A/N: Well it's back to the writing board with the story. Hoping to get updates more frequently then normal. Winter Break, as the school districts call it, is coming up fairly soon and I hope to use that time to catch up on most of my stories. Well I've decided to add a chapter song listing thing like in Teenage Wasteland which I advise all of you to read.

"My earliest memory is of feeling different. My parents told me that I wasn't like other children."- Billy Corgan

Point Place, Wisconsin

May 1st, 1997

1:25 A.M.

Forman Basement

Tonight, Tonight- The Smashing Pumpkins

The television in the basement was set on MTV. It played the music video for the Smashing Pumpkins song Tonight, Tonight. It was a fairly old video, and would normally only get played in the dead of night. It was labeled by those at the high school, a midnight shift video. One Jennifer Burkhart stared at it half asleep. Ryan Forman was hunched over the keyboard of a computer looking for specific information. "Well it looks like they've replaced Chamberlain with a drum machine." he said. Jennifer sighed.

"Well he was asking for it with the heroin overdose." she replied. "But it's just not gonna sound the same without him." The two talked about the Smashing Pumpkins drummer Jimmy Chamberlain, and what was going to be doing drums for the Smashing Pumpkins upcoming album. "Any word on when it comes out?" The boy scrolled down slightly and frowned.

"None at all." he said in a sad tone. "Hopefully later this year. Corgan is giving any information about it." He sighed and closed the website. He moved the mouse to the selection menu and chose to shut it down. The computer slowly started to turn off the processes. Ryan turned the monitor off, and sat down next to Jennifer on the couch. "Life just hasn't been the same since MJ came back." Jennifer nodded.

"I know." she replied. "And I think your mom is going nuts." She laughed slightly. "You ever think that your family will be normal again?"

"Doubt it." he laughed. He shook his head. "Well there's always the Pumpkins concert to look forward to."

"When is that?" she asked. She cocked her head slightly.

"It's on the 21st of June." he replied. "At the Metro."

"But that's in Chicago." she replied. "Why would they give us tickets to a concert in Chicago?"

"Beats me." he replied. "But they gave us them for winning that damn contest." She shrugged.

"Better than sitting at home weeping in your room wanting to go." she replied.

"True." he replied. "Very true."

Point Place, Wisconsin

May 3rd, 1997

10:25 A.M.

Point Place High School

Thirty-Three- The Smashing Pumpkins

Christian sat in his home-ec class. He was one of the only boys in the class, and often made fun of by the jocks. It was the price he payed by taking the class. Today the class stood in their kitchens and prepared food for the upcoming Spring Dance. Christian stood next to a table and put pieces of pepperoni in biscuits, and rolled them so the meat would not show. "The rolls are ready for the oven Kathy." he said. A tall blond girl with green eyes turned around and smiled at him. She walked over and picked up the tray of dinner rolls.

"Looking good Christian." she said. Christian was quite puzzled. The blond walked away towards the oven.

''Is she implying that the dinner rolls are looking good?" he thought. He gulped and walked over to her. He tapped her on the shoulder. She spun around and looked at Christian.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Well-" he started. "Remember just a few seconds ago when you said looking good?"

"Yeah." she replied.

"Were you talking about the rolls or me?" he asked. Kathy laughed. And then stopped. She started again laughing even harder.

"You sure are funny Christian." she laughed. "I meant you."

"Oh." he replied. "I knew that." She laughed again. "Good day."

"But Christian." she said.

I said good day!" he replied. He walked away towards the door and grabbed the hall pass. He walked through the halls. He walked into the bathroom and stood up against the urinal. Ryan walked in shortly.

"Hey." he said. He stood up against the urinal a few down from him.

"Hey Ryan." he replied. "How's English?"

"Boring as ever." he replied. "We get to write a five page essay now on whoever we want."

"Well that sounds good." Christian replied.

"Well it's due in two days." he replied. "How the hell am I going to write a paper on the Smashing Pumpkins in two days?" He shook his head. "If that asshole Tormey wanted a good paper she'd wait 'till next year to collect mine! I'd barely scratch the surface in two days!"

"That's nice Ryan." he replied. "I've got to go." He walked over to the sink and washed his hands. "Good day."

"Uh, Christian." he said.

"I said good day!" he replied. He walked out of the bathroom. Ryan shook his head.

"Your fly is open!" he yelled. Christian did not hear this and started to walk back to the home-ec room. It was nearly two hours later and Tyler sat down at the lunch table with a small carton of milk.

"Man we need some better food!" he exclaimed.

"We need some off-campus lunch is what we need." Jennifer replied.

