Stupidity- The Outsiders/ Dallas Winston

𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒆𝒏

I place the finished dishes in the sink washing the plates and stacking them on the side, I feel two arms wrapped my waist while their head lays on the crook of my neck I turn over my shoulder to look, it was Sodapop.

" what's up with you?" I chuckle washing the dishes

" Just tired." Soda mumbles on the crook of my neck

" Hey I wanted to ask you something-" he removes himself from my neck and detaching himself from my waist before leaning on the counter so I could look at him.

"Hm? what is it?" I look at him dropping the plate on the sink

" Did I do something? After what happened you didn't say anything the whole day, if that's what bothering you I don't want it to affect us and our friendship" He says in quiet tone
"What? no, no. " I say reassuring him "it's just... Im exhausted from school. "

I avoid eye contact focusing on the cleaned plate I keep scrubbing on.

" Yeah? It's Just-" He gets cut off by the loud ringing of the house phone, Soda sighs leaning on the counter looking up at the ceiling.

"Hold on, I'll answer it. " Dallas walks into the kitchen looking at Soda pop then walking toward the refrigerator grabbing a bottle of beer, he offers soda one, he politely rejects his offer, Dallas and Soda look at me waiting for a response.

---- on the phone

" Hey Y/N, How you been? " Paul chuckles through the phone

"Hey Paul! I'm good, just cleaning." I respond dryly wrapping my fingers around the phone cord.

" I figured you forgot to call me back, I just wanted to check up on you. " he says through a slow sleepy tone.

" yeah, sorry my mind was all over the place. " I look over my shoulder to see if Dallas and Soda pop were talking, Dallas was just there standing hearing into my conversation, Soda must've left when I was talking to Paul.

" Hey you available tomorrow, I was thinking of going to the dingo and eat something while at it? "

I giggle "On a school night? "I ask a smile growing

"Its alright, we're not gonna be out for long. "Paul says chuckling on the other line

I smile hardly against the phone, twirling my hair around my pointer finger "what time?" I giggle onto the phone.

"8pm sounds good with you? I can come by to pick you up" Paul says in a croacky voice

" Mhm, I'll be ready by then."
I move the phone away from me cringing at my response since I never talk like this around guys.

" alright, goodnight Y/N." I could feel the tension through the phone of him smiling

" Goodnight Paul, I'll see you tomorrow."
I run to the couch screaming through the pillow, this was the first date with Paul, as friends of course and this was the first time a genuine nice guy asked me out.

I walk to the room where soda had already fallen asleep, I slept on Ponyboy's bed since Johnny and Ponyboy had went with Dallas to Buck Merrill's

I lay next to Sodapop trying to fall asleep but i couldn't i turned facing Sodapop and just stared and admired how he looked sleeping so peacefully the blueish-white hue of moonlight shine in his face and how a few strands of his hair fall across his face I brushed my fingers through his hair before than turning my back towards him I felt his hand run against my back than traveling to my waist as he pulled me closer to him as I fell asleep in his arms

The Next morning

i felt like I was getting a suspiciously good amount of sleep
I quickly shot up from bed looking at the time startling Sodapop who lays next to me "What? What happend?" he said sitting up I turned looking at him staring at his bare chest "oh nothing, go back to sleep." I say getting up as he just looked at me with a suspicious look drawn across his face I grabbed my towel and made my way to the shower

As I shower I thought to myself about Soda, Dallas and Paul, Just as I was focusing on one guy another just comes into my life And I start questioning who I want again.

I walk out the shower after 15 minutes pass by, I choose out some clothes out of my drawer that darry had let me put my clothes in and pulled out a red skirt with a white button as I walked out the bedroom everyone just stared blankly at me looking me up and down "what?" They all returned to what they were doing as darry cleared his throat "where you headed to" darry said in a firm tone
"school, where else?" I said rolling my eyes "your not going dressed like that"
Darry said his words getting louder "I'm not wearing jeans it's to hot outside and i could really use a tan" I said crossing my arms "Plus I'm meeting with a friend after school "
" you are not going to school like that, and your coming straight here after school."
" I have a project. "

Dallas study's my outfit than looks at Darry while eating his dry cereal crunching on them loudly.

" Darry, Please it's just a outfit, I don't see what's wrong with it. "
I look at Soda who just walked in the kitchen, whom was also studying me " Soda please. " I look at him then pointing with my eyes towards Darry.

" Look Y/N It just shows-" I cut soda off by walking out and slamming the door.

On my way to school Cherry wasn't waiting for me, it's either cause I took to long or she's getting dropped off by some dude she was talking to.

At school, time crawled so slowly it seemed to be moving backwards or something it felt like seconds were stretching into hours, As I headed to lunch I got some stares cause of my skirt, Maybe Darry was right I dropped my bag off at the table before heading to the line 

As I filled my tray with sloppy scoops of school food, I  felt a arm wrap around my shoulder I turned to see who it was

It was Dallas.