Ok, I will be going to Iowa for thanksgiving and we'll be leaving in like 3 hrs. So I decided to write a good long chapter before I go. Here it is....

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the outsiders; I only own the characters that I make up.

Chapter 10

"The interview"

~Summer's P.O.V.~

Later that afternoon ~~~

Breakfast was fun. We got to know Steve and Two-bit more. Turns out Steve is Soda's best buddy, and he has been ever since grade school. This reminded me of Tara and me. My eyes kinda blurred, remembering all the fun we had together. But I didn't cry I couldn't. Not in front of Steve and Two-bit or even Soda. I tried to remember the good times we had, not the up-coming ones we wouldn't have. After breakfast, Two-bit, Steve and Soda left for work and me and Rain washed the dishes. She was being awfully nice. I was kinda surprised.

"So what are you going to do today?" she asked me.

I almost dropped the plate I was drying. Luckily Rain didn't notice. "Um, nothing I guess, I'll just unpack."

"That's a good idea. Maybe when you're done with your stuff, you can help me with some of the living room stuff."

I nodded. When I got drying the last of the plates, I went to my room. I looked around for a while. Trying to figure out where I should start first. I decided to start with my clothes. I had a little closet and a dresser. That was all we could fit in my room. It wasn't small but not as big as my old room. I had a view of Pony's window and a little bit of the backyard. I hung up all the clothes that needed hanging up in the closet and folded all the rest of my clothes and placed them in the dresser. It was around 12:30 when I got done with my clothes. I was about to start with the books and stuff when Rain called for lunch.

I went to the kitchen. Rain and Jake were sitting at the bar and having sandwiches.

"Sit down, I made you a sandwich." Rain said, without even looking at me.

I wasn't really hungry but I took the sandwich anyway. I mumbled a thank you to Rain started towards my room. Rain turned and stared at me, I just simply left the room. I set the sandwich on my nightstand and went back to work. I put all my books on the shelves on my bookcase. Wow, the sun is so bright today, I thought, as I stared out my window. I had a good view of sunsets in the afternoon. I never really had time to watch tem anymore. I used to watch them all the time. Me and Kevin would lie on my trampoline in our back yard and watch them. But now, the moving and stuff, I never had time anymore. I wondered if Pony watched them, whoa! Where'd that come from? Maybe because I was staring at him! I blushed. Like I said I have a pretty good view of Pony's room, from my room. I was sitting near my window, lost in my own thoughts, when I realized I was staring at him!!!! The funny thing was he was staring right back. Like I had got into his thoughts! I swear me and Pony have so much common. We're both day dreamers, that's for sure.

I just kept on staring at him for a while, slightly blushing. He was doing the same. He was even blushing a little bit and his ears were getting red. I suddenly did something really stupid, I waved. He waved right back, like he was waiting for me to wave fist, so he could wave right back. I blushed more. I noticed that Darry came into Pony's room, and looked like he was yelling at him for something. He suddenly noticed me just sitting there, staring at them. He waved at me. I waved back. He suddenly smiled. He said something to Pony and Pony yelled something back, blushing. I shrugged, and wondered what Darry was talking about. I went back to unpacking. I got to the memorable stuff. Kevin had given me a little jewelry box, as a giving away present. I gave him a drawing of him that I had drew when I first noticed him. It was during art class and we were doing portraits. I was partnered up with another kid named Alex but when we got to drawing, I just totally forgot about Alex and drew a portrait of Kev. I opened the jewelry box; there was a bracelet in it. How come I didn't notice that before? Probably cuz I was mad at Kevin about us breaking up and I was too busy yelling at him, so I didn't notice the bracelet in the box. It looked like a handmade box with seashells on it. It was real pretty. The bracelet had jade stoned in it. It was my birth stone. I smiled and put it on.

For the next 2 hours, I spent unpacking. My room was finally tidy. I'm a neat freak and everything has to be in place and all clean or else I have to get it to be that way before doing anything else. I picked up the empty boxes and carried them out to the garage.

"Done unpacking?" Rain asked me. She was in the living room, struggling with some boxes.

I laughed. "Yea, need some help around here?" I was interrupted by a knock on the door.

Jake ran into the living room "I'll get it!" he yelled as if he was expecting someone.

I went to garage and dropped the boxes. As I was walking to the living room, I remembered something.

"Hey, Rain, I need some." I stopped when I saw Pony in the middle of our living room.

"Hey Ponyboy" I said kinda surprised. "What are you doing here?"

"Oh, I was just wondering if you wanted to go to the movies with me and Two- bit."