"No shit man." Justin replied. "I'm getting sick of these damn hot dogs." He took a bite of the hot dog and spat it out. "There's a fucking hair in it!"

"Gross!" Stephanie exclaimed. "File a lawsuit against the school!"

"I don't have any money for a lawyer Steph." he replied. "And even if I did my dad would freak that the man is helping his son."

"You know Justin," MJ said in a dreamy far off voice. "Why don't we all just leave for the day."

"To where?" Christian asked. "Everywhere we go is full of adults."

"I can think of one place." MJ replied.

"Where?" the rest of the table said.

"Duh." she replied. "My house. Donna's at some parental training shit even though she's gone through it twice."

"Ok then." Justin replied. Ryan nodded.

"Shakedown 1979." Ryan said. The rest of the people sitting at the table nodded. The bell rung signaling for lunch to be over. The friends walked back to their lockers pretending to get their stuff. Christian looked across the hall to where Jennifer stood. She nodded her head, and he looked the opposite way and nodded and Justin he nodded at Christian and then nodded at MJ further down the hall. She slammed her locker and ran up the stairs to where Stephanie's locker was and nodded at her. This action continued until finally it reached Tyler a minute later.

The seven friends all met down by the library. And stared at each other from different parts of the library. They all walked towards the exit. Their eyes darted back and forth as they walked down the hall. The vice principal roamed the hall ways looking for students skipping class. Christian pulled an orange out of his backpack and hurled it past him. The vice principal ran towards the orange, and the seven ran as fast as possible. They were 100 meters away from the door. 30 seconds later Stephanie collapsed in the bushes about 30 feet from the school.

"Get up." Tyler muttered. She pulled a twig out of her red hair, and brushed herself off as she got up.

"Shut up Tyler." she replied.

"It's the man!" Justin yelled. The vice principal had opened the door and looked straight out at them.

"Run as fast as you fucking can." Jennifer muttered. The seven friends scattered in opposite directions towards different places in Point Place. Half and hour later all of the seven except for Christian sat in the basement. "Where the hell is he?"

"I don't know." Tyler replied. "Probably looking in the candy shop." Half way across town Christian had wandered into the Point Place General Hospital where Donna took her pregnancy classes. Christian wondered why he was in the place, and searched for the exit. Him and hospitals didn't go well together. He stumbled through the hospital, and searched for the exit. An hour later he walked in on his friends watching TV.

"Well thanks for leaving me alone you guys!" he exclaimed. Tyler laughed.

"We thought you were at the candy shop." he laughed.

"Uh Tyler." Ryan said. "That was just you who thought he was at the candy shop."

"You guys just wait!" Christian yelled. "There will one day be a song about a candy shop! And it will be famous!"

"Sure thing Christian." MJ laughed. "So whens the dance again?"

"The fifth." Stephanie replied. "But we need to do something crazy."

"Why don't we just drive a car through the gym?" Justin suggested.

"Sounds more like a homecoming thing." Tyler replied. "Plus which one of us can drive?" All eyes turned to Jennifer.

"What?" she exclaimed. "Oh no. I only have my drivers permit. I can't drive with you guys in the car, or by myself for that matter."

"You sound just like your mommy." Tyler mocked.

"Shut up!" she exclaimed.

Point Place, Wisconsin

May 5th, 1997

8:25 P.M.

Point Place High School

Fuck You(An Ode To No One)-The Smashing Pumpkins

The seven friends stood in the parking lot around the Vista Cruiser. They didn't bother to wear tuxedos, or dresses, and came dressed in street clothes. "Ok, so we're gonna start a distraction." Justin said. "Christian will do some sort of exotic bird call which will signal Ryan, and MJ to open the gym doors to the outside so that Jennifer can drive into the gym. Before she drives in all of us will leave the gym through the doors, and hop in the Vista Cruiser. Which then Jennifer will drive wildly into the gym and we get out of the Cruiser in a completely awesome fashion."

"Ok?" Stephanie said. "What's the worst that will happen?"
"The man will come down on us and we'll all get arrested." Justin replied.

"Count me in." Tyler said. Justin nodded.

"Well lets get started." he replied. "And if one of us gets caught we say nothing about the rest of us." MJ, Ryan, and Christian walked into the gym looking around at each other. The principal looked around for trouble makers, and Ryan signaled to Christian to go to the third floor bathroom and clog all the toilets. Five minutes later Christian came back with water dripping off the sleeve of his shirt.

"I hope you're happy!" he yelled.

"I sure am." Ryan replied.

"Now go to the principal and tell him that the toilets are clogged up." MJ said. "He'll believe you. Your not the evil kind of person."

"But I can be evil." Christian whined. "I hate you." Ryan and MJ laughed. "I am sorry my friends I did not mean it."

