Chapter 1: To Get Distracted Easily Is Nor- Birds

Love Has No Borders

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, I do not own "The Outsiders" or any of the Curtis' Gang. Sigh. The real owner of "The Outsiders" is my favorite author, the fabulous S.E. Hinton. I also do not make a profit from the stories that I write here on this site.

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Ages (As of Christmas, 1965):

Hannah June: 12

Two-Bit: 18

Steve: 17

Sodapop and Johnny: 16

Pony: 13

Dallas: 17

Darry: 20

Backstory (that I can't fit into this story): Hannah June Curtis was adopted from Germany when she was 9, almost three years ago. She has moderate ADD and is slow in school. She has mild Asperger's syndrome.

Third Person POV (February 1st, 1966)

Hannah June sat at the coffee table doing her reading homework while her older brothers' friend sat on the couch finishing off another beer. The German native couldn't seem to concentrate on the book she was reading.

"Two-Bit! I can't gist thist vaht!" The young girl complained in broken English and German.

Two-Bit rolled off of the Curtis's couch and slid into the seat next to his friend. She pulled her wavy, caramel hair back into a ponytail to get it out of the way. Her murky ocean blue eyes stared at Two-Bit, waiting for his help.

"This word?" He corrected her. Within the last year or two, Two-Bit had gotten really good at picking out German words in his best buddy's little sister's English. All of his past English teachers would be shocked at his actions.

Hannah jutted out her bottom lip, which had a small scar over it going up, affecting her speech.

"You could walk to Texas on that clip," Two-Bit drawled lazily. Hannah have him a confused state. "Sphere?"

"Yaaaa," Hannah dragged out, nodding. "Zat vord." She pointed out the word "sphere" on the page.

"Sph-ere," Two-Bit pronounced slowly.

"Sp-ahr," Hannah mimicked back the word, plus her thick accent.

"Close," Two-Bit mimicked the word again, sans her accent. The next time, Hannah was closer.

"Sp-are," she said. Then, she looked up out of the window at two birds chirping. "Ve had bads in Deutschland."

Two-Bit laughed at her random comment. "What kind of birds?"

"Tauben, Pelikane, und Spechte," Hannah informed her brother after a moments hesitation. She wasn't sure what the English words were for Pelicans, woodpeckers, and doves, so she recited the German translations.

"Sounds beautiful. Do you understand the rest of this book?" Two-Bit clarified, switching back to their original topic. Hannah nodded.

"Yas. Ich liebe dich," Hannah proclaimed to her practically brother. Two-Bit grinned fondly and echoed the German translation of "I love you too."

Steve and Soda burst into the house after work.

"Hey, Hannah," her brother called. "Wanna come with me to pick up Ponyboy from track practice?"

"Yah," Hannah replied, bringing her reading book out to Darry's truck with her.

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A/N: Seemd like an akward place to stop, but I have my reasoning. Which character should Hannah be closest with, besides Two-Bit? (I don't think that I will have him be the closest relationship one.

Does everybody understand what Hannah is saying? And the reason Hannah had so many problems (cleft lip, ADD, autism...) is because while Germany is a developed country, WWII left the country in ruins for decades. Hannah was just an orphan and she lived about two hours south of Berlin (80 miles). So there's your little history lesson of the day. :) Thanks for reading.

Word Count: 663 words.

Aufenthalt Gold,

~Alee