Title: A Face in the Crowd

Summary: The greasers have kids! Watch as they face the hard times the way the greasers did!

Disclaimer: I'm a 14 year old freshman girl in Wisconsin who's friends fight a lot and who loves to sing, read, and write stories. Do you seriously think I own the outsiders?

THIS STORY IS IN A GIRLS POV!

Introduction to these WONDERFUL characters!

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Obviously the greasers are in this but not very often...

Darry

Soda

Pony

Two-Bit

Steve

(Remember, Dally and Johnny died)

some socs too...

Cherry-Johnny Jr, Kendie, and Faye's mom (don't ask)

Marcia-Mitchy and Johnson's mom

Other Characters

Emma-Darry's wife

Sylvia-Kyle's mom

Jane-Two-Bits wife

Sandy (not really)-Joey's mom

Then of course, the kids...

Russ-Darry's son

Lucy-Darry's daughter not mentioned a lot

Kyle-Dally's/Sylvia's son

Mitchy-Steve's son

Johnson-Steve's son

Flip-Two-Bits stepson (Jane's son)

Joel-Two-Bits son

Joey-Soda's son

Johnny Jr-Johnny's/Cherry's son

Kendie-Pony's son

Faye-Pony's daughter

Don't worry I will explain about this, please dont make fun of the names (Flip and Kendie) because I was trying to be creative!

This story is in Faye's point of view.

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At the age of 14 nothing really makes sense to most kids. I was no acception. I only understood a few key points to my life. I understood that my mother ran off when I was three. I understood that my brother had grown up too fast. I understood that everybody cries.

Then there's the things I learned in 14 years. Becides the usual science, math, and English, I learned that my dad has a breaking point, and he has feelings too. I learned that, despite what I hoped, everybody dies. I learned that everyone needs at least one good friend to rely on, but most of all, I learned that disappointment is a terrible thing, and from the day I understood that my mother was really gone, that she had really left, I vowed not to disappoint anyone my whole life. That fell through pretty bad.

I knew the second I walked through the door of my house that my father would be really upset. I had gotten into a fight with another girl at school, it wasn't the first time and it probably wouldn't be the last. The look he gave me wanted to make me crawl in a hole and die. The girl was a soc, one of the rich, popular kids in my school, and she had pissed me off to the extent that I just punched her in the face. She talked poorly of my family and my friends and didn't forget to leave out the fact that my mother had ran out on me at a young age and I hadn't gotten to know her.

"Faye, girls aren't supposed to fight" my father told me. I had heard this lecture before and you'd think I would learn from it. Of all the things I understood, the difference between girls and boys wasn't one of them. Well, I understood that boys were built differently than girls, but thats about it. I didn't understand why they could always get away with fighting and I couldn't. I didn't understand what the difference was weather my brother hit a guy or I hit a girl. Sometimes I wondered if my dad just wanted me to bottle up my feelings until I exploded.

Sometimes my dad would look at me with so much sadness that I just wanted to run and hide. I knew he was sad because I reminded him of my mother. I looked just like her and I was as stubborn as her too. What my father didn't understand was that I was like him too. I was born to fight, but I didnt fight for pleasure like Kendie and the rest of the gang. I fought to stand up for myself, and I fought for payback. That soc girl was really in for it, she had teased me for weeks and I had followed my fathers rule about ignoring it. Except for that one day, when she learned not to mess with me anymore.

I'm the only girl (other than my cousin Lucy who's only four) in the gang of guys my brother hangs around. I think they only accept me BECAUSE of my brother but when I tell him that he just shakes his head and laughs.

"They really do like you Faye, they're your friends" he'd tell me.

Kendie was pretty happy, around me anyway, but he could turn ice cold at the mention of my mother, who he thought of as an abondoner, and the socs. There was one time when she socs had tried to jump me because I got into a fight with a whole bunch of their girls. Kendie and the rest of the gang came and "saved me" but he never forgot it. They talked dirty about me all the time, that's what Mitchy says anyway. Kendie almost killed him when he heard him say it. Kendie's 15 and was well built, like every one of the guys. He liked to fight for pleasure but he could get serious if something pissed him off enough. People learned not to mess with him because they knew he'd kick their ass if they said something wrong.

