Chapter 9: Nobody Does It Better

Taissa's POV

As I opened the bathroom floor, I found Marissa crying on the floor. I sat down next to her and put my arm over her shoulder.

"Don't cry Maury, he isn't worth your tears." I said softly.

"I know but I just thought…" Maury began.

"They're just assholes that ruin everyone's lives constantly. You gettin' me?" I said trying to cheer her up. She got up and blew her nose on a tissue.

"You're right. I should've known something like this would happen, I mean, come on, it's Dallas Winston." She said giggling. Maury then started to observe my neck.

"Was Soda sucking on your neck?" She said widening her eyes. "Because he left you a hickey."

I felt my face her hot, I could tell I turned red in an instant. Maury asked no more questions about what happened between me and Soda while she was with Dally. She understood what was going on. I smiled at her and we left the bathroom, and walked to our room. Soda was resting against our cabinet and Dally was checking his cheek in the mirror, where Maury punched him good.

"Hey…" Soda said looking up at us.

"So you came back for more?" Dally said giving Maury a cocky smile.

"We're going to go to sleep. Its 12:00AM and we want to head out early tomorrow." Maury said trying to avoid eye contact with Dallas.

"Alright, let's go to bed then." Dally said. Then he jumped onto Maury's bed and started patting the other side, trying to lure Maury. Maury gave him a disgusted look.

"You two are sleeping downstairs!" I said ignorantly. Dally and Soda's eyes widened.

"What?" they said in unison. Soda stood up from the floor, and Dally got up from the bed.

"You heard her! You guys have to sleep downstairs or somewhere other then our room." Maury said sounding as if she was going to cry.

"You're lucky I ain't throwing your asses out of the house…" I muttered. Dally looked at me and turned away.

"Babe, c'mon" Dally said picking up Maury's chin and was about to kiss her, until she backed away and slapped him. My eyes widened, I pulled Maury back just in case Dally was about to go psycho on her.

"Soda, can you please leave." I said trying not to look at either of them. Soda listened and pushed the stunned Dally out the door. I was surprised Dally didn't throw a fit; I guess he didn't want to hurt Maury. After our little confrontation between the boys, we brushed our teeth and then went to bed. In the morning, at about 10:00AM, I woke up and found Maury sitting up.

"Hey, what's wrong?" I asked.

"You think it was right to be mad at them?" she was twiddling her thumbs.

"Yeah, they're jerks for doing what they did!" I said sternly. I got out of bed and took a shower; I got dressed and did my hair.

Marissa's POV

After Tai got out of the shower, it was my turn. I took a long hot bath, to wash away my troubles. Yesterday seemed like a nightmare, I just couldn't wait to see how they would greet us once we went downstairs I thought to myself sarcastically. When I was squeaky clean I got dressed, brushed my teeth, and blow dried my hair. When I got out of the bathroom it was about 12:30PM. I went into my room and saw Tai sitting on her bed, I thought she would be downstairs by now.

"Did you go downstairs yet?" I asked as I put away my blow drier.

"Nope, I don't want to go down alone. I feel like a dumbass now, but could you come down with me?" Tai said while chuckling.

"Are you drunk or something?" I said. I started laughing at the thought of my sister being scared of Soda or even Dallas.

"Shut up! So will we go down together?" She asked again.

"Yeah, c'mon, let's go now. I'm hungry!" I said rubbing my stomach as it growled.

We walked downstairs and found Soda and Dally sitting on the couch, Johnny and Ponyboy eating breakfast, and Two-Bit was watching the TV show; Made. Wait hold on, Two-Bit watching Made? I walked up to him.

"Hey there Two-Bit, whatcha watching?" I asked eagerly.

"Some show, I think the TV said it was called Made? What a dumb name for a show, huh?" He chuckled. I laughed too and then turned to face Tai. I gave her look that said 'What the hell is up with him?' She started to laugh. Soda then got the guts to say "HI" to my sister when she walked by him. She gave him a dirty look and walked to the kitchen.

Taissa' POV

"Hey Ponyboy!" I said. I was trying to make Soda jealous by hanging out with his brother. Not flirting with his brother, just being nicer. I glanced over at Soda who was in the living room staring at me. I sat next to Ponyboy and Johnny at the table, and then Maury walked over to the table.

