Pepper Ann
By: Aaliyah-Charity
A/N: Hi, I'm back! Hey, if you have trouble thinking of Alice Kane as a person, imagine Cokie Mason from the Babysitters' Club movie! Works for me! Nicky and Milo....um, I have no idea. Hey, I need more characters for this story and other ones, too! If you don't mind me using your character, please tell me in a review, bacause I need to use them, please! Thank you!
Disclaimer: 'The Outsiders' belongs to S.E. Hinton, a wonderful writer.
Chapter 2: Science Competition & Threats
"Pepper Ann, you're late....AGAIN!" Mr. Carter screamed at me as he passed me yet another detention slip. Guess I wouldn't be going to Honor Band practcie after school. I sighed and sat down for yet another boring Science class where I already knew the whole thing.
"Now, for what I was fixing to say before someone disturbed it was that it is one month from the deadline of the thirty-fifth annual Science contest! Last year, Alice Kane was the winner with her genious possum in a barrel idea! If you have any questions, ask her!" Mr. Carter screamed happily, while I was fuming. Alice Kane....ohh I hate her so much! I looked over to the bulliton board where her picture with the possum in the barrel was. I imagined her laughing at me with the stupid possum joining her. I gritted my teeth at her. I was going to beat her. I'll show her....
"Pepper Ann! Are you there?" Nicky asked me.
"Huh? Oh, yeah," I answered.
"So when does the bus come to take us away from our fair town?" Milo said dramaticially.
"At four, six, eight, and ten o'clock. Looks like it'll be six because of this detention," I glumly said, "So much for Honor Band practice."
"Doesn't the Band teacher ever worry that you miss so many practices because of your detentions?" Nicky asked. I shrugged, but inside she was worrying me.
"I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm going to beat Alice Kane at that Science competition!" I yelled all determined. I was going to win.
"Oh, Pepper Ann," Nicky said, and shook her head. All day she said that as I announced my going to beat Alice Kane. Milo and me were thinking of evil ways to beat her and Nicky made sure it wasn't too graphic.
After detention, a quick yearbook staff meeting, and Orchestra practice, Nicky, Milo, and me were boarding the bus. We sat in the back while Alice Kane sat in the front. Me and Milo were making faces at her and stuff while Nicky tried to calm us down.
When we got off the bus, Nicky asked if she could see the library, so we all went on a search for it, since I had no idea where it was. On the way there, we saw a DX gas station, and I saw Sodapop, Steve, Ponyboy, Dally, Two-Bit, and Johnny there with a flock of over-crazed teenage girls around Sodapop, including guess who....ALICE KANE! AHHHH!!!!
"Hey, it's Pepper Ann!" Two-Bit decided to scream, pointing at me. Of course then, I covered my face and walked away, but Steve yelled at my friends and me to come over.
As we came over, I introduced Nicky and Milo to everyone, hoping Alice Kane didn't see us. But then, she did.
"Oh look, it's P. Ann," Alice came over to where I was with a nasty smirk on her face.
"It's Pepper Ann!" I spat out. I hope some of it got on her face. I saw Steve and Ponyboy coming over, seeing as me and Alice Kane were not being friendly to each other.
"I just wanted to say good luck at the Science competition being second place, whereas I'll sit upon my first place and look down on you. I'll let you in a secret. This year....is personal best. It is an authenic BODY MUFF!" she screamed. Then she walked to the side of me, and crossed her arms, touching her hands to the top of her elbows. Then she laughed a maniac laughter.
"People in the Arctic will feel like they're on the beach! Skiing will be like tanning in Flordia! Don't you see P. Ann! This will be the bast invention EVER!!!! MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" she laughed. I gritted my teeth, and Steve held my arms while I tried to punch her smack in her face. She laughed again, and I was fixing to break free and Milo, Ponyboy, and Johnny had to help Steve hold me down.
"Oh yeah, well guess what?! I had one reason to win this Science competion, to win, but now I gotta new reason....kicking your ass!" I yelled at her.
"Oh, yeah, well I'd like to see you try, P. Ann," she fought back. Two- Bit came over and held her down, but I was so mad, even the four guys couldn't hold me back. Sodapop and Dally came over and helped them hold me from beating the living crap out of her. Then, Alice laughed again and went away. All six guys let go of me. That was kind of funny, six guys had to hold me down, but only one was required to get Alice down.
"Oooohhhh, I am going to beat her!!!!" I said with a lot of determination.
