Chapter 1; Rules are More like Guidelines, Right?

School's out, what's next from here for Annebel Williams and her friends?

He turned to face me and smiled that sly smile that always seemed to hold the answers. "You going to walk away?" he asked softly but cocky. At first, I was ready to say yes. I was ready to leave him in the dust like I should. Like the right choice. However, I suddenly had the urge to follow him. It suprised me how strong it was, this burning desire to just, for once in my life, explore outside the limits I'd been given. So, with the same smooth confidendance that shadowed my hesistation as before, I turned to face him with a smirk.
"No, I never said that," I said softly as the small breeze of summer freshness danced with my hair.
"You never said you would," he responded as he leaned against his car. "So, you comin' doll face?" he asked with a nod to the car, signaling for me to hop in.
I sighed and grinned. "You're not going to kidnap me, are you?" I teased as I crossed my hands over my chest, making a face.
He laughed that sly cat laugh he was famous for before saying, "Yeah, I might. Got a problem with that?"
I chuckled and shook my head as I did so. "No, no I don't."



Chapter one; Rules are more like Guide lines, Right?


As time ticked away, I felt myself grow even more restless in the small desk of my last hour class. It was the last day of school and the beginning of summer. My heart was pounding hard with sweet anticipation of the freedom I and everybody else would recieve the moment that bell tolled 3:30 PM. It was 3:25, and as I clicked my nails impatiently against the desk and glared at the clock for being so slow, my mind wondered off to all the summer bliss I would expect. From all the lake parties, swimming at the near by lake, to hanging with my friends without the worry of homework, I felt a jolt of eagerness rush over me. I could almost taste the sweet vanilla ice cream dripping on the sides from sitting on the curb with Darcy and Dana in the hot June day in Oklahoma. I could also smell the heavy salty scent of the large lake that made up most of Burmington's size. I smiled brightly as the memory of last summer's fun in the sun on the beach hit my mind. I couldn't help but remember the time my best friend Darcy had acidentally lost her swimsuit top while swimming and having to stay in the water till I came back with her other clothes. A small chuckle escaped my lips as I thought of the look on her face from the experience. I also started to remember the big parties that Summer was always famous for bring out. I smiled at the thought of all the dancing and laughter as the night turned to the early hours of morning. Not to mention all the fliratious behavior from all the Soc boys that always occured. However, I wasn't much up for hidding away from this attraction of males. I loved to just play and toy with boys as we danced to Elvis and jitterbug tunes. The very memory of last year's big summer fest jam and how I ended up getting alittle ditzy only added to my thrill for school to be over with.
"Only a couple more minutes...." I whispered to myself as I tried to control the impulse to sprine out of class started to buzz feircly. It was now 3:28PM. Only 2 more minute till I was out of this high school for 3 mouths. Only 2 minutes till I could finally have fun again and enjoy my life freely. Sure, next year was my last year as a high school and the pressure to figure out what I'd do after school was lingering in the back of my head with nervousness, I still just wanted to enjoy myself. Even if it was just for a short amount of time. I mean, I was only 17 years old, going on to 18, and I had yet to experience so many things. I still hadn't lost my virginity, which by now ever girl in school had already done. Course I wasn't going to let them know. I had also never fallen in love before. Sure, I had boyfriends here and there, but nothing like the things I have heard or read before. You know, those precious moments you felt whenever you were near someone you loved very much, how your heart seemed to futter deep in your chest and that thought that this just might be the one; yeah, I can't say I've ever felt that way about a guy.
"School's out!" shouted a boy in the back of my class as he stude up from his seat and raised his hands in the air. Suddenly, the bell rung loud and echoed through the hall. I felt myself jump at the sound of the bell and could hear the sound of chanting and screams and shouts of pure bliss. In no time, Everyone in my class was cheering their heads off and dashing best the doorway. I, being one of those eager kids to get out of this school.
