WARNING! There are parts of this chapter that showed a previous case of depression and being suicidal… if anyone has trouble with this, skip over Evie's point of view and feel free to contact me to talk or just ask someone for help.
I am not making fun of those types of situations, I struggled with it last year and I know how it feels, so no one say I'm making fun of people who are depressed.
Two weeks later, the redhead was released from the hospital.
The girl with dark black hair, who had been identified as Evie, drove through the moderately crowded streets of Tulsa. It wasn't as crowded as New York, but it wasn't some town in the middle of nowhere that people stumbled on when they were on a road trip and would get lost. It wasn't a big name city either though, at least that's what Cherry thought from what she saw.
Evie pulled up to a house on the East Side of town. The house wasn't big, but wasn't small either. To Cherry, it looked average size. It had a cozy look to it, at least it did on the outside. Cherry discovered that the cozy look on the outside matched the inside of the house- which made the house seem even more cozy than any house she could remember while passing through town.
"Esther? You home?" Evie called through the house as the two girls walked in. Her answer was a faint "yes" coming from up the stairs on the second floor.
"Who's Esther?" Cherry asked Evie with a quiet tone.
"She's my little sister," Evie answered with an annoyed sigh, "I'll make her stay away from you if you want me too." The redhead shrugged and continued to follow Evie through the house up the stairs.
-/-/-
"You ain't gonna believe this," the second oldest of the gang said, "But I managed to get both Kathy and Lily to go along with this."
"I can't believe I got Ponyboy along with it," Sodapop said.
"As long as either Lily or Ponyboy was in on it, they'd be able to convince the other." The taller of the two shrugged and laughed, but all Sodapop let out was a small chuckle and weak smile formed on his face.
While Two-Bit went on about one of his usual out-of-the-ordinary stories, Sodapop couldn't help but think of what he was doing… or even what he could possibly be getting himself into. If his plan backfired, so much could go wrong. A few people could even get their feelings hurt. There were so many things that could go wrong with this plan that, even when everything had become like normal, everything could come back and bite them all in the behind. What was I thinking? Sodapop thought and held back a groan, suddenly regretting his decision about this stupid plan.
He tried to get rid of all negative thoughts about the whole situation, which took a good ten minutes. Even after they were gone after those ten minutes, a thought would pop into his head for a minute or so and would interrupt whatever his current train of thought was. It's too late, he thought, no turning back on this damn plan.
-/-/-
Evie couldn't help but feel bad for the girl with red hair that Sodapop, her boyfriend's best friend, had a crush on. Before her amnesia, she had obviously been depressed, and even a bit suicidal. She had obviously tried to jump out of a window- that's what got her in this case- and Evie had seen faint scratch like marks lining the majority of her wrists.
Maybe Socs lives aren't so hot after all, Evie thought.
Everything she knew about Sherri 'Cherry" Valance came into her head. From what they all knew, she had been kinda depressed about the death of her boyfriend a little over a year earlier. Not long after, her parents had left tow with all their belongings, but without saying a word to Cherry or anyone else of their location. That's when she had gone to go live with her best friend Marcia. But Marcia couldn't even stay cause her family had to leave town for the entire summer for family affairs.
Cherry had no one.
Evie then decided: she wouldn't just do this for Soda. She'd do it for the Soc who now had a life, not very different from most Greasers.
-/-/-
"This is your bed," Evei said abruptly, like she had previously been focused on something else.
Cherry nodded and walked to where the girl with jet-black hair signaled. From what Cherry was told in the last two weeks, she didn't know Evie too well. That's part of the reason she was staying with her. Cherry's parents were outta town on business, so Soda and Steve thought it would be a good idea- considering they were best friends- for Cherry to stay with Evie so they could get to know each other better. Evie had struck Cheryy just as she had been described: loud, in your face, lacking the ability to be subtle. But once you got past all that, she was a good person.
"I know it's not big," Evie shrugged, "But it's all we could really afford to get for now."
There was no sound of looking for pity in Evie's tone, more like generosity, but Cherry couldn't help but feel bad- but she wasn't entirely sure why she felt so terrible about it. Like there was more there that she couldn't figure out. "This is fine, really," she smiled.
Evei smiled back and took Cherry's small bag of personal items. "I cleared some space for your stuff. And for clothes, mine is yours. We're about the same size so feel free to use anything from the closet- just no underwear or bras." Evie teased with a laugh.
Cherry gave a small smile. "You sure it's alright?" Cherry then sent Evie a look that showed slight guilt. Evie nodded and gave a slight smile at the other girl.
-/-/-
While Cherry unpacked her small bag, Evie went on a search for her younger sister- Esther- through the small house.
Esther was the spitting image of her older sister- at least by appearance. Personality wise, that was another story. Evie was loud and outgoing, in your face, and didn't know how to sugarcoat things. Esther on the other hand was shy, quiet and kept somewhat to herself. When you got to know her though, she would open up a bit more, but if you were really close with her, she showed some slight signs of her older sister. But to Evie, Esther was the obnoxious fifteen-year-old brat whose room was right next door to hers.
"Esther? Where are you?" Evie called, knowing her sister was home.
No answer.
"Esther?! Where the hell are you, ya little brat?!"
Evie turned at the sound of footsteps on the staircase. "Who're you calling a brat?" Esther yelled at her older sister.
"You… and I just wanted to know where you were."
"Who was that girl with you?"
"A friend… and stay away from her or I'll kick you in the ass, got it?" Evei growled at her younger sister. Before she got an answer from Esther, the younger girl was already stomping back up the stairs and she heard the bedroom door close.
Right when Evie was abot to go back upstairs to her own room where Cherry was, Cherry came down the stairs and stopped on the third to last step on the staircase. "Hey, um," Cherry rubbed the back of her neck nervously, "I need you to ask you a slight favor."
Evie nodded in response. "Sure, what's goin' on?"
"Ok… so, me and Sodapop made plans for tonight. And I was wondering if you could help me get ready?"
Evie smiled and nodded. "I'd love to." The girl with hair as dark and black as a raven ran to the stairs and lead the girl with her the same color as Lucille Ball back to the now shared room to look through the closet and through every article of clothing in their disposal.
Ok, so you probably saw my note at the beginning so I'm not gonna explain that.
As you probably noticed, this chapter was in third person point of view. What that means is that it's not the character saying what's happening, it's a different source that is omnipresent and knows what's going on with each of the characters. I've recently started to experiment with that type of writing and will be for the majority of this story cause it's easier for stories with more than one main character- so it will also be for "Cherry Flavored Soda" and for "The Nighthawks" (but I doubt anyone of you reading this is reading my expendables fan fic)
Also, sorry for the long wait! Like I said, third person is easier so I may be updating more often, but also school is almost over so I've been trying to catch up with a few things with that so yeah.
Anyway- peace from all the hippies of the world! =^-^=