Chapter 6 Monday's suck
A/N I know I keep forgetting this but none of these characters are mine they are all come from the brilliant mind of S.E. Hinton.
I must have drifted off to sleep sometime during the night because the next thing I knew Darry was calling for me to get up because breakfast was ready. Damn it it's Monday already. I don't like Mondays. They're no fun. I have to get up for school because it's no longer the summer. This sucks. This blows. This is total crap.
"Pony get up now!"
"I'm up already geez. Layoff." I got out of bed and put on a pair of pants and a shirt. I slipped out of my room and into the kitchen where the gang was already eating. I grabbed a piece of cake and started munching on it. When I looked up from my cake the gang was looking at me like I'd explode at any moment.
"What? What's with you guys your making me nervous?" They continued to stare at me though, so I finished my cake, got up and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and grease my hair. I heard the gang talking through the bathroom door.
"I don't know about him." Steve said
"I'm getting really worried last night he was saying stuff in his sleep, like why Johnny why and who am I? I was gonna wake him up but I didn't know f wanted to be woken up. It's the first time that I thought about what Pony might want instead of what's best." Soda said. So he's starting to get it. Get that sometimes what's best isn't what I want or what I need. What's best can sometimes be a bad thing when people want you to shoot for best all the time. It's tough and it puts a lot of strain on a person.
"Maybe Pony just needs some time for himself. He just hasn't been the same since Johnny and Dally died." Darry joined in the conversation. Yes that's exactly what I need. Time to myself. Time to find myself and to figure out who I am. I walked back into the kitchen and said goodbye and started to walk to school. Normally I would have waited for Two-Bit, but he looked like he was gonna be there a while longer besides that I didn't feel like walking and talking with anyone this morning.
I made my way to school and found Curly and his gang standing outside.
"Yo, Pony, wanna skip school and come hang with us." Curly said.
"What are you talking about Curly, that little bookworm loves his precious school," taunted one of the guys.
"Who needs school anyway," I said and casually walked over there.
"Wow you've got more guts than I gave you credit for kid." Said the one who made fun of me before.
"Yeah well." I drifted into silence because I didn't really know what else to say. "So what are we doing?"
"I dunno anyone up for going to Buck's" Curly said.
"Nah we were just there last night," said one guy.
"How about we just walk around for a while and see what trouble we can find. Maybe there'll even be a fight somewhere," Curly decided. Everyone including myself agreed. School didn't seem that important. I felt kind of guilty because Darry and Soda worked so hard to keep me in school, but that guilt soon faded. We walked around for a while until we found what we were looking for. It was an all out rumble.
A/N I know I keep forgetting this but none of these characters are mine they are all come from the brilliant mind of S.E. Hinton.
I must have drifted off to sleep sometime during the night because the next thing I knew Darry was calling for me to get up because breakfast was ready. Damn it it's Monday already. I don't like Mondays. They're no fun. I have to get up for school because it's no longer the summer. This sucks. This blows. This is total crap.
"Pony get up now!"
"I'm up already geez. Layoff." I got out of bed and put on a pair of pants and a shirt. I slipped out of my room and into the kitchen where the gang was already eating. I grabbed a piece of cake and started munching on it. When I looked up from my cake the gang was looking at me like I'd explode at any moment.
"What? What's with you guys your making me nervous?" They continued to stare at me though, so I finished my cake, got up and went to the bathroom to brush my teeth and grease my hair. I heard the gang talking through the bathroom door.
"I don't know about him." Steve said
"I'm getting really worried last night he was saying stuff in his sleep, like why Johnny why and who am I? I was gonna wake him up but I didn't know f wanted to be woken up. It's the first time that I thought about what Pony might want instead of what's best." Soda said. So he's starting to get it. Get that sometimes what's best isn't what I want or what I need. What's best can sometimes be a bad thing when people want you to shoot for best all the time. It's tough and it puts a lot of strain on a person.
"Maybe Pony just needs some time for himself. He just hasn't been the same since Johnny and Dally died." Darry joined in the conversation. Yes that's exactly what I need. Time to myself. Time to find myself and to figure out who I am. I walked back into the kitchen and said goodbye and started to walk to school. Normally I would have waited for Two-Bit, but he looked like he was gonna be there a while longer besides that I didn't feel like walking and talking with anyone this morning.
I made my way to school and found Curly and his gang standing outside.
"Yo, Pony, wanna skip school and come hang with us." Curly said.
"What are you talking about Curly, that little bookworm loves his precious school," taunted one of the guys.
"Who needs school anyway," I said and casually walked over there.
"Wow you've got more guts than I gave you credit for kid." Said the one who made fun of me before.
"Yeah well." I drifted into silence because I didn't really know what else to say. "So what are we doing?"
"I dunno anyone up for going to Buck's" Curly said.
"Nah we were just there last night," said one guy.
"How about we just walk around for a while and see what trouble we can find. Maybe there'll even be a fight somewhere," Curly decided. Everyone including myself agreed. School didn't seem that important. I felt kind of guilty because Darry and Soda worked so hard to keep me in school, but that guilt soon faded. We walked around for a while until we found what we were looking for. It was an all out rumble.