Soda's POV

After that conversation I had with Darry everybody stopped talking about Samantha. We just didn't bring her up anymore and I did my best not to think about her. Ponyboy brought it up once or twice though and I explained everything that had happened.

Darry ungrounded me a week ago after giving me one heck of a warning about never doing what I had done again. He was real stern about it. He didn't need to be. I hadn't planned to do it again. Soon everything went back to normal and I quit thinking about it so much.

The only time I ever saw Samantha again was a few days later in town. I don't know what she was doing there and I didn't really get a chance to find out. I was in the store with my brothers when she walked in. She was just as beautiful as always. I hesitated for a minute before I went up to her. Darry didn't even stop me either. He let me go. As I approached her though she quickly exited the store and ran back to her car before I even got a chance to call out her name. But that was the last time that I ever saw her. I never saw Jack again either but Tom was around town every once and a while. He still is and he usually has something smart to say. I don't know if he bothers making me miserable because he's bored or because he's been hurt too, but either way it's a pain. I've learned to ignore it and not sock him.

I don't know how he did it but somehow Steve convinced me to come with him to the club. He wanted me to meet a friend of Tina's. I considered my last encounter with that girls friends and the idea of meeting another didn't appeal to me at all. Yet, somehow I found myself driving with my best friend to the club the next night after giving Darry a stretch of the truth about where we were going. I was still pretty sure he wouldn't permit me to go to the club.

"Steve you do mean friend, right? Not friends(s)?"

He laughed. "They were all over you last time, weren't they?"

"Yes, they were." I said with a sigh.

"Don't worry man. You'll like this chick." He assured me.

"Ok." I said. "I'll take your word for it."

We got there several minutes later. The girls weren't there yet so we took a seat. I couldn't help but feel a little bit sad as I surveyed this very familiar place in which I met what seemed to be one of the most wonderful girls in the world. I blocked those thoughts out of my mind though and tried to enjoy the loud music that surrounded us.

Then suddenly Steve stood up and I found out why as Tina ran her long fake red nails up and down the back of his neck. Looking at her depressed me sometimes. If you wanna know why actually it's because she's so pretty and she ruins it with all that dark eye shadow and lipstick she puts on herself. She'd be real attractive if she'd just wipe it all off and cover herself up a bit more. Then she might not look so slutty.

"Hey, Soda." She looked over at me after finding a seat in Steve's lap. I nodded as if to say hi. "Amanda's gonna be out in a minute. She went to the bathroom. I've told her a lot about you and she's excited to meet you. I simply nodded again and she went back to rubbing Steve's neck. I must have slipped off into a day dream because Steve was saying "Soda, hello, you there?" several minutes later. I looked over at him, taking my eyes off the back wall.

"Soda, this is my good friend, Amanda." Tina said, waving her hand towards a girl that was standing beside the table looking at me with a bright smile. I looked up startled to find that what I saw was not covered with dark makeup and dressed in tight clothes. No, this girl was wearing a very cute skirt that was only a few inches above the knees and her makeup was natural.

I felt a kick in the leg from underneath the table, which I assumed was from Steve and realized that I had been sitting there grinning stupidly. I stood up quickly and shook hands with the young girl that I was very sure was not over the age of nineteen nor under the age of seventeen. "Hi, Soda. I've heard a lot about you." She said. Uh oh. I thought. What kind of things did you hear about me? Well I doubted they were bad considering that she was being very friendly. I seated her and we ordered some drinks. I don't recall thinking about Samantha at all during that entire night and I don't recall having that much fun with a sweet girl ever since Sandy left. I looked over at Steve. I wanted to thank him. He smiled at me, winked, and looked back over at his current love interest.

Everything went perfect that night. Ok. well. not perfect. I was two hours late because I didn't want to end dinner with the cute chick and needless to say Darry wasn't happy with the fact that he'd been worrying while I had been kissing. Not that I told him that was what I had been doing. As I drifted off to sleep that night I thought of Amanda's number which laid on the bedside table. I'd be sure to call her first thing in the morning.

The End

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