Thank you guys for all the great reviews.but just to let you know.THIS IS
NOT A DALLY FIC. I keep getting reviews saying I should put her with Dally
but NO. I don't write Dally fics.I don't like him that much.I love Matt
Dillon but I just can't get over the part in the movie when he goes "how do
I know that's the same hair you have on your." I HATE that part. So this is
a Johnny/Beverly-Reigh fic.k? Anyway, here's the story.
Johnny's POV
I couldn't stop thinking about Beverly-Reigh. She had scared me half to death I swear. One second she was awake and then BAM she was passed out. I didn't drop her of course. But I had to lay her on the floor because my first thought was that she was dead. I was flipped out. And then, as Shannon tried to wake her up, she started screaming and sobbing. Her face was pale and I thought I'd done something wrong to hurt her when I caught her from falling. Anyway, she had to go to the hospital and we all walked the sobbing Shannon home. We decided we'd go see her after dinner since they were making her spend the night. Poor girl. I'd been in the hospital before and the food was atrocious. Maybe we'd bring her some real food.
Beverly-Reigh's POV
After Aunt Elaine left it was awfully lonely in the hospital bedroom. One of the nurses brought me a magazine to look at but it got old after the 5th time I'd flipped through it. Finally, around 4:30, Lynnie and the boys came in. Shannon was with them, too. She said she was allowed to leave the house just to see me and Aunt Elaine refused to bring the little ones in so she had to. I was very glad Aunt Elaine hadn't come in because Shannon had set Lynnie on my bed and the little five year old was messing with expensive stuff she probably shouldn't have been messing with but who cares? I say she's learning while she's getting in trouble so what's the problem?
"Geeze Bev, you really scared the bijeebers out of me. And Johnny, too. He thought he'd broken your neck our something. And then you started screaming bloody murder. That was some scary shi-"
"Shannon! There are little ears in the room!" I reminded her. I never swear in front of my siblings. They are innocent until they reach junior high. At least that's what I hoped.
"Sorry." She apologized.
"Beverly-Reigh, guess what!" Embree said hyperly, jumping up and down.
"What?" I asked laughing at his silliness.
"Aiden and I, we found a perfect escape route for if you want to sneak out at night! You know since your grounded and all. It's real secret and safe." Embree said this last part in a hushed voice.
"Why thank you, Em, but I don't think I'll be trying to get myself into more trouble than I already am." I answered ruffling his hair. Both he and Aiden have longer kind of hair. That kicks out at the bottom. It was the cutest thing.
Aiden, Embree, and Lynnie stayed awhile telling me anything that came to mind. Shannon joined in too. It was funny how all four of them could talk on and on. Talking isn't my big thing. I like to think but not speak. Anyway, they all left at 5:00 and soon after I had even more visitors.
It was about 5:30 when the gang walked in. They didn't even knock, but I didn't really care. The only ones I didn't see were Darry, Dally, and Steve. So really it was only Soda, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit. But trust me Two-Bit talks enough for the missing three.
"Bev-girl, how's the noggin?" Two-Bit joked messing up my hair. Or trying to at least. My hair runs most of the way down my back and since I was lying on my hair he couldn't really mess it up.
"I'm fine. I have an MRI in the morning though. The doc wants to make sure everything's alright with my noggin." I informed them. Two-Bit sat on the edge of my bed messing with stuff just like Lynnie had done. Soda sat in the chair by my bed and Pony leaned against my bed next to Two-Bit. Johnny was the only one who stayed standing.
"We can't stay very long. Soda sweet-talked the nurse into telling us where you were and then we snuck in.but I can't blame them. I wouldn't have let us in to see a sick girl either." Ponyboy told me. I laughed a little. I really could picture them sneaking in here and if they were caught they probably would be in trouble.
"Sorry about ruining our field trip today." I apologized.
"It ain't your fault, girl. You just made our day a little more interesting. Heck you almost made Johnny wet his pants when you passed out in his arms like that." Two-Bit laughed. Johnny turned bright red.
"I did not! She just spooked me a little!" Johnny objected.
"Yeah I know. I'm just teasing." Two-Bit said slapping Johnny on the back.
