When they got back to the house, Soda and Steve were already there.

"I'm going to have a shower." Tia said and headed towards the bathroom.

Soda had just gotten out of the shower, he had one towel wrapped around his waist and he was using another to dry his hair. Steve was shaving.

"Out, I need to have a shower." Tia said firmly.

"I don't think so, wait until we are done." Soda said laughing.

"Come on, it is running late, please?" Tia pleaded with them.

"There is a shower curtain, we won't peak." Steve said laughing.

"God you guys are horrible." Tia said. "Fine, you win."

She climbed into the shower and only got undressed once she closed the shower curtain. She threw her clothes on the ground outside the shower and gave the two amused boys a cold glare.

She was just rinsing out her hair when the water went ice cold. She stuck her head out of the shower to see that Steve had flushed the toilet.

"Glory! Are you trying to make me freeze to death!" She exclaimed and noticed that they weren't the only ones in the bathroom. "Hey Darry, Dally, great day don't ya think?"

She pulled her head back into the shower before they could react.

"You didn't tell me she was in there!" Darry hissed at Steve.

"You didn't ask." Steve said and combed his hair again.

"I hardly think it is proper for a young girl to have a shower in a bathroom full of guys." Darry said.

"I don't mind, neither does she, its all good." Steve said shrugging.

When Tia shut off the water they stopped talking.

"Can someone toss me a towel?" Tia asked, extending a hand from behind the curtain.

"You have to come out here and get it." Steve called back, laughing.

Dally smacked him on the head and tossed Tia a towel.

"Thanks." Tia said, coming out of the shower wrapped in the towel.

She grabbed another one to dry her hair with. She heard a snap a felt a sharp pain on her thigh. She turned around to see a grinning Steve with a damp towel in his hand, he had snapped her with it. She knew he only did it because it was only him and Soda in the bathroom. Darry or Dally would have knocked him over the head.

"I would take a swing at you but your head is so thick I don't want to snap my knuckles before the rumble." Tia said, laughing, as she headed out the door.

She was going to go get some clothes and change in Darry's room. Her nerves were still jumpy so she headed into the living room to see if she could get a smoke off of someone. She walked in the living room to find not only Dally, Johnny, Pony, and Darry but KJ and his friends.

"Hey guys." Tia said to them before heading over to Dally.

They looked quite shocked to see her like this and KJ looked at the ground, turning bright red.

"I feel like I am gonna be sick, got a cancer stick?" She asked, she knew he had the type she liked.

"I don't think Darry will let you fight like that." Dally said laughing.

He lit a cigarette and handed it too her. She took a long drag before turning to leave.

She felt a quick tug on the back of her towel. She fell backwards since she wasn't expecting it. She landed in Two-Bits lap and looked up to see him smiling at her.

"Nice try, but not quite." Tia said laughing.

"Oh well, you can't blame a guy for trying." Two-Bit said shrugging.

"Glory." Tia said laughing. "Your ears get some red, Pony."

That made everyone laugh and his ears turned even redder even though he was laughing too.

"Gotta get changed, were running out of time." Tia said standing up.

She finished she smoke as she headed towards Darry's room. He had giving her a drawer in his dresser so she could keep her clothes in it. She noticed something that was out of place. There was a shirt with a note on top of it.

"Wear it proud... -Your buddies"

She lifted it up to look at it. It was a tight royal blue t-shirt with the word GREASER written across the front in permanent marker. She laughed to herself as she pulled it on. She wore baggy blue jeans so that she would be able to move around easier. She hair was almost dry so she pulled in back into a pony tail.

She came back into the living room to find the rest of the gang there.

"Descent now, are we?" Two-Bit asked when he saw her.

"You? Ha, thats a laugh, your never descent." Tia said jokingly.

It was only 10 so they had a big group game of poker. They finally gave up at 10:30 because everyone was cheating. In one round Tia had a hand with 3 aces and Soda had 4 aces.

"Let's go!" Darry yelled.

Everyone had been waiting impatiently so they shot out of their seats and made for the door. They all did flips and jumps except for Tia, Kj and his group. They just watched and cheered. They walked down to the lot, their heads high, proud to be Greasers. Tia went most of the way on Dally's back. She was amazed at how he carried her like she didn't weigh anything.

No one else was at the lot yet so they just hung out. Dally stayed close to Tia and she appreciated it.

"So, tell me how your old gang fights?" Dally asked.

"They fight to win, they don't care how many rules they have to break to do it either. They usually make a plan before hand too, it helps keep everything organized." Tia said sighing.

"You got any idea what their plan for this rumble is?" Dally asked.

Tia shook her head.

"Dally?" Tia asked.

"Yeah, kid?"

"Just remember that I am different now then when I was with them. They are going to say everything under the sun to get you and the gang mad. Even though most of it will be lies." Tia said in quiet voice.

Something about the way she wouldn't meet his eyes made him nervous. She knew how the Falcons fought, thats why she was scared to death...