This Time
Author's Note: I'm stuck on both Lilly and Violet so here's a fic in the Stuck in the Future sort of family. I might use a few songs, because Roxy, Carrie, Jess, Chris, and Amanda are all in a band. but other than that, the only songs I will use will be on the radio. Kay well this is my longest intro ever. I'd better start the story or y'all will kill me.
Your Authoress,
Pippa Johansen
"I don't think Chris and Johnny really went to find Ponyboy and Jess," Roxy said quietly.
"Doesn't seem likely. Wanna follow their lead?"
"What are you implying?"
"We could go somewhere and talk. I'm not Dallas, I'm not implying anything dirty," Soda said.
"Good. Yeah I'd like to talk. Wanna go to my aunt's farm now? No one's there 'cept my cousins."
"How far is it?"
"Twenty, maybe thirty minutes away."
"Alright. Let's go."
Roxy smiled as she grabbed her keys to her Beetle, and quietly opened the door for Soda. They snuck out of the house.
"Hey Soda, wanna see if Jess and Pony wanna go? I know where they are."
"Sure," Soda said as he followed Roxy into a shed-type thing. Sure enough, there were Jess and Ponyboy, talking.
"Hey y'all, we're goin to Aunt Millie's farm. you wanna come?"
"Sure!" Jess exlaimed.
"Yeah I wanna go too," Ponyboy said.
So they all got out of the shed, and got into Roxy's Beetle. Soda and Roxy sat up front, and Ponyboy and Jess sat in the back.
"Hey have you seen Chris or Johnny?"
"Yeah," Jess said. "They came looking for us about a half hour ago, why?"
"Cause they went looking for you and didn't come back."
"Well they said they were goin somewhere, but I don't know where," Ponybo said.
"I don't know. Hopefully Chris didn't take him to the movies."
"Why?" Ponyboy asked, and Jess giggled and whispered something in his ear. His face got very red.
"So, not like they would kiss or anything, right?" Soda asked.
"Hate to tell you this, but, Chris has had a major thing for Johnny since she was twelve. That's four years, so figuring with that, she's probably in love with him by now. And don't you say anything Jess, or I'll say who you like."
"Alright."
"You like that guy who plays me, don't you?" Soda asked.
"Kind of. I mean he's hot and everything, but he's old now. The movie was filmed twenty-four years ago. He is in a tv show, but I haven't seen it."
"So you think I'm hot?"
"Yeah," Roxy said. "Sorry if I seem like a fangirl, cause I'm not... not like Chris or Amanda, or even Jess and Carrie.
"Who's Jess like?"
Roxy gave Ponyboy a glance in her mirror.
"You don't mean?"
"Yep."
"My brother has an admirer. I never thought I'd see the day. So what was up with those songs?"
"We just like them, not like we can relate or anything."
"I was about to say if you can relate then, well I wouldn't want to hang aroung Chris."
"Well let's see, my actual favorite song is one of Simple Plan's songs. It's calledWelcome to my Life. I can play it if you want."
"Sure."
So Roxy turned the music on and found the song she was looking for.
While all this was going on in the front, Jess and Ponyboy were talking, thankfully not hearing the older teens.
"Hey Ponyboy, Amanda thinks Dally is the hottest guy in the universe," Jess said.
Ponyboy laughed. "Love to see how they're getting along."
"I'd be a little afriad to see how they're getting along. Amanda loves Dally. Like loves him... she thinks he's so cool. And Dally, well, I've read about him, he seems like a cool guy, but also dangerous. Y'know? Like he could talk Amanda into anything."
"Yeah, maybe. I'm pretty sure not anything. I can see she's nothing like Cherry Valance, so maybe something."
"You're probably right."
"Here we are!" Roxy said from the front seat. She and Soda got out of the car the second she turned it off. Ponyboy and Jess soon followed.
Jess led Ponyboy to Wonder, a chestnut mare. Roxy showed Soda her aunt's buckskin horses.
"They're all Quarter Horses. Actually, I have a surprise for you. My grandparents, a little over forty years ago bought their first buckskin from Oklahoma. His name was Mickey Mouse."
"How'd you..."
"It was all in that book. Look, I have a surprise for you. Two actually."
Roxy led Soda to a horses stall. It was a very old stallion. In the stall next to him, was a younger horse, a filly.
"Soda, I'd like you to meet Sunlight, and her sire, Mickey Mouse."
"Mickey Mouse? My old horse?"
