A/N: YES, I'M BACK! Well actually I never went anywhere, I just didn't know
where to take this story, but I do now. I do intend to finish this story,
but I have to tell you guys that it won't be a happy ending. I'm just
kinda sick of happy endings, so I'm gonna try something different. But I
dunno if that would be good or not. I would like to know what you guys
think about that.
Ok, on with chapter 21!
~Still Summer's POV~
I saw Charlotte smoking a cigarette in front of the school. I didn't know she smoked, but then I really didn't know her. I went up to her to see what was wrong. She looked really pissed off.
"Hey" I said.
She lifted her head. Her eyes were really red and puffy. She musta been crying a lot.
"Whoa, what's wrong?" I studied her face. I couldn't find any meaning to it. She looked like she was going through so much.
"Jackass Brian broke up with me!"
"Brian?" I was a little confused. I didn't know about any Brian. "Who's Brian?"
"My ex-boyfriend."
"What happened?" she looked terrible! Mascara was smeared all over her face, and her cheeks were really red, they matched her eyes.
"He-he, he said he didn't love me anymore."
"Oh" I found myself giving her a hug. She cried on my shoulder. "What a jackass!" he really sounded quite like one.
The bell. Thank god. I was getting kind of uncomfortable. I like Charlotte, she's so nice, but she's no best friend, well not just yet, and hugging her and comforting her the way I was reminded me of Tara, home, I almost cried. I wonder what she's doing now. If only winter break would come sooner. She promised that she would come to visit for a week or two. I cannot wait to tell her about everything!
I helped Charlotte clean up in the bathroom.
"Thank you so much Summer. I don't know what I would have done if you weren't here. My friends..if I would call them that, they only let me hang out with them because of my brother. He's a football player, he's popular, and he makes them be nice to me. See, I never really fit in with the soc group. I always thought how they treated the greasers was so unfair. But my brother made me shut up and made all his friends be nice to me. But really, they treat me like crap when my brother's not around. It will finally be so nice to actually have someone that will be my true friend, you know not by force." She gave me a half smile.
"Yeah" I said. "Let's go, we're already really late as it is."
I decided that Charlotte was going to be my new best friend. I mean she is nice, and who cares if she's a soc. She just admitted that she's one by force anyway.
School was boring as hell. We got shit loads of homework too! I'm just not going to do it. My grades are good enough. I can afford to slack off a bit. I walked home by myself. Pony had track, Charlotte rode home with her brother, and Curly.well I dunno where he was, and I don't care anyway. *Sigh* not true.
I got home, Rain was still at school, I rarely got to see her anymore, from morning to afternoon, and she goes to school, and then races from one side of town to other driving Jake home from kindergarten. From 6 to midnight she works. I feel bad for her. I feel bad for myself. I'm always stuck taking care of Jake in the evenings. Cooking for him, cleaning for him, giving him baths, putting him to bed. I love my brother, and I love doing those things for him, but I deserve some time off, I got homework, and I want to see Pony, and have time for myself.
When I got home, Rain and Jake were not home yet, so I decided to take a long hot bath. It would give me some time to read that book I never got to start. I heard it was really good. "Gone with the wind" I had gotten it from the library a while ago but never had time to read it. I would finally get a chance to start.
I ran the bath. I was storming through my room, trying to find the book when Charlotte phoned. She asked me if I wanted to hang out with her and her brother's friends. She begged me to come. Brian would be there and she really didn't want to be alone with him, well she wouldn't be alone, but her so called friends don't really count as friends so I felt bad for her. Told her I would come. I still had a good hour or two before Jake and Rain got home anyway.
I took a quick shower and got dressed in a mini skirt, and a shirt that says "if you can read this you are too close" in silver letters. I had gotten it from New York. I loved shirts that said stuff like that. I have one that says "If stupidity hurt, you'd be crying all day" Man, I love that shirt!
I grabbed a jacket and walked outside. A mustang pulled up. Charlotte got out, and called me over. I waved and walked over to the car. I was about to get in the car when I saw Two-bit walking down the street. He spotted me and waved, before noticing that I was about to get into a soc car. I quickly waved back and got in the car. Oh, shit, I hope he doesn't tell Pony about this.
