Kay so i've finally gotten around to updating, read away =)

Chapter 7

"Laurie, did you hear me?" Soda asked.

"Huh?" I came back to reality.

"I said maybe you'd wanna hang out at lunch tomorrow. If you don't want to its fine." He looked kind of taken aback by my response.

"No, I do wanna go. Yeah sorry I was just, uh, thinking. But I really do wanna go. That'd be cool." I rushed thinking he'd change his mind about hanging out with me.

"Alright, I'll meet you outside your class before lunch."

"Right, there's just one problem." I pointed out.

"What's that?" He asked confused.

"You don't know what my class before lunch is." I said with a mocking smile.

"Oh. Yeah, that would help." He smiled back at me. I wrote my class number on his paper. Then I went back to my work until the end of the class.

At the end of class Soda walked with me to my locker like the day before. I put my stuff away and grabbed the stuff I needed for homework. We walked outside, said out goodbyes and went our separate ways.

I found Bob standing with his car. I got in the front seat and sat there with a huge smile on my face. We dropped Randy off and Bob looked at me.

"What's with you?" He asked.

"Huh? Oh nothing," I said still smiling.

"Right, that's bullshit." He replied. I just ignored him I wasn't going to bother.

Bob dropped me off at my house and I went straight to my room I wanted to call Susan so badly. I wanted to tell her about Sodapop and how we were going to hang out. I lay down on my bed and looked up at the ceiling. I don't how long I starred at the ceiling for; all I know was that I was startled by a knocking at my door.

"Laurie, are you in there?" It was my mom.

I got up and opened the door. "What's up?"

"We're going over to your aunt and uncle's. Do you want to come?" I thought about that. Did I want to go? That would mean I would see Bob. Well most likely. Unless he was with his girlfriend. And if he was, that would make me look like a loser in front of my family. I'd rather stay in the comfort of my own home and look like a loser thank you.

"No, I think I'll stay home, besides I got homework to do anyways." I concluded.

"Oh, okay then, you can find something in the fridge for dinner. Or you can go out and get something. We won't be back until late. Bye sweetie." My mom said. I didn't have time to reply because she just walked away.

I closed my door and took out my homework. I finished the couple questions I had for English and it took me less than two minutes. I kicked the books off my bed and lay back again. I dazed off and just went into my own little world. I didn't even realize that I had fallen asleep.

I woke up suddenly. I had a nightmare; I don't really know what happened in it though. It was one of those dreams where you know something bad happened, but you just couldn't remember what it was. I looked at my clock; it was 2:30 in the morning. I looked down at my clothes. I was too lazy to change them so I just rolled over and tried to get back to sleep. Thankfully it didn't take too long.

When I woke up I was still dead to the world. I was tired. It felt like I hadn't slept more than two minutes. I showered and refreshed myself as well as changed. I rand a brush through my pin straight hair and put a hair band in. I applied a very light amount of make-up and put on some chap stick. I was wearing a nice pair of dark blue jeans, and a dark purple shirt with short sleeves. I did a last minute check up in the mirror and when I was satisfied enough I grabbed my books that were scattered on the floor and went down stairs.

"It's alive." My dad joked when I walked into the kitchen. I just looked at him; I was too tired to retaliate.

"Bob's going to be here at the same time as yesterday." My mom told me. I looked at the clock and saw that I was early.

I went to the fridge, grabbed some orange juice, grabbed a glass and poured some juice. I put the juice back in the fridge and drank the orange juice. I never had time to eat in the morning so this was all I could have. Just as I was finishing, there was a knock at the door.

"There's Bob. Bye." I said as I grabbed my stuff and walked towards the door. I didn't even say hi to Bob, I just walked to the car. He just kind of stood at the door for a moment and looked at me. Then he finally walked to the car and started driving.

"Do we have to pick people up today?" I asked.

"Just Randy again." Bob replied. I nodded, but I don't know if he noticed.

"Something wrong?" He asked after about a minute of silence.

"Not really, just kinda tired. Felt like I only got like 2 minutes of sleep." I sighed. I hated being tired; I was so boring when I was tired.

We picked up Randy and then went off to school. When we got to school I went my way and they went theirs. It was starting to become a routine for me to just leave people. I never stayed with people. It was really weird for me because before I moved, I couldn't stand to be alone for more than two minutes. I had to be with my friends all the time at school. I guess people changed when they moved to a different school.

I didn't feel like going to class since it was way too early to go, so I decided to go to the cafeteria. I saw Karen and went to join her.

"Hey!" She exclaimed when she saw me.

"Hi." I replied kind of shyly. She was with a lot of her friends and they were all looking at me.

"Come sit!" She urged me. I sat down reluctantly and she began making introductions. All her friends seemed really nice so by the time the bell rang I was laughing my head off and no longer tired.

I ran to my locker when the bell rang. I didn't have anything with me and I needed to get to class. I was almost late, but I managed to get there in time. I sat down at my desk and attempted to catch my breath. I looked up and noticed that there was some guy sitting in front of me and looking at me.

"Hi?" I questioned because I had no idea who that person was.

