Okay so this chapter has some cursing in it. Just fyi. Hope y'all enjoy!

disclaimer: i dont own the outsiders or any of the characters. Im just a huge fan!

Chapter 5.

The next morning Steve woke me up and we went straight for breakfast. Cereal and milk. Nothing fancy.

"Happy birthday sis!" He smiled as he suffocated me in a hug.

We sat in my bedroom eating our cereal as he told me where we would go as soon as i turned 18. We had been planning on running away for years but we never did it because it would just cause problems. My old man didn't care for us but he'd probably go nuts if we left.

We walked to darrys and I was surprised to see everyone there. Even two bit was there. I grinned as soon as darry pulled out a chocolate cake from the fridge. It looked amazing. Everyone rushed over to smother me with hugs and happy birthdays.

"You shouldn't have darry " I blushed as he placed the cake in front of me.

Johnny began singing the birthday song and everyone joined. I felt so special. This moment was perfect. Except for the fact that everyone still looked drunk. we ate the cake and reminiscing on our birthdays when we were young. soda brought an old picture of ponyboys 4th bday. we all looked at it and laughed at our funny haircuts and outfits. we were all about 7 or 8.

Sandy got there a few hours later to help me decorate and help me get ready. So far nothing would ruin this birthday for me.

The guys went over and began getting the kegs ready and the coolers filled with ice. Sandy and i began decorating with pony and johnny's help. it looked good. we headed of to get ready and the guys went home.

Sandy and i rushed to darrys room and she began to put rollers of my head. They were very uncomfortable! .I put on a beanie as best as I could to hide the rollers and put on a hoodie. i had those stupid things on all day it was awful. i got teased a few times by dallas but i would look at sandy for encouragement.

It took us hours to get ready. Gave me a lot of time to get to know sandy. She was really easy to talk to i could see why soda liked her. I told her my deal with twobit and asked her for advice. It was nice to have her there.

Sandy was driving me crazy! I turned to look at sandy hopping we were done.

"Perfect." she smiled and clapping her hands lightly.

I had on a cropped shirt sandy gave me as my birthday gift. It showed my belly piercing and basically half my stomach. i was a bit intimidated by the outfit. i had some dark jeans with tears all through my legs. i was uncomfortable, but i much rather wear this than the dress sandy tried forcing on me.

When sandy finally finished fixing herself up. she looked really good. very different than how i normally pictured her. she had bright hot pink lips and dark eyes. She looked tough. i digged it. she was normally the girl for the nice dresses but she decided to wear jeans and a cropped top shirt. no belly piercing of course.

She laughed at herself, "OMG I look ridiculous"

" You look Tough!" i complimented. "With all seriousness you look really good sandy. Soda is gonna go nuts when he sees you… didn't know you had a dark side." i chuckled

"Oh stop it." she giggled.

She came over to where i was sitting and began doing my makeup. when she finally finished doing that she smothered me with hair spray. was she trying to poison me? Jesus!

"okay...go take a look." she said excitedly.

Oh god. i looked...wow. i thought. I looked like a different person.

"sandy…" i began" thank you so much...how'd you do it?...i mean.. make me look attractive."

"I just polished. You're a really beautiful girl robin!" She grinned.

We heard the music banging outside the rom and i could hear people.

"ARE YOU GUYS ALMOST READY. JEEZ!" Soda yelled over the music.

"coming!" we yelled back at him.

Sandy and i walked out the room and headed down the hall. We reached the living room and saw a lot of people standing around, some dancing, a lot of them drinking. It was a not as chilly as usual but these girls were half naked. I waved at a few people and they yelled their happy birthdays and what not.

When we reached the gang.

Thier Jaws Dropped.

Sodapop stood up from his seat and greeted sandy with a hug and a kiss. She waved at the guys and walked off with soda outside. He looked at her with such amazement.

I awkwardly stood looking around while everyone stared at me. I smiled and I really didn't know what to say.

