idiots || kenickie murdoch

x - the ride

song recommendation for this chapter : sh-boom by the chords

author's note : hallöchen! sorry for the 2 month longish break between chapters. lthank you for the continued support though! it really does mean the most. alright, enough chitchat, here's chapter 10.

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kenickie sat there, mouth agape, as if he was trying to catch flies. i simply repeated my question. "nickie, why were you so upset that danny tried to kiss me?" he still said nothing so i continued talking. "it's not like we're dating or anything so, why the big fuss, hm?" kenickie finally closed his mouth and instead just watched me with wide eyes.
a moment or two of silence passed between us, until...
"danny, me & doll here are going for a ride."
a ride? to where?
without any time for me to ask questions or for danny to do anything but nod, kenickie grabbed my wrist and led me out the front door.

god i hope those two don't do anything gross in my house, joey'll kill me.

he dragged me out on he door, down the driveway, and into the passenger seat of his car. he immediately hopped into the drivers seat and drove. i tried to ask where we were going but got no response. god this silence is unbearable. i reached over and clicked on the radio. sh-boom by the chords loudly came out of the radio. man i love this song, i mean who doesn't love it? i began singing along with carl feaster.
life could be a dream!
if i could take you up in paradise up above
if you tell me i'm the only one that you love
life could be a dream, sweetheart!
as the song finished, kenickie pulled over into some random parking lot and clicked the radio off.

"you're the only one that i love."

excuse me? did kenickie murdoch just tell me he loved me? but he barely knows me? what the actually fuck is happening??
"kenickie-"
"what? i'm just doing what the song told me to do." he said with the stupidest looking grin i've ever seen on his face. i smacked him on the shoulder as my cheeks flushed red.
"jesus kenickie! you coulda given me a heart attack!"
he laughed. "why? you scared to be loved by me, dollface?" he pulled me real close to him and held my jaw gently in his hands so i couldn't look away. the blush of my face grew but i regained my composure and jerked my face out of his hands. "as if, murdoch."
"oh? so you aren't afraid?"
"ain't nothing to be afraid of."
"really? so i can..."
he turned my face towards him once again and before i knew it, our lips were inches apart. the space decreased more and more and then, there was a pause.
"guess you really aren't scared." he whispered as he closed the little bit of remaining space between us. his lips were soft and i could taste the mint chapstick he used. the kiss was quick, quicker than i wanted, but it was sweet. he pulled away first and simply just looked at me. there was a small pause where neither of us said anything or did anything but look at each other until finally, i cupped his face gently in my hands and kissed him softly. the kiss was longer this time, soft as if both of us were testing the waters. he laced his fingers through my hair deepening the kiss and then....

...and then there was a knock on the window, scaring both of us shitless. we quickly pulled away putting as much space between us as possible, well that was the case until i saw the person who knocked behind kenickie which caused me to pull him over to the passenger side. "hey doll-! what the?" he now saw what i saw.

a beaten up putzie.

tumbling over himself, and me, kenickie got out of the car and rushed over to his injured companion.
"putz! what the hell happened to ya?!"
nickie looked him up and down quickly before gently placing his hand on the others shoulder. "putz? hello?"
putzie gave no reply. he was pale, well he's always pale but, he was sickly pale. his wide eyes fell upon me as i gingerly stepped out of the car to assess the situation. our eyes met and in a fraction of a second, he fell to the ground on his knees, crying. immediately, i bent down to his level. "putzie. putzie, buddy, take a deep breath. tell us what happened-" my sentence was abruptly cut off by the younger male grabbing me and burying his face in my shoulder.
"i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. i tried. i really did. i didnt want it to happen. i promise ya. i really do." a broken sob came out of the bright blonde as i held him close and attempted to soothe him. i shot a quick glance at kenickie who stood idly by doing nothing. emotion aren't his strong suite. well, they're not really mine either but i can't just ditch the poor boy when he's clinging on to me like a lost koala. gently, i stroked putzie's hair like a mother would to their sobbing child.
"putzie, calm down. take a breath. what happened?"
the blonde took a shakey breath and nuzzled his face deeper into my shirt which was now wet with his tears and probably a bit of his blood. after a minute or two, he lifted his head a little, not a whole lot, but just enough so he could speak without being totally muffled.
"they...they took lori and rizz." he began.
"they? who's they?" i immediately questioned.
"the scorpions, leo and all them. i was...well no. jan and i went to frosty's to get milkshakes and while we were there, rizzo and lori came in. everything was fine, we were all just chilling but on the way back to rizz's, leo pulled up beside us. he was doing his usual shit talking but things got ugly. i don't know how they got ugly but they did. i told the girls to run but rizzo's stubborn ass decided to stay and lori refused to leave her which resulted in jan deciding she needed to stay with me too. before i knew it, the pulled a switchblade on rizz and made her and lori get in the car. in a flash, they were off and jan and i sat there not knowing what to do."
his story hung dully in air leaving me and nickie to process it. what is with the scorpions and the t-birds? i get, they're rivals, but this is insane. they aren't even real gangs! just a bunch of teens in leather jackets who race cars in the cement ditch. whatever. i can yell at danny and kenickie about this all i want later. we have more pressing matters right now.
"putzie, where's jan?" i asked softly.
"i sent 'er home. told her to go tell the other pink ladies. i couldn't let 'er see me like this...weak 'n' all...." his voice trailed off towards the end of his sentence. i lightly made a 'tan' noise. "crying doesn't make you weak. just makes you human." he gently nodded feeling reassured in his masculinity.
kenickie coughed loudly catching our attention.
"we should. uh. ya know. patch up putz and go find 'em." he's being brief....is he jealous? again? oh jesus.

putzie got to his feet and helped me to my feet, still slightly leaning on me for support.
"alright. let's head to the den."

the den...?