Don't Think, Just Go
Chapter Two
Now Two-Bit had rusty colored hair and dancing gray eyes. He was probably one of the tallest, he was wearing a Mickey Mouse shirt, and he began to walk towards us. He circled us with his hand on his face in a thinking manner.
"Well, I guess they could stay," he said, walking back towards Darry and the others.
"You guess?" I asked mischievously. "I know that we can."
"Oh really?" He said, raising one eyebrow. "Well—"
"So, do you want us to move your stuff inside , or do you want to continue standing in the heat?" Dallas interrupted, flicking a cigarette out of his mouth, onto the ground, and then stomping it out.
"We can start now," Jackie said, walking back towards the car and opening up the truck and the back seats. "The ones marked with a pink heart is Gwen's, the red circle is mine, and the blue stars are Hope's. The moving truck should be here soon with the rest of our things; I believe it left a little bit after us."
As they were picking boxes I walked to the front door. I reached into my back pocket for the key Jackie made for me. I grasped it and unlocked the front door. It opened with a creak and a musty smell greeted me as I walked in. The stairs were the first thing in front of the door and then there was a hallway. I chose to explore the upstairs part first to get the first pick of a room. Each step I took there was a creak that followed; it would hard to sneak out of this house. At the top, the hallway went to left and right. I went to the left first and opened the first door I came to. It was a hall closet. It wasn't very big, but it looked like someone might be able to fit inside in front of the shelves that were there. I opened up the next door and it was a bed room. It was decent sized and the walls were yellow. It had a closet on one side and windows on the other wall.
"Is this gonna be your room?" A quiet voice asked. I turned around and saw the tan, quiet boy.
"Um, yeah," I said. I gestured to the boxes in his arms, "You can just put those wherever."
He nodded and sat them down by the closet. He started to leave my new room.
"Hey," and he turned around. "Thank you..um..I'm sorry I forgot your name."
"Johnny," he replied.
"Thanks Johnny," I smiled and he gave me a shy smile before leaving. I went over to the boxes and was about to go through them when there was thud! I looked up and saw that Dallas just dropped the boxes on the floor and walked out of my room. "Hey! You could've broken something!"
"Not problem, now is it Princess?" He smirked at me. I glared at him and before anything else could've been said, a honk was heard. I ran to the window and saw that the moving truck appeared. "You better go help."
"And you too."
"I already did my part," and with that he walked down the stairs. I gave his a back a glare before following him. I went outside and saw that they were unloading the truck so that the driver could leave. I picked up two of my boxes and started walking back to the house.
"Hope, are you sure you can carry two boxes?" Jackie asked. She was beside me and carrying a box labeled dishes.
"Of course I can," I replied, trying to see if I was about to run into anything. Jackie went in front of me and headed towards the kitchen. Walking up the stairs was difficult and it didn't help that every time I took a step the boxes would hit the top of my legs.
"Here, let me help," a voice said. One of the boxes I was carrying was removed and I saw Sodapop.
"Thanks," I said, entering the yellow room.
"No problem," and he flashed me a smile that made his whole face light up. "This is your room?"
"Mmhhmm," and we sat the boxes down.
"Oh, I thought you would get the green one."
"Why the green one?"
"I don't know. You seem like a green person."
"What?" I said, confused. He answered me with a laugh and went to go get more boxes. I shook my head and decided to unpack my boxes. The guys could bring in the rest of the things because they were here to help move. The boxes Johnny brought in were clothes. I didn't have any hangers or a dresser to put them in. A loud bang sounded and grunts followed.
"Hey, you know, a little help would be great!" A frustrated voice said. I walked to the doorway and saw Dallas standing there, his face red.
"I thought you said you already did your part of helping us?" I questioned.
"Yeah, well, Darry didn't think so."
"Oh, well, I'm sorry."
"Aren't you gonna help me?" I shook my head. "Why the hell not?"
"Language," I scolded, "and because the box is too big for the doorway."
"Fine," he huffed and dropped it.
"Stop dropping my things!"
"It's just your mattress. It's not gonna break!"
"Hope, please don't argue with anyone," I heard Jackie say.
"Dally, just open the box," Two-Bit said. They did and they both brought it into my room. Darry followed behind them along with Steve and brought in my bed frame.
"Where do you want this?" Darry asked. I showed them and they put it so that it was perpendicular with the windows. They also put the mattress on the bed for me.
"Oh, and Jackie said to give you these," Two-Bit said and hand me a box of hangers.
"Thank you." And they left my room. I began to hang up clothes. Sorting them by what they were and by color. Pants and skirts went on the left starting with black and ending with white. Then came tops and blouses and sorted them alphabetical by color like the pants. I put that box in an empty corner of my room and opened the next box. It was my bed sheets and I finally got those on it after pulling, tugging, and fighting with the fitted sheet to get onto the mattress. I went downstairs and went into what I guess could be the den. Boxes filled the room and I could barely see into the kitchen.
"So, what made you move here?" I heard Steve ask.
"It was a way for us to get closer," Jackie replied.
"What do you mean?"
"That's not a tale for today," I answered.
"It's time for us to go home," Darry said, looking outside and before Steve could say anything.
"Thank you for helping us," Jackie said and Gwen and I echoed her. We said our goodbyes to each other as they walked to door. Gwen closed the door as the last one left.
"Now what?" Gwen asked.
"Well, we'll finish unpacking tonight, go grocery shopping tomorrow and get anything else we need and then we'll go get you two enrolled in school."
So, it's been over a year since I last updated and I'm sorry. I've been busy with school and other activities and this is the first free time I've had in awhile. What do you think of this chapter? Please let me know what I can improve and what I can add. I'm also sorry for any errors I made.