Okay this is my Quizilla story: Stuck Between Two Worlds (A Johnny Cade Love Story). my first 2 chapters got deleted. Quizilla got a "bug" recently and everyone's stories are getting deleted. So I decided to put what I have got of this story on FanFiction. I don't remember the first 2 chapters and I don't know how to start the first chapter unfortunately so the story might not seem very… I don't know. But sorry if the chapters seem short and not as detailed. and I'm sorry it has to start on chapter 3 :\
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE OUTSIDERS OR BRIE (she is her own person) this was a story written for her. I only own the characters: Dylan, Jack and Manny.
Ch.3: The DX Station
It had felt like hours and hours and Brie was complaining. Manny, Dylan and Jack were giving her annoyed looks but told her they weren't there, yet. They finally passed the Oklahoma borderline and into the towns.
It looked really homey. Not very city like but just fine enough.
"Doesn't seem very city-ish." Brie noted as they entered a recent town called "Tulsa". Manny snorted his green eyes rolling with it.
"You think all the towns we'll go to will be a city? We can't afford very much you know." he said before asking Jack, who was driving the bus, how much gas they needed. He checked the gas needle, which was dipping toward Empty.
Manny muttered a curse to see they were extremely low. "It'll be your fault if this bus breaks down on us and we're not even in Oklahoma City, yet." he said and Dylan held back a laugh. Jack sighed and started to exit toward the nearest gas station when there was a sputtering iin the engine.
"What the hell?" Dylan asked in shock and Brie looked around. It sounded like the engine, from the sputtering noises it was making and the coughing cha-hunking sounds and how badly it was losing speed.
"That better not be the engine. I'd prefer it to be us losing the gas." Manny said bitterly, irritated obviously. Brie rolled her eyes at the boy's attitudes. This was one thing she didn't like about being in a boy's band; they didn't have a good attitude when it came to traveling. No patience and always had major freakouts when something serious happened to the bus. It was stupid in her opinion. Yet, she always freaked if something bad happened to her bass guitar. But that was different.
"It's probably just the gas running on low. Pull over to that gas station." Brie pointed out to the side of the road and Jack listened just in time for the engine to make a loud sputtering noise and hiss out a bunch of steam and smoke.
Manny cursed out a bunch of profanities and Brie sighed loudly. She walked to the front of the bus and got out while the boys settled things out.
They were at a gas station called The DX. Seemed cozy enough. Inside she spotted two boys in what she suspected their uniforms for the station.
"Hmm..." Brie mumbled to herself when she heard the boy's stumble out of the bus.
"The DX huh.." she heard Manny mutter and sigh loudly. "Well, we need someone to fix the bus." he muttered annoyed. Brie rolled her eyes and looked around before back at him. She was getting tired of Manny's, and slightly of the other boy's attitudes. And she figured she would tell him.
"Manny, you oughta take it easy and be a bit more calm and respectful you know." she said looking at him with almost a cautioun in her eyes. Manny looked at her as if she spoke insane words.
"What did you say to me?" he asked walking up to her.
"You heard me. I dont like your attitude lately and it's going to change!" Brie nearly shouted at him, getting Dylan's and Jack's attention. They didn't like where they were going so they stood back and got back on the bus and watched from the window, but stood close to the door in case any wild fire broke out.
Manny growled lowly in his throat, not liking how Brie was suddenly demanding him to do what he didn't have to do. He was 18 and she was only 15. He didn't need someone three years younger than him telling him what to do or when to do it.
"I can have an attitude if I want, Brieanna." he said using her full name. Brie clenched her teeth together. She hated when someone used her full name. It was her number one peeve.
"Don't call me that." Brie said crossing her arms. Manny smirked.
"I'll do whatever I please." Brie let out a sigh of frustration.
"You know! You're so! So... Immature! Disrespectful and so many things I could list you wouldn't believe!" she shouted loudly it echoed the deserted gas station. Manny stood stunned and glared at Brie.
"Yeah? Well you're young to be in a band and maybe we shouldn't have let you join!" this stung Brie and just as he was about to say more, a guy from the gas station came running out.
"Hey man, take it easy." he had a handsome face and golden blonde hair. He stunned Brie and she was looking at him with almost disbelief. Manny glared at the kid who ran out but then turned on his heel and stormed away.
Brie sighed and looked down, holding her arm and rubbing it awkwardly.
"Sorry you had to hear all that." she murmured softly to the stranger who was smiling at her softly. He seemed to be friendly but she felt really shy all of a sudden.
He shook his head a bit.
"It's fine. I just dont like seein' girls get yelled at. That's why I stood up for ya." he said with a wink, making Brie blush a little. He laughed a bit and led her inside, while His friend Steve took care of the others outside and the bus.
"What's your name stranger?" he asked Brie flashing a pearly white smile at her. Brie smiled a bit.
"My name's Brie." she said and smiled at him. "Yours?" she asked leaning against the counter in the gas station. He grinned at her in return.
"Sodapop Curtis." she smiled.
"That's a...unique name." she said choosing her words carefully. He smiled.
"Thanks. I got a brother named Ponyboy." he said making Brie smile.
"Really? That's cool. Maybe I'll get to meet 'em." she said though she highly doubted it. He chuckled.
"yeah maybe. So..what's this band you're in? That that guy mentioned?" Soda asked curious. Brie's smile faded a bit.
"Oh, that. I'm in a band with them. We perform in local places when we're called for gigs. Our next gig is in Oklahoma City. This Saturday. You can come if you want." Brie said shyly and Soda smiled.
"I'll have to see what my older brother says about it." he said with a smile. "In the meantime, wanna hang here and I can show you around after work? You can meet my brother and my friends." Brie smiled. It could get her to cool off from Manny and they didn't have to leave for a few hours.
"Okay." she agreed with a smile.
Brie looked out the window. The sun beat down on the pavement and it was noon when they arrived. She talked to Sodapop as he worked and met Steve when he came back in the store. Eventually she had the feeling of boredom overwhelming her. It pulled at her like when she tugged at her bass strings on her bass guitar but she tried to ignore it, until she felt like she was going to burst.
"Soda? You mind if I walk around? Explore the town?" she asked, holding her bass in one hand a coke in the other. Soda grinned at the girl.
"Nah I dont. Just be careful okay?" Brie nodded and took off, finishing up her coke and leaving without Dylan, Jack or Manny seeing her. Brie smiled as she strummed her bass playing random notes and humming to herself. She saw the neighborhood looked beat down and nothing like Chicago at all. She frowned as she found herself deeper within the neighborhood, the houses looking worn down.
She had passed a park not to long ago and wound up in a lot. She sighed and sat down, feeling bored and tired of walking.
"What to do, what to do..." she muttered and started playing a song when light footsteps approached behind her making her singing and playing come to an abrubt hault.