Ok here is the next chapter. The OC is not very likable at first. It's meant to be that way. She gets better as the chapters progress I promise. Hope you like.

At three Johnny was waiting patiently by the exit. It was really nice out, so he didn't mind to wait. Finally, he saw the girl come out.

"Hey Ashley, over here," someone yelled, and she waved. Johnny turned around to see who was yelling, and saw the same four guys that he saw with her that afternoon. She was waving at them, and going in their direction. Well, at least I know her name now, Johnny thought. She finally reached the guys, and they started to walk away. She clearly forgot about Johnny.

Johnny was intimidated by the guys, but he had no choice. He ran to catch up with them, and called her name. She turned around surprised. "Shit, I totally forgot," she mumbled, and then the next second she said "C'mon, you are coming with us."

"Why? Who is he?" one of the guys demanded.

"I'm Johnny," Johnny replied, "I'm new here."

"How new?"

"Well, actually today is my first day."

"Tell me again why he's coming with us," the other guy interrupted.

"It's a long story," Ashley replied, "I'm supposed to help him with the stuff he missed in math."

"How come?" The guy sounded puzzled.

"Well, if you really need to know, I was fighting with this idiot Hunter during math, and as a punishment I was assigned to help the new kid with math." She was talking as if Johnny wasn't even there.

"C'mon kid, you are coming with us," the other guy said.

"And where are we going?" Johnny forced himself to find the courage to ask.

"We are going to Ricky's," the guy said.

"Yeah, we can do your stupid math stuff there," Ashley offered.

"What's Ricky's?" Johnny asked.

"Oh, would you stop with your stupid questions?" Ashley snapped.

"Hey, ease up on the new kid," one of the guys said.

"Ricky's is the diner, where we eat and play pool."

"Oh, I see," was all Johnny said, flipping his bangs out of his face.

"By the way, I'm Jimmy and this is Alex, Eddie and Brian."

"Nice to meet you," Johnny mumbled, not knowing what else to say.

They walked to Ricky's, and Johnny wished they were old enough to drive. It would be nice to ride in a car, in this beautiful weather, the wind blowing through the open windows.

They reached their destination soon, since Ricky's wasn't too far away from school. They went inside. The lights were dimmed, and it was kind of dark inside, and Johnny was glad. It made the atmosphere in the place more relaxing, and it helped Johnny feel less tense.

Half of the space was occupied by the dining area and the bar. There were rows of tables, and a small candle was burning on each of the tables. In the other half of the space there were rows of pool tables.

First, everybody got a coke, and Johnny was glad that he didn't spend his lunch money today, and was able to buy a coke just like everybody else. Then they went to the pool tables.

"You play?" Jimmy asked, while collecting all of the balls on one of the tables.

"Sure," Johnny replied. What he did not tell Jimmy was that he was an excellent pool player. Dally was always showing him all the tricks of the trade, and with time Johnny excelled at it.

"I'll play you Jimmy," Alex said, picking a cue for himself.

"That leaves Brian and Eddie, and Ash you play him." Jimmy pointed at Johnny.

"Why do I get to play him?" Ashley protested.

"Well, you brought him, so you play him."

"Oh, it's like that, huh?" Ashley said, getting up from the chair and picking up a cue. "Fine, I'll play him. I can see that all you pussies are just scared to play me!"

Jimmy shrugged, "You play him, and then you can play any of us. We aren't scared to play you."

"I'll believe it when I see it," Ashley replied. "So far I was beating each of you for the whole last week," she added, arranging the balls in the right position on the table.

"Well, this is going to be one short game," she announced, implying that she'd beat Johnny in no time.

Johnny was playing solids, and Ashley was playing stripes. Ten minutes passed, and there were only two solids remaining and a whole bunch of stripes. Johnny got his turn, and he was killing it one shot after another. Finally, there were no more solids left on the table. The guys were looking at Ashley, curiosity looks on their faces.

"Oh, it was just a fluke. I was off my game." Ashley tried to laugh it off, but she was visibly unpleasantly surprised and angry. Johnny, didn't really care that much before, but all of the sudden he wanted to dare her to play again, since she was bragging so much how good she was. He was up to the challenge now. He wanted to put her in her place, what's with her being so arrogant and defiant and so cocky that she thought she'd beat him in no time.

"Let's play another game" Ashley said.

"Sure" Johnny replied simply. He arranged the balls in the starting position, and they started a new game. In about fifteen minutes it was clear that Johnny was winning. Again, the guys exchanged looks.

"One more game, three's a charm," Ashley said to Johnny, after he won. She was getting really mad, he could tell.

"Fine," he replied. He was slightly concerned about his math, but at the moment this was more important. Johnny didn't want her to be mad, it was just a game, but she apparently took things like this seriously.

They started the third game, and all the guys stopped playing their games, and were now gathered around Ashley's and Johnny's table. They were cheering and betting on who would win.

After Johnny beat Ashley for the third time, she was really mad. The guys were laughing now.

"So you'll believe it when you see it, huh, Ash?" Alex chuckled. The guys didn't really care though. They were just kidding with her, and teasing her a little bit, but she was all mad and serious. "Shut up," she replied. She clearly didn't expect some shy kid, who didn't say much, and couldn't even properly introduce himself, to be so good at pool.

"No hard feelings," Johnny offered. She gave him one stern look of disdain, and said to the others, "well, I'm out of here."

"Wait, what about math?" Johnny called after her.

"Just read the damn book," she said sarcastically, "it's all in there, and don't even think of running crying to the teacher about it, 'cause if you do, you really will find out how hell feels." She was really mean Johnny thought, but at the same time he had to admit that there was something attractive about her badass behavior.