Note: -The POV's will change through out the story

-Jackie is Johnny's little sister, I always wondered how he'd be as an older brother

-Dally and Johnny are alive not alto of event that took place in the book will take place in this fanfic

-I know some of the songs in here aren't in their time, but we can still pretend and I don't really know which songs would be in their time.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the original Outsiders characters.

Hey, I'm Charlene (14 yrs old), but you can call me Shar or Charli, everyone else does. I'm currently on a bus that's heading to Tulsa……well, I hope it's heading to Tulsa, I didn't actually pay for a ticket, I snuck on, it's pretty easy with a large crowd shuffling onto it, shoving their tickets onto the drivers lap. I hope to meet up with my cousins there (the Curtises) A/N: yeh, big surprise there they don't actually know I'm coming though.

You see, I used to be a triplet, but my triplet brothers were murdered when we were ten, I was meant to die that night…I prefer to pretend as if it didn't happen and i don't like talking about it so forgive me. Any way, my dad started drinking and abused me and my mom (my older brothers and sister were either living in their own house or at some boarding school, I haven't heard from them since my brothers funeral). My mum moved out and dragged me along with her to 3 different continents for the next two years. She had started drinking as well and was turning into a hoar. She brought about 2 different boyfriends home each week (No, I'm not kidding). Her boyfriends got abusive as well. Then she got married to a pretty wealthy guy. I actually liked him and his 3 sons, until he was drunk one night; he came home and raped me, I was only 12. My stepbrother the same age as me just stared (Brad), at least the oldest one (Jake) tried to stop him, but I was unconscious at that point.

So I ran away. I ran to Uncle Darrel's and Aunt Maggie's place. They became my official guardians and I got on great with my cousins, they were just like a few more brothers. A few months later Uncle Darrel and Aunt Maggie died.

The Social worker said it wouldn't be fit for me to grow up around boys and that I'd be going to a girls home. I cried all night at my last night with the Curtises. So did Soda and Pony, but they tried to hide it.

That girls home was hell, they blocked all contact with the outside world. A few girls and I ran away just a couple of days ago, but we were split up when they sent the dogs out, yes they DID actually have pitbulls, wat sort of girls home would have PITBULLS, i ask you!! The search won't go any further then that, we had done our research on other girls that had previously ran away.

I want to forget most of my life, my mum, my dad, that girls home, mum's boyfriends. I never want to talk about it or think about it again.

The bus has come to a stop; I grabbed my little bags of my belongings. Memories come flooding back as i stepped off, Darry and Pony trying to teach me how to play footy, which was a waste of time, cos Two-bit knocked me over as soon as I started to do anything useful, Me and Jackie eating a whole chocolate cake in under 7 minutes to beat Two-bits and Soda's record, then vomiting for the whole night, theSoc's, me and Curly going out and Aunt Maggie laughing when I told her it was true love, i can understand why she laughed now, i mean, i was only 12.

I walked to their house and stopped at the doorstep, it was a Friday afternoon, in the middle of summer holidays. Darry, Steve and Soda would probably be at work, who knows where everyone else was? I couldn't hear the telly or music blaring. So I decided to walk around for an hour then come back.

Pony's POV

Me and Johnny came out of the movies and started heading home.

"Where's Jackie?" I asked him.

He shrugged "I left when she was still sleeping" he gave me a sideways glance.

"What?" I asked quickly

"Nothin'" he said shifting his glance back to the ground "Just that you seem to be asking a lot about her lately" Woah…..wait….. Johnny doesn't think I like his sister or anything does he? I mean she does have a beautiful smile, but I don't LIKE LIKE her, I mean even though we are the same age and stuff-

"You like her or sumthin?" Johnny's voice cut into my thoughts.

"NO! I mean …ahem …no… I like her as in a friend-"

"Your blushing, Pony" Johnny's voice cut into my stammers.

"She….she has a nice smile." I confirmed, not exactly what to say, I mean if I say I do like her…which I don't……aw who am I kidding? I've had a crush on her since Charli moved in and became friends with her…..but since Charli's been gone, she'schanged back to her quiet self, my feelings didn't change though.

