Disclaimer: Howdy, howdy fuckin partners!!!!!!! Sorry, I'm a little hyper
again tonight. Yes, as many of you have noticed, I changed her name to
Storm! It was Ocean, and now it's Storm! I like that better and I think it
fits. Okay, I know I said in an earlier chapter that Eyeball wasn't in
school. Well, I'm gonna change that, and put him back in school. I think
that'll make it more interesting. What do you think?
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The rest of the summer flew by. Beofre we all knew it, it was time to go back to school. Aunt Charlene had taken Billy, Vern, and me shopping for new clothes, much to Vern's dismay. I mostly got skirts and sweaters and stuff. It was in the school rules that ALL GIRLS MUST WEAR EITHER SKIRTS OR DRESSES. Yeah, it sucked, but thats the way it was then.
On the first day of school, my alarm, set for 6:30, went off. I tried to find the off button, but I couldn't put my hand on it. Finally, I just threw it across the room. It clunked loudly on the wall.
"You okay, Storm?" Vern asked, poking his head inside my room. He was already dressed, his hair a perfect imation of his idol, Bobby Rydell. "You better get up, you're gonna be late."
I mumbled something at him, then climbed out of bed. Slowly, I pulled on a black skirt, a red, lightweight sweater, and a pair of black high heels. Well, they weren't really high heels. They were black shoes, with a bit of a heel. Aunt Charlene wouldn't let me get the ones I wanted.
I headed down to breakfast, with Billy behind, me pulling a light blue shirt over his head. "Couldn't you get dressed before you left your room?" I asked him. "Believe me, you without a shirt was not the first thing I wanted to see this morning." Billy simply gave me the finger before descending into the kitchen.
"Oh don't you three look nice!" Aunt Charlene said, putting some chocolate chip pancakes on my plate.
"Fanks." Vern told her, his mouth full.
"Vern, please." Billy said, holding his hand up. "I'm tryin' to eat here!"
I didn't say anything, just shoveled my food in. I went back upstairs to brush my teeth, fix my hair, and put on some make-up. I pulled my hair back in a ponytail, then quickly applied some blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, and mascara. Val and Sandra had showed me how to apply it. I have to say, when I finished, I looked pretty nice. As I was admiring myself in the mirror, I heard a car horn in the driveway.
"Come on, Storm, Ace is here!" Billy called up the stairs. I grabbed my books, which we had already been assingned, and my lunch, and headed out to Ace's car.
"About time." Ace said when I climbed in the back seat beside Billy. Val sat in the back with us. Charlie sat up front. Vince was picking Sandra, Jack, and Fuzzy up.
"To school, James." I joked.
"Shut up." Ace told me, but he gave me half smile.
"I LOVE that sweater, Storm!" VAl squealed.
"Dammit, Val, how the hell can you be so cheery so fuckin early? And on the first day of school?" Charlie asked, rubbing his blonde hair.
"I don't know, I guess because I like school." Val replied.
"That's because you're like a genius or somethin'." Billy told her, kissing her cheek.
"If she's so smart, what's she doin' with you?" Ace asked. Billy gave him the finger as we pulled up to the Chambers' house. Ace honked the horn and Eyeball came out. We had to do some rearranging, since Eyeball and I insisted on sitting by each other, as did Billy and Val. Finally, we had it arranged. Ace, Eyeball and me in the front seat and Billy, Val, and Charlie in the back.
"What's the big deal if you all sit by each other?" Charlie, who was mad about sitting in the back, asked. "It's a five minute ride to school."
"You're just jealous Charlie, 'cause you don't have no girlfriend." Billy told him.
"Am not." Charlie replied. I giggled.
"You look great." Eyeball told me, squeezing my hand. He hadn't said anything about running away, since that night I went to his house, nearly two weeks before. I'd been to his house a few times since then. Thankfully, Mr. Chambers' hadn't been there.
When we reached school, Ace screeched into the parking spot next to Vince's car. I could see Sandra and the other Cobra's waiting near the front steps. There was a round of "hi's" and us three girls exclaimed over each others clothes while the guys made dumb jokes about their new clothes. Finally, we headed inside. Eyeball walked me to my homeroom, buzzing my cheek before he headed off to his.
