Disclaimer: Again, I don't own The Outsiders. S.E Hinton does.

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Soda's POV.

I was briefly caught off guard when I seen Sara's truck parked outside of my house. It was only 9:30 and we didn't have to work until 11. I slowly turned off my the engine of the rusted pick-up and opened the door handle. The door made a small sharp noise as I jumped out, but that always happened. But before I could make it up the first step Sara ran out the door.

"Hey!" She shouted as I walked up a few more steps. Sara had straight light brown hair. It curled at the tips and fell across her back as she ran. She had the most beautiful eyes I've ever seen. Whenever the sun was shining her eyes would too. But she could easily be mistaken for a spoiled brat, who got everything she ever wanted. The kind of person that people whispered about as they walked by. But they were all wrong. Sara couldn't hurt a fly, let alone a person. She'd also do anything for anybody if they asked her too.

I smiled and said, "Hey. What are you doing here so early?" Sara turned around so she could walk in the same direction as I was going in.

"I don't know. Michelle had to go to school too. So I had nothing to do," Sara responded while walking through the door that I had just opened for her.

Michelle was one of Sara's best friends. They knew each other since they were babies and grew up together. I knew Michelle a little bit, but I wasn't really what you'd call her "friend".

"So I'm guessing your going to go to work with me?" I asked while sitting down on the couch and changing the channel on the tv.

"I guess so. If its okay with you I'll just leave my truck here and come back and get it when my shifts over."

I nodded my head and responded, "Thats fine."

After going through all the channels we had I finally realized that there was nothing any good on tv. When I looked at the clock on the wall above the tv I found out that it was already 10:30. I thought that the morning went by pretty quickly for someone who certainly isn't a morning person. If Darry wasn't gone to work early this morning I would of still be asleep.

"So how's everybody? I haven't seen them in ages," Sara finally said.

"Good. Ponyboy started doing better in school and Darry got a raise," I answered while putting my DX shirt on.

"And how are you?"

I let out a small laugh and smiled, "Pretty good. If I wasn't so tired right now I would be a whole lot better."

Sara smiled at me and got up from her chair. But at that moment I felt a sharp pain go through my stomach and cringed. Sara gave me a weird look from where she was standing and asked, "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," I lied.

Sara gave me an unsure look and opened the door in front of her. "Come on, we don't wanna be late."