A/N: Hey Kate here, sorry it took me so long to update. Ok, it wasn't
long, it was as long as other people update their stories, but it took me
longer than it usually does to update. I had a little cold ever since
Friday, so I had to stay in bed-my mom's orders. Even though I hated to do
it, my mom was home because of the thanksgiving break and she's home on
weekends so she made me stay in bed..I feel better now, so anyways, on with
the story....
Disclaimer: I do not own the outsiders.
Chapter 12
"The Ring"
~Summer's P.O.V.~
I walked over to the door and opened it before Pony even had a change to knock.
"Hi" Pony said.
"Hi" I said slowly. "Come in"
He walked in, I closed the door. He leaned in to kiss me but I pulled away, turning my head towards Jake. It's not like Jake hasn't ever seen me kiss Kevin before but Pony was..he just didn't know Pony that much yet. He would get all overprotective and fussy and probably even tell Rain about it. I could care less about Rain knowing, but I didn't want to upset my little brother.
"Right" Pony said slowly.
I turned to Jake. He looked so happy playing with his toy truck, looking at the tv every once in a while. Mickey was on, and Jake loved Mickey. It's like he's addicted to it or something.
"Hey Jake, do you think you can play in your room for a while?" I asked in a sweet voice.
He had a mad/miserable look on his face. I turned to Pony.
"Do you want to talk on the porch?" I asked.
"Sure" he shrugged.
"I'm going to be right outside, on the porch. If you need me, just call." I said to Jake. "Be good" I gave him a little kiss on the forehead and left.
Pony was sitting down on the swing. I walked over and sat next to him. He leaned over to kiss me once more but this time we were interrupted by Two- bit who was being chased by Steve down the road.
"Yahhhh!!! Pony come help me!" he yelled in between gaps of breath.
"What'd you do this time Two-bit?" Pony asked laughing.
"Nothing, just slashed one of his tires is all." Two-bit yelled back.
Pony and I laughed as Steve chased Two-bit to the end of the street.
"So where were we?" I asked Pony.
"Um, I think somewhere here.." He said and leaned in to kiss me once more.
His lips were so warm and sweet but I pulled back.
"Look Pony we have to talk."
"'Bout what?" he asked.
"About, this, you and me. I mean, what does this make us now?"
"Um..."Pony thought for a while. Then he knelt down on the ground on one knee and took my hand.
"Summer Theriault.will you go out with me?"
Oh, my gosh! He's asking me out! What do I do? Before I even had time to think, I blurted something out,
"YES!" wow, I guess that's how I really feel. Pony is such a sweet boy and what the hell; let's just give it a try.
He took out a ring from his back pocket and put it on my left ring finger.
"As long as you are my girlfriend." he stopped, he was blushing as so was I. "This ring will be yours."
I pulled my hand away from his and examined the ring carefully. It was a silver ring with two hearths clinked together with a (I assume) fake diamond in the middle. I really liked it.
"It's gorgeous." I said in an awed voice. It really was! It looked like a ring I used to have. My mom had given it to me, but one summer when we were swimming at the lake, it had fallen out of my hand and I never found it again. It made me happy to have something similar to it. And I knew I would be keeping this ring for a while.
"It was my mom's" Pony said. His eyes were clouded. I could see the pain in them as he talked about his mom.
"Oh, my god! Really? Couple years ago, my mom gave me a ring just like this, but I lost it a while ago." I said.
"Cool" was all he said. I could still see the hurt in his eyes. I knew this ring held a lot of memories for him. Just as the jewelry my mom had given to me.
He just looked so sad! I just wanted to make it better for him. I wanted to stop his pain. But I know I couldn't. It had been 2 years and he was still hurting. I just didn't know what to do to comfort him. Except one thing.I dropped down on the floor next to him. I lifted up his face with two of my finger and kissed him lightly on the lips. There was a hint of happiness in his eyes. I grabbed his beautiful face once more, this time cupping it in both of my hands and kissed him again. The kiss was very passionate and sweet. We were both really into it, just sitting there, on the floor kissing for a couple of minutes until Darry and Rain walked up to our porch. We suddenly froze. My lips were still touching his but we weren't moving. We just sat there hoping they wouldn't see us.
"Thanx so much for driving me, Darry" I heard Rain say. My back was facing them, while Pony could see what ever was going on.
"No problem" I heard Darry say. But that's all I heard. Suddenly there was dead silence.
"What's going on?" I whispered into Pony's ear.
