Haven't written in a while hope you like it.

I was staring blankly out the classroom window. I saw two squirrels running back and forth in front of a tree. The left corner of mouth upturned slightly, and then what the teacher had been saying caught my interest.

"… starting a partner project, I of course will be assigning the partners."

I looked around the classroom; I had a couple friends in this class, mostly people from my neighborhood. Socs. In my town, Tulsa, we have the poorer side of town, the greasers, and the rich kids Socs. I never have talked to any greasers, not that I care that they don't have money; it's mostly because we live in totally separate worlds. They don't talk to me, I don't talk to them. Some people would think it's because, I'm afraid of what my friends might think. It's not; I have never really been into the Soc thing too much. Wild parties, buying really expensive clothes that we'll never wear, and making fun of greasers. I usually hang by myself in till one of my friends drag me out.

We do have one greaser in our class, Ponyboy Curtis. Now Ponyboy is famous in our neighborhood, he was with the boy Johnny when he killed Bob. Before the Bob thing I had seen Pony once or twice. He was quiet kept to himself mostly, and was smart. He skipped a grade and was in 9th grade last year when he was supposed to be in 8th. Now he is in my 11th grade English class even though he is only a 10th grader.

Well anyway Johnny survived from a fire he was in but is now paralyzed. He got off for Bob's murder because it was self-defense. Everything has pretty gone back to how it used to be. The Socs are still jumping greasers every once in a while, but mostly everyone stays on their own side of town.

I started paying attention to the teacher when she began announcing partners.

"… Ponyboy Curtis and Sabella Kraker."

I could feel a slight blush cross my face as the class stared giggling and whispering, Ponyboy slowly turned and glanced at me, his ears turned bright red and he quickly turned around.

I slouched down further in my seat and tried to pay attention to the teacher, she explained that for the project we would have to choose a poem and be able to present it to the class. She gave us the last 10 minutes of class to meet with our partners and set up a schedule to talk about the project.

I moved into the emptied seat next to Pony and we stared awkwardly at the surface of our desks for the first five minutes, in till he finally said something.

"We could do a Robert Frost poem, if you want."

I gave him a smile and nodded my answer.

"We could work on this after school at my house." He offered uncomfortably, he must have seen the look on my face, because his face darkened.

"If you don't want to we can just-"

"No! Its fine I'll meet you in front of the school after last block okay?"

He nodded his head and just then the bell rang so I booked it. The rest of the day went by way too fast for my liking, I was nervous. I would be going into Greaser territory but Pony seemed okay and he wouldn't let anything happen to me. Right?

I meet him outside and we walked in peaceful silence, we were almost to his house when a car pulled to a stop next to us. It was too nice to be a greaser car. Pony instantly tensed up and stood in front of me.

Four guys piled out of the car and stood in front of Pony, I recognized a couple of them from school, but they have yet to notice me.

"Hey grease hairs getting a little long, maybe we could help with that."

I whispered so only Pony could hear me "I say run you run and don't look back."

He nodded his agreement, and I stepped forward so the guys could see me. I could see a few of them recognized me.

"Sabella? What are you doing with this scum?"

I fixed him with any icy glare "That aint none of your business, now leave us alone.

They instantly bristled and I could tell they were about to attack. "Pony run!" He instantly took off and I tried to follow but one shot his arm and grabbed me before I could move.

"You little bitch!"

Ponyboy's POV

I could barely hear the pounding of my feet over the pounding of my heart. I was running faster than I have ever run before during track. I burst through the front door bent double trying to catch my breath. I was finally able to gasp out;

"I need help"

I instantly took off back out the door and I could hear, Two Bit, Soda, and Steve behind me. We quickly reached Sabella who was on the ground looking up at the Socs that had surrounded her. They quickly turned when they heard us and ran for their car, except one who stopped and kicked Sabella hard in her stomach before diving into his car.

Soda and Steve took off after the car, while I went to check on her. She was doubled over trying to regain her breath; her check was bright red like someone had slapped her.

I knelt down next to her "Are you okay?"

She looked up at me and nodded still gasping slightly. Soda and Steve walked over to us and looked at Sabella, took in her nice clothes and Soc look, and then they looked at me. I just shrugged, this should be interesting…

Okay hope it was good, constructive criticism is great, and also if anyone is willing to play beta for this story that would be great. Thanks, and please review.