K so this is Chapter 2 of my story. *cheers* =) Again, i do not own any of the characters from the outsiders.

Chapter 2

The next week went by kind of quickly. I basically spent my week reading, watching TV and walking around the neighbourhood. I couldn't believe it was already the day before school started. I was panicking. I was dreading going to bed. Unfortunately the day passed quickly. Before I knew it, I had to go to bed.

The next morning I woke up at six to have a shower and prepare myself for the first day. I chose a nice pair of jeans and my favourite light yellow blouse. I fixed my hair and brushed my teeth. I also applied a tiny amount of make-up to my somewhat pale face. I looked at myself in the mirror. I suddenly became very self-conscious. What if I stand out because I'm tall? I thought. I'm not that tall, maybe 5'6, but I think of anything when I panic.

I skipped breakfast and waited outside until it was time to go. My parents allowed me to use the car that day because my dad didn't start work until the next day. I decided to leave a little earlier just incase I got lost. Surprisingly I didn't get lost. When I arrived at the school, students were already there just hanging around. I felt really out of place because so many people were looking at me.

I went into the school. It was smaller than my old school. Then again, my town was bigger too. I attempted to find my first class. When I finally found it the bell rang. It scared me half to death because I wasn't expecting it. I walked into the class. Thankfully I wasn't the first one there. Unfortunately though, they were looking at me. I hate it when people do that. I sat in the back away from the others. Soon after more people came. Announcements came on and the principle welcomed us all back to the school, and welcomed new comers.

About two minutes after the announcements ended, the teacher began to speak.

"My name is Mr. Hail." He began. "As you all know, this is grade 11 English. I would like to ask you all to stand up and walk to the sides on the classroom, I have a seating arrangement." We all stood up and he began calling names and pointing to desks.

"So-" The teacher began and was cut off.

"Sorry I'm late. Got stopped in the hall." Said a boy that just came into the class. I looked up at him, my heart stopped almost immediately. I looked around the room; apparently, the rest of the girls' hearts did the same. This boy was incredibly gorgeous. He looked like someone you would see in the movies. But I was pretty sure that this was real life, at least I hoped it was.

"Right, well you're not getting off to a good start Mr…?" Mr. Hail said.

"Curtis." The boy said.

"Well Mr. Curtis, you sit here." The teacher pointed to the desk in the back on the left. The boy walked there and sat down. "Laurie Danning." I looked up at him. "Beside Mr. Curtis." He finished and pointed to the desk beside the gorgeous boy.

Great, I'm going get to embarrass myself on the first day. What fun. I thought to sarcastically myself. I walked over to the desk even though I didn't really want to.

I sat down silently waiting for my nightmare to end. I could feel people's eyes burning through me. I was grateful when the teacher finally began speaking. I wasn't paying all that much attention though. All I know is that he was talking about the curriculum. I didn't care much about what was going to go on in the course until we actually did anything. I wanted to look over to at the boy beside me, but I was too nervous. I didn't want him to see me looking at him. As I was debating to myself on whether I was going to look at him or not, a text book was placed in front of me. I jumped because I wasn't expecting it.

I looked up at the teacher and he had a stern look on my face. He knew I wasn't paying attention. Oops. I thought to myself. Stop thinking of looking at him, focus on school, you're here to learn.

"Miss. Danning, are you with us?" Mr. Hail said.

"Oh, right, sorry." I said very embarrassed. I looked up to see that everyone else was on a page, where as mine was not. I glanced at the gorgeous' boy's book. I couldn't see the page. Now I had no choice but to talk to him. "What page are we on?" I asked in a very, very low whisper. Stupid! He probably didn't even hear that. Where is my courage when I need it? I thought to myself.

He pushed over his book to show me.

"Thanks." I said in a louder whisper.

It turns out that I did all that work for nothing. We were just going through the chapters in the text book. I used my courage of the day all for that. I was so happy when class ended. I made an enormous fool of myself in front of the most gorgeous guy I have ever seen in my life. I high-tailed it out of the class and attempted to find my next class. I had math, which was my worst subject.

Thankfully there was no gorgeous Mr. Curtis in this class, but I found myself kind of upset by that. Make up your mind on what you think of him! I thought to myself. I said beside this girl who seemed very preppy. It was kind of annoying really. She was really into the lesson, which was hard because we were just reviewing. I don't think she liked me very much because when we did talk, you could just tell there was something about me that she didn't like. Math class dragged on so much. By the end of class I was starving, thankfully I had third lunch. Apparently everyone else did though.

I made my way down to the cafeteria after I dropped my stuff at my locker. I was so nervous that morning that I forgot I even had a locker. When I got to the caf, it was packed. I decided I would go outside, besides it was a nice day out. Once I walked outside, I saw Bob. I didn't really want to see him; I was hoping he would just pretend he couldn't see me. Unfortunately, he saw me.

"Laurie!" He said loudly to get my attention. I decided to pretend like I couldn't hear him. "Laurie!" He called again.

I'm not listening. I thought to myself, wanting to say it to him. Someone grabbed my shoulder and turned me around it was Bob.

"Laurie, didn't you hear me calling you?" He asked.

"Oh, no sorry." I said innocently. Lies, all lies. I wanted to laugh.

"Where are you going for lunch?" He asked again. Apparently he was the king of questions.

"I dunno, anywhere but inside the caf, it's insanely packed in there." I stated my case.

He just looked at me; I guess he couldn't think of anything to say back.

"Do you wanna come to lunch with me and some friends?" He asked me after a moment of silence.

I just looked at him. There is no way he'd want to hang out with his younger cousin. "Why?" I asked.

"I'm just offering." He looked offended.

"Look Bob, I know you don't actually wanna hang out with me. Honestly I'm fine with that. I don't want you to be all nice to me just cause you think you're s'posed to."

"Is that what you think? That I'm doing this cause I'm s'posed to? It's not why I'm doing this, you don't have to come." He started walking away.

"Bob!" I said catching up with him. "I didn't mean it like that. I just…I don't want you to have to put up with me. Go out with your friends, I'll be fine. Trust me." I said with a smile. He looked at me nodded and walked away.

He'll get over it. Touchy though.

I decided I would go for a walk. I was walking along the sidewalk in my own world not even paying attention to anything around me. On my way back though, I glanced up every few minutes to see if I could find Mr. Gorgeous. I had no such luck. I went to my locker and got my stuff and made my way to drama.

Sorry for the shortness of the chapters i'm kind of realizing how short they are, but i'm gonna work on that. Reviews pleasee.