My name is Nicole Elizabeth Curtis a freshman in high school, actually I should
be in the eighth grade but they moved me up because they thought it would be
fair to move me up on behalf of that I was just as smart as my older brother Ponyboy.
On April 4, 1965 the morning started out just like it always did, at our house I was sleeping nearly falling off the bed 'Dead To The World' Ponyboy had his head off the mattress and his legs on top of Soda had his legs intertwined in the blankets and his head somehow managed to rest on top of ponyboy's stomach. Darry was busy making the usual breakfast, scrambled eggs, bacon and chocolate cake. He then turned to his 'Other Duties', and began to wake all of us up.
When Darry returned, he had all three of us fallowing his every move. Pony and I were both red in the face from nearly being tickled to death. We all sat down to enjoy a nice quiet breakfast. But I had a question, and I decided to ask it.
"What would you do if I died today?"
Everyone sat in silence. Wondering why I would ask that question and even more, importantly, how to answer it.
"Nikki, come on honey we don't talk about things like that, at the table," Soda reminded me.
"W-Where would I go?" I accidentally wondered out loud
"Nicole! We are not going to tell you again! Now be quiet and eat your breakfast!" Darry scolded me.
Ponyboy, silently gave me a sympathetic look, and answered on behalf of both of our older brothers
"Nikki, we would really miss you, probably wouldn't know what to do but after a while we would be alright, okay, you would go to heaven and spend the rest of your life with mom and dad."
I nodded my head and looked down at my plate before hearing the door slam and probably the most annoying sound in the world.
"MICKEY'S ON!!!!!!!" Two-Bit yelled as he began to jump up and down and do mini laps around the living room.
I was still trying to finish, when dally came in rudely reminding everyone that he and Johnny were not going to school. And having Johnny not going to school meant that Two-bit isn't going to go and two-bit not going to school meant that Ponyboy wasn't going. So technically there was one other person, Steve Randall. As soon as Steve came in the door, he slammed it shut, which gave us our first clue that he was in a bad mood.
"Hey Stevie!" Soda sang.
"Oh, hi Soda, I got in a huge fight with my old man so I'm not going to school today!"
That just crashed my dreams, everyone else could do what they want, when they wanted, but could I? No!
"Nikki, come on baby, ill take you to school when I take Soda and Steve to work" Darry said.
I hopped in the passenger side as they began the drive to my school first.
"Do I have to go? I just have a feeling that something bad is going to happen today! I don't want to be here! Please don't make me go! Please!"
Everyone stood in complete shock at My sudden outburst. Darry had come over to my side of the truck, opened my door and immediately pulled me to him.
"Baby, look at me, I will not let anything happen to you today okay? School is one of the safest places that I know of alright?" Darry asked me as he waited for my answer.
"Please Darry take me home, I don't want to be here! I'll be in my room all day studying and you won't even know that I m there! Please don't leave me!"
By this time Soda and Steve had gotten out of the truck to help Darry with me. But, it wasn't worth it I was scared of something and it was making me not want to go. Finally Soda had about enough, he got down on his knees, so he was level with me and I spilled everything.
"Nikki, baby calm down, for a sec." Soda said as he wiped the tears away with his thumb, and then placed his hands over mine
"Sweet heart what are you so scared about going to school today?"
"I don't want to die!" I wailed, Soda had a bewildered look on his face as he gently placed his hand on my cheek.
"Hey look at me, none of us would allow that to happen you under stand me?" He waited for an answer, and I shook my head yes.
At 1:30 pm, I was just about ready to head out off gym class, when all of a sudden I hear a loud bang, fallowed by a chorus of screams. As I opened the door and slowly peered out, I saw someone with a gun heading towards me so I figured it would be better if I ran for it.
As I rounded the next corner I felt a sharp pain, in my lower leg. But I couldn't stop I had to keep going. When I approached the stairs, I bolted down them like there was no tomorrow, until something caught my eye. There was another gunman, waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. I was paralyzed with fear. As I turned around I noticed that the other gunman, was getting closer and closer. So I risked it and ran pass the gunman and got shot in the chest. I fell only a few feet from the door. I then realized that if I got back on my feet I might risk being shot again. So I remembered something Steve said about army crawling. I crawled on my stomach for only 2 minutes before I noticed a pair of combat boots coming into my view. I was roughly turned around and shot once more, this time they left me there to die.
