When the movie was over we found that my car had been keyed. This used to be my dad's car but he gave it to me-surprisingly- when he got a new car. If he found out about this he would be pissed. I sighed and kneeled down by the car. Someone keyed it saying 'GREASER GIRL' and I thought it was just a couple of lame Socs trying to have fun. "Probably Dallas." Sylvia said. I turned around confused. "It says Greaser Girl, wouldn't most likely be a Soc?" She sighed and it looked like she was trying to hold back tears. That was really weird for her, cause whenever Dally would cheat on her she never cried. She mostly just got pay back. I never I thought I'd see the day where Sylvia cried. She saw I noticed the tears and she blinked them back fiercely. "It's his type. Whenever he keys Tim's car he makes it looks like someone else did it. We better get goin'. Looks like we're gonna have to walk too. Someone slashed your tires." I was abound with anger. If I ever see Dallas Winston again he is gonna get whats comin' to him. Or better yet I'll just tell Tim, I was definitely not a snitch, but I knew it would make Tim and Dallas mad.

We started walking home when a car came up right by us and screamed 'GREASERS'. We mainly shrugged it off. We were used to it. Socs even tried to hit on us sometimes, I guess they all thought we were whores. I was surprised to see Two-Bit, Soda Curtis, Steve, Dallas, and Ponyboy Curtis come running up to us. We were confused for a second but then we saw the Socs were already heading for me, Evie, and Sylvia. Great. There hear to save us. I laughed aloud. They weren't coming here to help us, they were just coming here to pick a fight tonight. Typical.

"Hey girls. Need any help?" Two-Bit started laughing like it was so hilarious. "That'd be nice. If you were capable of it." Evie shot at him. I knew she wasn't really making it towards any of them, mainly just to Steve. Steve gave her a despondent look. His eyes were sad, yet filled with anger.

"Hey greasers, need a haircut?" I don't get why they say the same thing over and over when they try to pick a fight with us. They can't come up with other cheesy stuff to say? God there annoying. The boys also never replied. They just sat there staring at the Socs with anger and detest in their eyes.

"Or maybe we could take these girls off your hands? Mhm?"

I didn't even know what really happened after that. All I knew was that Steve and Dallas swung first at the Socs and Two-Bit, Ponyboy and Sodapop were not far behind. There was one Soc who didn't have a partner to fight with looked scared, nervous, and confused. He didn't know if he should join in in the fight or come over to us. He had black hair that was longer than most Socs, but not long enough. He had light hazel eyes. Looked like a Soc, dressed like a Soc.

The kid came over to us and pulled out a knife. It looked like the greasers were winning this fight, and it looked like 2-3 Socs were knocked out. I think the kid came over to us because he was scared of getting unconscious. When the Soc came over to us he took me by my hands, went behind me, and held the blade to my stomach. This kid was dumb. You never hold it to the person's stomach, you hold it to their neck. It makes it harder to get away. That was one of the main differences between Socs and greasers. We had common sense, and they didn't. Alright, we sometimes had common sense, but we damn well had more street smart then them.

"Don't move, savvy?" Savvy? What kind of Soc world did he come from? His own kind would knock him out if they heard him using that language. But why was a Soc talking like that in the first place?

"I said savvy?" I nodded my head to make sure I didn't get cut in the stomach. Evie screamed Steve and he came running over while he wiped his nose that had blood on it. I was taken back a little that Evie called Steve over here. I guess her being scared was taking over her emotions. She barely could say his name without sobbing.

Steve was about to ask why he called him over here in the middle of a fight but then he met my eyes. His gaze went right to the blade the Soc was holding to my stomach.

"Shit." Steve murmered. "Soda, Dallas!" he screamed. I guess they had taken out the rest of the guys because they didn't follow them over here. Soda and Dallas said 'shit' in unison. "Now y'all are gonna leave and don't bother me or I'll use this knife!" the kid stuttered as he said this. Y'all? You have got to be kidding me. How come this kid also got to react scared when I'm the one with the blade to my stomach.

"No fucking way." Dallas said. I guess that was pay back for slapping him. I had no regrets though. He deserved it for hitting my best friend. "DALLAS!" Sylvia shouted at him. "She's my best friend and you can't just leave her to get stabbed by some Socs!" she yelled even louder. "The hell with her." Dally mumbled and started to walk away.

"Pony, you go with Dal, we'll be fine, savvy?" Soda said to his kid brother, probably just trying to keep him away from being stabbed. Pony merely nodded and walked off too.

If nobody was gonna help then I guess I would have to help myself. I elbowed the Soc in the rib. He stepped backwards slightly and I slapped him in the face as hard as I kid. I heard someone whistle behind me. I just laughed and that's when I got the pain in my side. I tried to walk backwards to get away from the Soc that could get up any second and the sharp pain returned. I looked to my saide where it seemed to be coming from and I saw a whole part of my shirt bloody. I saw the blade the Soc had on the ground and it also had blood on it. "Shit." I said mainly to myself. "What. What's wrong?" I didn't reply to Evie. "Dammit Caitlin, what is wrong!?" before I could speak I fell to the ground and was out cold.

