Wow hi okay so heres the details, im seriosu into getting in and posting more stories and finishing the ones i have neglected for so so so long! I have half the stories finished and written out they just need to be edited down and will be posted up within the neext month. I plan to finish up "The new kid' in this month and we will see about the rest of my outsiders stories over how well i like the ends i have now or i may add more to them.
Overall, enjoy the next chapter and i hope to hear from all of you about what you think!
The day slowly ticked by for Pony, Art was pretty quiet consider the class only consisted of eight other students. He'd worked on his first assignment which was a photo realism sketch where he had to basically, copy a photo. Seeing as it was one of the classes he'd been excited for it of course went by extremely quickly.
Lunch he'd just skipped since that was a nightmare he'd had since he started school at a young age and took the time to find where the library was. Unfortunately he couldn't check any books out until he had his student I.D in a couple of days. Which obviously bummed the auburn out immensely, but there wasn't anything that could be done but to keep his patience.
Surprisingly he hadn't gotten a text from Soda at all during the hour and twenty minute period break. Since his schedule had not been decided on yet, he didn't have a fourth hour for the day or an A, B or C lunch. This also meant he could explore around for an hour and twenty minutes, which allowed him to i guess in a way, snoop around and see what was in school. In reality though he was making mental notes of where good quiet spots or hidden away reading spots were.
Turning down a quiet corridor towards the back of the school, the plaster wall turned into brick and a blue steel door stood out. Walking closer to it the door was next to a display window inside the room to the left of the doorway. The case contained what looked like car parts and a poster board displaying pictures of students working on cars, motorcycles and different engines.
To the right of the door was a window that spanned only a couple of feet wide but was floor to ceiling in height. Peering into the window did he see concrete floor and a car lift on the floor. The room appeared to continue further on both sides but he couldn't see from his small sightline. Suddenly he saw a larger man walk into view in the room taking off some greasy gloves and look to the window at Pony. Said boy kind of jumped and dodged out of the windows view as his social anxiety kicked into overdrive.
The door squeaked open and the man from inside poked his head out seeing Pony outside leaning against the wall. "Hey there kiddo" he smiled, Pony squeaked out a small hello in return. "Say I dont think ive seen you around before, are you new here" he asked, he leaned off the wall and faced the man, nodding his head. "Um yeah, my names Pony, todays my first day here, i'm just kind of exploring around because I skipped lunch". Pony admitted shifting his bags strap to sit up on his shoulder properly, the balding gentleman smile widened at this.
"That's great to hear, that's understandable, the lunchroom can be pretty rowdy, would you like to come in and see our auto tech shop?". He motioned into the shop door and curiosity had him as he again nodded and followed in, closing the door. The shop was as he expected much bigger than it appeared there was enough space to fit six cars in total. There were also three car lifts in the shop but they were all different in a way Pony couldn't explain. Then again he really didn't know anything about cars let alone repairing them was over his head.
The teacher he guessed sat down in a side office that was a room in itself, "welcome to the auto tech room, i'm not sure if you heard we had this but this class is pretty neat, my name is Mr. Olifer i'm the teacher of all three of the classes here". Pony looked back at the Mr. Olifer, "three classes, what do you mean three?" he asked making the slightly overweight man laugh a bit. "Oh yes, so the auto tech program here is broken down into three different classes , there's know your auto, intro to auto and advanced auto".
He leaned back into the chair he was seated in, "know your auto is getting to know the basics like general maintenance, finding and looking up specs, and introducing you to what is in these fields".
Pony nodded becoming interested, "intro to auto is taking your general knowledge and introducing you to components in your car. So understanding how the cooling system works or what oil does for your engine and how your car has the power to go and what is all involved in the suspension". He explained thoroughly moving his hands as he talked, " and advanced auto is actually working on and repairing cars so you get to fully be engaged in working in an engine". ( A.N: My highschool has this program and i'm in it currently working to be in the auto field so sorry if this is really specific it's just sorta my thing…)
"That's really cool actually, i'm rubbish when it comes to cars so all of that's over my head" Pony laughed a bit rubbing the back of his neck. Olifer smiled back " well if you're ever interested I myself and i'm sure my advanced students would love to teach you anything you'd like to know". He got up turning on the light in the rear of the shop and opening up one of the two sliding garage doors in the rear. "I'm not signed up for this class though so I don't think I could do that though" Pony sighed a bit wishing he'd gone over the schools pamphlet more carefully.
Mr. Olifer turned around putting a hand on his hip, "aw that's actually never a problem, I have a lot of students come in her during lunch and stay after school working in here. You're always welcome to come and stop in." This made the green eyes boy smile a bit more, "if it's okay with you I think I may take that offer up, this class sounds really neat". With that they both walked to the door and let themselves out, "My Advanced class will be in here at the next bell but it was nice meeting you Pony, hope to see you soon little guy".
With that they said their goodbyes and Pony left to continue down the hallway, He ran up to the second floor stopping by his locker. Dropping off the textbooks he had acquired throughout the day, making his bag much lighter. As he turned and shut the metal door he nearly screamed when three larger clean cut looking guys were standing less than a foot away from him. "Whats up grease ball"
Pony backed up slightly trying to put space between himself and the larger boys, that was unfortunately useless as for every step he took they took a step forward. He looked around slightly as he noticed the hallway he was in had become increasingly vacant. Looking back up at the boys did he notice that the guy directly in front of him was from his chemistry class wearing a varsity jacket. The social slammed his hand against the locker behind him directly next to his head but Pony did his best to not visibly show how startled he was.
"Ain't you the new kid from chemistry, the one with the attitude problem" he said in a mocking tone looking down at him. He was damn near inches away and Pony couldn't stand it, as he glared at the football player. "What do you want dude" Pony growled out narrowing his eyes, making the soc do the same "who the hell do you think you are, just because your new ain't mean shit to us horse boy, i'll teach you like the rest of em".
The soc then grabbed Pony by his shirt wrenching him back to slam his head against the lockers, he pulled his fist back ready to strike. Pony just turned his head and closed his eyes getting ready for the pain but it never came, instead he heard something that made him wish he'd been hit instead.
"Say Bryan not so fast man, why fuck up his face he's pretty cute, I think you know a better way of putting kids like him in their place". Pony had a bad feeling he knew what he was talking about as he caught the smirk on their faces. He was yanked up and into alcove of the bathroom as he pulled tried to get away from the crazy asswhipes.
Thankfully luck was on his side as a hall monitor walked by as he was in the entry of the bathroom, "hey you let go of that boy right now!". She grabbed her radio muttering something before she went to push the soc away from me. He let go at that point at that point and Pony put as much distance between himself and the three football players that he could. Two more staff had come up the staircase and grabbed the other guys, as the one social turned giving him a snide glare before they disappeared around the corner.
Taking a deep breath to calm his nerves he picked his bag up again, heading down the stairwell to go to gym that he was incredibly late to now. "Great first day isn't it" he sighed out just wanting to get through this last class and get the hell out of this school and just go home. Well the new home, and finish unpacking so that he can just breathe.
"One more class, and you can go Pony, one more" he told himself as he opened the gym doors.