Authors Note-
Hellooooooo! Oh God, I'm so nervouse! So this is a story I have been working on for the past two years titled Stars may Burn, and today I decided to upload it! YAY! But oh my God, I cant stop my heart from beating! I'm so nervous! I'm not really sure how this is all going to play out, but if you lovely people decide you enjoy it, then I shall keep uploading! This story starts off slow, and may seem like a typical OC one, but I hope you may be pleasently suprised with the way the wheeles turn! This is the first story I've ever uploaded to FanFic, so I'm not really sure what to expect, but eh, you win some you loose some, aint that right Ponyboy?
Ponyboy: "Thats right Felicity! Need a cancer stick to calm your nerves?"
Me: "I'm good thanks Pony!"
Anyways, on with the story! Hope ya'll enjoy!
Disclaimer- I am in no way, shape or form Susie Hinton. Nope, suprise hey? I'm just borrowing her lovely characters and general story line!
Stars may Burn
Chapter One
"Hey Darry?" I call dully to my older brother from the laundry. "Have ya seen my DX shirt?" I walk from room to room in just a pair of old faded jeans and a cap on my head looking for my work shirt.
"Yeah, in my wardrobe, I ironed it!" Darry yells back.
I stumble into Darry's room and pull out my shirt, just as I hear laughing and tumbling coming up the steps.
Two-Bit and Steve are finally here. I hear a girl's soft laugh and remember that today is the day that Steve's cousin, Kate, was arriving.
We'd only found out a few weeks ago that Steve's parents were going to Arkansas for Steve's Dad's job for while and only yesterday found out that Kate was moving in in the meantime. Quite frankly, I hadn't even bothered to actually think about it all. Not at a time like this.
I rub my eyes wearily and look over to Dallas Winston who was sitting on the couch cleaning a cut on his fist that he got from one of his many fights. "You know the rules. Any girl that is related or we know, we are nice to her," I say to him as if I was talking to a four year old.
"Yeah yeah, I know the rules," Dally says to me. "I promise I won't try anything or be a lousy sonofabitch or nuttin. Sides, it don't matter to me none- it's just that Melissa broad who wouldn't stop stalkin' me an' you last time anyhow. Stupid little. . . " Dally continues to say every swear word under the sun and stands up and walks into the bathroom for some more bandages.
No one had told him it was the cousin that none of us had met yet, he thought it was Steve's other one. I guess someone should fill him on of this.
I drop my shirt on the kitchen bench and pull out one of my chocolate cakes trying to ignore the pain in my stomach. I knew it wasn't from hunger but I didn't want to go to work on an empty stomach.
Two days ago, my kid brother Ponyboy, one of my best buddy's Johnny and Dally had all gone to the movie house for the night.
After the movie had ended, Johnny and Ponyboy had gone for a walk around the vacant lot and had fallen asleep. At about two am Ponyboy had come home, and Darry had been so pissed off at him for been late. They got into another one of their fights like usual, and eventually Darry hit Ponyboy. Darry had never hit either me or Ponyboy, and this was the first time. Pony had run off. The next day it was all in the papers that Johnny had stabbed a Soc (short for socialite, rich kids, the south side sons of bitches) for trying to drown Ponyboy in a fountain. That was the last we had heard of Ponyboy.
Cops had been around, telling us what had happened and hurled each one of the gang down to the station for an interview, but none of us had a clue where they could be, and that was almost killing me.
I can hardly eat or sleep; I feel miserable twenty-four-seven and keep having these random highs and lows. I put on a brave front for Darry. He already feels shitty enough about what he did to Pony, he doesn't need to know exactly how much this was hurting me as well. Besides, pretending that this isn't as bad as it is seems to help me get through the days.
The door swings open with a bang and in tumbles Steve, Two-Bit and a girl. Steve looks around the living room coolly, but there's a look on his face that tells me his actually looking around for something that isn't there. One guess on what that could be.