"Good luck." He told me, waving. I could see some snotty looking girls in the front of the classroom give me some dirty looks as I entered. One of them whispered someting about "Eyeball Chambers girlfriend". I just walked past them, and sat in the last row, next to a girl with brown hair and very pretty blue eyes.
"Hi." She said, as I sat down. "I'm Louise Pearchy, but call me Lou. I'm new."
"So am I!" I told her. "I'm Storm Tessio."
"Storm? Cool name." She said.
"Thanks."
Vince, who had the same homeroom as me, entered just then. He sat in the seat in front of mine. "Hey Storm."
"Hey Vince." I nodded at Louise. "This is Lou Pearchy. She's new. Lou, this is my friend, Vince Desjardens."
They exchanged hello's and the teacher, a tall, balding man entered. Everyone quieted down. "Hello class, I'm Mr. Glorfindel, your homeroom teacher. I also teach American History. I'm going to take roll, then you may talk quietly among yourselves. Now when I call your name, say 'here'. Randall Adams."
"Here." The boy called out.
As Mr. Glorfindel called roll, I sneaked another look at Lou. She was very pretty. She caught me looking at her and smiled. I smiled back quickly, then looked down at my schedule. This is what it looked like:
HomeRoom-Glorfindel-8:00
English-Franklin-8:15
Science-Jackson-9:25
Girls Gym-Harvey-10:35
Lunch-Staff-11:45
American History-Glorfindel-12:55
Math-Lewis-2:05
School ended at 3:15. I had most of my classes with the Cobra's. Fuzzy was in my English class, Billy and Ace were in Science, Eyeball was in American History, Charlie, Jack, Vince, and Ace were in Math. Val and Sandra were in Girls Gym with me, plus a couple of other classes. When the bell rang, I was surprised to find Eyeball waiting outside the door for me.
"What're you doing here and how'd you get here so quick?" I asked him.
"Walking you to class and I ran like hell." He answered. "Who's this? He asked, eyeing Lou, who was walking beside me. We had English together.
"Oh! This is Lou Pearchy. She's my new friend. Lou this is my boyfriend, Eyeball Chambers." I introduced them.
"Eyeball?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It's a nickname." He told her. "Here we are, Mrs. Franklins room. I'll be back for you at the end of class, Storm. Nice meeting you, Lou."
Lou and I entered the room. Mrs. Franklin, a young darkhaired woman, sat at her desk. She smiled at us as we sat down. Fuzzy sat down beside me and I introduced him to Lou. That's basically how it went all morning, Eyeball walking to class, then picking me up afterward. Any of the Cobra's we met in the hallway, I would introduce to Lou. After Gym, I changed out of my uniform, and hurried into the hallway. I was glad it was luchtime, because I was starving. Eyeball was waiting for me.
"I saw you in there, playing basketball." He teased, as we headed to my locker so I could deposit my books and grab my lunch. " You looked so cute in your little red and black uniform."
"Shut up." I told him. "The boys have to wear gym suits in the school colors too."
"But ours aren't that short, thank God." Ace, who had jut walked up beside us, said. We walked into the lunchroom, Ace and Eyeball heading for the hot lunch line, and me heading towards a table in the back, where Val, Sandra and the other Cobra's sat. I saw Lou enter the Cafateria and look around.
"Lou!" I called. She smiled and waved, heading towards us.
"Hi, guys." She said, sitting down. "Thanks for letting me sit with you."
"You know everyone except Ace, right?" I asked.
"Um, yeah, if I had met an Ace, I'd remember." She replied.
"Oh, well, you can meet him now, here he comes." I nodded towards Ace and Eyeball, who were heading towards us, carrying trays. Lou stared at him, her eyes growing wide.
"I'm boycotting this fuckin cafateria." Ace told us as he sat down. "I think I reconize this porkchop from last year."
