My Sweet Cherry Pie

Sweet Nothings- Chapter 4

Dally's POV

After we finished watching the sunset on the beach me and Cherry decided to grab a motel room. I got changed in the bathroom after her, then as I came out she was already in bed cuddling a body pillow. "Wow a pillow and not me I'm hurt." I said softly. She yawned and I saw her shiver, just a second before I went over she spoke, "I love you Dally..." She said in her sleep. I smiled a genuine, and bright smile. A girl loved me. Or more accurate someone loved me. I walked towards the bed, pulled open the covers and quickly got under them. As soon as she felt me get into bed she turned and put her arms around my waist, and leaned her head against my chest. I put my arms around her shoulders and kissed her softly on the top of her head. Once the heat of her body and mine combined I feel asleep almost instantly.

It was about 3:00am I heard Cherry talking quietly but I thought nothing of it, probably just one of her friends calling. About 3 minutes later I heard her crying. "Cherry?" "What's wrong baby?" I rubbed her back in a comforting manner. She looked up at me with her tear stained face. "My parents..." "They got in a car crash..." I immediately hugged her. She turned so her legs were around my waist and her head was on my chest. She sobbed for hours, and I never stopped hugging or kissing her.
About three hours later she positioned herself so she was sitting in between my legs and leaning up against my chest, and she fell asleep. "I won't let nobody hurt you, or take you away from me Cherry, we can get through this together." I kissed her head again softly, and then with that, dreams of our future danced in my mind as I fell asleep.
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Cherry's POV

I can't believe it... My parents are dead... Now I have no where to go. I'm an only child so it's not like I have an older sibling or somebody to step in as a parent figure. But nobody could ever replace Mom, and Dad. I sobbed forever into Dallas's shirt, and then I fell asleep from exhaustion.

It was morning. I saw that the window was open, and I felt a light breeze tickle my arms. The air smelled so salty and fresh, like the sea and I loved it. Dally was still sleeping. I tried to get situated, I was getting kind of warm under all of those covers. As soon as I started moving Dally woke up. "Hey baby, how you doin?" He asked me in a real soft voice. "I'll be fine for now, but I have no where to live now, and I'm not 19 yet so I can't take the house as my own." Dally looked at me and said, "Cherry you can move in with me at Ponyboy's house, they tore my old one down, since that dirtbag that some might call my old man decided to stop paying the mortgage." I managed a small smile. "Thanks Dall, you have no idea how much this means to me right now." I said. He kissed me, then I went to go take a shower. After he got ready, we left to go to my house and grab my stuff. Then we headed to Ponyboy's house.

As soon as we arrived Dally asked Ponyboy if it was fine for me to live with Him in the house. "Well I guess so, is that cool with you Darry?" Ponyboy questioned. "Sure that's fine." He said. So Dally helped me bring all of my stuff into our room. As we were unpacking I became curious.

"Hey Dally when's that rumble thing you guys are goin to?" He looked at me like he forgot something. "Oh that's tonight, yeah, yeah that's tonight." He said. "Oh." I replied, then I shut the door and locked it, then pushed him down on the bed an began kissing him passionately. "Cherry." He said between breaths. He pulled back for a minute, "You sure you wanna do this?" I looked at him and said, "Dallas your a fighter, but if you don't come back in one piece I wanna at least have some memories with you." He looked at me to make sure I was positive, but I was ready. He pulled off my shirt, and then my pants, I did the same for him. Well you know what happened...

I was exhausted after we were done. Then he was off to the rumble. I kissed him passionately again. "Stay safe Dall, I love you." He grabbed his jacket. "Love you too, and Cherry I'll be sure to make it back." And with that him and the rest of the gang were gone.