Author's Note: I don't own Grease nor Grease 2 or any of the Character. The only thing is the plot to the story and a few characters of my own
Summary: Grease 2 Au. One Shot. What if the T-Birds and Pink Ladies hadn't turned up just as Michael was about to reveal the true identity of the 'Cool Rider' to Stephanie? How would that have changed the course of the movie?
AN: Alright here's Chapter 13 as requested. I apologise if there is any gramma or spelling mistakes i wrote this early this morning. Reviews,Feedback and Chapter/Story ideas are greatly appreciated.
Chapter 13
It was Wednesday Night. Graduation was only a few days away. The boys plus the older T-Birds where over for a boys night. Just drinking, joking around and playing poker.
It was just after eight. I had gone to sit out on the back porch. I had been siting out there for about twenty minutes. I heard the back door open. I looked behind me as Johnny stepped out on to the back porch.
Johnny and I had become sort of good friends. He and Paulette had sorted out their problems at the Luau. He sat down beside me on the steps.
"How's the ribs" Johnny asked fumbling with his lighter to light the cigarette he was holding.
"Healing. Doc says they should be healed in less then a week," I said offering a light from my lighter.
"You think asking someone to marry to you after six months of dating is to soon" Johnny asked. I nearly dropped my lighter from where I was lighting my own cigarette.
"Its up to you to decide Johnny." I said taking a drag of my cigarette.
"Yea I guess. I just anit found the right time to ask Paulette" Johnny said taking a drag from his own cigarette.
"Yea I've got the same problem," I mumbled under my breath. Johnny gave me a weird look as if he had heard what I had just said under my breath.
"What. Jeeze you move fast Carrington" Johnny responded. Wait hang on I wasn't going to ask Steph to marry me just yet. It was on the cards later on but not right now. We had been only dating for five and half weeks.
"No I'm not asking her to marry yet Johnny," I said. I dung into my jeans pocket to grab the box I had held onto for nearly a week.
"Then what are you giving her the ring for" Johnny asked as I handed him the box with the ring it.
"I don't know. I just. It's that I want to show how much I love I guess" I said taking another drag of my cigarette.
"So just give her the ring. She loves you Carrington. It's plain as day how much she loves you." Johnny said.
"Alright then. So how about you just growing so balls and ask Paulette to marry you." I said getting to my feet and went to grab some beer from the fridge.
An hour later the poker game was still going. Putize had been bluffing for the last couple of hands. Sonny and Doddy where also bluffing and losing badly. Surprisingly DiMucci had been doing rather well as had Goose. Kenickie and Danny had a poker face that no man could read.
Davey had folded on the last hand with only a pair of 3s and 8s in his hand. Johnny and me where only watching the game. The phone ringing from the hallway interrupted the poker game.
I got up from my chair and grabbing my freshly opened beer. I went to answer the phone in the hallway.
"Olsen Residence" I answered the phone having picked up the receiver. I could hear the boys talking in the kitchen from where I was standing.
"Michael. Look I'm sorry to be bother but I need a lift home. I told my uncle that I'd lock up" Stephanie asked and explained why it was that she had called.
"Alright. I'll be there in about ten-twenty minutes. " I said before we said a brief goodbye and hung up the receiver. I walked into the kitchen and out the back door. I headed for my room to grab my leather T-Bird jacket, keys to my motorcycle, helmet and goggles.
I kicked my motorcycle and headed in the direction of Jake's on the other side of Rydell. I pulled up at Jake's garage maybe forty-five minutes later. I looked around the Gas Station looking for any sigh of Steph. I put the kickstand out on my motorcycle.
I headed towards the office to see if she was in there. I opened the screen door to the office. Stephanie was asleep in a chair near a desk. I walked over to her and kissed the top of her head to wake her up.
"Hey" I said as she opened her eyes and blinked. She got up from the chair I moved back to allow here to get up from the chair.
"You said you'd only be ten to twenty minutes," Steph said as she grabbed her stuff to leave.
"I had loose wire in the bike. I had to fix it." I explained as to why I had taken twenty-five minutes more then I had said I would take.
After locking up the office and double-checking to make sure everything was locked up and secure we getting ready to leave. Maybe this time I could at least give her the bloody ring this time.
I kneeled down to make sure that that loose wire was still in place. As I stood back up the box with the ring in it fell from my jacket pocket. I didn't notice at first as I walked around to other side of the motorcycle to check the other wire that had come loose.
I noticed Steph bend down to pick something up. I looked up and noticed that it was the box with the ring it. I didn't say anything yet. 'Oh Shit' I thought to my self as she opened up the box to look at its contents.
Two Days Later.
