Jenna's POV
I ended up telling Soda and Darry about the dream, but I didn't tell them the real one. I just told them some random nightmare I had before my parents died so they wouldn't make a big deal about it. I was really lucky when they actually believed it. They didn't need to know. They wouldn't be able to help with it anyway, it's a dream, how can they help? And it was just one dream, so it wouldn't be that bad. Or so I thought. The next night it happened again. After that I didn't get much sleep, Darry practically had to pull me out of bed today. But I didn't tell them about me having it again; I didn't need to worry them anymore than they were.
"Hey Jenna, you wanna ride to school with me, Johnny, and Pony?" Two-bit asked me.
"Sure," I said thinking it was no problem until he started driving. He was terrible; I'm surprised we weren't run off the road yet. But finally we made to school. I tried to talk to Ponyboy a little bit, but when I looked away for a second he disappeared. Why do I even try anymore? I thought to myself.
So far, school went as it usually had the last two days. I talked to Stephen mainly, and, as usual, I lost Ponyboy after gym. Two times in one day, he's on a role, I thought. But soon enough after that, Stephen found me again. We were waiting in line for lunch, but Tanya and some of her stupid friends were squealing about how awesome puppies were I could barley here myself think. Stephen rolled his eyes at them. I would do the same thing, but I do have to agree, puppies are pretty awesome, they're my favorite animal. But finally one of Tanya's friends forgot to get something so they all got out of line.
"Finally, I was about to go deaf," Stephen said sounding relieved.
"Yeah, me too," I said.
"So did you lose Ponyboy again today?" Stephen asked. I told him all about it.
"Yeah, he was captured by ninjas twice today" I said jokingly. He disappears so fast it's almost like he's captured by ninjas.
"Captured by ninjas?" Stephen said amused.
"Yeah I said sarcastically.
"Hey Jenna, come over here for a minute!" I heard Two-bit shout. Stephen and me walked over to him and Steve.
"What's up?" I asked.
"Do you two love birds wanna' come down to the DX station today for lunch to see Soda and what not?" Two-bit said.
"Sure, and shut up," I said to Two-bit. Stephen nodded.
"Ok, meet us in the parking lot in about ten minutes, Ponyboy'll be there. He says he keeps losing you," Two-bit said.
"I keep losing him, He disappears every two seconds."
"You two need to work out a plan" Two-bit said jokingly," he's been hanging out with a girl lately. All you Curtis's are with someone. Except Darry, we need to get him a girlfriend," Two-bit said while walking away with Steve.
"Are you ok with going to the DX?" I asked Stephen as we were going through the cafeteria to get to the parking lot.
"Yeah that's fine," he said," the people in their gang are a lot better than the ones in my brothers."
"You don't like any of them?"
"Their all idiots, the only smart one in there is Tim. That's why they call it the Shepard gang. The only down side is that people actually think that I'm in it, which I'm definitely not," Stephen says.
"That must stink, "I said while we were still heading through the cafeteria. But then all of the sudden Tanya came up and pretended to trip and practically threw her tray of very cheesy nachos all over my shirt.
"Oops," Tanya said, obviously not meaning it.
"Tanya!" I shouted, and then everyone was silent and turned to look at us. It wasn't that loud, they must have been expecting it. They were mostly soc's, so that would explain it. "It was an accident the other day!"
"Yeah, like it was an accident when you got first chair in band too," she said in a snotty voice. I was about to say something else, but then my guidance counselor appeared out of nowhere and stopped me.
"Jenna, why don't you go change into your gym shirt? Tanya, I'll be seeing you in my office after lunch," the guidance counselor said. I angrily walked away leaving Stephen who looked shocked. I knew the guidance counselor wasn't going to get Tanya into too much trouble. She would get a detention at the most. I went into the girls locker room and first threw away my lunch, I wasn't hungry for it anyway. Then I changed into my gym shirt and put my messed up shirt in a bag to take with me. Then I remembered I was about to go to the DX station to see Sodapop, he would definitely notice. Just great, I thought. When I came out of the locker room, Stephen was waiting outside the gym for me.
"Hey, are you ok?" he asked.
"Yeah, I just really hate Tanya."
"Yeah, everyone does."
"Let's go to the parking lot, our ten minutes are almost up."
"Ok," Stephen said. We were silent on our way out. But soon enough in the parking lot, we found Two-bit car with Ponyboy and Steve standing next to it. Then I remembered Two-bits driving and really hoped Steve would drive.
"Hey, what happened to your shirt?" Ponyboy asked me.
"Long story," I said grumpily. But luckily he dropped the subject, for now. Then Two-bit came out and drove us to the DX station. He was still a crazy driver, but the DX wasn't that far. He only people who talked were Two-bit and Steve about cars. And me and Stephen talked a little bit, but not much. Finally we made it to the DX station and found Soda pretty easily and went up to him. It looked like he was on break.
"Hey guys, what's up?" he asked, and then he looked at me," What happened to your shirt Jen?"
"It's a long story," I said not really wanting to talk about it quite yet.
"Well I just started my break, so do tell," he said, obviously trying to be annoying.
"Fine. Remember that soc that O=I accidently dumped my lunch on the other day? Well I got my karma from her today," I said grumpily. I'm surprised he didn't say anything about Stephen yet, he's the one that didn't want me to be friends with him.'
"Are you ok?"
"I'm fine."
"Did she get in trouble?"
"The guidance counselor was gonna talk to her, but I don't think she's gonna get in much trouble."
"Do we need to go hunt down some soc's?" Steve said jokingly.
"No, you don't need to do that. I can handle it," I said.
"Ok, but if she does anything else tell us, ok?" Soda said.
"Ok," I said. Then Soda, Steve, Two-bit, and Ponyboy all started talking about cars, and since I don't know anything about that, I couldn't really join in. Instead, I started talking to Stephen again.
Luckily, the only other time I would have to see Tanya today is in band class. I'm sure looking forward to that, I thought sarcastically to myself.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update, I've had a busy week. I hoped you enjoyed it! And I'll try to update as fast as I can. Feel free to post any comments or questions, but please be nice. Please Review!
