Rules

By nicktoons83

Chapter 1: Dear Diary

Okay, so I'm not so used to these things, but my neighbors suggested that I use this to take my anger out and stuff like that. Those people are crazy to think I have issues. Just because I get into a couple of fights and argue and wrestle with my brother doesn't mean I have problems with my anger. So anyways, I'll start by saying that my name is Ramona Aaronson. Yeah, I know my last name is Jewish, and I'll admit it - I am Jewish. I got it from my mother's side of the family, while my father was Norse.

Let me just say, that when you're in a school like mine, be careful. Bad things happen to okay people.

Everyone is in different groups. There's the populars/jocks, the nerds, the goths/emos, the skaters, the cool Asians, the band geeks, the farm kids, the hippies, the eccentrics, the foreign exchange students, the drama kids;

And me? I'm a punk. Always have been, always will be. Not that I mind or anything, it just really annoys me when the higher class teens always try and beat me up just for the hell of it. That's one of the reasons I became a punk. I always get into trouble, picking fights, teasing people, egging the teachers on etc. I might've been a farm kid since I live on a small horse ranch, but I cause too much trouble.

When your stereotype is decided, you have to hang out with your own kind. No questions asked. The only times you can hang out with others is when your either forced to do work together or if your related. Otherwise, you have to stay with your kind.

I hang with my twin brother Trey, Danny Sommers; a boy that Trey and I have known since the 1st grade, and Adam Samuals; a guy we all met in the 7th grade.

So I guess I'll talk about my life outside of school. Well, my family is poor; my mom has to work two jobs at once just to pay for our house (sometimes she can't feed everyone in the house). I have two older brothers named Anthony, but we call him Tony, and Logan. My father died three weeks after mine and my brother's fifth birthday; he was an army general, one of the highest in the ranks, but was killed while on patrol. My brother and I were devastated when we heard, and we promised we would visit his grave as much as we could. The only memory we have of him is a couple pictures and the necklaces he gave us. He was on duty in Korea, and he saved a rich family from a burning building. The lady of the family was a jeweler, and was so grateful, she went to his commanding officer and asked him a few questions. Before my dad left, she gave him two necklaces; each had Korean written on it. When he asked her what it said, she told him they said "Trey" and "Ramona". He gave them to us on our fifth birthday.

So back on topic, my mom remarried to a man named Randy Wolfe, and I liked him when I first met him. I'm no genius, but I think she regretted marrying him, when he started...changing. He was drinking a lot, bossing us around, having his poker buddies over all the time, the list goes on. He's hit me more times than I can count. He slaps me, clubs me in the ear, punches me (thus giving me black eyes), and all because I never listen to him, I disobey him, get bad grades, swear, skip classes, get detention etc. I've run away at least eight times this year. Only to be brought home by the fuzz. I have a record with them!

You see, I live in a really tough neighborhood. My life kind of reminds me of the book I have to read for English class, 'The Outsiders'. When I'm not at school, I hang with Trey, Tony, Logan and other guys in my neighborhood, Jayden, a nice boy with neglectful parents, Garett, a boy with record with the fuzz a mile long, and Zack, who is Logan's best friend and is a master at poker. The punks get into fights with the populars, have rumbles to settle arguments, the punks get jumped by them. I'm the only girl that goes to rumbles. The other punk girls are scared of the popular boys having nasty intentions for them. I wouldn't let them boys get their hands on me.

Sometimes I wonder, if there would ever be people I would get to know better.

There is Felix Antonio, a nerd who likes playing video games and used to have a crush on me. But when we went into high school, his crush just...went away. I actually missed how he used to give me flowers in kindergarten.

Then there is Cathy Bogg, a hyper eccentric girl who really creeps me out. She jumps aorund like a kangaroo on crack, but she's really nice if she likes you. If she hates you...then you'd be a dead man...or girl.

Then there is Harris Eldora, also a nerd but is pretty scrawny, who exels at chemistry, metalshop, woodshop and math. He's very clumsy, doesn't really use his head a lot, despite being the mayor's son. Although he's a nerd, he's managed to avoid looking like one, with reddish-brown hair and green eyes and that lopsided grin, he was just so adorable. I actually had a crush on him in elementary school. But he liked Amanda Roberts, and there was nothing I could do about it.

Which brings me to her. Amanda Roberts. Popular girl, captain of the dance team, the lacrosse team and the cheerleading team, is an honor roll student, pretty much everyone's favorite, and is just downright beautiful. I'll admit, I'm pretty jealous of her. She's rich, pretty, talented, everyone loves her, she's just the perfect child.

