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DALLY'S POV

As soon as I opened my eyes from my night's rest I was greeted with gray eyes looking up at me. Stacy was laying next to me fully dressed and appearently had been watching me sleep.

"You know a picture would last longer." I tell her as a grin tried to form on my lips but I held it back.

"But I'd be too tempted to burn it." She says with a teasing smile and I gave her one of my glares. I don't know why this girl doesn't take me seriously. I glare, her smile widens. I yell, she yells back. Most people wouldn't have the guts to do that. Maybe that's why I like her so much.

I grabbed her and pulled her in my lap, sitting up now. "I should make you pay for that one."

She grinned. "Oh and how so?"

"How about this." I then capture her up in a rough kiss but pulled away not even half way through it. She leaned forward to try and kiss me again but I leaned back with a smirk on my face. She opened her eyes and a glare soon formed on her face.

"You're a bastard." She says and I laugh.

"Well duh." I tell her as Shepard walks in.

"About time your up." He greets me.

I rolled my eyes. "Shut it. What are we going to do today?"

Stacy looks down sadly. Tim and I both share a glance before looking back down at the young teen.

"What's up kid?" I asked her.

She sighs. "Do we have to go out today?"

I gave her a questioning look. "I guess not. Why don't you want to go?"

"Are you kidding me? Look! I look like a whore with horrible brown hair! I hate it, I hate it, I hate it!" She says upsetly.

Tim and I roll our eyes. "It's just for a little while baby, just until this thing with Cody and you passes over."

She gave me a look. "You guys just don't get it. Cody isn't going to give up and there ain't nothing you two can do to stop him. If you stand in his way he'll kill you too and I refuse to let that happen."

"Stop thinking all negative. We'll going to get you out of this rather our lives on the line or not and don't think you can change my mind." I told her and ment it. Any other girl it would have been different but there was something really special about Stacy.

She sighs. "Fine whatever."

"Hey y'all we're going bowling, want to come?" Angela asks as she walks inside.

"Sure." Tim says and then looks at that the two of us. I glanced down at Stacy who sighs but nods her head. We rode with Shepard to the run down bowling ally where we met up with the rest of the gang. Even Darry, who rarely ever goes anywhere with us anymore, was there.

"Let's play people!" Two-bit yells as we all get our balls and shoes.

"You can play on Mommy and Dally's lane." Stacy tells Tess and the young girl smiles.

"OK." She says happly and nods her head, her now brown hair swinging in the high ponytail Stacy put it in.

"Ready to lose?" I asked Stacy with a smirk.

She glared at me. "Tess and me are gonna kick you butt so bad that you won't want to leave the house for a week."

I laughed. "Sure baby, I'm sure that's how it's gonna end."

"Just wait Winston." She says. It was Stacy, Tess and me on #6, the Curtis' on #7, Tim, Steve, and Angela on #8, and Curly, Two-bit, and Johnny on #9.

Stacy was first on our frame and picked up her ball which happened to be the lightest here.

"Is that all you can pick up?" I asked her with a smirk.

She glared at me. "No, I just got it for Tess and figured we could share it."

I rolled my eyes. "I'm sure."

She glared at me but went up and I nearly fell out of my seat laughing at the way she threw the ball. She had bent over and rolled it with both hands granny style. She turned around and glared at me once the ball was slowly making it's way down to the pins.

"Shut up Winston! This is the only way I can do it." She says and then turns around when we hear the crashing of pins. She got all but four and her luck was good because they were all by each other. When her ball finally came back she threw it the same way again but this time it went in the gutter.

"You're really showing me now huh girl?" I say as I mark her points.

She glared at me. "I'm just getting warmed up is all."

I smirked. "I'm sure. You're up Tess."

Tess grabbed the very light ball that Stacy was using and went up with Stacy right behind her. Stacy helped her hold the ball and roll it just like she had. If I said it went slowly down the lane then I'd be almost lying. It went very slowly down the lane and I thought for sure I'd be eighty by the time it hit anything. OK maybe that was an exaggeration but whatever. It only hit the two side pins on the left side but still Tess cheered.

I got up when she went for her second shot. "Here let me show you how to do it since you Mommy is pretty bad at this."

Stacy gave me a look. "I am not bad at this."

I rolled my eyes and went with Tess up to the line you stand behind. I got on my knees so I was closer to her level and put her thumb, pointy finger, and middle finger in the holes and had her hold it upward.

"OK all you gotta do is throw it underhand as fast as you can but don't forget to take your fingers out." I tell her and she smiles up at me and nods. God did she ever look like her mother.