"Ew, yuck." I said, scooting over so Eyeball could sit down beside me. The food did look pretty gross. "Oh, Ace, this is Lou Pearchy. She's new."
"Hi, Lou." Ace smiled at her. Lou's cheeks turned red.
"Hi." She said. Lou didn't talk much over the course of lunch, but she did tell us she moved here from Arizona and that she was 16, and that she had a younger sister named Karen, who was 13.
The rest of the afternoon went quick. I was glad, because I didn't like school much, and I espcially didn't like some of the looks other kids were giving me. I knew I'd gotten a reputation for dating Eyeball and hanging with the Cobra's. I told Lou in the girls room, at the end of the day, that the same thing would probably happen to her.
"I don't care." She replied. "Hey, does Ace have a girlfriend?"
"No." He had broken up with Alana a few weeks before. I grinned slyly. "Why you want us to get you together with him?"
Val and Sandra giggled and Lou turned red. "Maybe." She said.
"Ohhh, Ace is SO SWEET." Val told her. "Well, when he wants to be."
"Yeah, but's always nice to his girlfriends." Sandra replied. "I could see you guys together."
Lou blushed again as we headed out to the cars, where the boys were waiting. We were going to hang out, but, even though it was the first day, the teaches had piled the homework on us, so Ace was just going to drop everyone off.
"Need a ride home, Lou?" Ace asked. Lou nodded. "Where do you live?"
"Weston Drive." She answered. When Ace was around, it was like pulling teeth to get answers out of her!
"That's near me." Ace replied. "You can ride with us. Charlie, you ride with Vince. That okay Vince?"
"Yeah."
"Can I ride in the front?" Charlie asked Vince.
"I don't care."
Charlie climbed next to Sandra in the front seat. "See you guys tomorrow."
I rested my head against Eyeball and closed my eyes. "I'm so tired." He touched the top of my head.
"What'da ya wanna do this weekend?" He asked me. I shrugged, my eyes still shut. "Gee, Storm, you're a thrill a minute."
"Ha-ha. So funny I forgot to laugh."
"You sound like Vern." Billy told me from the backseat.
"And you look like him." I shot back, as we pulled into Eyeball's driveway. "Call me when you finish your homework, okay?" I told him. We kissed goodbye, which got a group reaction.
"Gross, you guys!"
"Ew, get a room!"
"Go Eyeball! Somebodys gettin' lucky tonight!"
I slapped Ace, who had made the last remark, on his arm. "Shut up, asshole." I propped me feet up on the dash. Ace pushed my legs down.
"Girl, you best be gettin' your feet off my dash."
"Sorry, John." I said, slyly. I knew how he hated to be called by his real name.
"Shut the fuck up."
After Ace dropped Billy and me off, we headed inside. Vern was already sitting at the kitchen table, eating cherry PEZ and writing something in one of his notebooks.
"How was school?" Aunt Charlene asked us.
"Fine." Billy and I answered, taking the soda and cookies she offered us.
"Wanna do homework in my room?" Billy asked me.
"Sure."
He stretched out on the floor and I sat on his bed. Surprisingly, we both got it done before supper.
"Well, that's the quickest I ever did homework." Billy told me. "I usually don't even do it at all."
"What made you change you mind?" I asked.
"Guess your just a good influence on me, Storm." I giggled at him and he rolled his eyes. "God, you're such a girl."
"Duh. If I was a boy, Eyeball wouldn't like me."
"We hope."
I threw a pillow at him. "Oh, be quiet."
He picked up the pillow and threw it back. "Make me."
"I don't make dogs, I walk 'em."
"That's why your face is so furry."
I picked up a ratty old teddy bear, that Billy kept on his bed. He hid it when he knew his friends were coming, but I knew he slept with it every night. "Take that back, or the bear gets it!"
"No! Not Fernando!" Billy tried to pull the bear away.
"Fernando?! You named that bear Fernando!? Oh my God!!! Billy, you're insane." I threw Fernando at him. "Here, take the damn bear."
"Eyeball has one too, you know." Billy told me, picking Fernando up off the floor. "He has this stuff alligator, named Caption. He's had him since he was little. He keeps it under the bed."
