Sarah Curtis
"Red light! Red light!" Darry screamed in my ear as I was coming to a stop light. But I obviously wasn't paying attention.
I immediately stopped, screeching to a halt. "I don't know how your going to get your license if you don't learn to pay attention!!"
"Sorry, I was distracted." I said honestly.
"By what?" He asked as I pushed on the gas petal when the light went green.
"Nothing in particular. Just thinking whether or not I want to join the swim team again this year." I had been in the swim team every year in school since I was eleven. I was one of the best on the team. The skill I was best at was diving. I was the top in my class on that.
"Well you need to decide whether or not you want to because school starts in 3 weeks."
"Yea, yea." I said parking in our drive way. I took the keys out of the ignition and handed them to Darry and got out of the car. "When is the next lesson?"
"When do you need it"
"I don't know I get my license this December unless I don't have all my hours in so I'll need them when I can get them."
"Alright." Darry said going into the house throwing the keys on the table and going into the kitchen to begin dinner. "What's for dinner?" I asked because I was starving. Driving always got me nervous.
"I don't know. We don't really have anything. We need to go to the store." He said looking through the freezer.
"Well, I can go. I'll just go clean up and get myself on over there."
I walked into my room, which consisted of books laying all over the counters and homework on my bed. I would swear you would think I'm Ponyboys twin, not Sodapops. I walked over to my dresser to put on more comfortable clothes. I always wore comfortable clothes when I was just walking somewhere. I choose some white sweats and a blank tank top.
I went to do my hair, which was a mess, because of the window being open in the car when I was driving. I brushed it out and put it half up and half down. I liked my hair. It looked like my mom's, dirty blonde that went down to my shoulders.
I finished getting ready and went out to the living room where Steve and Soda had come home from work. Steve's face was covered in chocolate cake and Soda was teasing him about it. Until he noticed me.
"Hey sis. How'd the driving lesson go?" Soda asked bouncing over to me and putting his arm over my shoulders.
"I went ok. But I almost ran a stop light." I said guiltily.
"Well that was smart. Did Darry skin ya?" Steve asked sarcastically.
"No, chocolate face, he didn't…surprisingly!" I yelled teasingly to my older brother, who just glared at me. "Well maybe I should next time, or better, have Soda teach you."
"Oh dear lord, no. He drives like a maniac." I said smirking at Soda. This only caused him to tackle me. We landed on the living room floor as he easily pinned me down. I was not the strongest of people.
"Get off me, ya big galute!"
"Nope, not until you admit I'm a good driver!" He said.
"But you not!" I said laughing. This caused him only to go from pinning me down to tickling me. "Hey…that's..ah….stop…not fair." I said in between laughs.
"I think abuse of the child is illegal in this fine state of Oklahoma." Two-Bit said coming through the door.
"Aww shoot, I wasn't abusing her." Soda said getting off of me and helping me up.
"Well I'll see you people later I have to go to the store." I said getting some money and putting my shoes on.
"Why don't you stay here and we'll go out to eat and then tomorrow we can go get food. We haven't been out lately as a group." Two-Bit suggested.
I looked at Darry. Usually he didn't go out. "Can we? That'd be fun."
He thought about it for a moment. "I guess we can. But we have to wait for the others to get back."
"Where are the others?" I asked.
"Pony and Johnny are at the movies and you know where Dallas is." Soda answered.
Yep. I did know. Dallas was in the cooler. But hey, what else was new?
I'll update soon!!