"Does this look ok?" cherry asked as she stepped out of the bathroom.

The redhead was wearing a skirt that ended two-thirds of her thigh from the top. The skirt was a shade of dark blue, nearly black- navy blue- with tiny polka dots spread throughout the surface of the material. Her shirt was a short sleeve button up blouse. On the bottom, it had two longer edges so it could be tied in the front at the bottom of where the buttons were. The blouse was red with tiny, faint white polka dots. The blouse wasn't too big or too small, but rather fit her comfortably and helped show the form of her figure- which is part of the reason that Evie chose it for Cherry to wear.

Evie nodded as a huge smile formed on her face, "It looks so great on you! Better that it ever did on me." Evie laughed at her comment.

Cherry smiled and let out a chuckle of her own. "Hey, I have another favor to ask you…"

"Sure, what is it?"

"Do you know anything I could with my hair?"

Evie nodded and smiled. "Of course! Come here."

Cherry followed the girl with jet black hair to the vanity on the other side of the room. It wasn't a huge vanity, but it wasn't small either- it was somewhere in between. It had a few drawers and a table top covered with makeup containers, hair pins, hair products and a few personal objects. Evie gestured for Cherry to sit on the stool in front of it with her hand and Cherry did as she was instructed.

What Evie did was first she brushed Cherry's red hair that, except for its volume and thickness, looked like it could belong to Lucille Ball. She then did two small braids, one on each side of her head and had them meet in the back of her head. Evie then pulled the rest of Cherry's hair into a ponytail, tucking the two edges of the braids into the scrunchy. To finish off the look, Evie took two to three curlers and wrapped the ends of the ponytail around them and when they were off, then ends had a light bounce with every move.

Cherry questioned about the use of makeup, but the answer she got from Evie was a head shake and "You're too pretty for makeup."

-/-/-

"I dunno why I'm so nervous for my date with her," Soda shrugged and let out a sigh.

Two-Bit nodded. "I've never known you to be so nervous 'bout anything involving a broad… well, maybe one thing, but we won't go there."

Soda gave him a look of annoyance and disgust. The oldest Curtis brother swatted the back of the head of the boy with hair the color of rust. "We got kids here," Darry muttered and slightly acknowledged the two youngest in the room.

"I've never been so happy to be called a kid," the youngest Curtis mumbled to his quiet friend, who laughed at the comment and nodded.

Darry sent a quick smile at his youngest brother then turned back to the other two. "Besides, I'd like to think that my brother is still… ya know." His voice was quiet so only the two could hear.

"And to ease your nerves," Soda whispered to his oldest brother, "I still am and plan to be till I'm married."

Darry nodded as Soda made his way to the room he shared with his younger brother. He didn't mind sleeping in the same bed as Ponyboy, but he'd be lying if there wasn't once or twice when he felt like sleeping on his own. But either way, if that's what he had to do to make sure his brother wasn't having any bad dreams, he was happy to do it.

"So you have your date with little miss redhead tonight, huh?" Steve asked, due to his absence during the previous conversation.

Soda nodded. "I feel kinda guilty."

"Guilty? Why?"

"Cause we're all lying to her and it was all my idea."

"We didn't have to go along with it, ya know? We felt we kinda had to."

Soda gave his best friend a confused look. "What're you talkin' about?"

"You'll find out later," Steve shrugged and walked out the room.

-/-/-

Cherry sat on the back porch of the house waiting for Soda to get to the house like he said he would to come pick her up. She wasn't sure what he was planning to do for the date or where they were going but she was both nervous and excited about the date. Sure, they had been dating for a while now- at least that's what everyone told her. She still felt bad that she couldn't remember any of them or her boyfriend- who, even though she didn't remember him previous to her amnesia, she would admit was good looking and had been very kind and sweet to her in the last two weeks.

You'd think I'd remember something from before, Cherry thought. She shook away the thought and stared at the setting sun. She shut her eyes for a moment to enjoy the calm breeze.

"Can you see the sunset real good from the West Side?" an unclear figure with blond hair asked.

"Real good," her own voice said.

"You can see it good from the East Side, too."

Her eyes opened suddenly and a confused expression found its way to her face. Who was the blond figure? The face wasn't clear but the features that she could make out looked really familiar. But the West Side? She didn't know anything or anyone from the West Side of Tulsa- at least she was pretty sure she didn't. But why was someone asking her about the West Side? She was from the Easat Side like Soda and the rest of their friends… right?

"Cherry?" a voice asked from behind her. Cherry turned and saw Evie. "Soda's here for you," Evie said.

Cherry nodded and followed her inside the house. She smiled a bit when she saw the back of the boy with blondish hair standing at the front door. He turned and smiled back at her. He kinda looks like the boy who asked about the sunset, she thought, but they didn't look exactly the same. "You look real nice," he whispered to the redhead, making he cheeks turn pink as they walked out the house.

"Have her home by midnight!" Evie called with a laugh at the two, making the two laugh as well.

I forgot what I was gonna have here in the author's note- oh well. Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Peace from all the hippies of the world! =^-^=