"Um, I'd like to but I have to help unpack." I said miserably. I wanted to get out of the house, so bad!

"Oh, its ok, go ahead, I'll finish unpacking." Rain interrupted. I was shocked once again. Now she actually was letting go places!

"Are you sure?" I asked her.

She nodded. "I'm sure."

"So, you'll come?" Pony asked.

"Um, sure, I just have to change."

"Ok, I'll meet you at my house in like half an hour then."

"Ok" I said and Pony left.

I walked to my room to get dressed. I suddenly noticed, horrified that I looked terrible. I was covered in dust and my shirt was all wrinkled. Oh, well, at least he know we were unpacking. Wow, why am I so worried about what Pony thinks? Oh my god! Did Pony just ask me out on a date? "Noooo" I said quietly almost doubting my own words. "It couldn't be." It really couldn't be Two bit was going to be there. If it was a date it would only be me and Pony. I sure hope so; I hope I didn't just get myself a date with Pony. I had a crush on his brother for god's sake! I stopped worrying about it. I'm sure Pony just sees me as a friend/neighbor.

In half an hour, I took a quick shower, got dressed in a blue jean skirt and a blue tube top and headed over to Pony's. I knocked when I got to their house. "Come in" I heard someone say so I went in. Two-bit and Steve were sitting on the couch, watching Mickey Mouse on tv, and Darry was in the kitchen working on something on the kitchen table. I didn't see Pony though. He's probably not ready yet, I thought.

"Hey Summer" Steve and Two-bit greeted me.

"Where's Soda?" I asked. Then I realized what I had asked. I'm so stupid! Why can't I keep my mind off of him?

"Work" Steve replied.

I nodded again. It was getting quite then Pony walked in. He had jeans and a plain black shirt on. He smiled when he saw me. I blushed and smiled back.

"Hey" he said

"Hi" I said back.

"Ready to go?" Two-bit broke the connection me and Pony were having. Seemed like we didn't have to say anything, we just stared at each other and understood.

"Yup, let's go" Pony said.

We walked out the door saying good-bye to Darry. Steve fallowed us so I figured he was coming too. When we got there Two-bit and Steve bought their tickets and walked inside to chat with some blondes they put their eyes on. Pony paid for both our tickets.

"You didn't have to pay for mine" I said. I felt like we were on a date.

"It's fine." Was all he said before he was interrupted by Two-bit.

"Where would you guys like to sit?" Two-bit asked.

"You tell me" I said, never being here before.

"Hmm, well how about me and Stevie go and hunt some blondes and you guys can watch the movie, over there?" Two-bit suggested.

I giggled, Pony shrugged. "Alright" he said. The walked over to the seats and sat down. I sat down beside him.

We were quite for a while. Just watching the movie. It was one of those, drama movies. I didn't like drama movies. They made me cry. There was a particular part in this movie, where this little boy loses both his parents and gets put into a foster home. It was sad. Tears were running down my cheeks. Pony looked over at me. He laughed a little bit.

"Why are you crying?" he said in a sweet voice.

"It's just sad!" I said.

He laughed some more. I got up.

"You wanna go get some popcorn?" I asked.

"Sure" he shrugged and we headed to the concession stand.

There was a huge line so we had to wait. We talked about New York. Well I talked about my friends and stuff while he listening. We got some popcorn, (I paid) and went back to the movie. We sat back down sipping our drinks and eating popcorn.

I didn't eat much popcorn. When I reached over to get some, I noticed that I had grabbed his hand. I immediately blushed and pulled my hand back. I looked at Pony, despite the darkness I could see him blushing too. I set my hand on my chair. Neither of us said anything until Pony grabbed my hand, squeezing it slightly......

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Ok, so that's it for this chapter. Sorry it's not long, but like I said I won't be able to update till Friday so I thought I would write a quick little chapter. Anyways, what did you guys think? I couldn't wait longer so I decided to have Summer and Pony get close in this chapter. I thought it was sweet, the way he grabbed her hand. Anyways, I got more reviews.

Jen: ok fine I will include new friends and stuff in the next chaps. But like I said in the beginning, I don't really want to reflect this in my life, just around the people around me, so I'll include you guys. Thanx for reviewing.

Naria4: thanx, I'll update soon.

Ponyboysgirl1: Ok so I had Pony kinda ask her out in this chap. I dunno what happened to all my plans. I just wanted something to happen between them. But I think I'll have Summer ignore Pony for a while until he does everything in his power to get her to go out with him. Keep on reviewing, and I'll update soon.

I want more reviews before I write the next chap!!!! Thank you for those who already review, your reviews keep me writing. I promise next chap will be long and good!!