Disclaimer: I do not own the Outsiders. I only own my two characters, Ciara and Leah
I'm back! Anyone miss me? XD I know ya'll did. As for my secret about updating-it ain't that hard. Go to 'Stories' and hit edit. Just export one of the chapters, than edit it with the words for the new chapter instead of the ones from the chapter you exported.
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We moved in and agreed I would get the couch since I was the youngest of the two of us. For a while, it was just me, Leah, and Pony, but soon people started coming over. Lulu came over first. Than her and Ponyboy took a walk together, and the last thing we heard was them talking about sunsets and books and drawing. Then Two-bit and Caryn came over. I looked at Caryn, who walked over and sat with us on the couch. Two-bit decided to eavesdrop because he didn't trust us. He was waiting to get a bucket of glue or something dumped on his head, I think. Not long after, Dally finally showed up, and when I got up to stretch, he picked me up and spun me around.
"Dally! Stop!" I giggled.
Wait...did I just GIGGLE? I thought.
He set me down and gave me a kiss on the lips, his arms still around my waist. The kiss soon turned passionate, but then someone interrupted us by throwing a crayon at me. I looked and saw Leah laughing. I glared at her, picked up the crayon, and threw it back. But she ducked, so it hit Two-bit instead, who then tried to throw it back at me, but hit Caryn because of his horrible aim. I laughed at him. Then Caryn threw the crayon at me, but it hit Dally.
"Crayon fight!" Leah yelled and pulled 10 different crayons out of my bag.
She threw them in random directions, each of them hitting someone. By the end of the crayon fight, Two-bit got hit the most, so he had to pick up all my crayons and put them back into the box, in alphabetical order. I laughed and Dally sat on the couch, and I layed on it, putting my head in his lap.
"Hey Two-bit! That's magenta, not pink." I said.
"Same thing!" he said.
"No it isn't. There's a difference. Pink is light red and magenta is a mixture of red and blue." I said, chuckling.
He stuck his tounge out at me. He went to put them back in my bag after he was finished, and saw my sketchpad, which was open to the picture I had just finished coloring yesterday. The one of the gang as ponies.
"Hey Ci. What's this?" he said, holding it up.
We all looked over at it and I blushed.
"Oh it's just something I drew...Nothing really." I said, getting up and taking it from his hands.
But Dally took it from my hands and looked hard at it. He saw the pony was like him-the one with a cigarette in its mouth, and chuckled. Leah and Caryn looked at it from Dally's sides. They both spotted a certain pony in Mickey Mouse boxers and laughed.
"What's so funny?" Two-bit asked.
Caryn took the picture and pointed to the pony.
"Hey! That's me!" he said, laughing.
I turned bright red. Nobody had ever seen my artwork. I was always to shy to let anyone see it.
"We should frame this and hang it in here." Caryn suggested.
"Let's wait for Darry and see what he says." Leah said, "I think it's cute Ci."
She gave me a hug and Caryn said she'd hold onto the picture so she could show Darry and the others.
When everyone was home, and we were eating dinner, Caryn brought up the subject of the picture. Pony commented that he already saw it, but didn't see it colored yet. She pulled the picture out and put it in the middle of the table. Everyone was in it except Lulu, but that was because she wasn't around I drew it. Leah asked Darry if we could frame it and hang it in the living room, and he nodded. After dinner it was hung up. I yawned and decided to lay on the couch. Dally let me use his lap as a pillow again and I drifted off to sleep, thinking about how fortunate I was to have met these guys. I thought back to a time before I met them...
Dream
I smelled smoke...lots of smoke. I looked around frantically and saw my old home, my old bedroom.What am I doing here? I thought, breathng heavily.
I looked around the house, and saw my mother's body, or what was left of it, on fire."Mom!" I cried. My dad was sitting next to her, crying. He was still alive. For now.
"Ciara!" he said.
"Dad!" I cried and ran up to him.
His body was suddenly engulfed in flames.
"Daddy! Daddy!" I cried.
I felt a hand pulling me. I looked and saw Leah. She was trying to save me.
"Come on! We have to get out of here!" she shouted.
"But what about Mommy and Daddy?" I cried.
She looked sad all of a sudden. "There's nothing we can do Ci..." she said.
End Dream
I woke up. It was still dark outside and Dally was now laying next to me. I must have woke him up though."You ok, Ci?" he asked, with a sense of worriedness in his voice.
"Yeah..." I said shakily.
It must've just been a nightmare...but why did it feel so real? I thought.
"You sure?" Dally asked. He pushed a strand of my hair out of my face and I nodded. I snuggled closer to him and fell back asleep.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
That's all for now. XD
Oh...and this chapter reminds me. I finally finished the actual picture of that. XD I'll try to get it scanned if anyone wants to see it, but it'll probably take a while.