Johnny leaned in for a hug and whispered to my ear , "happy birthday robin. You look beautiful. Have fun tonight!...we'll be here to take care of you."

I smiled and whispered, "thank you "

The guys all hugged me and complimented me.

"You look so grown up!" Darry whispered sounding like a hurt father.

I laughed, "calm down!"

The music was loud. The gang had gone their separate ways. Darry had a couple of girls following him around like puppies. While Ponyboy was playing drinking games with Johnny. I was drinking a beer by myself when a couple of guys from tim's gang came over to say hello.

"Let's take some shots, gorgeous." He chucked "it is your birthday after all!" He poured some shots and we took two rounds. I was feeling a bit buzzed.

"You wanna go somewhere more quiet.?" The tall one asked.

"Uhh...no I'm okay thanks" I smiled nervously.

I saw twobit walking towards us. Thank god. He grinned at me and gave the two guys a mean stare. It took seconds before they walked of.

He leaned over to my ear and put his hand on the wall behind me. He had me trapped against the wall.

"You know you look amazing right?...those jerks weren't causing you trouble were they?...you having fun?" He bombarded me with questions.

"Uhhh...thanks two...no they weren't. And yeah I am. I wanna dance though. " I looked at him with pleading eyes.

He smiled "Come on then gorgeous"

He grabbed my hand and pulled me with him. We began dancing. I was having so much fun. I could see everyone laughing, dancing, and drinking. After a few songs we took a break and went to get a beer. Angela, tim's sister rushed me to do a keg stand. And lucky me there I was, feet up in the air drinking like a maniac.

Two-bit and I walked outside for a bit and just talked. The party was going great, the music was blasting, no one was fighting. So far so good.

"I'm glad you're having a good time rob." He smiled leaning on the wall

"Thanks, I'm glad you're here. " I said thinking twice about what I said.

He raised an eyebrow, "are you now? " he said being cocky.

"Oh shut it. You know what I mean." I laughed.

I was leaning on the porch rail. When he came to stand next to me. He turned to face me and didn't smile like he usually did. He just stared at me. Like he was reading my thoughts.

I raised my eyebrow " what keith?"

"We're lucky to have you around you know." He whispered.

"You guys are my family, my friends. I'm lucky to have y'all " I smiled putting my hand lightly over his hand holding onto the rail.

He stared at me deeply. And said "what if I don't want to be just your friend?" He turned his hand around and locked his fingers on mines.

What is going on? I thought.

"Two-bit you're drunk." I giggled.

"Yeah, maybe." He said leaning in closer to my face.

"Tw..." he leaned in closer placing his hand on my waist. I Could feel his breath on my lips.

He was gonna kiss me.

"Hey you gu...!" Ponyboy interrupted "oh sorry. Uh.?"

"We uhh…" i began

"i didn't see anything, " pony said smiling as he walked back inside.

I pinched the bridge of my nose. and began laughing. OMG.

"let's go inside two." i giggled.

Well that wasn't awkward at all. i thought sarcastically. We headed back inside towards the couch where the gang was. when a blonde girl came rushing towards me with angela.

" It's time! it's time!" they yelled.

Everyone was yelling and cheering! they were apparently very hyped up for whatever that stupid thing meant. i thought.

"seven minutes in heaven!" she yelled getting everyone's attention. i looked confused.

"What?" i asked sandy and soda

"its this stupid thing they do at parties. People drop their names in the hat and when their names get pulled you get your eyes covered with a bandana and a lucky guy gets to go in with you in the closet for 7 minute " She explained.

"It's a lot if fun right babe. " he said winking at her.

"Uhhhh...?"I began "I'm not so sure about this."

Angela came rushing to me. "Come on girl!...hey listen up y'all. Get your names ready. We about to get this party going. " people were surrounding us. Laughing and yelling all kinds of things.

The first girl was called to the middle of the circle.

"Okay..." angela began as she covered her eyes. She put her in the closet and pulled out the name.