I held her arm and slowly brought back the ball. With both mine and Tess's strength, the ball went down the lane in a lot faster speed then her first shot and this time only three pins were left standing.

"Yay!" She squeals and hugs my neck. I froze, not sure what to do. I never liked little kids and only girls her mother age hugged me. As strange as it felt, I wrapped my arms around the girl and hugged her back and then picked her up, carrying her back to the table where Stacy was watching with a huge grin on her face. God do I hope that none of the gang was paying attention to us.

"Did you see that Mommy?" Tess asks excitedly as I place her down in her momma's lap.

"I did, you were great!" Stacy tells her and kisses her cheek.

"Dally helped me!" She grins as she looks at me.

Stacy smiles at me. "I saw that. Did he do a better job then Mommy?"

Tess nods. "Yeah."

I marked Tess's points and went to pick up my ball. "Stacy, watch and learn."

Stacy just shook her head with that same ole grin. "Alright master."

I threw the ball as hard as I could and I hit all but one stubborn pin.

"Yay Dally!" Tess cheered and Stacy laughs.

"OK master, lets see you hit that one." Stacy tells me.

I gave her a small grin. "Watch."

I threw the ball down the lane once more but it turned at the last moment and missed the pin.

"Better luck next time." Stacy tells me.

"Hey, I'm winning arn't I?" I tell her as I marked my points. "And your daughter's right behind me."

She laughed. "Only because you helped her."

I smirked. "Do you want me to help you too?"

She glared at me in a playful way. "Shut up Dally. I can hit my pins all by myself."

"Alright." I tell her. "Don't say I never offered."

"Look out!" We looked over to where Soda was yelling. The manager, who had been walking by, hurried and moved out the way as Soda's ball went sailing by him. How the hell Soda managed to throw the ball the opposite direction on accident I will never know.

Soda hurried and grabbed the ball while the manager bitched on and it's a wonder that he didn't throw him out.

"How do you do that Sodapop?" Stacy asks him with a laugh.

Soda grins. "I'm very talented, what can I say?"

"And you say I'm clumsy." Pony says to Darry.

"I guess you arn't the only then." Darry tells him. "Hell, Soda's really starting to make you look good."

"Maybe you should hang out with us more often." Pony tells him while Soda ruffles his hair.

"OK smarty, your turn." He tells him.

Our game went on for awhile until it was finally over. The gang had bought another round but Stacy, Tess, and me were tired of playing so we figured we'd watch the others. I had won our game followed by Tess and then Stacy. I had 133 points, Tess had 106 with my help, and Stacy had 82.

"How's the game coming Shepard?" I asked as we sat down by his and Two-bit's lanes.

"I'm winning of course." He says as he lights a cigarette.

"I won." I tell him.

"Hey, I would have won if you didn't cheat those last five rounds." Stacy says as she places Tess in her lap.

I rolled my eyes. "How did I cheat?"

She rolled her eyes. "You kept distracting me."

I smirked. "I don't know what you're talking about."

Stacy gave me a look and impersonated my voice. "Hey Stacy, watch out! Stacy, What's this Tess has? Stacy, don't fall!"

I smirked and held back a chuckle. "I don't sound like that."

She rolled her eyes. "I'm sure you don't."

Tim chuckled. "Maybe I should be on y'all lane next time. More interesting then playing with these two."

"What's so bad about Steve and Angela?" Stacy asks him.

Tim rolled his eyes. "Steve is a soar loser and Angela is more worried about messing up her nails then hitting the pins."

We glance over to our right when we heard holloring. Two-bit is doing the most retard dance ever and is shouting about how good he is.

"Are you OK?" Stacy asks him unsure.

"I won!" Two-bit says as he comes running over to us.

"Yay!" Tess claps as Two-bit picked her up and threw her in the air, sending the child into a fit of giggles.

Curly came over to us along with Johnny. "Are we buying another game?"

"Sure, I don't mind kicking y'alls butts again!" Two-bit says as he walks away with Tess to the front desk.

Curly sat down next to his brother. "God do I hate playing with that idiot."

Tim chuckled. "Is it because you can't beat him?"

Curly glares at Tim. "Johnny and me would have long beat him but he cheats worse than anyone I know."

"Ain't that the truth." Johnny says quietly.

"So does Dally." Stacy says and I rolled my eyes.

"Like you were gonna win anyway." I tell her.

She crossed her arms. "I might have."

"Your daughter was a head of you." I tell her making everyone laugh.

"That's only because you helped her Dallas!" She says but she's smiling.

"Hey, I offered to help you out but you said you would win your way." I say with a smirk.

"Shut up Dally." She says as Two-bit and Tess come back.

"Ready to lose again?" Two-bit asks the two boys.