"Pepper Ann, why must you hold such a grudge towards Alice Kane?" Nicky asked in her soft voice.
"Nicky, Alice Kane has beaten me at everything except for in Fine Arts!" I yelled.
"Pepper Ann, you're bring ridiculous. I remember very distincly when you won over her at....uh....," she staggered.
"See?! That's why I'm going to beat her!" I smiled, and motioned for Nicky and Milo to come with me back to my house. Everyone else was shocked and surprised at my un-shyness. I wasn't shy around Alice Kane, that's for sure. I put my arms around Nicky and Milo's shoulders and went home.
As we passed buildings and such, we heard people say words such as 'Socs' and 'Greasers.'
"Nicky?" I asked.
"Yes?" she asked back.
"What's a Soc and what's a Greaser?" I whispered.
"I don't know, I'm only book-smart. I wouldn't know. Milo?" she asked Milo.
"Wait a second, I'm not asking someone. After the 'frazny' incident, I don't think so, sister!" he yelled. Just then, a boy on a skateboard whized by us, screaming, "Milo's a LOSER!!!!" Somehow lately, boys on skateboards would call Milo that after the 'frazny' incident.
"Oohhh," he was mad, too, but not at Alice. When we got to my house, we all went in my room, and started practicing our instruments. Milo played percussion, Nicky played violin, and I played....well, you already know, but for right then, I played the oboe.
"So, Pepper Ann, are you going to try out for a spot for the Chorus Christmas ensemble?" Nicky asked.
"Yeah, but I won't be able to practice it at home unless all my brothers are out because they'll make fun of me. I'm also going to try for a Band one, too, though," I told her.
"So am I, for my violin. Hey, I know, we can do a duet! You can play the school's viola!" she exclaimed, getting all excited.
"Okay! That'll be great!" I said, almost forgetting Alice Kane.
"Hey, what about me?" Milo asked.
"Okay, you can play the autoharp," Nicky said with a disgust to her tone. Me and Nicky hate the autoharp more than anything. We don't know why, though. We were talking about it, and moved to the kitchen, when Soda, Pony, and all their friends came over, and luckily, no one bothered us.
"Hey, do you have your blank sheet music?" Nicky asked me.
"Oh yeah, I have everything," and went to my room to get my blank sheet music. On the way out, I heard Ponyboy talking.
"Pepper Ann's friends are Socs," he said to them.
"I know, what are Socs doing being her friends? Don't they know you're not supposed to be friends with Greasers if you're a Soc?" Dally snarled.
"Yeah, but Pepper Ann doesn't look like a Greaser," Ponyboy argued.
"Yeah, but she doesn't look like a Soc either. She just looks like....," Two-Bit said, not finishing what I looked like.
"She looks like Pepper Ann. She's her own unique person," Steve stood up for me. I smiled, and went out of the room to go see why Nicky wanted my blank sheet music.
"Hey, you guys, guess what? My brothers and their friends just called you guys 'Socs' and me a 'Greaser'. What are 'Socs' and what are 'Greasers'? Are they bad?" I asked. They shrugged, not knowing either, but we forgot all about it, as we started talking about other stuff. Suddenly, the subject of the Science competition came up, and I was saying all sorts of stuff about Alice Kane. If you knew Alice Kane, you'd join me, too. I grabbed a snow globe from the kitchen counter and started shaking it as Milo told us some wierd jokes about snakes and blondes, while Nicky was glaring at him.
"C'mon, you guys, let's go to my room," I told them, and they started to get up. I kept shaking the snow globe and as we walked passed the livingroom, I started imagining Alice Kane skiing down a mountain in the so- called 'body muff' and then a avalance comes and makes her disapear. I start laughing at the thought. I felt everyone staring at me, and I heard Darry coming in. As I start thinking of it some more, I threw the snow globe over my shoulder and felt Darry catching it, and looking at me as I entered my room.
"Oh, I'm one sick person," I told Nicky and Milo as I told them what I thought.
"Pepper Ann!" Nicky scolded me, but Milo was laughing hystericially. We started to talk about video games, when I felt a great speech coming up in my head.
I started, "I know it's bad to think about Alice Kane like that, but soon it'll be my-"
"TIME FOR DINNER!!!!" Darry screamed. Nicky laughed.
"Uh....c'mon, let's go," I beckoned them to follow me. We sat down to eat at the kitchen table, while my brothers and their friends ate in the livingroom. Suddenly, their side was quiet, then our side was quiet. Sudeenly, Milo laughed, breaking the silence.
