"Hey dad." I said walking into the house.
"Oh you're back already." He said walking in from the kitchen. "I thought you were going to be there at least a little bit longer."
I shook my head. "No, but one of the guys there said we can come over for dinner tonight." I sat down on the couch.
"Oh, actually I have work tonight. But you can go if you want. I wont be home 'till late tonight so I think it'll be good if you go there. They're really nice people. All of them are about your age." I nodded as I looked down at the dull white colored carpet. "I put your stuff up into your room. It's the up the stairs and the second on the right."
"Alright." I said getting up. "Might as well go unpack then."
For some reason I had a feeling that I wasn't going to see much of my dad at all, ever. I don't know where he works at, or anything.
"Well I better get going." He looked up at the clock. "There's some food in the fridge, and if you need anything go over to the Curtis's."
And with that he left. Without him it made the house seem all too silent, and very uncomfortable. Maybe this was a mistake after all?
I got done unpacking two hours later, and I still had a half an hour before I should go over there. I wasn't planning on it, but in the middle of putting my stuff away I found out that there really wasn't any food in the fridge. So I was starving right now.
I decided to take a shower before I went over to their house, I probably smelled really bad from the sweat. I grabbed a shirt, jeans, and a towel before I walked into the bathroom. I put them on the counter top as I turned on the water and got in. I washed my hair too. When I got out I dressed up and thought of what I was going to do with my hair. My curly mess of hair. I decided to put it in a bun with a few pieces hanging out. I still had fifteen minutes so I put on blue eye shadow and some mascara. I gave myself on final look before I walked out of the bathroom, and it was pretty descent.
It was dark now, and probably colder outside then it was before, so I decided to take a sweater. I left at seven it took me a totally of a minute to get to their house. I wished it was a little longer, especially since I don't know anything about them, even their names. But I took a deep breath and walked into their house.
When I walked in everyone suddenly stopped what they were doing and stared at me. I felt like like I was about to throw up because there was four guys in the room and little old me. The big guy I talked to this morning walked into the living room.
"Oh you did decide to come." He said. "Guys this is Audrey, she lives next door now, Todd's daughter." Suddenly they all seem very welcoming, which made me feel twenty million times better. "Audrey this is Steve and Two-Bit," He said pointing to a guy with black hair-- which was in complicated swirls, and to a guy with a blue Mickey Mouse shirt on. "And these are my brothers Ponyboy and Sodapop." One of them seemed like he was the youngest, he has red-brown hair with bleached tips and green-gray eyes. The other one caught my eye, and I guess caught his too because our eyes locked onto each other for at least a second. He was tall, muscular-- not as muscular as the older one, with dark brown hair, and dancing brown eyes. He was so handsome I could feel my stomach doing back flips when I looked at him.
"Hi." I said to them.
"Well dinner will be ready in a little bit, you can sit down or something, get to know everyone." He told me and I sat down on the couch.
Within seconds I could feel someone sitting next to me. I looked over to see the boy in the Mickey Mouse shirt. He was smiling at me.
"Well aren't you a cute one." He said.
I could feel myself turning red. "Uhm, thank you." I said unsure what to say.
"Two-Bit stop being an idiot. You're probably scaring the poor thing." Sodapop said.
"You know what Soda, I don't like you're attitude." Two-Bit said sarcastically.
"Sure what ever Two-Bit." He smiled. "Just cut it out."
"No that's not fair 'cause once I do you're going to turn on you're dumb charm and win her over."
"Two-Bit you're crazy." He said laughing.
"Yeah, oh well." Two-Bit shrugged.
"Dinner's ready!" The older boy-- who's name I still do not know-- yelled out.
We all walked into the dinning room. "Just sit down anywhere, Audrey." He said.
I sat down in the first seat I saw. And once I sat down, Sodapop sat down next to me. I looked at him and he smiled at me, so I smiled back. Oh my Gosh, I'm going to shirk soon. He's so cute, and his smile is so adorable.
"So you just moved here right?" Steve asked.
"Yeah, earlier today." I said as I reached for the bowl of mashed potatoes, which Soda did too. I quickly flinched my hand away as I touched him. "I'm sorry."
"No, it's alright. Here." He said giving me the bowl and smiling at me.
Ugh, that darn smile is going to make me scream by the end of tonight, I thought.
"Thanks." I said taking it from him and putting some on my plate.
Everyone else was talking and eating. They all seemed like one big happy family.
"So why d'ya move here?" Soda asked me.
"Well my parents got a divorce when I was like five, and they both agreed I'd move in with my dad a few months before I turn eighteen and I'd stay with him until I go out on my own."
"You don't really know your dad do you?"
"No, and I feel like even me being here I wont know anything about him either, because he's always at work and all."
"Yeah, our parents died about two years ago. Sure we knew them and all, but it was hard. Darry suddenly had to play dad and it just was hard."
"Oh, I'm sorry." He shrugged.
"It's okay, I mean I get to play mom and all. It's kind of fun sometimes, unless Pony and Dar are fighting, then it's kinda hard 'cause they expect you to chose a side to be on. But no matter what you do one brother ends up being mad."
"Yeah like you're the rope in a tug-of-war game."
"Exactly. But sometimes they just don't get it."
After a while, we were the only ones at the table. Me and Soda just couldn't stop talking. We talked about everything, our families, the weather, what we like, what we don't like, everything under the sun.
"Hey, you know if you ever get bored you can always come here or down to the DX station. That's where I work. Me and Steve would love it if you came by just to talk. It's usually slow around there, but you'd make it fun." I couldn't help but laugh. He was just so cute.
"Well thanks, and I guess if you really want me to, then I guess I will come by once in a while."
"Yeah of course!"
I had a good feeling about Sodapop. He was cute, funny, smart-- even if he dropped out of school, and he has good intentions. He told me about how he had to drop out to help Darry with the bills, how he fell in love with this girl named Sandy, but she ended up moving to Florida because her parents didn't want her marrying him, and how two of their friends died last year. It made me feel real good that he can trust me with all this stuff. But it made my life seem that much more boring.
But I guess that was all soon going to change.