Where The Wild Things Are

House Of Balloons

Ayee, y'all gots a long chapter coming for ya!

'Oh your mind, wants to leave, but you cant go'

Dallas' POV

The first thing I saw when I opened my eyes, was the brightness and adventure, and love in Adrienne's green ones. She was just smiling at me, which lead me to wonder how long she was doing that for. She had her leg over my stomach. She was pretty close to me come to think of it. The clock read 12:32am. It was a Saturday. I could tell because Soda wasn't off to work, neither Steve. Or even Hell. You could hear all of their voices downstairs.
"Hola." Adri said.
"Hey." I replied and sat up. She sat up too. She had a mad case of bed head. Her hair was sticking up in the back. It was adorable. She didn't say anything for a good 2 minutes. But she yawned a few times. And for some reason it made me adore her more. In that moment nobody could describe how much I wanted to kiss her. And call her mine. But i couldn't, yet. A few minutes after that she fully got up and walked out the room. You could smell pancakes, eggs, and bacon from here. She was dressed in an oversized shirt and some shorts you couldn't see. Her hair sticking up in the back was the last thing I saw when she left the room. I wanted to tell her that it was up. But she was too precious. I chuckled a little. And heard her footsteps while she went downstairs. I eventually got up and got out of his bed. I ran down the stairs and already saw Adri sitting on the counter eating with Roxy and Soda sitting on the floor talking and laughing. Steve and Hell on the couch, Steve shoving food in his face and Hell laughing. And Bella and Johnny somewhere. I didn't know where. I walked into the kitchen and Adri smiled. She waved at me but she had the fork in her hand so it just looked as if she waved her fork at me.
"What's up Adri?" I asked.
"The sky." She looked serious. Like she actually meant it. Her eyes got wide and she stared.
I just laughed at her. But she just continued eating. Not phased at all.
"Dally." she then said excitedly.
"Yea?" I replied.
"You wan go do something?" She asked me while swinging her legs and smiling like a child.
"Sure." I said, smiling back at her with a little excitement in my voice I tried not to show. Hell came in the kitchen. She eyed us like she intruded something.
"..What's up guys?" She asked somewhat awkwardly.
"The sky." Adri said, once again, looking very serious. Hell patted Adri's head.
"Nothing really, were just gonna head out and do something I guess."
I said with a shrug and leaned against the fridge.
"Oh alright, where?" Hell asked sounding concerned. Meanwhile Adri was looking off and swinging her legs.
"I dunno, maybe the dingo and I could take her to a drag race or the park?" I replied.
"Be careful, alright. Don't, just don't let her leave ya sight man, okay?" Hell said and left the room. Adri made a face at her like in a mocking way. I watched her leave, I didn't understand why I had to be so careful with her. But it was fine by me I guess. Adri got up and ran upstairs, I guess she was going to change. She came back down a little later, with a beatles tank top, black ripped jeans, with white converse that were covered with different names and designs in red marker. She wore her hair in two french braids. She stood in front of me and looked up at me. Her being short made her so much cuter.
She stood for a second. Then walked past me and outside.
"Remember what I said Dallas." Hell called as I left.
Watching her run to my car felt weird. It was like we had a thing, but we didn't name it. And it was weird and way different from how she treated me earlier on. I guess it was safe to say we were friends. The fall messed her up.

Adrienne's POV

I jumped in the front seat. Things felt right. It was like I forgot about all that happened. And the only reason I'm not acting as to how I probably should be in this circumstance, is because my feelings clogged my conscience and I can't think for myself. I sat kinda just staring out the window. Trying not to think, just to observe. Dally came in a few seconds after.
He got into his car and started the ignition. He pulled the top down, and we were off. He drove fast, I enjoyed it at the time.
"Where we headed?" Dallas asked me.
"Uh, I dunno." I said with a shrug. I sounded childish. Lately I've been acting it too. I've been losing myself completely at times to do something that seems fun but to others dangerous. I guess I wasn't fearing anymore.
"How bout, dairy queen or something?" Dallas asked. He didn' say the "thing" part of something. I liked the way he talked. A lot. Especially when he said my name. I didn't respond, just because I wanted to hear him to say it.
"Adrienne?" He asked.
"Yeee." I turned to him with a grin. He laughed a little.
"I asked if you wanted to go to the Dairy Queen or something." He repeated, still chuckling.
"Suree." I said.
And he pulled off really fast in the direction of it. I started humming to the Elvis that was playing on the radio and trying to play drums to Jail House rock. He looked over and smiled a few times. I kept my focus but melted every time he did. He had a barbecue sandwich and I just had a vanilla ice cream cone. I wasn't to hungry. There looked like a little forest a little away from it. It was taking a lot out of me not to run there. Dally looked and saw I was struggling. "Hm?" Is all he simply said. And stood in front of me. I figured this was his attempted to stop me because he knew I wasn't up to really any good. He towered over me and grimly smirked. I didn't like it really. Even though I thought I liked him.