"Oh, now I get it! You were going to say time, but then Darry said, 'Time for dinner!' Oh!" and then he laughed. I stared at him.
"Um, anyways....so do y'all wanna go to Brain Dead tommorow?" I asked.
"Oh, no! After last time....maybe in the future, but right now, my shock is not over," Nicky shuddered.
"Okay, what about you, Milo? Wanna have a Crunch Pod tourne?" I asked.
"Bring it on, sister!" he challenged.
"Honestly, guys, I DON'T know how you can play your silly video games when you could be reading a great novel," Nicky said to us. We stared at her. Then we heard Darry come in.
"Hello, Nicky, Milo," he said.
"Hi, Darry," Milo said.
"Hello, Darry, thank you for having us," Nicky thanked him.
"You're welcome," he said and went back to the other room.
"You okay, Nicky?" I asked her. Her face was all red and everything, which was quite un-like Nicky.
"Huh? Oh, yes, I'm quite alright, Milo," she waved her hand at me. She was acting quite strange, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why she was so red in the face. I looked at Milo, but he shrugged at me.
"Hey, Nicky? Why did you start getting red in the face after you saw Pepper Ann's brother?" Milo asked kinda quiet.
"I'm okay," she smiled. We dragged her over to my room and tried to snap her out of it, but by the time it was time to go to the bus stop, she was still zonked out.
"Well, c'mon, it's time to go to the bus stop," I told them.
"Okay," Nicky said softly, and when we went out, we saw Darry pass us.
"Hey, Darry, can I go with them to the bus stop?" I asked him.
"Yeah, but be careful," he agreed. Like their could be any danger.
"Okay, thanks," I said with gratitude.
"Bye, Mr. Curtis," Nicky said, her face blood red.
"Huh?" Milo asked, confused.
"Um....o-kay, bye, Nicky, Milo, hurry back Pepper Ann," Darry said to us as he went back to his friends.
"Bye," Milo said as we dragged Nicky to the bus stop.
"Do you think you can get Nicky home by yourself?" I asked Milo.
"I guess so," he said and dragged her on the bus with their stuff. I waved goodbye to them and went on my way home. A blue car started following me........
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By: Aaliyah-Charity
A/N: Hi, I'm back! Hey, if you have trouble thinking of Alice Kane as a person, imagine Cokie Mason from the Babysitters' Club movie! Works for me! Nicky and Milo....um, I have no idea. Hey, I need more characters for this story and other ones, too! If you don't mind me using your character, please tell me in a review, bacause I need to use them, please! Thank you!
Disclaimer: 'The Outsiders' belongs to S.E. Hinton, a wonderful writer.
Chapter 2: Science Competition & Threats
"Pepper Ann, you're late....AGAIN!" Mr. Carter screamed at me as he passed me yet another detention slip. Guess I wouldn't be going to Honor Band practcie after school. I sighed and sat down for yet another boring Science class where I already knew the whole thing.
"Now, for what I was fixing to say before someone disturbed it was that it is one month from the deadline of the thirty-fifth annual Science contest! Last year, Alice Kane was the winner with her genious possum in a barrel idea! If you have any questions, ask her!" Mr. Carter screamed happily, while I was fuming. Alice Kane....ohh I hate her so much! I looked over to the bulliton board where her picture with the possum in the barrel was. I imagined her laughing at me with the stupid possum joining her. I gritted my teeth at her. I was going to beat her. I'll show her....
"Pepper Ann! Are you there?" Nicky asked me.
"Huh? Oh, yeah," I answered.
"So when does the bus come to take us away from our fair town?" Milo said dramaticially.
"At four, six, eight, and ten o'clock. Looks like it'll be six because of this detention," I glumly said, "So much for Honor Band practice."
"Doesn't the Band teacher ever worry that you miss so many practices because of your detentions?" Nicky asked. I shrugged, but inside she was worrying me.
"I don't know, but what I do know is that I'm going to beat Alice Kane at that Science competition!" I yelled all determined. I was going to win.
"Oh, Pepper Ann," Nicky said, and shook her head. All day she said that as I announced my going to beat Alice Kane. Milo and me were thinking of evil ways to beat her and Nicky made sure it wasn't too graphic.
After detention, a quick yearbook staff meeting, and Orchestra practice, Nicky, Milo, and me were boarding the bus. We sat in the back while Alice Kane sat in the front. Me and Milo were making faces at her and stuff while Nicky tried to calm us down.
