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Chapter 4

Johnny's POV

I woke up from a somewhat of a sleep. I saw one boy, who I later learned was Tyler was in the shower, and the other, Jack, was pulling on his school shirt. I looked at the clock, and it read 5:30. Why they would wake up so early was beyond me, we didn't have to be to breakfast for an hour. I wanted to go to sleep, but I knew I couldn't and I wanted to write the gang a letter. I found a piece of paper on a desk and a pen. I sat down and began writing.

Curtis Brothers, Two-Bit, and Steve,

What's new? I guess since I can't live all by my lonesome I gotta go to this place. Some boarding house or somethin. I've only been here about two hours. I got here at 2 in the morning, and it's 5 now. I don't wanna be here. I wish Darry could come get me and save me, like he did Soda and Pony. I miss you guys already. I don't know how I'm gonna get along with out ya. You're not allowed to visit, since family only. I really don't wanna be here. I wanna come home, for once. Why can't I just stay with you guys? You guys are closer to me than any real family I ever had. I wish Dally were here. He would see to it I would get out. I hope you will write back soon, and I can see you when they let me loose, which is like 2 years or somethin. It's not fair.

Sincerely Your buddy, Johnny Cade.

My stomach growled, and I wanted to go to breakfast. I would hate having a set time for meals around here. I decided not to take a shower. I wanted to keep the grease in my hair as long as possible. I wanted to show that I liked the way I lived and I wasn't about to change for these people. I got dressed in my school clothes and put my jean jacket over it. I walked down the hall and towards the cafeteria, and I noticed that these people are really boring. Alls they do is stand there, or sometimes talk. They've probably been brainwashed or something. Oh yeah, I could tell I was already going to disturb the peace in this school. I walked into the cafeteria, and went up to the line. Free food was probably the only good thing about this place. I got up to the counter and I picked up three biscuits, a half a dozen pieces of bacon, two pieces of toast, two eggs, and three pancakes. I was starving, and I felt that if I didn't eat my scrawny body would whittle away. I sat down at a table in the corner all by myself. I started wolfing down my food when a man came over to me in a suit.

"Excuse me, sir,"

"Yeah"

"It is against our dress code to wear jeans; that includes jean jackets. I would appreciate it if you would take it off."

"And I would appreciate it if you would leave me alone, but we can't always get what we want, can we?" I sure was being real rude lately, but I didn't care. I haven't been myself. All this has really got me all mixed up, a little mad, sad, and every emotion known to man. He looked appalled, and said,

"Excuse me?" I knew I was pushing it, but I went on and said,

"I said I would appreciate it if you would leave me alone"

"Sir," he waited for me to tell him my name, but I didn't so he went on. "Sir, You're going to have to follow me."

"Can I finish my breakfast? I was in the middle of something when you rudely interrupted me." I knew that was the final straw. I don't know what had gotten to me. Maybe since I hung out with Dal all the time (before he died anyways) he had rubbed off on me. His face went through a few stages of red, then purple. His head kind of looked like a balloon that was going to pop any minute.

"Ok, Sir. You're coming now." He grabbed the sleeve of my jacket and took me down yet another boring hallway. At the end, was a big wooden door, and he opened the door without knocking. He opened the door to reveal a fat man sitting at a desk. I recognized it was the man who I talked to last night. The guy tugging at my jacket took me up to his desk and we sat in two chairs that were in front of the desk. I read the name on the desk. It said Oswald Henry, Headmaster. He looked at me and smiled again.

"Oh, I remember you from last night! You're Jonathan."

"Johnny."

"Yes, sure. I never introduced myself. I am Mr. Henry. I am the headmaster here." he looked at the man sitting beside me. "What did you bring him in for, Dan?"

"He was wearing a jean jacket over his clothes. As you know, it's against school policies. I told him to take it off, and he got smart with me." Mr. Henry gave me a stern look.

"Is this true?" I nodded my head. He stuck out his hand and said, "Would you please hand me your jacket? You won't need it while you're here." I took off my jacket and handed to him. Dan spoke up and said,

"Punishment, sir?"

"No. We'll consider this a warning, but next time you will be punished. Is that clear, Jonathan." This was going to drive me up the wall.

"Yes Sir, and it's Johnny, not Jonathan." He waved a hand, signaling me and Dan to leave. We got to the hallway and Dan said,

"Now, now, get to class" I took a wadded up paper out of my pocket, and looked at it. My first class was Chemistry.

After my school day was over, I went upstairs. I had nearly fallen asleep in my classes, partly because I didn't get any sleep, and partly because it was so boring. Everybody was the same here, teachers and boys. All boring, and the same. Then I knew how I was going to die, and I knew it was going to be from boredom of this place, if I didn't go mad first. I went up to my bed, and I was out before my head hit the pillow.

I woke up because a tall boy was shaking me.I guess that was Tyler. He had a big nose, and it had a lump in the middle where his glasses rested. He had brown, short hair and brown eyes. He was saying,

"Erm, excuse me. It's Sunday and we have to wake up by 10 so we can have our sheets cleaned." This made me mad. I haven't even been here a week and I hated this place so much. I hated it the moment I walked through the door. I was relieved that we didn't have to go to church on Sundays. Apparently, today was visiting day. It didn't matter because I had no one that could visit me. I sat on the bed and turned on the TV. Of course, it was only educational stuff, and I easily became bored, so I decided to write another letter to Ponyboy. They still hadn't written me back, but I had nothing better to do. A while later, Dan poked his head into my room. Scary.

"John, someone is here to see you." I didn't understand. They said I couldn't have any visitors.

"As in a visitor?"

"Yes, a visitor."

"But how, I don't have any family."

"There's a man here, uh, Joey or something who claims to be your brother."

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