shout out to my two reviewers of my last chapter, it makes me feel all warm inside when I get them. sigh enjoy this! oh and some of the text from the movies is from the book, but i changed a lot around too. next chapter shall be awesome!

"Why doesn't someone just say something already? I know you are all dying to anyway," Kelsey exclaimed, after a long enduring silence on their way to the movies. She looked to Pony, then to Johnny who just avoided her eyes then to Dally who just shook his head.

"I don't understand you Matthews' kids at all!" Dally spoke, throwing his arms up in the air.

"We never seen you and Two-Bit fight that bad Kels," Johnny said quietly, but with enough determination to pull at Kelsey's emotions. She sighed and walked a head a bit. Of course they've never seen them fight that bad, they've only fought that bad at home. And it had only started once their dad had left. She stopped walking for a moment to stop Pony and let Johnny and Dally walk infront of them.

"Hey Pony, you know those dreams you had been having?" He nodded. "Did they ever, well, go away?" Pony looked over at her, a concerned look on his face.

"Kind of, on some bad days they come back, but not that bad, ya know?" She shrugged her shoulders, she didn't really 'know'. Her's hadn't slowed down. There they were, every night. Everytime she closed her eyes.

"Mine haven't stopped. If anything, they've gotten friggin worse," she replied to him. They were nearly at the drive-in by now, rounding the back to slide under the fence.

"Ah don't worry too much about it, they'll fade eventually. One day your mind will just pick up, and move on." He slid under the opening in the fence with little trouble after Dally and Johnny, as Kelsey opted to jump over instead. She may be a greaser, but she hated seeing her jeans too dirty.

"Ya know, I don't see why we just don't pay to get in. It ain't that much anyway," Kelsey stated, as she walked with the group. The guys just shrugged and continued their walking. Kelsey knew that strolling through the drive-in to the seats wouldn't be a big deal, but it seemed that night everyone was staring at them. Everyone. Or it was probably just her. Her emotions were racing everywhere lately, maybe it was all in her head. It was times like these she used to love having Sodapop Curtis to lean on. About a year ago, she had finally confessed her deep feelings of attraction towards Sodapop to the boy himself and seemingly, he said he had felt the same. They went steady for a few months, then had an 'on-again-off-again' relationship since. For the past few months it was been 'off-again' and she knew it probably wouldn't be 'on-again' probably ever again. He had told her he would always be there for her, no matter what. And that they'd always be friends, and she liked it like that. But it wasn't as easy to talk to him anymore.

And no matter where her crushes led her, Two-Bit always liked to have a say in it. Like after one mention of 'Dallas Winston has grown to be so cute lookin'', her trusty brother lectured her on how she should never fall in love with the guy. He'd never feel the same way. Even when she was with Soda, her heart had longed for Dally. That flame in her heart faded away over time. But she knew deep within herself, the flame was always there but it was safer to be friends with the group. Any sort of relationships ruined everything, and always seemed to leave a weird tension. The whole lot of them were better off as friends, and only friends.

They all took seats in the small area of close seats for all those people who came to the drive in without a car. Dally opted to jump a few chairs and scare some kids away to get seats in the second row which made no sense to them anyway. A few moments later a car door was slammed loudly and two girls were sitting in front of them, mumbling about boyfriends and movies.

"Uh oh, looks like someone is having relationship trouble," Kelsey said in a low whisper which seemed to make Johnny laugh, but no one else.

"Well what have we here," Dally spoke quietly, but loud enough for the two seated in front of them to hear. He kicked his feet up onto the chair of the red-headed one and kept them there.

"Take your feet off my chair and shut your trap!" She snapped real fast. That's truly not a good quality in a person. Kelsey muffled a laugh as Johnny rose to go get a Coke.

Dally merely looked at her and kept his feet where they were. "Who's gonna make me?" The brunette turned around to take a look at them. She mentioned something about 'the greaser that jockey's for the Slash J sometimes..." It was as if she didn't think they could hear her.

"You know we can hear you," Kelsey said out loud to point the obvious. She turned around quickly.

"I know you two. I've seen you around the Rodeos" Dally said, ignoring what Kelsey had said. She rolled her eyes and tried to concentrate on the movie.

"It's a shame you can't ride bull half as good as you can talk it," the red-head said coolly. She then swiftly turned around. Kelsey started to laugh.

"Nice blow to the ego Winston," she chuckled as he threw her a shut-up look.

The red-head's remark didn't seem to bother him though, "You two barrel race, huh?"

"Why don't you just be nice and leave us alone?" Dally shot her a foul look and turned away.

It was time's like these that Kelsey completely zoned into the movie and ignored everything around her. She really didn't want to hear Dally attempt to flirt with two Soc girls who wouldn't go for him. Well, Kelsey thought, they probably would. Hell, I would if I was drunk enough. She noticed Dally get up from his seat, probably angry with the way his night was going. He was probably going to hit a party somewhere in town.

Both girls turned around, "Are you going to start in on us?" It was like she was trying to bite him, she snapped so much.

"Of course not," Kelsey said blankly, her eyes still positioned on the screen.

