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oOoDancingQueenoOo: I hope you like this chapter.

ZELINIA: I meant have you read Keeping the Moon. Thanks for saying I write Dally well. I'm not sure I do but I'm writing it so I always pick out the little things that the reader probably doesn't even notice. There is tension between him and Roxie, but I don't know if they could handle being together. We'll see though, there is some chemistry between them it could work. Thanks for the input. I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Banana4422: Thanks you so much! I like this chapter a lot too, if I do say so myself. Dally is harder to write, but I like a challenge so it would be kind of fun to write at the same time. I just don't want to change the characters too much. I can't really see Dally doing anything super romantic like Two-Bit but we'll see. You made me smile when you said I was a good writer. I hope you like this chapter as much as you did the last one.

Gracie: Thank you. As for Sandy, we haven't seen the last of her and Evie. In fact they're in the next chapter and…well you'll just have to read to find out what happens.

nycgal5490: Comments like yours make my day! I think he has a crush on her but if she feels the same way we'll have to wait to find out. And I will most definitely keep writing.

Kat, kitkat, calygurl13? cakes girl, Curtis fan, Ally, Marie: I'm just assuming you are all the same person because each review said the exact same thing. If you aren't I am sorry. Anyway I guess you really want her to end up with Johnny. Since I don't know you are the same person for sure I'll count each of your votes. But you really didn't need to vote that many times, once is enough.

Stef: I totally take anonymous reviews. I'm glad that you are impatient for the next chapter because that shows that you really want to know what happens and this story isn't a total waste of my time. I hope you like this chapter.

Cutiepiepink angel: I'm glad you liked it.

Babygurl33: You're back! I'm happy now! Thanks for beta-reading this. You already know what's going to happen in this chapter but I hope you like it anyway!

Author's Note: Wow I got a really positive response on the last chapter (although I did get the same comment seven times so that accounted for more than half of it). This has been like the most comments I have ever gotten for a chapter! That makes me very happy because I worked really hard on it. The last chapter was one of my favorites and I'm glad so many of you liked it as well. My beta-reader babygurl33 is back which makes me very happy so there shouldn't be as many spelling or grammar mistakes as there were in the last two chapters that she didn't beta. I want to give her kudos for doing this for me.

Author's Note 2: Poll Results-

Johnny Cade- 8 (I think it is the same person voting for him under different names for 7 of those but I don't know for sure so I had to count all of them to be fair)

Dallas Winston- 4
Ponyboy Curtis- 3

Keith "Two-Bit" Matthews- 2

Sodapop Curtis- 2

So as you can tell Johnny won by a long shot. However this does not mean that Mr. Johnny Cade will be the guy she ends up with. I have some thinking to do about it.

Chapter Eight

"So guess what?" Ponyboy said. I was sitting on Aunt Candace's front porch reading Little Women, again, on her porch swing when he had opened up the gate and walked up to me. I raised an eyebrow like Two-Bit, though I couldn't do it as well as he could.

"What?" I asked turning a page in my book.

"Darry says that we can all go to the fair together tomorrow. He even took the night off so he can come too." Ponyboy exclaimed, sitting down next to me. The Forth of July fair was the biggest social event in Tulsa during the summer. Everybody went there, Soc, Greaser, it didn't matter; everybody showed up there.

"You're telling me that Darrel 'I've-never-take-a-day-off-in-my-life' Curtis is coming to the Forth of July carnival with us?" I said in a shocked tone.

"I know. But he says he wants to come." Ponyboy said shrugging. I grinned, Darry was becoming like a big brother to me and it made me happy that he was finally getting out there and doing something that wasn't work related. Even though he was hard and cold sometimes, he still had a good heart.

"Are Olivia and Trisha coming?" he asked me. I nodded. "You think that Trisha would pass up a social event? Besides Olivia is like Darry, she needs to get out more." I said. Personally I thought that Olivia would suit Darry perfectly, they were just about the same age, and had the same work ethic. The few times that Olivia and Trisha were over at the Curtis's when I was they joked around a lot. If only Olivia wasn't enamored with Mike, her baseball playing boyfriend. She spent half her life working at the drug store and the other half by the phone in case he called her. She listened to his games on the radio while she wrote letters to him that she never sent while the phone sat on the table

next to her.

