Darry's POV
I padded softly into the house, placing my tool belt on the coffee table. I began making dinner, and smiled when I found myself whistling. Today I had worked from sunrise until about six, roofing a pretty nice house, with some snow damage, and I had gotten complimented by my boss. Pony was at the library, studying for finals, with Noah, Johnny, and Jonah, who was forced to tag along, and Soda was working at the DX with Steve, so I had dropped by Jenna's. She was always so sweet, and so damn funny, and god, she was always so goddamn wild when I let her take control.
Jenna and I had been sleeping together for about three months. It was December now. Gradually, she and her brothers had become a regular fixture in the neighborhood. Jonah was generally sulking about somewhere, and Noah usually hung out with Pony and Johnnyboy. Jenna was the older sister to everyone. She was welcoming and sweet, but was rough and extremely terrifying when you didn't listen. Hell, somehow, she'd gotten Twobit's average beer intake down to two.
We'd spent Thanksgiving, and Dally's and Pony's birthdays together, and she made the best lasagna I had ever eaten. Whenever Jenna was over, I couldn't help but watch her. She was mystifying, with her sparkling green eyes, teasing remarks, and sad grins. And then she would look at me, share a glance, or a little look.
I considered her one of the first friends I'd had in a long time.
Jenna's POV
Everyone in the neighborhood was out in the road shoveling snow. I carefully pulled on my mittens and glanced worriedly at the opened envelope lying at the bottom of the trash in my bedroom. I had been receiving regular updates from Hal, an old friend, about the investigation into my parent's murders. It could be any number of people though. I had many enemies.
When I joined the boys in the street, Alexis waved from where she was skating over a slick peace of ice with Dally, and Twobit grinned jovially and formed a snowball with his hands. He then winked at me and threw it towards Darry. Darry didn't turn and didn't appear to have noticed, and Twobit frowned. I smiled to myself as Darry grinned at me from the corner of his mouth and slowly formed a snowball.
Twobit, upon getting a cold hit to the face, completely dropped his shovel and set to making snowballs. Soon, all of were ganging up and building snowballs. As I watched the boys around me, along with Alexis, hurling snow and friendly insults at each other, I found myself joining in with the shrieks and laughter.
And for the first time, ever since I had lost my parents, I thought, This is happiness. I think this might even be family.
Thanks to all my followers! This chapter is mainly to progress from the last to the next, but I like it because it's kinda fun and fluffy and helps set up future things for chapters down the road.