Well after our lovely Christmas dash to rescue Angela, the last few days of the holidays went by quickly and it was back to school today. I'd managed to convince her to come back to school and finish Junior year. It wasn't uncommon for Greaser girls our age to fall pregnant and drop out, along with the occasional Soc, so she wasn't too worried about going back. Plus both of us had decided that we weren't going to do senior year anyway so we may as well finish junior year and get that certificate. Angela was going to pursue a spot at secretarial school so she could work in an office, but that would have to wait until after the baby now. Also prom was coming up and seeing as we weren't doing senior year we had both wanted to go. Due to not many people, mainly girls, doing senior year at our school, prom was open to both juniors and seniors so we were pretty excited.

We'd had pretty quiet New Year's celebrations last weekend so Ange and I planned our dresses for prom and bought the material this week. I only had a couple more weeks to finish them and I had to convince Dal to come with me. I must admit it wasn't something I was all that interested in going to, but Ange had convinced me last year that we had to go. Plus my mum was super excited for me to go to prom, as she had gone with dad, and I guess now I wanted to go for her as well.

Unfortunately for us, Soda was still seeing Donna, so she'd most likely be going to prom with him. I don't know if I could stand her long enough to last the prom but I'd give it a go for Soda. I guess her 'out there' personality was distracting Soda and he was slowly getting over Sandy. I just wish it had been with someone a bit nicer. Since that night at the bowling alley I'd only seen her a couple of other times briefly and mainly tried to avoid her. Two-Bit was coming to prom, again, and had still to decide on someone to take, so I think that was his goal at school today. He was running names by me in the car on the way to school. Johnny and Ponyboy didn't really know many of the names, but would occasionally pop in with opinions on their siblings which were in their year. There weren't too many eligible Greaser ladies who were single so he had to get a move on before any of the other guys in his year made a move.

I met Ange in the car park, she was waiting with Curly till I got there and then Curly headed off with Pony and Johnny. Curly was a nice kid, although he often got dragged in to his brother's many messes, deep down he was a good kid so I didn't mind him hanging around with Ponyboy. There were a few other friends of his I didn't approve of, mainly because I knew their older brothers or sisters and knew what sort of people they were. But Curly was good. He clearly was worried about Ange and made her promise to come see him at lunch. We knew there would be some gossip around the school today, but Ange was tough enough to deal with it, to be honest she didn't give a shit what people said about her but I had a feeling that today wouldn't be much fun.

We had our core classes together, like English, Maths and Social Studies. We were in the lowest class of each, but I didn't mind because that meant they taught you really only what you'd need for the real world. So household maths, basic English like how to write letters and fill in forms etc, and then just basic American history and local law etc. Then I had textile design and Home Ec. Angela did Home Ec too, but was a bit rubbish at it. She just didn't pay attention properly and with her attention span much of her cooking ended up either very much overcooked or severely undercooked, but she had promised herself she'd make more of an effort given that she'd need it now.

Lunchtime eventually rolled around and Evie had followed me to my locker to discuss some things for her prom dress. She had gotten a dress off her older cousin to use but she wanted to alter it a bit, plus it had to be taken in slightly as well. I didn't mind doing it for her, it wouldn't take long, plus Evie wasn't so bad. I knew she was really looking forward to it and going with Steve. Ange was hanging about with me waiting for me and Evie to finish chatting, when Donna came over.

"Look who it is, little knocked up Shepard and her damaged friend." She gave us a fake smile and wave.

"Whatever Donna." Like usual I wasn't in the mood for her shit.

"You seem in a bit of a down mood Blue, missing Dally are we? He sure ain't missin' you." She gave me a wink then. I knew she was bullshitting me. Dally would never cheat, and even though we'd been dating for a while and after the whole Bob thing our sex life was back better than ever.

"What the fuck is your problem bitch?" Angela was never one to back down from a fight.

"Given your current condition Ange, I'd back off." Donna was fronting up to Ange now.

"Don't matter what 'condition' I'm in Donna I'd still wipe the floor with ya." That wound her right up and she shoved Ange back into the lockers. So I jumped in.

"What the HELL is wrong with you Donna?" I pushed her back a bit and got in between her and Ange.

"Whatever Blue, I wouldn't touch her anyway, might catch something."

I saw red at that comment, Angela didn't deserve that, not from some Greaser whore like Donna. So I punched her, caught her right under the eye next to the nose. I knew she wasn't too good in a fight, but she could be vicious to make up for it. She grabbed me and shoved me against the locker, I was shorter than her and lighter so it was easier for her to man-handle me. But I kneed her in the stomach and shoved her off, but she grabbed my hair and pulled my head back and punched me hard and caught me on the mouth. She threw me to the ground and got on top of me and gave me a few more punches, but I eventually managed to roll her off me and I ended up on top. By this point we'd gathered quite the crowd and I could hear people whooping as I punched her a few more times, but she was scratching at me as I punched her, I managed to get a few more punches in until I felt arms around me lifting up, I realised it was Two-Bit.

