Title: Untitled for now.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of S.E. Hinton's work.

"I look like a fuckin' freak…"I stared at myself in the sad excuse for a mirror that hung on my wall. Everyone thought I was very pretty, but I didn't think so. I mean, what is so special about me? I am 16 years old. I have strawberry blonde hair that rolled onto my shoulders in choppy-cut layers. You can barely notice that it's really blonde, though, because the strawberry-pink shows a lot in my hair. It almost seems as if I have light pink hair. I also have bright, cherry red streaks. My eyes aren't all that great, either. They were just a Chine-blue in color and my pupils were almond-shaped, like a cat. They also changed to a misty white/gray at times, or maybe neon green. It always seems as if they are fake because the weird thing is that my pupils are not black. They are chrome blue. People call me Joel, my middle name. My skin, well, my skin is lightly tanned.

"Oh please, Joel, you are beautiful" My sister, Tracy, told me. I thought she was prettier than me. She had long, very long, bleach blond hair and clear green eyes. Her skin was very pale, though. I sighed and shook my head. I walked over to my bed and picked out an outfit.

I came out of the bathroom wearing a pair of rather tight jeans, a black top with the sleeves ripped out and my pair of worn-out black Converse High-tops.

Anyway, my full name is Annabelle Joel Gregory. I HATE my name, so I just tell people my name is Joel. I got teased for it once when I was 8 because some girl said that it was a boy's name. I jumped on her and pulled her hair and started to bite her. Ever since then. No one ever said anything about my name. EVER.

"Let's go" Tracy pulled my arm and grabbed her pink sweater. "Hold on, lemme get my jacket" I said, running to get my black leather jacket. We both walked out of the house and headed towards the Nightly Double. It was around 7 o'clock and Trace and I had plans to see a movie. I only went because I liked to go out instead of staying in. Tracy was meeting her boyfriend, Todd, there. He was a nice guy.

As soon as we got there, Todd ruffled my hair and walked off with Tracy. Well, I told them that I wanted to be alone, so they just left. I looked around and noticed a few guys sitting down, talking and watching the movie. There were three of them. One that looked real mean and tough, another one who looked like he was young, about 14 years old, and one that was really adorable looking. He had dark hair and even darker eyes. I noticed a scar on his cheek.

Of course, a few of my friends were sitting in front of them, so they spotted me and called me over. I walked over slowly and sat down as we began to talk.

The mean looking one that sat behind us was the first to speak, "Well, lookie here. This one's a cute one." He smirked and leaned forward so that he was breathing down my neck.

I shuddered slightly, "I need my personal space so why don'tcha back up off me" I snapped. I wasn't really the type to snap, though.

"Woahh, looks she's feisty, too" he got up and sat on the empty seat besides me. My friends had already left, though. "C'Mon Dallas…"The young-looking one said.

"I'm Dallas…"He ignored the comment. "Joel, now will you please give me my space." I said, inching away and flinching once his arm went onto my shoulder. "Why would I wanna do that?" Dally didn't remove his arm.

I was starting to feel uncomfortable. "Dallas, knock it off, man" The quiet one said. "Johnny…"the other whispered. "Fine…This is boring anyway .."Dallas gave me one last smirk before walking off.

I turned around and smiled at the other two," Thanks, ya know, for making him leave" I said that more to the quiet one, Johnny I think, than to the other one.

"N-no problem…" Johnny nodded. "I'm Ponyboy and this is Johnny." The other one said.

"I'm Joel." I replied. Johnny wasn't really talking. I guess he wasn't all that talkative. "What time is it?" Ponyboy asked, looking around. I looked down at my watch "Around 8:30" I replied.

"Oh…"Ponyboy nodded. Before I could say anything else, the three of us had gotten up and walked out of the Nightly Double, just talking.

/R&R please no flames! I am very sensitive. xD Lol./