When we got off the bus, Nicky asked if she could see the library, so we all went on a search for it, since I had no idea where it was. On the way there, we saw a DX gas station, and I saw Sodapop, Steve, Ponyboy, Dally, Two-Bit, and Johnny there with a flock of over-crazed teenage girls around Sodapop, including guess who....ALICE KANE! AHHHH!!!!
"Hey, it's Pepper Ann!" Two-Bit decided to scream, pointing at me. Of course then, I covered my face and walked away, but Steve yelled at my friends and me to come over.
As we came over, I introduced Nicky and Milo to everyone, hoping Alice Kane didn't see us. But then, she did.
"Oh look, it's P. Ann," Alice came over to where I was with a nasty smirk on her face.
"It's Pepper Ann!" I spat out. I hope some of it got on her face. I saw Steve and Ponyboy coming over, seeing as me and Alice Kane were not being friendly to each other.
"I just wanted to say good luck at the Science competition being second place, whereas I'll sit upon my first place and look down on you. I'll let you in a secret. This year....is personal best. It is an authenic BODY MUFF!" she screamed. Then she walked to the side of me, and crossed her arms, touching her hands to the top of her elbows. Then she laughed a maniac laughter.
"People in the Arctic will feel like they're on the beach! Skiing will be like tanning in Flordia! Don't you see P. Ann! This will be the bast invention EVER!!!! MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!" she laughed. I gritted my teeth, and Steve held my arms while I tried to punch her smack in her face. She laughed again, and I was fixing to break free and Milo, Ponyboy, and Johnny had to help Steve hold me down.
"Oh yeah, well guess what?! I had one reason to win this Science competion, to win, but now I gotta new reason....kicking your ass!" I yelled at her.
"Oh, yeah, well I'd like to see you try, P. Ann," she fought back. Two- Bit came over and held her down, but I was so mad, even the four guys couldn't hold me back. Sodapop and Dally came over and helped them hold me from beating the living crap out of her. Then, Alice laughed again and went away. All six guys let go of me. That was kind of funny, six guys had to hold me down, but only one was required to get Alice down.
"Oooohhhh, I am going to beat her!!!!" I said with a lot of determination.
"Pepper Ann, why must you hold such a grudge towards Alice Kane?" Nicky asked in her soft voice.
"Nicky, Alice Kane has beaten me at everything except for in Fine Arts!" I yelled.
"Pepper Ann, you're bring ridiculous. I remember very distincly when you won over her at....uh....," she staggered.
"See?! That's why I'm going to beat her!" I smiled, and motioned for Nicky and Milo to come with me back to my house. Everyone else was shocked and surprised at my un-shyness. I wasn't shy around Alice Kane, that's for sure. I put my arms around Nicky and Milo's shoulders and went home.
As we passed buildings and such, we heard people say words such as 'Socs' and 'Greasers.'
"Nicky?" I asked.
"Yes?" she asked back.
"What's a Soc and what's a Greaser?" I whispered.
"I don't know, I'm only book-smart. I wouldn't know. Milo?" she asked Milo.
"Wait a second, I'm not asking someone. After the 'frazny' incident, I don't think so, sister!" he yelled. Just then, a boy on a skateboard whized by us, screaming, "Milo's a LOSER!!!!" Somehow lately, boys on skateboards would call Milo that after the 'frazny' incident.
"Oohhh," he was mad, too, but not at Alice. When we got to my house, we all went in my room, and started practicing our instruments. Milo played percussion, Nicky played violin, and I played....well, you already know, but for right then, I played the oboe.
"So, Pepper Ann, are you going to try out for a spot for the Chorus Christmas ensemble?" Nicky asked.
"Yeah, but I won't be able to practice it at home unless all my brothers are out because they'll make fun of me. I'm also going to try for a Band one, too, though," I told her.
"So am I, for my violin. Hey, I know, we can do a duet! You can play the school's viola!" she exclaimed, getting all excited.
"Okay! That'll be great!" I said, almost forgetting Alice Kane.
"Hey, what about me?" Milo asked.
"Okay, you can play the autoharp," Nicky said with a disgust to her tone. Me and Nicky hate the autoharp more than anything. We don't know why, though. We were talking about it, and moved to the kitchen, when Soda, Pony, and all their friends came over, and luckily, no one bothered us.
"Hey, do you have your blank sheet music?" Nicky asked me.
