Chapter Fifteen
First Day of School
(June's POV)
"JUNE. WAKE. UP!" Someone yelled in my ear.
"AH!" I screamed and jumped up swinging my fist, hitting Two-Bit square in the jaw.
"OW! What the hell!" Two-Bit asked holding his jaw, which was now turning red.
I'm sorry Two-Bit. . . .you scared me half to death!" I left for the bathroom to brush my teeth and to take a shower. Deciding it is better to take one just in case. Wrapping myself in a towel, I forgot my cloths….fuck. Stepping outside, I was hoping none of the guys were looking. Than a high-pitched whistle came from behind me. When I turned around I saw Two-Bit 'staring' at me and not with his normal friendly way. I screamed and Darry came running in to see the look that Two-Bit was giving me.
"Two-Bit, what are you doing?" Darry yelled and then the front door just burst open as Ryan came running in.
"What happened, I heard June screaming!" Ryan said and looked towards me and then to Darry who was about to punch Two-Bit. "Um….I'll just go to the kitchen." He then left the room.
"Two-Bit join him." He ran after Ryan looking scared. "June, don't run out of the bathroom in just a towel."
"I didn't think that Two-Bit would do that and I forgot my cloths." Darry sighed.
Okay, now go and get ready." I walked into my room and I locked the door. Drying off I changed into my cloths. My outfit was light grey colored jeans (the same color Johnny had in the movie), a plain black shirt, and a blue and white button up shirt. I kneeled in front of the few pairs of shoes I owned. Defiantly not heals. Looking over my sneakers and I found my gray low top converse and put them on. My hair was practically dry, so I brushed it and put it in a ponytail.
I walked into the living room where I saw the gang.
"Well, look who decided to wear cloths." Two-bit said and when I walked past him I smacked him upsides the head. Grabbing a bowl of cereal and some coffee I had some breakfast. Quickly eating because I wanted to get there early. After I was done eating I put my dishes in the sink, it was 7:33, grabbing my jacket and backpack from my room, and I was than ready to go.
"Darry, I'm going now. I want to get there early." He put his newspaper down.
"You want a ride? Soda or I could take you, we both have off today."
"No thanks I'll walk. Anybody want to come?" I asked.
"I will." Ryan stood up and we left the house. "I'm sorry about earlier. That was a little weird. But you did look pretty hot, I'll give you that." He smiled at me and I blushed.
"Thanks." I smiled at tried to keep from blushing. Why am I blushing! This is so weird!
"You're welcome." We both just stopped and just stared into each other for a minute. Just staring into his dark brown eyes, smiling. While Ryan did the same to me.
"Umm, we should get going. I can't be late on my first day." My voice was uneasy.
"Uh, right. We better get going." With that we continued in awkward silence. Sadly we reached the high school and Ryan had to go to work.
"I better go. I'll probably have to fill out some random shit." I said sadly.
"Yeah, but I'll see you after school okay?" Ryan said looking into my eyes again. 'God, his eyes are amazing! So is his smile! How did I not notice this before?'
"Okay, I have to go." We hugged each other. It felt so, right. When he let go, I felt empty.
"Bye." He said to me.
"Bye." I said and turned around towards the school. I slightly turned my head and saw Ryan leaving. Stopping completely I turned and watched him. Sighing, I continued into school.
When I got inside the school, I became very nervous. People were giving me dirty looks and snickering. I wandered around for a while and I still couldn't find the office. 'Where the hell am I? This place is so huge! Didn't I pass these bathrooms already? Where's Ponyboy when I need him?'
"Hey kid, need some help?" A voice said from behind me and I sighed in relief when it was Two-Bit.
"Yeah, I do. This place is so damn big!" I said to him and he laughed.
"You get used to it, where do you need to go?"
"The main office, I think. I need my schedule." He smiled and waved for me to follow him. Down towards the front of the building was the main office. I slapped myself in the face, I felt so damn stupid!
"Here you go kid." Two-Bit than ran off again. Walking up to the secretary looked me up and down before giving me a cold stare.
"Umm, I'm new here and I need my schedule.
"Name." She said coldly.
"June Smith." She than started shifting through the papers and found mine. The lady shoved it at me and I looked it over. (used my sophomore schedule)
1st: Choir. 'Yes! I got choir!'
2nd U.S. 2
3rd English 2
4th Lunch
5th Gym/Health
6th Study hall (I originally had Italian 2 but….you can see why that doesn't work)
7th Biology
8th Geometry
"There. Now get out!" The lady said and I beat it out of there. As soon as I was in the hallway I bumped into someone. I looked up and saw a strangely familiar face, but he was a soc. He was the leader of the group who jumped me! My eyes grew wide.
