"Mornin' sleeping beauty." Curly said from the couch as I walked through the living room in a pair of red sweatpants and a grey tank top.

"It Lives!" Tim yelled at me.

"Oh shut up. What time is it?" I asked sleepily

"11."

"Tim said you met Ponyboy yesterday." Curly said coming up behind me.

"Yea so?"

"Well that means ya met the rest of the gang." I nodded my head. "Well we were going to go over there, ya wanna go?"

"Yea just let me change."

"That might be a good idea." Tim said looking at my sweats.

"Hey! They're comfy to sleep in." I turned back to my room and looked through my closet. I rummaged through my stuff and finally decided on a silky pink shirt that had long sleeves, but they were cut where they just were held together at my shoulders, elbows, and wrists, and blue jean shorts. I put on my pink sandals and pulled my hair back into a ponytail. I headed back into the living room and Curly whistled.

"Wow! Who you tryin' to impress?"

"No one."

"Liar." Tim said. "She's trying to impress Dallas."

I hit him on his shoulder and we walked out of the house and to the Curtis's.

Tim opened the door and yelled. "Hey."

Everybody I had met yesterday seemed to be in the house.

Sodapop was the first to greet me. "See I told ya she'd come back Dally." He smiled at me and laughed at Dally who was sitting in a large chair with an I'm-about-to-kill-you look. The tall, really muscular one came out of the kitchen dragging Two-bit behind him.

"Two-bit next time I want your help in the kitchen I'll ask for it." He said shaking his head and walking back into the other room.

I covered my mouth with my hand and laughed quietly. He walked over to me and put his arm around my shoulders. "Well, looks like ya just cant stand to be away from me." He shook my head and laughed. "It seems like you were the one to come up to me and actually my idiot brothers dragged me along."

"Dragged! Dragged!" Tim said putting his hand over his heart. "HA! You gladly jumped out the door when we said we were going." He turned to the tall muscular one who had come in. "Hello Darry, do ya think you can baby-sit one more for me for a few hours. She won't wanna be around my gang and I don't like to leave her at the house with the old man."

"Naw, she can stay with us for as long as she'd like."

"Thanks Darry." Tim turned back to me. "You be nice, don't drink, smoke, hurt any of um, and stay here, don't try to run off they'll catch you." He turned to leave then turned back. "And don't even THINK about trying to go home!" He hugged me, something I wouldn't think he'd do in public and left.

I turned to look at Two-bit who still had his arm around me. "Ya gonna let me go?"

"Naw I gotta make sure ya know everybody, you didn't get a proper introduction yesterday." He turned me around to face everyone. "The o so muscular guy standing beside me here is Darrel Curtis, we all call him Darry. Sodapop is the one on the floor stretched out there and Ponyboy is the one next to him. Darry, Soda, and Pony are brothers. The dark-haired one is Johnny, the bum one the couch in Steve." "Hey!" He said sitting up a little then lying back down. "And that there is Dallas, or Dally as we all call him. And me well I'm Two-bit Matthews"

"So how are you Tim's adoptive sister, we've all been wondering about that." Soda asked.

"Sit." Steve pointed to the spot beside him on the couch.

"Um well, I got dropped off here by my parents and got into a little trouble with some guy and Tim and Curly helped me out and then I stayed with them and here I am."

"Why'd you get dropped off?" Darry asked as he leaned against the wall.

"My parents didn't want me. I was a mistake to them. They send money and I got a car last year but that's it. No letters, no pictures, nothing I wanted. Mrs. Shepard is my mother and Mr. Shepard is well, well he's there."

"So they just left you here." Dally asked with no emotion what so ever.

"Yea they just left. I don't really care I mean it's not a great place here, but it's better than what I was living with. I'm a senior at the highschool and I'm on the volleyball team."

"Pony goes to the school, he's a freshman." Soda said happily.

"Yea I've seen you around. You sometimes eat with Elizabeth and Sarah don't you."

"Yea you're in my art class."

"Yea I am. You're a really good artist."

"Thanks."

"Well this has been a fun chat but does anyone wanna play football?" Dally asked standing up and holding a football in his hands.

"Sure." The guys all jumped up and out the door except for Two-bit who walked with me.

The guys choose teams and I decided to play. It was Darry, Pony, Johnny and me against Dally, Two-bit, Soda, and Steve. The game had been going good and Tim and Curly had come back and watched. Dally caught the ball and began to run for the touchdown but I saw him and began to catch up to him.

"Careful Dally she's going to catch ya." Tim yelled.

I came up behind him and grabbed his waist pulling him down to the ground with me. He rolled over and sat up on his elbows. The guys had run over and stood around us. Two-bit was cracking up.

"She tackled you! Dally got tackled by a girl!"

I kicked my legs under Two-bit's feet and he fell to the ground. "Excuse me, what is the matter with being tackled by a girl. Oh and by the way, you got knocked down by a girl." I mocked him.

"Nuthin, it just don't happen very often, except by Sylvia."

I looked up at Tim puzzled I had heard that name before. "Yea you know her, you broke her nose one night." He said looked back down at me.

"So you're the one who broke her nose. Good job she was so pissed, it was just funny."

"No problem. I think she was the one who started the fight but I finished it alright. I had been sitting on 'her man' and she got all upset and started yelling at me and pushed me off him and then continued to trash talk me. I hit her and told her if your going to fight someone fight them, don't stand there and run your mouth."

The guys all cracked up and I tried to stand up but Dally pulled me back down. "Not so fast. Do ya think your brother will let ya come with me to the movies tonight?" "I Dunno why don't ya ask him."

He stood up and helped me up and asked Tim if he could take me to see a movie in front of everyone. I almost went red at just the thought of what Tim might say to him.

"Yea you can take her out. Just have her back before midnight, and don't pull anything on her." Tim said and I almost squealed that he was letting me go out with Dally, but I kept my calm and turned to Dally.

"Ok then, I'll pick ya up around 7 then." He said.

"Alright, yea. I'll see ya then." I turned back to Tim and Curly and we said goodbye to the guys and headed back home.

"Well I think someone has a crush. Don't you Tim." Curly teased as we walked down the street towards the house. "Yea I think she does. You better watch yourself, he's not normally this nice."

"Well maybe he just knows my brothers can beat the tar out of him if he pulls anything."

"Yea that might be the reason." Curly said sarcastically.

We walked into the house and I looked at the clock, it was 3:30. Wow it was kinda early so I went to my room and took a nap.