Thanks for the reviews, appreciated greatly! lol anywho, were just a couple of one-shots away from a really big event! You guys probably already know what it is, but um...YA! Here's more.
Disclaimer-I do not own stand by me, the movie belongs to Rob Reiner , the title belongs to Paramore, and the actual plot belongs to Stephen King, but THIS plot belongs to me and so does the characters Haylee, Haylee's mom, Faith, and Max. MORE!
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As i predicted, Richie beat Teddy ass for telling that lie, and I was there to mend his wounds...for a whole month.
Chris apologized to Teddy saying he didn't mean to get so heated about the whole thing, and Teddy apologized to Me, saying he didn't know everyone else would get so heated about the whole thing. We all made up with bottles of Coke all around, paid for by yours truly.
We had our thanksgiving. It was DEELISHOUS! (reminds of a TV show called Chowder. 'Pepper Spray? thats sound DEELISHOUS! (sprays it in his face) OWW, I WAS WRONG! I WAS HORRIBLE WRONG!' haha!)
All the guys came over after their own thanksgiving dinner ('cept Chris, he was already over and he stay'd over for the whole meal) and Faith and her family came too! I saw little Jacob and Moses and we played with the radio and watch Tom and Jerry.
We had so much turkey left over my mother asked the guys if they wanted to bring some home, which they all did (the hungry bastards) and I even got to bring some to the Cobra's, and extra piece of cake to Ace (secretly, of course).
Christmas was comming up soon and we would be on our break in a matter of days. It was getting colder and starting to snow, which only meant that I had to start dressing the boys PROPERLY before they came out. Especially Vern.
Somedays he would come outside, not even wearing a coat! Othertimes he would stuff himself silly wearing 12 jackets and 9 sweaters, making him take forever to put them on and take them off. So everymorning I made it a note to myself, to stop by his house and make sure he was in right attire.
One morning it was snowing really bad outside. I knocked on his door as usual, and as usual he would answer. But when he answered, I noticed he was sniffling and his cheeks were rosy. I didn't pay too much attention to it since it was pretty cold, and the cold tended to leave people in a sniffling frenzy. I figured he must've been outside earlier.
"Hey Vern! Ready?" He nodded and smiled and let me in.
I went into his closet and got out his red coat. I opened it up for him, as he shrugged it up his shoulders, and only when his hands came out, thats when i saw it.
He had a burn mark in the center of his back hand. It was small, but a burn, is still a burn. I didn't want to say anything now, because someone in the house could have caused it.
So i quickly put on his scarf, and kept his gloves in my hand and as i pulled him out of the door.
He complained as I dragged him further away from his house and closer to the school. It was still snowing, but a little softer.
"Vern? What happened?" We huddle together. I took his hand and showed him what I saw.
He put his head down and started to sniffle again. My eyes went wide.
"Who did this to you? Huh? tell me, Vern" I took his hand and rubbed the falling snow on it to relieve it.
He sniffed. "I was gonna pay for it! I swear! I was listening to Billy's Chubby Checker record when he yelled my name all of sudden. I took it off the record player because I thought it was what he wanted. The next minute he's at my throat because of some baseball bat I borrowed before."
"Oh Vern..." I wiped some of the tears away from his cheek. He continued.
"Then-Then the record dropped. It was smashed! And it was all my fault! The Cobra's were over and they-It's all my fault."
"Was Ace with them?" I asked.
He shook his head no. I released my breath. He was balling. I grabbed him in a hug.
I almost started crying too.
How could Billy be so cruel?
We walked the rest of the way to school me rubbing his back as he sniffed. We had almost reached when Vern stopped, rubbing his eye for a minute.
"Haylee? Please don't tell the guys about this."
"...yea-Of course Vern."
After dropping Vern off at his class, I went into mine.
I shrugged off my jacket onto my chair as Gordie sat next to me.
"Where's Chris?" I asked.
"Oh, he's 'sick'" I raised an eyebrow.
"He's playin' hookey?" He shushed me.
I sighed and quited down. "If he wanted to skip school, then why didn't he just take the shop courses?" I said pissed as ever.
"Jesus, your actin' like he kicked your puppy. He's dad being a bit rough on him lately."
"Probably knowing that this is the time of the year to spread love and joy." We chuckled.
I moaned fell over onto my desk.
"Something wrong?" He asked.
"My stomach's is hurting like a bitch!"
"You hungry?"
"I think if I eat something right now, I might throw it back up."
"Thanks for sharing."
"No Problem!"
After school me and Gordie were waiting for Vern in the snow covered playground, since Teddy had taken a trip to the detention room.
"Why don't you join a sport or something in high school?" I asked walking around the swings.
"You mean like football?" He was walking beside me.
"NO! I don't want my baby getting hurt!" I snagged his head under my arm and we both laughed.
I let him go. "Nah, something less agrressive...like..track"
"Track?"
"Yea, you got those long legs, and your like string bean skinny! Your perfect! Plus when you start track, you get muscles in your calves, and you'll be extra tired so you'll wanna eat more and you won't be so skinny anymore!"
He laughed. "What's your beef with me being skinny?"
"To be honest, I rather have you like happily plump...like Vern you know? Its like not natural to be that skinny and have nothing wrong with you."
He laughed again. "I'm serious!" I chuckled.
"I just WISH I was that skinny, do you know how hard my mom would beat my ass?" I joked.
"Hey! Wait up you guys!" Vern called running from the building.
We stopped for a second.
"Come on Vern, we don't got all day!" Gordie yelled back.
