"Look who survived!" Two-Bit called as we walked back into the house and I laughed. "She survived playing Soc for a day, she can survive anything," Soda laughed from the table. Him and Steve were playing cards, which seemed to become more usual. Steve sat up and faced me, "Oh, by the way. Evie told me to tell you that she wanted to see that movie Casablanca so we're gonna go with you guys to see it." "Candy might wanna go too, she likes those type of movies," Soda said. I smiled at the two and nodded.

I looked around the house and saw Ponyboy sitting on the couch with a school textbook. Everyone was there except Darry, and I got confused, considering he was always around. "Where's Darry?"

Soda put his hand down, covering the cards so Steve wouldn't cheat. "You're not gonna believe where Darry is!" He smiled like he was gonna bust out laughing.

"Where's Superman at?" Two-Bit asked.

"You ready for it?" He still had that goofy grin on his face.

I rolled my eyes. "Are you gonna tell us or what?"

He put his hands up in defense. "Ok, ok, ok, calm yourself… Darry, is on a date!"

My eyes widened. Steve nodded to confirm his best friend's answer. Two-Bit gave a shocked expression, "He got himself a broad?"

I glared at him a little since I didn't like the term broad. I never did. Maybe cause I was one, but that's not the point. The word just bothered me and it always did and they all knew it. Dallas would use that word when I was around just to piss me off, and trust me- it worked like hell.

He noticed me and put his hands up in defense. The other three held back laughs. "Anyway!... yeah, he did," Soda answered.

"So if he and that girl ever got married, would we call her Super-Woman?" Steve joked.

"Well wouldn't it be Wonder-Woman since she's basically the girl version of Superman?" Two-Bit added.

I rolled my eyes and laughed. "You all have the corniest jokes ever."

Ponyboy got up and walked toward the rest of us. "They wouldn't be them if they didn't," he smiled, proud of his comment. Steve rolled his eyes a bit, Soda laughed at his brother, Two-Bit stuck out his tongue then started to laugh.

Darry came into the house smiling. "So how was it?" Ponyboy asked.

Darry gave a happy sigh as an answer.

"I think Clark Kent found his Lois Lane," Steve teased.

"So what's the girl's name?" Two-Bit asked.

"Marilyn… her mother's a real big fan of Marilyn Monroe she said."

"Where'd ya meet her?" I asked.

"Well… she actually was in my class in high school. We ran into each other in town the other day. I always had a thing for her, and my buddies always said she did too for me, but I never had the guts to go and ask her out."

"I never thought I'd hear a day when my big brother said he didn't have the guts to do something," Soda laughed.

Darry smirked, "There's a lot of things about me you don't know, kiddo." He tried to be serious, but we all busted out laughing at what he had said.

…the next day…

I was happy for Darry. He didn't really get the chance to live like a regular twenty year old. He got to finish high school, but he never got to go to college. He had two jobs. He was legally responsible for three people. That was not the life of someone his age, and I think having someone like that girl he described would help him out a lot.

Maybe Steve was right… maybe Clark Kent did find his Lois Lane.

He had invited Marilyn over to the house for dinner, but while the rest of us would be at the drive-in. Candy and Soda decided that they would come along with the rest of us, but not without a warning saying that they might ditch at some point during the movie and meet up back with the rest of us. Steve and Evie then said the same thing.

…..Friday night…

"Have fun with Marilyn tonight," Sodapop winked to his older brother. Darry shook his head, laughed and waved goodbye as we all walked out. I was smiling, I knew it. But could you blame me? I was seeing my favorite movie with my boyfriend and my best friends, I had a good reason to be smiling right?

"Rain?" someone said and brought me back to reality. "Why are you in such a daze?" Two-Bit gave a confused look.

I chuckled. "Just thinking."

We all went to concessions and got our snacks for the movie. Thankfully, the line wasn't too long and there were still seats open for people who weren't watching from their cars. We all sat the same way like we did for the last movie. We all hoped that Evie and Steve wouldn't start again. I mean, this movie wasn't a movie that would cause a couple to start making out. Sure, the movie's a romance, but not that much of a romance.