"Well, I'll give you fair warning now, it's happened before and it's bound to happen again. Might have to get used to it." I sighed. They all looked surprised at that.
"You mean this happened before? And you haven't been check out by a doctor yet?" Johnny exclaimed. Wow from him not saying more than two words to me to saying full sentences to me was a big step in our 'relationship'.
"It used to happen when I was little but my mom didn't think it was anything serious." I answered.
"Do you ever dream anything when it happens?" Ponyboy said out of nowhere. It surprised me and I just stared a bit at him. Maybe Pony's got a little of my senses in him. It very well could be. He is a very smart guy.
"Yeah. Yeah I do." I replied. Pony looked at his feet and nodded. He might not know it now but he definitely had a little knowing in him. That's what I decided to call my 'senses'. Knowing. Sounds cool don't you think?
"Yeah I just bet she was dreaming about me weren't you, Bev-girl?" Two-Bit said grinning and pretending to fix his hair in a vain way.
"Sure, Keith-boy, whatever you say." I laughed and joked with him. He looked at me in a strange way.
"How's you know my name's Keith?" he asked curiously.
"Well I guess you must have told me sometime." I replied.
"No.no I don't think so. My own mother doesn't even call me Keith." He answered. I shrugged my shoulders but he still had a suspicious look on his face. He turned that look to each of the guys in the room to see if any of them would confess to telling me his real name. He really was an interesting person.
"So, Beverly-Reigh, what do they expect to find wrong with you?" Soda asked curiously.
"I don't know. I heard one of the docs say something about possible epilepsy or something. But they won't find anything. There isn't anything wrong with me." I answered. Soda and Two-Bit both cocked an eyebrow up and it made me laugh a little.
"Yeah your just a little faker ain't you? Just practicing your act for when school starts up huh?" Two-Bit asked suspiciously. Just then a doc came in and seeing the guys in the room he threw a hissy fit and shooed them all out. Then he gave me a lecture about letting strange hoods into my room and I just shook my head and laughed because Two-Bit was hiding in the corner and kept mocking the doc behind his back. When the doc caught him he chased Two-Bit out of the room also before checking the room for anymore hiding hoods. After the doc left I fell asleep and didn't wake up again that night until they came to get me for my MRI at 6:30 a.m. the next morning.
My MRI wasn't too bad. It was really loud though and it was the longest half an hour of my life but afterwards they let me go home. They told Aunt Elaine they'd have to results ready in a week or so and we'd be getting a phone call around then.
When we got to the house I was surprised to see the gang sitting on the front porch waiting for me. I had a sudden feeling of dread. Aunt Elaine gave them a snooty look before telling them I wasn't to have visitors. Two-Bit said they just wanted to say hi but Aunt Elaine cut him off by shoving me into the house and slamming the door.
"Beverly-Reigh, I don't want you hanging out with those hoods any more. They are bad news. Now go to your room!" She huffed. 'What a witch.' I thought, but then I felt kind of sorry because she was my mom's only sibling. I owed it to mom to try and get along with her. I trudged up to my room and flopped on my bed. Lynnie was no where to be seen but I didn't worry. I could here kids' voices down on the rotting swing set in the back yard. I had warned her to stay off of that because it looked like it would collapse any second and when I looked out the window she was sitting in the sand box like a good girl and staying away from that swing set.
I heard a single knock on my door and then Shannon opened it and motioned for me to follow her. I got up suspiciously and followed her to her room which is on the other side of the house but the farthest away from Aunt Elaine's room. The window of her room faced the back yard but it was on the other side of the fence from the 'playground'. Her window was open and she ran to it so I followed her. On the ground stood Two-Bit, Sodapop, Ponyboy, Dally, Steve, and Johnny. All the guys who had been on the porch steps. Two-Bit waved at us enthusiastically.
"Shannon, what if she sees them?!" I whispered to her.
"Don't worry about it." Shannon replied running to her closet. She opened it and pulled out.A LADDER. I couldn't believe it. She had a LADDER in her CLOSET! She lowered it down to them and they started climbing up. I paced back and forth chanting "Bad idea! Bad idea!" but Shannon didn't listen and three of the six were already standing there in her room. Once they were all up Shannon brought the ladder back in and stored it in her closet. It was a collapsing one so it fit pretty well and was hidden by all her clothes. She had a bundle of clothes because apparently her parents had left her with a LOAD of dough.
