A/N – Nothing to graphic but the kids are gonna hook up tonight…if that's not your thing you might want to skip this one…

I took Katie down by the river

With a six dollar bottle of wine.

Just a fool tryin' to play it cool

Hopin' she'd let me cross the line.

I was prayin' that she couldn't tell,

I'd never been that far before.

The first time's a one time feelin,

And I never wanted nothin' more.

No, I never wanted nothin' more.

The ambulance came and took the boys to the hospital while the rest of us ran back to the house to get my car. Steve drove like a maniac back to the hospital...we had spent way too much time there recently.

Darry and Soda were coming out of the hospital as we ran towards the door.

"Their keeping him overnight for observation" Darry looked so tired, running a hand over his face and through his hair. "It's just a really high fever, and he'll be able to come home tomorrow but the staff has kicked us out. All of us." He looked pointedly at me. "They said we've been here way to much, nothings going to change tonight, and we're to go home and get some sleep."

We all nodded. "My cars here...I'll bring ya'll home."

When we got to the Curtis's house no one was ready to go home. Looking at the clock and seeing it was midnight I resolved myself to either sleeping on the coach tonight or driving home very, very late. We sat in the living room for the next few hours telling stories. Stories about Johnny and Dally, reliving the good times.

"Hey, remember that time that ole Dal was on the school bus with us..."

"Like the one time he came to school?" I asked smiling.

"Ya," Two-Bit grinned back at me. "And the bus driver got off the bus to go get a six pack and Dally stole the damn bus? Drove us all over town before he put that thing off a bridge...I think that was the last time that he went to school come to think of it!" We all laughed. Despite all the bad things that had happened to us, we had some good times together.

"I think it's time for me to get some sleep" Darry finally said "I have to go get the kid in the early afternoon." We all nodded in agreement, it had been a long week and everyone was drop dead tired.

As everyone got up and began getting themselves out of the house Soda came over and took my hand, "Can we talk? Please Ali?"

I nodded, I was tired but this had to end one way or another. I followed Soda into his bedroom, not missing the look we got from Darry but not caring at this point in the week.

We sat down on the bed and looked awkwardly at the floor for a moment. It had never been like this before, never been hard.

"Look Ali..." This was not what I wanted right now, not what I needed. I closed the gap between us, kissing him hard, my hands pressing against his chest.

"Whoa, Ali...I don't think..."

"Soda, it's been a long, bad week. Between Bob, the boys going missing, you, Johnny and now Dally...I feel numb...please, I just want to feel something."

This time Soda kissed me, his hands tangling in my hair, as he used his weight to press me onto my back. His tongue ran along my lower lip, begging entrance, I opened my lips allowing his tongue to tangle with my own, our kiss deepening.

We had been in this position a million times before, but I had never let it go any further, stopping before we got to that point of no return.

I reached out and grabbed the bottom of his shirt, my fingers skimming along the waistband of his pants causing him to gasp lightly. I tugged up on his shirt and he broke the kiss and sat up enough for me to get the shirt over his head before coming back down to capture my lips roughly.

Without breaking the kiss Soda pulled back enough to unbutton my shirt, each button leaving more skin exposed to his lips, his tongue as be began to kiss down the strip of skin left exposed, his mouth leaving a trail that felt like fire.

I pushed up on his shoulder getting him to move back so that I could slip my arms out of my shirt, Soda didn't waste anytime unhooking my bra and throwing it to the side.

I felt him capture my breast in his mouth, sucking lightly, his teeth racking against the sensitive flesh, my back arching in response. He continued his attentions on my neck and chest as I fumbled with his belt, pushing his pants down to his ankles so he could kick them off.

Soda sat up, undoing my jeans and sliding them down my legs and onto the floor. I could feel his hardness against my leg, my own excitement evident in the slickness between my legs, only a few thin pieces of cotton separating us now.

Soda kicked his own boxers to the floor, sliding my underwear off and tossing them to the side, sitting back on his haunches and looking at me for a moment, a dopy expression on his face.

"What?" I asked, a little uncomfortable.

"Your just so amazing." He said coming back down to kiss me, his arms wrapped around my back pulling me close...

A/N – The song is Never Wanted Nothing More by Kenny Chesney. I know its on the short side…but its my first attempt at anything smutty and…well…a girl gets nervous with this sort of thing!

Unrelated side notes? The part with the bus? Real life. My father was a bit of a hellion until moms tamed him.

Also…after a long conversation about fighting with my "sons" today (students who aren't even 10 years younger then myself), I think I'm living in the outsiders. The answers they gave to why they fight seemed to be right out of the mouths of Two Bit and Steve…