Steve spy's me then grins smugly before running over to me yelling, "Sodapop!" and picks me up, throwing me to the ground.
I grin up at him and grab hold of one of his legs and pull it forward, making him fall flat on his back on the floor with me. We lie together on the floor laughing and punching each other in the ribs. Steve can always make me grin, no matter what situation. I look up and see Darry standing over me.
"You boys are both nuts," he grumbles grabbing us both by upper arms and hauling us to our feet. "Hurry up and get ready Soda, you too Steve. I don't want ya'll both to be late and get fired." Steve and I roll our eyes at Darry's words, the same words we hear almost every day of our lives.
Now, I know most people wouldn't even be able to think about working right now, but when the fuzz had showed up on our door step, they told us not to try and look for Ponyboy or Johnny in case we spook them into hiding and running more. It was torture having to go to work every day, acting siff' everything's fine and normal in front of the customers, but behind closed doors I was barley holding things together.
I wanted to stay home by the phone and wait for Pony to return. I wanted to go looking for him under every rock and around every corner. I wanted to stay home, and curl up in a ball and cry myself to sleep. But I can't. I know I can't. We need the money, and it won't look good if the social workers come by and find me locked in my room, huddled in a ball with twenty two thousand cats and an empty bottle of Jim sitting next to me. So I go to work. And so does Darry-he brings in more money each day then I do each week.
Since Ponyboy had run away, Steve had been spending a lot more time with me, helping me take my mind off him, and just cheering me up. "Sodapop, Darry, this is my cousin Kate. Kate, this is Soda and Darry," Steve says pointing to me and Darry.
"Hey," Kate smiles, looking every bit as comfortable as though she had lived here her whole life.
Darry walks over to her and holds out a hand. "It's good to meet you finally. Steve's been talking about you none stop since he found out you were coming," he says in a humble voice.
Since Pony had ran away, he had hardly muttered a happy word, let alone show a positive attitude. I guess that's what separates us; I can always find the positive and good in every situation, or at least act happy, whereas Darry seems to have a bit of trouble doing that.
Kate shakes his hand warmly and smiles a pretty smile. "I bet he has," she laughs.
Darry gives her another nod, before looking back to us. "Soda, I'll be home at six thirty. If there's any news . . . I'll let ya'll know." I nod my head muetly. "Steve and Two-Bit, do not leave this house in the state you left it in yesterday. Understood?" He asks them seriously.
Two-Bit nods his head, eyes glued to the TV. Steve just leans against my shoulder, smirking at Darry, who ignores him in return. "Good, I'll see ya'll later," and with that he walks out the door.
I study Kate's face. She is definitely the a good looking chick. She has long, almost jet black, shiny hair that flows around her shoulders and to the middle of her back, long and straight. Her eyes are the exact colour of bottomless pools and are set off by perfectly arched neat eyebrows. Her full kissable lips are the colour pink and rosey. Her skin looks like it would be softer then silk with a bronzed tan. She's curvy and tonned at the same time, definitely not some size six twig. She's tall, but not overly tall like the type that makes it awkward to be making out with, average height, coming up to only my mid neck. Her tight white, tank top shows of her full chest and flat stomach. I'm lost for words. I clear my throat and walk forward.
"Hey, I'm Soda," I smile my most charming smile, aware that I'm only in jeans without a top on.
Kate stares at me for a second before blinking quickly. She shakes my hand. Her hands are soft and warm. "Hey. It's nice to finally meet Steve's best buddy, you're all he ever talks about," she says with a small laugh that sound like golden wind chimes.
I get butterflies in my stomach at her touch. "Pfft, no surprises there," I grin good naturally, using my charm and looks to hook her in. I feel as comfortable talking to her as I would Steve or Darry.
Dally walks out of the bath room, un-aware of Kate. When he sees her, shock crosses his face. "Kate Newton? What the hell are you doin' er?" he asks before walking towards her.
