The poor Home Ec teacher probably wondered why she even took up teaching as her career. Her name was . It was the first day of school and she was taking attendance. She went down the list of names calling them out and waiting for a response, and getting responses. But when she called out the name "Johnny Cade", there was no response. though the boy was skipping and went on with the list to another name. After that name was called, two boys stumbled into class, one was muscular and looked a bit old for tenth grade while the other was small and looked a bit young for tenth grade. turned to face the boys and reminded them that they were late for class, "You are both 10 minutes late. I am assuming one of you is Johnny Cade?". The small boy nodded. "Well", started, "Don't you too make this a habit of yours to be coming late." The older one laughed and said, "I'm sorry Miss, but that's already a habit of mine". frowned at the boy and told them to find some empty desks. Naturally, Johnny gravitated to the back. Soda and Steve also took this class and had saved two desks in the back for Johnny and Two-Bit. Soda and Steve were snickering as the other two greasers sat by snickers were cut short when called out for a "Sodapop Curtis".
For the first couple of weeks, one kid never showed up for class. His name was Dallas Winston. figured he was just skipping. One day, a blonde towheaded boy showed up to class. looked at the boy and said in a matter-of-factly voice, "You must be Dallas Winston." Dallas laughed and said, "You must be new". Of course she was new, all the teachers knew who Dallas Winston was and talked with a stiffer, northern voice. looked at Dallas and was about to tell him to sit in the desk by the back, but he already was there. Two-Bit looked up his eyes light up in shock as he said, "Hey Dally! I didn't know you got out of the cooler already!" Steve, Soda, and Johnny looked up and all said "hi" to their friend. Dallas grind a bit and said, "Those dumb asses said I could get out early for 'good behavior'." Steve laughed and said, "What the hell is 'good behavior' and Dallas Winston together? They just don't click". If Steve had said this at another time, he would have been hit real good. But Dallas was happy and said, "I've been wondering' that myself." took attendance and when it came to Dallas' name, she asked where he had been. Dallas shrugged and said, "I was in the cooler." looked confused until Two-Bit yelled out, "That means he landed his ass in jail." Dallas rolled his eyes at Two-Bit.
This class was one of those useless classes that the kids run wild in. There was hardly any order. noticed that the five boys in the back had the tendency to skip school. There were patterns. The Cade kid wouldn't show up and the other four might be there. Curtis kid skipped a lot and sometimes the Randle kid would be gone too, although Randle came more than Curtis. Winston skipped when ever. Mathews only skipped when all four boys were out. One the rare occasion all five where there (about once a week), they would fool around. The Cade kid didn't caused much trouble on his own, but the others where another story. The others were loud and obnoxious. They did many stupid things that never understood. They always made snide comments during lessons and threw papers around.
Two-Bit had one day taken it upon himself to draw a detailed woman. Of course, that woman had no clothes on. Two-Bit usually didn't care much for art but when it came to this kind of art, that was a different story. He passed it to Steve and Steve opened it. "Wow", he said, "you are a fine artist Two-Bit." Soda looked over Steve's shoulder and said, "Hey", that looks exactly like Megan Wallace". Now, this may have been a socially acceptable thing to say if the figure Two-Bit drew had any facial features, but she did not. Two-Bit chuckled a bit and Steve rolled his eyes. Dallas rolled his eyes and snatched the paper up from Steve. He snorted when he saw the drawing and threw it to Johnny. When Johnny picked the paper up, he knew it what it was going to be before he even saw it. This wasn't the first of Two-Bit's creations. Johnny rolled his eyes, crumpled it up, threw it at Two-Bit. Two-Bit laughed.
One day, had came into class late. All the students where being loud and obnoxious. The five boys had pushed together their desks and were playing card games. Their desks were littered with pennies and dimes and cigarettes they were gambling. There was only twenty minutes of class left, so figured she'd just let the class have a free period. That was until she heard:
"CHEATING BASTARD!".
She saw the Curtis kid hoping over desks chasing the Randle Kid. "Soda, it ain't like you never pulled that trick before", Two Bit yelled laughing his head off. Ms. Jones didn't want to get involved. Last year, she tried to break up a fight and got a black eye. Instead, she watched from her desk in slight amusement. She knew the boys well enough to know that they wouldn't harm each other too bad.
"Don't care Two Bit, he got my last quarter". Steve looked smug as he kept on avoiding Soda. All the kids around them were laughing or yelling. "Fuck you, Soda", was all Steve said. Eventually, they calmed down enough for Ms. Jones to say, "Principal's office." They got their classes switched after that day.