As much as I would like to, i don't own The Outsiders. I do own any characters that aren't familiar to the regular story.

Chapter 9

Halley's POV

From that point on, we stayed separate from one another so we wouldn't almost lose control again. I didn't trust myself alone with him.

We watched Mickey Mouse with Two-Bit for a little while, him sitting in the arm chair and me on the couch on the other side of the room. We would occasionally stare at one another but we wouldn't go anywhere near each other. Even when Two-Bit left we stayed apart.

Soda got off work around 4:00, so when 3:00 came around I was getting ready to leave.

"I gotta go meet Soda," I told Dallas, "but you can hang out here if you want."

"Yeah, sure," he said.

"I'm planning on telling Soda what happened between us. So we'll probably end up breaking up."

"Yeah, sure babe. Good for you."

"Well I don't have to tell him and you and me can become friends and never kiss, touch, or make out or any other stuff I was planning on doing with you," I said with a smile on my face because I knew he'd care.

"Tell him," he said, immediately rising from the chair and coming over to me. He wrapped his arms around my waist. "I can't go on around here if I don't have you," he said and kissed me.

I pulled away. "No more until I tell Soda," I said. He went to say something but I put my hand over his mouth. "I'll see you tonight if all goes as planned."

I said goodbye and walked out the door and headed in the direction of the DX.

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Soda's POV

Around 3:45, I saw Halley coming down the street towards the DX. I looked over at Steve, who was fixing a car. "I'll be right back," I said smiling and ran down the sidewalk towards her.

When I reached her, I lifted her in my arms and kissed her. She didn't really kiss me back.

"Well that's some greeting Soda," she said.

"You seem distracted. Is something wrong?"

"Yeah. We need to talk," she said to me, looking at the sidewalk rather than me. I didn't really wanna know what we needed to talk about.

"Sure. Let's go inside the DX's office. We can talk quietly in there."

We walked inside the office and sat down in the chairs in front of the desk.

"Okay Halley. What do we need to talk about?" I was surprised my voice didn't come out shaky. I have to admit, I was pretty nervous.

"It's about me and this other guy, so I guess it affects you," she said this and I hated all the thoughts that were going on in my mind.

"Well, I met him yesterday. He came by my house looking for someone, but he had the wrong house. Well we started talking and I invited him to Buck's party because I thought the person he was looking for would be there. Well he wasn't. So anyway, this guy and I danced and we kissed."

"Halley, you can't be ser-," I was cut off.

"Soda, please don't say anything until I finish. So I pulled away because I thought about you, and I went to talk to Two-Bit. So anyways, he came over to me and asked me to dance again. So I did and he kissed me and I kissed him back." She had tears in her eyes by this time.

"Well, I then took him outside around the back of Buck's house and we made out. Then he walked me home and kissed me goodnight. So this morning after you left for work, we made out again on the couch, until Two-Bit walked in and caught us. We went upstairs to my room, where he waited for me to get out of the shower. And we ended up making out again on my bed. So after that we stayed separated and I ended up here."

I was in shock and she was crying by the time she had finished telling me what happened. I just couldn't believe it.

"Who….who was this guy?" I asked, "Do I know him?"

"Yes, you know him. He's actually one of your friends."

I put the pieces together and figured out who it was. "It's Dallas, isn't it?"

She shook her head yes. "God damn it Halley. How could you?"

"I don't know. I saw him and instantly found him attractive. Then we started talking and I started liking him. And I lost control."

"Yeah, I see that," I said frustrated. How could Dally do that if he knew she was my girl? I'm gonna kill him next time I see him. "Well what do we do now?"

"I…I think we should break up." She must have saw the hurt look on my face because she continued. "I really care about you. It's just…I really like Dallas. We really hit it off. I'm so, so sorry."

"Yeah, whatever," I said and went back to work. A few minutes later I saw her leave, crying, and head in the direction of her house.