A/N: I own nothing of the following story, the first 14 chapters belong to GreaserGirlie and I have just adopted the story, so I own nothing out of the first 14 chapters. I also want to make a quick thank you to OutsidersGirl1 who helped GreaserGirlie with the story. The OCs Julie and her mother both belong to GreaserGirlie. I hope that if you have read this story before that I do it justice.

Disclaimer: I own nothing, S E Hinton owns all the characters and rights to the outsiders and GreaserGirlie owns Julie and her mother.

This chapter is in 3rd person povJulie and her mom pulled up to their new house at about five o'clock in the evening. Their house wasn't much better than the last one they had. But their last house was gone now; nothing more than a big pile rubble and ash. You see, the reason they had to move was because their house had caught fire when Julie's dad fell asleep with a cigarette in his hand. Julie and her mother had both been out of the house; Julie in school and her mother at work. Unfortunately Julie's father, who was asleep at the time, didn't make it out. That was also part of why they were moving. They didn't want to stay in Tennessee because it reminded them of him. Julie had never had a perfect life, but then again who does? Her family was never rich and she never had the best grades, but she got along okay. She was sixteen and in the middle of her sophomore year in high school. She hated the idea of having to start somewhere new with all new people. And plus, she needed to find a job, but that could wait until some other day. Julie got out of the car and pulled out a box of her stuff. She looked up at her new house and noticed how it was slightly smaller than their old one.

"Everything will be okay, honey," Julie's mother assured her. Julie simply sighed and walked up to the front door and walked in. She thought it smelled weird, but decided not to say anything; things were hard enough for her mother. She walked up to her new room and set the box down. She still needed to get her bed and her dresser into there, which wasn't going to be easy. She walked back downstairs to find her mother leaning on the counter with her head in her hands.

"Mom," Julie called so her mother would look at her. She looked up and immediately started wiping the tears from her face.

"Hi sweetie, let's go get your bed," she said and walked back out to the car. Julie followed her and went outside. She looked across the street and saw three boys looking over at her. She noticed that one was incredibly handsome; almost movie star handsome. He wasn't much taller than her and he looked to be around her age. The other one looked a little younger, but still resembled the handsome one. She thought they looked so much alike that they could be brothers. The last one was darker and looked down as soon as Julie looked over so she didn't get a good look at him. She waved to them before getting back to unpacking. Maybe things won't be so bad here, she thought, after all with a guy like that around I could learn to love this place. The boys went back to messing around and continued down the street while Julie and her mother got her mattress out along with the bed post.

Soda was walking around with Pony and Johnny when they saw someone moving in across the street from where they were standing. A girl who looked to be about his age was walking out of the house when she saw them. She gave them a small wave before getting back to whatever it was she was doing. She was pretty, thought Soda, not gorgeous but pretty. She had light brown hair that came down to the middle of her back and she wasn't much shorter than him, which was a bit uncommon considering Soda was almost as tall as Darry now. He'd had a hard time getting over Sandy, but he thought that maybe meeting that girl would make it a little easier. He decided he'd come back when she wasn't so busy. They walked back to his house and when inside Soda told the rest of the guys about the girl they'd seen.

"So there's some new chick that just moved in down the street," he said to Steve who was sitting on the couch.

"She cute?" Steve questioned.

"Yeah…she's not Sandy, but she's cute," he sighed.

"Look, man, you really need to get over this whole Sandy thing. Just like I got over Evie." Steve had never cared much for Sandy, but then again no one had. Soda was the only one who actually liked her. Steve thought she was bossy and not even Soda's type, but who was he to tell him who to date. Steve had his own love life problems anyway. His girlfriend, Evie, had moved to California about a month and ago and as much as he said he was over her; he wasn't. Soda didn't say anything to Steve after that so Steve spoke again.

"You gonna go over and meet her?" he asked.

"Naw, I don't know. She's cute and all, but nothin' I need to be runnin' over there for," he replied. Steve nodded his head because he understood. Soda had girls all over him all day so a new girl down the street wasn't much.

Once everything was unpacked, Julie plopped down on her bed and groaned. She was sooo tired. It had taken them almost twelve hours to get to Oklahoma and she didn't sleep most of the way. She looked over at her clock and let a yawn escape from her mouth. She figured she could take a short nap before dinner. She let her eyes close as she drifted to sleep…

"Julie!" her mother called. Julie woke up and looked at her clock again and this time it read six thirty. It sure hadn't felt like an hour nap, Julie thought to herself. She walked downstairs and sat at the table with her mother. This would be the first dinner they'd had without her father.