"Thank god this is all over..." I heard the teacher say with a sigh of relief, however, I didn't stay after long enough to see what he did next because in no time i was out in the halls of this high school, joining the rest of the eager adolescents. Some jumped in the air, some hugged each other in celebration, and other were hurrying to their lockers to retreive their things and get the hell out of here. That was exactly what I was doing when I heard someone tap me on the shoulder.
"Dolly! Why ain't cha hoppin' and boppin' like the rest of us?" asked a sweet toned voice from behind me. I knew all to well whose that belonged to. Darcy Callean. One of 2 in the 3 musketeers.
I stopped everything that I was doing and turned to face her with a bright smile. "Ahh, I'm sorry Darcy, I can't help it. I just want to get out so badly out of here that I guess I forgot," I said with a cheery laugh at the end. Darcy just shook her head, making her short curly blond hair bounce. "Well, that won't be for long. Clark invited me, you and Dana to the drivethrough movies! Bobby Browns gonna be there!" jumped my small but overly happy friend with a sqeale. I chuckled at her reaction and went back to packing my things. By now, the hall ways were almost empty. "Come on, Dolly! Ain't cha happy? I got us some date with Clark Davidson, Freddy Burnings, and Bobby Browns! Ain't they, like, thee biggest hot buns you ever did see?" asked Darcy with an incredious expression of shock. Her crystle blue eyes shone with eagerness.
I closed my locker and looked at Darcy. "Well, of course I am. Its just that--I don't know, I really want to get out of here so, lets get the hell out!" I said with emphesis on the last part. With a roll of her eyes, she and I rushed out the door, and into the warm air called summer freedom!
Suprisingly, I could see that all the the student body of Burmington was out on the front of the school with their groups. On the stairs that layed in front of us, the hippies were gathered around Christian Ryans, the leader of the Peace and Love Movement. As usual, he had over his shoulder his flower-painted guitar, playing some smooth and quick tone that was making the nearby girls sway their head side to side. On the other side of the stairs, away from the hippies, were the tipical nerd herd, embracing each other for the final time before they would have to leave to math camp or some other camp I really didn't want to think about. Sherlie May, one of the nerds, began to cry as she hugged her equally nerdy boyfriend Roger Trimmling. He too was about ready to cry. I sighed as my eyes flickered away from the scene while Darcy continued to praise the lord for the chance to go on a date with Clark Davidson and then I saw the local outcast laughing away on the northside wall, huddled together as they slowly started to departure and hug each other. Raven O'Neil kissed her best guyfriend, Charlie Simmons, on the cheek before walking away to her bike.
As Darcy started to walk ahead of me, I couldn't help but notice that the diverse crowd of my high school was not only excited to be released from its grasp, but was also mixed with the bittersweet feelings of knewing that it would cut out the fun in fooling around with dear friends. Suddenly, I too was starting to feel the bittersweetness as I followed Darcy. However, I had little time to savor that moment once I was in a death lock with Dana Felding.
"Dolly, can you believe it! Its finally summer! And here I thought I was never going to get out..." said Dana in her husky but soft voice as she sqeezed me even more. If that was possible.
I choked out a small laugh. "Ha, Dana...leave it to you to be so excited..." I said sarcastically and she tossed her pretty red head back to laugh.
"Yeah, does it show?" asked Dana before she, thankfully, let me go. My back suddenly ached and I had the strongest urge to just rub my back from her hug, but I knew Dana would never let me live that one down for being a baby.
So, I just distracted her with a smirk. "Guess what, appearantly we have dates!" I said and in no time Darcy had gone hysterical with info, gushing deleriously of all that could possible happen. Dana, who wasn't a chick for talking and gossiping, sent me a look of 'Oh no, you did not just start her up'. I shrugged with a hard-to-hold-in smile.