"Just go do it Christian." Ryan said. Christian sighed and walked off. Ryan and MJ walked over towards to gym doors to the open field. Justin sat on the roof of the Vista Cruiser staring towards the gym. Jennifer stuck her head out the window of the drivers seat.

"You think they're ok?" Jennifer asked. She looked up at him.

"They'll be fine." he replied. "Forman knows what he's doing." Tyler got out of the car and started running towards the woods. "Where the hell are you going LaPoint?"

"I gotta take a piss!" he replied. Justin sighed.

"Hurry up then!" he yelled. "We're not waiting for you!" Tyler continued running towards the woods. Back inside the gym Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" came on. Ryan bobbed his heads and lipped the words to the song. MJ shook his shoulder.

"Ryan," she said. "Christian made the call. Open the door and book it." He sighed and nodded. The two pushed open the two large doors that they were standing by, and Christian came running by. The two siblings followed after running back towards the car.

"Hurry up Forman!" Justin yelled. He slid down back into the car. Christian hopped into the back of the old car, and MJ got in the back sitting next to Justin. Jennifer gulped and turned on the car. "Wait Burkhart. Forman's not in yet." It was to late. She shifted the car into gear and hit the accelerator. The Vista Cruiser charged towards the gym and within 30 seconds it burst into the gym. The principal saw this and started running towards the car. Jennifer put the car in reverse, and drove back out of the gym, and into the field. She shifted gears again and drove as fast as possible.

"God damn it!" Ryan yelled. "Wait up!" The Vista Cruiser was far gone and Tyler emerged from the woods and ran over to Ryan.

"Where is everybody?" he asked.

"Gone." Ryan replied.

"Get back here you punks!" a voice yelled.

"Shit." Ryan said. "It's Korpala. Run for the motherfucking hills." The two ran as fast as possible but the principal Mr. Korpala caught them. He tackled Tyler, and tripped Ryan up.

"Run man! Run!" Tyler yelled. It was too late. Korpala had his arm around his ankle. He pulled both up by the collars of their shirts and looked them square in the eyes.

"You two are in for a whole lot of trouble." he sneered. He dragged them back to the schools and into his office. "You know what I can do to you two?"

"Nothing." Ryan replied with a grin. "We're outside school hours and had nothing to do with what happened."

"Utter bull shit Forman." Korpala snapped. "I saw you standing with your sister opening the doors to the gym."

Point Place, Wisconsin

May 5th, 1997

10:25 P.M.

Forman Family Kitchen

Polly- Nirvana

Eric, Donna, and Kelso starred at the two boys as MJ hit her head up against the wall. "What were you two thinking?" Donna yelled. "Do you know what this will do to your permanent record!"

"You know Tyler," Kelso said. "If you continue being a part of these kinds of things you won't have a house to live in." Tyler scoffed and ignored the threat by Kelso. "I'm serious!"

"Said the man who pretended to be a year younger then he actually was." Eric muttered.

"Shut up Eric!" Kelso exclaimed. "That's why I'm more mature then you!"

"Yeah, sure." he replied. "Donna continue."

"Thank you Eric." she replied. "Now Ryan, what were you thinking when you took part of this?"

"I didn't take any part!" he exclaimed. "It wasn't me!"

"And I was taking a piss in the woods!" Tyler exclaimed."Shut up Tyler." Ryan replied.

"Well it looks like you're both suspended for the rest of the year." Donna said. "Ryan you're lucky you have enough credits to pass, but Tyler. You're in serious trouble."

"Oh come on." Tyler said. "So I was half a credit short. I can make it up next year."

"Well you won't be seeing your friends until June Ryan." Donna said. "You screwed yourself by taking part of this, so you're in lock down. You can't leave the house."

"What about the Smashing Pumpkins concert?" he asked.

"That hasn't been decided upon yet." she replied. "Go to your room." Ryan dropped his head and sighed. He got up and left the kitchen, and walked through the living room.

"Having fun Forman?" Justin asked. He laughed.

"Shut the fuck up." he replied. "I'm not in the mood."

"Come on For-" he started. But before he could finish Ryan punched him in the stomach.

"I don't give a damn Justin." he said. He continued through the living room and up the stairs. He walked down the hall and entered his bedroom. Jennifer sat on his bed flipping through a photo album she had found.

This Is A Call- Foo Fighters

"Hey." she said. She put the album down and got up and wrapped her arms around her neck.

"Hey." he replied. He tried to smile but couldn't.

"So what's the verdict?" she asked.

"I'm suspended for the rest of the school year, and apparently in lock down. Which pretty much means I can only leave my room for dinner, or if something goes wrong."

