We were hanging around Two bits car at the Dingo that Sunday afternoon, it was me, Soda, Steve and Two bit. Steve was inside talking to a couple of guys he knew, probably to find out what the soc's were up to. He had been working almost full time and going to school this week so he obviously thought he needed an update.

Me and Soda were leaning against the car and Two bit were sitting on the hood smoking, his legs dangling when we saw Shepards car come to an abrupt halt across from us in the parking lot, the brakes shrieked and it started to smell of burned rubber. We all watched in silence as Angela flung the door open and jumped out firing of a sentence containing of nothing but curses. She was dressed in a black skirt, longer than I had ever seen her wear before and a black blouse. The driver's door opened directly after, Tim getting out and rounding the car, he got over to Angela as she tried to get away from him grabbing her by her shoulders shaking her saying something in a low voice. Angela looked up at him practically spitting out something that I couldn't hear, all I heard was;

"…fucking bastard!" which she yelled at his face as she pushed his hands away from her and stomped of angrily. Tim stood there watching her walk of, his body tense and his glare murderous. He was also wearing all black. On closer look I saw it was a suit he was wearing, the jacket was buttoned up and under it he had a white shirt and around his neck a black tie. I had never in my life seen a greaser wear anything like that, except for my brothers at our parent's funeral. That's when I realised that that must be what this was about; they had been at a funeral.

"May, may Shepard, aren't you all decked out" Two bit said smirking and tossing the cigarette at the ground. Shit was all I had time to think before Shepard was standing in front of Two bit giving him a challenging glare. I looked over at Soda wanting to know if he understood what would happen, he nodded at me and took a step closer to me and we now stood few inches away from Two bit. Two bit didn't notice the look in Shepard eyes or he pretended like he didn't notice, but the next thing he said was the most stupid thing I had ever heard him say.

"Who died?" his eyes sparkled with humour but only for a short moment before Shepard's fist had connected with his jaw and Two bit was half laying against the hood holding his face as he swore between his teeth.

Shepard stood still, his eyes focused on his right hands knuckles. I washed as the muscles in his back and shoulders slowly relaxed and when he had clenched and unclenched his hand a few times he looked up, his eyes fixed on Two bit.

"Mike" he said with a smirk, his eyes staring coldly at Two bit who was now sitting up touching his chin carefully. Two bit looked surprised still, a tiny hint of hurt but also guilt visible in his eyes.

"Sorry man" he said offering Shepard a cigarette. I knew that was his way of making up for his mistake and apparently so did Shepard because he took the cigarette and shrugged his shoulders slightly.

I knew that Mike was a guy in Tim's gang, but that was all I knew about him, he had never been around me or my brothers so I didn't know him. I had often seen him with Shepard though and I recalled him being on of the guys who had been fighting those other greasers outside Shepard's house that night.

"I'm gonna go look for Steve" Soda said smiling slightly "you wanna come Nora?" he asked turning to me. I shook my head no and he pushed himself of off the car, when he passed Shepard he put his hand lightly on his shoulder saying;

"Take care man" Shepard nodded but remained silent as Soda walked away.

The silence that surrounded the three of us was pressing. I looked over at Two bit who still looked a bit baffled, probably wondering at his own stupidity. Shepard was standing leaning against the car next to Two bit, his left hand in the pocket of his pants the other holding the cigarette which he didn't smoke, he just let it burn between his fingers. I watched as Two bit turned his head towards Shepard looking at him curiously.

"What?" Shepard asked annoyed, but he didn't turn around to look at him instead he fixed his eyes on me, and when he saw me watching him his lips curved into a small smile, but as his eyes fixed on mine all I could see was indifference. I felt a shiver run up my spine at his cold apathetic stare and when he noticed me shivering he turned his eyes away snorting loudly.

Two bit had watched us as he sat between us and now he jumped down from the hood and looked me in the eyes questiongly. I looked back at him not knowing exactly what I showed him or even what I wanted to show him, but he nodded thoughtfully and turned to Shepard.

"See you later man, I'm gonna…go" he said backing away from us.

I watched as he turned around and strode over to the entrance his hands in his pockets. When I turned to Shepard he was staring into the distance his eyes more blue then I had ever seen them before, suddenly he turned to me his eyes showing his surprise at finding me watching him once more. That look made my inside cringe as I remembered my dream, but I wasn't scared, it was something else. He was still looking at me, his face blank but his eyes searching mine.

"You scared of me Curtis?" he asked smirking wickedly.

"No" I answered and I actually meant it, I wasn't scared of him, I just didn't know what to say to him, he made me feel small and inferior.

He chuckled lightly and turned his gaze away.

"You don't believe me?" I asked him watching his profile. His brows were furrowed and his jaws clenched, and I realized he had looked like that ever since got out of that car. He was upset about something, and why shouldn't he be, he had just been at a friends funeral.

"Yeah, I do" he stated flatly and looked at me indifferently as he rubbed his face slowly with his hands. He looked tired, his eyes fixing on something far away.

"You ok Tim?" I suddenly felt worried about him, I had never seen him like this, so indifferently and exhausted, so old. As I asked him he immediately straightened up, his eyes fixing on the burned down cigarette in his hand.

"Sure" he said as he tossed it away. He turned around completely now facing me, he looked as if he was going to walk off but he didn't instead he just stood there only a foot away from me. I looked up at him wondering what he was thinking, his face was as still as a statues and if it hadn't been for that scar he would have been as good looking as one. I was curious about how he had gotten it, I had heard Soda and Darry talk about it one time, they had said it was a tramp who did it, but that was all I knew, I wanted to know what really had happened. But as my eyes found his I realized that this wasn't a good time to ask, he had probably seen me looking at the scar and now he was glaring at me with a smirk that looked more like a frown. I couldn't understand what he was so angry about but then I realized that I wasn't that good at hiding my emotions, when I had been looking at his scar I had probably made some sort of face. I hadn't meant to but thinking about how he had gotten it made me shudder unintentionally. He was still watching me silently with his arms crossed over his chest, his eyes hard and cunning. I wasn't really aware of what I did until my hand had reached up to touch his scar, as soon as my fingers lightly touched it he flinched back still glaring at me. I let my hand fall down to my side again.

"That must have hurt like hell" I stated wanting to take back whatever look I might have had on my face that disturbed him. He was still watching me, but something in his eyes changed and he smirked at me and in his eyes I could see a glimpse of amusement.

"Really? You think so?"

"You guys standing here still?" Soda asked as he walked up to us and threw an arm around my neck. Shepard smirked at him and lighted up a cigarette. In a minute both Steve and Two bit had joined us and soon the talk about who had been fighting who and where had begun. I tuned out not long after they had started the conversation not caring about who did what to whom.

Hope you like it! I'm not that sure I do, maybe it is to much to soon? What do you think?