"Oh yeah, I have everything," and went to my room to get my blank sheet music. On the way out, I heard Ponyboy talking.
"Pepper Ann's friends are Socs," he said to them.
"I know, what are Socs doing being her friends? Don't they know you're not supposed to be friends with Greasers if you're a Soc?" Dally snarled.
"Yeah, but Pepper Ann doesn't look like a Greaser," Ponyboy argued.
"Yeah, but she doesn't look like a Soc either. She just looks like....," Two-Bit said, not finishing what I looked like.
"She looks like Pepper Ann. She's her own unique person," Steve stood up for me. I smiled, and went out of the room to go see why Nicky wanted my blank sheet music.
"Hey, you guys, guess what? My brothers and their friends just called you guys 'Socs' and me a 'Greaser'. What are 'Socs' and what are 'Greasers'? Are they bad?" I asked. They shrugged, not knowing either, but we forgot all about it, as we started talking about other stuff. Suddenly, the subject of the Science competition came up, and I was saying all sorts of stuff about Alice Kane. If you knew Alice Kane, you'd join me, too. I grabbed a snow globe from the kitchen counter and started shaking it as Milo told us some wierd jokes about snakes and blondes, while Nicky was glaring at him.
"C'mon, you guys, let's go to my room," I told them, and they started to get up. I kept shaking the snow globe and as we walked passed the livingroom, I started imagining Alice Kane skiing down a mountain in the so- called 'body muff' and then a avalance comes and makes her disapear. I start laughing at the thought. I felt everyone staring at me, and I heard Darry coming in. As I start thinking of it some more, I threw the snow globe over my shoulder and felt Darry catching it, and looking at me as I entered my room.
"Oh, I'm one sick person," I told Nicky and Milo as I told them what I thought.
"Pepper Ann!" Nicky scolded me, but Milo was laughing hystericially. We started to talk about video games, when I felt a great speech coming up in my head.
I started, "I know it's bad to think about Alice Kane like that, but soon it'll be my-"
"TIME FOR DINNER!!!!" Darry screamed. Nicky laughed.
"Uh....c'mon, let's go," I beckoned them to follow me. We sat down to eat at the kitchen table, while my brothers and their friends ate in the livingroom. Suddenly, their side was quiet, then our side was quiet. Sudeenly, Milo laughed, breaking the silence.
"Oh, now I get it! You were going to say time, but then Darry said, 'Time for dinner!' Oh!" and then he laughed. I stared at him.
"Um, anyways....so do y'all wanna go to Brain Dead tommorow?" I asked.
"Oh, no! After last time....maybe in the future, but right now, my shock is not over," Nicky shuddered.
"Okay, what about you, Milo? Wanna have a Crunch Pod tourne?" I asked.
"Bring it on, sister!" he challenged.
"Honestly, guys, I DON'T know how you can play your silly video games when you could be reading a great novel," Nicky said to us. We stared at her. Then we heard Darry come in.
"Hello, Nicky, Milo," he said.
"Hi, Darry," Milo said.
"Hello, Darry, thank you for having us," Nicky thanked him.
"You're welcome," he said and went back to the other room.
"You okay, Nicky?" I asked her. Her face was all red and everything, which was quite un-like Nicky.
"Huh? Oh, yes, I'm quite alright, Milo," she waved her hand at me. She was acting quite strange, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why she was so red in the face. I looked at Milo, but he shrugged at me.
"Hey, Nicky? Why did you start getting red in the face after you saw Pepper Ann's brother?" Milo asked kinda quiet.
"I'm okay," she smiled. We dragged her over to my room and tried to snap her out of it, but by the time it was time to go to the bus stop, she was still zonked out.
"Well, c'mon, it's time to go to the bus stop," I told them.
"Okay," Nicky said softly, and when we went out, we saw Darry pass us.
"Hey, Darry, can I go with them to the bus stop?" I asked him.
"Yeah, but be careful," he agreed. Like their could be any danger.
"Okay, thanks," I said with gratitude.
"Bye, Mr. Curtis," Nicky said, her face blood red.
"Huh?" Milo asked, confused.
"Um....o-kay, bye, Nicky, Milo, hurry back Pepper Ann," Darry said to us as he went back to his friends.
"Bye," Milo said as we dragged Nicky to the bus stop.
"Do you think you can get Nicky home by yourself?" I asked Milo.
"I guess so," he said and dragged her on the bus with their stuff. I waved goodbye to them and went on my way home. A blue car started following me........
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