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Okay here's the long waited Chapter 27.


Chapter 27: Only A Year

"So what does he want us to do?" Belle asked for the fifth time. I sighed.

"He wants us to go on tour with and open up for The Shangri-Las."

"Oh those are the "Leader of the Pack" girls, right?" Amanda asked, realizing how big this could be.

I nodded, and burped Bethany while Sage and the rest of them thought about it.

We were all cramped up in the Curtis's bathroom. We didn't want the guys to know, and they were only in the living room.

"I think we should do it," Sage finally spoke.

"A year tour. We'd be away for a year, won't ya miss Johnny?" Belle asked, frowning.

"He's gonna come along. Ain't no way I'm leavin' him alone with the baby, and there ain't no way I'm leavin' him for a year."

"A year isn't that long."

"Yes it is Steph," Belle continued to argue.

"I say we do it too. Who knows when we'll get another chance like this? Probably never," Amanda made up her mind. We all stared at Belle.

"You make the decision Belle," I told her.

I bit her lip and chewed. "...Oh...alright!"

We all smiled and hugged her. Now we just have to tell the guys.

We were all seated around the Curtis's dinning room, staring at the "food" that we were expected to eat. Soda cooked tonight, that's all I have to say.

"Uhm...ya know...Stephie talked to a guy from a record company the other day," Sage started slowly, not looking up from her plate of strange looking spaghetti. The guys looked up from their plates, and Two-Bit loudly slurped up his spaghetti.

"That's good, what'd he say?" Darry asked. Taking care of his three brothers got him into the habbit of taking care of everyone else. He was sort of like a father figure to me. To bad I couldn't have found him a long time ago.

"He wants us to go on a tour...for a year," I said matter-of-factly.

"NO WAY!" Two-Bit, Steve, and Johnny protested at the same time.

"It's only a year! And Johnny your comin'. Sage ain't leavin' without you," Amanda argued.

"Okay, no, you girls ain't leavin' and neither is Johnny," Dally looked up from his plate.

"We're going to whether you boys like it or not," Amanda kept up arguing.

Sage took a sip of her soda, "It'd be a good opportunity for us. You guys do want us to be successful and happy? Don't you? If you don't then we'll just stay here, and be Plain Janes."

They all silenced, it's amazing how Sage can do that. Get people to feel guilty.

"Of course we want ya'll to be happy. Just don't want ya'll leavin'," Steve spoke.

"Well then we're going," Amanda gave the final word and stood up and stomped out of the house. Steve followed her, knowing she'd be mad if he didn't.

Two-Bit kept giving Belle the puppy eyes, and she mouthed how she didn't want to leave either. They got up and went into the backyard.

Johnny and Sage left to go get packed, leaving Bethany in the hands of Soda and Pony. Who started playing peek-a-boo and trying to teach her how to punch.

Darry started doing the dishes and Dally went outside to smoke, I guess he's a little mad that we just got back together, all "happy" and stuff and now I'm leaving. I grabbed a few plates and helped Darry.

"Dar do you think we should go?" I asked after a few minutes of drying a dish he had washed.

"Sure I think you should. You girls got talent, and when ya find somethin' you can do really well and that you like to do, you try everything to be able to do it. And when an opportunity comes around

you should take it," he spoke, handing me a dish.

I dried it, "Do you think Dally'll be mad?"

He chuckled, "Nah. Ol' Dal will be fine. Just little upset. He really likes ya, but he'll get over it. Besides it ain't like ya'll are leavin' forever. Only for a year, which is only 12 months, 53 weeks, 365 days. Not long at all."

"You're real smart Darry," I smiled up at him.

"Thanks kid," he patted my shoulder and we went on washing and drying, washing and drying.

"When do we leave?" Belle asked, after we had all gotten home.

"I just called Peter, he's real excited. We leave Thursday, at 6 a.m."

"Thursday? That's in two days!" Amanda exclaimed.

"I know. So you better spend tomorrow with Steve. After that ya ain't gonna see him for a year," Sage told her, as she cuddled up next to Johnny. He was coming along. Which was good. Dally wasn't to happy about that though.

"We better go pack," Belle hopped up and went to our room, Amanda at her heels. Bethany started crying and both Johnny and Sage went to see why.

I sighed and laid back on the beat up sofa. We never could get a better one. Just as I got comfortable a knock was at the door. Just my luck.

I opened the door half expecting to see Dally, or Steve or Two-Bit. Definitely not my dad.

"What-. You-. How-?" was all I could spit out.

"I asked around. Heard you got a tour? I'm proud of you!" he smiled.

"Oh uh yea. Uh thanks..." I stood there dumbly.

"Are you going to let me in?" he asked.

"Oh! Yeah," I opened the door wider.

He stepped in and took a look around. "Cute place."

"Uh thanks."

"Better than what I had when I first started out," he plopped down on the creaky couch.

I kept standing and nodded.

"You nervous?"

I shook my head.

"Anxious?"

I nodded.

"That's good. I talked to your sister today, your mother found out where she as and made her go back to New York."

"Really? I don't think she noticed I'm gone yet," I looked down at my feet, remembering the last thing I had said to my mother.

"Ma, what would you do if I made it big with my band?" I wondered out loud, looking at her meek form for an answer.

She laughed, "Stephanie Hazen, your never going to do anything good for this world. You're a useless no good musicians daughter. Don't you understand what your father did? See what music does? I wouldn't care if you make it big, just one less mouth to feed!"

Then I ran away.

"Your mother is something else. She doesn't know how to care for anyone else. That's why I couldn't stay. She didn't care about me and my music, or you kids. I couldn't live like that," he ran his fingers through his gritty hair.

I smiled understandingly.

"The night before I left, I told her I loved her. Then I said goodbye. Never saw her again," he spoke out loud but more to himself.

"Well then I gotta go talk to someone," I headed out the door and started "power walking" to his place.


I bet you can guess where she's going lol. Hope you liked this chapter, it wasn't my best. Will have next chapter up today!