(Ok in this chapter I paired up Kathy with Darry from "The Outsiders" his brothers are in it too, and yes I did play around with their ages, I made Darry older.)

Chapter 10

~~~Three months later from the last chapter~~~

It was Monday, after school when Chris told me his great news. We were walking home.

"Come on Chris! I'm going to die if you don't tell me!"

"Fine, fine, I changed my classes. I have third period art with you now." He said.

"Really!" I said grabbing his schedule.

"I hear you're quite the artist, so you can help me, 'cause I can't draw for shit."

"I bet you can, you just don't know."

Chris and I went to my house, well my back yard and raced towards the one tree swing. "It looks like Maxwell has got him this time. She's got Chambers beat! But what's this? Chambers is making his move! Maxwell is fading on it! Chambers is at the tape! The crowd goes wild!" he cupped his hand around his mouth and imitated a crowd cheering. He beat me to the swing, and he started to swing. I stopped the rope.

"What are you doing? Sore loser?" he grinned.

"No, I have an idea." I said, and I sat on his lap, so I faced him, one leg one on one side of him and the other on the other side of him. I put I hands over his and began to swing. A smile grew on his face. When he would lean in, I would lean back, and vise-versa. I looked into his blue eyes, and kissed him. "You have pretty eyes." He stifled a laugh.

"I'm sure that's what every guy wants to hear."

"I'll be sure to tell them," I leaned in and kissed him again. We started making out until I remembered something. "I forgot to tell you, my sister Kathy's coming to visit with her family. They're thinking about moving here."

"That's cool, when are they coming?"

"In two weeks." I said and he nodded.





~*~*~*~*TWO WEEKS LATER*~*~*~*~



"Jessi!" I heard my mother call me. "They're here! Come down stairs!" I pulled my half curly, half straight hair into a high ponytail and ran down stairs. I walked to the door to see Kathy walk in and pull me into a big bear hug.

"Jessi!"

"Kathy!"

"It's been so long!" She let go of me, and pulled her husband in. "This is my husband, Darry."

"Hi," I said shaking his hand. He was tall, and built, with grayish blue eyes.

"And these are his brothers, Sodapop, and Ponyboy." She continued introducing me. Sodapop was real cute, what a doll he was, and Ponyboy looked like him. "AND," she continued, again, "this is May, and Thomas." May and Thomas were twins, both three years old.

"Jeremy, help your sister unload her things," my father told my brother.

"Jessi," Kathy called me.

"Yeah?"

"Do me a favor?" I nodded. "Show Pony and Soda around town, you know, show them the sites."

"The sites! This is Castle Rock! There ARE no sites!"

"You know what I mean," she said, it was creepy how much she looked like our mom. I rolled my eyes and waved my hands so that they would follow me.

We went outside and they weren't so quiet anymore.

"How old are you?" Ponyboy asked me.

"Sixteen, you?"

"14, Soda here is 17"

"Sodapop . . .Ponyboy . . . some original names." I said.

"Well, our father was an original man." Ponyboy said.

"Yeah? Where is he?"

"He uh, died a few years ago, our mom too." He said.

"Sorry, I didn't know."

"So, do you know a guy named Ace Merrill?" Sodapop asked.

"Yeah, I do. Why do you ask?"

"His brother Buck is here and he came with one of our friends. So I was thinking that if we find Ace, we'd find Buck, then we would find Dally." Sodapop said.

We walked past Patricia's house. She was sitting on her porch blowing a huge bubble out of gum, while reading a magazine. I led them up to her house. She didn't see whom I was with.

"Hello Trish," I called. She looked up and her gum almost fell from her mouth. "These are my brother-in-laws."

"H-h-hi" she barely managed to get out. I should tell you all something. She and Vern were never a couple; they had a "fling" and then stopped seeing each other. Gordie and Michelle dated for a month, but they're still friends now. Teddy and Jo-Anne broke up after two weeks. She found him cheating on her. Chris and I are still together.

"I'm Sodapop" He said, and held his hand out for her to shake it. She took it.

"I'm Ponyboy,"

"I'm Patricia, but you can call me Trish, or Patty." She said. "Hey Jessi, look who it is," she lowered her voice to a whisper, " it's your lover." She said teasingly. Chris walked up to her house.

"Hey, I was just coming to see you." He said and pulled me into a hug.

"Chris, these are my brother in-laws, Sodapop and Ponyboy." I pointed to each of them, "I'm supposed to be showing them 'the sites'"

"What sites?" Patricia piped up.

"I know right," I said, "Oh and we need to go find Ace."

Chris glared at me. "Why do you want to find him?"

Ponyboy who had been silent said something. "His brother is in town and one of our friends in with him."

Chris just looked down, "Well if you find Eyeball, you'll probably find Ace." He sighed. "If you're going to find him, let me come with you."

"Me too!" Patricia got up, and took both Pony's and Soda's arms.