"I'm guessing," Roxy said with a smile.
"Thank you so much Roxy!" Soda said, and he hugged her. He quickly stopped, however, realizing what he was doing. "Sorry," he said.
"You don't need to apologize, Soda."
"You know I broke up with my girlfriend? You did know I had a girlfriend, right?"
"Yeah. Why'd you break up?" Roxy asked.
"I caught her with another guy."
"I'm so sorry. I used to have a boyfriend, but, all he wanted was to go out with a rich girl. I was that girl. Then I caught him with his 'real' girlfriend. Ugh. Chelsea Meade. Such a bitch. I can't stand her, I couldn't stand her before, so it's not that. I can't hate my ex though, even if I tried. He says we could still be friends, even though I don't even like him anymore, let alone love him, but I don't know, I'm just not ready for that."
"I know what you mean."
"Love stinks," Roxy announced.
"Yep."
"Hey Soda!" Ponyboy called from outside.
"Yeah?" Soda asked as he and Roxy left the stables and closed it up.
"I looks like we should go... it's about to rain. Look at the sky."
"Alright, just come on for a sec. I have to tell my cousin we stopped by," Roxy said as she started towards a house near the stables. The others followed. Roxy knocked on the door, and a boy with dark hair and dark eyes answered it. He looked about fifteen or sixteen.
"Hey Roxy. Long time no see," he said, smiling.
"Hey Alex. Aunt Millie isn't home, is she?" Roxy asked.
"No, come on in. I see you brought Jess. Who are these guys, your boyfriends?" Alex asked as he shut the door.
"No, just our friends. Chris might have a boyfriend though."
"Really? Well it's good to hear y'all are only friends. We don't need another guy like Dan."
"I won't fall for that again, don't worry. We just came by to see Mickey and Sunlight."
"Okay. Hey there's this really good movie on TV. Has Rob Lowe in it. Must be from the eighties. It's about these seven guys. It's called Outcasts or something."
"The Outsiders?" Jess asked.
"Yeah, Actually, it just started. Y'all actually look like Rob Lowe and Tom Howell," Alex told the boys. "You of any relation?"
"They kinda are, Alex," Jess said.
"What do you mean kinda? Roxy, what does she mean kinda?"
"Meet Sodapop and Ponyboy Curtis."
"You're joking, right?"
"Anything but. That would be something I would do, though. But no, I'm not joking. It's really Pony and Soda."
"Well if it really is, then I guess I should ask you something," Alex said.
"Go ahead," Soda told him.
"Is our Mickey Mouse, our buckskin quarter horse, really your Mickey Mouse?"
"I think so," Soda said. "But he's older now, and it's been years since I saw him."
"Wow. That's cool. Weird, but cool. Maybe that means that our Wonder is really fromt horse books you read, Jess?"
"Not likely. Wonder died in those books. Mickey was just sent away."
"Oh, well it's about to rain any minute, so I'll send y'all home. Oh and Roxy, who's Chris's possible bofriend?"
"Johnny," Roxy answered.
"Oh. Well nice seein' y'all."
"See ya," Roxy said. Then they left and raced over to her beetle. Just as they began to drive away, it started to rain.
"I can only imagine what Two-Bit and Carrie are up to," Roxy wondered aloud.
"I'd rather see what Amanda and Dally are up to," Jess said.
"I'd rather not," Roxy laughed.
"Hey Rox, you should dye your hair red again," Jess said.
"You used to have red hair?" Ponyboy asked.
"It was dyed. I liked it though... I might do that again."
"I think you should. You'd look nice," Ponyboy said. Soda shot him a sort of glare.
"You would," Soda agreed.
"Thanks.. I think I'll dye it. Hey, Jess, wanna see if Amanda, Chris, and Carrie wanna dye their hair too?" Roxy asked.
"Sure," Jess said. Roxy tossed Jess her cell phone
"Here. Call 'em... if they're not busy," Roxy said with a small laugh. Ponyboy shook his head.
Jess dialed Chris's number first.
xxx
"Hello?" Chris asked, She sounded weird.
"Hey Chris. Been out snogging?" Jess asked with a snigger. 'Snogging' is the British slang word for making out, and they used it whenever anyone was around they didn't want to hear.
"No! What did you want? You been snogging Ponyboy, or something?"
"No way! We just, well Roxy wanted to know if you wanted to dye your hair?"
"Sure. Permanent Black. Jet black," Chris said.
