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Ryan pov

I woke up one morning to the sound of Ponyboy snoring. I could not believe I had to share a room with him and my twin brother Soda. But Darry just HAD to have his own room. I sat up in my bed and noticed Soda wasn't there. He didn't have work that day. I smelled the air and got the scent of chocolate chips and scrambled eggs. Great, I thought, Soda's making breakfast.

I climbed out of bed and walked into the kitchen. I was too lazy to change out of my tank top and shorts. There was Soda, making some concoction probably not yet known to mankind. He heard me walk in and looked up.

"Mornin', babe." He smiled.

"Soda, my name's Ryan, not Babe." I told him. I hated it when the gang called me Babe, like I was a baby or something.

"But you're my little sister, you need a pet name."

I groaned. "We're twins! Hence, I am not your little sister."

"Whatever." He smiled again.

Two-Bit walked in the house with Steve right behind him. "Hey, Ry." He said.

"Hey, Two-Bit." I grinned at him. I realized that I really needed to go to the bathroom. "Be right back." I told everyone, as if they were listening. I started to run down the hall to the bathroom, nearly ramming into Darry in the process.

"Paradise Ryan Curtis, what are you doing?" He asked. I hated it when he used my full name.

"Hey, I gotta pee!" I yelled than ran past him into the bathroom.

Soda POV

Ryan was running into the bathroom when I heard Two-Bit say, "Damn."

"What?" I giggle- asked. I was pouring pancake batter on top of some strips of bacon. It was awesome.

"When did Ryan get boobs?" I dropped the spoon I was using on the floor and Darry stopped dead in his tracks when he was walking. We really didn't like to think about our sister's... development. Talk about a boy body, we're fine. But if you so much as say the word 'period' or 'breast,' we weren't very good at talking about it.

Two-Bit laughed. "Well, I just never noticed."

"Then why now?" I asked. I was afraid of what the answer would be.

Steve answered for Two-Bit. "Because she doesn't usually wear such tight and revealing clothes."

"They're right Soda. I think we need to talk to her about..." Darry couldn't get himself to say the last word.

"Oh, come on, Darry," I whined. The last thing I wanted to do was talk to my teenage sister about her body. Ponyboy was bad enough. Ryan was a girl, and that would be ten times as hard, at least.

"Pony! Time to get up. There's school today!"

Ryan POV

I went to the bathroom then to my room to get dressed for school. Ponyboy was just getting out of bed. He looked up at me and said something that sounded like, "Is Soda making bacon chocolate chip pancakes again?"

"Yeah." I said. "Now get out, I need to change." He walked out of the room, scratching his butt in the process. I didn't know what to where. I refused to wear a skirt to school like everyone else unless it was really pretty or cute.

I settled on a black tank top and white sweat pants that I rolled up to my knees. It was supposed to be seventy degrees out today. I ran to my mini vanity mirror (Soda and Pony refused to have a giant one in their room.) I put on my new gold eye shadow, black eye liner, and black mascara. Next was my lightning bolt necklace that Mom gave me when I was a baby.

"Come on, Ry, I gotta get ready for school!" Ponyboy yelled from outside in the hallway. I grabbed my white ankle socks and ran out of the bedroom.

Two-bit and Steve were punching each other and Darry was whispering to Soda, who was starting a brand new batch of bacon chocolate chip pancakes. They heard me walk in the room and looked up, suddenly silent.

"What?" I asked, wondering if I forgot to put a piece of clothing on.

Soda went back to cooking. "You want a pancake, Ryan?"

"No thanks. I'm trying to watch my figure. Two-bit started choking on his breakfast. Pony boy ran into the kitchen. I wondered how he changed so fast.

"We got to get to school." He said to everyone.

"I'll walk with you guys." Two-bit said, getting up. Me and Pony grabbed our backpacks and put our shoes on. I didn't bring a purse to school.

Half way through our mile-long walk to school, we started to notice that a car was following us. I remembered that my switchblade was in the side of my bra, a few inches below my armpit. After a few minutes, the car sped up and stopped so that it was next to us. One of the guys in the car rolled down and said, "Hey!" We stopped to look at them.

"What?" Two-bit said back. They were socs.

"The guy in the passenger seat looked straight at me. "Ryan, nice." He gave me a perverted look. I rolled my eyes and looked at the ground. Socs were always hitting on me, calling me hot and a slut and other stuff that I'm not gonna mention.

"Hey, you better watch it!" Two-bit screamed at them. He hated it when guys were jerks to me. When Johnny died, I guess I became the new pet. The socs laughed and sped away. Two-bit was fuming.

"Hey," I said to him. "Just ignore them." He smiled and nodded. I felt his arm wrap around my shoulders and pull me a little closer to him. I think that he forgot Pony was there. We liked each other to be boyfriend and girlfriend. We never really came out and said it, but it was obvious. Two-bit didn't ask me out only because he didn't want to risk having Darry and Soda not trusting him enough. Neither Soda nor Darry has ever said anything, and we both preferred to keep it that way.

Well, what do you think? Please, please, please review this chapter, even if you hated it. I just wanna know whether to write a new chapter or not. If I do, there will be chapters about heartbreaks, and parties, and a lot of other awesome stuff.