DISCLAIMER: This is the only one that's going up in this story. Just so everyone knows. :)

I do not own the following characters:
Johnny Cade, Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Darry Curtis,
Dallas Winston, Steve Randall, Two-Bit Mathews and Tim Shepard.
These characters are property of S.E. Hinton.
Angel Marquin and Joe Curry are property of A.C.
Claire Redfield and Steve Burnside are property of V.G.
(Also Capcom, Inc.)
Jade West-Curtis is property of H.N. and A.C.
Whisper Romano is property of K.B.
Heaven Marquin, Charity Campbell, Taylor Winston, and all
un-aforementioned characters are property of me. And I own Mr. Graham,
too.

Ok.... there you go. That's my disclaimer, and I am now exempt from
lawsuits-I hope. I don't think it'd matter, b/c I am a poor greaser
girl anyway. I have nothing to give.

This is my very first fic, so everyone, please, don't be kind. Be
honest. And if being honest means being kind, then do that. Aww, you
people know what I mean. I hope. :) Flaming is welcome, because reviews
are opinions. I am not responsible for the deaths of flamers.... j/k.
Ok, here goes!

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Heaven stared out the window of the hideous yellow bus.
Bored out of her head, it was taking all of her self-control to not
burst into tears. Or screams. Or both. 'I love Angel, but I HATE IT
HERE!' she thought. "It's cold, and horrible, and it SMELLS TOO!".
She screamed to herself. Or so she thought.

Everyone on the bus (except the bus driver) turned to look at
Heaven. Tan, thin, blonde Heaven Leigh Marquin. A few moments of utter
silence passed ('You can almost hear crickets', she thought), until
everyone staring at her burst into peals of laughter. Only two kids on
the bus were silent-Heaven, who has dying of embarrassment, and Ponyboy.

Ponyboy Curtis was silent, well, because he was the silent type.
Tall, somewhat muscular for his 16 years, long hair. Everyone thought
his hair was "tuff".

Heaven thought it was disgusting. 'Who'd want to make their
hair greasy on purpose? It's GROSS!', she'd thought the first time she
met him, That was back when he'd come to Hawaii with Angel. Heaven was
shocked-it was unbelievable, the crowd she'd fallen to. Totally beneath
her. Ten years ago, no one would have thought that the prissy little
girl who had hated bugs, dirt and most of all, boys, would end up
being one of the biggest tomboys is North Carolina.

'That's all over and done with, though', thought Heaven.
'I sorta wish I had just stayed in Hawaii-I HATE being known as
"The Greasy Soc"... what the hell is a Greasy Soc, anyway? I mean,
I KNOW I don't act like the gang-Dally, or Two-Bit, or even Johnny!
But why can't everyone else see I'm not a part of all of that?!'
As Heaven tried thinking of a few valid reasons (which she couldn't
find), the bus pulled up to the school.

The large building was made entirely of brick, and there wasn't
a trace of paint maintenance in sight-'unless you count the graffiti'.

Since Heaven didn't want a scene, she ended up letting everyone
else off first. 'What am I doing? I've become a shadow!' Heaven decided
to just get off-forget everyone else. She almost stepped into the aisle
when out of the corner of her eye, she saw another person.
"Oh gosh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you." Heaven instantly stepped
backwards and looked down. "It's ok" replied a familiar voice.
'Who is that?' she searched her mind for who it could be, when all
of a sudden she felt a hand touch her chin lightly. 'Oh god, I'm done
for.' Heaven drew back instantaneously-a little to hard, because she
flew into the window-and looked up. She saw, much to her relief, a
smiling Ponyboy Curtis standing in front of her seat. Like the
gentleman he pretended to be, he gestured for her to get out in front
of him. "You know Heaven, there are some people here... I mean... well,
umm... some of us are on your side." He gave her a huge dorky smile,
which she returned nervously. "Thanks, Pony. It's good to know." She
turned and stepped off the bus. 'There goes your chance, retard', Pony
thought to himself as he ran after her.

"Heaven! Wait", he yelled. She stopped and gave him a chance
to catch up. "What's your first class?" ":I've got biology with Mr.
Graham, like I've had for the past 5 months. You know that." she smiled,
wondering what on earth had come over him. 'Strike two, Rico Suave'
Pony muttered. "Excuse me?' "Huh? Oh.. nothing Heaven." She raised her
eyebrow. "I, umm... well I've got biology too." "I know." "Umm... could
I maybe, like, walk you or something? I mean, if that's ok." He looked
at her with hopeful green eyes. "Well... that'd be great!" She smiled
with relief, thankful she wouldn't have to walk to class alone again.
She laced her arm through his and pulled him to class.

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As soon as Heaven actually realized that she was walking arm in
arm with Ponyboy Curtis, a greaser, she stiffened. People turned,
stared, whispered, and yelled. 'What am I DOING?!' she thought.
Everything suddenly blurred, and she felt dizzy. She stopped walking.
Pony felt her quivering, and turned to see if she was alright.
"Heaven! Heaven, are you ok?" She nodded and forced a smile.
"Yeah... let's just get to class." "Heaven?" "Mmm?" Pony stopped this
time. "Heaven...." He went to say something, but thought better of it
and instead, he finished with "...you are one strange..." But Pony
never got the chance to finish his sentence.

"HEY GREASER SOC BITCH!"

Heaven turned to see who was yelling... 'not again,' she thought.
But it was worse this time. As she turned to face the voice, she was
met with an advanced algebra book in the face.

She hit the floor without knowing what happened.

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Ok, that is the END of chapter one, so PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE read and
review....it is so important to me that this get read. I don't know
why, it just is, so please r/r. And if you do, you are like, part of
something special, because this is my first story EVER! And I'm going
to put th rest on even if it gets bad reviews because the first chapter
is a lttle slow. Until the end. But I promise it gets alot better,
so hang in there! And r/r!