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"Evie, wake up!" I moaned softly and scrunched my eyes open. After a moment of silence I shut my eyes again, convinced that I woke up on my own accords. The door swinging open seconds later said otherwise.

4 Months Earlier

"Don't make me ask you again! I got work to go to work and ain't gonna waste my time trying to get your lazy ass outta bed and to get you to school!" Without even opening my eyes I knew my mother was already probably half-way out the door by now. She didn't really care if I went to school or not, she liked to pretend she does, that we got a nice family with a real nice daddy and mommy and the sweet little girl, but that's pretty far from it. We ain't close to that at all really, daddy doesn't exist and 'mommy' ain't much of one anyway, even when she is sober. And I ain't close to an angel even compared to some real nasty folks, I'm pretty wild.

I was half-minded to stay in bed until I felt a little tap on my shoulder. Flipping around I came face-to-face with my little brother Sam. He looks a lot like me, dark brown hair, pretty tall, for his age at least. Though he is growing everyday, his hair already looked the part of a greaser, much too long, missing only the grease older guys wore. He's a pretty tough kid, doesn't cry when he falls or gets an itsy-bitsy scratch like most kids his age, probably why I like him so. Last time I saw him cry was when he came running into the house, crying that some tough hood chased him and his friends out of a backyard. Soon enough I learned it was Dallas Winston, and I really couldn't blame him, that boy was one tough hood. Hell he scares me, 'course I ain't ever let on to it.

"Breakfast?" I guessed. A broad smile covered his face and he nodded happily. I gave him a small smile and pushed myself out of bed following him to the kitchen. Searching through the kitchen I made us some eggs, causing us both to be late for school. I was going to do a plain cereal but I couldn't find any milk in the house, and neither Sam nor I could take cereal dry.

I waltzed into first period class a good half hour late, I made sure Sam got to his elementary first and getting ready in the morning isn't a fast thing, doing make-up and getting dressed isn't an easy one-two-step thing, it takes time.

The teacher didn't even look up when I walked in, just told me to come to detention at lunch to make up for the time I missed. I growled at him, he could at least pretend to care about our type, greasers. Socs walk in and they get a long reminder of the importance of school, then are let off just like that.

By the time lunch came I was just itching to get out of class. I was barely three steps out of my class when I felt a strong arm wrap around my waist and pull me towards the wall. I giggled innocently and twirled around to face Steve, my current boyfriend. Ignoring the looks of disgust I kissed him full arm for a minute until I felt him get pulled away from me. I glanced sideways to see Sodapop Curtis grinning ear to ear. "Common Stevie, gotta let 'er breath." he laughed. " So you two down for a movie tonight? I'm bringing Sandy, we can make it a double."

I was never really friends with Sandy until I started dating Steve, now we're best friends. It'd be hard not to be seeing how Steve and Soda are barely ever apart, even for dates, meaning me and Sandy are stuck together basically everyday.

Steve looked at me for approval before turning back to Soda. "Sounds good."

Soda gave one of his famous smiles to me before turning around and jogging off to Two-Bit and another grease I didn't reconize. He was really handsome, but not really my type. Guess I wasn't really his either, I wasn't as beautiful and brilliant as the other girls. I figure Steve wasn't having to much luck having friend like Soda always in the way, so it's kind of like we were meant for each other.

"So babe wanna catch some lunch with me, we can...uhh borrow a car from the shop and head downtown, somewhere real nice. Got my paycheck..." he grinned.

I smiled back, couldn't help it really. Steve was in a good mood and it was good to see. He was angry a lot, with his dad kicking him out and all. Guess he was having a good day, and detention or not I didn't want to wreck it. "Alright sure let's go. Where do you have in mind?"

He grinned devilishly before grabbing my hand and leading me away from the school. "You'll see".

. . .I had a great time with Steve, the diner he brought me to wasn't the nicest, but it was a really cute little place just off the main road. Sure a little run down but it 'gave it character' as he explained. He grabbed us a corner booth and bought me a chocolate shake, my favourite. We talked for a long time, for two hours actually, which caused both of us to miss our last classes.

"So your birthdays coming up," he started casually, eyeing me out the corner of his eye. We were walking to my house from the DX after dropping the car back off.

I grinned sheepishly as he continued. "And I was thinkin', I mean it kind of marks the fifth month we've been datin', so how 'bout we do something special. We could grab my old man ride and go off someplace for the weekend, just me and you." he said grinning and looking at me expectantly for an answer.

We had lond stopped walking by then and bit my lip for a second. A whole weekend with him...alone. The thought of it made me shiver with excitment, but I had to think it through. I would have to make sure Sam would be alright...and of course my mom might not think it was such a swell idea, I mean she isn't much of a mom but she stiill knows better than to run off for a weekend with a boy, but still..."Yes."

He let out a loud woop and shoved his fist in the air and started bouncing around for a couple seconds, making me to burst out in laughter. He sure had too much energy.

After he was done he rushed back to my side and I tried to keep a straight face but couldn't, it was just so damn funny.

We were still laughing like that when the Red Conviar pulled up beside us on the curb. Instantly Steve's face went dead serious as he pushed me far behind him against a wall. "Stay there." he ordered while faving the socs piling out of the car.

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First of all thank-you to everyone who put my story on their alert list. They are awesome. Story alerts make me happy, but reviews make me happier! So now you know who its about, but you'll find out more about what brought Evie to the point of suicide in a short 4 months. . . . .

This is basically the timeline, same time as when The Outsiders took place, but the book never happened. Ponyboy got drowned, Johnny sliced the soc (not stab), which scared them of without causing any deaths.

If your wondering, Sam would be one of the kids Dally, Pony and Johnny chased in the beginning of the book/movie, and if your going by the movie hes the tall dark haired one :)

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