A/N: ususal disclaimer that i dont own the movies or characters and this is all only written for fun
again I am sorry that this is so late appearing but I hope the writing isnt to terrible, its taking me a little bit to get back in to the writing. I also am having trouble remembering where I was taking the story so I am hoping this will stay as well received as it was when I was orginally writing, I promise to do my best to get back to to writing the way i was and to have a decent ending for you all
thanks Tarra
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"So, you saw the guy at the petrol station with her?" Anna asked as her and Rhonda walked down the hallways of school the next Monday morning
"oh yeah, she was all just butt out of my life to the birds and then we all joined her inside when Paulette through another fit about belonging to Johnny or not, but the guy the mystery biker guy said he would meet her at the talent show, Steph thinks he was about to tell her who he was when we arrived and you know Johnny well he had to try and pick a fight, I mean I don't know what's going on with him at the moment he seems to have turned in to such a jerk since he got that leader patch" Rhonda rambled as they made it to lockers, her eyes darting around making sure no one was listening in to their conversation.
"well he always was bothered about his reputation and how other people saw him but it's gone to a new level since he got the patch you are right, I don't know I think he doesn't realize he is making himself seem ridicules and the biggest prick on the planet by behaving the way he is, I mean what's cool about chasing two different girls and fronting up to people he doesn't even know" Anna sighed as she swapped her books out and closed the locker looking down the hallway as she spotted Stephanie and Davey headed over to them
"So, Steph, I hear I missed some action this weekend?" Anna asked as she smiled at her blonde-haired friend, the smile slipping into the small smirk at the blush that then covered the beautiful girls face making her feel happy for her friend.
"Does everyone know about this?" whined Stephanie as she turned to her own locker to try and hide the blush that was growing more over her cheeks as she remembered her, and her mysterious bikers shared kisses
"just us important people and besides we are all happy for you babe, I mean honestly what girl doesn't dream of being whisked away by some hot guy and treated like a princess, I know I do" Anna giggled as her friend turned back to her with a small glare but a hint of a smile playing on the corner of her glossed lips
"I certainly wouldn't mind, I mean it's like all those books I sneak from my mum when she thinks I don't know where she hides them, all these broken beautiful men who are horrible to everyone but the heroine of the story and then he learns Shes all he needs in life and they live happily ever after" Rhonda sighed dreamily as they started to wander towards home room
"you girls live in another reality honestly" Davey groaned as he strode along behind the three girls, his eyes rolling back in his head at the absurd turn this conversation had taken. He personally was happy for Steph to find someone for herself, but he was worried about who this guy was, not because he wasn't a T-bird or because it would damage their gang's rep like the other guys but more because he didn't know if it was safe for his friend.
"oh come on you guys all have these fantasy's about a beautiful wife, who can do all the things around the home and is happy to see you when you get home or something like that and we all dream about the dark and dangerous guy who picks us out of the crowd and makes us feel special. It's all human nature to have a fantasy life, it's just for some lucky people it apparently comes true" Anna grinned as she bumped her hip in to her blonde friend as they moved to take their seats at the regular table, Rhonda and Goose sat behind them and Davey to the left, he normally shared with someone she was still happy to avoid if possible but her mind kept wandering to him regardless of how often she tried to forget him
"Speaking of fantasy life's, how was Phil?" Stephanie asked as she noticed a similar reaction in her dark-haired desk mate as she had felt when they questioned her about her "cool rider"
"Phil is back on tour again, he called last night from where he was, Georgia I think but I don't know I mean I really like him you guys and if am honest I could let myself love him if I wanted to and don't get me wrong he doesn't exactly have many flaws that I hate or anything but I don't know about him being away all the time and touring is fun once in a while I mean the ones we have done with Aaron have proved that to me but that doesn't mean I want to do it to have a relationship with someone" Anna explained her eyes feeling the small sting of tears, her and Phil had spent a lot of time together while he was here and she had to admit that she missed him terribly already, he also helped her forget some of what she was feeling about someone else but that didn't mean it was right for her.
"oh am sorry Anna, I mean he seems like such a nice guy but your right it would be so hard to only talk through the phone or letters" Rhonda leaned forward and placed her hand lightly on her best friends arm, she knew how hard all this Johnny business had been for the petite brunette and she was hoping that the relationship with Phil might become something just so she could see a real smile on her friends face again
"Well, it is what it is, let's not dwell on these subjects anyways did everyone manage to do the Shakespear essay for Mason?" Anna asked as she glanced up at the doorway and spotted Michael entering the room, his eyes darting to their table like always but not looking for her as his friend, looking for the beautiful blonde to her left.
