Title- Outsider Jess

Chapter Title Taking Sides

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Note- I have more incredible urges to update, so I must update… There will probably be 2 more chapters up today. This is 18, and the story had 24… 6 more chapters!

"Why aren't you gone?"

"Why should I go? I like it here," I said. I laid back on the couch and kicked my shoes off. I wiggled my bare toes and threw out my arms. I sighed.

"This, this is the life," I told him winning laughter. Laughter came from everybody, except Steve.

"Why do you care about me so much? I'm 17, I can handle myself. I was doing just fine in the fight, I look okay, and he looks like shit. Anyway, it was fair."

"I don't care about you, not anymore. How do you know he didn't have a weapon on him?" I sighed. I rolled off of the couch and shrugged.

"I didn't know," I answered him innocently. I ran out to the car and grabbed my suitcase.

"I'm crashing here tonight, some people don't want me at their house," I said giving Steve a glance. He didn't know I put his shampoo in the shaving cream container, and the other way around. I'm surprised I managed that in the five minutes I was gone, before I packed my suitcase. I also located his switch and swiped that. Steve was getting irritated, but I didn't care.

"Bye," I said and gave him a nice sisterly kiss on his cheek. He wiped it off with his sleeve and I swear he looked like he was going to hit me. I walked into the bathroom and locked the door. I leaned against it so I could listen.

"Steve, you can't treat her like she's a baby," Soda told him.

"Yeah, that's annoying," a new voice said. I think it was Ponyboy's.

"She's so irresponsible. She even told me she wanted to go back! I ain't stoppin' her!" There was silence.

"She's stolen a lot of stuff," a new voice, Darry's, said, "she can't hold a job for a day, and she is insane." Darry was on Steve's side. So it was Darry and Steve against me, Soda, and I guess Ponyboy. I wonder where Two-Bit was in the middle of it all. He wasn't here, so it didn't matter.