I saw Pony's eyes grew bigger. I couldn't wait anymore. I'm a very impatient person and I can't wait for a long time. I turned around to see Darry and Rain locking lips!!! I don't what came over me, but before I knew it I was yelling loudly at them.
"What the hell Rain?" I said loudly.
They pulled apart quickly. Darry's eyes got crowded with anger and embarrassment at the same time.
"Ponyboy, what are you guys doing?" Darry asked, as calm as he could, which wasn't very calm.
"Um, nothing Darry." Pony said. His ears were turning red. And I was blushing! We had caught each other. I can't believe it though. Rain and Darry?
"Summer Theriault, get into the house this instant!" Rain barked.
"Come, on Ponyboy, time to go home." Darry said, a little calmer than Rain.
Pony gave me a quick kiss on the lips, which didn't seem to help the matter much.
"Oh, for god's sake.." Darry said grabbing Pony's arm and half dragging him down the street.
"Get in" Rain said cold heartedly.
I walked into the house.
"Sit" Rain ordered.
I sat down on the couch. Rain came over and sat on the coffee table in front me.
"First of what in the world were you guys doing, sitting on the floor on the porch, kissing?"
"What were you and Darry doing kissing on the porch in front of the whole neighborhood like that?" I shot back.
"What I do is my business. What you do is also my business, so answer the question." Rain said raising her voice a little.
"Um, well, Pony asked me to be his girlfriend. See?" I said holding up the ring.
"I see. What were you guys doing making out like that?"
"We weren't making out! It was just a little kiss." I snapped.
"Alright, but don't get caught to me again, kissing like that. You'll be in big trouble, understood?" Rain said.
I nodded my head in complete shock. Did I hear that right? Did Rain just let me get away with something without giving me lecture? I think so! Man, I never thought people would change.
"I guess Darry musta brought your good side out." I mumbled.
"What was that?" I heard Rain say from the kitchen.
"Nothing." I quickly recovered. I think this good side of Rain's is temporary, better stay on the safe side. "Hey what's for dinner?"
"Um, I dunno. What do ya want?"
"I wanna have dinner with my boyfriend. Do.you.maybe wanna invite them to dinner?" I asked eagerly.
Rain grinned. "Kid, I swear..." she stopped. "Ok." I knew she would cave in. After all Darry would be there...
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Rain called the Curtis' to see if they wanted to come over for dinner. But we ended up going over to their house. Because see Two-bit and Steve were over there, and even though Rain invited them over too, Darry insisted on having us over for dinner at their house. Rain made cookies and we walked over to the Curtis' at precisely 7.
During dinner, Darry made the biggest effort to keep me and Pony busy with other stuff than each other. He would constantly put food on our plates to make us concentrate on food. It was a clever idea, but I really felt like puking after being forced to eat 3 pieces of chicken and a whole bunch of mash potatoes. I don't eat much and if I do eat a lot I tend to puke it all out. I used to binge and purge thinking I'm fat when I was basically skin and bones. It wasn't really all my fault though. Rain used to do it so I kinda got into it too.
After dinner me and Pony laid around the living room on the couch or something to settle our stomachs. God, I had so much to eat.
"You? I had 5 pieces of chicken you only had 2!" Pony said.
"3" I corrected him.
"Whatever you still didn't eat as much as me."
"Honey, I don't got a stomach as big as yours!" I said, slurring my words a little.
All that food had made me sleepy. I yawned.
"I think we should leave sounds like someone's getting sleepy." Rain said.
"No, I wanna stay here with Pony" I said, after a while realizing what I had said. I immediately blushed. I can't believe I said that out loud.
I noticed Darry, Soda, Two-bit; Steve, Rain and Pony were all staring at me.
"What?" I asked. "He's my boyfriend and I wanna spend time with him!"
I realized that we hadn't told anyone yet. Well I told Rain and Pony probably told Soda. But Two-bit, Steve and Darry didn't know. Well, until now. I kinda expected Darry to know though; I mean why would we try to be so close to each other if we weren't going out?
I looked around the room. Everybody was staring at me and Pony in kind of a funny way. I turned to Pony. His ears were red and he was slightly blushing.
"Sorry" I said in a quite voice. It's true; I really can't keep my mouth shut.
Darry came in to the living room; he dried his hands on a piece of rag and threw it onto the kitchen counter.
"Ponyboy, how come you didn't tell me?" Darry asked glaring at Pony's arm that was around my shoulder.
Pony removed his arm from my shoulder. I mean come, on! His arm was on my shoulder for about an hour, and we had been whispering stuff into each other's ears' back and forth. It was pretty obvious!
"Sorry, Darry." Ponyboy said.