"Alright.. well gotta see what Amanda and Dally are up to."
"Prolly snogging eachothers heads off.. or worse."
"Ew! Bad mental image.. thanks for that Chris!" Jess exlaimed.
"Payback for your little remark earlier."
"Bye,"
"See ya.. tell me how snogging Pony was!"
"CHRIS!" Jess yelled, but Chris had already hung up.
xxx
Roxy laughed. "What, she say something bout you snogging?"
"She implied," Jess answered, gritting her teeth.
"Well we all know she was snogging Johnny. Whether she'll admit it or not."
"What is snogging?" Ponyboy asked.
Roxy and Jess just grinned evilly.
"Call Amanda," Roxy said.
"You!" Jess protested.
"I'm driving. Don't wanna get suspended."
"Alright," Jess said as she called Amanda.
xxx
"Hey, can I call you back?" Amanda asked.
"What cha been up to?" Jess asked.
"None of your freakin business."
"Is it Dally's business?"
"What do you want, Jess?"
"Roxy wants to know if you wanna dye your hair," Jess said.
"No," Amanda said and she hung up.
xxx
"What did you say that for?" Roxy asked. "Now she'll be all pissed and tell Dallas."
"And then he'll get pissed," Soda added.
"It was funny. 'Sides, she sounded out of breath," Jess said with a laugh.
"Oh no," Ponyboy said.
Jess laughed.
"Call Carrie you freakin' idiot," Roxy said, "'steada flirting."
Soda laughed.
"I wasn't flirting!" both Jess and Ponyboy said at the same time.
"Suuurre. Just call Carrie. Or else I'll tell Alex you gotta boyfriend and he'll kill ya."
"Fine."
"Why would he kill her?" Soda asked.
"He's very protective of us. More so than Jack and my mom are, and more than my dad was. Prolly cause of my dad. Funny cause he's only fifteen. And a half, he always tells us."
"What happened to your dad?"
"He died. Car accident. Drunk driver," Roxy said.
"My dad died too. Both of my parents, actually. Got hit by a train," Soda said queitly.
Roxy nodded. Meanwhile, in the back, Jess had just called Carrie
xxx
"Hey Roxyroll can this wait.. me and Two-Bit are doin something," Carrie said
"It's Jess, and are you fleuretting or snogging?" Jess inquired. Feuretting was their secret word for flirting. Alex knew about it, but only after he evesdropped on Roxy telling Chris that Dan was 'fleuretting' with another girl, and he got it.
"Fleuretting. What didja call for? And why do I hear My Chemical Romance in the background?" Carrie asked.
"Cause Roxy is showing Soda what kind of music she likes."
"Oh. Well what did Roxy want?"Carrie asked
"She wanted to know if you wanna dye your hair?"
"Sure.. can you get blonde bleach?"
"Trying to impress someone much?" Jess teased
"Yeah.. well can you?'
"Sure. See you later."
"Bye."
xxx
"Who's getting what?" Roxy asked.
"Chris wants permanent jet black, and Carrie wants blonde bleach. Amanda told me no and hung up."
"Okay. Hey Soda, this is like the only non-sick song on this CD.. wanna listen?"
"Sure."
"Don't worry. I can't relate."
Soda smiled. Roxy turned up the Music
They're gonna clean up your looks.
With all the lies in the books.
To make a citizen out of you.
Because they sleep with a gun.
And keep an eye on you, son.
So they can watch all the things that you do.
Because the drugs never work.
They're gonna give you a smirk.
Cuz they got methods of keeping you clean.
They're gonna rip up your heads.
Your aspirations to shreds.
Another cog in the murder machine.
They said all, Teenagers scare
the living shit out of me.
They could care less
as long as someone'll bleed.
So darken your clothes.
Or strike a violent pose.
Maybe they'll leave you alone but not me.
The boys and girls in the clique.
The awful names that they stick.
Yer never gonna fit in much, kid.
But if you're troubled and hurt.
What you got under your shirt.
Will make them pay for the things that they did.
They said all, Teenagers scare
the living shit out of me.
They could care less
as long as someone'll bleed.
So darken your clothes.
Or strike a violent pose.
Maybe they'll leave you alone but not me
All together now!
Teenagers scare
the living shit out of me.
They could care less
as long as someone'll bleed.
So darken your clothes.
Or strike a violent pose.
Maybe they'll leave you alone but not me
Teenagers scare
the living shit out of me.
They could care less
as long as someone'll bleed.
