Stay Gold

Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I am sitting in my bedroom doing my stupid homework. Why do they assign this stupid stuff?!?! Did we not learn enough today in class? Me and anyone in the gang (who is still in school)are always thinking this. During these thoughts Soda comes bursting into my room.

"Belle! Come on! We are having a contest!" Everyone in the gang calls be Belle instead of Annabelle because they think it is too long.

"What type of contest?" I ask.

"What do you think? Gymnastics! I bet you I am going to win today!"

"Yea sure kid!" I always win these things. Darry taught us all gymnastics one summer and now we always do it. I am still doing it constantly and everyone in the gang thinks I am crazy. I don't think I am because this is when I show them who's boss. "Race ya outside!"

"Now this is something I can win!"

We race out my door and through the house when Two-Bit grabs me and yells,"Run Soda! Run! I'll hold her back!"

That's when I bit him and yelled for Dally to stop him before he wins. Dally grabs him and I run outside and yell at the top of my lungs,"THE WINNER OF THE RACE IS ANNABELLE KATE CURTIS!"

Soda finally comes outside with Dally and Two-Bit and whispers in my ear, "I will win next time."

I whisper back, "Yea sure kid."

"Hey. I'm older than you. Don't call me kid."

"Whatever, Bucko!" I say, "How about that name?"

"Even worse." He says.

We finally start the gymnastics meet.

Dally, Two-Bit, and Johnny are the judges. We all start with backflips off the car. I did a back pike which no one knew I could do, so I got a 10. Then we had to come up with a routine to do across the lawn. Again, I got a 10 because I have learned how to do some more tricks. Then came the "vault" aka we take our ottoman outside and run and bounce off of it. Well... that is what everyone else does while I do some crazy flips and twists off of it and get another 10!

That was our last event. I got a perfect score so I won. Darry got second because he was one who taught us and I think the judges don't want to get on his bad side, Ponyboy got third because he made the judges give him good scores, Sodapop got fourth because he fell every time, and Two-Bit got fifth because he can't do anything we were doing.

That was one of the last normal days we ever had. I wish life was still like that, but it now very different. Just wait and see.