He looked at me. I blushed. He started to put his arm around my shoulder again, but I stopped his hand and put it around my waist. Darry stared at us for a while, before cracking a grin.
"Well." he said "What do you think about this Rain?"
"I think they make a cute couple" Rain said back. I could have hugged her then. She was being so nice. Hell, she was being a good sister for once.
Darry nodded, and everything went back to normal. Pony kept his arm where it was for the rest of the night and we talked quietly to each other. Soda would look back every once in a while and grin at us. It was such a crazy grin that we had to grin too. It was a perfect night. Both Rain and Darry approved of me and Pony's relationship. They were in the kitchen, washing the dishes. Later they went out to the porch to talk.I reckon they did more than that! Me and Pony glared at each other when they stepped out to the porch. Jake and Two-bit were watching Mickey Mouse and Jake was showing Two-bit his toy truck which he had brought along. Two-bit seemed very amused by pushing the car off the coffee table. They did it over and over again during commercials. Steve and Soda were arm wrestling on the kitchen table. Steve was strong. Soda seemed to be having a hard time. Everything was just so perfect. I wanted to stay right there, forever, in my boyfriend's arms. I put my head on Pony's shoulder and rested my eyes, while he slowly stroked my hair with his fingers.
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A/N: Ok, ok, I know, not a great chapter, but I did the best I could. I only feel a little bit better, not completely good. I hope you guys like it. I finally had Pony ask Summer out. And she accepted. So woohoo. That's all for now, I will update as soon as possible but I can't grantee anything. It really depends on how I feel. I hope I get better so I can update soon. Anyways, I got more reviews.
Dally's chick: That's kinda what I'm thinking about doing. Having Summer and Pony fall in love and stuff. Thanx for the review.
Ponyboysgirl1: Thanx for the compliments. Lol, I don't think it's really that good, but thanx. I hope you like this chapter. Especially cuz this is the chapter where Pony asks out Summer. Keep on reading and reviewing and I'll update soon.
Naria4: thanx, I think Pony's sweet too! (
Anigrl20: Lol, soda is my fave. character too! He was so hot in the movie! Lol, thanx and keep on reviewing!!!!
Jen: thanx lol, I will include you in the story!!! I promise!!! Once school starts I will, cuz it's kinda hard to introduce you as a soc when Summer lives in the greaser side of town, but when school starts I'll include you in the story, k? Okay, lol.
That's all for the reviews. Thanx so much for those who review. I want at least 6 reviews before I update though, so please, R&R!!!!!
Disclaimer: I do not own the outsiders.
Chapter 12
"The Ring"
~Summer's P.O.V.~
I walked over to the door and opened it before Pony even had a change to knock.
"Hi" Pony said.
"Hi" I said slowly. "Come in"
He walked in, I closed the door. He leaned in to kiss me but I pulled away, turning my head towards Jake. It's not like Jake hasn't ever seen me kiss Kevin before but Pony was..he just didn't know Pony that much yet. He would get all overprotective and fussy and probably even tell Rain about it. I could care less about Rain knowing, but I didn't want to upset my little brother.
"Right" Pony said slowly.
I turned to Jake. He looked so happy playing with his toy truck, looking at the tv every once in a while. Mickey was on, and Jake loved Mickey. It's like he's addicted to it or something.
"Hey Jake, do you think you can play in your room for a while?" I asked in a sweet voice.
He had a mad/miserable look on his face. I turned to Pony.
"Do you want to talk on the porch?" I asked.
"Sure" he shrugged.
"I'm going to be right outside, on the porch. If you need me, just call." I said to Jake. "Be good" I gave him a little kiss on the forehead and left.
Pony was sitting down on the swing. I walked over and sat next to him. He leaned over to kiss me once more but this time we were interrupted by Two- bit who was being chased by Steve down the road.
"Yahhhh!!! Pony come help me!" he yelled in between gaps of breath.
"What'd you do this time Two-bit?" Pony asked laughing.
"Nothing, just slashed one of his tires is all." Two-bit yelled back.
Pony and I laughed as Steve chased Two-bit to the end of the street.
"So where were we?" I asked Pony.
"Um, I think somewhere here.." He said and leaned in to kiss me once more.
His lips were so warm and sweet but I pulled back.
"Look Pony we have to talk."
"'Bout what?" he asked.
"About, this, you and me. I mean, what does this make us now?"
"Um..."Pony thought for a while. Then he knelt down on the ground on one knee and took my hand.
"Summer Theriault.will you go out with me?"