"Shan, this is BAD. Very bad idea! What if we get caught?" I asked nervously. I kept glancing at the door as if 'Sarge', as we called her now, was going to burst through it at any moment.
"Hey if you're scared than go back to your room and mope!" Shannon replied. I scowled at her and shook my head. I wasn't about to let her have all the fun.
The guys kind of flopped into bean bag chairs and on the bed and around the room. Shannon went and sat by Sodapop on the bed. I noticed Johnny sitting on the floor by Ponyboy and when Two-Bit told me to quit being a grouch and sit down I flopped down next to Johnny. Dallas was on the other side of the room and I was grateful. I wanted to talk to Johnny, not Dallas. This time I was in too much of a bad mood to wait for Johnny to start a conversation so as I was about to ask him something Shannon interrupted me with, "Let's play some truth or dare."
"Nooooooo." I groaned. I hate truth or dare. It's so cheesy and you always end up kissing someone you don't want to kiss or something. My first kiss had been in truth or dare and I didn't want it to be. I wanted my first kiss to be REAL. Not something forced upon you by peer pressure or something. But the others over ruled me and Shannon started off the round.
"Hmm." She glanced around the room picking her victim. When her eyes came to Johnny sitting next to me she grinned mischievously and said, "Johnny! Truth or Dare?"
Johnny sat thinking a little while I held my breath. I knew what would happen if he picked dare and I didn't want it. Like I said, if he was to kiss me I'd want it to be real. He was just as worried as I was about what to pick though. He seemed to know what would happen if he picked dare but he didn't want to pick truth either. But finally he answered, "Truth." Shannon groaned in disappointment at her spoiled plan. But she shrugged it off and sat thinking of a question while Soda leaned over and whispered something in her ear. She broke out into a huge grin again. Johnny seemed to tense up as if he knew what Soda had told her. I got even more worried. Shannon could be really evil sometimes.and when she teamed up with Sodapop who knew what could happen.
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Ok my friends, here is chapter 8! I'm on a roll. PLEASE review this chapter. I wanted to have a happy chapter after the tenseness in chapter 7. Well tell me what you think. Thanks for the awesome reviews so far. I love them. Toodles. Bye now.
~E~
Johnny's POV
I couldn't stop thinking about Beverly-Reigh. She had scared me half to death I swear. One second she was awake and then BAM she was passed out. I didn't drop her of course. But I had to lay her on the floor because my first thought was that she was dead. I was flipped out. And then, as Shannon tried to wake her up, she started screaming and sobbing. Her face was pale and I thought I'd done something wrong to hurt her when I caught her from falling. Anyway, she had to go to the hospital and we all walked the sobbing Shannon home. We decided we'd go see her after dinner since they were making her spend the night. Poor girl. I'd been in the hospital before and the food was atrocious. Maybe we'd bring her some real food.
Beverly-Reigh's POV
After Aunt Elaine left it was awfully lonely in the hospital bedroom. One of the nurses brought me a magazine to look at but it got old after the 5th time I'd flipped through it. Finally, around 4:30, Lynnie and the boys came in. Shannon was with them, too. She said she was allowed to leave the house just to see me and Aunt Elaine refused to bring the little ones in so she had to. I was very glad Aunt Elaine hadn't come in because Shannon had set Lynnie on my bed and the little five year old was messing with expensive stuff she probably shouldn't have been messing with but who cares? I say she's learning while she's getting in trouble so what's the problem?
"Geeze Bev, you really scared the bijeebers out of me. And Johnny, too. He thought he'd broken your neck our something. And then you started screaming bloody murder. That was some scary shi-"
"Shannon! There are little ears in the room!" I reminded her. I never swear in front of my siblings. They are innocent until they reach junior high. At least that's what I hoped.
"Sorry." She apologized.
"Beverly-Reigh, guess what!" Embree said hyperly, jumping up and down.
"What?" I asked laughing at his silliness.
"Aiden and I, we found a perfect escape route for if you want to sneak out at night! You know since your grounded and all. It's real secret and safe." Embree said this last part in a hushed voice.