"Oh god was that in for today" Stephanie gasped as she started to grab things from her desk and started writing quickly
Anna lifted her hand and waved to the tall Englishman, his cheeks colouring a little at being caught staring at her friend again making a small smirk grace her lips back at him.
"Hey Mikey" Anna called as he dropped down in to the seat in front of her "how was your weekend?" her voice holding a tone of mischief as she obviously knew how his weekend had gone
"oh you know the usual" Michael responded with a small smile back at his friend, his eyes glancing to her desk mate again on instinct, his body warming a little at the memory of holding her close on his bike, the few small kisses they had shared had been incredible and he couldn't wait to be near her again, his impulse to just turn around and tell her who he was, however his own nerves pulled him back wondering if she would hate him if she found out who he really was
"So, nothing exciting then?" Anna questioned again, her face the picture of innocence but her eyes sparkling with mischief
"Nope nothing" he answered his cheeks warming again when he felt Stephanies eyes swing to him, he could always feel it when she looked at him and he wondered if she knew how often she did so or was it something she didn't mean to do
"Well, that's a shame" Anna grinned again as she glanced between the two blondes who were trying to discreetly look at the other without them catching each other.
"So, Steph your mystery guy said he would see you at the talent show? I wonder if he is another student" Anna mused in a loud whisper causing the tall man in front of her to cough a little and her blonde friend to look up and stare at her like she had suddenly sprouted another head
"You think he might go here?" Rhonda whisper shouted from behind them, her eyes starting to scan the room like he might suddenly appear
"No! there is no way he goes to Rydel, i would know it i already knew him" Steph murmured worrying her lip between her teeth as she chewed on her lip suddenly unsure by her own statement
"Guess we will have to wait and see at the talent show wont we" Anna grinned was she looked down to her own study books for science while Steph tried to go back to writing her essay however, she now seemed very distracted
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"We will meet you out by the car Steph, ok?" Anna called as she walked out of Ms. Masons class, her friend being asked to stay back. Rhonda, Paulette and Sharon walked quickly down the stairs trying to catch up to the T-birds who had gotten out of class quickly as soon as the bell had gone, however she wasn't the only person lingering around for Stephanie she discovered as she left the door
"Mikey, hey mate" Anna whispered as she moved towards the taller Englishman, her eyes glancing back to the door where her friend and the teacher seemed to be getting into a heated debate about the hamlet essay
"Do you know what that's about?" Micheal asked as he looked down at to the pair of dark eyes that seemed to be studying him now, he felt himself shift a little foot to foot under her scrutiny
"Well as Stephanie rushed that essay in the morning during home room and then in gym before we had to hand it in at lunch yesterday, am guessing it wasn't the best work she has ever done and you know Mason isn't a fan of the pink ladies in general I guess it was something to do with that" Anna replied her voice dropping low to make sure she wasn't overheard for her next statement
"This however works out beautifully for you though, Mr. straight A in English" Anna grinned her brain forming a little plan to help her two friends to finally realize they belong together
"How do you figure that?" the tall man asked confused by how she had made that conclusion
"well she is going to need help with her essay and you can offer to help her, take her someone to eat and get to know her more as yourself see if she seems to like which I think she does and then tell her who you are obviously" she rambled quickly her voice still low as she could her Stephanie coming towards the door still yelling at the overdressed teacher
"What if she doesn't agree or she hates me as myself" Micheal whisper yelled back at the petite girl in front of him, the panic suddenly rising in his body at her suggestion
"confidence Micheal, you are a good looking guy and you are one of the only decent ones in this school she would be stupid not to like you for you, and Stephanie Zenonie is anything but stupid, believe me she will go with you now ask her dammit" Anna shot him a quick grin before running off down the stairs and stepping around the corner so she could hear them start to talk, hearing their voices carry a little she smiled sadly to herself and then began to walk down the hall
"Hey Plunkett" a familiar voice made the blood in her veins freeze a little as she continued to walk down the hall in the hopes, she could pretend she didn't hear him calling to her
"Anna" his voice called again, sighing to herself she turned and looked him over as he walked quickly towards her
"What do you want Nogerelli" Anna snapped her voice an angry growl, her eyes flaring a little at the nerve of this guy to even think it was ok to approach her
Johnny paused a little in Suprise at the venom in her voice, he had expected her to be mad at him still but she sounded like she actually hated him and that threw him a little, he didnt know how to proceed now, he was going to give her some space but when he had been coming from his locker and looked up and seen her walking down the corridor looking like a angel in the white summer dress she was wearing, her pink ladies jacket tucked over her arm and her ebony hair piled up on her head with a few curls escaping around her face he just knew he had to approach her, he hated not being able to be near her, hated not hearing her voice, her laugh, her smell, her smile, the way she would say his name and smile softly at him the way she used too before he messed this all up
"Well, what do you want?" She asked again making him snap back to the now instead of just staring at her and cataloguing all her perfection
"Anna I just..." Johnny started but had to swallow the thickness in his throat, he hated the thought she hated him, and it was causing his mouth to dry up and a pain to lodge in his chest making his throat feel clogged
"Johnny, we don't need to do this again, I mean really, I just don't have the time or patience for this anymore. We both know it isn't going to work out us being friends anymore and i haven't got it in me to watch you become someone I hate so let's just leave it shall we please" her dark eyes filling with tears she refused to let drop in front of him, this was killing her all over again but she had to be firm, her talks with all her friends and her sister had shown her that she deserved more than this, this toxic to and fro.
