An Outsider ( A Ponyboy Curtis Fanfic)

Not on Speaking Terms

I woke up in an unfamiliar home. I began to panic, until all the memories from last night hit me like a train. I groaned and fell back onto the pillow.

"Good morning to you too," Jess said from in front of me. "How'd you sleep?"

"Fine but I feel like I have made a huge mistake," I said with a sign.

"Well you can always go back. I'm not holding you for ransom," she said with a laugh. Then got super serious and said, "But I should." I laughed and hit her with the pillow. She fell onto the couch laughing. "Well get dressed we have to meet Amber and the rest of the girls are gonna be waiting for us. Amber said we have to wear our uniforms."

"Fine. But you have to keep me away from any of the guys. And I don't care if they see me in the uniform, just keep them away from me." I say in complete seriousness. "Just keep them away."

She nodded. Then she started to rummage through my bag searching through my bag, probably looking for my uniform. She found both pieces of it. and pushed it into my arms and then pushed me into her bathroom.

I dressed quickly then went back out to grab my make up bag.

"No. I'm doing your make-up. If you do it you will look like you. But if I do it you wont look like you and maybe the guys won't even recognize you," Jess said taking the bag from my hands. I rolled my eyes and she pulled me in front of her at her kitchen table.

After about 5 minutes of her making my 'unrecognizable', in her words, she finally said "Finished".

I went to her bathroom and looked in the mirror. She was right. I was basically unrecognizable. I gaped at myself in the mirror. I had light eyeliner but it winged out to a smoky eye. my eye shadow was a light purple matching the color of my eyes. My lipstick was light pink, almost not there, but enough for you to know it was there. I had a bit of concealer on my forehead covering the smallest of pimples. And I had a light red blush that made it look natural, like I was nervous or something.

"I don't ever recognize myself," I gaped. She smiled from behind me in the mirror. "Lets get going."

I grabbed my bag, which I had stuffed in the duffel bag, and we walked out. I had brought my longboard and coaxed Jess to get on. We were on our way to school. I pushed off and Jess immediately grabbed my shoulders. I heard a horn blare from behind us and looked back. Two-Bit's beat up T-Bird. I began to push more so we could go faster.

"Grab my sweater from my bag, Jess," I told her. I felt her going through my bag. I could feel the weight leave my backpack and knew she had gotten it. "great. Now put the hood over my heard." she did as ordered just as the car pulled next to us.

"Hey pretty ladies. Want a ride?"  I heard Two-Bit's obnoxious voice. I groaned and pushed off a little more.

"Two-Bit we gotta get to school. Maybe Jasmine is there. we gotta find her," I heard Ponyboy's voice. I looked slightly up and saw Johnny in the car. He was in the passenger seat while Pony was in the back.

Johnny was looking at me. I looked at him and he stared back at me. I shrugged at him and pushed five times to get away from them. I knew how far the T-Bird could go so if I went fast enough I could get ahead.

We got to school two minutes later. I picked up my board and walked into the school. We found Amber at her locker. I went to mine. Jess was leaning on the two lockers that separated mine and Amber's lockers. I put my board in the locker and put my jacket in there too. I wasn't gonna need it.

We all talked about the game on Friday and how today we started the new school schedule.

Now every Monday and Friday we would have all our classes. On Tuesday and Thursday we would only have periods 2, 4, and 6. And on Wednesday we would have periods 1, 3, 5, and 7. Since it was Wednesday we had 1, 3, 5, and 7. I had every class with Amber today. And I had 3, 5, and 7 with Jess. So I was happy. I would always have someone to keep me away from the boys. I had Pony in third period but I had Amber and Jess to sit next to me. He was the only one I had a class with.