... ROFL!!!! - Scitah

"Then they kicked my ass!" Sally shouted jokingly.

"It wasn't until I was passing through, running away from my mother that we crossed paths. Sally was knocked out cold. I would have just past her, but I was desperate and thought she was dead, so I tried robbing her. I was checking her pockets when she grabbed my hand." Eva explained.

"He screamed like a girl! It was hysterical!" Sally gushed.

Norton busted up, "Oh- aren't you tough?" he mocked Eva good-naturdley.

"I thought th'bitch was dead! Thought she was gonna eat my brains or something!" Eva laughed.

Sally nodded, "I looked at him, and I couldn't see much of anything, my eyes were near sealed from that beating. And you know what? Not one of those other kids helped me!"

"Course not! They had brains!" Eva laughed out.

Peanut blinked, "I met Johnny like that- some Preps were beating me up an' he just randomly came flyin' outta no place and tackled 'em."

Norton glared at him for mentioning Johnny.

Sally chuckled, "Go figure, huh?"

Eva nodded, "Well, any ways, she grabs me, right? And she goes, 'Mother fucker… I will kill you.' all out of breath and dying like, and I was confused, 'You ain't dead yet?'" Eva mimicked himself and Sally when they were younger.

Ricky was howling with laughter- nearly choking on his pizza.

Hal smiled, "I'd'a run straight all the way home!"

Peanut bobbed his head, "Me too!"

"Well he didn't." Sally said proudly.

"She groaned and looked around and tried to get up, but couldn't. I was able to pull myself away from her and began to walk away when she shouted for me to stop and face her like a man!" Eva sighed while he remembered.

"Even with all that pain and all my injuries, I found a way to stand up, granted, I couldn't see shit! It was dark and so was Eva, but I tried." Sally said, nodding.

"She stumbled over to me and punched me right across the face, and I thought 'Okay, this bitch has a death wish!' and I socked her back! She fell to the ground, in some serious need of a miracle and I began to walk away again. I thought she was done for and some strays would eat her and the media would be there in the morning, but she fuckin' got back up again, 'Bitch!'" Eva smirked.

Ricky snorted, "Damn- what a violent meeting!"

Vance blinked, "That's... weird" he said.

"Oh, it isn't over, yet." Eva grinned, "I told her that I had nothing to do with how she was originally knocked out and that she seriously needed to stop bleeding all over me! And she goes, 'Well, fuck you! All you mother fuckers are fuckin' cowards! Afraid to stand up for other people and the good.'"

"I don't remember saying that. But I do remember hearing myself mumble something and then me punching you again." Sally stated curiously.

Eva nodded, "It was mumbled, but I got it. And that punch sent me to the ground. She had a strength I would never had guessed she'd had!"

"She was nine?!" Norton asked, grinning, "Wow- my older sister was like that too! But she's a whore now. Don't be a whore, Sally."

Sally raised a brow at him, "I'm going to take that as a joke… Any ways, Eva looked at me like I was some freak of nature-"

"That's cuz you are, Hooka Queen!" Eva interjected.

"-Then he got up and said, 'Now, listen here, White Girl, you got your ass handed to you earlier. You should be dead! And you really shouldn't have that much strength left in you. I've decided I'm going to invest my time and attention into making you a suitable fighter so's this shit don't ever happen again.'" Sally said.

"And she told me, 'Aww. Stupid idiot cares…' then she passed out, right on me. Bloodying up my favorite sweat jacket." Eva snorted.

Sally snorted as well, "Well, jee, I'm sorry. Next time I'll be more considerate on whom I bleed!" and they both laughed.

The guys smirked, "You ain't like no other dame," Ricky said lightly, "That's where I was all wrong."

Sally glanced down, quite humbled at Ricky's words, "Thanks."

He looked back up at her, "Don' thank me for somethin' Eva shouted at me for the last few months!" he laughed.

"Well, you were so dead set against me." Sally said seriously.

He nodded, "If you met my ex you would be too" he said.

She chuckled, "I got all the girls in this damned Academy on my Track team. I'm quite sure I've met her."

"She didn' go t'Bullworth" he said lightly.

"Ah." Sally nodded, "Well, what went wrong between you two?" She asked, relating to him by sounding just a little bitter when she said wrong.

He shrugged- still not wanting to talk about it. Even if it had been almost four months- he couldn't do it.

She nodded, "Speaking of wrong relationships…" she smiled at Eva who grinned back.