Curly rolled his eyes. "Aw man, you mean you gotta cheat again?"

Two-bit laughed and ruffled the teens hair, earning a deadly glare from him. "I don't have to cheat to beat ya."

"Prove it." Curly says as he fixs his hair back, still glaring at Two-bit. With that, the three boys head over to their lane.

"Y'all want something to eat?" I asked Stacy as Tim got up for his turn.

"Sure." Stacy says as she looks down at her daughter.

Tess grins. "Yeah!"

We get up and head over to the food court and Stacy finds a table for us while Tess and I go over and order. I picked Tess up so she could see what they had while we waited in line. I was getting the cheeseburger combo and Stacy wanted the chicken sandwich combo.

"What ya want kid?" I asked her as I told her the choices.

"Burger!" She says with a grin.

"What kind of burger?" I ask her. "Cheese burger or hamburger?"

She thought for a minute. "Hamburger!"

"Alright." I tell her.

"Dally?" I looked behind me to see Sylvia walking over to me.

Oh God.

"Where have you been lately? I haven't seen you at Buck's." Sylvia asks and then looks at Tess. "Who's the brat?"

"My girlfriend's kid." I tell her as I glared at her. "Why don't you just get gone."

She gave me a look. "You're dating some whore with a kid? Wow what happened to you?"

I glared at her. "She ain't no whore unlike you."

She smirked. "Oh really?"

"Why don't you go find you someone else to annoy?" I asked her as we moved up in line.

"Dally, what's your deal? Since when do you go for some chick who's anything but a whore?" Sylvia asks me as she places her hands on my shoulder that Tess wasn't leaning against. "I doubt you even like this broad."

I pulled away from her. "I sure like this broad a hell of a lot better than you. Now that I think about it, I like any broad better than you." I've been cheated on by her one too many times and since three weeks ago, I made a promise to myself not to go back out with the broad. All I see in her is a good fuck and everytime I started thinking it might be more, she goes and runs around on me.

"So what? Do you like playing Daddy or something?" Sylvia asks bitterly. "Is that while you're after her?"

"You know I hate kids Sylvia." I tell her. "This one ain't that bad though."

"Whatever Winston." She glares at me. "I've told you I was sorry about what happened between me and Wade, why can't you just get over it?"

I glared at her. "Why must you always think everything is about you? I'm way over that and way over you girl. Why don't you find ole Wade and go fuck in the parking lot."

She glared at me. "Whatever, don't think this is over." She says and then walks away.

"Who was that?" Tess asks as she looks after Sylvia a little fearfully.

"Nobody you need to know about." I tell her as we finally come to the front of the line. I placed the order and soon enough it was done and I carried it back to the table Stacy was sitting at.

"Hey." She says and I drop Tess in the chair next to her mom's.

"Hey." I say as I hand them their food and grab mine.

"Is something wrong?" Stacy asks as she glances at me. "You look mad."

"It's nothing." I tell her as I take a huge bite out of my burger.

"Who was that girl you were talking to?" Stacy asks me as she took a sip of her coke.

"Some stupid broad." I tell her.

"And that's all she is?" She asks as she glanced at me.

I sighed irritated. "Yes now shut up about her."

Stacy gave me an angry look. "What's your problem Dallas? All I asked was who she was and you jump all over me."

"Well maybe it's none of your business who she is!" I tell her.

She glared at me and made a move to get up but I grabbed her wrist.

"Don't go." I tell her. Dear Lord, what is wrong with me? I can not be following for this girl.

"Why shouldn't I Dally?" She snaps at me. "I don't feel like putting up with you when you're in one of these moods."

"Look, I didn't mean it OK?" I tell her.

"Then what's going on?" She asks me as she sits back down.

"The broad is my exgirlfriend." I tell her.

"What did she want?" She asks and I could see the hint of worry in her eyes.

"To irritate me." I tell her. "She thinks that I'm just going to go running back into her arms after she slept with about every damn guy in this city while we were dating."

"What did you tell her?" She asks softly.

"I told her I was seeing someone else and to fuck off 'cause I was never going back to her." I say as I ate a french fry.

"OK." Stacy says calmly and I could tell she was worried.

"Stacy, I ment it. I'm happy with you not her. Don't worry." I tell her and pull her out of her chair and into my lap.

She hugs me tightly. "Alright, I believe you."

I kiss her forehead because I figured she'd kill me if I kissed her lips with Tess watching. "Good."

AN: NOT AS LONG AS I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE BUT OH WELL. PLZ REVIEW, THEY REALLY KEEP ME GOING AND I'M SORRY FOR THE LONG WAIT!