"Why thank you, Em, but I don't think I'll be trying to get myself into more trouble than I already am." I answered ruffling his hair. Both he and Aiden have longer kind of hair. That kicks out at the bottom. It was the cutest thing.
Aiden, Embree, and Lynnie stayed awhile telling me anything that came to mind. Shannon joined in too. It was funny how all four of them could talk on and on. Talking isn't my big thing. I like to think but not speak. Anyway, they all left at 5:00 and soon after I had even more visitors.
It was about 5:30 when the gang walked in. They didn't even knock, but I didn't really care. The only ones I didn't see were Darry, Dally, and Steve. So really it was only Soda, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit. But trust me Two-Bit talks enough for the missing three.
"Bev-girl, how's the noggin?" Two-Bit joked messing up my hair. Or trying to at least. My hair runs most of the way down my back and since I was lying on my hair he couldn't really mess it up.
"I'm fine. I have an MRI in the morning though. The doc wants to make sure everything's alright with my noggin." I informed them. Two-Bit sat on the edge of my bed messing with stuff just like Lynnie had done. Soda sat in the chair by my bed and Pony leaned against my bed next to Two-Bit. Johnny was the only one who stayed standing.
"We can't stay very long. Soda sweet-talked the nurse into telling us where you were and then we snuck in.but I can't blame them. I wouldn't have let us in to see a sick girl either." Ponyboy told me. I laughed a little. I really could picture them sneaking in here and if they were caught they probably would be in trouble.
"Sorry about ruining our field trip today." I apologized.
"It ain't your fault, girl. You just made our day a little more interesting. Heck you almost made Johnny wet his pants when you passed out in his arms like that." Two-Bit laughed. Johnny turned bright red.
"I did not! She just spooked me a little!" Johnny objected.
"Yeah I know. I'm just teasing." Two-Bit said slapping Johnny on the back.
"Well, I'll give you fair warning now, it's happened before and it's bound to happen again. Might have to get used to it." I sighed. They all looked surprised at that.
"You mean this happened before? And you haven't been check out by a doctor yet?" Johnny exclaimed. Wow from him not saying more than two words to me to saying full sentences to me was a big step in our 'relationship'.
"It used to happen when I was little but my mom didn't think it was anything serious." I answered.
"Do you ever dream anything when it happens?" Ponyboy said out of nowhere. It surprised me and I just stared a bit at him. Maybe Pony's got a little of my senses in him. It very well could be. He is a very smart guy.
"Yeah. Yeah I do." I replied. Pony looked at his feet and nodded. He might not know it now but he definitely had a little knowing in him. That's what I decided to call my 'senses'. Knowing. Sounds cool don't you think?
"Yeah I just bet she was dreaming about me weren't you, Bev-girl?" Two-Bit said grinning and pretending to fix his hair in a vain way.
"Sure, Keith-boy, whatever you say." I laughed and joked with him. He looked at me in a strange way.
"How's you know my name's Keith?" he asked curiously.
"Well I guess you must have told me sometime." I replied.
"No.no I don't think so. My own mother doesn't even call me Keith." He answered. I shrugged my shoulders but he still had a suspicious look on his face. He turned that look to each of the guys in the room to see if any of them would confess to telling me his real name. He really was an interesting person.
"So, Beverly-Reigh, what do they expect to find wrong with you?" Soda asked curiously.
"I don't know. I heard one of the docs say something about possible epilepsy or something. But they won't find anything. There isn't anything wrong with me." I answered. Soda and Two-Bit both cocked an eyebrow up and it made me laugh a little.
"Yeah your just a little faker ain't you? Just practicing your act for when school starts up huh?" Two-Bit asked suspiciously. Just then a doc came in and seeing the guys in the room he threw a hissy fit and shooed them all out. Then he gave me a lecture about letting strange hoods into my room and I just shook my head and laughed because Two-Bit was hiding in the corner and kept mocking the doc behind his back. When the doc caught him he chased Two-Bit out of the room also before checking the room for anymore hiding hoods. After the doc left I fell asleep and didn't wake up again that night until they came to get me for my MRI at 6:30 a.m. the next morning.