"ALRIGHT,...come here buddy." She pulled on some chubby guy with the beard. He chuckled as he went into the closet.

After what seemed like an eternity. They came out she was laughing and hanging onto the guy's neck. A few more people went in. Johnny and Tim being one of the lucky ones.

"ALRIGHT Y'ALL! BIRTHDAY GIRL IS READY FOR SOME ACTION!" she yelled.

Steve looked at me and raised an eyebrow. "You're doing this?" He yelled

"I..i.." I tried to speak.

"Babe leave her alone it's her birthday " evie smiled.

I stood there blushing. Oh god hopefully some perv wouldn't go in there with me.

She pulled me to the middle and covered my eyes. I was so nervous. I'd never even had a first kiss. This was really gonna suck. I walked into the closet and waited patiently. I was panicking. I should've just said no. I could hear everyone cheering even louder as I heard the door open.

I was waiting for some random guy to start feeling me up but it didn't happen. I stood there

"Who are you.?"I asked awkwardly.

He didn't answer. Okay. So this unknown person was gonna just stand there in silence with me. Okay. I can do that.

He reached for my hand and locked fingers. Just like before.

It was him.

He pulled me as close to his body as he could and I felt his hands reach for my waist. I shrugged a little. It was a different experience.

Twobit.

He was a little more forward than I thought.

I felt his lips slowly kiss my lips. A very soft kiss that he quickly deepened as I placed my hands around his neck. He hands were wandering around my waist.

It didn't feel as perfect as I pictured it. It was a nice kiss but I felt nothing.

He reached up and pulled my bandana off.

"Dallas?"I looked confused.

He was standing there grinning at me. The closet never seemed so small until I had him pressed against me.

"Kinda tight in here" he chuckled.

"Uhh...I didn't know it was you." I said pinching the bridge of my nose.

He didn't say anything.

"Who'd you think it was?" He asked.

"Idk. Not you I guess." I replied awkwardly.

"You're a good kisser you know...I should've done that a long time ago. " he laughed

"We'll it's not gonna happen again" i said playfully but serious.

"Okay. Okay. " he chucked.

Omg what have i done. Dally? Oh no. This was a mistake. It really was. We stood there in silence and he finally said "It was nice you know. Kissing you."

"Uh..." I began

"Don't say anything. But if you ever do wanna hang out let me know kid. " he said smiling as he opened the door to our freedom.

Steve was standing in the front glaring at us.

Dallas walked up to him and said, "relax nothing happened!"

He looked at me and raised an eyebrow, "Come on Steve it was dallas."

He smiled and went for another beer.

The games continued but I quickly went to talk to soda and sandy. I told them what happened how I thought it was two bit.

"Well twobit left." Soda informed me

"Why?" I asked

"He looked furious and well Kathy had been here for a while but as soon as he saw dal go inside with you. He lost it." Sandy said

"He's probably outside." He suggested.

There he was across the room leaning on the wall talking with kathy. I looked over to him and tried to smile. He looked at me and went back to his conversation. Kathy gave me a mean stare as she noticed me.

I didn't know what I felt I was a bit confused. But I was jealous too.

Dallas came over and asked me to dance with him. We danced a few songs when he whispered to my ear," you thought i was twobit huh?"

"What?" I sounded shocked.

He laughed as he turned me. "It's okay. "

I smiled and we continued dancing. We both glanced over at twobit who wouldn't stop looking at us. "He's with kathy you know. " I whispered

"Yeah, but he's looking over here isn't he?" He grinned.

I blushed a little. "Go talk to him." He suggested,"what can possibly go wrong."

This was dallas Winston giving me relationship advice. I laughed in my head. Who would've thought.

I saw Kathy and him heading outside so I decided to walked over.

"Can we talk?" I asked.

"Abou..." He tried to say when Kathy interrupted.

"He's a bit busy robin. He can go and hang out with you when he's done with his GIRLFRIEND. " She huffed rolling her eyes.