Johnny inhaled deeply, his chest felt as though it was going to burst open and kill him with the pain that was filling it from the words that had just left that perfect mouth, this was torture, why had he let things get this way between them? Why had he been so stupid? He didn't deserve this incredible girl in front of him and he was just torturing himself to think he could win her when he knew she was something pure something so beautiful that it was like she came from heaven itself, but he was mud, and he needed to stop trying to pull her into it.
"I just wanted to say I was..." he started again but again he stopped from the raw and painful sounding voice that interrupted him another time
"I don't want to hear it, I don't want to do this anymore, I don't want to see you, I don't want to hear from you, I don't want to do any of this anymore, you're not who I thought you were and I don't want to know this person you are now" Anna muffled a sob as she quickly swiped at a rogue tear that had burst out of her eye, she turned quickly from him and started to walk away quickly in the hopes he would stop there
"Anna am sorry, I really am, I know I have been the words biggest jerk and your right this isn't me, please just talk to me, please don't walk away again, please" Johnny called down the hall however she didn't stop she just carried on going and started to jog to get away from him
"Let it go mate" a soft voice said beside him, his dark eyes span around to the side of the hall where a tall boy stood watching him with a sad look on his face
"Goose when did you, did you hear all of that?" Johnny asked his voice becoming barely more than a whisper as he looked back down the hall his eyes tracing where she had just fled as though it would help with the pain in his chest
"I heard enough, look I don't know all that's going on between you two, but I know she doesn't deserve to be treated like crap and to be honest with you Johnny you haven't been good to her and she needs someone who treats her well, I have got to know her while I have been with Rhonda, Anna is nice like really nice, she doesn't care if your popular or not, she doesn't care about where you live or anything, she is always nice to everyone, she cares about people and is a good friend to all the girls, she has been a good friend to Davey and has even helped with Lou's homework, she helped Shakespear with getting new clothes to fit in and I don't know man I think you need to just leave her alone. The girls told me a while back that they thought that you two liked each other and I have to admit I didn't see it but then I started watching and every time you messed around with one of the other girls she would get this look on her face, I mean don't get me wrong she never stopped smiling and being nice but this look would happen like something was breaking in her and then she would avoid us all for a while and then you two would patch things up but then it would happen all over again and I don't like seeing you looking this crushed mate really, but I think you have been doing this to her for a while and you haven't really done anything to fix it" Goose stopped looking down at the shorter man in front of him, he had never seen his friend look so defeated
"I don't know what to do Goose, i think i love her but then i make these stupid decisions about the other girls thinking it will make me look cool but to be honest I think I just didn't want her to reject me. I am not good enough for her but not being near her all the time makes me feel like well I don't know... like I've swallowed a bomb and its stuck in my chest and it keeps burning a little but won't explode or move or turn off it just keeps sitting there like it's trying to crush me from the inside" Johnny frowned realizing he didn't mean to say all that to his oldest friend, he sounded like a sap but that conversation with Anna made his brain feel like it was fried, he didn't know how to fix all this
"Well maybe you could start with getting rid of the other chicks" Goose offered with a small smile, he wasn't sure that would really help but it couldn't hurt
"I mean Stephanie already doesn't really want anything to do with me, but I do need to declare us officially over but Paulette, she will not take it well" he sighed sadly as he ran his hand through his dark hair and started walking towards the exit to the car park
"Well start with Steph and then we will find a way to deal with Paulette, but I have to agree she is going to lose it" Goose laughed a little when he imagined how well that conversation would go
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Kenickie walked into the kitchen, drifting towards the sink so that he could wash his hands. He had washed them before he left work but Ashlyn hated the smell of the anti-grease soap that the garage used and it would set off her sickness so he had started a habit of coming in and washing his hands again before going and finding his wife, his hands had just rinsed in the warm water when he thought he heard a noise by the kitchen island, turning the tap off he spun and grabbed the hand towel to dry his hands, the sound appearing again making him walk around the island slowly wondering where the noise was coming from. His eyes blowing wide as he found his sister-in-law sat on the floor, her legs pulled up to her chest, her back heaving from the small sobs he could hear.