Sorry, I mouthed from behind Darcy to Dana. She just sighed and rolled her bright evergreen eyes at our blonde friend. "Ahh, come on, Darcy! I was plannin' on going to the jitter dance at 'Mark's'..." said Dana. I immediatly snapped my head at Dana's news.
"'Mark's' is having a jitter dance?" I asked, walking a little closer to her. I absolutely loved Mark's restuarant! It was were we three usually hung out after school. It was also were my family went to every other weekend. The restuarant itself wasn't impressive as far as fanciness goes, but it was a place were everyone had grown up with and over the years everyone was pretty fond of it. Mark's was a place of unity for Burmington.
Dana shook her head and placed a hand on her hip. "Yeah, tonight's suppose to be a big celebration and stuff, but Little Ms. Flirty over here's bein' pressistant," she responded as she looked down at Darcy with a skeptical look. Darcy didn't seem to notice.
"How 'bout this? We go with the boys to the drive-in theater, hang out, and than go over to jitter dance? That way, I get my action, Dana gets her dancin', and Dolly...." she paused as she tried to figure out some way I would benifit from all this talk of tonight. "Well, she can have her summer fun!" Finished my blonde friend with a sweet grin. It really was hard saying no to someone like Darcy with that smile.
As always, Dana fell victime to her kidish sweetness and sighed with defeat. "Fine, kid. But if those boy's so much as look at me the wrong way, they're gonna wish you can jitter dance their a*s of to the ER..." warned the red-head and tucked her hands in her jeans. Darcy just sqealed with pure bliss.
"Yay, I'ma go see if Clerk already left to tell him the news, then from there I'll just walk home. Well, toodles gals!" She chirped before practically skipping away to her dear Clerk Davidson. I swear, the girl was sometimes way to into guys. Dana seemed to notice this too and chuckled.
"Damn, the girl seriously need to find another hobby. 'Stead of stalk them poor boys..." muttered Dana before pulling out a cigeratte from her bag. Seconds later, her small silver matcher was close by the cancer stick already on her pink lips. "So, Dolly. You as excited as little Ms. Flirty over there?" she asked, nodding her head over to Darcy who was rounding the corner of the street, happiness still visible in her walk. I smiled.
"About the dance, yeah. The whole three date thing? Not so much," I replied. Dana just nodded thoughtfully as she stared off to the side. Her evergreen eyes suddenly turned wide and then relaxed with a warm smile in her irises. I couldn't help but flicker my sight toward the direct object of her deep pleasure.
I too let my eyes grow wide with suprise. Only fear was the next thing that jolted through me rather then happiness. It was them. The greasers.
"Ummm...Dana," I began before I jumped at Dana's yell.
"Hey, you greaser in the blue! Get your a*s over here!" shouted my red-head friend while waving her hand high. They were a yard away, surrounding in a big clot around their leader. Dana had just called out one of them and suddenly, but of course, we got all of them instead to look up from their talk and grin mischeviously at us. I nearly wanted to just die right then and there. The looks we were getting made my skin crawl and even though I was covered well, I suddenly felt very, VERY, naked.
"Hey babe, what's a cutie like ya done all alone? Ain't they warnin' you about guys like us?" Asked one of the greasers once all of them, in seconds, had strided over to us. Dana didn't seem so worried, nervous, and alert as I felt. She just laughed at the greaser's question before blowing a puff of smoke out. If she was scared, she sure was good as hell in hidding it. I knew I was ready to scream and run.
Dana sighed and grinned. "yeah. Even set up some rules on how to stay away from ya. But rules are more like guild lines, right?" she aswered with another question. If I didn't know better, Dana was definatly flirting with him. I tried to let my shock sink in, but I had no time to think before I saw one person push their way forward into our view.
"Well well well... lookie what we got here. A hot red and a Doll face? Alone, no less," said a husky slay voice from my left side. I nearly hit the heavens when I saw who it was. "Boy, ain't they fine?" he asked all around.