Norton cocked a brow, "What? Another story?" he asked.

Eva laughed at that, "Another? Shit. We got tons!" he nudged Sally who shared a knowing smirk with the blond black man.

"Okay- what's this one about?" Norton asked.

"Before Eva came out of his walk in closet." Sally chuckled.

"I was with this girl name Letawnya-" Eva began.

"She was such a bitch!" Sally scoffed.

"This was a year after I took Sal under my wing, mind you, and Letawnya was just, terrible." Eva shook his head.

Sally placed her hands on her hips and made a rather disturbing and frightening face, "Why you got a white girl hangin' 'round? Where's my chocolate? How come you don't buy me nuthin'? Why you gotta buy me shit I don't like? Why ain't you got no job? Why don't you spend time with me no mo'!?" she mimicked the harrowing young teen from long ago, voice high and annoying.

Peanut covered his ears, "Oh God!"

"Women like that are why I'm gay!" Vance exclaimed.

"Wait- you're gay-gay now?" Ricky asked, shocked.

"Was bound t'happen" Norton said.

"Ooh, then gimme a call when you're not busy!" Eva said distractedly.

Vance blushed and looked away.

Ricky, Norton, Lucky and Hal laughed at him. Peanut glared at space, "Even Vance'll be an un-virgin 'fore me!"

Sally chuckled, "Then you should use it sincerely."

Peanut looked up at her, "Wha's that mean?"

"If you're ever asked within the proximity or by a woman, say that you're waiting for the right woman to open up your world. But you gotta say it like you mean it, otherwise they'll think you're a creep!" She explained.

Peanut blinked- "Johnny said that's lame and I should pretend I know what I'm doin'..." he said to which Norton hit him for once again mentioning their ex-boss.

Sally smirked, "And that only made him look like an ass, now didn't it?"

Peanut blinked, "He wasn't any good at sex?" he asked her.

She chuckled dryly, "That didn't matter. Him acting like some hot shot made him look like a total prick. When I first met him, I punched him in the face. No joke."

"I bet!" Norton laughed, "Lola slapped him too- he likes dame's who'll stick up for themselves!" he shrugged.

Sally nodded. "Lola is such a girlish whore… I fuckin' punched him and I threatened him and he followed me like a fuckin' dog! I didn't like him when I met him. At all. Which is why if you act sincere and polite, but hint at a slight mystery, then you'll bag you a woman for th'night." she said, turning back to Peanut.

"What made you like him?" Hal asked, blinking.

Peanut made a mental note of everything she was saying.

"After all the bullshit in the beginning with me beating him up for stalking me… I was ready to knock his lights out and I asked him 'Got any last word's before I kill you?' and he said," she glanced down in thought, "'You're eyes are light the night sky's just before the moon and stars come out!'"

She glanced around, "I thought it was strange and kind of creepy, but I set him down and shook my head, telling' him I'd let him live. He thanked me for his life and I started to leave, I had shit to do. So, not a few feet later, he fuckin' gets up and trails after me. 'Wanna get a drink?'" she then laughed at that, placing a hand over her face.

Peanut grinned, "I guess he wasn't always an idiot." he said thoughtfully wondering if there were a way to get the two of them back together.

Sally snorted dryly, "Yes he was. And so was I. I agreed, Eva was in Cali and I was alone with my mother in Chicago. I had a laps of judgment, should pounded his head into th'pavement! He ordered the cheapest beer and I just couldn't drink th'stuff. Almost cracked him upside his head with the bottle. And he wouldn't stop talking about cars and engines. By the end of an hour, I couldn't take it any more and scrammed." she pointed her thumb over her shoulder after crossing her arms, eyes shut.

"That's Johnny!" Norton laughed, "Gets the girl an' can never keep 'em!"

Sally nodded, but didn't say anything else. So, Eva spoke, "Good meal, you two! You trained a genius, as I had!"

This caused Sally to grin at Eva, "Yeah, but different subjects."

Hal grinned, "I wanna go t'school for cookin'!" he said.

Sally grinned, "Good! Get your hands in batter instead of grease." she reached over and patted his shoulder. "Perhaps become a chef with your own restaurant, hm?"

"A restaurant?!" he gasped- looking overwhelmed at the thought.

"I ain't gonna go!" Ricky said, "He'll serve up baby humans!"

"That's illegal! He'd be shut down before he even opened!" Sally scoffed.

"He'd say it was baby cow" Ricky replied.

