The Outsiders Fanfic: The Greaser Girls

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Luella
I saw Dally talking to Lorraine while I was hanging out with the girls. I'm pretty sure they've been talking a lot, but I don't know. She's been on her phone a lot texting him.

Me and Pony are hanging out in the pool talking about random stuff. "How's dance going?" "It's good, we're working on the routine for the recital." "Oh, I didn't know you had a recital. I thought it was just competitions", he said. "No, we have recitals too."

"Well, that'll be fun." "Yeah me and Willa are excited, maybe you and the gang can come to see us perform." "That would be awesome, we would love that." "I'm glad you would. I want to see you do all those tricks." "Yeah, I'm sure you would." "We don't do tricks on track", he laughed. "I know it's just running." "Yeah, that's all we do."

"How do you think Darry and Hazel are getting along?" I looked over to see them talking and laughing. I turned back to Pony. "They seem to be having a good time." "Do you think they like each other?" "Maybe, but they've only just met." "Yeah, have you ever been in a relationship?" I figured that I should tell him about my past relationship because I knew him for a little while and could trust him.

"Yeah, I have. I was with a guy Wayne right before we moved here. He was nice at first, my family liked him. As time went my friends said that he was talking shit behind my back. I didn't believe them so I asked him. He told me he would never do that and I believed him but I still had my suspicions. They kept telling me this and I knew he wouldn't do it. But then after hearing it I decided to break up with him. He didn't take it, he tried contacting me but I blocked him."

I saw Pony with a symphonic look. "Oh my gosh, Luella I'm so sorry. You don't deserve any of that." We got out of the pool, dried off. I sat on one of the chairs trying not to cry in front of him or anyone but I couldn't hold it in. I just started crying softly. Pony came up to me and embraced me. I felt safe in his arms for some reason. Do I like him?, No I can't l like him, I don't have time for relationships. I'm busy with dance and school, plus it'll get in the way.

Meanwhile Hazel was cooking hot dogs on the grill and the girls were out of the pool. Most of the guys were out of the pool. I was sitting in the chair next to a sleeping Lorraine. I didn't want to wake her but I wanted to ask Dally why he brought her out. I got up to let her sleep and hung out with Willa a little til we decided to get changed. "Should we wake her?" Eunice asked, referring to Lorraine. "Probably not."

After we changed we went back outside and saw everyone out of the pool. Hazel put the hotdogs and burgers inside for us to serve ourselves. "Lue go tell everyone dinners ready." I obeyed and went back out to tell everyone. "Guys dinners ready." Everyone started making their way inside and started serving themselves.

We all sat at the patio table together. I sat next to Pony and Dally. I figured I should ask Dally about why he didn't wake Lorraine. Some people were engaged in Hazel's conversation about our lives in Maryland. I didn't want to engage in any of it because I had pretty much already told the gang and the girls about it. She and Darry were talking about what our parents were like.

Talking, mentioning, or thinking about them makes me really emotional. I could tell Hazel didn't want to talk about them, neither did Shiloh. "You don't have to talk about them if you don't want to", Darry spoke up. "I'm not because we get emotional talking about them."

We decided to change the subject. "Hazel, don't you have modeling stories?" "Yes, Shiloh I do have some. When I did modeling in high school, the agency that I was in didn't treat me or the other models very well. "What do you mean?", Dally asked. "They weren't very appropriate with us. They would make us pose inappropriately, take pictures of us doing the poses and hang them on the walls."