I look over at Kate. "Dallas Winston? Long-time no see!" Kate comments, raising one eyebrow, before giving Dally a real quick hug and kiss on the cheek.
Two-Bit looks confused and raises one eyebrow. I look to Steve who shrugs looking just as confused as the rest of us. "You two know each other?" Steve asks.
"Yep." Kate smiles hastily.
Dally's got the same look on his face that he has most of the time. The one that makes him look like his bored and would rather be fighting someone then standing here.
"But how?" Two-Bit asks through a mouth full of cake.
"When I first meet Kate here, she was with her friend Caty in New York, last summer ya'll remember when I went back to visit my Grams?" Dally asks. Steve, Two-Bit and I nod. "Well I took them under my wing, kept them outta trouble," Dally explained.
This baffled me. What was Kate doing in the hard wild side of New York with Dallas Winston? I look at Kate again more carefully. At the mention of New York, her eyes grimace and pain flashes over them. Her eyes catch mine and we stand looking at each other for a moment while the others ask questions about how Dally had managed to meet a nice girl like Kate.
She looks into my eyes, and something crosses over her face and I could swear she knew all of my secrets. She smiles softly at me for a second before looking away. I shake my head and put on my white tee and work shirt, reluctantly donning my shoes.
After a while Kate and Dally sit on the couch talking to each other and catching up. Two-Bit, Steve and I are having a conference in the laundry.
"Wow. Do you think anything happened between them?" Two-Bit asked.
"Na, if it did Dally would be acting differently, and Kate said that he was like a brother to her," Steve said, pulling out his comb and looking in the mirror, fixing his black hair.
"What was she doing in New York?" I ask.
Steve's eyes clouded over and pain crossed over his face, he also looked a little uncomfortable. "Eleven months ago, Kate's parents had been visiting my other Aunt and Uncle in Kansas, ya know my other cousin, Melissa, that ya'll meet a few summers ago?" Me and Two-Bit nod our heads.
I remember Melissa alright. I had been bout fifteen and she had been around thirteen or fourteen and hadn't stopped trying to hook up with me and Dal all summer. Steve continues to talk.
"Yeah her parents, and on their way back from their visit, their plane crashed, killing both of them."
I was speechless. I remember all of this happening; I just hadn't thought that much about it. Steve wasn't that into talking bout it with me, and he didn't seem too upset about it, I don't think he knew his uncle and aunt that well. That poor girl I thought to myself. My parents had died eight months ago, from an auto wreck.
"Glory," Two-Bit breathed.
"Well, after that Kate and Caty moved to New York. I guess that's how they meet Dally," Steve shrugged. "Oh and don't ask about her parents or anything. It kills her remembering I guess . . . Savvy?"
I remember the pain in her eyes and understand what he means. "Does she have any brothers or sisters?" I ask.
"She has an older brother Nathaniel- Nate . . . But they don't talk anymore," Steve trails off as we walk back out into the living room.
Steve was quite, thinking, and Two-Bit had the look of pity on his face for the poor girl. I look at Kate again and my heart beats faster. She's so beautiful!
Dally was gone, he probably left for work already. Steve walks over and shoves Kate playfully. She pushes him back and laughs again. Suddenly I remember Sandy, and feel guilty for been so attracted to girl I hardly know when I had just broken up with someone else. I sigh and feel the weight of a hundred problems, starting with Ponyboy land back on my shoulders.
So what do you guys think? Good? Bad? Burn my USB stick and act like I never wrote it? Gah! Constructive criticisim is quite welcome, I need all the help I can get! Please review so I know how I can make it better!
Also incase anyone is wondering, I've 'cast' Megan Fox from when she stared in 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen.' I just think (personal opinion, I know some people don't like her,) but I just think that she was so beautiful in it. And also, I thought that Soda, been described as the most handsome man in Tulsa deserved a girlfriend just as beautiful! Just what I think anyways!
Thats all for tonight, ta ta lovelys! xx