"Anna" he called softly before he stepped back a little as she jumped up her eyes blowing wide in seeing him there, she obviously hadn't heard him come in
"what's the matter love?" Kenickie asked as he moved and crouched down in front of the small girl curled in a ball on the floor
"Why doesn't he leave me alone?" Anna whispered almost like she was speaking to a ghost or something not really him, her eyes seemed hollow like all her emotions had overwhelmed her and she was now trying to shut them down
"Johnny" Kenickie stated as he moved to sit down with the younger girl, his eyes checking her over for anything other than the emotional pain
"He tried to talk to me again but I just want him to go away" Anna explained as she let herself be pulled against her brother in laws side, his rough hands running up and down her arm in a comforting gesture
"Do you want me to talk to him?" Kenickie asked, his voice a soft whisper in her ear as he tightened the arm around her shoulders hoping to stop the small sobs and shakes that seemed to be racking her body
"I don't know what I want anymore, I think I..." she paused not wanting to let that statement out as it would make it true, making it hurt more
"You might love him" Kenickie answered feeling her jerk up a little to look in his face
"How did you? Why do you? I mean..." Anna stammered, she hadn't expected him to say it out loud, even she hadn't admitted it out loud to herself
"i have eyes little girl, I can see how you look at him, how you smile at him and how he responds to you. I know how that feels because i feel it with your sister" Kenickie explained with a sad smile playing on his lips as he looked down in to her swollen, pink rimmed eyes, bloodshot from all the tears
"Why can't he see it then?" Anna asked some of the anger she had felt before springing back through the heartache she had been lost in
"because us men aren't really known for seeing things like that, look at me and Ash, your sister in a 20 and am a 10 at most, she shouldn't even look my way but when she does the whole world stops for me and I feel like I can't breathe for a moment but then she speaks or smiles and the world explodes quicker than ever. You look at him the same way and he looks at you the same but for some reason neither of you can see it and even now when you have he is doing the same thing I did, he doesn't think he is good enough for you i would bet and so is trying to push you away before you see he isn't good for you and do it first" Kenickie offered as he stood up and grabbed the towel where he had left it on the side and passed it down to her for her eyes, as more tears started to run down her cheeks
"Why are guys so stupid?" she croaked her throat starting to hurt from all the crying
"Because we just are little girl, you ladies are a different level to us, and we just don't know how to compete that's all it is" he laughed a little at her small eye roll to his statement
"Now I don't know about you, but I think that we should maybe get up off this floor and get you cleaned up before your hormonally charged sister comes home and finds you like this and goes and starts killing teenage boys for not treating girls correctly or something like that" he huffed as he stood up yet again and reached down to help up the younger girl from the floor, her dress all crinkled and bunched up where she had been sat on the floor
"You know you're a pretty decent big brother-in-law Kenickie" Anna smiled sadly and stepped forward and wrapped her arms around the taller man in a small hug before she stepped back again and moved to gather her things
"Now don't you start me off. Go on now get upstairs and get yourself fixed up or your sister will really loose it" he smirked as she smiled at him again and headed up the stairs just as the back door opened revealing his beautiful wife with some tears in her eyes
"You heard some of that huh?" Kenickie asked he moved around the room and pulled her into his arms, her face automatically nuzzling into his chest like she always did when he held her like this
"Thank you for looking out for her" Ashlyn smiled up at him and then pulled him to another hug
"Always but what do we do with this Nogerelli kid, I mean love I can't keep coming home and finding her crying like this and then stopping myself from going and punching the hell out of that kid" he snarled as he moved them further in the room and they both sat down on the kitchen stools
"Am not sure baby, but it's their talent show next week and then they graduate so if nothing else we can hope that if he doesn't change his tune, she will at least be able to avoid him when they leave school" Ashlyn frowned, her brain running through anything she could think off that might help her sister
"Maybe you should call the girls and see if a night in with you lot might help and i might go and see the guys down at Putsy's new bar and see if we can think of anything that might help or just so we can all imagine stamping on that guy's head for hurting her" Kenickie smirked at his Wifes small laugh in response to his comment
"Your right I think she needs some girl time, and you should go and speak to the guys. Maybe he might listen to one of you and sort himself out, besides if your all there it means you can all help Putsy meaning Jan will be free to come here" Ashlyn grinned as she turned and started to walk up the hall way, a little extra sway in her hips as she felt his dark eyes on her back
"sneaky, very sneaky woman" he called after her as he watched her walk in to the main room to use the phone, her swaying body making him want to go an grab her and pull her upstairs to do something else instead of calling their friends, so with a small adjustment to his jeans and a small cough to clear his throat he walked up to their room and changed quickly and headed back out to go find the guys