***After the socs drop Summer off***
You know what? I had a ton of fun. I don't know what Charlotte complains about. These people are so much fun! They took us to the river bottom and it was so much fun. There was beer and more beer, and more beer! I think I had a cup or two.or three. I stuck with Charlotte for the first half hour, but then her brother, (he's so handsome by the way!!!) challenged me to a beer contest, of course I said no at first, but his big friends dragged me to the keg and stuck the pipe down my throat before I could even say anything. By the time they were done, I was so drunk; I couldn't even see where I was going. I looked around for Charlotte but I couldn't see her anywhere, actually I couldn't see anything. I felt so dizzy! I think I passed out at some point. The next thing I know, I'm in my house, on the couch, lying with an ice pack on my head.
"How are you feeling?" oh shit, I knew that voice. It belonged to no one other than my one and only sister Rain.
"uhhhhh" is all I could get out.
"You how much alcohol you consumed?"
"uhhhhh"
"Summer, what the hell were you thinking?"
My head hurt too much for this conversation.
"Can we talk later, my head hurts."
"Damn right it's gonna hurt and no because some us, being responsible unlike you, have to go to work."
I groaned.
"What were you thinking, seriously? Getting drunk? Summer, come on, I think you know a little bit more than that."
"I'm sorry" I mumbled.
"You better be. I don't know how to deal with this. I never thought you would do something like this."
"I said I was sorry!" I snapped.
"Oh, you might not want to raise your voice at me! You're already in a lot of trouble as it is. Here's what we're going to do. You are grounded for a month.." GROAN "you will come home straight from school, you will not see any friends, you will not see Pony." GROAN "you will look after Jake, cook for him, clean the house, and I better not see you hang around those so called friends of yours." SHIT SHIT SHIT! "I want your homework done, right now." Another groan.
"But Raaaain..how can I do any homework, with this headache?" I whined.
"You should have thought of that before you got drunk. Now chop chop, move it. Come on."
I groaned as I walked to my room. I sat on my bed, and lifted my back pack on to my lap. I had sooo much homework.
***Two hours later***
"You better have your homework done Summer!"
I forced my self up from the bed. I must have dozed off at some point. I felt so nauseous and dizzy at the same time. I felt like a truck had run over me. I am never getting drunk, ever again!
I did my homework, carefully, even though every second, it was killing me a bit more, because Rain said that she was going to check it, to make sure I didn't slack off.
I didn't eat much that night. What little I ate, I wasn't able to hold down. I felt awful. I ended up going to bed around 7:30.
***Next Day***
~Rain's POV~
"Rise and shine Summer! Come on, up and at it."
I heard a groan from under the sheets.
"Come on Summer, don't make this harder than it already is."
"Rain! It's 7 am on Saturday! Why are you waking me up this early?" she screamed at me.
"I have to leave for work soon." I said.
"Ok..?"
I pulled the sheets down, and opened the curtains. Summer squinted at the light. I was satisfied.
"And I like my eggs hard boiled."
I heard Summer groan again as I left her room, and I was even more satisfied.
~Summer's POV~
I can't believe this. She grounds me, she makes me do my homework on a Friday night, she wakes me up at 7 am on a Saturday morning and she expects me to make her breakfast!
This isn't fair. I remember her getting drunk at a high school party, that Kevin's brother got us into, and making me promise never to tell mom and dad. She was allowed to experiment, why don't I get to? Besides, I didn't want to get drunk, I was forced to. It's really not fair.
I got up and took a hot shower.
"Come on Summer, I have to leave soon, and I'm really hungry."
I quickly got dressed and cooked her breakfast. I really wanted to spit in her coffee, but I couldn't bring myself to. Instead, I made her eggs really really salty. She nearly choked on them. Boy that felt good!
***A week later***
~Pony's POV~
I wonder what happened to Summer. I'm really worried about her. I called her house couple days ago.
"Hi, is Summer home?"
"Pony?"
