Meet me under the stars (The Outsiders fanfic)

Mine

"He became my tomorrow."

I stood in the bathroom looking in the mirror. My brown eyes now rimmed with red. I splashed cool water onto my face and dried it. Dallas was crouched next to the couch talking to Johnny.
"Milk Duds?"
"Yeah, they're my favorite."
"Okay I'll get em. Kaya'll stay with you, I'll be quick." I stood behind the wall blocking the rooms from the living room. As I stepped out I saw Dal ruffle his hair and turn around. "Will you stay with him? I gotta get some pain meds." 
"Sure." His eyes scanned me and met mine.
"Okay I'll be back." He left without another word. I started to walk to the kitchen when Johnny said "Kaya?"
"Yeah?" It pained me to see him like this. He was my best friend by now.
"Tell me a story." I thought for a moment. I wanted to make him happy so I told him this:
"Remember when I hurt my foot?"
"Yeah. I didn't like seeing you hurt." He responded, looking me in the eye. I forced a small smile, it was all I could manage.
"Wanna know the truth of how it happened. I told everyone else it was something different."
"Sure."
"I was at a lake with Dal. We had taken our clothes off but not all of it, and put it out to dry on a fence. When I said I wanted to go home dumb ol' Dally ran. He grabbed my clothes and made me chase him. So I was running almost naked in the streets of my new town, with a well known rebel, who was also almost naked. Good thing it was dark out, let me tell ya. Well I'm a pretty fast runner but Dally was faster. And while I was chasing him, I stepped on a broken beer bottle. I got covered in blood immediately. I pulled in out while Dal watched in horror. The look on his face was hilarious Johnny." He was already laughing, which made me laugh.
"You were almost naked. Chasing Dally for your clothes." He giggled.
"Yep." I giggled too.
"That's hilarious." He cringed at the pain of laughing but didn't stop.
"He really is stupid some times." Dal walked in just I said it. Johnny still giggling beside me.
"Who's stupid sometimes?" He held the pain meds in his hands. I stood up and grabbed them, leaning against him.
"Nobody Dal." I looked back at Johnny and winked. Dal kissed me passionately then looked up at Johnny. "Give the boy his Milk Duds Dal." I returned with a water and gave Johnny the Pain meds. Johnny slowly ate the Milk Duds one by one.
"Are y'all finally going steady?" He asked.
"What do you mean finally?" I looked at him and then Dally. " I've only been here for 2 weeks." Dally looked at Johnny with a look that said "Don't. Do. It." Johnny smiled and went red.
"Two and a half actually." Johnny corrected.
I smiled and grabbed a water from the fridge. Handing it to Johnny I sat beside him again. "Listen Johnny, you can't tell anyone we're official. You know Soda will kill me." I grabbed Johnny's hand and ran my finger over the bruises. His hands were cold.
"I know. When are you gonna tell him?" Johnny took his pills and closed his eyes.
"Tonight. Right Dal?" Dal had dozed off a bit on the other sofa, his head falling back, making his jawline stick out more.
"Yeah." He jumped up a bit.
"Get some sleep Johnnycakes." I sat up and laid next to Dally. Johnny fell asleep quickly and so did Dallas. He was out late every night, I wondered if he ever went to bed before 2. 

2:43 read the clock. I jumped when I noticed, waking up Dal.
"What is it!?" He grabbed my hand instinctively. I pulled away before I realized then grabbed his hand.

"I gotta go back to school!!! Soda is gonna pick us up today and I won't be there!! Hurry we have 15 minutes."
I pulled on my sneakers and started out the door. I felt a hand on my waist and flinched. Then relaxed. Dal wrapped himself around me as we walked. We stopped half a block away and waited for the clock to hit 3. I looked at my watch. 5 minutes. From the corner of my eye I saw Dally looking at my hands. I put them in my pockets and turned around to face him. He pulled out my hands and placed a ring on my hand. It was a silvery skull with black eyes. I ran my finger over it and looked at him with a confused look.
"So they know you're mine." He kissed me on the forehead, I pulled him close to me and kissed him, leaving red lipstick on his lips. He looked at me, his beautiful eyes staring into mine. He was about to pull me in again when we heard a bell.
"Shit." I started running towards the school, Dal holding my hand.
"Slow down Doll." He pulled at me, slowing me to a walk.
"Don't call me Doll!!!"
"Okay fine, babe." I smiled up at him and looked at my new ring. I was his. With his hand wrapped around mine, he became my tomorrow. He became what will drive me out of bed in the morning, what will make me smile when I think I never will again. He will make my heart ache with hunger for his lips. He will drive me insane. He will make me feel like I'm not alone. He will be the reason I lived.