"I would report him myself." she challenged.

Hal rolled his eyes, "I am not gonna serve babies!"

"I'll believe that, Hal, when I see it!" Ricky grinned.

Sally leaned towards Ricky and punched him in the leg, much like she had done to Johnny, successfully giving Ricky a Charlie Horse. Then she turned with a smile towards Hal, "I believe you, dear."

"Ahhhh!" Ricky cried and fell over, to the floor, in horrible pain.

Hal smiled at her before pointing at Ricky and laughing at him.

Eva laughed, terribly hard and clapped Sally on the back.

Sally crossed her arms and smirked at Ricky, "When you have kids, I'm gonna boil them, then turn them into a leather ottoman."

"Ohhh the pain" he groaned.

Peanut looked up, "Wha's that mean?" he asked.

"It's a foot rest… Some couches come with Ottoman's… Mostly leather couches, though." Sally explained.

Peanut nodded, "Why would ya' do that t'his kids?" he asked.

"You're slow" Norton sighed.

Sally squinted at Peanut, "Were you paying attention to what he was accusing Hal of? You'd better not be making any more of those plans, Larry." she said sternly.

Peanut jumped a bit, "I was payin' attention!" he exclaimed.

Sally frowned, "You're not denying the planning, Larry…" she warned.

"I wasn't planning!" he lied easily, "Promise!"

Sally leaned back, "I would hope not." Her attention then turned to Ricky, "You gonna stop wincing or what? I didn't hit you that hard!"

Eva gave Peanut a warning glare, as if to tell the boy, "Don't do it! She'll kill you!"

He bobbed his head knowingly.

Ricky sat up, "I was adding dramatic tension" he said.

Sally stared at Ricky a moment, then laughed loudly at him.

Ricky smiled good-naturedly, "Aw, come on- don't laugh so much!"

"Would you prefer I cry, instead?" she calmed down a little. "Scream, rant, rave?"

"Laughin's good" he answered.

Sally laughed harder, wiping at her eyes, "Th-Thought so." she stammered between laughs.

Peanut laughed, "Never thought you two'd get along so well!"

"PFF!" Sally waved a hand at Peanut, "We don't! He probably still hates me." she calmed to chuckles.

"Aw, no I don't." he laughed looking up at her, "Got my head on straight"

"Today." Norton said.

Sally was attempting to suppress her laughter before reaching over to Ricky, and patting his knee, "Aww… Haha. That's sweet. I don't hate you, too!"

That caused Eva to laugh with her.

Ricky grinned at her, he pushed his hand over his slicked hair and eased a bit.

"Woo." Sally breathed, calming down, "What a day."

Eva slowed to chuckles, "How yuh feelin' now?"

Sally tilted her head in thought.

"...can we crash here tonight?" Norton asked.

Eva smiled, "Sure! I can have up to two other people in my bed! Any takers?" He chuckled.

Sally shivered, "Got any earplugs?"

"Course not!" Eva barked with laughter.

No one, needless to say, volunteered. But Vance was blushing really badly.

"Aww, c'mon? I won't bite unless one of you wants me to?" he called again.

Still nothing. Vance leaned further back into his jacket hoping the collar hid his blushing face.

Vance's movements caught Sally's eyes and she nudged Eva who grinned devilishly and said, "C'mon Vance? Whadyuh say? I'll be gentle! Unless you want it rough?"

Vance shook his head and bit his lip not saying anything.

"How can yuh be gay if ya don't take the bait?" Ricky asked him, "Yuh may as well be a straight virgin for all the good it does ya!"

Vance did not agree and kicked him in the head for even butting into the conversation.

Sally winced, "Ow…" she muttered, rubbing her own head at the thought of being kicked like that, "Vance? What harm could Eva do to you? Seriously? Don't make him beg? It gets weird when he begs." she said, standing and gathering dishes.

Vance made to speak but the words got caugth and he squeaked and a very non-masculine way.

Sally nearly dropped the dishes, then looked to Hal, "Help me here, hm?" Then glanced around, "We're gonna need a few more hands to help… Uh… How 'bout every 'cept Vance and Eva? Come on!"

Vance squeaked again- this time in what was an attempt at protest but no one cared and started to help her clean up.

Sally lead the way into the kitchen and set the dishes she was carrying down, then partially shut the door and pressed her ear to the crack.

Eva sat next to Vance, "You know, you don't have to be scared, Vance…"

Vance mumbled something into the collar of his jacket but it wasn't easy to hear.

