Disclaimer: I own the unfamiliar characters, the rest belong to S.E. Hinton.

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Thanks to:

MrsHoldenCaulfield- I'm glad you think my story's great!

TheAngryPrincess13- Thanks for reviewing every chapter! (This goes for MrsHoldenCaulfield too) Why shouldn't Dally trust Tim? Tim's a sweetie! lol jk jk

miss cheerful- Sorry there was less romance than you wanted, but I promise there will be much more in later chapters.

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Back to the story now!

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Chapter Seven

When we entered Buck Merrill's house, it was exactly what I imagined. Loud, smoky, and crowded. At first I was unsure of what to do. I looked around for Dally, or Tim's gang, but it seemed that they all disappeared. I walked around the place looking for a familiar face. I didn't see anyone I knew, but I did see some guy checking me out. I was guessing he was drunk because of the way he staggered over towards me.

"Heyyy dolllfaccce," He said trying to smile. I could smell beer on him.

"Here, you might want to take a beer, the party only gets better with every drink!" He slurred, pushing the bottle of beer in my hands. I wasn't much of a drinker. I had a friend who drank too much and was sent to the hospital because of that. After that, I swore that I wouldn't end up like her. In the hospital for days because she drank too much after her boyfriend dumped her.

"Oh, uh, no than-" Before I could finish my sentence, he was on the floor, out cold.

"Well, I'm alone again." I sighed. I walked around Buck's place a while. I never noticed how big it was. (A/N: As you can see, I'm making this up) There was a gigantic room where we first entered, then there was another one attached to it. There was also a room with a couple pool tables in it. I headed over to the poker table and I finally saw a familiar face. It was Luke from Shepard's gang.

"Hiya Gail! Wanna join us?" Luke said.

"Sure, what's the name of the game?"

"It's-" Luke began.

"Don't bother wasting your breath Luke. Chicks can't play. After losing she'll probably go home crying to her mommy." Said the man sitting across Luke. By then I was mad.

I glared at the man and said, "If you think for one second that just because I'm female I can't play, then you ought to get a brain. I'd beat the tar out of you if you weren't Luke's friend."

"Like you could throw a punch. 'Oh no! I broke a nail!'" He mimicked.

"James..." Luke began to plead. "You don't know what your getting into."

"Oh come on, like she could beat the shit out of me!" James laughed.

"Fine, how bout this, I fight you, and if I win, I can play. If you win, I will bow down to you like you're the king." I said.

"Deal, but if I win, you also have to kiss me for two minutes every time you see me." He said grinning.

"Deal." I said.

"All right, let the games begin! Now don't think I'll go that easy on y-" James attempted to say before I gave a swift punch in the face.

"Holy shit!" he muttered to Luke, who replied with a nod.

James aimed to punch my jaw but I easily ducked. He was getting mad now. I smirked. "Ya know if we just call quits, it'll save you the embarrassment."

"No, I'm not gonna look like a fool." He snapped. Jeez, why are men so stubborn? I sighed and 'punched' him a couple more times. James knew what I was doing and smiled at me. He 'staggered' backwards a bit and charged at me. We continued this on till the crowd surrounding us got bored and left. From then, we 'got tired' and called it quits.

"Thanks," James muttered. "I owe ya one."

I smiled. "No you don't, just deal me in." James grinned and agreed to it. We walked back over to the poker table and sat down.

"Ya finally done? Who one?" One of James' buddy said. James was about to reply, but I cut him short.

"He did." I said. James gave me a confused look and began to open his mouth, but I cut him short again.

"Ok, don't even start on the bragging." James smiled.

"Alright, alright! Enough talk, let's play!" Luke said. "The name of the game is Texas Hold 'Em." He said to clue me in. I nodded to show that I understood. The game started off good. I started off with a pair of Ace's, and landed off with a full house at the end of the game without cheating. I forgot about Dally for a bit and relaxed. I even took a couple swings of beer.

I left the game after awhile to go to the bathroom. I searched around Buck's house looking for the bathroom. It was hard to ask where it was since most of the people there where drunk. I decided that it would be better if I headed to the second floor, cause one, it's less crowed there, and two, there's a better chance of finding a bathroom where you can actually see (It was pretty smoky down there). As excited as I was (Hey, I really had to go by now!), I came to a door. The only problem was that there happened to be a lot of them next to each other. I made my way down the hallway and avoided the doors with moaning coming from inside. Damn! How many doors are there? I thought. There was no noise coming from the door at the end of the hallway so I ran inside. When I opened the door, I saw Dally and another girl making out. Shocked, I quietly closed the door and ran to the next room, which thankfully, turned out to be the bathroom. I was shocked for one, angry for two because Dally said he'd kept an eye on me, and jealous for three and I didn't even know why I was jealous!

I jumped when I heard yelling and the door slam. A pair of footsteps trailed down the stairs with another one following a couple of seconds later. Then a shrill voice yelled, "Dally wait!"

I froze. I cracked the door open a little to hear what was happening.

"Get the hell away from me you fuckin whore! Don't ever come near me again!" yelled Dally.

I slowly came out of the bathroom and pasted the girl with the annoying voice. She looked pissed. I could tell she was one of those greaser sluts from the way she dressed. She glared at me and I pretended I didn't just hear what happened.

I went back downstairs to play some more poker with the guys. It turned out that Luke had most of everyone's money (except mine cause I was upstairs). I suddenly didn't feel like playing so I took my remaining money and left without saying bye to anyone but the guys sitting at the poker table.

Dally's POV

I watched as Gail left Bucks. I wondered why she just left like that. I started after her when a hand grabbed me.

"Hey Dallllly, you broke my winnndow remembbbber?" Buck said. Eh, well, he was drunk anyway so I told him I didn't do anything and punched him in that face.

I ran out the door and met the cold windy air outside. I saw Gail walking down the street to the park and ran after her. She seemed to be in deep thought when I finally reached her (There happened to be a lot of cars going by.).

"Hey"

"Hey" She said without looking up. She seemed to be interested in her shoes.

"So... What did ya think of the party?" God, was that all I could come up with? I must sound like a total idiot!

She didn't reply for a couple seconds. "It was fine, I won a few extra dollars... So did you hook up with anyone?"

"No" She looked up at me with a shocked expression on her face.

"I... I thought I heard you yelling." She said. Was I that loud?

"Well..." I began to tell my story.

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Hey everyone, that's all I feel like writing right now, I smell dinner! lol

I updated a couple days later that I wanted to but I was busy over the weekend, it was Halloween and I went to Maine.

THE RED SOX WON THE WORLD SEIRIES! I was happy bout that so I didn't start writing up this chapter.

Hope I get more that four reviews for this chapter! I probably won't since I re-read my chapters and noticed how crappy my writing was...

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P.S. I might not update next week, but I'll try!