Disclaimer: I do not own The Outsiders or any of the characters you recognize

Okay just to let you know the setup, bold will be any Authors/Notes I have or change in POVs, Italics will be someone's thoughts, and standard text is just standard.

Character Basics:

Ponyboy 'Pony' Curtis- 15yrs; Youngest Curtis and a true dreamer, best friends with Johnny and doesn't confide in Domino. (Appearance like the book)

Johnny Cade-15yrs; Pony's good friend, quiet, the pet, basically typical 'Johnny.' (Appearance like the book)

Domino 'Dom' Curtis- 16yrs; Sodapop's twin sister, younger by one minute and digs music. Works part-time at the DX. 5'7'', 115pounds, Dark brown hair just past her shoulders with bangs coming down around her face (Think the Veronicas). Same blue eyes as Soda.

Sodapop 'Soda' Curtis- 16yrs; Domino's twin sister, older by one minute and a real goof. Works Part-time at the DX. (Appearance like the movie)

Two-Bit Matthews- 16yrs; he's part of the Curtis Outfit and is practically a brother to Domino because he understands her almost as good as Soda. (Appearance like the movie)

Steve Randle- 16yrs; Use to date Domino, but Darry got into the way and now holds a grudge against Domino because after he got her drunk Darry lost all trust in him. Works part-time at the DX. (Appearance like the movie)

Dallas Winston-18yrs; A real player and tough-guy. Always in and out of the Curtis' house and gets into fights regularly with Socs who have it out for him. (Appearance like the book)

Darrel 'Darry' Curtis- 20yrs; Oldest Curtis, never really understood Domino because even though she's a tomboy she still had real bad girly mood swings. (Appearance like the movie)

Set in the same time as the book however they have CD players and stereos stead of vinyl; also for arguments sakes listen to the same artists we do.

Chapter One: A day in the life of

No ones POV

Domino turned over for what seemed like the hundredth time that morning. For some reason oblivious to her, the sun was pouring in the window and there was a bustle of noise coming from outside her room making it difficult for her to sleep. Domino turned away from the window hoping it would help her sleep and she caught sight of her clock on the bedside table.

"Shit! Shit, Shit, Shit!" Dom sat up with a start.

"Looks like someone just woke up." She heard Steve snicker from outside her door.

"Out of the way Steve." Soda opened the door to the room him and his twin shared. "Dom, you've seen my shirt?"

"Ugh. Does it look like I've seen you're shirt?" She slumped back down into the bed and threw the pillow over her head.

"Seriously there sleepy head, we've got 10 minutes before we are suppose to be leaving for school."

"Uh-huh." Domino mumbled getting comfy in her warm bed.

"Hey, if I have to get my ass to school then you defiantly do." Soda went over to the bed and pulled the blankets off of his 'better half' as she groaned feeling the cold temperature hit her.

"Soo-daaa!" Domino whined, "What-cha gotta go and do that for? You're such an evil prick!"

"Oh no you didn't." Soda grabbed her foot and pulled off her sock and started tickling her foot.

"Ahh! Soda stop!"

"Not till you get your sorry ass out of bed and find me my shirt."

"Okay----I---I give." She tried to make a sentence between her laughs. Soda stopped tickling her foot and gave a sharp yank on her leg making her fall out of bed.

"Good." Soda marched out of the room and Domino sat there tangled in her blanket.

Domino's POV

Damn where the hell does that boy put his stuff? Wait! I ran over to the stereo that Two-bit had given me and Soda for our 16th birthday, a special Two-bit Matthews five finger discount. I lifted up the right speaker and found the shirt that Soda had been looking for. Damn how that boy doesn't lose his foot while walking I don't know. Well I'm not any better. I thought as I trampled over piles of clothes on the floor to give Soda his shirt. I exited my room to be almost decapitated by Steve running past.

"Oy! Watch it!" I walked over to Soda who was eating some chocolate cake at the breakfast table. "Here Soda."

"Thanks Bebe." I loved Soda for that, ever since we were little my mom used to call me Bebe (Pronounced bib-eh) and after she died Soda took up on calling me that, he was the only one who ever did and the only one I would ever allow to call me that. I picked a chunk of chocolate cake from Soda's plate and put it in my mouth.

"No problem." I muffled through the cake as Darry walked in.

"Don't talk with your mouth open, and get dressed you have to be gone in a couple of minutes." I looked down to realize, with MUCH embarrassment, that I was in my black sports bra and dark blue boxers. I darted from the room and headed to mine picking up some clothes to change into then darted back out for the bathroom. As I began to open the door, it swung open revealing a shirtless Dally. Oh god, oh god, okay move, say something…don't stare, oh god. Say something!