"Summer? What happened? I haven't seen you for a couple of days."
"Oh, Pony. I'm in so much trouble. I can't really explain right now. Rain's in the other room, and I'm not really allowed to speak on the phone."
"Can I come over, and say that I have to help you with homework?"
"No, Ponyboy. Rain wouldn't fall for that. But Ponyboy?"
"Yeah?"
"Just remember that I love you. And Ponyboy?"
"Yeah?"
"Please forgive me."
"For what? I'm really confused. Look, I'm coming over."
"No, not right now. I'm already in a lot of trouble. Look I have to go. I love you Pony."
"I love you too."
With that she hung up. I stood there for a while, holding the phone, until Soda came in and knocked on my head and told me to hang up the phone.
I couldn't sleep that night. I was hot under all the covers, and with Soda's arm swung around my throat. I had to see Summer. I knew that Rain worked until midnight, so I snuck out and went over to Summer's house.
I knocked on her window. She wasn't sleeping. She got up and let me in.
"Pony! What are you doing here?!"
"I had to see you."
I pulled her close and kissed her gently on the lips.
"I missed that." she said.
"I missed you." I said.
"What happened?"
"Uh...I-I went with...um...to a...uh"
"What?" I couldn't make out what she was saying.
"Look Pony, I can't quite tell you what happened yet. Please you have to understand. You have to trust me. I will tell you when I'm ready."
I was so confused. "Okay."
"You have to go."
"Okay."
"Bye Pony."
"I love you" I said as I climbed out the window.
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A/N: Okay well that's it. What do you guys think? I know it was a very confusing chapter. But in order to get where I want to get, I had to write this chapter. I know I haven't updated in so long. I am so sorry for making all my readers wait for so long. Thank you so much for sticking with me.
Ponys_girl: Don't worry, the whole Curly thing is over, for now. Lol, Summer loves Pony too much to leave him for Curly. She could never do that.
Tensleep: wow, your brother sounds creepy. I've never gone more than 16 hours without sleep. 40 hours! Holly Shit! Tell him that he's a freak for me. Sounds like you had fun during Christmas. Mine was miserable. See, cuz my cousins' dad has a brain tumor, and he looked really bad and he had a huge scar on his head and stuff, and it was really sad. Anywho, thanx for reviewing, and sorry for making you wait for so long. Yeah, Curly's baby pictures just kinda came to me. I thought it would be funny.
Karlei Shaynner: EXCELLENT review.
Justxme: you know I thought I would just forget Curly for a while. I have a plan! I'm working on it. He will be back.
Ponyboysgirl1: I know you don't update anymore, or review. But I will still write a feedback thingy for your review. You know I still haven't received my Christmas present from you. Lol, jay kay. To tell you the truth, I like being an author, and even tho I might have lost interest in the outsiders, I still like writing, so I might still continue, at least until I finish this story.
Dally's chick: I appreciate the ideas, but after thinking about it for a long long time, I decided where I'm going with this story. I hope you keep on reading though.
Laura: Hey I said Curly would be back. But.I'm not promising anything. Keep on reviewing.
Dally's my hero: lol, I got to 100 reviews? Wow, that's great. I never thought I would get that much. Keep on reading.
Shelby: oh my god, thank you so much. Please keep on reading.
becc-gallanter: wow, recommended, me? That cheers me up. Thanks, and don't worry Pony and Summer are still together.
Naria4: you live in Canada? Where do you live? I was in Toronto. So sorry for not updating for a while. I had to figure out what to do first, but now that I know, I'll be able to update sooner.
teri-mary-curtis: oh, I guess you reviewed from the first chapter, see, I kinda didn't have it figured out at the moment. I fixed it in the fallowing chapters tho. Keep on reading!
Ok, well that's all for the reviews. Please bear with me a while longer. I promise to update sooner. I kinda have been trying to update my other story too, so I'm busy. And I have been sick with the flu for the last 4 days, and I'm really pissed off, because I had to lye in bed 24/7 and I was really really bored. I'm well again so I immediately typed up a new chapter. Hope you guys liked it. Please review.