"Well, you two don't look the type anyway, whats your name?" She was motioned to Pony.

"Ponyboy Cutis." Kelsey waited for one of them to exclaim at the rarity and originalness of his name, but the girl just smiled.

"That's an original and lovely name,"

Before she could get to Kelsey, she started to talk herself, "And you're Sherri Valance, cheerleader, sits in the front row on my English class, but of course, you go by Cherry" She was hiding the sarcasam in her voice.

"Oh right," Cherry said, knowing why Kelsey seemed so framilar, "Kelsey uhm.. Matthews is it?" Kelsey nodded and looked back at the screen.

"Knew I recognized you, you're brother's in my math class too," She smiled and Kelsey rolled her eyes. She turned to Pony.

"You're brother, Soda, works at a gasoline station right? A DX?"

"Yeah." Kelsey answered, remembering the days she had spent hanging around the DX with Steve and Soda, desperatly waiting for him to get off work so the swarms of girls would leave too.

They continued to talk for a few moments when Johnny returned. He handed one of the Coke's to Kelsey. He gave the two girl's ahead of them a small 'Hi' and sat back down in his seat. The movie continued and everyone seemed to start paying attention until it seemed a scarier part in the movie occured. Cherry shot around and looked back at them, but mainly at Pony.

"You guys wanna come sit up here with us, keep us safe?" Pony answered her question with a simple nod while Johnny and Kelsey just followed. She found there was something about the two Socs she was sitting with, that was different. Well, there at least was something different about Cherry. No, Sherri. Kelsey reminded herself that she didn't believe in nick-names like that.

"So how come you two ain't scared of us like you were Dally?" Johnny questioned them as he sat beside Marcia, the other girl. Kelsey, who was seated beside Pony, who was beside Cherry who was beside Johnny looked over to Cherry, waiting to hear what she would reply.

"There's something about you two and you're with Kelsey, I'm sure you wouldn't do that sorta stuff with her around." She shrugged a bit and continued to watch.

"You'd be surprised at what they will do with a girl in company," Kelsey smirked, taking a sip of her drink. Pony and Johnny laughed a bit. It was true, the antics of the guys of the gang certainly outweighed anything having to do with Kelsey. She was always one of them, they never thought differently.

As the movie came to an end, which happened after Pony and Cherry left for at least 20 minutes to get popcorn, they all started to walk out of the drive-in. Pony and Cherry were talking about something while Kelsey and Marcia were engrossed in a conversation about Paul Newman. It suddenly occured to them all that Marcia and Cherry didn't have a ride home, seeing as they walked out on their boyfriend's earlier.

"We could always walk you guys home," she shrugged, pulling her jacket on a bit more. The cool leather of the jacket reminded her of her brother out on his own right now, probably drinking because of her. She sighed quietly as the others jumped into a conversation about race, and gangs and morals and how people live after Cherry declined the offer of walking with them.

They did start to walk though, changing the conversation to many other things instead, like Mickey Mouse, Soda's horse and how much Ponyboy reads. It was pretty much standard conversation. Kelsey kept near Johnny.

"Uh oh, Cherry look who's coming," Marcia motioned to a car driving down the road, headlights bright.

"I'm assuming those are probably the angry, drunk boyfriends?" Kelsey thought out loud as Marcia nodded. The car just drove past them though, as if they couldn't see them.

"Tell me about your oldest brother Ponyboy, you talk about Soda so much I feel like I know him," Cherry said, crossing her arms for warmth.

"He's a big guy. Used to play football, roofs houses to support us now. He's not like me or Sodapop at all. He's hard as a rock and about as human. He's got eyes exactly like frozen ice. He likes Soda - everyone likes Soda - but he can't stand me. He probably wants to stick me in a home or something." Pony looked down at the ground and shuffled his feet.

"No, Pony," Kelsey started, "You've got it all wrong boy,"

"Gee, I thought you and Darry get along real well," Johnny said to break the small silence.

"Well, we don't." It sounded as if he just wanted to leave it there. So everyone seemed to drop the subject.

The blue Mustang was patroling the streets again, and this time it slowed down near them.

"Well, they've spotted us Marcia," Cherry said sighing.

"We better just go before they get out here all drunk, it was good talking to you guys," Marcia said to them, a genuine smile on her face as she retreated to the car.

"C'mon Cherry!" Someone exclaimed from the car. Kelsey turned her head around to see a handsome dark haired Soc, who seemed kind of dizzy shouting out the front side window.

"Just wait a minute!" She yelled back to them, as she pulled Pony off for a moment. Kelsey made a quick glimpse of eye contact with the handsome Soc, his eyes seemed weary but dreamy. His stare was cold, so she looked away and turned to Johnny. Cherry then broke away from her small talk with Pony and ran to the car, slamming her door just as the car squealed away.

Kelsey, Johnny and Pony started their walk home, having no idea what could be in store for them.

And scene, sorry for the forever waiting for this chapter, I;ve been busy with the holidays. bad excuse, I know. please read and review! i love you all for reading:D this one was pretty long compared to what I usually write, so enjoy it!