She Can Get It (4)
Contains: Lots of smut, swearing
Pairing: Darry x Cherry (Charry)
A/N: Awkward moment in Red Dawn when Randy the soc and Ponyboy are on the same team. Whoops, I meant Darren and Tommy. My bad.
CHAPTER FOUR
Darry was at work, doing his usual job with the roofing. Shirtless as always, too.
"Lookin' good there, Darrel."
Darry turned around to see Dorothy, smirking at him.
Darry wiped his hands on a cloth. "What are you doing here, Dory, shouldn't you be with Sodapop?"
She smiled with slyly. "So? What Sodypop doesn't know won't hurt him."
Dorothy was nineteen, but she looked sixteen or seventeen, maybe because of the bright colors she wore and the way she wore her reddish-blonde hair in high pigtails that curled in two single spirals, and the way her blue eyes were so big and innocent looking. She was one of those cute girls that you could never say no to since they looked so cute.
She was wearing a tight dress that was mid-thigh length and boots. Darry's co-workers stared at her.
She walked up to Darry and slowly scratched the back of his neck seductively. "Don't you miss me, Darry-boo? Sody is fun...but nobody can compare to you."
Darry rolled his eyes. Yah, that's why you were having sex with some soc in MY bed, Darry thought.
Darry turned. "I have to get back to work, Dory."
Dorothy cleared her throat. "I heard you got a new broad now. A soc? So impressive. You sure showed me, Darrel. Congrats on your payback." She sarcastically clapped.
Darry's fist clenched. "Go home, Dory."
Dorothy then bounced along down the road. I will find that girl, she thought to herself.
Cherry was at school, wearing her argyle sweater and her plaid skirt with her hair in a half ponytail.
She walked outside and spotted the youngest Curtis brother, playing with a yo-yo with his friends by the bottom pf the school steps.
She was about to approach him. "Hey, Cherry! You look sooo pretty today! Wanna come over to my house? We can hang out while reading magazines and braiding each others hair, or talk about the cute boys in our classes!" Some girls in Cherry's grade were saying to her.
"Oh, thanks y'all, but I kind of have something later, I'm so sorry."
The girls sighed. "Well, okay. See you later, Cherry!" They all walked off together.
Cherry looked back to see Ponyboy was then alone.
She walked up to him. "Uh, hey, Ponyboy."
Ponyboy groaned and walked in the other direction.
"Hey, Ponyboy, wait a second! Please!"
Ponyboy then reluctantly stopped and turned. "What?"
Cherry then bit her lip. "Well...I just..."
Ponyboy shook his head and turned away.
"If you keep ignoring me...I-I might kill myself or something!" Cherry screamed loudly.
Ponyboy then whipped his head around. "What?!"
Cherry then started to sob. "It's true..."
Ponyboy then sighed and placed his hand on her shoulder as they sat on the bench together. "Look, Cherry...I'm sorry about the way I'm treating you...but you have to understand how hard all of this for me. My two closest friends are dead...and when you broke my heart—"
Cherry grabbed Ponyboy's shirt and sobbed into it. "I'm sorry, Ponyboy...I want to take it all back... I really do... and if we could be friends again...please, I'm begging you...I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."
Ponyboy only sighed and put his arm around her. "It's alright, Cherry. Fresh start, okay?"
Cherry nodded and sobbed more. He then kissed her forehead.
"Well well, Ponyboy. Got a girlfriend?"
The two looked up. Cherry wiped her eyes.
"Dorothy, what are you doing here?" Ponyboy asked surprisingly, standing up.
She shrugged. "Just went out for a walk. Soda told me that I should hang out with his brothers some more."
Cherry tapped Ponyboy. "Who's this, Ponyboy?"
Dorothy held out her hand as Cherry shook it. Damn, she has real soft hands and pretty nails, Cherry thought. She thought Dorothy was really cute.
"I'm Dorothy Randle. Older sister of that nuthead Steve. Ex-girlfriend of Darrel Curtis and currently dating Sodapop Curtis."
