So here is chapter two, A little one on one time with Katherine and Darry
do I look like i own anything in this story
Katherine was sitting on the couch in the Curtis's living room two days later reading her book to try and make sure she did this right when suddenly the power went out.
"Third time this week" grumbled Mr. Curtis, grabbing a flashlight and about to head to the basement to try and figure out what was wrong
"Let me help, I come from a long line of electricians so I know my was around electrical stuff, I might know whats wrong" said katherine, lying through her teeth about the long line of electricians bit, truth was she had graduated from a technical high school and had taken electrical, she had planned on becoming an electrician but current events had very recently put paid to that idea. She followed Mr. Curtis to the basement and looked at the fuse box, spotting the problem almost instantly
"Your main fuse is sized too small for the loads from the house, get the next two sizes up and it'll stop blowing" said Katherine. Mr. Curtis looked impressed
"Great, that'll also save money on having to replace this every few days" he said, Katherine smiled.
"I can go get it if you'd like" said Katherine
"That would be greatly appreciated, I'll send Darry with you, maybe you can teach him a few things" said Mr. curtis. It was raining out and Darry had just came in from football practice covered in mud.
"Darry can you go with katherine to the hardware store? She figured out the problem with our electricity" said mr. Curtis
"Sure Dad just let me get out of these clothes, Katherine had surprisingly opened her wallet yesterday to find that she had all the money from her savings and quite a bit more with her and a licence to drive, which in her own world she hadn't gotten around to getting yet, it was a couple days before the first Mustang would roll off the assembly line and oh she was so gonna get herself one and some new clothes, she'd get a job to just to be on the safe side, thank god she had the wallet next to her while she had been reading. She got into Darry's truck and waited for him before they drove off to the hardware store. This was the first time the two of them had been alone together and if she was honest with herself she was not very good at talking to men, mostly because most of the guys she knew were jerks, but she knew Darry wasn't like them.
"So, how do you like Tulsa so far?" asked Darry kindly
"I love it, it's so much better than Boston" she said happily. Darry chuckled, he liked this girl a lot, she was funny, easy going and got along with all the guys, helping Pony with his homework, joking with Soda, bouncing car ideas back and forth with steve, preposterous ideas to the guys but stuff that she had actually seen, like a camera on the back of the car to help you see while backing up, she taught Johnny some self defense moves so he wouldn't get beat up as bad by the socs, she helped Mrs. Curtis in the kitchen, and traded cartoon ideas with Two-Bit, she had even managed to impress Dally with her surprising knowledge of how to brew alcohol, she admitted to paying too much attention to how her uncle did it.
"So what's so much better about Tulsa than boston?" asked Darry
"Well you guys get way less snow than we did, geez, the banks could get the size of large trucks" said Katherine
"Geez the whole city shuts down here for less than an inch, you had to have at least had snow days" said Darry
"Nah, we had school unless it was over 6 inches or if the roads were really slick" said Katherine with a laugh
"How did you survive?" asked Darry
"We started the revolution, we're kinda known for toughing things out" laughed Katherine
"Ain't that the truth, you guys drive like maniacs I've heard" said Darry
"Yeah" laughed Katherine.
"How old are you by the way, I don't mean to be rude or anything, but you can't be older than me" said Darry
"18, I turned 18 in July" said Katherine
"Same month as Pony" said darry
" yeah" laughed Katherine
"I guess you and I are the oldests of the gang" laughed Darry
"Lemme guess, you're 18 too" laughed Katherine, even though she knew it for a fact
"Yeah" chuckled Darry "Hey listen, I'm not doing anything tomorrow after work, would you like to grab a coke at the dingo with me?" asked Darry, Katherine did an internal happy dance
"I'd love to" she smiled. They walked into the hardware store and Darry could instantly tell that she was practically in heaven.
"You like construction work and stuff?" he asked
"Yeah, I know my way around a hammer" she laughed, he smiled as she found the fuse she wanted and paid for it.
"Oh, you don't have to pay, my dad gave me the money" said Darry awkwardly
"You guys gave me a place to stay, the least I can do is buy a little fuse" she said smiling, Darry relaxed
"Well then I'm buying you dinner tomorrow night" he said
"Sure" said Katherine brightly as they went back to the car. They were joking and laughing all the way back, when they got to the house Katherine put the new main fuse in the box and the lights came back on. She sat next to Darry on the couch and he put her arm around her. Although their first date would be tomorrow they already felt close enough to be a couple. Two-Bit and Dally each took turns to glare at Darry, it was clear that they wanted her to be theirs