As always, Tara (my middle name, I decided to go with it for a while. I like it much better than Kate!) PS. Sorry for any grammar mistakes. I still feel a little tired, and it's been hard to type.
Ok, on with chapter 21!
~Still Summer's POV~
I saw Charlotte smoking a cigarette in front of the school. I didn't know she smoked, but then I really didn't know her. I went up to her to see what was wrong. She looked really pissed off.
"Hey" I said.
She lifted her head. Her eyes were really red and puffy. She musta been crying a lot.
"Whoa, what's wrong?" I studied her face. I couldn't find any meaning to it. She looked like she was going through so much.
"Jackass Brian broke up with me!"
"Brian?" I was a little confused. I didn't know about any Brian. "Who's Brian?"
"My ex-boyfriend."
"What happened?" she looked terrible! Mascara was smeared all over her face, and her cheeks were really red, they matched her eyes.
"He-he, he said he didn't love me anymore."
"Oh" I found myself giving her a hug. She cried on my shoulder. "What a jackass!" he really sounded quite like one.
The bell. Thank god. I was getting kind of uncomfortable. I like Charlotte, she's so nice, but she's no best friend, well not just yet, and hugging her and comforting her the way I was reminded me of Tara, home, I almost cried. I wonder what she's doing now. If only winter break would come sooner. She promised that she would come to visit for a week or two. I cannot wait to tell her about everything!
I helped Charlotte clean up in the bathroom.
"Thank you so much Summer. I don't know what I would have done if you weren't here. My friends..if I would call them that, they only let me hang out with them because of my brother. He's a football player, he's popular, and he makes them be nice to me. See, I never really fit in with the soc group. I always thought how they treated the greasers was so unfair. But my brother made me shut up and made all his friends be nice to me. But really, they treat me like crap when my brother's not around. It will finally be so nice to actually have someone that will be my true friend, you know not by force." She gave me a half smile.
"Yeah" I said. "Let's go, we're already really late as it is."
I decided that Charlotte was going to be my new best friend. I mean she is nice, and who cares if she's a soc. She just admitted that she's one by force anyway.
School was boring as hell. We got shit loads of homework too! I'm just not going to do it. My grades are good enough. I can afford to slack off a bit. I walked home by myself. Pony had track, Charlotte rode home with her brother, and Curly.well I dunno where he was, and I don't care anyway. *Sigh* not true.
I got home, Rain was still at school, I rarely got to see her anymore, from morning to afternoon, and she goes to school, and then races from one side of town to other driving Jake home from kindergarten. From 6 to midnight she works. I feel bad for her. I feel bad for myself. I'm always stuck taking care of Jake in the evenings. Cooking for him, cleaning for him, giving him baths, putting him to bed. I love my brother, and I love doing those things for him, but I deserve some time off, I got homework, and I want to see Pony, and have time for myself.
When I got home, Rain and Jake were not home yet, so I decided to take a long hot bath. It would give me some time to read that book I never got to start. I heard it was really good. "Gone with the wind" I had gotten it from the library a while ago but never had time to read it. I would finally get a chance to start.
I ran the bath. I was storming through my room, trying to find the book when Charlotte phoned. She asked me if I wanted to hang out with her and her brother's friends. She begged me to come. Brian would be there and she really didn't want to be alone with him, well she wouldn't be alone, but her so called friends don't really count as friends so I felt bad for her. Told her I would come. I still had a good hour or two before Jake and Rain got home anyway.
I took a quick shower and got dressed in a mini skirt, and a shirt that says "if you can read this you are too close" in silver letters. I had gotten it from New York. I loved shirts that said stuff like that. I have one that says "If stupidity hurt, you'd be crying all day" Man, I love that shirt!
I grabbed a jacket and walked outside. A mustang pulled up. Charlotte got out, and called me over. I waved and walked over to the car. I was about to get in the car when I saw Two-bit walking down the street. He spotted me and waved, before noticing that I was about to get into a soc car. I quickly waved back and got in the car. Oh, shit, I hope he doesn't tell Pony about this.