"Hey sweetie remember me? I can't forget those eyes." He put his around my shoulder close to my chest.
"Hey, get away from her!" I turned to see Steve walking towards, well more like stomping. The boy removed his arm, grabbing my boob in the process. Steve didn't notice though.
"Or what Randle?" Steve put his arm around my shoulder.
"Or you'll regret it Martinez. Now Leave!" Steve growled and the group walked away. "Are you okay? He didn't touch you did he?" Was this Steve?
"I'm fine Steve."
"But, did he touch you?" I thought it over real fast and thought it wasn't a big deal, so I shook my head. "You need help finding your homeroom?"
"Yeah."
"Let me see your schedule." I handed it to him and he looked it over. "You're in my homeroom, come on." Steve lead me down the and it was right next to those damn bathrooms. I walked up to the teacher.
"You must be Jun, am I correct?" I nodded. "I'm Mr. C and I'm also your Biology teacher. Just pick a seat anywhere and sit down." Nodding I found a seat next to a girl with red hair. I looked at her and she was reading Harry Potter! She noticed me staring at her.
"Hi!" She said.
"Hey, you like Harry Potter too?" I had to ask.
"Yeah it's totally awesome!" She said and I laughed. "So what's your name?"
"I'm June, what's yours?"
"Megan. Are you new here?"
"Well sort of. I've been here for a couple months but my first time in school.
"Cool! Hey what classes do you have?" She asked and I handed her my schedule. Megan looked over it and smiled. "We have choir, lunch, and history together! You're going to love choir!" She smiled. I laughed and I was happy to have someone to talk to. We spent all of homeroom getting to know one another and when the bell rang we went to choir. Megan took her seat and I went up to the teacher and showed him my schedule.
"Now I want to make this quite clear, I only want students who are here to learn and not an easy A." He said and I laughed.
"Don't worry I'm here to learn." He told me than to just go and find a seat. Megan waved me over and I sat next to her.
"So, how does this class actually work?"
"Well, there are three sections; soprano 1's and 2's, and the altos. I'm a 2, Mr. V is probably going to have to test your voice to see where you belong."
"You mean…like…a solo?" I asked nervously thankfully she shook her head no.
"He has the whole sing some weird phrase and outs his ear by you so he can hear." Relief filled me.
"That's good. I hate."
"All right! Everyone stand up!" Mr. V said sitting down at the piano as we started some warm-ups. After warm-ups, he asked our row to stay standing as he taught us some weird phrase quickly. Once we had gotten it he came over to me and listened to me a couple times. "You can stay where you are. Everybody sit." We all sat. Megan and I talked until we were told to take out our music and we began singing through it.
After class was over we put our music away, me and Megan walked to our next class.
"So what do you think of choir?" Megan asked.
"I loved it! I love singing! Keeps me going on some days." I laughed. History wasn't something I was looking forward to, it was extremely boring! When we reached the room, it was nothing like the choir room. This room was the total opposite, the choir room was bright and happy, and this room wasn't white and dull.
Megan went towards the middle of the third row and took her seat, while I went to the old man, I assumed to be the teacher. He looked at me and just told me to grab a seat right up front.
Walking towards the seats in the front and sat down. The teacher just handed out a packet and went back to his desk to read a book. After I finished I turned it in and sat there with my head down until the bell rang. Megan showed me the direction of the English wing.
We said bye to one another and I made my up to the second floor. All of a sudden I couldn't see any greasers, only soc's. Walking as fast as I could, I tried to find D-212. Without luck, I was beginning to walk in circles. I started to panic when a had came down on my shoulder. Turning around I saw a greaser.
"Hey, you're the broad staying at the Curtis's? Cade's kid sister?"
"Yeah. Who are you?" I asked.
"Tim Shepard. You look lost." I nodded.
"Do you know where D-212 is?" He nodded and followed him. Down a small hallway and outside of that was another big hallway with rooms labeled 'D'. "It's down the hall some." I smiled thankfully and he took off down the hall, in no rush at all.
Looking down the hallway and I noticed that it was quickly becoming empty. While I walked down the hall I finally came to the classroom just as the bell rang.
"Ah, you must be our new student. Class, I'd like you to meet June, now I want you to make her feel welcome. You can take a seat neat to Jennifer." I nodded and looked towards the class, than my eyes went wide. This class was full of soc's. Not one greaser! "Jennifer, raise your hand please." A snobby, blonde girl in red raised her hand. I slowly made my way to my seat and sat next to the girl, who just scoffed at me.
As the teacher got situated the class started talking, than the girl next to me snapped her head towards me.
"What is this trashy husky doing here?" Her and her friends laughed and I just sank down in my seat. 'Oh no, not this!'