"Good. We'll come by at seven to get ya." Pony said before he left to go home for dinner. I sat there on the porch for a little while, feeling the hot air blow my now Beach Blonde hair. I opened up my book again and read. When I got to the part when Laurie proposes to Jo I looked over at the Curtis's house, remembering the conversation I had with Ponyboy about it. "I wonder…" I said aloud into the hot summer air.

"Come on Roxie, be adventurous!" Olivia said and Trisha patted her palm with the pair of scissors. It was the next day and I was once again suffering a beauty intervention. I made a cross sign with my fingers, telling them to stay away.

"I do not want my hair cut by anyone who is not a license beautician!" I said, running my fingers through my shoulder length hair. They could pluck my eyebrows, they could smear my face in goop, they could even make me wear their clothing, but they could not make me cut my hair.

"It won't be that short! It's only going to go to the middle of your neck!" Olivia said as she fluffed her flapper style hair. "That's long by my standards."

"Not helping." I told her as Trisha came towards me she put the scissors on

her vanity and sat down on her heels so she was eye level with me in the chair.

"Roxie your hair makes you look like a cocker spaniel. You need to cut it. I've cut lots of people's hair before. Just trust me," she said in a calming voice. Even though I had been sort of afraid of her in the beginning she was growing on me.

"Oh alright, you can cut my hair!" I said sighing. It was three o'clock and Trisha and Olivia had insisted that I go over to their house so they could gussy me up before we all headed for the fair. Aunt Candace had given me permission to go with the guys, and Olivia and Trisha were coming with us as well. Aunt Candy would be going along but she had a thing about crowds and loud noises so she was staying home to watch the fireworks on TV.

"Goody!" Olivia said clapping her hand as Trisha took the first snip.

"Miss Roxanne, every time I see you, you look different." Sodapop said as I opened the door. I shook my head and looked down at my feet. My now short Beach Blonde hair fell in front of my eyes.

"Is that good or bad?" I asked as I looked up at him. He was leaning against the

screen door in his jeans and checkered shirt. His corn-silk blond hair was brushed back and his brown eyes were dancing. He grinned.

"It's good," he said, still grinning. I smiled back at him. I cast a glance at myself in Aunt Candace's mirror in the hallway and for a minute I didn't recognize

myself. My short blonde hair fell to the middle of my neck and was stick straight thanks to Trisha's blow dryer. She and Olivia had forced me into their clothes. I was wearing a pair of Trisha's jeans, they bagging at my feet a little but they fit for the most part, and a forest green tank top of Olivia's that she said looked fabulous on me. My cheeks were blushed, my eyes shadowed, my eyelashes in curls, and my lips glossed to perfection.

"You ready Miss Roxanne?" he asked holding the screen door open for me. I

nodded and stepped outside into the air. It was the perfect night for a fair. There was a breeze but it wasn't too cold. It was humid but it wasn't too hot.

Soda lead the way down to the street where the rest of the gang was waiting along with Trisha and Olivia. Olivia was talking to Darry which pleased me, while Two-Bit was shamelessly flirting with Trisha. When Soda and I joined them we started to walk into the center of town, which wasn't that far.

"Now Two-Bit how do you think that makes me feel? I thought I was your favorite girl." I said lightly pushing his shoulder. He grinned in his cocky way.

"Two-Bit you're cheating on me!" Trisha asked in mock anger. Two-Bit laughed and put his arms around both of us.

"There's enough of Two-Bit to go around for everyone," he said smoothly which caused Trisha and I to burst into laughter as the fair came into view. Darry ushered all of us up to the gate to get our hands stamped by a guy who looked to be a year or two older than me. When he took my hand to stamp it his eyes met mine and he smiled.

"Hey," he said, still smiling. Dally stepped behind me and grabbed my elbow. He glared at the guy, who gulped and went back to stamping hands.

"Come one Roxie," he said dragging me over to the rest of the group and away from the guy. I glanced over my shoulder to see that he was still looking at me.

Ha-ha, cliffhanger! Or really my sad attempt at a cliffhanger. It's probably not a good one but whatever. Sorry this chapter is kind of short, most of it is taken up by author's notes and comments, but I'm tired and just really wanted to get this off to my beta-reader. I promise the next one will be longer and better.

Love, Peace, and Oreos,

Hannah