"She's hardly smiled since Charli left," Johnny voiced my thoughts.

We were quiet for a while until Johnny said "I miss her, Charli, I mean"

"Yeh" I sighed "Me too" there was another long pause " I don't mind you know" Johnny said as if we were in the middle of a fluent conversation. "That you like Jackie" I sighed "how long have you known for?" I asked

"I didn't know" he admitted. "Until I heard the gang talking about you liking Jackie"

"THEY KNEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" I said a bit too loudly, Johnny nodded.

My GOD!!! How embarrassing!! They must think I'm such a mushy, un-tough greaser person….I though I was hiding it well too!!

My face burned crimson for the entire walk home.

Johnny and I flopped onto the couch and turned on the telly.

Johnny's POV

I can't believe I didn't figure out that Pony liked Jackie sooner. Even though we were at his house, Pony was still blushing. I mean the signs are obvious now, I mean he practically melts when she shows her rare smiles, and he was the only one who didn't laugh at her when she drank Two-bits urine sample for the doctor (she thought it was lemonade).

I s'pose, Two-bit shouldn't pee in drinking glasses. But the look on her face was funny. AndPony was one of the first to get to Jackie's aid that time Soc's had got their hands on her and she screamed, don't get me wrong, I was worried, but I didn't know it was her that was screaming!

I looked at Pony who was still burning up, but not as much. To my surprise, I started to feel a protectiveness go out to Jackie, this is pretty rare, it only happens when 'Dad' starts belting her. But I could tryst Pony with Jackie. He wouldn't, you know, take, like, advantage over her or somethin'.

Steve and Soda came tumbling into the door.

"I found it, so therefore, it's MY twenty cents" yelled Steve

"Losers, weepers!" Soda yelled back in his face, Two-bit then walked in the door, saw Steve and Soda scuffling on the floor, then belly flopped on them. They stopped yelling at each other because all the air had been squashed out of their lungs.

"Finished fighting?" Two-bit asked, the two blue faces nodded and Two-bit rolled of them to fix his eyes on what ever was on the TV. Soda and Steve regained their breaths and started playing Poker. Dally and Darry then came in, Darry slumped onto the couch next to Pony, ruffled Pony's hair and said "how ya doin kiddo?" Darry's been tryin to spend a bit more time with Pony after last Sunday, when he and Pony got into a fight and Pony had called him a "grumpy-bum". It was difficult to keep a straight face, but honestly….."grumpy-bum"???

Pony's POV

Darry's been asking me about the stuff I did today, I know he's trying to be friendly, I just didn't feel like being friendly. Did Darry figure out that I liked Jackie aswell? Plus Dally's making me nervous, he's leaning on the wall, giving me little smirks. Is he thinking about me liking Jackie? What if JACKIE EVEN KNEW!?!?!?!? At that moment someone knocked on the door, then the door opened without anyone answering it, Jackie came through the door with a bundle of clothes in her arm, she looked a lot like Johnny, dark skin, Dark brown eyes, she even has the same sort of hair, but without the grease.

"Hi" she said quietly "Can I use the bathroom?"

"Yeh, sure" I said. Her hair was just past shoulder length and as she walked, her wavy/ringlet-y hair flowed behind her as she walked. Well that's what she defined her hair as, what's wrong with curly?

Then that song filled my head : "There she go-o-oes, There she Goes again, running thro-o-ugh my veins.." I looked around the room and glared at Two-Bit who was responsible for the presence of the song by turning on the radio. He was grinning at me like an idiot. I tried to ignore him but then realised that everyone was grinning at me idiotically.

"What?!?" I asked, but I could feel my face burn up.

"I think Pony's got a crush!" Soda said in a sing-song voice. Everyone sniggered, except for Two-bit who was laughing openly.

"He's blushing!" Two-bit, Steve and surprisingly, Darry said together. Can this get any more embarrassing? We could hear the shower turning off, which meant Jackie, would be getting out. At that moment, there was another knock at the door, everyone was looking at the door expectantly, as if knocker would let themselves in. After another series of knocks at the door, it was obvious that someone would have to answer it, so I did

A/N: Ok, I know it's not much but plz read and review, I'll update soon.