Chapter 5: New York, New York!

Taissa's POV

Soda and I both got off on the right foot. He is a real sweet guy too, and we both had relationship problems. He just had his heart broken by that tramp, Sandy. I got dumped by my asshole of a boyfriend, Andrew. The thing I loved most about Soda was that he always found a way to make me laugh, I really like that in a guy; a sense of humor. While I was sitting on the couch, he took a seat next to me. He kept getting closer and closer, and that made me apprehensive. We talked for awhile, and we were alone too. Maury, Dally, Ponyboy, Johnny, and Two-Bit were all in the kitchen doing the dishes, except for Dally though. Dally can never become a house cleaner for a living, that's for sure.

"I still can't believe Sandy would do that to me. I mean I would never have dreamed of doing that to her." Soda sounded depressed again. I hate when people are upset, I had to cheer him up.

"Sandy is a bitch. I mean you're a real hot- - I mean a cool guy." I said trying to cover up my emotions for him.

"Did you say I was hot?" He said grinning at me. I immediately felt my face get real hot; it was probably as red as a tomato. Soda was then getting closer to me, I think he was going to kiss me there for a minute, but Maury then came running into the living room.

"Hey Tai- - Oh, whoops! I hope I'm not interrupting anything." She said examining Soda, who was practically on top of me. I pushed Soda off.

"What's wrong Maury?" I said.

"We'll, I was thinking of bringing the guys shopping and we can take them on a tour around Manhattan." She said jumping up and down. Then I saw Dally come behind her and pick her up.

"Hey babe, why are you so jumpy?" Dally said putting her down and giving her a squeezing hug.

"We are taking you guys sight seeing and on a shopping spree!" She said letting go from Dally's bear hug. Dallas gave her this look, it made me laugh. It was like he was saying 'what the fuck? A shopping spree?'

"Isn't a shopping spree meant for girls?" Dally said sitting down on the couch. Maury rolled her eyes and pulled Dally off the couch.

"C'mon you guys. Let's get moving!" Maury said. After everyone knew what to do, we were all out the door by 2:30 PM. We first went Northstrums, the shopping department.

Marissa's POV

Everyone went their separate ways. Ponyboy and Johnny went walking around, on their own, Two-Bit found a blonde to "befriend", Taissa was on her own but Soda then followed her, so they're shopping together, I guess. And as for me, I was alone, until I saw Dallas standing right next to me.

"Let's go looking for some clothes for you." I said looking at him. He's got to get rid of those 60's clothes. It's been out of style for awhile. While I was walking around, trying to find the right clothes for him, he grabbed my hand. I looked at him and he smiled at me, he's really not that bad of a person like the book says he is. After an hour or so everyone met at the cash register. Apparently Tai and I have to pay for the clothes, since the guys didn't bring any money. Dallas really didn't care, but Soda kept bugging Tai about it. He kept saying that, it isn't right for a girl to pay for the guy's stuff. Tai told him to shut up, and he did, but then he grabbed her hand and didn't let go of it.

"Hey Tai, what did you get?" I asked her, once she was done paying.

"T-Shirts and some jeans for Soda, and a belly top and a jean skirt for me." She said smiling at the clothes she bought for herself, "What about you?"

"I got T-shirts and pants for Dal. And as for me, I got this cute tank top and this frilly skirt."

"Aww that's cute where'd you find that?" Tai said. Her eyes widened when she saw my clothes.

"C'mon, what about the sight seeing you guys were talking about?" Ponyboy said crossing his arms against his chest.

"Alright Pony, we'll go." Tai said taking a step, but then froze, "Where's Two-Bit?"

"Oh yeah, he's with some blonde." I said eyeing the store. Oh boy, Two-Bit is gone, he better not mention anything about him being from a book. And if people find out he is the young Emilio Estevez they'll go berserk. Then, after about five minutes, we see Two-bit holding hands with some blonde haired girl.

"Who's you friend?" Soda asked looking girl.

