Ember was now my girlfriend. She was everything I wanted. Steve was joking around that Ember and I were always meant to be and I was stupid enough never to see it. It was nice that Two-bit was dating too. He was going out with the twins' cousin Penny. Though they fought from time to time. Usually it was about useless junk.
Amber and Johnny were close. They're acting like a married couple that had a fight of some sort. They completely avoid each other and only speak to the other when it's necessary.
Darry's been working more and so has Suzy. They don't see each other. It's actually starting to worry the rest of us. We all can tell there's something going on with Darry, but the hard thing will be trying to get it out of him. He doesn't like to talk about his own problems much.
"Soda?" Ember said waving her hand in front of my face. "You're staring of into space again." She smiled at me.
"Sorry." I said sheepishly. "Darry's got me worried."
"Yeah, Suzy's been weird too. It's almost like they had a fight and they won't admit that their wrong."
"That can't be it." Steve joined the conversation. We closed the DX for the night and started to walk home. "Darry's up to something."
"I doubt it. He would've told us."
"He can't tell you everything." Steve argued. "I mean would you like to know what your brother was up to every second of the day."
"Well no, but."
"Soda, just let it go." Ember said holding my hand. "Darry can have his secrets. We all have some of our own."
"Like you?" I said instantly regretting it with the look of hurt on her face.
"Yeah like me." She said with a smile back on her face. We made it to her house she kissed me on the cheek and went inside.
"I think I went a little to far." I said. Steve just nodded.
Ember's POVI sighed as soon as the door shut behind me. Amber was looking at me. "What's wrong?" She asked.
"I think Soda wants to know our past." I said.
"He doesn't need to know."
"I know that."
"Suzy is the only one we want to know."
I nodded. "But maybe we should tell them. So we can get on with our lives. They might find out sooner or later."
"What are you talking about?" Suzy asked she was still in her nurse's uniform.
"Our past. We don't know if we should tell the guys or not." Amber replied as I nodded.
Suzy let out a sigh. "Well, everyone takes news differently. Take Darry for instance. We decided to talk about our pasts on our date a few days ago."
"Is that what happened?" I said.
"Let me finish." Suzy sat down. "I decided to tell Darry everything after he told me about his parents deaths and his entire life so far. I started tell him about the abuse that Johnny and I went through and how I met Tim. I told him about the rumbles I did and everything I went through when I left. He didn't say much after that. Actually, he took me home and we haven't spoken since."
"I have to tell him." I said to Amber. "It's better if he knows now. I'd rather him not find out later and we end up never speaking again." Amber nodded as if she was going to go tell Johnny too.
Suzy's POVI sighed as I got to my bed. I missed Darry a lot. I was ashamed to tell him my past. That had to be the reason why he wasn't talking to me. Maybe, it was that he had always been the golden boy in school, and I the greaser. After all, our first in counter was me showing him up in gym.
FlashbackI hated gym. Us girls usually had to cheer on the boys while they did the sports, or we'd go play some sissy game. I heard the girls I was sitting next to scream as the football came at us.
It landed in my lap. "Toss it here!" Tim shouted knowing what I could do.
"She can't throw it she'll get hurt." None other then Curtis the golden boy of the school said. He jogged towards me to get the ball back.
I took it out of my lap and stood up. "Here Tim! Catch!" I said throwing it all the way to Tim, who was across the field.
End flashbackI wasn't ashamed that I did that. Hell, I fell in love with him long before that. That was one strange day.
Flashback"Johnny? What are you doin'" I asked my little brother. He was running around in a circle around the tree I was sitting under.
"I'm protecting you!"
"From what?"
"Bad boys!" I laughed. I was thirteen and he was ten. I was sporting a bruise from last night's beating. It wasn't as bad as the others were. It was already yellowing.
"I'll be fine. Why don' you head towards the swings?"
"Okay!" He ran over and bumped into someone on his dizzy way.
"Watch where you're going kid!" The boy raised a hand to smack my brother. I went over to him as fast as I could.
"You don't need to hit the kid. It was an accident." I saw Darry's hand on the kids shoulder. I hugged Johnny to me. The boy waked away muttering something. "He okay?"
"I'm fine! Thanks." My brother wiggled out of my grasp and hugged him.
"Thanks." I said looking up at him. No one had ever stuck up for Johnny before. "I think we should go home Johnny."
"Do we have to?"
"We'll take the long way."
"Yeah!" He climbed onto my back. "Onward!"
"I'm not a horse."
"Giddy-up!"
"See ya."
End flashbackI loved that he stood up for Johnny. When he didn't even know him or me. Maybe I shouldn't have told him my past. No one would like a girl like me. I've done a lot of bad things in my life.