Oh, great. My boyfriend kept stuffed alligators named Caption under his bed. I nearly called Ace and asked him if he had any stuffed animals I should know about.
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The rest of the summer flew by. Beofre we all knew it, it was time to go back to school. Aunt Charlene had taken Billy, Vern, and me shopping for new clothes, much to Vern's dismay. I mostly got skirts and sweaters and stuff. It was in the school rules that ALL GIRLS MUST WEAR EITHER SKIRTS OR DRESSES. Yeah, it sucked, but thats the way it was then.
On the first day of school, my alarm, set for 6:30, went off. I tried to find the off button, but I couldn't put my hand on it. Finally, I just threw it across the room. It clunked loudly on the wall.
"You okay, Storm?" Vern asked, poking his head inside my room. He was already dressed, his hair a perfect imation of his idol, Bobby Rydell. "You better get up, you're gonna be late."
I mumbled something at him, then climbed out of bed. Slowly, I pulled on a black skirt, a red, lightweight sweater, and a pair of black high heels. Well, they weren't really high heels. They were black shoes, with a bit of a heel. Aunt Charlene wouldn't let me get the ones I wanted.
I headed down to breakfast, with Billy behind, me pulling a light blue shirt over his head. "Couldn't you get dressed before you left your room?" I asked him. "Believe me, you without a shirt was not the first thing I wanted to see this morning." Billy simply gave me the finger before descending into the kitchen.
"Oh don't you three look nice!" Aunt Charlene said, putting some chocolate chip pancakes on my plate.
"Fanks." Vern told her, his mouth full.
"Vern, please." Billy said, holding his hand up. "I'm tryin' to eat here!"
I didn't say anything, just shoveled my food in. I went back upstairs to brush my teeth, fix my hair, and put on some make-up. I pulled my hair back in a ponytail, then quickly applied some blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, and mascara. Val and Sandra had showed me how to apply it. I have to say, when I finished, I looked pretty nice. As I was admiring myself in the mirror, I heard a car horn in the driveway.
"Come on, Storm, Ace is here!" Billy called up the stairs. I grabbed my books, which we had already been assingned, and my lunch, and headed out to Ace's car.
"About time." Ace said when I climbed in the back seat beside Billy. Val sat in the back with us. Charlie sat up front. Vince was picking Sandra, Jack, and Fuzzy up.
"To school, James." I joked.
"Shut up." Ace told me, but he gave me half smile.
"I LOVE that sweater, Storm!" VAl squealed.
"Dammit, Val, how the hell can you be so cheery so fuckin early? And on the first day of school?" Charlie asked, rubbing his blonde hair.
"I don't know, I guess because I like school." Val replied.
"That's because you're like a genius or somethin'." Billy told her, kissing her cheek.
"If she's so smart, what's she doin' with you?" Ace asked. Billy gave him the finger as we pulled up to the Chambers' house. Ace honked the horn and Eyeball came out. We had to do some rearranging, since Eyeball and I insisted on sitting by each other, as did Billy and Val. Finally, we had it arranged. Ace, Eyeball and me in the front seat and Billy, Val, and Charlie in the back.
"What's the big deal if you all sit by each other?" Charlie, who was mad about sitting in the back, asked. "It's a five minute ride to school."
"You're just jealous Charlie, 'cause you don't have no girlfriend." Billy told him.
"Am not." Charlie replied. I giggled.
"You look great." Eyeball told me, squeezing my hand. He hadn't said anything about running away, since that night I went to his house, nearly two weeks before. I'd been to his house a few times since then. Thankfully, Mr. Chambers' hadn't been there.
When we reached school, Ace screeched into the parking spot next to Vince's car. I could see Sandra and the other Cobra's waiting near the front steps. There was a round of "hi's" and us three girls exclaimed over each others clothes while the guys made dumb jokes about their new clothes. Finally, we headed inside. Eyeball walked me to my homeroom, buzzing my cheek before he headed off to his.