And finally, there is Scott McKinley. A jock, captain of the football team and is sooooo cute. He seems really dense at times, but I had to work on an English project with him, and he really wasn't that bad. All the girls love him, and trust me, I'm no exception. Sometimes I catch him staring at me, and I wonder if he likes me. But that theory went down the drain when he started dating Amanda. He still is.

Well, I guess that's all I have to say for now. 'Til my next entry,

Ramona Shiloh Aaronson

"Hey guys...guys?...GUYS!" All three boys looked up from Adam's PSP to look at the girl.

"Ten bucks sais I can throw this Nerf ball right between the eyes of that dopey cheerleader over there," she said, gesturing to the group of popular girls across the hall.

"Which dopey cheerleader? Amanda?" Ramona narrowed her eyes at Danny, who cowered under her glare. The boys knew how much she hated Amanda.

"No Danny, I'm talking about Chloe." said Ramona, smirking at the blond girl chatting with her posse. Trey, Danny and Alvin smirked along with her.

"I'll take that bet!" said Trey.

"Me too!" Alvin added.

"I'd like to see you try!" Danny smirked, crossing his arms.

"Alrighty then, let's do this!" Ramona squeezed the Nerf ball in her fist and threw the ball towards the girl. The green toy flew across the hall and hit Chloe in the face, right between the eyes. Said girl's hands flew up to hold her face in pain, shifting her eyes to the laughing group of punks. She glared at them, before storming up to the group.

"What's your problem?" Ramona asked noncholantly. Chloe's glared harder at the punk girl.

"Do you really wanna know what my problem is?" she screeched, making the entire hallway go quiet.

"No, that was a retorical question, I don't wanna know anything from you." Chloe fumed and prepared and attack the punk, who dared her make a move, but two hands held the popular girl back.

"Let it go Chloe." Amanda said, blowing her bangs from her eyes, in the concieted way she always did. "You don't want to get in trouble."

"Yeah," Scott added, pulling Chloe away from the group of punks. "She doesn't deserve the attention."

Ramona felt her heart drop. He would never like her. She just wasn't worth it anyway.

Chloe, however, wasn't fazed. She shook off Scott and Amanda, turning to Ramona once more.

"You better watch it, punk." she said, flipping her hair over her shoulder. "Or I'll sue you for everything you own!"

"Well that wouldn't really matter. I don't own a lot anyway." Ramona thought.

"Wow, I'm soooooo terrified Chloe, I might just die from fear!" she said sarcastically, causing Trey, Danny and Adam to snicker at her remark.

Chloe let out a cry of frustration and tackled Ramona to the floor and threw wild punches at her face. Ramona reacted quickly and swung her fist into Chloe's ear, just like Randy did to her, causing Chloe to fly off of her and hold her ear. Ramona sprang up and threw herself onto Chloe and grabbed her hair and slammed her head into the floor repeatedly.

A crowd had gathered around the two and were hollering "FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!" constantly, but some attempted to pull them apart, only to recieve an elbow to the gut. Chloe and Ramona rolled all over the floor, throwing wild haymakers at each other. Chloe kicked Ramona in the gut and jumped onto her, punching her the nose until blood pooled down her face. Ramona slapped her with as much force as she could muster and wrapped her hands around her neck in a weak attempt to choke her. But Chloe still tried getting her off, with no avail.

"A'ight ye two, break it up!" a Scottish accented voice boomed, and suddenly Ramona felt a hand grab her shirt and yank her off Chloe. Mr. Belsh. He was Ramona's favorite teacher, she just wasn't his favorite student. In fact, she was pretty sure Harris was, since Mr. Belsh was friends with the mayor, but then again, he didn't like to play favorites.

"Both 'o ye! In mah office now!" he yelled, dropping Ramona on her feet, causing her to stumble forward and cough repeatedly. "And get this lass a rag so she won't choke on 'er own blood!"

Scott and Amanda lifted Chloe from the ground, Chloe was growling in anger. Ramona felt dizzy and she fell to her knees, holding her nose in an attempt to wipe the blood away, but it kept pouring down her face, into her mouth and dripping off her chin. Someone came forward, holding a small towel out to her. Without knowing who it was, she accepted the towel and held it to her nose. Ramona slowly looked up, and saw Harris Eldora looking concerned at her.

"You okay?" he asked. Ramona scowled for a moment, before giving a small "Hmhmm" to answer him. She faintly noticed Amanda glaring, a seemingly jealous look on her face.