So darken your clothes.
Or strike a violent pose.
Maybe they'll leave you alone but not me
"Did you like it?" Roxy asked.
Ponyboy spoke up. "Reminds me of Dally a little."
"Kinda," Jess agreed.
"A little scary. You don't happen to have anything a little less, uh, hard core?" Soda asked.
"Sure, it's a song I wrote about my ex. Jess, Chris and I kinda started a band. Carrie joined. We do a lot of different types of music. Country, pop, rock, punk, techno, all sorts of stuff. Anyway. Should I play it, Jess?"
"Go ahead," Jess said. So Roxy skipped the CD to one that had only one track on it.
I can see there's something in your eyes
You just took a fall from paradise
Saw the lipstick on your neck
Maybe you should just confess
Oh oh oh oh oh
I don't wanna lose my head today
But I know there's something in the way
Maybe I made a big mistake last night
when I left you alone with Chelsea
Chelsea's the kind of girl that's cold as ice
Beautiful with nails filed sharp as knives
She called me while you were kissing
so I could hear what I was missing
Oh oh oh oh oh
I don't wanna lose my head today
But I know there's something in the way
Maybe I made a big mistake last night
when I left you alone with Chelsea
When I left you alone with Chelsea
You're just a typical guy and you're typically blind
You can see I'm out of here and that I said goodbye
I don't wanna lose my head today
But I know there's something in the way
Maybe I made a big mistake last night
when I left you alone with Chelsea
When I left you alone with Chelsea
"Chelsea is, of course, my ex's current girlfriend."
"I liked it," Soda said.
"Thanks. Dan seemed to like it too."
"Oh really?" Soda asked.
"Yeah, came begging for me to take him back."
"Why didn't you?" Soda asked.
"Cause he was still gonna cheat on me and use me. I know him. He's actually cheating on Chelsea right now. Not like I'd tell her. I aviod her when possible."
"So I guess you can't change a cheater?" Soda asked.
"Probably not," Roxy said. "Hey Soda, Pony, what do you think of going shopping? Not like girly shopping, but, to put it bluntly, y'all need more modern clothes."
"I don't have a problem with shopping," Ponyboy said. "Do you Soda?"
"Well I'd hate to see you girls pay for everything, Roxy."
"Soda, I'm just going to put it bluntly. My parents are rich. They gave me seven different credit cards each with at least a $1000 limit. I think I can aford to take you guys shopping," Roxy said.
"Well it's just I don't really like it when the girl has to pay for the guy's stuff."
"I don't mind, Soda. Really. Actually I'd love to pay for you guys' stuff."
"Really?" Soda asked skeptically.
"Yeah. Not many people can actually say they bought the guys from the Outsiders stuff."
"If you're sure," Soda started.
"I am," Roxy assured him. "Well we're here. You stay in the car. It's bad enough that I'm in a pretty well locally known band... but now with you two dressed lke you're from the sixties, I'd better do this myself. Jess stay in here and talk to them."
Roxy left the car and left Jess alone with Soda and Ponyboy.
"So," Ponyboy started casually, "What do snogging and fleuretting mean?"
"Let's just put it this way; Chris wants to snog Johnny, and right now Carrie is probably fleuretting with Two-Bit."
"Okaaay," Ponyboy said, probably understanding more than he was willing to let on.
Soda however understoood it all and showed it. "Woah... hold on! You mean Johnny and Chris might be kissing, like making out?"
"I dunno... Chris definately likes him a lot. Her room is covered in posters of him, but I dunno if she would come on that strong."
"So what about New York tomorrow?" Ponyboy asked.
"It's gonna be fun. We're going to see if the band can get a record deal. Then we're going to go shopping on 5th Avenue. After that, we're gonna do the basic stuff we usually do."
"What's that?" Ponyboy asked.
"You'll find out."
Ponyboy couldn't press Jess any further, as Roxy was coming.
"So I got all the dye. Let's go home."
"Alright," Soda said.
When they got home, Chris and Johnny were just pulling into the driveway. Roxy, Soda, Jess, and Ponyboy got out of the car.
"Hey Roxy!" Chris called as she parked her car.
"Hey Chris," Roxy said. Chris and Johnny got out of the car and caught up with them.
"Uh, Rox, I just thought of something."
"What's that, Jess?"
"We left Carrie and Two-Bit alone with Amanda and Dally, who are probably in her room. So basically we left a couple of idiots alone in a house with a lot of expensive stuff."