My MRI wasn't too bad. It was really loud though and it was the longest half an hour of my life but afterwards they let me go home. They told Aunt Elaine they'd have to results ready in a week or so and we'd be getting a phone call around then.
When we got to the house I was surprised to see the gang sitting on the front porch waiting for me. I had a sudden feeling of dread. Aunt Elaine gave them a snooty look before telling them I wasn't to have visitors. Two-Bit said they just wanted to say hi but Aunt Elaine cut him off by shoving me into the house and slamming the door.
"Beverly-Reigh, I don't want you hanging out with those hoods any more. They are bad news. Now go to your room!" She huffed. 'What a witch.' I thought, but then I felt kind of sorry because she was my mom's only sibling. I owed it to mom to try and get along with her. I trudged up to my room and flopped on my bed. Lynnie was no where to be seen but I didn't worry. I could here kids' voices down on the rotting swing set in the back yard. I had warned her to stay off of that because it looked like it would collapse any second and when I looked out the window she was sitting in the sand box like a good girl and staying away from that swing set.
I heard a single knock on my door and then Shannon opened it and motioned for me to follow her. I got up suspiciously and followed her to her room which is on the other side of the house but the farthest away from Aunt Elaine's room. The window of her room faced the back yard but it was on the other side of the fence from the 'playground'. Her window was open and she ran to it so I followed her. On the ground stood Two-Bit, Sodapop, Ponyboy, Dally, Steve, and Johnny. All the guys who had been on the porch steps. Two-Bit waved at us enthusiastically.
"Shannon, what if she sees them?!" I whispered to her.
"Don't worry about it." Shannon replied running to her closet. She opened it and pulled out.A LADDER. I couldn't believe it. She had a LADDER in her CLOSET! She lowered it down to them and they started climbing up. I paced back and forth chanting "Bad idea! Bad idea!" but Shannon didn't listen and three of the six were already standing there in her room. Once they were all up Shannon brought the ladder back in and stored it in her closet. It was a collapsing one so it fit pretty well and was hidden by all her clothes. She had a bundle of clothes because apparently her parents had left her with a LOAD of dough.
"Shan, this is BAD. Very bad idea! What if we get caught?" I asked nervously. I kept glancing at the door as if 'Sarge', as we called her now, was going to burst through it at any moment.
"Hey if you're scared than go back to your room and mope!" Shannon replied. I scowled at her and shook my head. I wasn't about to let her have all the fun.
The guys kind of flopped into bean bag chairs and on the bed and around the room. Shannon went and sat by Sodapop on the bed. I noticed Johnny sitting on the floor by Ponyboy and when Two-Bit told me to quit being a grouch and sit down I flopped down next to Johnny. Dallas was on the other side of the room and I was grateful. I wanted to talk to Johnny, not Dallas. This time I was in too much of a bad mood to wait for Johnny to start a conversation so as I was about to ask him something Shannon interrupted me with, "Let's play some truth or dare."
"Nooooooo." I groaned. I hate truth or dare. It's so cheesy and you always end up kissing someone you don't want to kiss or something. My first kiss had been in truth or dare and I didn't want it to be. I wanted my first kiss to be REAL. Not something forced upon you by peer pressure or something. But the others over ruled me and Shannon started off the round.
"Hmm." She glanced around the room picking her victim. When her eyes came to Johnny sitting next to me she grinned mischievously and said, "Johnny! Truth or Dare?"
Johnny sat thinking a little while I held my breath. I knew what would happen if he picked dare and I didn't want it. Like I said, if he was to kiss me I'd want it to be real. He was just as worried as I was about what to pick though. He seemed to know what would happen if he picked dare but he didn't want to pick truth either. But finally he answered, "Truth." Shannon groaned in disappointment at her spoiled plan. But she shrugged it off and sat thinking of a question while Soda leaned over and whispered something in her ear. She broke out into a huge grin again. Johnny seemed to tense up as if he knew what Soda had told her. I got even more worried. Shannon could be really evil sometimes.and when she teamed up with Sodapop who knew what could happen.
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Ok my friends, here is chapter 8! I'm on a roll. PLEASE review this chapter. I wanted to have a happy chapter after the tenseness in chapter 7. Well tell me what you think. Thanks for the awesome reviews so far. I love them. Toodles. Bye now.
~E~