Title -Outsider Jess

Chapter Title It's Not Fun Here

Disclaimer- I do not own The Outsiders

"Do you wanna go home?" Soda asked me.

"I'm not going home, ever. I'm going back to New York," he looked at me. It was about ten o'clock and Steve left already. I told Steve I was going to calm down a while.

"How are you gonna get there?"

"I'll hitch a ride," I told him looking at the floor. 'Golly, it needs to be cleaned,' I thought. I could feel him staring at me, but it didn't bother me. I was going to call Danielle, but I couldn't put a long distance call on their phone bill.

"You need to go back to Steve, besides, hitch-hiking is dangerous."

"So what? I liked it in New York, more fun; girls didn't get jumped unless they did something really bad to piss somebody off."

"It's fun here," he told me.

"Yeah, right, I doubt its fun here. Nobody hits me in New York, I can't believe my dad would hit me," I whined. I was starting to sound like a bitch and I knew it.

"Well, um, if you stay, I can, um, take you to the Nightly Double." I must've blushed because he looked embarrassed.

"Sure, I'll stay, but you have to show me fun in one night. That's the condition," I told him. He laughed.

"Fine, that won't be too hard."

"I'm stubborn," I warned him. The phone rang and Darry picked it up.

"Jess; that was Steve. He said you better stay here. You're dad is mad." I nodded; I was going to stay anyway. Steve was mad at me for swiping his switchblade, even if he got it back. After Two-Bit left; he told us he'd be coming back later, Ponyboy headed to bed. It was Thursday and he had school.

"You never answered me before, are you a kleptomaniac?"

"No, I don't know, maybe, yes. Yes, I am."

"I think you need help." I laughed in his face. That was really nice of me to do. He was going to be nice to me and I laughed.

"Sorry, I didn't mean too. I don't need help."

"Have fun on the couch tonight," he told me and walked into his room.