Landon stands 10 feet away from me with Ponyboy and Two-bit, I stands alone in hopes that Two-bit would stop flirting and that Jace wouldn't find me. I could still see Two-bit sometimes looking over at me with a smiles every once and a while but most of the time he payed attention to Landon and Ponyboy and make jokes at people as the they passed. There were two types of reactions, the first being insult/hurt but trying to stage a quick recovery and move on from it, two being insulted/mad and trying to think of a quick clever reply to justify that he was wrong. Then there was Two-bit's reaction to those which was just laughter and being stupid about it. Which leads me to believe that Two-bit was a mix of ignorance and laughter, then again I've been wrong to many times to count.
"Hey Aurora." Derek says as sitting next to me without Ricky, Jace, or George, which didn't shock me at all because all week they had all been trying to pick me up alone but I was/am annoyed by all of them. None of that business of me thinking that I'm better then them, if anything the opposite, but it seemed like a game to them and my guess was that the first thing they'd wanna do with me was hit the sheets. "Derek." I say looking at my nails noticing Jace and George walk in which meant they'd probably come over here and try to socialize with me, but I'd been doing pretty good on let them find out barely anything about me far, as I knew all they know is that I'm a twin, my full name, and my favorite color. "How are you? I heard that you made friends with Cherry." Derek comments. Cherry Valance is a soc, a big soc and her boyfriend Bob is the kind of soc that would probably beat up a greaser once every week. To me they seem perfect for each other in the most wrong way, but I don't have any say in anything Cherry does. Besides I don't like Cherry to much, she's all about her social status, which bugs me in a way that I can't get over.
"Yeah I know her." I say to Derek as I take out my note book for first period, he stood closer as Jace and George made their way to me. "Hey guys!" Derek greets as they arrive to us, I slowly conjure up a smile and wave to them, I try to bury my face into my notebook. "Jesus, Aurora your a book worm every time we see always in a book." Jace says playing with my hair which is a regular thing for him to do. I shake my head for him to lose grip of my hair, "I think I'm gonna to the bathroom." I decide without thinking about it and walk off towards the bathroom.
As I walk into the bathroom I see Cherry and her friends standing by the mirrors, I walk over to one and try to fix my hair. Cherry looks at me and I look back at her though the mirror, "Hey Cherry." I greet then turn around to talk to her face to face, "Hey Aurora." she says smiling. For some reason I have this idea in my head that Cherry doesn't like me, I personally have no idea why she doesn't like me, I'm nice to her, even though I don't particularly like her very much.
"How's your brother?" she asks holding her books to her chest, looking at me.
"Oh he's good, got a job." I say pulling my hair over my shoulder.
"That's nice." she says walking to a mirror beside me, one of her friends walks up to her, and whispers into her ear. I can't make out much but I hear, 'What you about Bob?'. I turn around and look into the mirror and put on red lip stick, "Boy friend trouble?" I ask as I put my lip stick away, she doesn't say anything.
"You can tell me, I might be able to help." I say now looking at her, finding her gaze has dropped to looking at the floor. I feel like I might get though to her, then I wonder why I even care, then I soon realize I just wanna know for my own good. Which I'm not to sure why it'd be good for me but I can understand that I know somehow, and some time in the future this will be useful.
Cherry smiles and looks up at me and tilts her head, "Well of course you have all those boys after you, how many is it exactly? I heard you started out with four, and now you hit five," I blink feeling stupid and clueless, as if she reads my mind she says this, "Stay away from my boyfriend." then she walks off. Even though I have no idea what she's talking about I feel offended, I wait about a minute then leave the bathroom.
I feel someone pull me into a dark room as I walk down the hall, I get ready to scream but I stop as I see it's Jace and his friends, "What are you doing?" I say sounding angry. Jace smiles at me, Derek is getting something from his backpack I try to see what but George is in the way, Ricky stands with Jace and they smirk at each. I have the urge to tell them just kiss already. "We got some stuff." Ricky says turning his attention to me, I stare then raise my eye brows. "Come here." Jace says grabbing my arm and pulling me towards them.
Derek pulls out a bag of pills and takes one out, "Try it." he says- orders, I look at them just watching me. I hold up my hand and let Derek drop the pill into my hand, "Tell me what is it first." I demand. "Ecstasy." Jace answers then takes a pill of his own, George smiles at me "Go on do it, you'll like it, I promise." he says then I sallow the pill. They all clap then each take a pill, they let me out first because they have 'business' to take of, I walk down the hall going to meet Landon.
"Aurora." Landon says walking up behind me, "You coming with me to Pony's house today after school?" I look at him thinking. Landon has been going to Pony's house almost everyday, I'd go off and on but lately it'd been off. Thing is though that Landon never really gave an option when he asked things, if he asked something then it meant either he wanted to say yes or you had to agree with him, and if he didn't want you to say yes, then he wouldn't ask. Simple as that.
"I guess so." I said back walking down the hall to my locker, getting my stuff to go home with Landon close behind me. "Ready then?" Landon asks as I grab the last thing from my locker, I nod and we both starting out of the school. "Pony gonna walk with us?" I ask Landon as he takes out a smoke, he never used to smoke before but hanging out with Ponyboy made him pick up the habit. "No, he's hanging out with Johnny or something."
Upon arriving to the Curtis house, I see Sodapop, Steve and Dallas outside, Dallas holding a cigarette and Sodapop standing across with Steve by his side. Landon opens the gate and waits for me to walk ahead of him before he walks into the yard himself, Sodapop smiles and is the first to greet us, "Hey you two." I flash a smile and take a seat on the porch. More like fall but I stick the landing making it look like I meant to do that, I hope.
"You okay?" Dallas says as I land on the porch I hold my right thumb up to indicate I'm perfectly fine, even though that's a lie. I can feel the pill start to kick in but I can't say anything, and I would get up but it seems like to much work. Sodapop takes a seat next to me and smiles, I smile back and now I have the urge to kiss him. I shake it away and keep smiling, "Hey can you turn on the radio?" I ask to no one but I hope someone does it, and I watch as Steve goes to the car and turns on the radio blasting a new Beatles song.
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