Suddenly Ace's car pulls up with all the guys inside (Eyeball, Billy and Charlie). He gets out of the car and leans against it, a sign saying 'hurry up and get in'.
"I gotta go, cya later Gordie"
"Huh? Oh okay, Later!"
I walk up to the car sit in front as usual. Ace hopped in and we drove off. I heard all the guys say hi, but I ignored Billy and Eyeball. I was still mad at him for beating up Teddy. And don't get me started on Billy.
"Hey Charlie." Ace looked at me funny then started the car up.
I looked at Ace. "Can you take me to Chris's house?"
Scrunching up his face confused with his usual cigarette in his mouth, he kept his eyes on the road. "What the fuck for?"
"I need to drop off his homework, he didn't come to school today, and I want to make sure he's okay."
"He didn't go to school today? Oh, he's gonna get!" Eyeball said in the back. "Just wait until dad gets home."
I turned around suddenly and gave him a death glare. "Your not gonna tell him anything" Billy laughed but I sent him a look worse than death.
Ace turned me around in my seat, to face forward.
I sighed, looked out the window and started humming softly.
"What the hell are you singin?" Ace asked a bit annoyed.
"Just something in my head, why?" I said with attitude.
He looked from the road to the me twice. He stopped the car suddenly, there were 'What the Hell' and 'Whats up Ace' behind me. Ace threw out his cigarette in the snow and turned around in his seat to face me.
"What did those faggots do? Huh? Cause you know not to speak to me like that"
I raised my eyebrow.
"It's not my faggots that did anything, its YOURS!" I yelled.
"You talkin' bout that Duchamp asswhole?" He asked pissed.
"Teddy? Teddy's got nothing to do with this, its what they did to VERN!"
"The fat one?"
Billy leaned forward. "Oh shit, are you talking 'bout the record? Jesus Ace, He broke my Chubby Checker record. All I did was burn him with a cigarette."
I turned to him. "Was that before or after you almost tried to choke him to death? Over a baseball bat! Your lucky your mama isn't hearing from me right now!"
"Why you little-" He started for me.
Ace pointed at Billy. "You sit your ass back."
Billy sat there confused. "But Ace she-"
"You heard me. Back down."
He pushed his self back and ran his hands threw his hair. I heard him mumble. "She's lucky she's not a man."
I turned in my seat. "Like you would do anything! Take out all of your frustrations on poor Vern, who you know will never fight back! But try it on some one who would, Just try it on me! Listen here you fake punk ass bitch, I'm cold, tired, and I've got a killing stomach ache. You definitely don't want me to come back there and beat your ass right now, cause I'm afraid I might kill you, and we all wouldn't want that." I smiled.
I turned around while all of the guys cheered and laughed, I saw Ace with a small smirk on his face.
When we came to the Chamber's place, the guys got out and Debby, Chris's little sister, ran to myside.
"Hey Deb, do you know where Chris is?"
Her thumb was in her mouth, so she grabbed me with the hand she wasn't using and drug me up the stairs.
We stopped at Chris's door infront of the stairs.
Deb looked up at me, thumb still in her mouth.
"Thanks Deb."
She blink and skipped down the hall. She wasn't much of a talker.
I chuckled, shook my head and knocked on the door.
When he didn't answer I opened the door.
I saw him sleeping lazily on the bed. I looked at Deb skipping down the hall and she skipped into me.
She looked up at me, then at Chris looking curiously at me. I could hear her sucking noises.
"I gotta drop off these papers for him." I explained.
She stared at me for 2 seconds before taking the papers out of my hand. She walked into his room and put them on his bedroom floor. She took her thumb out (for once) and kissed him on the cheek. She stuck her thumb back in and came over to me dragging me to her room.
An hour later Chris still didn't wake up. He must of been knocked out. Well in that time, I was playing Barbie with Debby.
"Jeez Deb, I didn't know you like dolls this much"
She looked up from her Ken doll at me and blinked. Somehome she managed to change him with one hand.
"I have a whole bunch at home that I don't play with, maybe I'll ask Chris to bring them for you."
She smiled, and I smiled back.
"I think I better go, its getting kinda late. I'll see you later Deb."
She waved and continued to play.
I walked down the stairs seeing all the Cobras with beers in their hands glued to the TV. Ace got up knowing that I was ready to go.
We were on the front porch when he stopped.
"What the hell was all that about." He said pulling out another cigarette (damn chain smoker)
"With Billy?" I sat down on the ledge. "He pissed me off."
"He pisses me off too, but you don't see me bitchin' and moaning everytime he does a dickhead move." He said monotonly.
"He was messing with my friends, his brother."
Ace held a short chuckled that sound like a grunt.
"Listen, your gonna have to choose sooner or later. I don't really give a shit right now, but sooner or later...we'll probably be in a situation where one of your friends won't come out alive. And I'm tellin' you right now...if you get in my way, I won't hold back."
"Yea" I whispered.
He blew out the smoke. "So, how was the prick?"
I cleared my throat. "He was asleep. I went to play with Deb."
He blew out again as if choking, with that same scrunched up look he gave me in the car. "The mute?"
I made my way to the car laughing. "She's shy!"
"The hell she is! I tried taking her thumb out of her mouth and bit me! I was saving her from braces and that's the thanks I get?"
I laughed.
"I'm glad your laughing. Eyeball and Charlie had to hold me from slapping that kid half way across the room."
Ace drove me home. Faith was asleep on the couch again, and I really needed to pee!
As soon as I dropped my panties, I screamed.
OH MY GOD! I'M DYING!!
