DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE OUTSIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soda POV

Three months- three long, lonely months without Sandy. Even though I could never forgive her for cheating on me, part of me will always miss her.

It was a Saturday in the middle of July. I wanted to be outside, playing football or at the beach, anything. But no, I had to work until five. At least Steve was there, I'd go mad if he wasn't.

"Okay," he interrupted my thoughts. "There are exactly 375 squares on this floor." He looked very proud of himself.

"Exactly?" I asked skeptically.

"I don't know, something like that." He answered back. "Who comes to a gas station when it's hot enough out to melt your car?" Steve practically yelled.

Ironically, two girls were just getting out of a car and were on their way in.

"Who's that?" I asked. I knew one of them since she was a regular. The other girl I had never seen before.

"Olivia Wood. She just moved here from San Diego. I saw her in school yesterday."

She was pretty. Olivia Wood had straight red hair, the kind that you could spot a mile away because of its brightness.

"Who in their right mind would move from California to Oklahoma?" I asked.

"Her dad got a good job here or something."

"Oh."

She walked in.

Olivia POV

'Oh, great,' I thought to myself. 'That creepy guy in my English class who keeps poking me with a pencil works here.' I didn't recognize the other one. He was hot though. Yet another reason I hated having to move here- not knowing the only cute guy in town.

Leah and I walked in the DX station. We walked straight to the register.

"Um, we're getting a fill up on pump 3 and I'll take these," I said as I picked up two packs of cigarettes from the shelf next to me and put them down on the counter.

"Livvy, I thought you quit smoking." Leah said to me.

"I did, my dad didn't."

"I'm Soda Curtis," the mystery hot cashier said abruptly. "Soda, like the drink."

"Um, hey, Soda like the drink. I'm Olivia Wood. Wood, like the stuff that comes from trees." I said back. He burst out laughing. Great, hottest guy in town is crazy.

"Are you okay?" I asked.

"He's fine." Steve said.

We paid and left.

"That was weird." Leah said from the passenger seat.

"Yeah."