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Sodapop Curtis
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Let's Blow Everything Up Mar 24, 2013 13:25:57 GMT -5

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Post by Sodapop Curtis on Mar 24, 2013 13:25:57 GMT -5

For Evie and I please and thank you! Takes place a few months before the book since Soda is still in school.

BIC:

Chemistry. It was better than a few of my classes I guess, but not by much. I didn't exactly like science. Or math, or English, or history.... I wasn't built for school, and I'd long since accepted that fact. I still tried the best I could, but I just didn't see the point when no matter what I did I couldn't keep from failing. I wasn't about to tell Darry (not anytime soon at least,) but I'd been thinking for a while that it would make a lot more sense for me to drop out and switch to working full time at the DX. I wasn't doing any good sitting in school when I could be making more money... I was sure he'd tell me to finish out the year though, and so I was going to wait until the summer to bring up the idea.

Needless to say, I wasn't paying much attention to Ms. Jacobs. I wasn't going to pass anyway, and it was May. I was done trying. But I heard the part where she mentioned lab partners for the new unit, and I inwardly groaned. I hated lab partners.

Evie Whitton
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Let's Blow Everything Up Mar 25, 2013 0:24:54 GMT -5

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Post by Evie Whitton on Mar 25, 2013 0:24:54 GMT -5

Chemistry wasn't so bad. Sometimes. At least we had to have lab partners to suffer through it with us.

What I really didn't get was why I had to learn any of it. I was just going to get married and raise a few kids anyway. Chemistry seemed pointless in comparison.

I was relieved when I was assigned to Sodapop Curtis - who despite the weird name - was cute and definitely not a Soc. He didn't seem to be paying attention, as evidenced by the fact that when everyone started moving, he just kind of sat there. I sighed and grabbed my books, moving into the seat next to him.

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Let's Blow Everything Up Mar 25, 2013 19:51:50 GMT -5

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Post by Sodapop Curtis on Mar 25, 2013 19:51:50 GMT -5

I didn't listen as Ms. Jacobs gave out the partner assignments, but Evie Whitton came over to me as everyone else was getting up and moving around. I hadn't known her before this class and I still had never really talked to her at all, but she wasn't a Soc and she wasn't some science geek and that was good enough for me. It was probably the best I could have asked for, seeing as there was nobody in the class I really knew. Maybe this wouldn't be so bad.

I nodded a hello and stared down at the sheet the teacher handed out detailing what we were supposed to get done before the end of class. It was all gibberish to me. It was the last class of the day; I was a lot more interested in heading home.

Evie Whitton
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Let's Blow Everything Up Mar 25, 2013 20:57:05 GMT -5

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Post by Evie Whitton on Mar 25, 2013 20:57:05 GMT -5

Ms. Jacobs finished giving instructions once everyone quieted down and I looked at the sheet in front of me. It was a page of chemistry problems. Great. I sighed and turned towards Soda.

"Uh," I began. "Ah don' know 'bout ya'll, but chemistry ain't mah deal. Ah don' know what Ah'm doin' really."

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Let's Blow Everything Up Mar 26, 2013 0:51:17 GMT -5

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Post by Sodapop Curtis on Mar 26, 2013 0:51:17 GMT -5

I smiled. We probably wouldn't be able to get any of the problems on the worksheet done, but I was kind of glad I wasn't the only one with no idea what the hell was going on in this class. I hated it when we were learning something that everyone else understood but was going way over my head.

"Yeah, me neither," I shrugged. "I'm not any good at math or science. I always come up with the wrong answers."

Evie Whitton Administrator Minister of Making Things Orderly Posts: 3	Let's Blow Everything Up Apr 3, 2013 17:16:49 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Member Give Gift Back to Top Post by Evie Whitton on Apr 3, 2013 17:16:49 GMT -5 "So... What y'all is sayin' is that we should jus' submit t'our fate that we gonna fail?" I sighed. "Ah guess it's inevitable. Oh well."

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Let's Blow Everything Up Apr 15, 2013 18:56:17 GMT -5

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Post by Sodapop Curtis on Apr 15, 2013 18:56:17 GMT -5

"Pretty much," I shrugged, grinning. I would care, but I was pretty much beyond that at this point; there was no chance I'd pass this class. I didn't see why we wasted time doing stupid worksheets anyway. Especially when I had no idea what we were learning in the first place.