Splat! I whipped off the chocolate cake batter that Katie threw on my face. I was in the process of throwing some back at her when I heard and all too familiar voice.
Turning my head I saw Darry and the rest of the gang in the kitchen door way. I looked around the room and saw what a mess me and Katie made. The kitchen table was strode across the room with the chairs overturned. The counters had batter all over it along with the walls, floor, table, and chairs.
Katie and I smiled innocently at Darry. Two-bit had to, of course, live up to his name and make a comment. Darry looked like he was ready to go in on me and Katie when he just started to laugh. Soon everyone else started to laugh.
Steve and Dally said that we should be in bikinis. We looked at each knowing what was going through the others mind. Katie and I walked slowly to Dally and Steve.
Each of with a handful of batter in her hands we smashed the batter in their faces. Everyone started laughing hard at the expressions on the guys' faces.
"Keep those thoughts of me and Katie in your mind for a long time 'cause you are never gonna see that," I told Steve and Dally.
After the big batter fight Katie and I were not allowed in the kitchen for the day. That was ok with us though. We decided that we needed out of the house. We had been cooped up in the house all day.
We were sitting at the Dingo drinking some tea, talking about stupid stuff when some guys came over. They were pretty cute so we let them sit with us.
One was a guy name Josh with brown, greased back hair. He was about six something, dressed in a blue T with blue jeans on. He was the one I was flirting with.
Katie was flirting with a Mexican guy name Carlos. He had on a red plaid shirt on with blue jeans. He had greased hair and was the same height as my guy.
"So how old are you guys?" I asked. To my shock they said they were twenty.
"So how old are you two lovely ladies?" I looked over at Katie when Josh asked us.
"We are nineteen," I said, lying greatly. Yea, I will be nineteen in about three in a half years. We hung out with the guys the rest of the day.
I saw that it was getting dark and suggested to Katie that we should get home before it gets dark.
"Yea, you're right," Scooting out of the seat, the boys offered us a ride home.
"That's ok. My mommy told me to never ride in a stranger's car." The guys laughed at me and said we had spent the last three hours together and if they really wanted to hurt us they would have done it already. I sighed and agreed to let them give us a ride home.
"Thanks for the ride guys," I said crawling out of the back seat with Katie behind me.
"No problem," I started to walk toward my house when Josh called for me. I went to him leaning into his window.
"Would you two maybe go out dancing tomorrow night," I was a little hesitant at first.
"Fuck it. Sure we would love to go out dancing with you two tomorrow. Meet us at Jay's at around six." Saying later to the two fellas me and Katie headed inside.
Running inside me and Katie made a show of dancing around on the coffee table. We were kinda on a sugar high.
Katie and I locked our hands in the middle as we went down and popped up. We continued to do this laughing our heads off. Then the music abruptly stopped playing making Katie shout out 'Hey I was in the middle of getting my grove on.'
Whirling around to see who turned off the music I saw Darry and Soda looking at me like had just been caught stealing candy from a baby.
"What. What's the matter," swirling around trying to find out what they were staring at making my shirt rise a little Katie sucked in a lot of air.
"What is IT," I yelled, getting tired of people staring at me like I committed a crime. Katie directed me to the mirror on the wall and lifted up my shirt.
"That's what IT is," I looked in the mirror and saw a hawk and a dove intertwined with each other. I lifted up Katie's shirt to see if she had one and she did, a little white tiger.
"Cool, where did you two get those," Darry glared at Two-bit, "I mean, why would you two get those stupid, ugly……….. yet cool tattoos." I started to smile at Two-bit's comment when Darry gave me an evil glare.
"Mary Katharine Curtis and Katerina Ryan Rodreguez where and when in the hell did you get those stupid body markings," I held back my laughter at what Darry called our tattoos and tried to remember where and when I got this tattoo.
Sitting down on the couch I started to ponder that question.
"Uhm, Steve you remember last Friday night when we pick M.k. up," Steve nodded his head yea.
"I think that is where the two girls got the tattoos,"
"Oh now I remember where I got it," Katie started her blabbing, every other word getting me even deeper into trouble. I finally smacked her in the leg to shut her up, but you know, dear old Steve had to open his mouth and mention how piss drunk I was. He started going deep into it to. Telling Darry all about our kissing and sexual dances on the tables.
"Steve if you are wise you'll shut your trap," I said icily. He shut his trap fast but not with out mentioning about us starting to strip on the table.
Darry yelled so loudly that the house shook a little. I winced and hid behind Soda and Pony. Katie hid behind Johnny and Dally. I think she got the better idea hiding behind them 'cause I saw in my brothers eyes that they weren't planning on defending me much tonight.
Pony, Soda, and Darry pulled me into Darry's room. I gulped. I got down on my knees and hid behind the bed.