"Good luck." He told me, waving. I could see some snotty looking girls in the front of the classroom give me some dirty looks as I entered. One of them whispered someting about "Eyeball Chambers girlfriend". I just walked past them, and sat in the last row, next to a girl with brown hair and very pretty blue eyes.
"Hi." She said, as I sat down. "I'm Louise Pearchy, but call me Lou. I'm new."
"So am I!" I told her. "I'm Storm Tessio."
"Storm? Cool name." She said.
"Thanks."
Vince, who had the same homeroom as me, entered just then. He sat in the seat in front of mine. "Hey Storm."
"Hey Vince." I nodded at Louise. "This is Lou Pearchy. She's new. Lou, this is my friend, Vince Desjardens."
They exchanged hello's and the teacher, a tall, balding man entered. Everyone quieted down. "Hello class, I'm Mr. Glorfindel, your homeroom teacher. I also teach American History. I'm going to take roll, then you may talk quietly among yourselves. Now when I call your name, say 'here'. Randall Adams."
"Here." The boy called out.
As Mr. Glorfindel called roll, I sneaked another look at Lou. She was very pretty. She caught me looking at her and smiled. I smiled back quickly, then looked down at my schedule. This is what it looked like:
HomeRoom-Glorfindel-8:00
English-Franklin-8:15
Science-Jackson-9:25
Girls Gym-Harvey-10:35
Lunch-Staff-11:45
American History-Glorfindel-12:55
Math-Lewis-2:05
School ended at 3:15. I had most of my classes with the Cobra's. Fuzzy was in my English class, Billy and Ace were in Science, Eyeball was in American History, Charlie, Jack, Vince, and Ace were in Math. Val and Sandra were in Girls Gym with me, plus a couple of other classes. When the bell rang, I was surprised to find Eyeball waiting outside the door for me.
"What're you doing here and how'd you get here so quick?" I asked him.
"Walking you to class and I ran like hell." He answered. "Who's this? He asked, eyeing Lou, who was walking beside me. We had English together.
"Oh! This is Lou Pearchy. She's my new friend. Lou this is my boyfriend, Eyeball Chambers." I introduced them.
"Eyeball?" She asked, raising an eyebrow.
"It's a nickname." He told her. "Here we are, Mrs. Franklins room. I'll be back for you at the end of class, Storm. Nice meeting you, Lou."
Lou and I entered the room. Mrs. Franklin, a young darkhaired woman, sat at her desk. She smiled at us as we sat down. Fuzzy sat down beside me and I introduced him to Lou. That's basically how it went all morning, Eyeball walking to class, then picking me up afterward. Any of the Cobra's we met in the hallway, I would introduce to Lou. After Gym, I changed out of my uniform, and hurried into the hallway. I was glad it was luchtime, because I was starving. Eyeball was waiting for me.
"I saw you in there, playing basketball." He teased, as we headed to my locker so I could deposit my books and grab my lunch. " You looked so cute in your little red and black uniform."
"Shut up." I told him. "The boys have to wear gym suits in the school colors too."
"But ours aren't that short, thank God." Ace, who had jut walked up beside us, said. We walked into the lunchroom, Ace and Eyeball heading for the hot lunch line, and me heading towards a table in the back, where Val, Sandra and the other Cobra's sat. I saw Lou enter the Cafateria and look around.
"Lou!" I called. She smiled and waved, heading towards us.
"Hi, guys." She said, sitting down. "Thanks for letting me sit with you."
"You know everyone except Ace, right?" I asked.
"Um, yeah, if I had met an Ace, I'd remember." She replied.
"Oh, well, you can meet him now, here he comes." I nodded towards Ace and Eyeball, who were heading towards us, carrying trays. Lou stared at him, her eyes growing wide.
"I'm boycotting this fuckin cafateria." Ace told us as he sat down. "I think I reconize this porkchop from last year."
"Ew, yuck." I said, scooting over so Eyeball could sit down beside me. The food did look pretty gross. "Oh, Ace, this is Lou Pearchy. She's new."
"Hi, Lou." Ace smiled at her. Lou's cheeks turned red.