Ponyboy's POV
I was sitting on the couch watching some cartoons. With Two-bit, who was drinking all most all of our beer and eating everything in our house, Johnny who was secluding himself from the group by sitting in darrys chair, and not saying a word, and last but not least Dally who had probably gone to hunt some action by now.
"God, there is nothing to watch!" I screamed as I accidentially threw the clicker changing the channel on impact.
On tv was a lot of police cars, fire trucks and ambulances, and the news was reporting something big. I changed the channel and it was on every channel. I suddenly grew interested in the program as I watched it.
"Well bill as you can see behind me. Roberts high School has over 2,00 students attending the school, making it one of the largest schools in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I just got word that 12 students are feard dead—"
My mind began to spin, I wondered about the safety of my sister, if she was one of those 12, if she was safe, if she was wounded. I need to know. So I called soda.
Ring. Ring. Ring.
"DX, Steve Randall speaking how may I help you?" He said calmly,
"Steve its ponyboy, I need to talk to Soda."
I heard shuffeling noises and then my brothers voice on the other end…
"Hey Pony, you feeling okay?"
"Have you watched the news!" I yelled, how can they be so calm when are baby sister might be dead.
"No, why?"
"There was a shooting at Nikkis high school. 12 students are feared dead, Doda what if she's one of those 12!"
There was silence on the other end, and then he calmly told me stay there and that he would call darry and have him drive them back here.
Nikki POV
I woke up, I ached all over. I turned my heat slightly to the left and found that my once white shirt now had blood seeping from it. The 12 of us had been laid on the grass and attended to until another available ambulance could come. To me, it felt like eternity. I began to wonder if I would ever see my brothers and the gang again, would I go to my senior prom, graduate high school, or even walk down the aisle. I was to weak to even think; I already knew that I probably wasn't going to make it. I wanted someone to hold me, and tell me everything is okay, that this is just a bad dream. But its not.
I was lying on the ground in a pool of my own blood, slipping away from the world that I once called my home.
I felt familiar arms wrap around me, and I shook as the persons body wracked with heavy sobs.
I opened my eyes and saw soda holding me, getting my blood all over him, the gang was surrounding me, I felt at peace. I was happy, I was going to die around the people that I love.
The ambulance finally came for me, 10 minutes later, Darry rode with me in the ambulance whil everyone else rode with steve in his car.
I arrived at the hospital shortly after 2:34. The gang surrounded my bed, crying and telling me stories.
The doctor came in and told them that I had lost over half the blood that I needed to stay alive; he looked at me and only said the words that everyone was fearing.
"She's gonna go, on her own time, I wouldn't expect her to make it the next hour."
"Sweetie, look none of us want you to go, I never got a chance to spend much time with you." He slowly began to cry. " But, baby, we know you're in a lot of pain and we don't want you to be in any more pain okay."
I slowly nodded my head. And said three words. "I Love You."
They began to cry, as my brain and heart monitor went flat. They knew that I was in a place where I didn't feel any pain, and that they would see me once again. Everyone has told me that I was an angel.
Now I really am.
Sodapops POV
I would never have guessed how it felt to lose someone. After losing my parents I swore to myself I would protest everyone. But the one thing I tried to protect my baby sister from, was the one thing that killed her. My sister was like my kid. I helped raise her, I help do everything, and now when some one tells me that I don't know what it feels like to lose a child I can turn to them and say.
"Yes I do, I lost mine when she was 13 and a freshman in H.S. Two kids went on campus with guns and extra ammunition. They Shot 28 people and killed 12 people. She never did anything to anybody, she died in my arms. Her clothes are still on the floor, her room smells like her everything reminds me of her. I watched the only thing that held our family together slip through my fingers, and I couldn't save her.
Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na
I miss you, miss you so bad
I don't forget you, oh it's so sad
I hope you can hear me
I remember it clearly
The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Ooooh
Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na
I didn't get around to kiss you
Goodbye on the hand
I wish that I could see you again
I know that I can't
Ooooh
I hope you can hear me
I remember it clearly
The day you slipped away
Was the day I found it won't be the same
Ooooh
I had my wake up
Won't you wake up
I keep asking why
And I can't take it
It wasn't fake it
It happened you passed by
Now you're gone, now you're gone
There you go, there you go
Somewhere I can't bring you back
Now you're gone, now you're gone
There you go, there you go
Somewhere you're not coming back
The day you slipped away was the day I found I won't be the same ( 2)
Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na
I miss you