The outsiders; Modern Day

Disclaimer: I do not own any of S.E. Hinton's characters.

Chapter 1:
School

Okay so today started off like any other day. A boring old Monday. When I got to school I went strait to my locker, got my stuff for Global History and headed down to my best friend Faye's locker. She, of course, didn't have her stuff yet. So I was waiting, just standing there looking stupid. She was finally ready and we left to put our books down in the Global room. On the way there we passed my other good friend Jeff and some of his friends. I waved to him but kept walking. We also walked by my older brother, Alex (a junior and I'm a freshmen along with most of my friends,), who was walking the other way.

I always hate Global because the guy I like sits next to me and that makes me kind of self-conscious, which always make me feel like a prep. But anyway Faye and I always go for a walk in the hallways during the ten minutes before school actually starts. We walk by all the crowds of people, its like a maze, then we turn down another hall and pass by a group of guys which includes; Jeff and his friends; Shawn, Johnny, Ponyboy, R.J.(sophomores), A.J. (senior)Steve, Two-bit(Juniors), and a few more guys. I used to have a crush on Shawn; he has kind-of long hair like all the other guys that hang out there. But they have nothing on my brother his hair is about three inches past his shoulders. Back to Shawn, he's a little tall than me by about 5 inches; I'm 5'4''.

"Come on Emily. That was the one minute bell were gonna be late!" Faye practically screamed in my ear. And with that we started running down the two halls. Apparently Jeff was late too because he ran up next to me.

"You later for Global again too? I didn't even hear the bell Johnny had to yell at me to move."

"Really" I said turning my head so he couldn't see my face turn red. What I haven't told you yet is that the guy I like is Johnny. The four of us got to our seats right before the late bell rang.

"Just in time." Johnny said as he sat down.

"You said it." Faye replied. She sits in front of me and Jeff sits on the other side of Johnny. We all sit in the back which is awesome because that how the seating chart our teacher made had us sitting, I love sitting in the back only the goody-goodies sit in the front.

Global went by very slowly. Were learning about exploration, talk about boring! After it was finally over I was once again on my way to my locker. When I got there I found Two-bit leaning up against it.

"What do you want?" I asked as I pushed passed him to get to my locker.

"Wanted to know if you were interested in going somewhere with me later." He said smoothly. I looked him over and said:

"I'll think about it." And with that I grabbed my things and headed to English, another boring class. We're reading Romeo and Juliet. I'm Friar Lawrence and since we are still in Act 1 I haven't come in yet. After that was Math then Spanish, and then it was finally lunch. The best time of the day, my school has long lunch tables so a lot of people sit at my table. One half you have me, Faye, and my other friends; Nicole, Pam, Janice. On the other side there is Pony boy, Johnny, Two-bit, Shawn, R.J., Jeff, and Chris. Although my lunch table is never boring it can be dangerous.

"Hey Em think fast!" when I heard Pam say this I had no time to react because I was hit with frozen lemonade.

"Thanks, just what I always wanted." And with that a mini food fight broke out between Pam and me.

"What's going on?" Ponyboy asked Janice to whom he was the closest.

"Food fight between Pam and Emily."

"Oh is that all?" he said and turned back to his conversation with R.J. After lunch went by pretty quickly and it was finally the last period of the day; chorus. Chorus is my favorite class; I love to sing. I'm in women's chorus along with Janice. Some kids from the psychology class were going to be sitting in today. Some type of project. This worried me a little, both Johnny and Shawn are in that class. 'I'll just try to ignore it.' I thought to myself. They came in when we were doing warm-ups. I started to get self-conscious again while I sang:

do

do re do

do re me re do

do re me fa me ra do

do re me fa sol fa me re do

do re me fa sol la sol me re do

do re me fa sol la ti la sol fa me re do

do re me fa sol la ti do ti la sol fa me re do

Then we started to work on our songs.

Out on the Myra On warm afternoons

Old men go fishing

With black line and spoons

And if they catch nothing

They never complain

I wish I was with them again

The class was almost over five minutes left to go and an announcement came on over the P.A. "The will be a spring dance on Friday ticket will go on sale tomorrow for 3 dollars." The uproar of girls discussing the dance was overwhelming.

The bell rang and I hurried to my locker. I looked at my mini calendar two days until the try-outs for the play, I can't wait. I glanced at my watch if I don't hurry Alex won't give me a ride home.

A/N this is my first story like this so please tell me what you think