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Disclaimer: I clearly don't own the Outsiders or any characters that go along with it. Dally would be a charm to own though.. I take credit for Kelsey Matthews though.

"C'mon kid, you done all that studyin' yet? I thought you wanted to go to the movies,"

Ponyboy Curtis shot a look over to the people who were laying around the couches and caught the eye of Dallas 'Dally' Winston. He shrugged his shoulders and turned back to his homework.

"And I thought you wanted to wait 'til Two-Bit got here," Ponyboy said back to him, closing up his text book.

"He should be here soon anyway, I don't see why you waste y'ur time with all that book work," Dally shook his head and lit up with a smile, "Doesn't seem it helps you too much anyway," He suddenly moved to the right to avoid having a thick text book thrown at him.

"Hey, you be careful with those school books, we don't have the money to replace them," spoke Darry, oldest of the Curtis brothers walking out of the kitchen after having finished the dishes for the gang, "And who are you going to the movies with anyway?"

"Johnnycake, Pony, Two-Bit if he ever shows up and probably Kels if she comes," Dally answered, kicking his feet up on the table in front of the couch. Pony thought of his friend Kelsey for a few moments. If she wasn't within earshot she was usually refered to as the girl of the gang although if she heard you she'd probably stare you down. For some reason none of them knew, she hated being called the girl of the gang. Pony ususally assumed she felt out of place when they said that. But she didn't seem to care when Steve and Soda ended up calling her One-Bit a few times, in mockery of her brothers name. She didn't mind, it was a compliment. Aside from the fact that her witty remarks weren't half as good as her brothers most of the time.

Suddenly, there was a large screech coming from their front lawn. Two-Bit came flying in the door, a large grin lighting up his face as he fell into a chair. No one really wanted to ask what he did, but they all wanted to know. Before one of them could speak, Kelsey ran through the door a look of anger on her face. Her hair seemed to be a mess, her jacket resting in her arms and a small scratch on her cheek.

And of course, they were all awaiting the explanation from her.

"Stop your laughin' Two-Bit, it wasn't that funny." She started, "I don't see why you always have to do pointless things like that."

"Like what?" Steve edged her on, giving Two-Bit a look as he continued to laugh.

"That idiot," she pointed to her brother, "stopped to tie his shoe as I walked ahead then ran up and shook my shoulders, pulling my jacket over my head causing me to trip over the gate and fall flat on my face." By the end of her short story, Two-Bit was still laughing at his childish antics and most of the guys were laughing along with him.

"Augh," Kelsey cried as she shook her head and took a seat beside Ponyboy at the table. He muffled his own laughter as she rolled her eyes.

"C'mon, it wasn't even that funny." she told him, shaking her head.

"Actually, it was," he replied, going to his packsack, "You should be needing these," He handed her over a few papers. The history notes.

"Oh god, thanks so much Pony, this seriously saves my life," She gave him a small smile then looked down at the notes.

"I don't know why you keep skipping class anyway Kels, it ain't do ya' any good," Kelsey quickly gave him a look to 'shut his trap' as Two-Bit walked up behind them.

"Wait wait, Kels you were skippin' class? You told me you had fallen asleep," Two-Bit exclaimed, giving her a puzzled look, "Why the hell would you lie to me about that? It's not a big deal,"

"Hey, that's probably why I thought I spotted ya outside in the lot smokin'," Steve added in, recalling the one class he hadn't skipped that day. History bored him to death, it bored anyone to death. Which is probably why he ended up gazing out the window the whole time and seeing her there.

"Thanks for the input Steve," she gave him a look then looked down at the notes in her hand.

"What the hell is this Kels? When did you start smoking?"

"When didn't I start smoking?" she yelled back to him, causing him to process the reply he recieved from his sister. He hadn't remembered her smoking before, or was he just that inobservant?

"What's the supposed to mean? I haven't even smelled smoke on ya'" They were both yelling now.

"That's probably because you're too busy smoking yourself." She didn't want to tell him she had started smoking the day after their dad left. He would try to go into 'Caring Emotional Big Brother' mode, which didn't happen very often. And to tell the truth, Kels hated him like that. He didn't reply to her at all, he just let out a scream and walked out of the house. This left Kelsey feeling pretty uncomfortable, seeing as everyone's eyes were on her now. They were used to the Matthews's kids having arguments now and then, but they'd never heard each other fight that bad before.

She did her best to break the silence.

"So are we gonna go to the movies or not?" she said, looking over at Pony who just smiled. Him and Kelsey had always been good friends, although she was two years older than him, but that was how it was with Johnny too. He never understood how she thought but he never questioned what she did, it always seemed to work out for her.

"Yeah, uh, let's get goin' then." Dally said, getting up from the couch and throwing Darry a 'You better talk to Two-Bit Later' look and headed out the door, as Johnny, Pony and Kelsey all followed.

"They always work things out anyway," Soda said, shrugging a bit reffering to Kelsey and Two-Bit.

"Yeah, well they better. I ain't never seen them fight like that before," Darry said, an almost worried look on his face.

"They're probably just stressed or somethin', their mom's been workin a lot lately," Steve said, sort of summing things up.

"Yeah, they'll be fine,"

well, the ending sucked but there was chapter two. :) please read and then REVIEW. i ended up on a favourite story list and you didn't even review to tell me that :D thanks for reading and I know this chapter was sorta short, but that's only because I am working up to something bigger. oh and this takes place during when the book takes place too, like when they went to the movies and met cherry, thats where im heading next chapter. all clear? ten-four.