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5 hours later (Evie's POV)

Caitlin was still out cold and all I was really paying attention to was her heart rate and the noise that kept going, beep beep beep. I stared at it every moment to make sure that that noise didn't stop beeping and that it didn't go red. I was so nervous that she could die. The doctors said she was stabilized but I just needed to make sure.

Steve and some of his friends were nice enough to stay in the room until she woke up. Steve, Soda, and Two-Bit were also in the room with me. I think they felt kind of guilty because they hadn't made a move to help, and if they did, Caitlin probably wouldn't be here right now. Soda looked the most guiltiness, if that's even a word. He had this sad and worried look in his eyes. I thought he liked her for a second. But then I realized that Soda could have any girl and he would randomly pick Caitlin? She was way more than beautiful for him, but he could still pick any girls he wanted and Caitlin had anything but luck. And it would kind of weird for Caitlin to date him, being as me, her Sylvia, AND Sandy were all bet friends. After what Sandy did to Soda she moved to Florida and we lost touch. It didn't bother us much though. We almost hated Sandy for what she did.

My mind drifted to Sylvia. She left about two hours ago so she wouldn't miss her shift at Buck's. she was already late and she didn't want to be anymore late then she already had been. I wondered how Sylvia was with him runnin' out on us like that last night. She was porbably horrified on the inside even though she would never admit it. Sylvia had that, mean, cold look to her, but you had to be close to her to go to her soft side like me and Caitlin. She sometimes let it slip in front of Dallas, but that was rare, and she was smarter than to let that happen. I remember one time when we were at Buck's, Sylvia got really ripped and told Dally she loved him. He was shocked at first, but right after he headed out the door. She didn't remember any of it, at least that's what she was leading on. I guess Sylvia was pretty smart even though she acted dumb. She hated the fact that I never listened to her about Steve. She said she hated the fact I got to close to him too fast and that's why I always get hurt. I was the softest one out of all of us. I guess Caitlin was the toughest one, had more street smart and common sense, and she never got hurt from guys what's so ever. I think that's why Sylvia favors her more. I think Sylvia envy's her. Caitlin is also the most beautiful out of all of us. Half the guys she gets asked out by are some of the cutest guys in Tulsa, and she ALWAYS rejects. I wished that some of the guys that asked her out would ask me out.

When I thought of guys asking me out, my thoughts drifted to Steve. I kept replaying the thought over and over in my mind, why did he cheat on me? Was I really not good enough? Everytime I thought of that, I felt like I wouldn't to burst out crying. Ever since we broke up, I haven't looked at other guys, I haven't talked to them besides my brother and dad, I haven't been sleeping, eating, nothing. What killed me the most was how fine he looked. And I didn't mean cute, I meant he was okay with the whole situation. He didn't care that we had broken up, he didn't care he cheated on me, he didn't hurt at all like me, and most of all he didn't care at all. He always gave me these looks filled with anger. What hurt the most was, I knew iloved him. And I knew he hadn't felt the same way. And I knew I looked like a then and there Steve looked at me.

"Hey… um Evie… could we um.. go talk?" his voice sounded flustered and nervous. "Sure." I mumbled, barely a whisper. Two-Bit looked at my, a look of pity, and I wanted to kick myself then. Did I really look that broken up?

When we made it out to the hallway, we stood in awkward silence for a few seconds. "Why did you call me out here Steve." I asked, waiting for an answer. He started playing with the zipper on his jacket, which he only did when he was nervous. Leave it to me to know something as little as that.

"I wanted to apologize." That's all he said? 'I wanted to apologize.' I was beyond mad.

"Apologize for what?" Steve just looked to the ground and didn't respond to me. I might still care about him, but I didn't have time for this. "Look Steve, Caitlin could wake up any moment and if you're not gonna say anything else then I'm gonna get back to her."

I turned to walk away and Steve pulled me around to face him by my arm and kissed me. I knew it wasn't right and I shouldn't give in so easily, but at that moment I honestly didn't care. I was just so happy to be kissing him again that none of it mattered. Nothing. Of coarse I didn't forget that he cheated on me, and I wasn't gonna forgive him right away, but I didn't care. I wanted to be with him again.

"I just needed to do that again. I'm sorry Evie. For everything. For cheating on you, for letting you get away. I love you." Those three words echoed through my mind and replayed over and over. Did he really just say that? Was I dreaming?

"I love you too, Steve." We kissed again and Two-Bit had to come and interrupt us. "Were you guys ever on thinking about coming back into the room?" we broke the kiss and Steve took me by the hand back to the hospital room. I sat on Steve's lap. I was gonna start talking when Caitlin's eyes fluttered open. "Evie?" she whispered in a low, raspy voice.