Then there's my cousin Russ, who's 18. I swear Russ is NEVER happy. I dont think I've ever seen him smile. If he was bad before he's worse now. His parents had his sister, four year old Lucy, when he was 14 and from that day forward he was THE most protective guys in our whole group. If you thought Kendie got pissed for the easiest things, Russ was ten times worse. Mitchy told me that some guy called me cute the other day and Russ just about beat him to a pulp for it. I think he needs to lighten up...and get a girlfriend.

Kyle doesn't live with his parents. His dad died a little while after his mom got pregnant with him. His mom didn't want him because he reminded her too much of his dad so she made Steve the legal gaurdian. Kyle didn't like his mom since he'd heard some pretty nasty stuff about her from when she was a teenager, plus she had practically just dumped him off on a doorstep basically saying she couldn't stand looking at him. Kyle's 18 as well but isn't like Russ at all. Kyle's like Kendie in a way. One minute he can be happy and the next minute he could be blazing with anger. He only faught for revenge, otherwise he just hit someone if they said something totally inappropriate. Kyle was one of the reasons I hit the girl. She said "Kyle Winston is so ugly his momma couldn't even look at him, guess she hated him so much she just couldn't stand to be around him another minute" Kyle would have laughed at this and said it didn't matter cuz he didnt have parents to suck up to now, but thats why Kyle and I are different.

Mitchy is badass and you'd think he was Dally's son instead of Kyle. He acts just like him. Mitchy's 17 and will do ANYTHING to piss people off, half the time he doesn't even know it. He talks dirty constantly and he'll fight anyone who says a word to him. He won't fight a girl though, that's the thing with the guys in the group. They believe girls shouldn't fight which drives me CRAZY. Mitchy is not very protective but he's a good brother and a good friend. You can rely on him for almost anything.

Johnson is Mitchy's little brother, and he is classified as just that. Although he's nothing like Mitchy. Johnson is 14, just like me, and he's shy and quiet. He doesn't like fighting, which is unusual for anyone in our group. Johnson hardly talks to anybody and he's like a straight A student. Johnson doesn't make commitments to anything or anyone except school. He's going to be the first one of us to go to college, even though my dad thinks I will too.

Flip is, well, he's just mean. He's 18 and we only consider him one of us because Joel told us to. He said his parents told us he needs friends so we got volunteered. He's weird, and abusive. He hits people just for the sake of hitting them, he loves beating people up. Nobody really likes Flip very much. Joel told us to be nice to him, so we are, only because he's having a hard time adapting to have a new father. Flip is Joel's half brother. His dad died when he was younger and a few years later his mom, Jane, met Two-Bit and they got married and had Joel. Flip basically hates the world.

Joel is completly opposite from Flip. He's 16, nice and cares about everyone. He doesn't fight at all, not even at rumbles. He doesn't believe in it and it's probably because he's faught with Flip almost his whole life. His parents got sick of it and told him and Flip that if they faught with each other one more time they'd send them to Military school. I dont think anyone would care if Flip got shipped off since he's a pain in the ass anyway, but Joel is more special to the group because he got beat up (remember how I said they faught, well it was more like Flip beating him up) by Flip.

My other cousin, Joey, is just like his dad. He's 16 and loves life. He fights, only at rumbles, and hangs around girls a lot. He's pretty charming too, even if he's kind of weird. Joey is rarely mad, it takes a lot to make him mad. Joey doesn't get drunk, like other guys in our group, but you'd swear he does every night if you met him. Joey lives with his dad because his mom couldn't handle the responsibility. His dad took her to court and got Joey because he thought she was too young and immature to have a child. The court agreed with him and now Joey lives with his dad.

My name is Faye and like I said before I'm 14. I'm short for my age which bothers me but I'm tough. Kendie always said if I was a guy I'd probably be dead right now (thats his way of showing compassion). He said that I should just keep my mouth shut and quit getting into so many fights because I was giving myself a bad reputation as a freshman. I figured he's just saying it for my safety because I guess nobody wants to see me get hurt but I think I can fend for myself. I love to dance and sing and my dad says I could do something with my talents. I really want to be in a broadway musical. My dad says to follow my dreams...but got to college first. That's the only thing my dad cares about. Kendie and I going to college.

That night I sat wondering what I would be like if my mom was still here. Maybe I'd be happy, no, I knew that I would be happy. Maybe I wouldn't get into so many fights. Maybe Kendie and I would have hope for the future.

Maybe we'd be a happy family

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Tell me what you think, I think my other story is pretty weird and I really don't know what to write next so please tell me what you think!