That was confusing.

"Okay, now tell me why ye lasses were fightin' like that," Mr. Belsh asked, sitting down in his chair. Chloe and Ramona sat before him, looking like a mess. Chloe held an ice pack to her swollen eye, Ramona kept the towel Harris had given her to her nose and also holding an ice pack to her bruised knee.

"She was making fun of me! She mocked me and she threatened to beat me up! And she threw a ball at me!" Chloe practically screamed. Ramona scoffed.

"Are you kidding me? She threatened to sue me for everything I own! My life if crappy enough already! Sueing me would just make it worse!" Ramona shot back. Mr. Belsh sighed, running his hand over his face in annoyance as the girls began trading insults.

"A'ight ye two, enough! You both have detention, and yer gonna be cleaning the bathrooms after school today!" Mr. Belsh snapped, making both girls groan. "Now get to yer classes!"

As the girls got up to leave, Mr. Belsh spoke again. "Ramona! Come 'ere!" Ramona sat down again, looking confused.

"I can't help but wonder where that black came from." he said, pointing to Ramona's left eye. She reached up and touched it gently. Randy hit her the night before for swearing at him. It hurt. And she stayed in her room for the rest of the night. But she wasn't going to tell Mr. Belsh that.

"Chloe did it." she lied.

Mr. Belsh sighed. "Ramona, I know the lass didn't do that to you. Don't lie to me." Ramona bit her lip. Should she tell him? Or should she just keep it to herself? She was lost.

What was she gonna do?

Amanda Roberts was frustrated. Not only had her best friend gotten in trouble for getting in a fight, but Amanda and her boyfriend Scott had to wait for her, and miss half of their current classes! It frustrated Amanda very much. She also had to sit in a room with a group of punks.

Trey Aaronson, the punk/stoner, one of THE most annoying guys in the entire school. He smokes behind the bleachers, skips classes all the time, gets absolutely TERRIBLE grades and is a total jerk.

Danny Sommers, the punk with a fetish for yelling and saying very annoying things at the worst of times. Also smokes, but not as much as the other punks. He is very inconsiderable, is all talk and no walk (just like all the punks) and easily annoys people.

Adam Samuals, yet another stoner, and a HUGE pervert. He hits on punk girls all the time, and the occasional popular girl, but was probably just trying to annoy them. The only punk girl he didn't flirt with was Ramona Aaronson.

Ramona Aaronson, was the rudest, cruelest, most annoying, frustrating, evil, beotch punk girl Amanda had EVER had to have known. SHe was crude, loud, annoying, and not to mention VERY cocky. But she was the only punk who didn't smoke, for some odd reason. But there had always been something different about Ramona for some reason. She had some sort of vibe about her that made her different from the other punks. Ramona had an obvious crush on Scott.

Plus, her boyfriend Scott had an obvious crush on her. Amanda was only dating him because both of them had wanted to see if their actual crushes would be jealous. She REALLY like Harris Eldora, despite him being a clumsy, sarcastic toothpick of a nerd. He was just so darn cute and nice and...funny and...smart...

Amanda shook her head to clear her mind quickly, before she could start daydreaming about him again. She just couldn't understand him, but he was so much different from the other nerds.

When Chloe finally came out of Mr. Belsh's office, an ice pack to her eye, Scott and Amanda sighed and gave her a look that clearly said "What the hell were you thinking?". Chloe scoffed and continued out of the office.

When Scott and Amanda stood to leave, she saw the punks glaring at them, their eyes saying "Don't even THINK about hurting Ramona again if you know what's good for you!" Chloe, Amanda and Scott returned the glare, but the stare-off was broken when Mr. Belsh's door opened and Ramona limped out of the door.

Amanda shifted her gaze to the punk, her gaze hardened on the girl. Ramona returned the glare, an equal fire of hate and rage in her eyes. Because there was one thing that very clear between the two girls.

They hated each other.

Okay, so this was inspired by a lesson in English class and the book The Outsiders. And if you're confused with who's who, then I will list them.

Ramona Aaronson - Ruffnut Thorston

Treyton "Trey" Aaronson - Tuffnut Thorston

Amanda Roberts - Astrid Hofferson

Scott McKinley - Snotlout Jorgenson

Harris Eldora - Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III

Felix Antonio - Fishlegs Ingerman

Danny Sommers - Dogsbreath

Adam Samuals - Alvin

Catherine "Cathy" Bogg - Camicazi

Mr. Gordon Belsh - Gobber The Belch