Dallas' POV

I couldn't pinpoint what I was doing. I liked being able to be over her. But even I was scared of what I was thinking. I stood sort of smirking absentmindedly and she looked a bit uncomfortable. She kinda wiggled seeming like she didn't wanna be there. She escaped and sat in the backseat.
"Can we go do something else now."
She said as a demand more than a question.
"Yea." I replied dryly. For both of us it was awkward now. I wanted her to be mine at that point. I didn't know but I just did. I was tired of waiting.
"Adrienne." I said.
"Yea." She replied.
"Will you be my girl?" I asked, no longer thinking about consequences or anything.
"Yea." She replied, and reached her hand up to the front to grab mine. And we sat in silence as I took her to the drag race. That I really didn't wanna go to. But I couldn't read Adri's eyes. When we got there, it was somewhat crowed. We took seats closer up. Adri stared at all the cars there. While holding my hand. I stared at Adri. I hadn't known she liked cars that much. She tried climbing the fence to go touch them. I had to remind her where we were a few times and bring her back. Then she tried to climb over me. She reminded me of a squirrel. And then I started laughing so hard I fell over, which is something i'd never do. Eventually we settled on standing and her on my back. She messed with my hair often. She said she did it because she could never reach it on a daily basis. It made her happy. Then I felt as if the world was perfect. But I knew it wasn't. The races were fun. There'd been a crash or two. But she enjoyed it. And I decided we should head out. To go back to see the gang. It was a Saturday so of course we were going to do something. We got home and all of the gang was in the living room. Well for the split second we got in. Roxanne was biting Darry, and Darry kept running away. V was rolling on the ground. And Pony was mattress sliding.
Ponyboy flew off his mattress and into a wall and the whole house erupted in laughter. Adrienne slowly slipped off my back from laughing so hard and was on the floor crying. I kept chuckling.
"You good man?" I asked, not really caring but trying to seem. Pony was laughing himself.
"I'm alright, Dal." He laughed and walked off. Eventually things got calmed down. And we all sat in a circle like we was performing a seance or something. Bella suggested we play truth or dare. Okay we all agreed. The gang basically knew we were dating now so this should be interesting. The dares were mainly about the relationships, and truths were about embarrassing things we'd all got caught doing eventually. It was hilarious. Until Roxy gave me a dare for Adri. To kiss her. It's not like I didn't want to. It just wasn't the right time for me. But I went through with it. Just not there. I grabbed Adri's hand and took her to the kitchen.
"We don't have to do it if your not comfortable." I told her,
"I mean it's fi-"
"Shut up." Adri said and kissed me.{corny but people den said they wanted to see it go down sooo}
I kissed her back and then she pulled away. Her lips were soft, and I smiled a little and she walked out the kitchen and sat in her original spot. I sat beside her and then she climbed on my lap. I just wrapped my arms around her waist and we laughed and listened to the rest of the game play out. We finished it all off with a movie and we all drifted off eventually. Steve and Hell left to go to Steve's house again. The nastys. But I was still up. Holding Adri, as her head leaned to the side and she lightly started snoring. I leaned back and she turned over to lay on my chest. We fell asleep on the living room floor. It was the most comfortable sleep. Regardless that that floor is hard. All I had was my baby, that was all I needed. We woke up earlier than everyone else. We talked for a while. About siblings, experiences, exes and stuff good friends would talk about. Not significant others. But it was fine. She sat facing me on my lap. She leaned with her head on my shoulder and while we were talking it was just her talking into my neck. She hummed and made weird noises. I found myself laughing at her a lot for that.

Adrienne's POV

I'd never thought i'd be so close with him. And I never thought i'd be able to resist so many things solely because I'd rather be with him. My thoughts kept reminding me who he was though. How he was a player. And I didn't understand how he could throw someone away so fast. What if he throws me away and I'm not ready yet. He'll get tired of me. I saw it play out in my head. I know how to stop thinking about it.

'This is fun to me'