~ Thanatophobia ~ Dallas Winston x Reader

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Stephanie's POV||
I walk out of the house while the boys were still speechless. Then I hear the door open. I turn around and see Dally following me. I roll my eyes and keep walking.

"I don't need you to babysit me, ok?" I tell him without making eye contact. He catches up to me and stops me.

"Look, as much as I really don't want to watch you, I kinda have to." He explains. I cross my arms and squint my eyes a little.

"What do you mean you have to? I'm perfectly fine out here by myself. Now run along" I give him a sarcastic little wave and continue to walk.

"Steph are you insane? It's almost dark out and even though you think you can handle yourself, things have changed since you've last been here, ok? So please let me just walk you to wherever you wanna go" he finishes. Dallas has a point. He seemed sincere about the situation too. Maybe he did care about me just a little.

"Alright fine. Let's go to the drive in." I smile a little and he starts walking with me. Dally starts to do a stupid slow strut. (Like what he did in that one scene with pony and Johnny)

"Hey what are you doin'? You look like a douchebag who got a stick shoved up their ass." I push his broad shoulder.

"You don't like it? Chicks really dig it you know." He winks at me.

Dally's POV||
I wink at Stephanie just to get a rise out of her. I'm still trying to figure out her whole deal.

"Steph, this might sound weird, but, tell me something you never told anyone before." I ask her while we continue to walk.

"Well," she starts "A couple years ago, this one teacher named Mr. Clark was super perverted. He would ask girls to stay after class and he would yk. And so one day, he asked me to stay after. I was only 14 at the time and I didn't know what he was planning. He told me how I could get extra credit. He sat me down at a desk and while I was doing the extra credit, he started massaging my shoulders. I told him I felt uncomfortable then he started touching other parts of my body. I tried to defend myself the best I could do I kicked him in the nuts and ran out of the classroom. I told nobody what happened that day. Not even my parents."

She takes a huge breath after explaining her story. I felt bad for her.

"That's terrible Steph. I'm sorry you went through that at such a young age." I rub her shoulder. She gives me a slight smile.

"It's whatever. I'm lucky I learned how to fight the summer before that. Do you know who I learned from?" She asked me.

"No, who?" I questioned her.

"You, dumbass. Remember that summer when we were 13? The first time I saw you again you were in a fight with some soc. When you were done, I asked you how you fought like that. Then you taught me." After she told me that, I could slightly remember what happened.

"No wonder why you're a pretty good fighter. You learned it from the best!" I smirked while she lightly giggled.

Stephanie's POV||

"So Dallas Winston, tell me something you've never told anyone before." I said. Since I told him my story. It's his turn.

"Alright" he says. "You know how you said I've been to the cooler a couple of times?" He asks me. "Yea?"

"Well I've really only been twice since the last time you came here." He continues. "Really? Steve says you've been like 5 times since I've last seen ya." I was questioning a little if he's been more then Steve's told me. I guess not.

"Yea well while they thought I was in jail, I was really out in New York City." He adds.

"Why were you all the way out in the City?" I asked.