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somebody else pt. 2 || sodapop

❖ credits to tasteslikepepsicola on tumblr 🌞 ❖

As Y/N approached the D.X, her heart thumped. She could see Sodapop working on a car inside the garage. However, Steve wasn't in sight. She watched the movie star handsome boy wipe a bit of sweat from his brow, and pause to take a sip of water.  As she came closer, he finally noticed her walking towards him.

"Hey, Pepsi-Cola" Y/N hummed sweetly.

"Oh, hey, Y/N" He went back to working on the car, trying to look like he was concentrated on it, but Y/N could tell by the way he stared blankly at it, pretending to fidget with it, that he was just trying to seem uninterested in what she had to say.

"I've barely seen you the past three days," she said.

"Yeah," he mumbled.

"I tried calling... but um Darry and Ponyboy answered each time I called, you never seemed available. I even stopped by today hoping to see you, but um- your brothers told me you were at work so I-" she was abruptly cut off.

"Guess I figured you were too busy fooling around with Steve to want to see me." He shrugs nonchalantly, but his words sting.

"Soda, it's not like that, you and I both know that." She takes a step closer to him, trying to reach out for his face, to rub off a smudge of dirt he got while working on the car. But he pulls away sharply.

"Really? Do I? Do I know that it's not like that? Cause neither of you told me you cared for each other like, like- that until you got caught." His anger fades and his voice breaks by the end of his sentence. His tone softens, "were you even going to tell me?"

"Soda, that was the only time Steve and I did something like that, I- I don't even know why we did it. We didn't even kiss. We just got caught up in the moment." Y/N realizes how desperate she sounds for him to believe her, but she doesn't care. "Please believe me..." her voice trails off.

Sodapop stands above the hood of the car he was working on, anger prevalent in the way his muscles are flexed from gripping the edge of the car so tightly.

The desperation begins to leave her voice as Y/N becomes more frustrated, and it is replaced with indifference.

"I get that it was shitty to see your friends act so out of character, but it was one time, and there's no reason for you to be reacting the way you are." At those words, Sodapop breaks.

He slams the hood of the car shut aggressively, Y/N jumps back. The Sodapop she knew never acted like this. He runs his hands through his hair, tugging at it, he looks like he wants to punch something. He sighs, calming himself down. Finally, he makes eye contact with her with a softened expression.

"You're right, okay? If you want to date Steve, that's fine. I don't care. At all. Make out with him all you want." He flails his arms around, exaggerating every gesture, like he often does when he's upset. "Just don't do that shit in front of me, or in my house."

"No, you don't get to ignore me for three days because of one stupid decision and then pretend you're okay with it because its easier than dealing with the truth."

He laughs sarcastically. "Oh so now there's some whole big hidden meaning behind why I'm upset that my two best friends betrayed me?"

Y/N stands there silent for a minute. Could she be wrong? Did she misinterpret what Darry and Pony had said? No, Soda has to be jealous, that's the only explanation. But what if she's wrong? What if she only believed it so easily because she wanted it to be true?

Softly, she asks, "isn't there?"

He looks away from her, and down at the ground. "No, there isn't." He replies.