A/N: The story will be skipping back and forth between time from now on!!!! You'll be able to figure out what chapter takes place when by what the characters say and do. If you get confused just message me and I'll explain it to you. This takes place a couple weeks after the second chapter………
Chapter Four: Loosing It
Soda sat on the counter of the DX flipping through some expired car magazine, cause that's the only thing he would actually God Forbid read. While Steve sat in the corner with his hat pulled down over his eyes and his arms crossed over his chest sleeping.
It wasn't a busy day at all, and Steve had been catching sleep when he could, ever since getting drafted. While it looked to everyone like Sodapop Curtis was reading an expired car magazine, he was inwardly fighting with himself to bring up something that had been bothering him for awhile now………
The bell above the door jingled and Soda's head shot up. Two-Bit walked into the store eyeing everything real closely.
"Two-Bit Matthews if you think your gunna steal anything from this station, you got another thing coming buddy boy." Sodapop drawled.
Two-Bit held up a finger to his mouth in a hush, hush sorta way and crept over to where Steve was silently passed out. He put his face right in front of Steve's.
"HEYA SLEEPIN' BEAUTY, WAKEEE UP!" He shouted in his face, cackling with laughter.
Steve jerked awake and looked around in a paranoid sort of way, while Two-Bit stole the DX hat off of his head.
"Come and get it!!" He ran across the room and put it on his head backwards so the front of his hair stuck out all poofy and spiky.
"Grow up Two-Bit." Steve grumbled making his way over to Two-Bit and ripping the hat off his head. "And wipe that little smirk off you face while you're at it."
"Well someone is a little grumpy wompy today isn't he?" Two-Bit said in a baby voice pinching Steve's cheeks, and Steve spit in Two-Bit's face in return.
"OH THAT'S IT YOU LITTLE-"
Soda had walked outside halfway between Steve being grumpy and the fist fight that almost erupted after Steve spat at Two-bit.
"Hello miss what can I get ya?" Soda asked the woman in a beat up ford.
She had natural blond hair and china blue eyes, Soda froze in his spot he would know those eyes anywhere. Sandy Michelson.
"Oh," She tucked a strand of long blond hair behind her ear, an old nervous habit of hers. "Sodapop you still work here?" Sandy had a scared look in her eye as if Soda would yell and carry on about what had broken them up more than two years ago.
"Yeah, I like it here. The pays okay. And Pony's still in school so this will do good until he graduates. He's sixteen now did you know? He has a little broad that he digs pretty well, so I guess that's good and everything." He was senselessly babbling to avoid a very, very awkward silence.
She nodded her head mustering a smile. "I'm up visiting my parents with Asher here."
"Who?" Soda gave her a look.
Sandy leaned over to the back seat to un-buckle a little boy. She got out of the car with the child in her arms to show Soda.
Asher had wheat gold hair that covered his tiny head, and brown lively eyes. And when he smiled it made your heart jump excitedly. It was almost like looking in a mirror for Sodapop Curtis. "He's gunna grow up to be a heartbreaker I can tell you that already." He said ruffling Asher's hair.
"Troublesome two's, man they aren't kidding when they say that! He's been sticking anything not nailed down to the floor in his mouth, and he won't keep his shoes on for anything! But it's worth it……" She kissed him lightly on the forehead, and put him back in the car seat.
There was a silence but not an awkward one. "I'll fill up your tank for ya." Soda said hurriedly looking for something to do.
Two-Bit came rushing out of the store, a wild look in his eye and a cut above his left eyebrow but none the less he was laughing like a hyena. Steve was following closely behind him kicking up dirt and rocks as he ran.
"I warned you Two-Bit but you didn't listen! I was trying to sleep, THAT'S WHY I'M CRANKY YOU MORON!!!" He yelled.
Sandy was looking at the two with confusion written all over her face. Two-Bit stopped in his tracks when he saw who Sodapop was talking to.
"What the fuck is she doing here!?" He looked utterly shocked and angry. Steve turned around and gaped at Sandy, he looked like he was trying to catch flies or something.
Soda bit his lip and glanced at Sandy from the corner of his eye.
"Uh……she's visiting her parents with……Asher."
Two-Bit narrowed his eyes at Sandy and stalked off for a second I thought he would hiss at her or something weird, Steve did the same thing but minutes after cause of delayed shock.
"Sorry 'bout that." He apologized looking at his shoes.
"No, it's okay they have every right to be like that. I treated you terrible Soda, and you've been nothing but nice to me. I appreciate that." She gave him a smile that practically melted him on the spot.
Sandy looked away and Soda looked to Asher.
"He sure is cute." He commented.
"Yeah he is……and I hope he grows up to be just like his daddy." Sandy said looking Sodapop in the eyes for the first time that day.
"Well I better be going my parents are probably wondering where we are." She said getting into her beat up ford.
And for the second time in his life Sodapop Curtis let the love of his life drive away from him, but this time it wasn't just Sandy it was his son also, leaving him feeling more alone than ever before.
He had to get away from this place, get away from his past and present. Forget about all the horrible things that happened to him somehow. That's when Soda finally made up his mind, as he ran off to find Steve.
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"I'm enlisting." Soda stated simply pacing on Steve's living room carpet.
"You're loosing it kid! Have you gone off the deep end?! You actually want to join the army?! What kinda freak would want to join?" Steve was bewildered at his best friend's sudden change of heart. But Soda just wouldn't give him a reason……
A/N: Okay I liked this chapter too. I guess that's a good thing, I got this written so quick cause I had a major fight with my Da so I had myself locked in my room all yesterday writing and blasting my music. So that's lucky for you guys:D Please review!!!!!!!!!!!!