Disclaimer: S.E. Hinton owns the Outsiders, I own jack. Well except the character's you don't recognize, Krissy and I own those.
She opened the door and was pleased to see her sister Marissa, and her daughter Gwen.
"Hey sis!" Marissa greeted her as she and her daughter walked in.
"Hey Cel," Gwen said as she walked over to Marcella.
"Ma, we're going to play soccer," Marcella told her as she and Gwen left.
Tai sighed as she collapsed on the couch. "That's all that girl ever does!" she exclaimed.
Marissa laughed. "Don't feel bad, Gwen's been like that with her ice skating since Chris left."
Taissa frowned. Her sister and her husband Chris just got divorced last month. "I'm sorry Mar, I didn't even think about that. How have you been?"
Marissa shrugged. "Eh, some day's I'm fine, other's I'm a wreck."
Taissa put a comforting hand on her sister's leg. "It'll be alright, you guys are going to stay with me for a while. It'll all be better, you'll see."
Taissa studied her sister. At thirty three she was still as beautiful as she was as a teen, but she looked older, wiser, somehow. Taissa knew it was because of her marriage crumbling apart so quickly last summer.
Suddenly Marissa's voice broke into her thoughts.
"Tai, do you remember that summer we met Soda and Dallas?" Marissa asked dreamily.
"Yeah, yeah I do. How could I forget?" she laughed.
She remembered it like it was yesterday. Sodapop was her first love, and it took a long time for her to move on from him when Marissa and she went back to New York. Although it was stuck in her memory, she hadn't thought about that summer in a while.
"I wonder what happened to them." Marissa said.
"Me too."
"So kid, what's for dinner?" she asked her sister, changing the subject.
Marissa noticed this, but didn't say anything about it. "How bout some pizza? I've been dying for some pepperoni."
"The kids don't like pepperoni." Taissa told her.
Marissa scoffed playfully. "So?"
They both busted up laughing.
"I'll go get the menu," Taissa said as she got up from the couch.
In the back of her mind Taissa always wondered what happened to the boys. They probably all got married, she thought to herself. And she couldn't help but feel sad because of that.