"Hey Tai, remember we have band practice today." Maury said.

"Oh yeah, let's go before Mace and Chris start complaining about us being late once again." I giggled. I grabbed my base guitar and put it in its case and brought my notes and songs that we had to review. Maury took her microphone and stuffed into her handbag.

"Where are we going?" Dally asked from the living room.

"I don't know about you, but we are going to band practice." Maury said with attitude in her tone of voice.

"Can we come?" Soda asked. I shrugged my shoulders.

"You guys can stay or come, doesn't matter." I said not caring about Soda's question. "Hey Pony, Johnny, Two-Bit wanna see our band play?" I asked cheerfully.

"Sorry but I'm meeting up with that chick from the cone place." Two-Bit said.

"It's called Coney Island, Two-Bit.". My sister and I said in unison. Ponyboy and Johnny laughed at Two-Bit's stupidity. Three minutes later Two-Bit said his good-byes and ran out the door to meet up with the girl.

"Alright, let's head out." I said as I opened the door. The people who were coming were Ponyboy and Johnny, oh yeah and sadly Dally and Soda decided to follow us. As we were about to cross the street we saw unwanted guests at the corner of the street.

"Oh my fucking gawd." I said aloud. Maury looked at me as if I was stupid.

"What's wrong?" she said. I pointed towards the hookers at the end of the block.

"Holy shit!" Marissa yelled. Dally had a dirty grin on his face, while Soda eyes widened as they never did before.

"Sylvia!" Dally yelled, and then ran towards her. Sylvia squealed and ran towards Dallas. He welcomed her in open arms.

"Soda!" someone else yelled. Soda took a step forward and then back, and then forward again and began to run towards the other whore; Sandy.

"Sandy!" He said and hugged her.

"Soda, I'm pregnant." She said while rubbing her belly.

"Yeah I heard." He said looking at me and then turning away. Sandy looked confused but then smiled again.

"What an asshole." I said. Soda was happy to see Sandy? Was I dreaming! Was I high!

"That jackass, he's still holding onto Sylvia!" I heard Maury's angry voice. I saw Sandy and Sylvia motion our way, and then they all came towards us.

"Sandy, this is- " Soda began.

"I can introduce myself, Soda. The name is Taissa." I said with a cocky tone in my voice. "Your worst nightmare…" I muttered under my breath. Soda gave me a look but then turned away.

"Nice to meet you." She said. She was so perky, how annoying can that get…

"And Sylvia this is Marissa, the girl was I talking to you about back there." Dally said holding onto Sylvia's waist. Maury's eyes practically had flames in them. Maury didn't say hi or nothing she just turned to me.

"Ready to go?" She said.

"Yeah" I was a little worried how Maury was taking all of this, but she's tuff, she can handle it. As we were walking to our meeting place Dally and Sylvia were giggling and touching each other, while Soda and Sandy were holding hands and were talking about how they missed each other. I was getting sick to my stomach.

"I know one thing for sure; they ain't staying at our house!" I heard Maury say to me. I started to laugh, but it was true they are not even going to enter our house for shit.

Once we got to our hang out, Maury was taking out the key to open the door. We just don't let anyone in ya know…Maury tried to open the door but the door stayed locked.

"What the hell?" She mumbled as she jammed the key in again.

"Ugh, what's so hard about opening the door…" Sylvia pushed Maury aside and tried to open the door herself, but it wouldn't budge either.

"It doesn't open, Dally…." She said and looked at Dallas.

I don't know why but the way Sylvia and Dally were acting was making Maury jealous, and what made me more furious was Soda not caring that Sandy screwed another guy and has a baby, it's all so confusing.

"The only door you know how to open is the one between your legs!" I said aloud. I just snapped. Maury cocked up an eye brow and smiled at me. Ponyboy, Johnny, Soda, Sandy, and Dally just stared at me, all stunned. Sylvia was going to say something to me, but Mason opened the door. His jaw dropped; we forgot to mention to him about The Outsiders people coming to our year.

"Do you mind?" He said pointing to the people.

"We got some explaining to do." Maury said.