Charades! [Grease 2]

Chapter 2

I had not been able to talk with Michael for an entire day. All of the Pink Ladies and the T-Birds had decided to go bowling. We had not all saw each other a lot this past summer. We wanted to hang out together.

Stick by each other. I had been getting odd looks from Paulette since I arrived here. I was not sure why that was. I was going to find out. Johnny hands me a soda. He bought a round for all of us here.

"Did I do something to make Paulette mad at me? Would you tell me if I had?" Johnny whispers to me.

I shake my head. "I really don't know honest. She is not talking to me. But I will get to the bottom of this. Say Johnny?"

"Yes Steph?" he asks me.

"Did Michael happen to tell you if he planned on coming with us all tonight? I could not get a hold of him. I am really worried about him" I ramble on to Johnny.

"I asked him. We invited him out. He said he would try to make it. Sorry Steph" Johnny says as he gives me a half smile.

"Come on man! Let's bowl! That is what we came here to do right?" calls out Goose.

Luis smiles. "Let's bowl!"

I make my way over to Rhonda. "Say what is eatin Paulette?" I ask as I elbow her in the side.

"I was sworn not to tell. Sorry Steph" Rhonda admits.

"So, she is mad at me? That is why you can't tell me?" I beg her to know.

She sighs. "Look what is going on with you an Johnny? You both have been a little bit chummy lately. Is Michael out of the picture? He has not been around much" mentions Rhonda.

I glance over at Paulette's little sister who was over by the soda machine. She makes a face at me when she spots me looking at her. I glare back at her. I had a feeling that little rat was starting trouble for Johnny and myself.

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"There ain't nothin going on between Johnny and myself. I am still in love with Michael. And he is my boyfriend" I tell her. "I was upset the other night. Johnny happened to be there. Michael may have to be deported back home. We are trying to figure out a way to keep him here in the USA. Where he belongs", I whisper to her.

She gasps. Tears shine in her eyes for me. She hugs me. "Poor thing. Deported!?" she exclaims loudly as she hugs me. Everyone is surrounding me now.

"Is that what the news was Steph? Is Michael being deported?" pipes up Paulette.

"Ya" I sigh as I pull back from Rhonda's death grip.

"God I am so sorry" Paulette tells me.

"Me to. There is nothing going on with me and Johnny. Really. He was there when Michael gave me the bad news is all. I can't believe I am going to lose him when I just found him. And he won't talk to me about it right now" I sniff. Tears come to me. They all hug me. "I need to step outside a moment. For a smoke. I will be right back" I tell them.

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I rush out of the bowling alley. I stand there in the spot where I first met him. My cool rider. He became my dream man. Scratch that. All along he had been my dream man. I was to blind to notice that.

I groan. I look at the sky. Making another wish. Back when I thought Michael had died my world fell apart. Now loosing my cool rider all over again was killing me inside. I wish for a way that he could stay with me.

I close my eyes and hang my head. I hear a motorcycle run beside me. I open my eyes to find Michael standing there before me with his bike. He smiles. I gasp happy to see him.

"Michael!" I call his name.

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He takes off his helmet. He had on his sexy leather jacket that I adored on him. His sandy blond hair was never out of place. I rush to his side. I embrace him. I feel his arms go around me. I close my eyes not wanting to leave this spot.

"Sorry I did not call you back Steph. So much is on my mind. I was trying to figure everything out" he finally tells me. "I know you meant well by wanting to marry me. But I don't want your family to think I am using you to get a green card. I want them to know how much I love you"

"All that matters to me is that you are here with me. I can't lose you again" I ramble on.

"I talked to my cousin Sandy. I asked her how she managed to stay in the country after school was over" he admits.

I glance into his eyes. "What did Sandy say?"

"She married Danny" he chuckles. "They are expecting their first kid in May this year"

"Wow. You see? We should marry" I beg him.

He shakes his head. "I am going to look into things. I maybe able to go to college over here. Then in four years or less when I finish we can marry then. Maybe you can go to college with me"

That was another thing that kept us apart. Michael was super smart. I was not so much. I already knew that college was not for me. I accepted that a long time ago. I was grateful that I made it out of high school.

Let alone get into a college. Michael was going to stay, go to college. Meet the perfect girl he that would be his match. Someone smarter than me. And see we were not right for one another. I shake my head.

"No, I am never going to college Michael. I told you that" I warn him.

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He groans as he tries to hold onto me. I pull back. Was this the end for us??

"I told you before Paulette, there is nothing going on with Stephanie and myself! When you come around to your senses then come find me" I hear Johnny yelling as he backs out of the door of this place.

Johnny blinks as he spots us.

"Sorry to hear about having to leave Michael. Is there a way you can stay?" Johnny asks him.

"Steph and I were just discussing that right now" Michael tells him.

"Johnny can you give me a ride home please??" I beg Johnny. I needed to clear my head. Maybe figure out if this love between us was worth the fight with Michael or over with already before the fight for it began.

"What about Michael?" wonders Johnny.

"No, please just take me home huh Johnny?" I beg him.

"Sure Steph. See ya Michael" he answers. I go to follow him to his bike.

"Steph!" Michael calls out to me.

I wave my hand goodbye to him.

I hop on Johnny's bike. Not caring what the world thought right now. I only new I needed to get home. And to be alone. Away from everyone.

Including Michael Carrington. I see Paulette and her little sister coming out of the bowling alley as they watch me leave with Johnny. I needed some space. Maybe I was not the one for Michael. Not matter how much my heart wanted him to be the one. Maybe Michael was meant to be my first broken heart.

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