Keith agianist his head amd keith hit the floor with a thud.
"Break it up JOSH." I said "come on Keith" i ws tring to get Keith on his head but Josh \got mad at me and hit me in the
head too and I went down it to a peaceful darkness.
When I woke up I was in the nurses offices. Keith was right next to me but since the day we found him in the vacant lot he never cried. It took alot to make him cry because his dad hits him and his mom wishes he was dead. I was dizzy but i wanted to know something.
" Keith what happened" Keith jumped he did not know I was awake.
He sighed "Jeeze kid you scared the devil out of me josh hit you in the head when I grabbed your hand."
"You didn't get in trouble did you?" I didnt want to see him get into trouble.
"No the gym teacher saw Josh hit me and you and i didn't have time to hit him back." he sighed agian. "I'll just let you rest." he said as he pushed back my bangs.