It's Saturday (ok maybe not exactly!) and you know what that means? UPDATEE YEAHH xD Sorry about that ahaa.. It would have been put up sooner but I got distracted, My little pony season 3 is now on youtube! YEAHH!

"Does someone want to tell me what's going on then? Why is Lori's face fucked up?" Dally was getting closer and closer to Robby, still pinned up by the wall after Tim had punched him.

"Oh yeah thanks Dally." Lori rolled her eyes.

"Saw our pal Robby here punch Lori in the face." Tim said, "Told you he'd been smacking her around. Who knows how long he's been hitting her for."

"This true Ford?" Dally was standing right in front of Robby. Robby avoided looking Dally in the eyes. "Don't ignore me kid! Let go of him." He told Dean and Max who were still holding him. "Answer me, have you been smacking her about?" Robby still didn't answer only looked at Dally with a smug look on his face. This annoyed Dally and he punched Robby in the stomach, Robby automatically bent over to hold his stomach only to be kneed in the face by Dallas.

"Aw fuck!" Robby shouted, blood gushing from his nose just like Lori's but only his was worse. Dallas pinned Robby up against the wall holding him by his throat,

"Lori is like a little sister to me. You don't mess with my family Ford. You're lucky you aint dead." Lori felt her heart sink a little, it's not like she wanted be with Dally or anything but she had always hoped that he had liked her back.

"Dally, leave it now! Please!" Lori begged, knowing it wouldn't be long until the cops showed up. "Tim, is Angela home?"

"Yeah, well she was when I left this morning anyway." Tim answered lighting up a cigarette.

"Okay, Dally will you drive me there please?" Dally nodded his head and walked away from Robby, Lori followed.

"Who's car is this?" She asked seeing him climbing into a Thunderbird.

"Bucks, he's let me borrow it for a bit." Lori nodded and climbed in the car. "Hey did you lose your ring?" She asked noticing the class ring he wore was gone.

"No, me and Sylvia are back together" Lori made an 'o' shape with her mouth and they were both silent until Dally pulled up by the Shepard's house.

"You don't need wait for me, I'll be a few hours so I'll call Darry or someone to pick me up."

"Ok bye." Lori watched Dallas drive off and then knocked on the door.

"Oh my god what happened!" Angela screamed when she opened the door. It's not like the pain had gone away, but Lori forgot that her nose had been bleeding so she probably had blood all on her face and looked a mess.

"Robby hit me."

"Come in." Angela dragged her best friend into the living room. "I'm sorry but I can't not say anything anymore! I can't just sit by and let him hurt you anymore! Things need to be ended with him, I'm going tell your gang. You might not listen to me about it but at least I know they'll make you listen!"

"Angela-" Lori began but got cut off.

"No! I'm not going let you guilt trip me into not telling them, I know you said that if I told anyone we won't be friends anymore but I'm not just going sit by and let him hurt you, a friend wouldn't do that and if you won't talk to me anymore after I tell them then fair enough but-"

"Angela!" Lori screamed interrupting Angela's rant, "Things are over with Robby. Your brother and his gang saw Robby punch me… They called Dallas and obviously they are going to tell my brothers and the rest of the gang."

"Oh thank god!" Angela enveloped Lori in a hug, "I felt so bad all that time! I hadn't heard of you in so long, I was getting so worried! I am such a bad friend."

"Angela it's ok! Seriously I was being a bitch saying that if you told anyone we would be friends anymore." Angela smiled.

"Let's get you cleaned up!" She took Lori into the kitchen and did exactly that. The two girls spoke for hours until Darry came to pick Lori up, Dally had told him where she was and he also told him everything that happened down at The Dingo, which meant him explaining everything about Robby beating on Lori. Darry had almost gone out the house to find Robby and beat the tar outta him, but he didn't want risk getting caught and having Soda, Lori and Pony be put in care, the social certainly wouldn't like it if he beat up some 16 year old kid. But of course that didn't stop the rest of the gang going out and finding him.

For the next three weeks Lori was never on her own, except for when she was in bed and in the bathroom. She would have to get a ride to school with either Two-Bit or Steve and they both took turns waiting for her after class. She had only seen Robby once since the incident at The Dingo, it was in school, he was with one of his friends from the Tiber Street Tigers and she was with Steve, but the look that Robby gave her was far from a friendly one, it made her want to go hide. At the beginning of it all, she felt like she was someone important it felt like she had body guards, but it soon became annoying as she hardly had any alone time and hardly saw any of her girlfriends.

It was Saturday night and she had had enough of it all, it was Darry's turn to babysit her, seeing as he had Saturdays off.

"Darry?"

"Yeah Lori?"

"I was wondering, if I could go out tonight? Just to the Nightly Double with Angela and some friends from school." Lori asked.

"I don't know.."

"Oh please Darry, I haven't had much proper time with my friends! Please? I promise I'll come straight back after the films are finished!" Darry thought about it for a moment before replying,

"Fine. Do you want a lift?"

"Thank you Darry! You're the best, and yes please." Darry nodded and grabbed his keys of the side table. When they arrived at The Nightly Double, Lori told him that her friends were already inside, so she said bye and paid to go in. Now you might have already guessed but Lori hadn't actually made plans to go and meet with any of her friends, she had just wanted some alone time and figured she'd go watch a movie, and she knew none of the other guys would be here as Ponyboy was at the inside movie theatre with Johnny, Soda and Steve were on a double date with Sandy and Evie, Two-Bit was at some part somewhere and Dally was probably at Bucks with Sylvia. She picked a seat near the back, away from the concession stand where she knew she wouldn't be interrupted.

Saturday night wasn't a great night for Steve; his double date had ended up with him being single. It didn't bother him, after all it was him who ended it with Evie, she was always too clingy and paranoid that he was constantly checking out other girls. He had finally had enough and broke up with her, she went home crying and he left and decided to catch a movie at The Nightly Double. He entered through a small hole at the back, away from the concession stand and away from other people, usually an isolated area but he saw one girl sitting in a seat on her own watching the movie. As he got closer he realised that the girl was Lori.

"Lori?" He had made her jump, spilling popcorn everywhere. "Sorry didn't mean make you jump." He said sitting down next to her.

"Steve, what are you doing here?" She asked shocked that he was there and a little upset that he was probably going take her back home.

"I should ask you the same thing. Thought you should be back at yours with Darry?"

"I told him that I was meeting some friends from school here, I persuaded him to let me come." Steve looked around him, looking for the friends that Lori was talking about.

"I don't see anyone around that you know."

"That's because I'm not meeting anyone here. I just wanted be alone, having you guys constantly around me is just… Annoying. Sorry." She sighed.

"It's ok, it's not all too great for us either, no offense but we do have better things than looking after you." He laughed.

"Sorry about that.."

"It's ok." He said lounging back in the seat.

"What are you doing?" Lori asked confused, she thought he would have left if he didn't want to be looking after her.

"What do you mean?"

"I thought you didn't want to 'look after' me. You don't have to stay you know." Steve laughed,

"I know, I never said I didn't want to look after you... And I'm not just going leave you here on your own now am I? I wouldn't be right." He smiled at her and she returned it, then they both turned their attention back to the movie. Steve looked at her from the corner of his eyes, he wondered how many guys would have tried it on with her if they came sit back here and he hadn't of been there… 'If she wasn't Soda's sister I definitely would.'

So… Lori and Steve? ;) Let me know what you think! And btw I after I looked back over this I saw that I wrote Fags instead of Cigarettes… Fags are basically Cigs where I come from but I know that some of you might night confused if I use the word fag and it just wasn't used back then anyway…

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