"Oh shit. And Amanda and Dally are probably worse, if they're not in Amanda's room."
"Lemme open the door," Chris said. Roxy let her and they found Two-Bit and Carrie laughing while watching Mickey Mouse on the 42" TV.
"Hey Carrie, where are Amanda and Dally?" Roxy asked.
"In Amanda's room, why?"
"YOU LEFT THEM ALONE?!?!" both Roxy and Soda yelled at the same time.
"We shouldn't have done that, huh?" Carrie asked.
"Ya think?" Chris asked. She and Roxy stormed upstairs to Amanda's room, Soda and Jess following.
Chris knocked on the door.
"Hold on!" Amanda called.
"Guess it was Dally's business," Jess muttered under her breath. Chris elbowed her and Soda and Roxy both had to stifle laughter.
A few minutes later, Amanda opened the door.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"No need to be so snappish. We're going to go shopping in New York tomorrow.. long story short, you and Dally need to come."
"Alright."
"Oh, and we need to figure out where they're sleeping tonight," Roxy added.
"No prob, Dal can sleep in my room."
"Uh, no. Dally can sleep on the couch in the family room," Roxy said.
"Not downstairs!" Amanda said.
"The living room's downstairs, the family room is upstairs."
"Why can't he sleep in my room?" Amanda pleaded.
"Three good reasons. One, you don't have an extra bed, couch, or chair. Two, He can't sleep in your bed with you or on the floor. Three, I don't tust you two alone together."
"Alright. Well is Soda sleeping in your room?" Amanda asked.
"If he wants to. I have a spare pull-out couch."
"And where are Ponyboy, Two-Bit and Johnny going to sleep?" Amanda asked.
"Two of them will sleep in Jess's room, 'cause she has bunkbeds and a twin bed. And the other one will sleep in the spare bed in Chris's room."
"Alright. Well just don't put Carrie and Two-Bit together. I went downstairs to get Pepsi's for me and Dal, and they were making out on the couch."
"Thanks for the mental image, Amanda," Roxy said. Amanda laughed.
"Anytime. Come on, Dal. We should get dinner, huh, Roxy?"
"Yeah. And Carrie and Chris and me gotta dye and bleach our hair."
"Well let's get goin!" Amanda said, as she raced down the stairs, Dally following.
"It really must've been Dally's business, huh?" Jess asked. Soda and Roxy burst out laughing, and Chris walked away at their stupidity. Jess followed her.
"Prolly so they can see Ponyboy and Johnny," Roxy said. Soda agreed.
"Well let's go downstairs so they don't think we're making out or anything," Soda said.
"Yeah," Roxy said, and they went downstairs and into the kitchen.
Two-Bit was in the fridge, muttering, "Damnit, why don't they have any beer?"
"We're underage, Two-Bit," Roxy said, shaking her head at his stupidity.
"Well at least I don't have a shrine to Soda in my room," Two-Bit said.
"I don't have a shrine to Soda in my room, you idiot. Hey, didn't I say I was gonna kick your ass if you said that agian?" Roxy said. She tackled Two-Bit and twisted his arm behind his back, trying to break it. Soda and Carrie were laughing their heads off. So were Amanda, Dally, Ponyboy, and Jess. The only two that weren't laughing were Johnny, Chris, and Two-Bit.
"Alright! You win!" Two-Bit said.
"'Bout time!" Roxy said as she got up and dusted herself off. She didn't seem phased in the least.
"Damn!" Two-Bit said. "I didn't know a girl could fight like that."
"Try groing up in the same house with four boys," Roxy said.
"You have brothers?"
"No, cousins. Alex is the youngest. A year younger than me. He's the only one that never tried to tackle me. But Brendon, Tyler, and Jason all did. And I actually won."
"Not surprised. What did you break their arms too?"
"You arm isn't broken, Two-Bit," Roxy said.
"Well it hurts."
"That doesn't mean it's broken. Hey Chris, Carrie, wanna dye your hair yet?"
"I don't wanna dye my hair anymore," Carrie said.
"I do, want me to dye yours, Roxyroll?" Chris asked
"I'll do my own," Roxy said.
"Well let's get started."
Author's Note: I don't own the songs Chelsea or Teenagers. Chelsea belongs to STEFY and Teenagers belongs to My Chemical Romance. And with the Pajamas, I'm not even sure they make blue Happy Bunny 'cute but psycho' pajamas, but in here they do.
Pippa
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