Dawn's First Light
Please Note: I don't own this book, it's all S.E. Hinton, yet I do own Scarlett, the Character and part of the plot.
CHAPTER ONE
Two Bit's POV
"Curtis boys and superman!" I yelled as I ran inside the Curtis's house.
"Two Bit!" Sodapop exclaims.
I laugh and Ponyboy enters the room. "Hey Two Bit! How've you been?"
"News, kiddo! Got you some news!"
Ponyboy grins in amusement. "Me? Or everyone?" he asks.
"Okay, my sister Scarlett is coming back!" I yell.
Darry peeks over from the kitchen in a slight grin. "Good ol' Scar is back? Why this time?"
My smile drops. But only for a second. "Um….step mom sent her away…"
Darry nods, but I see Soda and Pony look at me in confusion. I remembered quickly that last time she was here, Darry was 6, I was 4, Soda was 2, and Ponyboy was barely born.
"Scarlett is my 16 year old sister." I clear up. They nod at me in still half confusion and half amusement. "She's…" I start again.
"How's her body?" Dally says abruptly as he had heard the last part.
"Not open to greasy hoods like you!" I snap then wink at him.
He chuckles.
"Hey, who wants to come pick her up with me at the train station?" I ask
"Let's all go. I'll drive." Darry chirps. I toss him his keys and we all run to his black pickup truck.
Scarlett's POV
Ugh where the HELL is Two Bit? I've been waiting for like, thirty minutes. I set my suitcases down and sit on it. Suddenly, I heard someone creep up behind me. Stunned, I don't move. Suddenly someone grabs me by the waist and pulls me off my suitcase. I laugh to myself, knowing its Two Bit, as I look up to his eyes. Dark Brown, not Two-Bit.
"GET OFF OF ME!" I yell. The boy in a yellow madras sits on my suitcase and pulls me on his lap.
"You are too pretty!" he whispers to my ear, pulling out a sliver handled switchblade.
"What the…" I get cut off by feeling a cold, sharp object near my neck. I can't move. Suddenly, the boy starts to press his lips on me.
"MMM!" I try screaming as he presses his lips onto mine.
"I like em feisty!" he says in a weird voice as he kisses my neck next to the blade.
"GET THE FUCK OFF OF HER!" A voice from behind me yells.
"Actually, considering she's on my lap, she's on me." The boy states as he pulls the blade off my neck and points it at who is now revealed to be Two Bit.
I looked around scared as Two Bit takes his 8-inch switchblade out of his pocket. I didn't know what was happening, so I start stroking my neck, where the blade had been. As my hands came down to my eye sight, I see blood on my fingers and stains on my white and yellow sundress. Suddenly, at the sight of the blood, I get dizzy and everything goes black.
Soda's POV
I look around the train station in amusement.
"Hey look! Two Bit. Some soc is hurting the pretty girl!" I tell him spotting them. I had never seen her before she sure was pretty. She had long blond curls with straight bangs and a pretty dress on.
"THE HELL SODAPOP! THAT"S MY SISTER!" Two Bit snaps as he jumps out of the truck. Embarrassed, I jump out after him.
"T-Two Bit?" I ask as I see his sister getting dizzy and Two Bit holding a blade up to the soc.
"Scarlett!" I say as I catch her from falling into the train tracks.
"Lay off soc!" Darry yells, parking the car and running over. One look at Darry and the soc puts his blade in his pocket and runs into his yellow mustang.
"Scarlett!" Two Bit yells as he takes her from my hands.
I smile a small smile at him as if to say "Dude, sorry. I didn't know she was your sister. Is she ok?" all at once.
"T-Two B-Bit? She asks in a small voice as she jumps to her feet she wraps him in a big hug and then looks at the rest of us. "Sorry about that there…"
"YOU are sorry?" Two Bit exclaims.
"Darry?" She asks Darry
"Yep. It's me Scarlett." He answers. She laughs and looks at me and Pony.
"Coke? Pepsi? 7Up? SODA!" she guessed. I laughed.
"All you need is to guess Horse Man at Ponyboy here." I replied
She laughed at me, pulling her hair back to look at me. Damn, was she pretty.
"Vamonos little sister!" Two Bit yelps happily.
Scarlett smiles Two Bit's exact same happy grin.
"Hey Scarlett." Darry starts. "How did you remember my name? You were 2 years old."
"Well, I do remember you pushing me off the swing." She started "and them, I heard about them."
Darry grins and headed to his pickup truck.