Disclaimer: I am not S.E. Hinton I do not own the outsiders, I only own Carrie and the plot.

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"ROCKING AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE!" Carrie sang at the top of her lungs running through the entire house waking everyone.

"SHUT UP!" Carrie heard Ponyboy screech in his room. "IT'S NOT CHRISTMAS!"

"But I'm bored Ponyboy." She complained lightly fuming. "I want to do something fun."

"Go to sleep." Darry called, his voice muffled from his head in the pillow.

"But I want to do something." She muttered pouting her lip at the wall, which obviously was not going to help her out. "I really want to do something instead of sleeping all day."

Carrie smiled gratefully when Steve entered the house smiling widely. She ran over to him and embraced him in a large hug that he returned to her awkwardly.

"You saved my life Steven Randle el… el?" Carrie told him while he just gave her a confused look. "Where's my lovely fall?"

"Oh she's outside in the car still…" he told the girl but stopped when she ran outside and hugged Fall who laughed at her.

"Want to go shopping?" asked Carrie who giggled. "I really need to blow off some steam and I want to buy you stuff and buy everyone stuff!"

"Are you drunk?" Fall asked laughing at the girl who was now spinning in the front yard.

"Nope just had a lot of coffee!" Carrie yelped while opening Steve's car door and sitting in the passenger seat while waving at Fall to hurry up.

After telling Steve goodbye, Fall and Carrie left to a small mall in the Soc territory.

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At the mall Carrie and Fall walked around, arms linked. Going into name brand stores and buying presents for all the guys and themselves. The styles seemed to be changing from the 60's into more bright clothing colors.

Carrie giggled to herself when she saw a lingerie store; she poked Fall's shoulder and pointed at the little place. Smiling they both walked into the store searching for some expensive undergarments.

"I think you should get something really sexy for Steve." Carrie suggested winking at Fall. "When's the last time you had a really wild night?"

"Oh lord. A while now." Fall replied in a sad voice. "We've both been so busy, now that Soda's coming back. I'm so happy."

"Have you ever met Sodapop?" asked Carrie her eyes shrinking slightly.

"Sadly I haven't, but that's going to change soon." Fall smiled causing Carrie to chuckle.

Twenty minutes later and the two both bought lingerie, deciding to leave the mall they carried the six bags they had to the car and drove back to the Curtis household.

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Opening the gate to the Curtis house, Carrie and Fall walked up to the door struggling to keep the six bags from falling out of their hands. Entering the house the two saw Two Bit sitting down on the floor singing, Ponyboy dancing which was oddly out of place, and Steve cooking.

The only thing that would be normal occurring in the house was Two Bit singing, but he was singing a poppy romantic love song. Fall's eye twitched as she watched her soon to be husband with an apron on whistling to himself, flipping whatever he was making over.

Carrie coughed to make herself noticed and all the guys stopped what they where doing and turned to the two girls standing in the doorframe.

"Hey Carrie… Fall…" Ponyboy greeted turning crimson from embarrassment. "Um we just… where um were cleaning."

"You call dancing cleaning Ponyboy?" Fall questioned in amusement.

"Well you see." Two Bit began standing up from the couch to tell us their story. "Carrie wasn't here this morning, and shoot she's usually always here to clean and make breakfast. So since she wasn't around Steve, Ponyboy, and me decided we'd do what she does. And well when Carrie cleans she dances and sings, then when she's cooking she wears that apron and whistles!"

"I completely understand." Carrie stated laughing when Steve started screaming that his food was on fire.

"I'll go help the needy." Fall said rolling her eyes and walking over to Steve. "The reason why Carrie cooks Steve is because she knows how to!"

"Where's Darry at? He doesn't have work today." Carrie asked Ponyboy raising her eyebrow in confusion.

"Not really sure." Ponyboy answered shrugging his shoulders. "He got up, got dressed really fast, said he needed to go and ran out the door."

"Works been a little to hard on him this past week." Carrie shook her head in disbelief before picking up a broom that was lying on the floor and beginning to sweep. "Ponyboy if your trying to be me you have to dance with the broom not just dance."

"Darn it, I new I was missing something." Ponyboy said in fake anger.

Carrie giggled, hearing the door open behind her she turned and saw Darry. The smile she had given him soon turned into a frown when he looked ready to faint.

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Wow. Its been forever since I've updated this. Well R&R.