Oh, my gosh! He's asking me out! What do I do? Before I even had time to think, I blurted something out,
"YES!" wow, I guess that's how I really feel. Pony is such a sweet boy and what the hell; let's just give it a try.
He took out a ring from his back pocket and put it on my left ring finger.
"As long as you are my girlfriend." he stopped, he was blushing as so was I. "This ring will be yours."
I pulled my hand away from his and examined the ring carefully. It was a silver ring with two hearths clinked together with a (I assume) fake diamond in the middle. I really liked it.
"It's gorgeous." I said in an awed voice. It really was! It looked like a ring I used to have. My mom had given it to me, but one summer when we were swimming at the lake, it had fallen out of my hand and I never found it again. It made me happy to have something similar to it. And I knew I would be keeping this ring for a while.
"It was my mom's" Pony said. His eyes were clouded. I could see the pain in them as he talked about his mom.
"Oh, my god! Really? Couple years ago, my mom gave me a ring just like this, but I lost it a while ago." I said.
"Cool" was all he said. I could still see the hurt in his eyes. I knew this ring held a lot of memories for him. Just as the jewelry my mom had given to me.
He just looked so sad! I just wanted to make it better for him. I wanted to stop his pain. But I know I couldn't. It had been 2 years and he was still hurting. I just didn't know what to do to comfort him. Except one thing.I dropped down on the floor next to him. I lifted up his face with two of my finger and kissed him lightly on the lips. There was a hint of happiness in his eyes. I grabbed his beautiful face once more, this time cupping it in both of my hands and kissed him again. The kiss was very passionate and sweet. We were both really into it, just sitting there, on the floor kissing for a couple of minutes until Darry and Rain walked up to our porch. We suddenly froze. My lips were still touching his but we weren't moving. We just sat there hoping they wouldn't see us.
"Thanx so much for driving me, Darry" I heard Rain say. My back was facing them, while Pony could see what ever was going on.
"No problem" I heard Darry say. But that's all I heard. Suddenly there was dead silence.
"What's going on?" I whispered into Pony's ear.
I saw Pony's eyes grew bigger. I couldn't wait anymore. I'm a very impatient person and I can't wait for a long time. I turned around to see Darry and Rain locking lips!!! I don't what came over me, but before I knew it I was yelling loudly at them.
"What the hell Rain?" I said loudly.
They pulled apart quickly. Darry's eyes got crowded with anger and embarrassment at the same time.
"Ponyboy, what are you guys doing?" Darry asked, as calm as he could, which wasn't very calm.
"Um, nothing Darry." Pony said. His ears were turning red. And I was blushing! We had caught each other. I can't believe it though. Rain and Darry?
"Summer Theriault, get into the house this instant!" Rain barked.
"Come, on Ponyboy, time to go home." Darry said, a little calmer than Rain.
Pony gave me a quick kiss on the lips, which didn't seem to help the matter much.
"Oh, for god's sake.." Darry said grabbing Pony's arm and half dragging him down the street.
"Get in" Rain said cold heartedly.
I walked into the house.
"Sit" Rain ordered.
I sat down on the couch. Rain came over and sat on the coffee table in front me.
"First of what in the world were you guys doing, sitting on the floor on the porch, kissing?"
"What were you and Darry doing kissing on the porch in front of the whole neighborhood like that?" I shot back.
"What I do is my business. What you do is also my business, so answer the question." Rain said raising her voice a little.
"Um, well, Pony asked me to be his girlfriend. See?" I said holding up the ring.
"I see. What were you guys doing making out like that?"
"We weren't making out! It was just a little kiss." I snapped.
"Alright, but don't get caught to me again, kissing like that. You'll be in big trouble, understood?" Rain said.
I nodded my head in complete shock. Did I hear that right? Did Rain just let me get away with something without giving me lecture? I think so! Man, I never thought people would change.
"I guess Darry musta brought your good side out." I mumbled.
"What was that?" I heard Rain say from the kitchen.
"Nothing." I quickly recovered. I think this good side of Rain's is temporary, better stay on the safe side. "Hey what's for dinner?"
"Um, I dunno. What do ya want?"
"I wanna have dinner with my boyfriend. Do.you.maybe wanna invite them to dinner?" I asked eagerly.
Rain grinned. "Kid, I swear..." she stopped. "Ok." I knew she would cave in. After all Darry would be there...
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Rain called the Curtis' to see if they wanted to come over for dinner. But we ended up going over to their house. Because see Two-bit and Steve were over there, and even though Rain invited them over too, Darry insisted on having us over for dinner at their house. Rain made cookies and we walked over to the Curtis' at precisely 7.