It was Fabian Carter. A.K.A. Jimmy boy. Thee badest greaser in Burmington and probably in the whole world. He was definatly the kind of guy that you didn't want to mess with and had the biggest irrogent ego around here. Which, in most cases around here, was the big reason for all the fights he's gotten into around school. That alone was enough to scar smart, logical guys to stay away. But girls? For some strange reason, girls around here couldn't get enough of his bad attitude and wicked sense of charm. Plus, he was really hot. However, for me, that wasn't enough alone to make me like him. He seemed to notice my uneasiness and chuckled.
"Awe, what's the matter, Doll face? Ain't cha feelin' the chemistry be havin' right now?" He asked with a crooked smile as he closed the distance between us. I stepped back alittle but was met by a wall called his friend.
Dana turned her head toward Fabian with a scowl. "Hey, leave her alone. The only chemistry you gettin' from her is the need to flee. And since when did you get an intrest in chemistry? Ain't cha failing that class?" spat Dana as she took a few steps to my side. "Besides, Dolly's too good for your bad a*s," she added with a laugh as she finished her cigeratte and throw the bud to the ground. Then, she just wrapped an arm around my neck. I staggered slightly to keep balanced, never letting my gaze fall from Fabian. Who, like me, was staring right back with a smirk on his face.
"So, your name's Dolly, Doll face? Fits you well. Just like my last name would fit will after it," he said softly before the rest of his gang chuckled. I felt sick and was ready to throw up.
"No, it ain't Dolly. My name's Annebel Williams. But my friend call me Dolly. Also, there's no way in hell I'm gonna put my name near yours," I spat, anger rushing through my hot blood. Suddenly, fear turned to the urge to punch him straight in that filthy mouth of his. However, Fabian didn't seemed fazed at all by my outburst. Actually, he looked very please. Dana, from the corner of my eyes, looked suprised by my outburst. I wasn't known to snap. But then again, this was Jimmy boy...
"Come on, Dolly. Lets get outta here before you decide to do something you'll regret," whispered Dana in my ear. She then turned her head and nodded to the greaser in blue before shoving us through the crowd. They all just laughed, but Fabian wasn't ready to let me go just yet.
I felt his hand brush against my wrist and all the blood in my face sink. "Hold on, I ain't ready to let you go, Doll face. Heard you were a pretty good jitterbug dancer. How's about you show me some moves down at Mark's? I'd love to see you shimmy around," said Fabian with a slay smile. I stood there, too stuned to even say anything. Was he asking me out?
"ahh, no," I said flatly before jerking my hand away and stepped a few steps ahead. Dana following with great joy.
"Get real, Jimmy Boy. Dolly's not into the unsecessful," chimmed Dana before we walked away from the group of greasers. I glanced over my shoulder to see that Fabian was watching me walk away, with a slay confidence to his stand. From his perfectly greased brown locks, pretty hazel eyes, leather jacket, to his scratched up boots, everything about Fabian Jimmy Carter screamed confidence. It was as if he knew he was going to win me over.
The very thought of that made me scoff. There was no way I was, or ever will be, into him. But with one last glance, I couldn't help but feel curious to know more to that slick smugness in those hazel hues...
 

Author's Note

ignore grammer problems. What do u think?

Reviews

[Rainbow Rider]

This is not a review yet, just my first thoughts. I will come back after posting this to actually read this story. Two things jump out. First the Teenie Tiny print. Makes it really hard for most people to read. Second the lenght. If you are wanting reviews, I would suggest posting this in at least two, if not three parts. Like Chapter One, part 1, part 2, etc. A lot of people won't bother to read this long of a post, especially with this small of a font. Just my friendly advice. Now I'm off to squint and try to read. {LQTM}

[Rainbow Rider]

First the bad news, a few things that are slightly wrong;

"However, I suddenly had the urge to follow him. It suprised me how strong it was, this burning desire to just, for one in my life, explore outside the limited I'd been given."

If you read this as a stand alone sentence you will see what is wrong. 'one should be ONCE and 'limited should be LIMITS. I do like this opening though, it sets a nice tone.

Ahhh this damn tiny print! {lol}
I'll be back later,, to let you know how I liked the story, I promise i won't nit pick in all my posts. ,,,,,Mhk Melvin