"Hi." He said in a deep voice. He turned around after that so I didn't have to worry about him bothering me. I had been so busy trying to figure out why he had been looking at me, let alone who he was that I didn't even notice that Soda came in.

"Hey." He said.

"Oh, hey." I looked at him. "When did you get here?" I asked.

"Just now." He looked at me like I was weird.

"Oh." I stated simply. The announcements started up and I didn't feel like listening to I began to write names all over my binders. That's what I did when I was bored. I'd write. I would just sit there and write all the names of the guys I loved. Of course, they weren't actual guys, they were famous ones. I wouldn't be caught dead writing the names of guys I went to school with. That was just insane.

When announcements were done, the teacher did a homework check and then began taking up the homework. When he finished that, he gave us a note and then assigned the rest of the review booklet. We only had about 20 minutes to work on it in class. Of course Soda and I used that time more for talking.

"So where are we gonna go today at lunch?" I asked halfway through our conversation. I had been writing answers for the booklet every so often but I wasn't really paying attention to what I was writing to I don't know if they were right.

"I dunno yet. I was thinking just a variety store, but we'll probably walk around." Soda answered.

"Alright, sounds good." I said and went back to my work. The bell rang and Soda told me he'd see me at lunch, I was so excited.

I went to my math class and I honestly couldn't tell you a thing that happened. Ok, that's not entirely true, I remember my teacher assigning work and me doing the work. But as for the lesson…let's just say it's a good thing we didn't have a quiz the next day. The bell rang and I went outside the room and waited. People were walking out of the class and looking at me. Geez, was it so weird to see someone stand outside a classroom?

Practically no one was in the halls anymore. I was about to leave when I saw Sodapop.

"Hey, sorry I'm a little late, got in trouble." He gave me a wild grin.

I just shook my head and laughed. We walked to my locker and I dropped off my stuff. Then we went outside the school and we walked to a tree.

"Why are we going to a tree?" I asked confused.

"It's where we're meeting with my buddies." He explained.

"Oh." I felt really stupid. When we reached the tree I realized that there were actually people standing there. One looked really young. He looked too young to be going to high school. His hair was a brown colour, but I couldn't really tell what shade it was because it was greased back. The other looked about Soda's age. His hair too was greased back, but it was done differently. I don't know exactly how to describe it. The last one looked the oldest out of all of us. He was wearing a Mickey-mouse shirt and his hair was greased back. I guessed they were all greasers and all hung around each other.

"Hey guys." Soda said as we walked over. They all looked up at us. I froze. They all started saying hi and coming over, I guess they didn't realize I was there, or maybe they did but just ignored me. "Guys this is Laurie." He pointed to the youngest. "This here's my younger brother Pony." Pony nodded to acknowledge me. He pointed to the one that looked our age. "This here's my best buddy Steve." Then he pointed to the oldest. "And this here's ol' Two-Bit." I looked at him insanely.

"It's just a nick-name." He reassured me and I guess I looked relieved because he laughed slightly at me.

"So, what're you doin' hangin' 'round a bum like Soda?" Two-Bit asked me. I looked at him blankly.

"I uh, don't know?" I was kind of taken aback. They all started laughing at me. I just looked at them.

"Kay so how's 'bout we take Laurie here on a little tour?" Soda suggested. They all agreed and we started walking. Soda walked by my side. "You don't have to worry about Two-Bit. He's just playin'. He lives for jokes." Soda schooled me on his friends.

We went to a variety store. It wasn't the same one I went to the day before. We stopped outside it and they began talking. I wasn't really sure what they were talking about. I was looking down because the sun was so bright, when all of a sudden a pack of smokes was in my face.

"You want one?" Two-Bit offered.

"Uh, no I don't smoke." I said and they all looked at me. "I only do when I'm really stressed." I explained.

We all went into the variety store and bought cokes then went back outside. I studied their faces as they talked. I noticed that Pony was really quiet, but I couldn't tell if it was because I was there or if he was like that all the time. I noticed that like Soda said, Two-Bit made a joke about every 2 minutes, most of which were very funny. Steve, I noticed was kind of loud or obnoxious, I didn't know what I really thought about him.

We started walking back to the school after a while and I talked more to them. I felt more comfortable with them and was able to make jokes with them. On the way back though I ended up walking with Ponyboy.

"How old are you anyway?" I asked him curiously.

"14." He seemed kind of disconnected.

"Soda tells me you're the smart one." I attempted to make conversation.

"Yeah. They keep telling me that and then I go do somethin' stupid and they say I don't use my head."

"Yeah, I get that a lot too. You ain't the only one." I joked with him. I was surprised to get a laugh out of him.

When we reached the school, Two-Bit, Ponyboy and Steve said bye, but Soda walked me to my locker and then to my drama class.

"So, what'd you think?" Soda asked while we were walking to my class.

"About what? Your friends or the whole tour thing?" I asked him a question back.

He thought about it for a moment. "Both."

"Your friends are very…interesting, but it's not a bad thing and the tour thing was fun."

"Maybe you wanna do it again sometime?" Soda suggested.

"Yeah I'd like that."

yeah so there's chapter seven. Please review! =)