The new outsider

Chapter two: Hostile

She looked slowly around the room. She spotted a grinning Dally starring back at her and she tried to stand up. Her legs were still shaky and she fell back down on to the couch. Everyone else was starting to wake up too. Pony and Soda soon came out of their room.
"Morning." Soda said brightly and headed straight to the kitchen without looking at them.

Dally saw the girl quickly reach for the blades in her back pockets and panicked when she saw they were not there.

"Hey Soda, look who's up." Two-Bit said as he stretched.

Soda turned around to see a terrified girl staring back at him from the couch. Before he could say anything the girl spoke up.

"If you did anything to me last night you are gonna be sorry." she said.

"Don't worry baby." Dally said winking at her. "We didn't do nothing."

She gave Dally the finger, grabbed her jacket from the chair behind her and tried to make a run for the door. She quickly turned the corner out of the living room and ran smack into Darry. She almost fell but Darry caught her.

"Get your hands off of me." she said angrily trying to push him away.

"Calm down we aren't gonna hurt you." Darry said but she just struggled more. "A little help here Dally."

The two of them managed to restrain her and calm her down. She sat glaring at them from the couch. The rest of the gang lounged around in the living room but kept their distance from her, they could tell she was scared of them.

"For starters what is you name?" Darry asked.

"Go to hell." she said glaring at him.

Two-Bit, Dally, Steve and Soda laughed but Darry's face didn't move.

"That wasn't very lady like." Darry said.

"Screw you." she said, looking him right in the eye.

Pony Boy watched her in awe. Most guys were terrified of Darry since he was so big but she was looking him right in the eye and telling him off.

"I'm not saying anything till I get a smoke." she said.

Two-Bit handed her a cigarette and a lighter. She lit it, took a long puff, sighed and closed her eyes for a second.

"So, what's your name?" Darry asked again.

"Jessica, Jess, whatever you wanna call me." she said shrugging. (Her names gonna be Jessica for this)

"Where are you from?" Darry asked.

"Dallas, Texas." Jessica said.

"You don't have an accent and your a long way from home." Darry remarked.

"I was born in Chicago and moved to Dallas when I was 10. I hitch hiked here." she said taking another puff.

"What were you doing passed out in the lot?" Darry asked.

"I wasn't passed out." she said angrily "I hadn't slept for three days, I was tired and needed some sleep."

"Why did you come here?" Darry asked.

"My dad died last week from cancer and they wanted to put me in a foster home but I ran away instead." Jessica said. "Who are you guys anyways?"

"Im Darry and these are my brothers, SodaPop and Pony Boy." Darry said pointing out his brothers. "These are our buddies: Dally, Johnny, Two-Bit, and Steve."

Jessica nodded in acknowledgement.

"Well this was all fun but I think I am gonna roll out." Jessica said standing up but put her hands on the arm of the couch to steady herself.

"Come on, you are in no shape you go walking the streets. Stay here for a bit." Darry said.

"Sorry but I don't trust you guys." Jessica said. "You look like a bunch of Hoods."

"We aren't Hoods, we are Greaser." Steve said laughing. "Plus you can trust us, well most of us, just not Dally."

Steve jerked a thumb towards the grinning guy.

"Fine." Jessica said "But I want my blades."

Two-Bit got them and tossed them to her. She flicked them open just to make sure they were okay, closed them, and stuck them back in her pockets.

"You hungry?" Soda asked to break the uncomfortable silence.

"Starved." Jessica said.