Chapter 2
Authors Note: Here's chapter two. Thanks to my only reviewer so far JJAH hopefully more reviews for this chapter. In the first chapter the Italics were actually a dream sorry bout the mix up if you were confused. Anyway on with the chapter hope you like it. Sorry if anyone has added me and got two emails about this chapter I accidently uploaded the wrong thing.
Ps- Gaol same as jail, but I'm Australian so I spell it gaol, just in case you are unaware of that fact.
Enjoy,
xx GirlX
We walked all the way to the corner of our street before Gordie realised he forgot his canteen.
"You want us to walk with you?"
"Nah, I'll be ok, I'll meet you guys at the edge of town in bout 5 minutes ok, wait for me," he said walking away.
"So are you looking forward to school this year?" I asked Teddy.
"I don't know, I mean it's junior high, it's gonna be different to grammar school you know?"
"Yeah I guess, well I mean it can't be too bad can it?" I didn't realise how far we'd actually walked but when I looked up I realised we'd already reached the edge of town. We were the first there so we sat down and just talked, I remembered my apple and root beer and started to eat and drink them. "You want some?" I said offering Teddy the root beer.
"Nah I'm ok, hey, what happened there?" he asked poking a bruise on my arm.
"Ow that hurt, and I got it from when I was baby sitting Jasmine last night, she had a tantrum and hit me with her yo-yo, it hurt" I said looking down the road to see if Chris, Gordie or Vern were coming yet. "Hey guys, long time no see," I yelled out to Gordie, Vern and Chris.
"Hey Dracun, how's it going?" Chris and Vern said in unison. Gordie just smiled half-heartedly.
"Hey Gordie what's up with you?" Teddy asked.
"Well one, Eyeball took my Yankee cap that Denny gave me, and two Chris gave me a loaded gun and I shot a garbage can behind the dinner, and the bloody tupper babe saw me, I'm gonna be in shit," Gordie mumbled he sounded pretty annoyed.
"Ah shit man, Gordie she thought it was fire crackers I told you that before. Anyway come on lets get a move on, we wanna be able to make it back in time before our parents realise what we've done don't we?" Chris started walking down to where the train tracks were, so we all followed suit. Chris was the leader of our gang, his family had a bad name, so everyone thought he'd turn out like his dad, Eyeball or even Frank, his older brother who had originally ran away to join the navy, but was now serving time for rape in gaol.
We had been walking for about 40 minutes when Vern remembered his stomach, "Hey I'm kinda hungry, who brought the food?"
"Oh shit, did anybody bring anything?"
"Not me man, I didn't even know about this trip till Gordie and Teddy woke me up, and they didn't tell me to bring anything, so I didn't," I said kicking my shoe into the tracks.
"Did anybody bring anything?"
We all answered no and were starting to freak, well Teddy and Vern were Chris was trying to stop a fight from breaking out, and Gordie looked like he was thinking.
"Hey, hey, hey, let's see how much money we have," Gordie said sitting down on the tracks and getting his money out of his pockets, just like when Chris had started walking down the tracks we followed Gordies lead, took the money out of our pockets and sat down.
"Ok, well we have⦠$2.37, that's not bad, there's a shop just past the junkyard, we can get supplies, anyway well talk bout it when we get to the junkyard we can fill up our canteens too, there's a water spigot and dad says it's a safe place," Gordie said putting the money into his jeans pocket.
"Trains coming," We stood up and started to get off the tracks, except for Teddy. He stood there, he looked like he wanted the train to hit him, he was muttering to himself about beaches and some guy called Norman, I don't know I couldn't hear him properly, I couldn't even move I was that scared he was going to get hit, the train was getting closer fast.
"Teddy get the hell off the tracks!!!" I screamed, everything went in like slow motion or something, and I couldn't hear anything, I blinked once and Chris was on the tracks now too, he had his arms around Teddy's waist trying to pull him off, but Teddy looked like he didn't want to move. I blinked again and they were fighting with each other as Chris pulled him off the tracks, just as they got off the tracks the train went by. They were yelling at each other, I still couldn't hear, but time seemed to be back to normal. Vern was attempting to hold Teddy back because he looked like he was going to kill Chris.
"MAN WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU WERE DOING BACK THERE? YOU TRYING TO KILL YOURSELF? YOU TRIED TO KILL YOUSELF!" sound had come back, and Chris was yelling, I wanted to yell too, but I'd lost my voice, I'd almost witnessed two of my closest friends being hit by a train. I was scared shitless.
"I don't need no baby-sitter," Teddy mumbled and he started walking down the tracks again.
"You do too, skin it," Chris said catching up to Teddy and pulling him around.
"I was gonna dodge it"
"You can dodge it on the way back man. Come on skin it"
They skinned it, and we kept walking, this time however we were a lot quieter, until we remembered the radio we'd brought.
Authors Note: Anyway that's the end for chapter two, I'll update ASAP, but I can't promise anything too soon, because I'm also working on my other Stand By Me fic, "The Body". If anybody reading this hate's Mary-Sue characters and thinks Emily is turning into one, let me know so I can try and fix it. Any reviews are greatly appreciated, even if they are constructive criticism, I could use all the help I can get. Don't forget to review.
xx GirlX
