I GROANED AT the sound of my alarm clock. I went over to my closet and quickly got dressed.

I never eat breakfast in the morning, so after I brush my teeth, I usually head out the door to walk to school.

I walked into the living room and yawned. "Mornin' Gramps."

He looked up at me and smiled. "Morning, Sunshine."

I gave him a hug and grabbed my backpack, walking out the door. I looked behind the house that was across from me because you were able to see Pony's house perfectly. I saw him walking to school along with Johnny and ran to the end of my street. When they saw me, we waved at each other. They came up beside me and Ponyboy smiled. "We should walk to school together everyday."

I laughed. "Yeah, at least I have one thing to look forward to when going to school."

I glanced over at Johnny and he kept his hands in his pockets and his gaze towards the ground. I cleared my throat and put my hand on Johnny's shoulder, causing him to look up at me. "So, tell me, what did Bob and his minions do to you? I'll tell you all of the horrible things he did to me if you tell me."

Johnny stayed silent for a minute and then finally spoke up. "They jumped me. Bob smashed his rings into my face, causing this giant scar. He sliced the whole side of my face."

I growled in anger and clenched my fists together. "The only thing he has going for him besides that car of his are his rings. I'm surprised he hasn't tried to use them on me yet."

"How long has he been bullying you?" Johnny questioned and I smiled, seeing him be less shy around me made me feel happy.

"Ever since last year when he found out I was a greaser. I mean, I dressed like a greaser I don't know why he couldn't see that." I shrugged my shoulders.

"Probably because the only thing he looked at was your face. You have the looks of a Soc, but you just don't dress like one." Pony butted in making me look over at him.

I nodded my head. "Probably."

We walked into the school building and I groaned. "Already? I never usually see him until the afternoon."

"Just try and blend in, maybe he won't see you." Pony advised and I gave him one of my 'are you stupid' looks. "I'm Kieran Smith, the one he looks at every day. I stick out like a sore thumb to him."

Right as we walked past him and his gang, he shouted. "Smith!"

I stopped in my tracks and closed my eyes, while taking a deep breath. I opened my eyes and looked towards Johnny and Ponyboy, who were motioning for me to make a run for it. I laughed, grabbed them by the hands, and bolted out of the hallway. We sprinted upstairs, and I could hear Bob and his gang running after us. Johnny and Pony ran into their classroom and I ran into mine as fast as I could.

My homeroom teacher, Mr. Stilinski, looked at me in confusion. I was always the first one in homeroom, but I never ran into homeroom like someone was about to kill me. "Umm, Kieran, are you okay?"

I nodded my head and laughed. "I just wanted to get some exercise in the morning. Ya know?"

He gave me a weird face like he wasn't buying it and told me to sit down. Mr. Stilinski is my favorite teacher. He's like my best friend. We talk all the time about books, and he always gives me a different book every week to read and I do the same to him. 

I think he always knew why I was late to Mrs. Gretski's class and I think he knew why I ran into his classroom, but I think he also knew that Bob would hurt me more if he caught onto it, so he kept his mouth shut.

"Mrs. Gretski, keeps telling me how you're late to her class." He announced while sitting on his desk. I bit my lip and chuckled nervously. I don't know how to answer to this.

"I told her that I told you to tell her you were doing errands from me, but you must've forgotten to tell her. I told her from now on when you're late to her class, you'll be doing things for me so you don't get in trouble." He spoke and I grinned really big. "Thank you for taking up for me, even if it's a lie."

He shook his head and sighed. "I think I know why you've been late, but I'm just going to keep silent about it since you really don't want anyone to know."

I smiled and sighed shakily. "I wish I could let people know, but it's not as easy as anyone thinks. If I tell, it gets worse. It may not happen at school anymore, but it will happen outside of school and it will be ten times worse."

He nodded his head and sat back down in his chair just as students began coming through the door. All of the girls had a crush on Mr. Stilinski, but he was married. I never had a crush on him, but he was like my best friend.

[Mr. Stilinski!]

"Alright, class today we're going to be doing geometry." Mr. Stilinski announced as everyone in the room groaned.

I absolutely despised math. Especially geometry.

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ONCE HIS CLASS was over, I headed on to lunch and spotted Pony and Johnny eating lunch. Bob was over there making fun of them and getting his face so close to Johnny, I thought Johnny was going to turn white.

A blast of anger surged through me, and I slammed my tray on the table, causing the three of them to jump. "Get away from him, Bob!" I snapped while pushing him away from Johnny, causing all heads in the cafeteria to turn towards us.

Bob gave me a devilish smirk. "Well, aren't you just in time? I was going to wait, but it looks like the whole cafeteria can see you get your ass beat by me."

I crossed my arms and scoffed. "Yeah, go ahead so the whole cafeteria can see you get beat by a girl greaser." I grabbed my milk and poured the whole thing over Bob's head, causing everyone in the cafeteria to laugh, especially the greasers.

"I can't really see the anger in your face since strawberry milk is covering it." I snickered and Johnny and Ponyboy gave me a high-five.

"Oh, just wait, Smith. Just wait." He shouted and stormed away to his table.

I sat down across from Johnny and Ponyboy, and Eagan came over. She gave me a high-five, "Congratulations! You are now officially a savage."

(savage was not used in the 80's like we use it now lol, but pretend it was)

I giggled and turned towards a confused looking Ponyboy and Johnny. "This here is my friend, Eagan Kelly. You can call her a brat." I introduced and Eagan slapped me on my shoulder causing me to slap her back.

I pointed towards Ponyboy and Johnny. "This one on the left is, Ponyboy and the one on the right is, Johnny. They're my new best friends."

She growled at me. "You better not replace me."

I laughed. "I promise you'll always be my number one."

I sat my chin in the palm of my hands and sighed. "I'm going to be killed once Bob gets a hold of me in the afternoon. What I just did to him was practically me asking for a death wish."

Ponyboy shook his head. "Don't worry about it."

"Why?" I questioned.

"I'll be there for you."