"You doin' any better?" Cherry asked hopefully.
Evie shrugged a bit. "Yeah, I guess," she answered, "I'm still real scared but whatever. What about you? Remembering anything lately?"
"Yeah, kinda. But there's still a lot missing. It's like I can't remember any good times in my life."
"Well, don't worry. It'll all come back with time."
"Yeah, I hope so… oh, by the way. Did you ever have your hair cut short?"
Evie glanced at her hair- which currently reached near the middle of her back- and shook her head. "Nah, last time I had short hair was when I was twelve years old. Why?"
Cherry shrugged it off. "Just curious, that's all."
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Marcia woke up in the guest room of her mother's cousin's house and felt better than she had when she had first gotten to the house, which had been happening for a little while now.
Ever since Marcia had realized that all that was going happening was most likely happening for a specific reason, she felt a little bit better about the whole situation. Granted, she still did feel bad about the whole thing, but her believing it all happened for a reason was a huge comfort to her, considering that she had no real way of finding out how her friend was actually doing.
She knew it wouldn't be that way when she got back to Tulsa, though.
Marcia got out of the bed and over to the dresser. She changed into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt then slipped on her ked sneakers. She usually didn't wear jeans and a t-shirt back in Tulsa, but in Point Place in Wisconsin, the weather was a bit different. Granted, it was warm this time of year in Point Place, but it wasn't quite as warm as it was in Tulsa, which led to her use of the denim jeans.
After she got dressed, she combed out her short brown hair and left it out, causing it to run against her shoulders with every move she made. She grabbed her toothbrush and toothpaste and ran to the bathroom to brush her teeth before anyone else got there first and prevented her from doing so.
When Marcia finished up in the bathroom, she left the room and went down the stairs, through the living room and to the kitchen. At the moment, four people were currently in the kitchen: her mom, her dad, her cousin Kitty, and Kitty's husband Red. Laurie and Eric were probably still asleep in their rooms. Kitty and her mother were cooking, while Red and her father sat at the round kitchen table discussing the latest wrestling matches. If it were November, they'd be discussing the latest football statistics.
The four adults all greet her with four different variations of "good morning". She smiled and greeted them all back then walked over to where her mother and Kitty were at the counter and the stove. The two women then let Marcia help them as they made breakfast, considering she was an exceptional cook for a girl her age.
"You seem happier than usual this morning," her mother noted.
"Yeah, is there something you'd like to share with us?" Kitty asked in a teasing tone.
Marcia let out a chuckle. "I'm just happy, I guess," she shrugged, "I just woke up and I was happy."
Kitty chuckle. "That's always a nice thing, I can tell you that much."
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"Has Two-Bit been on your back 'bout how to be with his sister since you two are goin' out now?" Johnny asked.
Ponyboy shook his head. "He's been pretty tuff about it," he answered, "I mean, I really like Lily, and it seems like she really like me, too. And I wouldn't do nothin' to hurt her or somethin'."
"It's kinda weird dating Two-Bit's sister, though, ain't it?"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm not wishin' this on you, but what if you two ever break up? It'll be weird with Two-Bit around all the time cause most likely, he'd take her side and it'll mess up your friendship, won't it?"
"Well, it might, I guess."
"But look on the bright side. If you and Lily ever get married, you'll have Two-Bit for a brother-in-law," Johnny joked.
Ponyboy let out a chuckle. "That could be both a good thing and a bad thing," he laughed.
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Lily, Evie and Cherry were all staying the night at Kathy's house. That's how it was nearly every summer: of the three or four of the girls, they would all spend one night a month at one of their houses. It happened for each of them once a month, so it usually happened once a week. Since Cherry had been living with Evie, they all decided that, depending on how they felt, it'd either be one or two nights at Evie's house.
Kathy and Lily had noticed some sort of change in Evie, but the two couldn't quite put their finger on what was different about her. The thing was, they had noticed more than one change in her, so it wasn't easy for the two to actually pinpoint the specific things that had changed about their friend. Another thing was that they couldn't really decide if they should ask her about it or just leave her be.
While the two waited for Evie and Cherry, they tried to get the thought out of their heads as they got ready for the sleepover that would take place at Kathy's house that night.
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Cherry walked out of the corner store in town and started back to the East Side of Tulsa. She had to go to the corner store to pick up a few small things before she and her friend with the jet black hair went to their other friend's house.
Cherry had gone to the corner store alone, considering it wasn't on the main street in the center of town in Tulsa. Along with the fact that it was summer, it was helpful that it was pretty uninhabited during the summer. At least that's what she had noticed in the last month and a half.
As Cherry walked down the street from the store to the house, she noticed a group of boys that were hanging out right outside the record shop. She could tell that they were not from the East Side and that they were from the West Side, which meant that they were Socs. She kept her head down as she walked and did her best to ignore the small group of boys.
As Cherry walked, she could feel three pairs of eyes watching her every move. She still tried to ignore the three, which had been working for a little while.
"Cherry?" one of them said, gaining her attention, "Cherry, is that you?"
She slowly stopped walking and looked at him from a side glance, only moving her head slightly toward him. "Can I help you?" she asked cautiously, being able to see the faces off all three.
"Aren't you Cherry? From the West Side?" the second one asked her.
She shook her head. "I'm from the East Side?"
"You sure?" the third one asked, "Cause you look an awful lot like this girl we heard about who's from the West Side."
"That must be someone else cause like I said, I'm from the West Side." She shook her head and had a weird look on her face. "I mean the East Side. Y'all got my words mixed up now." She did her best to control her tone.
"Alright," the first one said in a confused tone, "I guess we were wrong. See you around, I guess."
Cherry nodded and continued to the East Side. As she continued on, she had a confused look on her face. This was not the second time- at least that she could remember- that someone asked her about the West Side of town. The first time was something that she had remembered, which was Ponyboy asking her if she could see the sunset from the West Side. The second time now being her recent encounter with the three boys.
What really confused Cherry, though, was that she had unconsciously answered that she was from the West Side. She kept telling herself that it was just them confusing her words around, which caused her to mess up, yet she wasn't one hundred percent sure that was right.
"Why do people ask me about the West Side?" Cherry mumbled to herself as she walked.
This chapter took too long to write down in my notebook.
Ok so this story was a request, but it'll probably end up being about half the size of the request. It was requested to be about sixty chapters (I think, if I remember correctly), and I thought I could do like, the first twenty chapters would be the first month of the summer, next twenty for the second month, then ten for the third, then ten more for once Cherry gets her memory back. I'm only at sixteen chapters and they're in the middle of summer so yeah. I apologize but this story is actually really hard.
Anyway, I hope you all like it, and Happy Thanksgiving! =^-^=