…two hours later…

"That was actually really good," Evie said when the credits began to roll.

"Told ya it would be," I smiled.

Soda laughed, "I liked it when that vender tried to sell something to Ilsa and he kept lowering the price cause she knew Rick."

"I think it was cute what Rick did at the end with the passports," Suzie said.

"I knew you guys would like it," I smiled.

Two-Bit nodded. "And you all thought I wouldn't be able to handle it."

"We stand corrected," Ponyboy admitted.

Two-Bit smiled in victory and I held back a laugh.

We kinda just hung out for a while after the movie ended. They all said they liked the movie. I'd be lying though if I said that I wasn't shocked that Ponyboy liked it- he liked Gone with the Wind for crying out loud. That's more serious than Casablanca as far as I knew, plus it was at least three or four hours long, which is twice as much as Casablanca… Suzie liked it as much as Ponyboy. Candy said she liked it too, even Steve, which really surprised me. "He never admits to liking nothin' like this," Evie whispered to me.

We all headed back to the house. "Wait, what if Marilyn is still there with Darry?" Ponyboy asked. We all exchanged looks. "Then we say hi," Soda said, making his girlfriend chuckle. I just shrugged and we continued toward the house. "What if he gets mad that we'd be interrupting his date?" Candy asked.

He shrugged. "He's been pretty laid back, lately. Happier too."

"Probably cause of Marilyn," Steve said with a smirk.

Two-Bit hit him in the back of the head. "There're kids here!" he scolded as Steve glared at him and rubbed the back of his head.

Ponyboy and Suzie gave annoyed looks, knowing it was them he was referring to .

"I'd like to not think that about my big brother, thank you," Soda said to his best friend, obviously grossed out by what he had suggested.

We got inside and saw Darry washing dishes. "Marilyn here?" Ponyboy asked. Darry shook his head and smirked a bit, "Y'all really wanna meet her, don't you?" We all nodded. "Well, lucky for you, she wants to meet you all too," he said looking back to the dishes, "She's coming over for dinner next weekend."

"Looks like we're gonna meet Lois Lane," Steve teased.

Darry shook his head. "No Superman jokes unless you're talking about the show from about ten years ago or the comic."

Sodapop groaned, "But that's no fun!"

Darry rolled his eyes and looked to Evie, Candy and Suzie. "If your parents are ok with it, could you three come too? I know you'll be able to tame these boys better than I will when she comes." It was obvious he was trying to tease them, while asking a serious question at the same time.

"What about Rain?" Candy asked.

"She'd be here even if she wasn't with Two-Bit," he teased again, "She lives here, remember?"

"Oh yeah," Evie realized and I chuckled at her revelation.

"Will there be enough room for all of us?" Ponyboy asked.

Darry shrugged. "We all fit right now, it'll probably be a little cramped, but I think we'll be fine."

"Gonna be an interesting night next week," Steve said.

Ok, I said this in the author's note on watt pad… I gave the rest of them a relationship, and I felt really bad about Darry being all alone like that, I mean I already feel bad for the character in the original book and movie cause like I had Rain explain, he didn't get to live like a regular person his age and then I felt bad that I gave the rest of them good relationships, I explained that to my two friends who i talk to about this story and ask them for their opinion on things and they said that was fair and was ok so there ya go, and out of all my friends, I trust them the most, the fact I told them my phone and my ipod passcodes

By the way, expect to see a crossover type thing going on in the next chapter or the one after that, then another one later on but a small one and not too big cause one of the people in that movie was in the outsiders movie so I couldn't really do much with it but the movie took place around the same time so, then the other crossover I'm gonna include- the movie took place in the late 50s, but my two friends said it worked out real good, plus someone commented on the watt pad version of this that they loved how I included that since they were Greasers in that movie so, yeah… expect that!

Bye! =^-^=