"Sor—'' Before I could finish the apology Dally pushed past me. God what is with that boy? I stepped into the bathroom and stood in front of the mirror. God no wonder he doesn't like me, I'm uber fat, he always goes after the pretty skinny girls like Sylvia. God she's pretty; she had nice straight blonde hair, thin figure and gorgeous eyes. I poked my stomach in disgust. I remember when I told Two-bit that I thought I was fat and ugly he slapped me upside the head and told me that if I wasn't practically his sister he'd jump at the chance to be with a girl as beautiful as me. Damn, I love Two-bit; he's the best brother I've ever had. I stripped off my sleepwear and climbed into the shower. I love Soda…he's my better half even though people think I'm his, Pony never really opens up to me…and Darry is a right old nitwit when it comes to me. God I hate him so much. Ever since Mum and Dad died he has had his boxers in a bunch. Two-bit always gets me, he's into the same music as me and we even wrote a song together. Well not really a song but more of an observation of what was going on that night ha-ha. We called it "That was a crazy game of poker." I shook my head. It's just plain wrong to think of your brothers while you're in the shower Dom. I finished up and pulled on my jeans and my grey AC/DC t-shirt.

I hopped out of the bathroom putting my socks on while I finished brushing my teeth in the living room. I signalled to Soda for the time and he called back 1 minute. I ran back into the bathroom spat and rinsed my mouth. I grabbed a comb, eyeliner, mascara and blush and ran back into my room. I grabbed my schoolbag that I got ready the night before, knowing that every morning I do this 'dance' as Two-bit called it. I grabbed my compact mirror and stuck it in my bag with my brush, mascara, eyeliner and blush so that I could finish up in the car. I ran to the door and stuck my feet into my Chucks (A/N If you guys didn't know Chucks are just another word for Converse, after all they are Chuck Taylors! XD!) I stepped onto the porch next to Soda and smiled.

"I made it!" I looked around to see Two-bit, Pony, Steve and Johnny on the porch as well. "Why aren't you guys in the car?"

"Darry said he didn't want to be late because he had to wait on you so he assigned Dally the task of taking us to school." Steve lazily replied.

"What happened to your and Two-bit's cars?" Pony asked.

"Broken" They both replied.

"We ain't gonna all fit." I said as I counted up the numbers.

"Thank you Capitan obvious." Steve sneered. Steve and I always fought. We use to date until Darry got into a huge argument with him about taking me out to drink. I hated Darry for that, not just because it broke me and Steve up but because it gave Steve a reason to hate me and one thing I knew was never to give the guys a reason to hate me.

"Steve lay off, and besides we'll make it fit. Johnny you can sit on Two-bit's lap and Dom you can sit on mine." Soda said before I could get a chance to make a snide remark at Steve.

"Why do I have to sit on your lap, Pony's smaller."

"Hey!" Pony interjected. Well it was true, I wasn't tall but I was 5'7'' and Pony was only 5'5''.

"Well he might be smaller but you weigh less." Soda replied.

"hu-h" I snorted while Pony interrupted with another 'Hey!' God can Dally just get out here already I hate having to be in the same place with Steve. As if he read my mind Dally marched out of the house and down towards the car. We made our way down the steps and through the gate.

"Shotgun!" Soda and I called. Well at least we won't start to bicker about who gets shotgun because we are both sitting together. Soda sat down and I sat on his lap with my legs towards Dally and my head on Soda's chest listing to his heart beat. He gave me a sweet smile and put his arms around me. God I have the best twin ever! I thought. I was quiet all the way to school while the rest made small talk. When Dally let us off he said bye to everyone except me. God why is he always ignoring me. The least he could do was say bye. It's a common courtesy I mean he stays at my house almost ever night. Granted he was Soda, Darry and Pony's friend too but still! Great, I thought to myself, now I'm sure I'm PMSing. I felt an arm wrap around my shoulders and looked over to find Two-bit.

"He didn't mean it." I knew Two-bit was talking about Dally, I had told him a few months ago that I liked Dally and Two-bit was cool about all of it. Everyone thinks Two-bit is a big blabber mouth and is insensitive, but when it came to his friends and especially me, he was the greatest friend in the world and I could always count on him.

"Thanks Two-bit. Let's head to class."