"GET OFF ME TWO!" I was wriggling through his grasp trying to get back to Donna, but couldn't break it, luckily though my feet were still within kicking distance so I got the boot in a few times before he dragged me right away.

"Calm down Blue, let's get outta here 'fore the teachers come out." He dragged me by the arm into the car park with Ange, Pony, Diane and Johnny hot on our tails. "What was all that about?!"

"She had it comin'."

"Whaddya mean?"

"Since her first date with Soda she'd been having sly digs at me, about what happened with Bob, then flirting with Dal, and just now she started sayin' shit again about the Bob thing, sayin' shit 'bout Dally and sayin' shit about Ange. Stupid bitch."

"Ahhh you got her good Blue, seriously, that was awesome!" Ange was happy so I gave her a smile.

"Yeah it was, felt a bit bad 'bout breakin' up a cat fight." Two winked at me, so I punched him playfully on the arm.

"Well I'm glad, she deserved it. Hope Soda doesn't get pissed."

"Let's go to the DX then, grab some lunch and get you cleaned up." We all crammed into Two-Bit's car and made our way to the DX, we still had just over half an hour till lunch ended and the DX was only 5 mins drive away so we had plenty of time. When we got there Ange headed inside to grab some first aid stuff to clean me up with and I made my way over to the workshop where Soda and Steve were. It was Tuesday so he wasn't at school today.

"Glory Blue! Only back at school for half a day and you've already been in a fight. What happened?"

"She got into it with Donna." Two-Bit happily told Soda as sauntered over and sat on the bench.

"She what?!" He stared over at me.

By this point Ange had come through, "That bitch had it comin'." She handed me a wet cloth to clean off some of the blood on my lip and nose.

"Why?"

"Remember at the bowling alley? She'd spent half the night flirtin' with Dal whenever your back was turned, then when you went to get more drinks she was sayin' shit to me about what happened with Bob and how she was surprised Dal had stayed with me, and just then at school she came up to me sayin' shit about Bob again and havin' a go at Ange about bein' pregnant. So I gave her what she had comin'." Soda stared at me before coming over and high fiving me.

"Sounds like she deserved it, she was a bit of a bitch."

"Thank god, I thought you'd be pissed at me."

"Ya kiddin'? If that's what she's sayin' to ya I don't want nothin' to do with her." He gave me a hug and then went back to the car he and Steve were working on. Pony, Diane, Johnny, Ange and I went and for some lunch from the shop and sat next to the heater in the workshop office. Diane had caught the tail end of the fight and was pretty impressed by what she saw. I was by no way a great fighter, some of the girls at school were pretty tough, but I could hold my own and I guess Diane hadn't really ever been in a fight before. When Johnny got up to go to the toilet she told us about one of her friends she was thinking of setting Johnny up with and wanted to know our opinion. I vaguely knew the girl she was talking about. She was a Greaser but she didn't hang around with anyone too rough, she was pretty quiet too so I figured she'd be great for Johnny. Plus she was quite pretty, she had dark hair like his and was small and shy too so I told Diane to go for it.

Eventually though, it was time to go back to school and Two-Bit reluctantly dragged us back to the car and back to school.

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By the time we got home that afternoon my eye had bruised and my lip was a bit swollen around the cut. I had a couple of other bruises beginning to show, but Donna had gone home. Our fight had certainly been the talk of the day and apparently Donna was a hell of a lot worse off so I was glad. I was currently in my room hand stitching a couple of pieces of Ange's dress together, Diane had come back to our place and offered to cook dinner which I gratefully accepted, so I didn't have to worry about anything. Darry was going straight from roofing today off to the lumber yard to sort out their deliveries. They got trucks of big trees, from the nearby plantation, which they'd unload and chop up in huge saws and distribute to other places. During winter they were pretty busy so Darry had been picking up a few more hours there, which was good because the winter weather and the early dark nights the roofing hours had gotten smaller as it wasn't safe to work when it got dark.

Eventually I heard Dally come in, kick off his boots and make his way through to my room. He did a double take when he saw my face.

"What in the hell happened to you?!"

"Got in a fight with Donna." I put my sewing stuff on the floor at the end of the bed.

Dal chuckled and made his way over to sit next to me.

"Over me again?" He laughed some more.

"Kinda. Mainly about her bein' a bitch to me and Ange."

"Alright then. How'd she pull up?"

"Pretty bad apparently, Two-Bit dragged me off her and I didn't see her after that."

"Tuff enough."

"She did say somethin' about you though."

"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows.

"Nothin' much really. Just implied that you were bored with me."

"Whatever, she don't know shit."

"Ya sure?"

"Fuck's sake, I don't need this shit right now. Course I'm sure."

"Alright calm down, just checkin'."

"'s'if you need to check."

Seeing as we were on the bed, and seeing as Darry and Soda weren't home and Pony, Johnny and Diane were watching TV we made the most of it. Like I said, Dally's favourite thing to do was have sex, and who was I to complain…