Who owns The Outsiders... sure not me...
Chapter Eleven…
It was about 6'30 and Johnny, PonyBoy and Dally entered Kristina's house, each of them rather nervous. "My mom isn't home yet but she knows you guys are supposed to be here, I'm still making some of the food." Kristina said happily, shutting the door behind them. Pony and Johnny didn't say anything as they where quite nervous. But could you blame them? Kristina on the other hand was excited; her mother had seemed quite interested in their story and wanted to meet them! "You could watch some TV if you want, and there's a bathroom up the stairs, just ask and I'll show it too you." she said turning on the TV. Pony and Johnny sat down on the sofa. "If you need me just holler, I'll be in the kitchen." she said disappearing around the corner and into the kitchen.
A delicious red meat sauce cooked on the stove, next to a pot of boiling noodles. "Spaghetti?" a voice that was known by everybody to be hard, asked compassionately. She glanced towards Dally who stood watching her by the sink. "Yea." she said smiling, stirring the red sauce. "Smells good." he said, his arms wrapping around her waste. "Thank you." she said giggling softly, as he started to kiss her check. "I can't stir it if you keep on kissing me Dally." she said reluctantly.
"Hmmm?"
"Go see what PonyBoy and Johnny are doing..."
He pulled away looked at her questioningly, "I can't cook with you all over me." she said kissing him on the lips. Sighing softly after her lips left his, he ran his hands threw her long hair that was tied back in a pony tail. "I love you." he whispered in her ear kissing it gently. She smiled, "I love you too, now get out!" she said shooing him away. He left the kitchen but not before stealing another kiss from her.
Taking a pinch of her secret ingredient she sprinkled it on top of the sauce before turning out the burner. "There, all done." she said quietly to herself, stirring the sauce once more. She then stirred the noodles which where done much more quickly then the sauce, and turned off their burner. Now she'd just had to wait for her mom to get home.
The theme song of Mickey Mouse came from the televisions speakers and three boys watched in quietly. Kristina took a seat on Dally's lap; being the sofa was only a three sweater and she didn't want to be squashed. She leaned back into him kissing his cheek. Surprisingly he didn't kiss her back, just looked at her, twirling a finger in her hair. "Why don't you grow your hair longer, since you're always playing with mine…?"
The door knob jiggled and opened, "Smells good!" her mother said as she entered the house. All of them stared at her, Kristina on the most part unsure of her mother's reaction when she saw her sitting on Dally's lap, but there was none. "What'd I do?" she asked taking off her coat and hanging it in the closet. "Nothing." Kristina said softly standing up. "Mom, this is PonyBoy, Johnny, and Dally. And this is my mom." she said introducing them. "Hi guys, you can call me April." she said smiling softly. Kristina and her mother looked a great deal a like, except her mother had short black hair and had a lighter complexion.
"Now, I already know your story but we'll go over it again during dinner." her mother said walking off towards the kitchen. "Kristina come help me serve it!" she called, rolling her eyes Kristina walked into the kitchen. "How much do you think they'll eat?" her mother asked plopping some noodles on a plate. "I dunno, just give them the regular amount, they might not eat a lot."
"Why not?"
"Because they are probably nervous…"
"Oh they don't have to be!"
"But could you blame them?"
"No I guess I couldn't."
Kristina placed the plates of steamy spaghetti on the table. "Come on guys, pick a seat!" she called to them. Pony and Johnny sat next to each other and Kristina and Dally sat next to each other on the opposite side of the table. Her mother brought out some glasses of water, gingerly placing them in front of each person before her, herself taking a seat at the head of the table. "So Johnny and PonyBoy do the police know you're here?" April asked spinning the noodles around her fork. Pony looked up at her, mouth full of pasta noodles and shook his head no. "We're going to hide out for a day or two until we get a lawyer." he said after swallowing his food. "Oh, you two can stay here if you'd like. I'm sure the police wouldn't think you're here." Kristina looked at her mom with astonishment, she didn't mind the idea of them staying here but she didn't expect her mom to volunteer it. PonyBoy shrugged his shoulders, like always doing most of the talking between him and Johnny.
"Mom, we where wondering if you could help pay for a lawyer." Kristina said softly. "For what? I don't think you'll need one, it was simply self defense." Kristina looked at her mom, "You know they'll try to get a Socs to win no matter how obvious the case is." Her mother shifted her weight in the chair, taking another bite of spaghetti. "You're right… I could help, but I couldn't pay all of it. We don't have that much money." All three boys were busy eating but where listening closely. "What about the guy you used for the divorce? Maybe he can spare a couple hundred…" A spark lit in her mother's eye and she paused chewing her food. "Yes… Jonathan Bailey, I can try to get a hold on him." Kristina turned to her side where Dally sat and smiled, he smiled back.
"Now how long have you and Dally here been dating?" April asked a little smirk on her face. "Mom!" Kristina said whirling around to face her mother, not able to keep the grin or blush off her face. PonyBoy and Johnny smiled their little laughing smiles. "Fine you don't have to tell." she said shrugging her shoulders. Dally was staring down at his food, a little grin on his face as well.
