Hey I think this might be the last chapter but I'm thinking of maybe doing a chapter about Joey and Tara a few years down the line, if anybody would like that please tell me. Also if anyone sees any mistakes in the writing, which I'm sure there are many, please tell me. As usually ladies and gentleman I do not own The Outsiders and The Runaways song Wait For Me. I think this chapter is a bit cheesy but I hope you enjoy it.
Don't wanna leave you again baby
But ya know I have to someday
Don't wanna be alone again baby
But I know we found our own way
We hold ourselves together
It's a bond that can never be broken
I know we'll last forever
But there's something that I just gotta say
Wait for me my lover
Wait for me no other
Stay with me, oh please
Wait for me
Wait for me The Runaways
Tara arrived at Tulsa County Jail out of breath, barely managing to ask the clerk for information on Joey Petri. Only to discover that he was in the mist of realize apparently no charges could be made, as they had all said there was no fight. Hearing laughter coming round the corner and seeing Tim, Dallas and Joey joking together caused Tara's face to become frozen in a mask of confusion.
"Your face will stay like that if your not careful" came Joeys voice and he appeared by her side.
"But..um..what….you" came Tara's coherent reply.
"Lets blow this joint" Dallas cocky voice echoed in the tiny waiting room of the station.
"See you boys later, I have things to do" Joey replied with is hand securely round Tara's, was at once replied with around of catcalls but for once Tara knew Joey's words weren't said in a way to make her feel like a object but rather she came before a night at Bucks.
"Tar, I'm sorry I saw Dallas's and Tim's face and I remembered what they did to you and I flipped but it was bound to happen at some point it's just the way of life."
"I understand but it doesn't have to be the way of life, there's a life without fighting maybe an occasionally heated exchange word but not the fighting we've both seen so no I refuse to have it be a way of life. It's a life choice."
"That's why your you"
"But you joked with them after you know what they did"
"Tim's a hood and so Dallas's but there also good guys to have guarding your back, but with girls they're only influenced by what they've grown up with, anybody on the East Side can fall into that trap." Joey's philosophical points hit Tara hard.
"Well, we better get you cleaned up and put ice on that eye" came the voice of an old Tara, one she had thought she had lost forever, a Tara that thought of the responsible things to do.
Things moved back to old way of life for Tara completing assessments, actually going to school although she no longer was the scared she girl and when some soc made a remark to her, she retorted with a razor sharp comeback so her time living as an East Side stereotype was not a complete waste. Joey took Tara out on dates to the Dingo and the drive-in yet they still sometimes went to Bucks. Ending things with Tim brought Sylvia and Dru back into her life who both now had a certain respect for her, although they still took the mick when she wore a modest length dress, yet they stood by her when Tim would insult after one to many at Bucks or some catty girl made a comment about her being easy.
Tara got her wish when her peers looked trough their yearbooks and stumbled across Tara Summer she would be remembered as the girl that dumped Tim Shepherd but for her that would be the year she met Joey.
A few months after transformation back to the person she was although with a slightly better fashion sense and actual friends, Joey had taken her out to lunch and he was keeping her amused with a tale about Sodapop and his crazy crowd of girls outside the DX, when looking out of the slightly murky windows stained by the grease of years of teenagers draping themselves about the booths, she saw a figure watching her from across the street and upon meeting her eye he smiled. No. Smirked. And nodded his head in acknowledgement and she do raised a hand in silently greeting. As he walked away down the street with that cocky swagger, Tara knew Tim had in his own way apologized and she to in turn had forgiven him. She smiled knowingly and then turned her attention back to Joey and giggled over tale of Soda busting one of his own friends for shoplifting and making him pay for the six-pack of beer, he unsuccessful tried to conceal under his leather jacket.