Cherry's eyes widened and mouth slightly opened at 'Ex-girlfriend of Darrel Curtis.' She cleared her throat. "Well, I...hope you and Sodapop are happy together."
Dorothy gave a cute innocent smile. "Aw, that's sweet! Thank you! I hope the best for you and Ponyboy as well!" And at that her soft blue ocean eyes turned to the dark angry shade of sea as she waved and turned around to walk.
Cherry was about to say something, but was interrupted by Ponyboy's hand abruptly grabbing hers. "So,
where should we go, babe? Maybe we can go for a walk together as our first date!"
Cherry felt like she just took a brick to the head. Girlfriend...? She repeated in her mind. But...if she rejected him, then they'd go back to not speaking to each other for who knows how long...
"Oh...kay!" Cherry faked a gleeful smile.
Ponyboy smiled as he interlocked fingers with her.
Darry sighed as he walked through the door, wiping his forehead. It was a long day.
He walked into the main room to see Dorothy, clad in a pink sundress and her reddish-blonde hair down.
"Hi, Darry. How was work?"
"Dory...you look different."
"Yeah. I do, don't I?" She stood up and walked over. "Don't I remind you of that socy little broad?"
"I don't know who you're talking about."
"Don't play stupid, you little fucker." She ran her fingers down his chest. "Soda told me about you and her. He told me aaallll about her too."
Darry grimaced. Soda told even though he said he wouldn't? Well, it was only fair.
"Who'd you tell?"
"Nobody, Darry. I promise." She started feeling his biceps. "I met her today. Such a sweet girl."
Darry drew in a breath and bit his lip. "You better not have told her anything."
"Well, I may have told her about...us."
"What?!" He almost knocked over the table lamp.
"Calm down, Darrell. Besides, it looks like she found someone new anyways."
"What the hell're you talking about, Randle?!"
"Ohoho, calling me by my last name now." She clapped. "Soo tough."
She turned away. "But it seems that her and...Ponyboy are a thing now?"
"Ponyboy hates her."
"That's not what it looked like when I saw her. My my, she was crying on his shoulder with his arm around her, kissing her forehead. Now, if that doesn't say 'relationship,' I don't know what—"
"Bitch! You're lying!"
"I'm not, unfortunately. Oh well. But don't I look so cute with this look?" She spun. "I rock it better than her."
"I can't believe this. In fact, I don't. Just get out of my house."
She shrugged. "Whatever. I'm just saying what I saw." She walked out of the house.
Cherry and Ponyboy were walking around East side.
"So...I know this is a hard subject for you...but what was...Johnny and Dallas really like?"
Ponyboy stuffed his hands in his sweater pockets. "Well...I told you about Johnny...he got beat up by the socs a bit ago. He was a real tough fighter. But after the beating...he became a real nervous wreck...and...and before he, y'know... Dally said he was proud of Johnny... being all brave after saving those kids and all... And that was all Johnny ever wanted. For Dallas to be proud of him. He gave me a letter before he died, he put inside...inside a book we read. And...here. I have it..."
Ponyboy sniffled and wiped his tears, pulling a folded piece of paper out of his pocket.
Cherry took it and unfolded it.
She gulped after finishing. Tears started flowing from her eyes. "I'm sorry I didn't get to see him." She sniffled. "I regret it so much. I should have saw him. And now it's too late."
She sat and started sobbing. "Even Dallas too... I'm such a horrible person for blowing him off like that. He didn't deserve it. And now..." She started sobbing harder.
Ponyboy knelt beside her and pressed his hands to her face, lifting it to look in her eyes.
"It's not your fault. I know you feel bad about all this...but we have to keep strong and carry on."
Cherry nodded as she sniffled, wiping her eyes.
Ponyboy smiled and stood up, letting out his hand. "C'mon."
Cherry grabbed it as he pulled her up, as they looked into each others eyes.
Ponyboy pulled her in for a hug. She leaned on Ponyboy's chest and blushed, closing her eyes.
He's so warm...and he smells nice...
And the only person on her mind at the moment was purely just him.
Ponyboy Curtis.