Twobit looked at me with such anger in his eyes.

"I'm sure..." I said pulling twobit to the side.

"What's up." He said dryly

"Can we go somewhere. " I said looking over at kathy.

"Two Bit I'm so done with this. Whenever you want to have something real call me. I don't have time to be waiting on you when you're talking to this little bitch." She yelled.

I smiled as I felt a vein popping in my name. This bitch asked for it.

"Who calling a bitch you fukin whore." I yelled back.

Two Bit looked at me in confusion, his angry face was long gone. He got in front of me.

"Chill rob." He said calmly.

By then I saw Kathy rushing towards me swinging her fist. I'd been raised with boys. I had to fight Steve growing up, I could definitely defend myself. It took a couple of swings on my part and I soon had her on the floor. Two Bit tried pulling me off as some people began yelling and cheering on the fight

"Let go of me you bitch" Kathy yelled.

Eventually two bit got me off of her and I brushed the dirt of my jeans.

I laughed. "Get the fuck out"

Two Bit looked at me with disapproval and walked inside. By then Steve and darry were rushing towards. Me.

"What happened,?"darry asked.

"You really gave it to her!" Steve laughed hysterically. " I hate that broad."

"Idk darry, I freaking lost it. By the time I knew it blood was gushing from her nose." I tried to explain.

"It's alright come inside. " he placed his hand on my shoulder.

I began chugging a beer as a I sat on the couch. Ponyboy sat next to me. "You okay?"

"Yeah, just a little buzzed" I responded.

Dallas brought me another beer and I began drinking some more. I was already drunk but the beer kept coming down my throat smoothly.

Kathy had managed to get me a few times on my check but I wasn't in pain.

Twobit Mathews.

I had to try and talk to him. I looked around and saw him standing around with darry and Johnny.

Sand was spending the night with soda and Steve had taken evie home.

It was time for me to get home too. I thanked everyone for the wonderful night and apologized for ruining it. Everyone thought it was funny. Two bit I guess was Spending the night and Johnny and dally we're walking me home.

"Hey thanks for walking me. " I smiled at them.

"Today was great! " dally laughed.

"Leave her alone dal." Johnny said softly.

"It's okay johnny. I had fun. " I giggled.

I went inside thankful that my old man and my stepmom weren't home.

I ran up to my bedroom and changed into my sweatpants ready for bed. I laid there replaying tonight in my head. I had kissed Dallas. I laughed. How crazy was that.

I heard some knocking on my window. And I hurried hoping it was him.

And it was.

"Hi." I whispered letting him in.

"What happened tonight?" He asked me with such sad eyes.

"Two...I..."I began.

He walked inside and closed the window behind him."Just tell me. Is there something going on?"

"With what?" I asked.

He was still a bit drunk. He walked over to my bed and sat me down next to him.

"Did you and dallas...?" He began to question.

"What?...you've got to be kidding me...I mean we kissed but...I thought it was you." I said before thinking about what I was saying.

"You thought it was me? " He looked surprised.

"Two..." I smiled at him sweetly.

this was it. Moment of the truth.

"WEll…?" he chuckled,

"I...well.."i tried to finished when he quickly leaned in and kissed me. A quick peck. He quickly sat up and looked away. I could see the shade of red on his cheeks.

I looked straight at him and smiled. I grabbed his hand and locked my finger with his. He turned to face me and smirked.

" you really went out there and fought kathy." he laughed. "you're crazy, you know."

i looked down embarrassed and a bit ashamed. Idk what had gotten into me.

He placed his hand under my chin and picked my face up. " You're something else." he smiled "i'm sorry I was being such a dick. I don't know where that came from."

I gave him a sweet smile and got lost into his eyes. He leaned in this time and hugged me. He held me for what felt like forever. What would i do without you, I thought.

I was falling for him.

And i had a feeling he was too.

"it's gonna get complicated two….you know that right?" I said.

"I know….." he whispered as we fell asleep on the bed