***After the socs drop Summer off***
You know what? I had a ton of fun. I don't know what Charlotte complains about. These people are so much fun! They took us to the river bottom and it was so much fun. There was beer and more beer, and more beer! I think I had a cup or two.or three. I stuck with Charlotte for the first half hour, but then her brother, (he's so handsome by the way!!!) challenged me to a beer contest, of course I said no at first, but his big friends dragged me to the keg and stuck the pipe down my throat before I could even say anything. By the time they were done, I was so drunk; I couldn't even see where I was going. I looked around for Charlotte but I couldn't see her anywhere, actually I couldn't see anything. I felt so dizzy! I think I passed out at some point. The next thing I know, I'm in my house, on the couch, lying with an ice pack on my head.
"How are you feeling?" oh shit, I knew that voice. It belonged to no one other than my one and only sister Rain.
"uhhhhh" is all I could get out.
"You how much alcohol you consumed?"
"uhhhhh"
"Summer, what the hell were you thinking?"
My head hurt too much for this conversation.
"Can we talk later, my head hurts."
"Damn right it's gonna hurt and no because some us, being responsible unlike you, have to go to work."
I groaned.
"What were you thinking, seriously? Getting drunk? Summer, come on, I think you know a little bit more than that."
"I'm sorry" I mumbled.
"You better be. I don't know how to deal with this. I never thought you would do something like this."
"I said I was sorry!" I snapped.
"Oh, you might not want to raise your voice at me! You're already in a lot of trouble as it is. Here's what we're going to do. You are grounded for a month.." GROAN "you will come home straight from school, you will not see any friends, you will not see Pony." GROAN "you will look after Jake, cook for him, clean the house, and I better not see you hang around those so called friends of yours." SHIT SHIT SHIT! "I want your homework done, right now." Another groan.
"But Raaaain..how can I do any homework, with this headache?" I whined.
"You should have thought of that before you got drunk. Now chop chop, move it. Come on."
I groaned as I walked to my room. I sat on my bed, and lifted my back pack on to my lap. I had sooo much homework.
***Two hours later***
"You better have your homework done Summer!"
I forced my self up from the bed. I must have dozed off at some point. I felt so nauseous and dizzy at the same time. I felt like a truck had run over me. I am never getting drunk, ever again!
I did my homework, carefully, even though every second, it was killing me a bit more, because Rain said that she was going to check it, to make sure I didn't slack off.
I didn't eat much that night. What little I ate, I wasn't able to hold down. I felt awful. I ended up going to bed around 7:30.
***Next Day***
~Rain's POV~
"Rise and shine Summer! Come on, up and at it."
I heard a groan from under the sheets.
"Come on Summer, don't make this harder than it already is."
"Rain! It's 7 am on Saturday! Why are you waking me up this early?" she screamed at me.
"I have to leave for work soon." I said.
"Ok..?"
I pulled the sheets down, and opened the curtains. Summer squinted at the light. I was satisfied.
"And I like my eggs hard boiled."
I heard Summer groan again as I left her room, and I was even more satisfied.
~Summer's POV~
I can't believe this. She grounds me, she makes me do my homework on a Friday night, she wakes me up at 7 am on a Saturday morning and she expects me to make her breakfast!
This isn't fair. I remember her getting drunk at a high school party, that Kevin's brother got us into, and making me promise never to tell mom and dad. She was allowed to experiment, why don't I get to? Besides, I didn't want to get drunk, I was forced to. It's really not fair.
I got up and took a hot shower.
"Come on Summer, I have to leave soon, and I'm really hungry."
I quickly got dressed and cooked her breakfast. I really wanted to spit in her coffee, but I couldn't bring myself to. Instead, I made her eggs really really salty. She nearly choked on them. Boy that felt good!
***A week later***
~Pony's POV~
I wonder what happened to Summer. I'm really worried about her. I called her house couple days ago.
"Hi, is Summer home?"
"Pony?"
"Summer? What happened? I haven't seen you for a couple of days."
"Oh, Pony. I'm in so much trouble. I can't really explain right now. Rain's in the other room, and I'm not really allowed to speak on the phone."