During dinner, Darry made the biggest effort to keep me and Pony busy with other stuff than each other. He would constantly put food on our plates to make us concentrate on food. It was a clever idea, but I really felt like puking after being forced to eat 3 pieces of chicken and a whole bunch of mash potatoes. I don't eat much and if I do eat a lot I tend to puke it all out. I used to binge and purge thinking I'm fat when I was basically skin and bones. It wasn't really all my fault though. Rain used to do it so I kinda got into it too.
After dinner me and Pony laid around the living room on the couch or something to settle our stomachs. God, I had so much to eat.
"You? I had 5 pieces of chicken you only had 2!" Pony said.
"3" I corrected him.
"Whatever you still didn't eat as much as me."
"Honey, I don't got a stomach as big as yours!" I said, slurring my words a little.
All that food had made me sleepy. I yawned.
"I think we should leave sounds like someone's getting sleepy." Rain said.
"No, I wanna stay here with Pony" I said, after a while realizing what I had said. I immediately blushed. I can't believe I said that out loud.
I noticed Darry, Soda, Two-bit; Steve, Rain and Pony were all staring at me.
"What?" I asked. "He's my boyfriend and I wanna spend time with him!"
I realized that we hadn't told anyone yet. Well I told Rain and Pony probably told Soda. But Two-bit, Steve and Darry didn't know. Well, until now. I kinda expected Darry to know though; I mean why would we try to be so close to each other if we weren't going out?
I looked around the room. Everybody was staring at me and Pony in kind of a funny way. I turned to Pony. His ears were red and he was slightly blushing.
"Sorry" I said in a quite voice. It's true; I really can't keep my mouth shut.
Darry came in to the living room; he dried his hands on a piece of rag and threw it onto the kitchen counter.
"Ponyboy, how come you didn't tell me?" Darry asked glaring at Pony's arm that was around my shoulder.
Pony removed his arm from my shoulder. I mean come, on! His arm was on my shoulder for about an hour, and we had been whispering stuff into each other's ears' back and forth. It was pretty obvious!
"Sorry, Darry." Ponyboy said.
He looked at me. I blushed. He started to put his arm around my shoulder again, but I stopped his hand and put it around my waist. Darry stared at us for a while, before cracking a grin.
"Well." he said "What do you think about this Rain?"
"I think they make a cute couple" Rain said back. I could have hugged her then. She was being so nice. Hell, she was being a good sister for once.
Darry nodded, and everything went back to normal. Pony kept his arm where it was for the rest of the night and we talked quietly to each other. Soda would look back every once in a while and grin at us. It was such a crazy grin that we had to grin too. It was a perfect night. Both Rain and Darry approved of me and Pony's relationship. They were in the kitchen, washing the dishes. Later they went out to the porch to talk.I reckon they did more than that! Me and Pony glared at each other when they stepped out to the porch. Jake and Two-bit were watching Mickey Mouse and Jake was showing Two-bit his toy truck which he had brought along. Two-bit seemed very amused by pushing the car off the coffee table. They did it over and over again during commercials. Steve and Soda were arm wrestling on the kitchen table. Steve was strong. Soda seemed to be having a hard time. Everything was just so perfect. I wanted to stay right there, forever, in my boyfriend's arms. I put my head on Pony's shoulder and rested my eyes, while he slowly stroked my hair with his fingers.
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A/N: Ok, ok, I know, not a great chapter, but I did the best I could. I only feel a little bit better, not completely good. I hope you guys like it. I finally had Pony ask Summer out. And she accepted. So woohoo. That's all for now, I will update as soon as possible but I can't grantee anything. It really depends on how I feel. I hope I get better so I can update soon. Anyways, I got more reviews.
Dally's chick: That's kinda what I'm thinking about doing. Having Summer and Pony fall in love and stuff. Thanx for the review.
Ponyboysgirl1: Thanx for the compliments. Lol, I don't think it's really that good, but thanx. I hope you like this chapter. Especially cuz this is the chapter where Pony asks out Summer. Keep on reading and reviewing and I'll update soon.
Naria4: thanx, I think Pony's sweet too! (
Anigrl20: Lol, soda is my fave. character too! He was so hot in the movie! Lol, thanx and keep on reviewing!!!!
Jen: thanx lol, I will include you in the story!!! I promise!!! Once school starts I will, cuz it's kinda hard to introduce you as a soc when Summer lives in the greaser side of town, but when school starts I'll include you in the story, k? Okay, lol.
That's all for the reviews. Thanx so much for those who review. I want at least 6 reviews before I update though, so please, R&R!!!!!