"So I guess I'll be looking for a job tomorrow," Julie tried to start a conversation.

"Yes, that would be very helpful, Julie."

"You know I'll do my best to help, mom." Julie's mother gave a small smile and they continued to eat in silence. After dinner, Julie went back upstairs to lie down. She drifted off to sleep once again and the next time she woke up she could see the sun shining in through her window. She rolled over so she wouldn't be facing the sun, but just ended up falling flat on her face.

"Ouch! Stupid floor," she muttered getting up, "Mom?" she called. When she didn't hear an answer she went downstairs to see a note from her mother on the fridge.

Julie,

My new job starts earlier so I probably won't be there to greet you in the morning. It's just something we'll have to get used to. I want to you to go out and try to find a job today. You only have today to look because you have school tomorrow. I'll see you when I get home tonight, which will probably be later than usual. I love you so much.

Mom

Julie took a look at the clock and noticed that it was already eleven thirty. She went upstairs to take a nice long shower and it felt so good. She got out and found pair of denim shorts and a tie dye shirt. The shirt was a bit big so she wore a white wife beater underneath it and she tied the tie dye shirt above her waist. Once she was done she left her house and walked along until she came to a DX gas station. She could barely make out the 'Mechanic Wanted' sign hanging on the window. She knew how to fix a car better than most of the guys she knew back in Tennessee so she sauntered into the station and up to the counter. She couldn't believe it; the handsome guy she'd seen the day before was standing behind the counter!

"Well hi there. You're that new girl from around the corner," he said.

"Uh, yeah. I'm Julie Davidson," she informed him.

"Sodapop Curtis, but you can call me Soda," he stuck out his hand for her to shake, so she did. She was pretty sure her cheeks were red, but she tried to ignore it.

"Sodapop? That's an interesting name."

"Well yeah, my dad wanted us to have original names so…"he trailed off.

"Us?"

"Oh yeah, my brother Ponyboy I mean. You probably saw him yesterday," he smiled. She nearly melted at his smile.

"Oh okay. Well anyways I, uh, saw that you guys needed another mech-"

"Hey Soda, could you grab me a drink," a boy coming out of the garage cut her off.

"Now Steve, you wanna be a gentleman around the lady?" Soda asked the boy, whose name was apparently Steve, gesturing to Julie. She blushed a little bit and Steve rolled his eyes.

"Maybe she should leave, so you can actually do your job," the boy muttered and he walked around Soda to grab a drink. Julie took in his appearance and found him rather good looking. He was obviously the other mechanic because he had grease smudges on his face and all over his clothes. Julie never could resist a guy who knew his way around a car, even if he was as rude as Steve. He was almost as tall as Soda, but was more built than him.

Steve came in from the garage to get drink and he noticed Soda talking to some girl. Shocker! The girl was cute, but she was obviously interested in Soda…sometimes that got on his nerves, but he tried to push the jealous feeling away and focus on what Soda was saying to the girl. He saw that they were talking about him.

"Don't mind him," Soda whispered, "He's just been a little cranky since his girl left him."

"I can you, ya know," Steve said, "By the way, I'm Steve…Randle."

"Julie Davidson. I heard you guys needed a mechanic so I figured I'd come see if I could get the job," she spoke before she could be interrupted again.

"You wanna be a mechanic?" Steve scoffed.

"You don't think I can do it because I'm girl," Julie challenged him.

"If you're so good why don't you show us?" a man coming out of the manager's office said.

"Give me a car and I'll fix it." Steve led her over to the garage and pointed to a car, "Fix that one." Soda and the manger had followed them into the garage and were both amused by the situation because it wasn't every day they saw a girl who could fix a car. Julie took off her shirt so she had her only her wife beater on because there was no way she was getting her shirt all greasy. She heard a low whistle, but ignored it; she knew she had a big chest and she hated it. Every time she wore a tight shirt, guys make stupid comments about it. She looked at the car for a moment then started working on it. It didn't take her long to fix it and the manager, whose name was Brian, told her she had the job and she started her part time job after school the next day. After talking with Brian, Julie went back to the garage and smirked at Steve.

"Told you I could do it."

"Yeah and now you have to work with me every day."

"Except for Thursdays."

"But you still have to deal with me."

"I don't think that'll be so bad," she said with a slight smile. She really didn't think it would be that bad either; Steve sure was cute.

"That so?" he raised his eyebrow as he wiped his hands on an already dirty rag.

"Yup. See you tomorrow, Steve." With that she left. He thought he might have detected a bit of flirting, but he was probably wrong. The girls always came here after Soda, didn't they?

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