"PonyBoy would you like to call your older brother and tell him where you are? So we could talk about this lawyer thing." April said turning towards Pony. Kristina made sure she told her mother just about everything about PonyBoy and Johnny. "Eh sure, I dunno if he is home from work yet." he said uneasily. "Hon, he hasn't probably gone since you'd been gone. Here I'll show you where the phone is." she said getting out of the chair and walking towards the living room.
Dally was almost done his Spaghetti, while both Kristina and Johnny where only about half way. "This is really good." Dally said once her mother and Pony left the room. "Thanks, I make it all the time so I'm good at it." she said turning to him.
"Your moms pretty cool."
"She is when she is around, I barely ever see her any more, this is the first time in about a month we actually ate together."
"Oh."
Her mother returned to the table, shortly after PonyBoy did too. "Is Darry coming?" Dally asked as Pony took a seat. "Yea, he will be here any minute."
It wasn't fifteen minutes later when there was a knock at the door. Kristina was the one to answer it. "Hey, come on in, where just about done eating dinner." she said welcoming him in. April soon appeared with Pony and Kristina headed back towards the table.
"Did he look upset?" Dally asked, finishing up the last bit of his plate, Johnny as well. "No, just relieved." she said softly, "Want anymore?" she asked both boys before sitting down. "No thanks." they both said. "Okay, if you want anything just ask, okay?"
"How bout a kiss?" Dally asked deviously. She grinned, leaning forward kissing him on the lips, "That's five dollars extra on my pay check." she said as their lips departed.
When Kristina had finished PonyBoy came back into the room and announced he was going to stay the night at home. "That's good." Kristina said softly smiling. "Well I'll see ya later, probably tomorrow." Pony said waving goodbye, the three of them each gave him a goodbye.
Kristina got up and cleared away the plates before her mother came in. "Johnny do you want to stay here for tonight, we got a guest room you can stay in upstairs." April said finishing up her meal. Johnny shrugged his shoulders, "I guess I will." he said. "Kristina go ahead and show him the room." her mother said as Kristina came back in standing at the back of Dally's chair. "M'kay, come on." she said tugging on Dally's jacket heading towards the stair case.
"Okay here is the bathroom you can use. You can take a shower if you want too." she said opening the bathroom door, which was the first door as they came up the steps. Directly across the hall was the guest bedroom. "Here's the room you'll be sleeping in." she said opening the door. It was a small room, only containing a bed, a small dresser and closet but it was heaven compared to the hard cold floor of an abandoned church.
Pictures covered the small dresser and immediately caught Johnny's attention. He wandered over to it as Dally took a seat on the bed. "There photos of family…" she said softly, taking a seat next to Dally. "Is that your dad?" he asked quietly pointing to a picture of a bald, muscular man in a leather jacket with a cigarette dangling from his lips and two little girls with him, one on his back, the other in his hands. "Yup, that was him…" she replied softly resting her head on Dally's shoulder. "Who's that?" he said pointing to a picture of a girl with thick curly black hair that came to her shoulders. "My sister, Jasmine and the picture of the little boy next to her is her son Brice." she smiled softly; it seemed Johnny liked looking at pictures; he probably had none of his own childhood. "Is that you?" he said grinning towards her, holding up a picture. "Yup that's me when I was three." she said taking the picture from him to get a closer look.
It was a summer day and her father taken her and her sister Jasmine to the race track for their first time. She was smiling as big as she possibly could, her blonde hair tied in pigtails and had chocolate ice-cream smeared on her face and in one hand she clutched a five dollar bill, holding it up for the camera to see. She bet that five dollar bill on a black Quarter Horse.
Dally looked at the picture, he laughed softly. "That's you?" he asked looking it over more carefully. "Yup, my first time at the race track." she said giggling softly. "You ever go anymore?" Johnny asked turning away from the other photos. "Yea, I exercise three two year olds for my friend's dad." she said. Dally handed the picture back to Johnny who put it back on the dresser. "Who's your friend's dad?" "Jake Sheridan." "Dally races sometimes!" Johnny said kinda proudly at that, elbowing Dally. Never in either of their lives had Kristina or Dally see Johnny so….. excited….
Couldn't say this was my favorite chapter, I think it was the most boriness so far... I think it took so long for me to finsh it because I couldn't figure out an ending for it so I just put what you just read! lol...
Just a look of what to come since I do have some of the ending chapters already finshed heres a bit that should keep ya on the edge of your seat...
' Tears started to rim Kristina's eyes as the judge made his final ruling. With a misty gaze she glanced at Johnny and then at Pony... '
DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN! What will happen! Are thoose tears of sadness and regret or are they tears of happiness! You dunno but you might if your looking over my shoulder and... HEY! TESS YOUR NOT SUPOSED TO BE ALL THE WAY OVER HERE!WHAT ARE YOU DOING READING OVER MY SHOULDER! okay lol just had to do that... no reason what so ever just had to ... but yea. I'm thinking this story will have a final chappie size of around 15 chapters I'm not sure. I depends on how I want to break some of the stuff up yadda yadda yadda! lol... I hope you're enjoying it so far! Your 'aurthoress' -lol, Tess- KRISTINA! MUHA! LOVE YAS! ... that is how you spell Muha right? god bless spell check because I don't think I could be a true authoress without it... I'd be spellin everyother word wrong...