I felt very, very small right now with my brothers' anger, disappointment, and them towering over me.
"M.k. what in the hell were you thinking?" I didn't know what to say so I said the line everyone uses.
"Everybody else was doing it," not a good idea. Soda got on to me about how I was better then everyone else and I shouldn't follow what others do.
I wanted to yell back a comment but decided I'd better not. It would probably just get me in deeper shit.
I left Darry's room after being lectured over and over again. Leaving the room I saw everyone had left and Katie had passed out on the couch. I was too tired to wake Katie up so I just went to my room.
Friday Night
Lying to my brothers about me going over to a friend's sleepover Katie and I headed to Jay's.
We were dancing out in the middle of the floor when I felt to hand wrap around my waist. About to give who ever the hands on my waist belonged to a piece of my mind. I turned around only to find I was looking in to Josh's blue eyes.
"Hey," I told him, seeing Katie dancing with Carlos.
"Hey want to dance," he grinned.
"Yea, why else would I be here," He laughed and we continued our dancing.
It was about twelve o'clock and I was sitting in Josh's car with Katie in the back seat with Carlos. Both of us making out with are dates. Josh tried to get me on my back, but I refused and broke off from kissing him.
"O.k. o.k. I am sorry. I'll stop," And I thought he did, but soon after continuing our making out he tried it again. He was a little more persistent this time.
"Josh back off," I told him.
"Ah come on baby let's just have a little fun," I told him no, but he seemed to not get it. I leaned against the door as he kissed me. Pulling the handle I fell out of the car. I heard Katie starting to have the same problems as I was.
I got up from the ground and helped Katie get out of the car.
"We are leaving," I told Josh, grabbing Katie's hand and heading home.
Carlos grabbed Katie from me and Josh shoved me up against somebody's car.
"I'm not done with you yet," Josh started to forcefully kiss me. I pushed against him as hard as I could, but he was like twice my size. When Josh lifted off my lips to get some air I kicked him in the balls and ran to Katie who had just done the same thing. The best advise my brothers had givin me 'A kick in the balls always hurts'.
Taking off running with Katie behind me I didn't notice a car following us.
Turning around I saw that it was Josh and Carlos. They soon caught up with us grabbing each of us a pulling us in the opposite direction. I noticed that we were close to were Dally and Steve lived. Praying to God that one of them were home I screamed as loud as I could. I guess Katie heard me because she started screaming for Dally.
Bad idea. Josh hit me across the face, hard. I was shocked at this making me unable to think about anything, giving Josh the upper hand.
He pulled me over to a tree and started to kiss me hungrily and hard. I still kept trying to struggle. I felt relief as Josh's body weight was pulled off of me. I slid down the trunk of the tree trying to catch my breath and settle my heart beat when I heard someone say;
"What the hell are you doing with a fifteen year old?" the voice said.
"Dude she told me she was nineteen years old," Josh said fear come out all over that sentence.
"Well she's not and get your twenty year old self out of here!" the voice said that started to sound vaguely familiar.
When I calmed down and heard the voices stopping I looked up into a pair of blue-green eyes.
"You ok," I nodded my head at him and wrapped my arms around his neck.
"I was so scared, Steve." I felt Steve pull me into his lap and his arms wrapped around me. I felt so safe right then and there. I cried my eyes out in the crook of Steve's neck listening to Steve whisper soothing things in my ear.
I pulled away from Steve and looked him in the eye. I felt like I could kiss him, but I couldn't he was dating that blond. If there is one thing I promised myself it's that I would never be with a guy while he was with some other girl.
I turned my head as Steve lips almost touched mine, making him kiss me on the cheek.
"Steve we can't, you have a……." I stopped in the middle of my sentence remembering Katie.
"Katie," I turned to Steve quickly jumping out of his lap, wishing I really didn't have to leave his arms. I ran to where I last saw Katie to find her kissing Dally.
Knowing Katie would kill me if I got in her way. I turned around and walked the small distance to Steve's car. I sat on the hood and stared at the ground.
'What am I gonna do with Steve. It's starting to get real hard being around him.' I was pulled out of my thoughts when Steve called my name. My eyes focused, I saw Steve standing in front of me.
"Let me take you home," I was gonna say 'what about Katie', but I saw her heading to Dally's car a few yards a head of us.
Sitting in the passenger seat I felt myself get tensed up when Steve got in. He started the car and drove me home. We didn't say a single word the whole ride home.
I quickly thanked Steve for the ride, kissed him on the cheek, and ran like a cheetah running to catch its prey inside. I turned around when I entered the house to close the door quietly behind me I saw Steve watching me intensely waving bye, I closed the door behind me and went to bed with Steve and our relationship fluttering up my dreams.