"Okay guys, hush up. Where were we in 'Inherit the Wind'?" I smiled slightly; I had already read the book. She went on about the book, but I already knew what was happening so it was a rather boring class.
Once the bell rang, I gathered my stuff and began to leave the class.
"Um, June. Hold on a second please." I stopped and went over by her. "You need a copy of the book."
"Actually, Miss. Bark, I've already read the book."
"Really?"
"Yeah, where I've been staying, a boy there has a lot of books so I read it."
"Oh, well take it anyway because we'll be doing plenty of work needing quotes from it."
"Okay, bye."
"Bye." I left the classroom and surprisingly found myself in the cafeteria. Standing on line with the little bit of money I had left.
"June, What are you doing?" Looking around I saw Two-Bit.
"Umm, getting lunch?"
"Why? The gang goes down to the DX during lunch. Want to come?" He asked but I had already paid for my food.
"Hey June!" I saw Megan waving me over.
"Nah, I'm going to hang with Megan."
"Okay, hey I'll drive you home, okay?"
"Sure, see you later." I left and sat by Megan and a group of her friends. "Hey, Megan."
"Hi! What's up?"
"Nothing much, you?"
"Nothing much." (XD I had to, inside joke between me and Megan)
"Cool. How are your classes so far?" She asked.
"Well, my English class is full of soc's (btw Megan and her friends are greasers too and middle class).
"Oh, that doesn't sound like fun."
"Not really, but I'm already ahead of the class." We all laughed. Megan introduced me to her friends, Hope and Winter (^_^). We all laughed and joked around during lunch. When the bell rang and I had to go to gym, thankfully Winter was in my class too! Unfortunately I had to sit out today; because I have I didn't have a change of clothes.
The rest of the day was interesting; I was getting bad vibes from my bio teacher. (Based off of the dick teacher I had last year). It was pretty fun and I already couldn't wait for tomorrow!
The last bell had already rung and I was outside waiting for Two-Bit by his 'car'. Steve came walking over.
"Two-Bit and I have detention."
"Really guys? For what?"
"Goofing off in chem. Teacher was pretty pissed."
"Whatever, I'll see you later." With that I walked off towards home. 'Wow, I've never actually been able to call a place home before. I liked it.' Zoning out made me realize that I was almost home, there was a loud honk and a car drove slowly past.
"HUSKY TRASH!" The girl from English yelled out the window. Shrugging it off for now I continued to walk home with my mind in a fog.
"I walked in the house and Darry was in his chair reading.
"How was school?" He asked.
"It was good. How's Ponyboy?"
"Better, he was up again today. He and Soda are sleeping in their room."
"That's great!"
"Homework?"
"Yeah, just English. I'll do that now." Grabbing my backpack I went into the kitchen to start on my English homework. It was a piece of cake, so I finished it within a half hour.
Just as I was finished with my homework Two-Bit and Steve walked in.
"How was detention?" I asked.
"Fun!" Two-Bit cheered!
"Only you Two-Bit." Everyone laughed at him but Steve, who seemed a little annoyed with me and left.
"He and Evie had another fight." Two-Bit explained.
"Oh." We all goofed around until Darry went to go start on dinner.
"Steve told me about this morning. What happened?" He asked.
"I was leaving the office quickly because the secretary scared me. So I bumped into a soc and he tried hitting on me." I said.
"Anything else?" Two-Bit barely asked but before he could finish his sentence I interrupted.
"No!" He looked at me.
"June." He whispered. "If he touched you in anyway, we need to know."
"Nothing happened!" I yelled and left to go sit on a tree in the backyard. "They won't understand, they're guys."
When dinner was ready, Darry sent Sodapop out to come and get me.
"June, Darry says dinner is ready." Sighing, I got down and swung for a little and dropped down when it was safe. Walking over to Soda, I instantly wrapped my arms around him and he hugged me back. "Are you okay?" He asked. I wasn't, I honestly wasn't. I was sad and scared, so I shook my head. We sat on the back porch.
"I miss Johnny." I sobbed into his shirt. "I want him back!"
"I know June, we all do." Soda said rubbing my back and held me as I continued to cry. "Shh, we're all here for you June." After a few minutes we went inside to eat dinner.
"There was only silence at the table, considering Two-Bit left. Not feeling hungry I just continued to poke at my food. Eventually I excused myself and went to bed early. Once again I cried myself to sleep.
Well, I hope you enjoyed this! There's one more chapter left and then I have to find a way to put the sequel together :/ . Anyway my story is at 860 hits! :D thanks everyone who likes it. Now will Ryan and June get together? Well you might find out in the next chapter. Dally's funeral is back in NYC with I parents. R&R….please….? All of the teachers, Megan, Winter, and Hope are based off of real teachers.