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The first week of school was very uneventful. Track practices were extra long and extra hard. Our first meet was against Shoram/Wading RiverTuesday. The coach wanted us to win. I didn't see much of anybody that wasn't on the track team. Erica, Kim, and some other track girls ate lunch with me. I didn't see a lot of Jane and Megan except on Sunday when we had a band practice. We argued about playing Green Day's "Holiday" or Fall Out Boy's "Sugar We're Goin' Down." The most exciting thing that happened was an instant message from Dan.

Wanna go out w/ me 2morow?

Where will we go?

Buck's throwin another party wanna go?

But my bro & his friends said nevr 2 go there

Ur gonna listen 2 them?

OK, let's go meet me the corner of Bicycle & old town

Y cant I pick u up?

My bro dont like u much Why was I going? Because Dan invited me, the coolest kid in school likes me! I had to decide what to wear, I was gonna go shopping with Megan tonight. Megan had the best taste.

I went to Kohl's with Megan. She picked out dark denim jeans with sparkles near the ankle. I put them back, they weren't my style. She got angry and called her mom.She gets angry over the stupidest things, like when I wore my low top converse on the first day of school. So what, they had a tear in them I picked out a pair of green cargo pants and a red tank top. They would go good with my 'ugly' converseI called my mom to pick me up, because Tyler is only allowed to drive to the school and to his job. I told her Megan left and she wondered why. I told her not to bother and showed her my cargo pants and tank top.

The next night I met Dan at the corner of Bicycle Path and Old Town Road. He was wearing"The Misfits" tee-shit and baggy jeans. He also had on a leather coat. He put his arm around my shoulder and we walked to Buck Merril's house. He opened the door and I knew it was bad. We were each handed a can of beer. Dan took mine, I thought for a second he wasn't going to let me drink it, but he just opened it and handed it back to me. I tried to grin and I forced out a thank you. He downed like three or four in the time it took me to finish one. I wondered if he knew I was only 15.

Dan came up in front of me and pushed me onto the couch. He started to kiss me and I tried to fight him. Eventually I slapped him across the face and shoved him off of me. I ran out of the house, very fast. I ran all the way home where I searched for Tyler. I found him in his room. I opened the door.

"Tyler," I said entering his room, "tell me exactly why you don't like Dan and don't tell me because he tried to take on Dally." Tyler grabbed my arms.

"Have you been drinking?" he asked as he sniffed my breath.

"Don't change the subject," I warned him.

"D'ya Remember Lila? Well the damn guy took her to one of Buck's parties and got her drunk. He tried somethin' with her but Dally stopped him. That's when he decided to take on Dally." I nodded. "Why? Were you with him?"

"No," I said and looked at my red converse. I had stepped in dog crap. Just my luck.The shoes were old enough so I would just toss them, I wanted new ones anyway. For now I had my black high tops or my running shoes.

"You went to Buck Merril's party tonight, didn't you? You went with Dan, didn't you?" His voice was raising and I got scared. "Are you okay?" He asked calmly. I shook my head no, I was scared to death. He did something weird then, he pulled me into a hug.

"I hit him and ran out," I said with fear. I wondered if I would be in trouble with him. I started to cry and Tyler sat me on the couch. He called somebody and then told me that we were going to Soda's house to discuss something with him and Steve. They were probably going to figure out how dangerous he was.

I sat on their couch and looked at my fingers. I needed a nail file really bad. Actually, scratch that, I needed a manicure really bad. I didn't really hear what they were saying, I heard my name and how lucky I was that he wasn't too drunk. I also heard that I was a liar and how I should be more careful. I went to go find Ponyboy; maybe I'd challenge him to a race at the high school track.

I found him,we walked to the track and thenrested a bit, it had been a long walk. I just realized I hadn't told Tyler where I'd be. I had my cell phone if he needed me. I grabbed the scrunchie off of my wrist and tied my hair into a ponytail, only it wasn't really a ponytail. It was a nub. I rolled up the cargo pants, thankfully they were baggy. I put my phone in my pocket.

"Ready? Go!" Ponyboy shouted before I was even ready.I was in the middle of tying my shoe.

"Ponyboy Curtis, that's cheating and you know it!" I finished tying my shoe and started to run.

"Who's gonna stop me, slowpoke?" I picked up speed and shoved him. He stumbled and fell.

"You never said what the rules for the race were." I called as I ran ahead. I finished a little ahead of him. "Sorry about thatI said when I was walking around the track to cool off.

"No problem," he said. I felt my phone vibrate and then my ring-tone started. "... This is the dawning of our lives, on Holiday..." I reached into my pocket. It was Tyler and I told him where I was and yes, Ponyboy was with me. He was coming to pick us up now. He was worried that I was going to see Dan. Did he think I was that stupid? I'm not, duhI got pushed up a grade.

"See you in physics tomorrow," I said to Ponyboy as he went into the house. I don't know why I was being so nice; maybe I was a little shook up from what had happened. "Tyler, I'm not dumb. I'm going into 11th grade," I told him. He messed up my hair and smiled.

"You're my little sis, I gotta look after you." I went into my room and turned on my instant messenger.

How wuz the party

Dont remind me Kim

That bad

Worse he tried 2 get me drunk

Ouch

I got another one, from mystery boy

Did u have fun Ur party It couldn't be Pony, I had told him the whole story on the way to the track.

Yes specially cuz I wuznt w/ u

That's y u left runnin

Yea I went runnin w/ my friend

Curtis is Ur friend

Yea y not

U nevr pay attention 2 the kid u hang out w/ ur click

Is that wrong we talk in physics & a little track

Tyler came into my room and spun my chair around. It was okay when I did it, but when other people did that it made me sick.

"I know you were with Ponyboy and everything, but I don't like it when you go without telling me."

"You don't trust Ponyboy? Did he try to rape a girlfriend of yours too?" I asked.

"I don't really trust him; the kid left his sneakers in his locker once and walked home without them. If you two got jumped, I'm afraid he wouldn't know what to do."

"Tyler, it was right after the, um, the incident. Cut the kid some slack!" I had trouble referring to the incident sometimes. I thought Johnny was okay, he was about two years older than me. He never talked and that irked me. I wasn't one to like Dally, but I cried just as hard as everybody else did when he died. He was a brother. Why was I being so defensive of Ponyboy?

"You like Ponyboy," Tyler said teasingly. I jumped out of my chair and he ran. He knew I would catch him though; it was no use for him to run.

"No, I like," I couldn't think of anybody. I had liked Dan, but now I hated him. "I like Justin," I said. I didn't really like anybody so I made up some name.

"Justin, right," he said and walked off into his room. I looked into my closet for something to wear. I had to wear something that would look nice with my running shoes, or my black converse. I found a pair of faded blue jeans with a nice rip in the left knee. (I can't climb trees) I searched my drawers for a shirt that would go nice with it. I eventually found a black tank top and my black and white striped sweatshirt jacket.

Physics was first thing in the morning, my least favorite classthe only class I had trouble in. Yes, I've only had this class a week and I sucked. That's life.