"Her name is Stacey." Two-bit said smiling at the girl.

"You were right Keith. Your friends are really cute!" She squealed. I saw Tai's face when Stacey approached Soda; her eyes looked like they had flames in them.

"Watch yourself, Barbie, Soda isn't interested." I never seen Tai act this way, not even around her ex; Andrew. Two-Bit looked at Tai as if he was saying 'Cool it!'

"Let's get going" I said trying to change the subject. Stacey was being called by the rest of friends and had to leave Two-Bit. He said good-bye and gave her a good-bye kiss.

"Geeze Two-Bit, you just met her…" Tai said. Two-Bit just grinned.

Taissa's POV

We started walking down the sidewalk. I started to tease Dally about the littlest things. It was fun making fun of Dal. But I went a little too far, and I was being chased by him. I ran pass some guy, and Dally was looking back at Maury, so he didn't see the guy in front of him and bumped into him.

"Shit! Watch where you're going!" Dally yelled.

"What the fuck?" The guy said and stared at Dallas in shock. After getting a good look at him, I saw that the man was actually Matt Dillon! Oh shit, we better take Dally and the rest of the gang out of here.

"C'mon, Dal! Let's go look over there." Maury pulled Dally, and I had to convince the other guys to follow. "Bye Matt, I love your movies, you're so hot!" she screamed as we ran.

Once we got to a safe spot, where Matt Dillon wasn't in sight, Dally shot us with questions.

"Who was that? Why does he look like me?" Dally asked. Maury whispered something in his ear which made him smile and stay quiet the rest of the way.

We started to walk around the harbor. Soda was holding my hand, while Dallas was doing the same with Maury. I looked around and saw the tour boat exiting its passengers.

"Hey let's go on the tour boat." Maury said, suggesting to the others. In The Outsiders we didn't read anything saying that the greasers were scared of boats or water, so it sounded like a good idea. They all agreed and we entered the boat.

I was excited about the tour. I've been on it before with Maury, and it was fun. Once we set sail, we all were on the bow of the boat. Maury was pretending to be Rose from Titanic, and Dally kept teasing her, about trying to push her into the water. I looked down at the water and saw some fish go by. Soda was next to me the whole time. I saw Maury and Dally on the other side, they were making out.

"Hey, give her some air, will ya?" I said ignorantly. Dally stopped, paused for a minute, and then came up to me.

"I know you the big sister and all but, you don't have to baby-sit her every minute." Dally said.

"I don't give a shit." I pushed him hard and then he pushed me against the rails of the boat.

"Leave her alone, Dallas!" I heard Soda say trying to push Dally away from me. Dally accidentally turned around real quick and knocked me off the boat. The rails securing people from not falling off the boat wasn't so secure after all.

"Oh shit!" Dally said aloud. The boat stopped moving, and I didn't remember much that was going on aboard the boat. I was splashing; trying not to drown. The next thing I see is someone falling down too; it was Maury. We both started are best not to go under water.

"If you're trying to rescue me, you're not doing a good job at it!" I yelled trying to stay afloat.

"I wasn't going to jump off. I ran to see what had happened 'cause Soda and Dally were arguing with each other. When I looked down at the water I saw you, and then Soda and Dally were getting physical and accidentally pushed me off." Maury said, while splashing. After awhile Dally and Soda both came raging into the water.

"Are you okay?" Soda asked me.

"Yeah, you're not hurt are you?" Dally asked Maury.

"Just get us out of the water!" Marissa and I both yelled. Once we got back on the boat the captain started yelling at us for being stupid retards for being so close to the rails. Dally cussed him out so good, it put a smirk on our faces. Soda gave me his red flannel and Dallas gave Maury his leather jacket. It wasn't long until the tour was over. Ponyboy and Two-Bit kept teasing us about falling off the boat, and the two bone heads that pushed us off. We got back to our house and we all sat in the living room. I was cuddled up next Soda, while Maury snuggled under Dallas's jacket with Dally's arm over her shoulder. We had nothing else planned…