~Chapter 4~ Ok..here's Chapter 4. If you wonder why I'm making these things so short, its 'cause I'm doing everyone's point of view in a different chapter. This one goes back to Riley's POV! I don't own anyone…well you know who I own! Bye now!
(****Riley's POV****)
I just got off the phone with Carmen. She told me that Sandy wasn't going with Soda so I told her that I'd come. It wasn't that I didn't like Sandy. Like I said she was one of my best friends, eventhough she was a greaser. I just didn't like seeing her and Sodapop together. It bugged me. I was jealous of Sandy. I'm that kind of girl; I get jealous really easy.
"Riley!" I heard the front door slam. "You home yet?"
"Yeah. I'm in my room." I was looking for something long sleeved to wear to the movies. It wasn't cold outside. I just wanted something long sleeved because it needed to cover my cuts up.
I grabbed my robe and put it on. Then I walked downstairs. "Hey mom," I smiled at her. She was sitting at the kitchen table drinking a glass of milk and looking through a recipe book. "What are you doing?" I sat down next to her. " I mean why are you looking at a recipe book?"
"Oh you know, just trying to fix something different for dad." She was always catering to my dad and I didn't know why.
"Why?"
"You know he doesn't like the same thing twice." She smiled at me. That was true. One time mom fixed him chicken twice in the same week and he slapped her. I was always a afraid of my dad after that. I'm afraid that he's going to hit me or mom. I guess that's why she caters to him, I'm not sure.
See, all the greasers think we have perfect lives because we are Socs and we're rich. But that's not true and me being afraid of my dad and cutting myself and loving Sodapop but not being able to have him prove it. I worry about things, just like the greasers do. I just don't worry about the same stuff. One of these days I wish someone would tell them that we have problems too.
"Mom is it ok if I go out with some friends tonight?"
"With who?" She asked concerned like any other mom. My mom worried about me way to much though. She had to know where I was every minute that I wasn't home.
"Carmen and two boys." She looked at me a minute before sighing.
"I guess I can't keep you away from boys forever. Can I?" She smiled and I knew she was going to say yes so hugged her.
"Thanks mom."
She frowned. "Riley, I didn't say yes. I merely asked you a question."
Now I frowned. "You mean I can't?" She didn't answer.
"I didn't say that either. I just have to talk to your dad first. When do you want to go out?"
"But mom!" I said startled that she wasn't going to let me go. "You know dad'll say no! He always says no when I want to go somewhere! And I want to go out at seven! Dad doesn't get home until six thirty and he'll be tired then so he'll just say no and not even give me a reason!" I was getting frustrated. The one night that I really really really wanted to go out my mom won't let me.
"Young lady, I really won't let you go when you use that tone of voice with me!"
"You won't let me go anyway! Because Dad'll say no!" I stormed up to my room and slammed the door. What was I doing? I'm not supposed to lose my temper like that. Usually I never do. I dialed Carmen's number. She didn't answer. So I dialed the DX's number.
"Hi. This is the DX. You're talkin to Sodapop! Whattya need?" Soda's cheerful voice came through the phone.
"Soda." I said sternly, almost ready to burst into tears because I wasn't going to get to go out. "Is Carmen there or did she leave already?"
"Let me check. Hang on?" I waited a second and then Soda's voice came back. " She just walked out the door. I'll get her."
"Ok." I could hear him yelling for Carmen. And a couple minutes later Carmen's voice came through the phone.
"Hey, Soda said you wanted to talk to me? He said you sounded upset. Whats wrong?"
"Carmen!" I cried through the phone. "My parents won't let me go out tonight! What am I going to do? I want to go out with you guys!"
"Ohh..thats bad." She seemed unconcerned, like she had a plan. "But I have a plan!"
"You do?" I wondered.
"Yep. You can sneak out of the house. And meet me a block from yours and then we can go pick the boy's up." Carmen was always coming up with weird plans and sometimes they worked. Sometimes they didn't. I was hoping that this one would work.
"Ok.." I said slyly. "But Carm, what if it doesn't work? Then I'm gonna be grounded for ever! And then I won't even get to cheer at the games!"
"Chill!" She said into the phone. "It'll work. If you get caught just tell 'em that you left your cheerleading uniform at school and you have to go pick it up before the school closes."
"Fine." I muttered. "Meet me a block away at six thirty."
A/N~ The end of this chapter! Review!