All around Sally the Greasers were pressing up to the crack as well.

Eva sighed, "You gotta live your moments as if they're your last. Let loose and stop being so damned timid. Timid will only get you so far."

Sally shook her head, "He partially quoted the movie RENT!" she whispered.

Vance looked up at him, "Easy for you to say!" he said matter-of-factly.

"What?" they echoed- none of them had seen it.

"A musical about New York Bohemians… Eva has it, I'll make you all watch it. Shh… Listen!" she whispered.

Eva chuckled at Vance, "Wanna know why? It's because I let go of my fears. You just gotta come to terms with yourself and go for what you want… If you want it, it's worth taking, and if it's worth taking, you'd better take it fast."

Vance shook his head, "No.. I'm cool with me- but... I'm not cool with other people." he explained.

"What'd'yuh mean?" Eva asked, curious.

"...like when I first came out! It was only 'cause Johnny SAW me doin' somethin' an' he was askin' questions later." he said, "I was real worried he'd kick me out!"

"It's not like I'd kick you out of my domain, boyfriend. Or is it if your friend know then you get uncomfortable?" Eva asked, twirling a longer strand of his golden hair.

He nodded, "Yeah. I don' want the guys lookin' at me funny Though we've all heard an' seen each other gettin' it on it's still funny feelin'." he said.

"I see." Eva nodded, glancing at the kitchen down the hallway, then turned back to Vance, "Well. You really shouldn't be bothered with how they look at you, because it really won't change if they're really your friends." Eva then got really close to Vance's face, "I'll keep my door unlocked."

Vance blushed deeper stammered something he meant to be 'yeah okay' but came out in pure gibberish.

Sally smiled and stood, "Alright. Side show's over. Nuthin' else is gonna happen…"

"Aw too bad" Ricky sighed but didn't really care than much.

Sally then glanced at the door, "Hurry! Hal! To the sink! Boys, table!" she ordered quickly and also stood by the sink, making it look as if she and Hal were doing the dishes and the other guys were just chatting before Eva stormed in.

He looked around, "You weren't listening were you?"

Sally glanced back with a smile, "What? Have a nice chat? Get the turtle to come out of his shell?"

Hal looked back, "Sally, Vance is a Greaser- not a turtle!"

"And you're an idiot- not a human" Ricky said to him.

Sally chuckled at that, "It was a metaphor, Hal."

Eva frowned, "So you weren't listening?"

Sally smirked, "Your sex life is your sex life, not ours, Eva. And since you're in here, I'm guessing you were rejected?"

Vance came in, Norton looked at him, "I bet you'd be cooler after a good fuck!"

Vance grabbed one of the pans and smashed the taller, larger boy in the head with it!

Sally gasped, "Oh, my God!" and quickly yanked the pan from Vance and shook it at him, "Are you crazy?! I wouldn't even do that! Jesus Christ!" she then turned to Norton, "Norton?"

Norton was smirking, "Yes?" he asked.

Vance stood, red-faced, hands in fists on his sides- glaring at Norton.

"You alright, hun?" She asked, Moving to smack Vance in the face with the bottom of the pan but stopping short an inch or so.

Eva had both his eye brows raised at the scene, not saying a damned thing.

"Yeah sure" Norton nodded, "Come on- I grew up with five older brothers and three older sisters- I'm use t'gettin hit with stuff" he said.

Vance flinched when she did that.

Sally scoffed, "And I'm the fuckin' tooth fairy!" then she turned towards Vance, "What's the matter with you? I know you're sexually frustrated, but shit! I vote you should sleep with Eva tonight… Maybe that'll loosen your winder." she muttered, shaking her head and tossing the pan into the soapy water with a sigh.

Vance mumbled something and fled the room.

Norton rolled his eyes, "He's such a girl!" then looked at Sally, "No offense."

She smirked dryly, "I'm not much of a girl, so I really can't get offended."

"Oh, good," Norton nodded, "But, no, honestly, that didn't hurt at all. I'm real use t'it."

"Doesn't make it alright, Norton." She said soothingly.

"But... it doesn't matter- I kinda deserved it" he said.

"Not really." Ricky said, "We tell Peanut t'get laid all the time and he don't hit us!"

"But we never told Vance." he said.

Eva sighed, "And you people wonder why he didn't come out sooner? I'm gonna go find him." then Eva turned and hurried after Vance.