"Hi." She said. Lou didn't talk much over the course of lunch, but she did tell us she moved here from Arizona and that she was 16, and that she had a younger sister named Karen, who was 13.
The rest of the afternoon went quick. I was glad, because I didn't like school much, and I espcially didn't like some of the looks other kids were giving me. I knew I'd gotten a reputation for dating Eyeball and hanging with the Cobra's. I told Lou in the girls room, at the end of the day, that the same thing would probably happen to her.
"I don't care." She replied. "Hey, does Ace have a girlfriend?"
"No." He had broken up with Alana a few weeks before. I grinned slyly. "Why you want us to get you together with him?"
Val and Sandra giggled and Lou turned red. "Maybe." She said.
"Ohhh, Ace is SO SWEET." Val told her. "Well, when he wants to be."
"Yeah, but's always nice to his girlfriends." Sandra replied. "I could see you guys together."
Lou blushed again as we headed out to the cars, where the boys were waiting. We were going to hang out, but, even though it was the first day, the teaches had piled the homework on us, so Ace was just going to drop everyone off.
"Need a ride home, Lou?" Ace asked. Lou nodded. "Where do you live?"
"Weston Drive." She answered. When Ace was around, it was like pulling teeth to get answers out of her!
"That's near me." Ace replied. "You can ride with us. Charlie, you ride with Vince. That okay Vince?"
"Yeah."
"Can I ride in the front?" Charlie asked Vince.
"I don't care."
Charlie climbed next to Sandra in the front seat. "See you guys tomorrow."
I rested my head against Eyeball and closed my eyes. "I'm so tired." He touched the top of my head.
"What'da ya wanna do this weekend?" He asked me. I shrugged, my eyes still shut. "Gee, Storm, you're a thrill a minute."
"Ha-ha. So funny I forgot to laugh."
"You sound like Vern." Billy told me from the backseat.
"And you look like him." I shot back, as we pulled into Eyeball's driveway. "Call me when you finish your homework, okay?" I told him. We kissed goodbye, which got a group reaction.
"Gross, you guys!"
"Ew, get a room!"
"Go Eyeball! Somebodys gettin' lucky tonight!"
I slapped Ace, who had made the last remark, on his arm. "Shut up, asshole." I propped me feet up on the dash. Ace pushed my legs down.
"Girl, you best be gettin' your feet off my dash."
"Sorry, John." I said, slyly. I knew how he hated to be called by his real name.
"Shut the fuck up."
After Ace dropped Billy and me off, we headed inside. Vern was already sitting at the kitchen table, eating cherry PEZ and writing something in one of his notebooks.
"How was school?" Aunt Charlene asked us.
"Fine." Billy and I answered, taking the soda and cookies she offered us.
"Wanna do homework in my room?" Billy asked me.
"Sure."
He stretched out on the floor and I sat on his bed. Surprisingly, we both got it done before supper.
"Well, that's the quickest I ever did homework." Billy told me. "I usually don't even do it at all."
"What made you change you mind?" I asked.
"Guess your just a good influence on me, Storm." I giggled at him and he rolled his eyes. "God, you're such a girl."
"Duh. If I was a boy, Eyeball wouldn't like me."
"We hope."
I threw a pillow at him. "Oh, be quiet."
He picked up the pillow and threw it back. "Make me."
"I don't make dogs, I walk 'em."
"That's why your face is so furry."
I picked up a ratty old teddy bear, that Billy kept on his bed. He hid it when he knew his friends were coming, but I knew he slept with it every night. "Take that back, or the bear gets it!"
"No! Not Fernando!" Billy tried to pull the bear away.
"Fernando?! You named that bear Fernando!? Oh my God!!! Billy, you're insane." I threw Fernando at him. "Here, take the damn bear."
"Eyeball has one too, you know." Billy told me, picking Fernando up off the floor. "He has this stuff alligator, named Caption. He's had him since he was little. He keeps it under the bed."
Oh, great. My boyfriend kept stuffed alligators named Caption under his bed. I nearly called Ace and asked him if he had any stuffed animals I should know about.