Mwahaha! I am back... I missed 2 days of school, so I had TONS of homework.. That's why I didn't get to update 'till today. Soo…. Uhh… HI!

Disc: I don't own ze Outsiders. I vish I did, but I don't. (I'm trying out different accents. lol)

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"Hello? Janie? Melissa?" I yelled around the empty house. "You guys here?"

"Uhh, I don't think they're here… But I'll see you later, Sam. Don't hurt yourself staying home all alone." Ponyboy laughed and walked up to me. We kissed softly and he left, slamming the door on his way out.

"Bye." I said to the door, knowing that he couldn't hear me. I sat down on the couch, feeling lonely. I reached for the remote and flipped on the TV.

"Grr… Nothing is on!" I dropped the remote and left it on the floor. I have absolutely nothing to do. Except homework, and who wants to do that? Now, where can they be? Well, Janie is most likely out with Two-Bit or some other guy I haven't met yet. But where's Melissa? Maybe she's with Soda…

"Fine, just leave me home all alone. Oh no, I'll be fine." I told myself angrily, pretending I was talking to Melissa or Janie. They knew I was coming home with Pony, and they left? I mean, we could've gone the whole damn way if we wanted to! Maybe something important came up. Hopefully that's it. I paced around the kitchen and at the same time asked myself what I wanted to eat.

"Hmm, what to eat? Peanut butter, crackers, apples, god where's all the junk food when you need it!" I dropped to the floor and checked the bottom cupboards. "Cheese, fruit, trail mix, oh gosh…" I have had junk food here before. I know I have… I bet Janie hid it! That's just the kinda thing she'd do! I checked all the other cupboards and drawers thoroughly and found nothing. Well, cheese is good. I cut myself some cheese and chewed it slowly, thinking. What's up with this Sandy person? What the hell did she mean when she said, "Don't believe I'm gone!"? And she's not too bright either. She's nothing like the Sandy Pony told me about: the one with soft blond hair and pretty blue eyes. Her blond hair looked dyed and her eyes just looked blue, not anything special to me. Maybe that's cuz I'm a girl.

"I'm bored!" I yelled to no one. Usually I don't get bored, I can entertain myself with just about anything. A couple of weeks ago, me and Melissa watched a clock move for an entire hour, counting the seconds between the minutes. Sometimes, I just read, or write poetry. It depends on what I'm feeling. I would be writing right now if SOMEBODY hadn't have ripped up my freakin' journal.

After I completed my cheese, I sat in my room, attempting to watch the clock. It's not much fun the 2nd time. I pulled open the drawer in the nightstand next to my bed and found a small notepad.

"Good enough." I picked up a pen and started to write a poem. I can only write poetry when I'm feeling an emotion real strong, like if I'm real mad or sad. Right now, I'm not sure why, but I'm really sad. Geez, I can't even write a freakin' poem. I crumpled up the beginnings of the poem and threw it away.

"I can't do anything today." I sighed and decided to call someone. Picking up my backpack, I reached in for a small piece of paper with 660-9301 written on it.

I dialed carefully and listened to the rings. After about 6 rings, someone picked up.

"Hello?"

"Hi, this is Sam. Can I talk to Kelly?" I asked as politely as I could.

"Yes, hold on one moment." There was a pause, then I heard Kelly's voice. "Hello?"

"Hey Mrs. Two-Bit! What's goin' on?" I tried to sound cheerful and upbeat.

"Nothing much. I'm just playing with Bambi." Bambi was her dog, Personally, I think Bambi is a weird name for a dog. But Kelly had 3 dogs and 1 cat and 2 ferrets and fish. I wish I had pets.

"Oh, that's cool. I'm home alone."

"Didja ever find Pony?" Kelly asked. I heard her laugh and say 'Bambi!' after that.

"Yeah, I did." I left it at that, she doesn't need to know all the details.

"Neat-o." There was an awkward silence and I stopped it by saying,

"Well, I gotta go do homework now. See ya."

"Kay. Bye." The phone clicked. Now what am I gonna do? I haven't really met anyone at school besides Kelly. Well, there's Ashley, but she's just nice, and she always hangs out with Marissa. Maybe I'll just go back to Ponyboy's house. That could work… Except I don't feel like passing by my house. That doesn't seem like a good idea. I'll call Pony and ask Soda to come get me. Then I'll just seem stupid, he was just here. But what am I supposed to do? At that moment, I heard the door open.

