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Chapter 2

Homework

Just my luck. As soon as I get to the front of the school I see my brother driving away. I started in the direction of my house when I heard my name being called.

"Emily! Hey Emily wait up!" I turned around to see Ponyboy and Johnny coming towards me.

"What's up guys?" asked as the steeped into place with me.

"Do you wanna come with us to the movies later?" Ponyboy asked

"I don't know, I'll have to talk to my parents about it." I said this knowing that I would sneak out if they said no. "And I have a lot of homework to do."

"You can come over to my house and do it with us. You can bring a friend if ya want." replied Ponyboy

"Sure. What time should I come by?"

"Well it's 2:30 now how about three. It won't take you that long to get to my house I don't think."

"Okay I'll call Faye and see if she can come." When I said this I looked towards Johnny and for a brief second he had some type of weird smile on his face. We walked down two streets and I left them for my house. I walked up to my door and watched them turn down another street. I walked inside and went to the kitchen. I hopped up on a stool and sat at the counter. When I went to get the phone I found a note from Alex saying sorry he didn't wait longer but he had a job interview. I called Faye but her line was busy. So I went to my room and got on AIM. I looked at my buddy list and of course she was on.

Sk8erbandbass101: Hey how come ur always on line?

KTRider: cus its fun :D

Sk8erbandbass101: Question

KTRider: ?

Sk8erbandbass101: Ya wanna come with me to Ponyboy Curtis's house?

KTRider: ?

Sk8erbandbass101: to do homework and then go to the movies or somethin'

KTRider: sure let me ask mom

(5 minutes later)

Sk8erbandbass101: ssssssssoooooooooo?

KTRider: she said ok

Sk8erbandbass101: were supposed to be there at 3

KTRider: I'll meet you at the corner

KTRider: signed off at 2:55

Sk8erbandbass101: signed off at 255

I grabbed my backpack and cds as I walked out of my room. I left a note on the fridge for my mom telling her where I was, then I finally left the house. I only had to walk down about five houses to get to the corner and Faye was all ready there.

"About time." she said

"Whatever. Just come on or we'll be late." I replied. We walked together down the street until I saw Ponyboy sittin' on his front steps. As we were nearing his house he came to the fence and greeted us.

"Hey Pony. Where Johnny?" I asked

"He's waiting inside."

"We don't want to keep him waiting then," said Faye and with that we went inside. Ponyboy's was a nice little house for being kept only by boys. You see his parents passed away a year ago and his brother has custody of him and his other brother Sodapop. It was a two-story house and for some reason thy always seemed to have chocolate cake in the refrigerator. Their front door was always unlocked just incase any of the 'gang' needs somewhere to crash. I've learned all this because I've been over here a few times and I actually stayed here over night when my father came home drunk. I couldn't go to the protection of my brother because he was out late again, and my mother couldn't help because she was working the late shift.

"Hey Emily, Faye." Johnny greeted us from were he sat on the couch. Over the next hour or so the four of us just sat and talked for a while. No homework was done at all. It was at about 4:30 when we got up from the couch and chairs. Johnny had to talk to Pony about something, so they went outside. Faye found the CD player so of course we had to listen to music. First we put in Linkin Park (Faye's favorite), after numb the boys came back in. We listened to breaking the habit and faint, then we moved on to Rush.

"This is my favorite song!" said Johnny as Nobody's Hero came on.

"What a coincidence It's Em's to." I think Faye said this just to embarrass me. The trees came on and I couldn't help but sing along, It was my first favorite Rush song.

There is unrest in the forest,
There is trouble with the trees,
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas.

The trouble with the maples,
(And they're quite convinced they're right)
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light.
But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made.
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade.

I only got about half way through the song when I was interrupted.

"You've got an amazing voice," said Johnny speaking for the three of them. He realized what he said and turned a light shade of red.

"Thank you. I was thinking about going out for the school play; Give my Regards to Broadway." I replied

" If you sing like that at the try-outs you'll sure to be in it." Ponyboy told me, and then he directed what he was saying to the other two as well as me. " So what movie do you guys want to see?"

"The Ring two!" Faye said eagerly. She loves horror films, in my opinion they're okay but they're not my favorite.

A/N How was that? Well I would like to thank my first three reviewers.

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