Chapter 1
Author's Note: I don't own any of the outsiders, I only own Pandagirl Curtis, the amazing S.E. Hinton owns the rest.
My name is Pandagirl Curtis, I have a twin brother named Ponyboy and two older brothers named Sodapop and Darrel , but we call him Darry, I'm the only girl. Darry is the oldest of us. We're greasers that live in Tulsa, Oklahoma on the east side of town, we're poor, but we make do with what we have. We're part of a gang that's basically our family since our parents died in a car wreck 8 months ago, leaving Darry to raise me, Ponyboy, and Sodapop. Ponyboy and I are the youngest in the gang, we're 14. We look a lot alike, we have the same light brown, almost red colored hair, and we both have greenish grey eyes, but my eyes are a little more green than his though, his are a little more grey. We're also about the same size and we both have a good build. We're all pretty close at the Curtis house. Our house is also the hangout for the gang, they're always here. They're here right now, except for Ponyboy, he went to see a movie.
"Johnny, Two Bit, Dally, Darry, Steve, Soda," I yell, running downstairs from Ponyboy's and my room. Johnny Cade is Ponyboy's and my best friend, we're almost always with him. Keith Mathews, better known as Two Bit, is my best friend after Johnny and my brother, I'm with him goofing off a lot. Dallas Winston, Dally, is usually somewhere getting into trouble, I'm okay friends with him. Steve Randle is Sodapop's best friend, I'm don't see him too much because he's usually with Soda, but we're okay friends.
"Yeah Panda," Johnny says, realizing I'm now putting on shoes about to run out the door. The rest of the gang looks at me waiting for an answer of why I'm about to run out the door.
"Pony is down the street being jumped by socs, we have to help him! I saw it out our bedroom window," I yell as I'm darting out the door, the rest of the gang follows, I'm out in front since I run track with Ponyboy and I'm really fast, plus I had a head start. I quickly get there and tackle one of the guys, then realize he's holding a knife that cut the right side of my face. The rest of the gang gets to us and chases them away, then they get me off the guy I tackled and chases him away too. Darry notices the cut on the side of my face and the one Pony got on his neck from that guy's knife.
"Pony why did you go to the movies by yourself, and Panda why did you tackle that guy, now each of you have a huge cut!" Darry says clearly pissed.
"I didn't think anyone would want to go with me," Pony responded. We knew he went because he left a note.
"I wasn't going to let him get beat up by those stupid good for nothing bitchy socs," I say, knowing that Darry knew I was probably going to say something like that. Socs are the west side rich kids, they get anything they want, greasers hate them.
"Pony, next time ask someone to go with you any one of us will, and Panda be more careful," Darry says, still pissed.
"Ok we will," we say together.
Dally changes the subject and says,"I'm going to the drive in tomorrow, anyone wanna come?"
Steve instantly responds saying,"me and Soda can't, we're going to hang with Evie and Sandy."
Ponyboy responds for me, him, and Johnny," we'll come if we can, can we Darry."
"Yeah since it's not a school night, I can't go since I have work," Darry says disappointed, he never has time to do anything but work ever since mom and dad died.
Two Bit says," I'll come as long as I'm not too boozed up."
"Okay see you guys tomorrow then," Dally says as he walks away.
"Okay bye Dally, see ya tomorrow," I say to him as he's walking away.
"It's getting late so we're gonna go home and get ready for bed, bye guys," Darry says as he motions us to start walking home.
"Ok Darry, bye guys," me, Pony, and Soda say as we're walking away.
"Bye," they all say back.
When we get home it's almost 9 o'clock, so me and Pony clean out our cuts, then we all get ready for bed, have some chocolate cake, and watch some TV before bed. Around midnight we go to bed and I'm out like a light.
