Chapter 12 - The hearing

The hearing wasn’t as scary as I thought it would be. There were only a few people there. They didn’t ask me many questions. Everybody said that Johnny killed Bob, which was a lie. Or maybe they didn’t know the truth. I wondered why nobody could get it right. When it was my turn, I didn’t get to tell everyone the truth, because they didn’t ask me who killed Bob. Then a few days passed, kinda normal, but something was different. I was bashing into things, and getting bad grades. One day, my english teacher told me that I was failing english. He said he could pass me with a C if I came up with a good piece of writing. One time, some Socs came up, but I scared them away. I got home, and Darry yelled at me for getting bad grades all the time. So I yelled at him back. Then Soda ran out, telling us not to fight. We went after him, and quickly caught up. He said he wanted us to stop fighting. We all went home, and I came to my senses. Johnny WAS dead. Johnny HAD killed Bob. Then I thought. I knew what I was going to do for my english. I started writing the story... of what had happened.