I opened my eyes groggily. I knew it was still early. I was the only one at the house due to my aunt, uncle; Patrick, Sandy and Danny had gone to LA yesterday or rather yesterday afternoon to pick up my grandparents.
I hadn't seen my grandparents on my 'mother's' side for a few years and I hadn't seen my grandparents on my father's side for about a year and half.
I ran hand up her bareback. Steph's head rested in the crock of my neck, as she lay fast asleep on top of my bare chest. Memories of last night flashed through my mind.
I managed to disentangle myself from Steph. I got up and pulled on my boxers, which had been discarded last night. I changed into my leather pants and a white t-shirt.
I glanced at my watch. It was just after five. Graduation didn't start until eight or so. I pulled on my boots and headed towards the house to kill some time. Stephanie woke alone maybe twenty minutes later.
I was lost in my own thoughts I was nursing a beer. I know it was a little too early for a beer but whatever. I didn't hear Steph walk into the kitchen. She didn't say much as she sat down on my lap. She took a sip of my beer.
"You mind that's my beer when you're finished with it" I said as she set the half empty bottle of beer back on the table. I glanced at the ring I had given her a couple of days ago.
Three hours later.
Miss McGee began to read to the list of the students in the graduating class of 1961. As most of the graduating class had gone up to collect their high school diplomas. The last few people where read off the list.
The Valedictorians for this years graduating class read their speeches. There were still the final photos to be taken for the graduating class plus yearbooks would most likely be handed later on in the day.
As we stood in on the front steps of the school waiting for Blanche to take the final picture. As Stephanie and I where standing next to each other. My right 'accidently' slipped to the middle of her back. She sent me look as if to say behave yourself.
When Blanche finally took the last photo. We threw our graduation caps up in celebration of graduating high school. We had all dispersed to talk to friends or family whom had come to see us graduation.
I spotted my family standing to one side. Both sets of my grandparents seemed surprised at my new appearance. Steph and I walked hand and hand to where my family stood.
Sandy and Danny nodded in my direction before heading off to speak with Frenchy who had at last graduated from high school. Seamus McCabe looked at his grandson. He had grown up a lot since Seamus had seen last seen Michael when he was fourteen.
The girl glued to his side had to be his girlfriend that Edna had mentioned. Seamus glanced over at his wife Claire who gave him a small smile. Roy Carrington and his wife Georgiana looked over their eldest grandson and took in his changed wardrobe appearance.
Last time Georgiana had seen her eldest grandson his appearance had been different. Now gone where the clean-cut vest, pressed slakes and adequate taste shirts. They had been replaced by the looks of it skin-tight leather pants, tight fitting shirts and leather jackets maybe to.
"Babe can you give us a few minutes" Georgiana heard her eldest grandson ask his girlfriend. She only nodded and went off to talk some people Georgiana suspected were her friends.
I turned my attention back to my grandparents. My Grandmother Claire eloped me in a hug, as did my grandmother on my father's side.
"So what are your plans now since you've graduated from high school "My grandfather Seamus asked.
"I'm going to join the military," I explained to my grandparents.
After about twenty minutes of talking to my grandparents I walked over to where Stephanie was talking with Sharon and Rhonda. I glanced over at where Johnny and Paulette where standing to one side talking to each other.
A minute or so later he got down on one knee. I just shook my head. Everyone else looked shocked that Johnny was publicly proposing to Paulette just minutes after we had graduated from high school.
Everyone was watching and waiting to know what Paulette answer was going to be to Johnny proposal of marriage. A minute or so, Johnny got his answer, as did everyone who was watching the two of them.
As the girls went over to talk to Paulette. Most likely to grill her about details. Johnny walked over to where I was standing.
"Look like you took my advice." I said dig a cigarette from the half empty pack I had in my front shirt pocket.
"Yea. So did you give her that ring?" Johnny asked as I lit my own cigarette.
"Yea I did," I answered after taking a drag from my cigarette.
"No wonder you to look your on Cloud Nine" Johnny said. I caught onto the last of that statement. It could have meant more then a dozen or so things.
"I think Paulette would appreciate it if I didn't give you a busted nose or worse jaw. So I'm going to let that comment slide," I said with amusement in my tone of voice.
"Like you could beat me in a fight" Johnny snorted in disbelief but there was humour in his tone of voice.
" You want ta beat Nogerelli. I use to compete at boxing I was the under 17s middleweight champion." I explained taking another drag of cigarette.
"Well its safe to say Balmudo got off lucky that night you broke his nose" Johnny commented.
"Yea he did. If Goose and DiMucci had dragged me off him. He would have come off a lot worse then he did," I said. Johnny nodded and headed back over towards his fiancée.