Rivelazione
Hey everyone. This story is all about, who the real outsiders are! Is it The Soc's? The Greasers? Ponyboy? Johnny? Dallas? Who are the real Outsiders? Each chapter will be devoted to one character and in each chapter we will find out the answer to the question. Please read and review. (Title means revelation in Italian)
Title: Rivelazione (Italian for Revelation)
Author: Vripter
Rating: Pg-13, just to be safe.
Warnings: Maybe some cussing, nothing else really. Ah, I've got a warning. The characters descriptions are from the film --- not the book. They look better in the film, I mean Tom Cruise --- is there any better!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or places in The Outsiders unless you have never heard of them before. S.E. Hinton owns all but my imagination.
Note: I started this last night (when I submitted chapter one) and then today I saw the lovely reviews I got off you guys (I'll respond to them at the end of the chapter), so that's how it's Two-Bit but I thought I'd clear some of this up.
I am doing every character – hopefully. Ponyboy will be done when I do my exams in two weeks because he will be. I'm doing Pony, Johnny, Dally, Two-Bit, Darry, Soda, Steve, Tim, Curly (I know he wasn't in it really but still), Randy, Bob, Cherry, maybe Marcia… have I missed anyone out? Tell me if I have, and you guys can chose the next one… so far from the reviews people want Johnny, Two-Bit, Dally and Tim to be chapter two… Two-Bit got that. I'll get the others done though too and submit them. Your choice comes first, whatever characters people want to read, I'll do. The character that people most want will be the next chapter. Ah and to… I'll check your name in a second who mentioned about good that I did Steve- I have an obsession with Tom Cruise, Steve had to come first! ;)
Chapter two: A day in the life of Two-Bit MathewsA nineteen year old sat on the damp, cold steps of the school entrance with a large, cheeky smile on his face. This nineteen year old was actually called Keith Mathews, but known to most or possibly everyone as Two-Bit Mathews or just simply Two-Bit.
Two-Bit's face was like a shining bright light, a light that was a honeysuckle, which somehow managed to attract people. However not because of his looks - he had good looks, not the best but he was attractive – but because of his positive thinking, because he was always happy and smiling and witty and sarcastic… if only that were so.
His honeysuckle face was a mask that didn't seem to want to come off, a mask of irony and of false truth. He was a child stuck in an adult's body yet at the same time an adult stuck in a mask.
He rocked back and forwards as if he were a jack in the box that had just been opened. His face was a happy shadow of his past, his mind was a disaster hurricane destroying everything that got in his way.
He didn't like the way people saw him, or maybe he did; it was a mixture. People saw him as a person to admire, to be like, to be inspired by but people also saw him as a joke. A person no one could or would take serious; a person who couldn't or wouldn't take anything serious; a sarcastic person who was always cracking the best jokes so that people would get jealous; a person who would get wasted often without any second thought; a person without feelings; a person who couldn't care…
His black leather jacket rubbed against his bare arms, which brought him back to his senses and reality. The reality of the fact that tears streamed down his face without his knowledge and that his happy mask appeared dull and lifeless, lifeless expect for his bright, watery brown eyes. If a person walked by, they could have seen him as a statue, he sat as still as one, as pale as one, nothing but his eyes shone bright and even them seemed to have a deep, deadly, desperate, detached sadness inside.
But who would understand, who would understand his pain? His longing?
He was a greaser, he should have forgotten the feeling of longing a long time ago. He knew too well that he would not get what he wanted, that he would not get it because of the pitiful reason of where he lived: The East side of town, Grease territory, Soc nightmare.
In the time that he'd sat there, rocking on the step, the sky had turned a misty grey, black like colour and the wind had picked up to give the school and its surroundings a sort of horror movie appearance. This appearance matched Keith's face perfectly. He was a victim in a horror movie but this time not running from any monster, running from himself, his life, his mind.
He did like his life, his friends, his lifestyle but him, like every teenager had to face the stress of growing up and being accepted. Being accepted into a world based on so much image, so much of being cool that it was almost unbearable.
Two-Bit was the happy person he seemed to be, but he wasn't immune to teenage feeling, neither was he to people thinking of him as a joke… it all effected him more than they thought.
He stood up and ignored the feeling of complete coldness as his body broke into violent shivering. He walked towards the lot, feeling detached and empty. He thought of his younger sister, he thought of how she would grow up. He thought of her dream job, she wanted to be a lawyer; he knew she couldn't be a lawyer, not because of her brains but because she would always be classed as scum.
His mind was not his own, it was a blizzard. As he reached the lot he spotted his friend Steve Randle lying on the ground attempting to sleep.
"Steve, what's up?" He asked his friend who seemed to jump at the sound of his name.
"Wha? Ah hey! I've been kicked out… again!" Steve replied as he stood up from the ground and rubbed his eye, "And I got jumped, fuckin' Soc's!"
Two-Bit moved to the small brick wall and sat down, his head in his head.
"Why aren't you at Soda's?" He wondered aloud. Steve looked up, then looked back down to his shoes.
"It's late." He said simply.
"But, it's always late!"
"I didn't want to bother them, plus, I can't stand to be the same room as Pony any more… at least not tonight!" He replied bitterly.
Two-Bit cocked his eyebrow at Steve who was taking a long drag on his cigarette.
"How come?"
"He's always there. I mean, if me and Soda go out, he'll always come. Shoot, it's not like I don't like the kid but that's the thing, he'll always be a kid.
Anyways, what's up with you?"
"I dunno. What am I to you?"
"Two-Bit…" Steve said slightly uncertain by the odd question.
Two-Bit sighed and opened his bottle of Vodka.
"It doesn't matter… It'll be all right!" He stated. Two-Bit took a long swing at his bottle and downed half of it before he turned around and with Steve following went home.
Sorry it's short and not very good. Next chapter will be better, I promise.
Meena: Thanks, Two-Bit's sis… maybe, I'll have to see if I can think of a plot for her, if I can, I'll do it.
JK: Thanks, I thought of the idea because I got this thing in English and it was about The Outsiders and the question was 'Who do you think the outsiders of the title is?' and I never got up to that part but I had my answer and I thought it was a good answer so that's what made me write this.
Flipwise: Thanks. I am doing all of the characters, most of them anyways.
Fairlane: I will do Tim, thanks. Hey, you wrote the fic about Tim when he killed that Soc right? If you did, I love your story! I'm sure it was you, 'To live this life,' I've just checked. I love your story. Lol. Thanks for the review.
XFeverx: Thanks, well here's Two-Bit for you! And yeah, can you get better than Tom Cruise? I had to make them like the actors- the looks.
Gloryblastit: Sorry, I haven't done Johnny – he will be soon. I started writing this chapter before I got any reviews. He might be next, in the first week of May that's Ponyboy because I have my exams then and that's part of my plan for Pony, Johnny will be before Pony. So sometime before the beginning of May, Johnny will be done! Thanks for the review.
Thanks for everyone's reviews.
Please review everyone and tell me who you want to see.