"But Eric and Donna can't always be around." she replied.

"Yeah well two people, Kitty and Red." he replied.

"Well that sucks." she replied. "What about the concert?"

"Don't know yet." he replied. "They haven't decided."

"Well I guess that could be good." she said.

"Yeah well I won't be breaking out this time." he replied. "I'm through trying. Everybody always says I did it. I'm always the bad guy. Even Korpala called me the "ring leader of the operation"." He shook his head. "I'm so fucking tired of it."

"Don't worry." Jennifer replied. "We won't forget you. We'll try to talk to you everyday. MJ will be able to help get it done."

"Yeah well good luck with that." he replied. She pulled him over to the bed and the two sat down on it and she looked in his eyes.

"We'll find a way out of it." she said. "We'll get you out of this suspension. I'll do it by myself if I have to. I'm not going to let them win this one."

"Yeah, well I'd love to believe you but I can't." he replied.

Point Place, Wisconsin

May 8th, 1997

12:25 P.M.

Point Place High School

Crush- The Smashing Pumpkins

All the friends except for Tyler and Ryan sat at the table silently staring at one another. It wasn't the same without Tyler's comments, and Ryan's constant complaining about something or else. "So the food sucks." Jennifer said.

"I guess." Justin replied. "Damn it. It's just not the same without Tyler, and Forman."

"I know." Christian replied. Kathy walked over and sat down next to Christian.

"Hey, I heard about your friends." she said. "It sucks what happened."

"You don't say?" Justin said. "It's completely wrong." He threw the milk carton across the lunch room. "Korpala had no right to suspend them that long."

"Well what are you gonna do?" she asked.

"Nothing I guess." Stephanie said. "We're just gonna have to live without Ryan, and Tyler."

"Your one to talk Kelso." Jennifer said. "You can screw Tyler whenever you want. You live in the same god damn house."

"Yeah well MJ lives with Ryan!" she retorted.

"Yeah well I'm his sister." MJ replied. "Do you think I'm gonna do it with my brother?" Stephanie opened her mouth. "I don't want to hear your answer."

Back at the Forman house Donna paced back and forth in the living room. "Well at least the first three months are almost over." she muttered. "Keep your head in the game Pinciotti. You can't give up." Ryan sat in his room staring at the walls blankly with nothing to do. He didn't want to play his guitar, and reading was too boring. His room was a dungeon. A dungeon of pure boredom. All he could do was just stare at the poster of D'Arcy Wretzky up on his wall. Hours passed and it grew dark. There was a knock on his door and he didn't answer. The person knocked again but Ryan did nothing. The person knocked again but when Ryan didn't answer the person opened the door and walked in. It was MJ.

"Hey bro." she said. "How ya doing?"

"How does it look like I'm doing?" he asked.

"Horribly?" she said.

"No shit." he replied.

"Well everybody missed you at school." she said. "Even the band teacher Mr. Nerge, and your Algebra teacher Mr. Bishop asked where you were."

"Yeah, sure." he replied.

"Well when I told them what happened they weren't too happy, and started to pass around a sheet of paper to all the staff that eventually got around to the students."

"Woo." he said. "A piece of paper. Big deal."

"It was a petition to get you and Tyler back into school." she said. "Mr. Bishop is taking it to the superintendent of schools here in Point Place." She smiled slightly. "Mr. Korpala had little evidence for your, and Tyler's suspension." The smile disappeared. "Might go to court though."

"Yeah well I bet Justin's happy about that." he replied in a sarcastic tone.

"You don't say?" she replied. "Listen. Mom said you can come out for the night and hang out with the guys. We showed her the paper, and she's starting to change her opinion."

"A lot of good that's gonna do me." he replied.

"Come on." she said. "We're all going down to The Hub for some fun." Ryan continued to lay on the bed. "Get off your ass." She tried to pull him up but couldn't. "Fine don't come. We won't miss you."

"Fine." he said. He got up off the bed and walked out of the room and down the stairs. He walked out the front door with MJ, and started to walk towards The Hub. Twenty-some minutes later they walked through the door of the establishment.

"Yo Forman!" Justin said. "Over here." He nodded and sat down next to Justin. "So we're gonna get you and Tyler back into school no matter what."

"Yeah well whatever." he replied. The door opened and Jennifer walked in. She screamed and ran over to Ryan and wrapped her arms around him. She pulled him into a strong hug. "It's good to see you too Jenny."

"I haven't seen you in three days!" she exclaimed. "You know I hate being away from you!"

"Yeah I know." he replied.

A/N: You see that button that says review? Good, now push it and review. It's not like it's gonna kill you or somethin'