"Sam? Ya home?" Janie hollered from the kitchen.

"Mmhmm." I mumbled. Janie walked in and sat next to me.

"How's it goin'?" She asked me carefully.

"Oh, just dandy. I've been waiting for you or Melissa to come home all day. On that note, where have you been?" I said, accusingly.

"I was with Two-Bit. We went to his house and his mom fixed us sum food."

"All day?" I stared at her.

"Uh, yeah." Janie twirled a piece of string hanging off of my blanket around her finger. "Listen, whaddya wanna do?"

"I need cigarettes. Let's go to the drugstore." I said grumpily. I'm still mad at her for leaving me all alone.

"M'kay." We drove in silence to the store, but when we got there, I saw a sight that made me wanna hurl.

"Uhh, Sam? Isn't that your brother's car?" Janie looked at the car closely.

"Yep." This can't be good. Oh crap. Maybe he just parked it there. Yeah that's gotta be it, right? Wrong. We walked in and the very first thing we saw was a couple immersed in a deep session of making out. The girl had blond hair and looked oddly familiar. The boy, as you can guess, was none other then Mac. Once the girl pulled away to take a drink from her soda I saw her face. It was Sandy.

"Uhh… This is pretty awkward." I mumbled to Janie as we both stood, in shock, in front of the booth that Mac and Sandy were in.

"Oh, hey Jen! How's it goin?" Sandy smiled a huge fake smile at me and I mimicked her in the same ditzy voice,

"It's Sam, and OMG who ever thought I would like see you here?" I tossed my head around for the valley girl effect. I turned to look at my now grimacing brother. "And like OMG times 2! You are like soooo my brother!" Janie started to laugh and Mac glared at me.

"So, you two know eachother?" Sandy looked at me confusedly. Uh, didn't I just say he was my brother? I tried to dumb it down for her.

"Oh yeah! We go way back, right Macky?" I grinned at him and heard Janie holding in her laughter behind me.

"Right. And, uh, will you excuse us? We were kinda in the middle of something important, right doll?" Mac looked slyly back at Sandy and her face fell.

"Don't call me that, Mac." She whispered. It was the only thing I had heard her say that didn't sound completely blond.

"Why?" He asked her while burning holes through my head with his eyes.

"Um, well-." Sandy began but Janie cut in.

"Oh I know why!" She raised her hand and waved it around. "See, that's what Soda calls Melissa. And I'm very sure he used to call you that too, right?"

Sandy shifted uncomfortably in her seat and then seemed to get her energy back. "No. I just think it's a dumb pet name, that's all. I mean, am I a miniature person made out of plastic that little girls play with?" I tried so hard not to answer that question, but apparently Janie doesn't have as much willpower as me.

"Yep!" Janie then flipped her hair and twirled a strand around her finger. I wanted to tell her that she sounded almost as ditzy as Sandy did most of the time, but I didn't. At this moment, I had a sudden urge to leave. Do I really want to sit here and argue with someone who probably doesn't know what 3+3 is?

"C'mon Janie, Let's go." I beckoned with a finger to the door, but Janie wouldn't move. She was obviously having a lot of fun teasing Sandy; who by the way was turning a deep shade of red at Janie's jokes.

"Yeah, just leave!" I could tell she was now fighting back tears. "Let's go Mac." She turned on her heel and strode out the door, Mac following closely.

"Ow!" As soon as Sandy walked out the door, she tripped over those little blocks of cement that go in the parking spaces. You know what I mean, right? Anyway, she stumbled over it and landed on her face. Janie laughed rudely and I saw Mac trying very hard to conceal his laughter. I ran out to help her up. I'm not sure why, but it's kinda how I felt when Darry was shoving my brother at me, waiting for me to hit him.

"Ge'roff me!" She screeched as soon as I grabbed her arm to help her up. Janie strode over to her car and called me to join her. I kicked a rock at Sandy, who was still lying on the ground, cradling her 'hurt' arm.

When I was sitting comfortably next to Janie, she gave me a dirty look and cried, "Why did you help her? Or, try to help her?"

"Uhh…" I just trailed off, trying to think of an answer. "I wonder how Melissa is." I completed.

"Mmhmm." Janie said miserably. "Ya know, I was havin' fun." I just nodded and gazed out the window, feeling sorry for myself, and I don't know why.

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Sorry this chapter sucked.. Well at least, in my opinion. I'm having serious writers block… Sorry I didn't get this chap up for a million years. As I said, I had writers block.