I walked to where I agreed to meet Pony in the morning, and found Two-Bit smiling like an idiot towards us.
"Hey lovebirds, where'd ya go off to this morning?" He winked towards us and laughed.
"You'll see when we get home." I clenched my jaw at the thought of Johnny.
Ponyboy ran up and said "Ky, you're tryouts." In between breaths. I looked around suddenly noticing all the people flooding out of the building, girls looked at me and Dal. Boys looked at me with anger and desire. I pulled Dally close to me, he wrapped his arm around my shoulder.
"I'm dropping out anyways." Pony's eyes went wide.
"Kaya-" He started. I knew what he was gonna say. Kaya you cant start like this again!! Kaya you have to be good!! Kaya this Kaya that!!! What if I wanted to me? Not some goody two shoes.
"It doesn't matter." I interrupted. He looked at me with disappointment. I rolled my eyes.
"Ky, get away from Dal." Two-Bit said with a serious look on his face.
"Excuse me?"
"Soda." I pushed Dal away quickly and put my hands in my pocket to hide the ring. As Sodapop walked up I put my finger to my lips and flashed the ring at Pony so he would know. His jaw dropped and he quickly shut it. I glared at him, threatening him with my eyes if he told. He understood.
"Hey princess how was the first day?" Soda asked as he hugged me.
"You mean last? I hated it." It was hard for me to lie, let alone to Soda. My best friend.
"Haha funny Ky." He leaned into my shoulder and whispered "We need to talk." I nodded.
"Oh yeah umm bad news." Dal said with his low husky voice. I looked at him at noticed all the scars on him. Everywhere.
"What?" Everyone said in unison.
"Johnny is hurt, bad. I found him this morning and he at your house Soda." Dal said.
"What do you mean!?!? What happened!?" I said, trying my best to lie. I didn't have to try too lard because i was actually worried. Ponyboy fell back a little bit. Johnny was his best friend.
"Oh god..." Soda said. "Lets go. Now."
We all loaded into A truck I didn't recognize.
"Dal what're you doin here?" Soda asked with sudden realization. I looked at Dal real worried.
"I came to get Pony and Kaya. I didn't know you were picking them up. His hand found his way to my thigh. Soda and Pony sat in the truck while Dal, Two, and I sat in the bed. "Get a room" Two whispered. Dal rubbed his hand up and down my leg. I wanted to lean into him so badly but couldn't. Dal punched him in the arm, causing Two-Bit to over exaggerate and scream. We all jumped out as soon as the truck was slow. I opened the door quietly, He was still asleep.  I sat next to Johnny and took off my old, dirty converse. "Oh god..." Soda said barely above a whisper. No one said anything. Ponyboy ran to his side and started crying. Johnny did look pretty bad.
"He'll be okay." I said. "He's tough."
Everyone nodded in agreement. I noticed Dal's ring was flashing in front of everyone. Before I could hide it  Soda looked at my hand and up at me. He opened his mouth to say something when Dally noticed and said "Ky, wanna come with me to get Johnny some more Milk Duds?"
"Sure." I walked out without looking back at Soda. We walked for a couple of blocks in silence before Dallas asked me something that scared me at first.

"Would you like to go on a date with me tonight?"

"Gee I dunno. My boyfriend might get kinda mad at me!!" I pushed him a little. Forcing myself to smile I looked up and agreed to it. We walked into the store and grabbed some Milk Duds.
"Stop it. I have money." I pulled Dal's hands out of his pockets, he tried to steal the candy. The cashier gave me a funny look and rang us up.
As we walked home Dallas wrapped his warm hand around my cold one. His finger brushing across the ring. We stopped in front of the house.
"I'll tell him." I walked up to the door and hesitated. What if this ended horribly? What if Soda got mad at Dal? Oh goodness this was going to be a disaster. It was worth it. Dal looked me in the eyes and put his hand on my cheek.
"You're beautiful ya know?" He said as he held his gaze.
"Not really."
"Of course you are." He insisted.
"Dal I-

"You are so used to your features you don't know how beautiful you look to everyone else."

I smashed my lips against his as soon as he finished. Our foreheads leaned against each other as I pulled away. I smiled, a real smile. "Come on babe." That was the first time I called him babe.
He wrapped himself around me and I giggled as I opened the door. I didn't hide the ring this time. I didn't hide anything. I was Dal's and he was mine now. I don't care was Soda says. I looked up and met Sodapop's eyes. His face hardened and he got up so fast it scared me. He looked at me with anger.

"Cola listen, hear me out-