"Sure thing D Curtis." Me and Two-bit had every class together. I don't even want to begin to know how Two-bit managed that. On the first day of school we had one class together and then all of a sudden the next day he was in all of my classes. I had tried to ask him about it but he just smiled had shown me his 'brand new switchblade.' I had a hunch after that how he managed to get his schedule changed.

"Later guys," Two-bit and I told the rest of the gang and headed off to class.

The first three classes were completely boring and it was now lunch time. We had three classes in the morning then lunch and then our last class then tomorrow was the same set up but with our 'Day 2' classes. We all waited outside for Dally to pick us up from school to head over to D-Q and have lunch. The gang said I agreed to it this morning in the car, but I don't remember it.

"Damn he's taking forever." There it is ladies and gents Johnny's first words of the day and ooh four words; damn he's reached his quota for the day. Guess we'll have to wait for tomorrow to hear another inspiring sentence from Mr. Johnny Cade. I snickered at my sarcasm earning looks from the boys.

"What?" I asked

"Nothing" Soda and Steve began to crack up.

"Well I'm confused out of my mind." I said while giving them funny looks

"Out of your mind is right." Pony replied. "Well if old Dal is deciding to take his sweet time, I'm headed for a piss."

"Oh very classy Pone." I said.

"Thanks Looney Toon." I stuck my tongue out at Pony's comment….Big mistake.

"What's that?" I don't know what shocked the boy's more, my pierced tongue, or the fact that Johnny spoke another sentence. Well I know Two-bit's more shocked at Johnny after all he took me to get the piercing done when I told him I wanted it.

"What?" I smiled innocently. Soda took his hand and put his fingers on one cheek and his thumb on the other side while his palm was under my chin and squeezed his hand so that I looked like I was doing a fish face and my tongue popped out. (A/N I tried to paint the picture as clear as I could but you kinda get it…tear eyes and high pitched voice right?)

"Woo-hoo-hoo" Soda whistled calmly. "Darry's gonna be pissed when he sees that."

"You're not mad?" I said as clearly as I could because my tongue was still hanging out of my mouth.

"It's your body I don't care what you do with it as long as you respect yourself." Soda let go of my mouth.

"Thanks." I gave him a big bear hug. Dally's pulled up and parked his car.

"Hey guys ready to go." Eyeing me and Soda in a hug.

"Pony just left for the bathroom. I guess I'll stay here with him, you guys can head out." Johnny said.

"Whoa John-boy betta slow down on those sentences it might kill ya." Two-bit and Soda laughed at my comment as Johnny grew red. Steve just chuckled and slapped me upside the head. I would gotten mad, but it was progress between us and I didn't want to crush it. As long as we can be friends again without tearing each other's heads off. I thought.

We said bye to Johnny and rode with Dally. I sat in the backseat behind Dally with Soda on the other side and Two-bit in the middle while Steve rode shotgun. We pulled into the drive-thru and intentionally screamed our orders at the drive-thru person. I just ordered an ice-cream while everyone else ordered 2 cheeseburgers, fries and a coke. I've gotta lose weight….but ice-cream isn't the way to do it. Oh well I'll just work extra hard in Gym next block. I thought to myself. Besides, this way if the drive-thru guy was mad at us he I would notice spit on my cone rather than in the burger. We sat in the parking lot talking. Dally and Steve were turned right around in their seats looking over the headrests at us. I was just licking my ice-cream happy that I didn't have to hide my tongue piercing and I jumped into the conversation from time to time.

"Woah!" I looked up mid-lick from my ice-cream cone at Dally mentally giggling about how dirty mid-lick sounded. I looked at him with questioning eyes. "What's that?" He pointed at my tongue. God do we have to go through this again. Hmmm I'll just humour him.

"It's my tongue." I said slowly putting emphasis on each word.

"Don't be a wise ass I mean the piercing." I gave him a weird look and took on the same tone as I spoke again.

"It's just that… a piercing." I thought that would get under Dally's skin as payback for him being a jackass in the morning but he just smiled and asked to see it again. I stuck out my tongue.

"I heard it hurts real bad, and you're tongue swells up for a couple of days."

"It wasn't that bad." I said trying to play tough.

"Are you kidding me Dom! I thought you squeezed my hand to death when you did that." Oh Two-bit you are an idiot.

"WHAT?" Soda screamed. "You took her to get it done and didn't ever tell my." Two-bit and Soda started to squabble and I turned my attention back to Dally.

"Nice going kid, it's real sexy." Dally said before turning back around and announcing we were heading back to school. I just pulled my sunglasses back on and tired to hide the large smirk on my face. So Dallas Winston knows I exist. Well at least the now I know it was worth getting my tongue pierced.