"Can I come over, and say that I have to help you with homework?"
"No, Ponyboy. Rain wouldn't fall for that. But Ponyboy?"
"Yeah?"
"Just remember that I love you. And Ponyboy?"
"Yeah?"
"Please forgive me."
"For what? I'm really confused. Look, I'm coming over."
"No, not right now. I'm already in a lot of trouble. Look I have to go. I love you Pony."
"I love you too."
With that she hung up. I stood there for a while, holding the phone, until Soda came in and knocked on my head and told me to hang up the phone.
I couldn't sleep that night. I was hot under all the covers, and with Soda's arm swung around my throat. I had to see Summer. I knew that Rain worked until midnight, so I snuck out and went over to Summer's house.
I knocked on her window. She wasn't sleeping. She got up and let me in.
"Pony! What are you doing here?!"
"I had to see you."
I pulled her close and kissed her gently on the lips.
"I missed that." she said.
"I missed you." I said.
"What happened?"
"Uh...I-I went with...um...to a...uh"
"What?" I couldn't make out what she was saying.
"Look Pony, I can't quite tell you what happened yet. Please you have to understand. You have to trust me. I will tell you when I'm ready."
I was so confused. "Okay."
"You have to go."
"Okay."
"Bye Pony."
"I love you" I said as I climbed out the window.
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A/N: Okay well that's it. What do you guys think? I know it was a very confusing chapter. But in order to get where I want to get, I had to write this chapter. I know I haven't updated in so long. I am so sorry for making all my readers wait for so long. Thank you so much for sticking with me.
Ponys_girl: Don't worry, the whole Curly thing is over, for now. Lol, Summer loves Pony too much to leave him for Curly. She could never do that.
Tensleep: wow, your brother sounds creepy. I've never gone more than 16 hours without sleep. 40 hours! Holly Shit! Tell him that he's a freak for me. Sounds like you had fun during Christmas. Mine was miserable. See, cuz my cousins' dad has a brain tumor, and he looked really bad and he had a huge scar on his head and stuff, and it was really sad. Anywho, thanx for reviewing, and sorry for making you wait for so long. Yeah, Curly's baby pictures just kinda came to me. I thought it would be funny.
Karlei Shaynner: EXCELLENT review.
Justxme: you know I thought I would just forget Curly for a while. I have a plan! I'm working on it. He will be back.
Ponyboysgirl1: I know you don't update anymore, or review. But I will still write a feedback thingy for your review. You know I still haven't received my Christmas present from you. Lol, jay kay. To tell you the truth, I like being an author, and even tho I might have lost interest in the outsiders, I still like writing, so I might still continue, at least until I finish this story.
Dally's chick: I appreciate the ideas, but after thinking about it for a long long time, I decided where I'm going with this story. I hope you keep on reading though.
Laura: Hey I said Curly would be back. But.I'm not promising anything. Keep on reviewing.
Dally's my hero: lol, I got to 100 reviews? Wow, that's great. I never thought I would get that much. Keep on reading.
Shelby: oh my god, thank you so much. Please keep on reading.
becc-gallanter: wow, recommended, me? That cheers me up. Thanks, and don't worry Pony and Summer are still together.
Naria4: you live in Canada? Where do you live? I was in Toronto. So sorry for not updating for a while. I had to figure out what to do first, but now that I know, I'll be able to update sooner.
teri-mary-curtis: oh, I guess you reviewed from the first chapter, see, I kinda didn't have it figured out at the moment. I fixed it in the fallowing chapters tho. Keep on reading!
Ok, well that's all for the reviews. Please bear with me a while longer. I promise to update sooner. I kinda have been trying to update my other story too, so I'm busy. And I have been sick with the flu for the last 4 days, and I'm really pissed off, because I had to lye in bed 24/7 and I was really really bored. I'm well again so I immediately typed up a new chapter. Hope you guys liked it. Please review.
As always, Tara (my middle name, I decided to go with it for a while. I like it much better than Kate!) PS. Sorry for any grammar mistakes. I still feel a little tired, and it's been hard to type.