Katerina's POV
My name is Katerina (Kat-er-i-na). I usually dress like a girly girl, but don't let that fool you because I'm a complete tom-boy. I am Soda's and Pony's older and Darry's younger sister. I don't like school, so I skip it a lot, but I manage to get all A's and B's. I smoke a lot, but less than Pony and I drink sometimes too. Darry and I don't get along too well, since I break most of his rules, but he doesn't hate me. He gets upset with me a lot because he says I'm a bad influence on Pony, since Pony looks up to me. I love Elvis and my favorite song is Jailhouse Rock. Most of the gang doesn't like that song though, since I play it so often. Out of everyone in the gang, I'm most like Dally or Two-Bit. I'm like Dally because I close off my emotions and pretend like I don't care about anything or anyone, even though I do. I'm like Two-Bit because I like to joke around and shoplift.
"Katerina! Where the hell were you? You promised that you'd be back by 11:30pm! Its 1am!" My brother Darry yelled.
"I was," I started. "Nope, you know what, screw it! I'm on house arrest, and I need to go to my room to think about why I'm in trouble. Got it."
I walked up to my room and climbed out the window. "Hey Barbie!" I said quietly to my friend Karyn. Her nik-name was Barbie because she looked exactly like a Barbie, except she didn't look like plastic.
"How much trouble you in?" She asked.
"Not enough." I joked. "I'm on house arrest. I'm not sure for how long though."
"So you don't care if you get in any more trouble?"
"No. I can always squeeze my way out of trouble." I told her.
"So we're still going to get tattoos?" She asked anxiously.
"Yep!"
We jogged across the street to her place and got in her car. We drove over to the tattoo parlor and we thought about what tattoo we wanted to get. It didn't take me long to decide what I wanted, so I ended up getting mine first. I was getting 'Life is too short to fear death' on my arm. It was my favorite quote.
"Aww shit." I complained. "I knew it was gonna hurt like hell but I didn't think it would hurt this much."
"Aww, is the poor baby in pain?" Karyn teased.
"Shut up, Barbie." I said annoyed.
After what felt like forever it was Barbie's turn to get her tattoo. She decided to get a tattoo with her name in Chinese. I looked at her and I heard he mutter under her breath and saw her flinch a bit. I chuckled and smirked at her.
"Poor Barbie, does it hurt?" I mocked. She glared at me and continued to mutter stuff under her breath. She didn't take as long as me since her tattoo was a lot smaller.
After we left she dropped me off at my place and I climbed through my window. I lay down on my bed and hoped that no one noticed I was gone. After lying down for a little bit I fell asleep.
"Wake up Katerina. Darry wants to talk to you." Soda informed me.
I walked down stairs and I saw Darry reading the paper in his arm chair. He gave me a weird look and asked "What's that?"
I looked down to see the bandage covering my tattoo. I meant to wear something that would cover it but I guess I forgot. "It's a bandage." I said.
"Well I know that! Why are you wearing it?" He said annoyed.
"Because I got a tattoo." I told him like it was the most obvious thing in the world.
"What!" Darry asked ripping off the bandage. "You are in-"
"Deep trouble." I cut him off. "Darry I was drunk!" I lied
"I don't care!" He yelled.
"Come on Darry!" Pony but in. "At least she didn't jump off a bridge like last time."
"You guys are so annoying." Darry muttered. "Soda defends Pony, Pony defends Katerina, and Katerina defends, no one."
When I jumped off a bridge I was not drunk at all. That was a lie.
-Flashback-
We were leaving Buck's because, like always, his party was boring. We stopped to look at the ducks under the bridge.
"I'm so bored." I complained "I want to do something actually fun."
"Me too!" Barbie agreed. "I know what to do!"
"What?" I asked her.
"This!" She yelled and dived off the bridge. I laughed as I watched her. She loved to swim more than a fish. I jumped in after her but I ended up hitting a rock. It didn't cause too much damage though, fortunately. But it did knock me out for a few hours.
When I woke up I was on the couch and Darry and Pony were looking at me. They looked scared to death. I looked around the room and the only other person there was Barbie.
"Are you okay?" Darry asked me.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I told him. Next time he asks me if I'm okay I will say no, because I had a killer head ache but Darry started yelling at me for jumping into the lake. I still think that he was only worried Pony or Soda might have been taken away from him for some reason.
-End of Flashback-
"Darry don't get annoyed with Pony! He is just trying to be a good brother." Soda said.
"Fine!" Darry said in defeat. "Katerina, you are under house arrest for a week. No and's, if's, but's, or's about it!"
"Sure thing superman." I replied.
