*Like I said I'm way bored so I'm starting a new story! Yay! Oh right…I don't own anyone except Riley and Carmen!!*

            "Hey Carmen, are you coming with me?" I was standing by my locker and talking to my friend Carmen Sanders. She was taking forever to get her books. It was the end of the day and I was getting ready to go to the little gas station that I went too when cheerleading practice was over.

            Usually Carmen came with me because she liked to flirt with one of the guys. That was the reason I went too. I would flirt with one of the guys and sometimes they would let me help work on the cars or stack the shelves. The guy that I flirted with was a year older then me, but he didn't go to school because he was a dropout. He was also a greaser and he lived with him older brother and younger brother. Their parents had died in an auto wreck.

            The guy that Carmen flirted with's name was Steve. He was older then me and Carmen too but he wasn't a dropout. We just didn't talk to him at school because he was a greaser and we were Socs. That's just the way things were. Eventhough things were that way me and Carmen always flirted with Steve and Sodapop.

            Sodapop was the guy that I flirted with. He was cute and I loved the way he acted. His grin was like no one else's and he could always make you grin, even when you were sad about something. His dark eyes always looked reckless and happy, yet caring at the same time. He had a light wheat brown hair and a nice body. I think the most attractive thing about him was his attitude. It was always carefree.

            Steve was cute, but not like Soda. He had dark hair he kept combed in swirls. He had a nice bod and he was pretty nice.

            "Riley! Earth to Riley!" I looked over to the red headed girl who was waving her hand in front of my face.

            I smiled and pushed my blonde hair out of my eyes. "Yeah?"

            "I'm ready, we can go. Geesh, where were you? I was talking to you and you were off in your own world!" Carmen giggled and we walked out to my car.

            I blushed. "I was thinking."

            "About?" Carmen said eventhough she knew what the answer would be.

            "I'll give you three guesses but you are probably only going to need one!" I laughed and got in the driver's seat while she got in the passengar's seat.

            "Hmm.." She said thinking.

            "Sodapop!" I burst out laughing. "You know darn well that I was thinking about Sodapop."

            "Mmm…girl you've got it bad for that guy! Why? He's a greaser and you're a Soc?"

            "Oh and Steve's not a greaser!" I shot back at her and that shut her up pretty fast.

            "What in the world are you doing?" Carmen looked at me when we pulled in the gas station. I was pulling my hair up in a high ponytail and I unbuttoned the top button of my blue shirt. I wasn't like other Socs. I didn't really care what people thought of me and I didn't really care who I hung out with. Whether it was a greaser or a Soc. I'd made some pretty good friends that way. Then again, I'd also made some pretty bad friends that way. Like the cheerleading captain. She hated me eventhough I was a cheerleader, because sometimes I talked to greasers.

            "Looking cuter!" I giggled. I think I already looked cute though. That sounds conceited but it was true; I was one of the prettiest girls in school. I had long curly blonde hair, long legs, and a small waist. The outfit that I had on hugged my every curve. It was a small blue button up top with no sleeves and a gray skirt that was a little above the knees. Of course I wouldn't wear that if the boys were gonna let me help them with something. I always kept a pair of blue jeans behind the counter.

            "Oh Riley! You're already cute!" It was Steve. He leaned in Carmen's window. He had heard what I said because the windows were down.

            "Thanks Steve. Where's your buddy?" Steve didn't glance at me. Him and Carmen were already engaged in some kind of wild conversation before we even got out of the car.

            "Over where the swarm of girl's are," Steve finally said while opening Carmen's door for her.

            "Thanks." I said and opened my door. I looked over to a blue mustang and saw Soda working on it. There were a lot of girls surrounding him, flirting with him, so I decided to go inside and stock some shelves.

            When I went inside there was no one there so I went behind the counter and got my size four jeans. I figured I'd just change right there since no one was there and Carmen, Sodapop, and Steve were preoccupied.

            The minute I took my skirt off Soda walked in. When he saw me he grinned. Atleast he couldn't see anything, because the counter covered me up. Then he started to walk around the counter. "Hey Riley."

            "Uh, Soda, could you wait a minute before you come 'round here?" I smiled at him.

            "Why? You doin somethin illegal?" He flashed his famous grin at me. Then he walked all the way around the counter and saw me. "Girl, what are you doin with no pants on?"

            I blushed and pulled my jeans all the way on. " I was changing out of my skirt and into my jeans, cause no one was here and then you walked in on me!"

            He grinned again. "You here to help?"

            I nodded my head. "You know it! So how's the fan club?" I rolled my eyes toward the swarm of girls. To tell you the truth I was jealous of them. Sodapop probably actually liked them. He just liked me as a friend while I loved him. My heart ached for him.

            "Oh. Well, they keep me in my stitches." He laughed.

            I rummaged through boxes of oil bottles and papers. "Hey have you seen my visor?" The visor I was talking about was the one that I always kept behind the counter along with my jeans. It was blue and it said DX, that was the name of the gas station.

            "Yeah." He said walking to the other side of the counter and grabbing a full box of candy bars. "You left it in here yesterday when you left."

            I smiled as he pulled the hat out of the box and put it on me. "Thanks. What'd I do without you?" He only shrugged and grinned.

            "Hey," he suddenly said. "You'd tell me if somethin was up with Sandy, wouldn't you?" His eyes sparkled.

            "Of course," I said. Sandy was Sodapop's girlfriend. Eventhough she was a greaser she was one of my best friends-next to Carmen-. She didn't know that I liked Sodapop. It seemed funny to me that Soda liked Sandy when I was prettier then her. Why didn't he like me? I guess it just showed that he looked past appearances. "Why?" I wondered outloud and then noticed that Soda wasn't there.

            I walked outside because there was nothing to stock on the shelves. "Hey, Two-Bit!" Two-Bit was one of Sodapop and Steve's friends. He hung around the gas station a lot, along with the other friends, Darry(Soda's older brother), Dallas, Ponyboy(Soda's younger brother), and Johnny. Two-Bit was talking to Soda and flirting with some of the girl's who were there.

            "Riley, babe, how ya been!?" He laughed and I smiled at him.

            "Fine, thank you!" I used very polite manners around him. I guess just to show him that I was a little better then him. I don't know.

            "Riley!" Carmen came running up to me.

            "Hmm?" I said to her between drinks of a coke that I bought.

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