A/N- Thank you to my two reviewers, and thanks for the advice, Retro Soul. Normally I would pay a bit more attention to little things like that, for they annoy me a bit, but I guess I got sort of lazy. I apologize for that, no more lazy author. Promise!

I forgot to give my disclaimer for the entire story: I do not own The Outsiders or any of it's characters.

"Dream!"

"What is it, Noah?"

"You know what."

" I thought I told you, there's no way in hell I'm setting you up with my sister."

My best friend, Noah Reeds, crossed his arms "And why is that? She's pretty good lookin', you know I got a thing for red heads." He said, rolling his dark gray eyes.

"She's my sister. You're my best friend. She looks at you like a little kid. You're practically her kid brother." I explained slowly as if speaking to a child.

"So? I can show her. I'm all man." He smirked slyly as I started gagging. "Now I'm thinkin 'bout not letting you in the car for the ride home today."

"Naw, you wouldn't do that to your best friend." Noah shoved his hands in his pockets, trying to look cool. That's all he ever did lately. Starting high school really changed my good 'ol friend, but I'd never say that to his face.

As we walked down the long corridors of our school, Noah elbowed me "C'mon, at least tell me what she looks for in a man."

"Boy," I corrected him, with an annoyed roll of the eye "and she likes smart guys, bet you can't pull that off." I smirked.

He walked ahead of me. Geez, he used to be able to take a joke. "Dream, I'm serious. She's fiery and cute and would look really great with me, you savvy?"

I couldn't stand the thought of my older sister, Sarah, dating Noah.

I couldn't stand the thought of any of my sisters dating Noah.

He was 14, after all. And Sarah was 16 while Jinx was 13. They were all pretty close to his age.

Just great. Note the sarcasm.

I didn't know where this was coming from, either. Last I checked, all Noah thought girls were good for was cooking and cleaning. Now he had a date every other day.

"Smart guys, eh?" he said out of nowhere. "I can work with that. C'mon man, we're takin' a trip to the library."