"Come on Soda, we're going to be late!" Steve yelled walking through the door.
"Yeah, yeah! I just need to get changed!" Soda told him rushing up the stairs.
"Woah, what's that?" Steve asked referring to my tattoo.
"Oh, tattoo." I said showing him it.
"How on earth did you get Darry to let you get a tattoo?" Steve asked in disbelief.
"She didn't." Darry muttered.
Steve looked at Darry then started laughing. I don't know what he found so funny, though. Two-Bit came through the door and gave Steve a weird look.
"What's wrong with this picture? Steve is laughing but I haven't said anything funny yet?" Two-Bit said confused.
"He's laughing because I got a tattoo without Darry's permission." I informed him.
"Nice. Oh yeah! I snatched these up for you!" Two-Bit told me throwing a pack of smokes at me.
"Thanks." I looked around the room and I sighed. There was nothing to do at the house other then watch Mickey Mouse, play truth or dare, or talk. Well, realistically speaking, there is a lot more to do around the house, just nothing else Darry would approve of. Normally that wouldn't matter to me, but I didn't feel like getting in anymore trouble then I was already in.
"So Katerina is under house arrest for a week? But then who will bring me to the movies so I don't get jumped? Who will go watch sunsets with me? Come on Darry, what am I supposed to do if she's under house arrest?" Pony complained, trying to get me out of trouble.
"Well you should have thought of something before you started to spend most of your time with a trouble maker. That girl is no one you should look up to." By now I was mouthing what Darry was saying exactly as he was saying it. He said the exact same thing to Pony all the time. "She can be a great person at times, but she can be a bad person at other times. She can be worse than Dallas! And anyways, you're lucky that she is only in a little bit of trouble. I would have had her in a lot more trouble if she didn't take you everywhere."
"Look Darry," I cut him off. "I'm right here. I can hear everything, good and bad, that you're saying about me. Well, actually I should say 'every bad thing' since you didn't say any nice thing about me."
"Of course I didn't," He said. "That wouldn't get my point through." He chuckled. "Look, I'm leaving now. Don't damage the house."
As he was about to leave I said to him "I give you my word that I will not burn down the house." Darry turned to glare at me and I just gave him a bitchy smile. "Did I ever tell you that you are my favorite brother?"
"You sure have a crappy way of showing it." Darry muttered. It was true; I did have a crappy way of showing it.
Darry has always been my favorite brother. He used to be my hero even. I gave up on that though. He's never cared about me as much as Pony or Soda, though. Pony may not see it, but Darry truly does care about him. He has a funny way of showing it, but it is true. Soda has always been his favorite brother, though. It's impossible to please Darry. You can try so hard, but he will never care. Unless it's Soda. I envy Soda sometimes. He and Darry never get in fights, and if they do it's nothing big. Everybody loves Soda.
"Bye guys!" Steve yelled at him and Soda ran out of the house.
"Bye Stevie! Bye Pepsi-Cola! Bye Dar-Bear!" I yelled to them. Darry glared at me for a moment then left.
Steve's POV
"So how are things between you and Evie?" My best buddy, Soda asked.
"Not so well. I don't care though; there is someone else I like." I informed him.
"Then why don't you tell the other person you like her?" Soda questioned.
I needed to think of something to tell him without giving it away. I couldn't let him know that it was his sister. "Well, she has a brother who probably wouldn't like it if he knew I liked her." I started. "And I don't even know if she likes me."
"I think a guy would be lucky to have you date his sister. And if a girl didn't like you she'd be crazy. I know all the girls always like me, but-" Soda started.
"If this girl went after you, I'd laugh my head off." I cut him off.
He gave me a weird look before asking "May I ask who this girl is?"
"No, you may not ask who the girl is." I told him.
"It's my sister." He said plain and simple.
"How'd you know?" I asked him. I was a little confused on how he knew.
"Well, you have no reason to keep who the girl is from me, and I know that when you said 'she has a brother who probably wouldn't like it if he knew I liked her', you meant Darry." Soda explained. "And you're right. Darry probably wouldn't like it if he knew you liked her. No doubt about it. But he won't know, because I don't plan on telling him."
"I don't care about you telling Darry. It's Katerina I'm worried about. I don't want her to know because I know she doesn't like me." I sighed.
"We'll see about that." Soda said to me. I gave him a weird look because I had no clue what he was talking about. Katerina didn't like me. She was like Dallas; she didn't care about anyone but herself.
A/N: Okay, so I have been trying to write a Steve/OC story for a while. I have about 8 story starters that I've tried but I like this one most so far, so tell me what you think. Thanks for reading!