Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters I use in the story that belong to S.E Hinton I do own Starlet, Charlie and Toby.

Chapter 1

Starlet's POV

"Darry have you seen my jeans?" Pony yelled,

"I'm wearing them!" I yelled from my bedroom; I share a room with my two older brother's Soda and Pony, and as you already know a room is not the only thing we share. Pony came storming into the room,

"Now I have nothing to wear!"

"Here wear this," I held up a dress and grinned.

"No!" He pushed past me and pulled open Soda's drawer

Ponyboy's POV

Oh my god I hate when she does this, Darry specifically told her to wear her own clothes, hand-me-downs,

"Soda can I borrow a pair of your jeans?"

"Rhy?" Soda asked through a mouthful off chocolate cake,

"Star's wearing mine!" I said in a angry voice, Star looked at me sadly and walked into the bathroom,

"Sure!" Soda yelled I pulled on the jeans and walked into the bathroom too.

"Sorry I should've asked," Star held out the jeans, "It's just all the hand-me-downs I get from you are torn and being the only girl in a family of boys is hard I just wanted one day to not be made fun of because of my clothes," She looked like she was ready to cry,

"It's ok you can wear them, I'm not mad."

"Really?" she said sniffing,

"Really," I hugged her, "Now brush your hair!" I pulled out the hair grease and started to slick back my hair.

Starlet's POV

Wow he really understands, I brushed through my hair and pulled it into a ponytail. I walked out leaving Pony greasing his hair,

"Darry have you seen my checkered shirt?" I yelled, no answer,

"DARRY!" Still nothing,

"DARRY!?"

"What?" I jumped as Darry appeared behind me,

"God...where were you,"

"I just had to get something from the truck, you called?"

"You seen my checkered shirt?"

"Yah it's in my closet," I walked into Darry's room and reached into his closet when I noticed a picture lying against the back, it was a picture off the wall, I grabbed the shirt and I picked it up and stormed out into the living area,

"What's this?" I demanded

"A picture," Darry said,

"A picture of Mom and Dad! That's what it is,"

"Yea"

"Why isn't it on the wall where it's suppose to be? Do you want to forget them? Huh?"

"No I just thoug-"

"No you just assumed, god!" I walk over to the wall, hung it up and stormed out the door, leaving my backpack. Tears were running down my face.

Ponyboy's POV

I stood there dumbfounded, why had Star overreacted so much, and why did Darry take it down. Soda looked at me and Darry and walked over,

"Let's go find her," I nodded. First we checked a couple of obvious places, the park, the lot, the alleys.

"Where could she of gone?" I asked

"Not where, why, why had she held it in for so long, every time we asked if she was okay she said she was fine and looked like it too, I don't get it,"

"That's not true, she broke down when she first found out," I said thinking back to when we found out,

2 years earlier...

Soda, Steve and I were in the kitchen playing poker, Darry was out mowing the back lawn, and Star was reading on the couch.

"Ding Dong" Star got up and went to the door, 2 officers in uniform were standing there, Star automatically assumed they were looking for Dallas, she was the only one who called him that,

"Umm excuse me is this the Curtis house?" Officer # 1 asked

"Yah,"

"I regret to inform you, but there's been an accident," Officer #2 said, Star stared at him in shock,

"What...kind of..." she gulped, "accident," the words came sharply off her tongue

"Your parents were hit by a train, they...they were killed instantly," She collapsed on the ground and burst out into hot tears, her hitting the ground got our attention from our game. We walked out into the living area, I bent down to hug Star while Soda asked what had happened, I felt the tears coming but I had to be strong for Star. Soda was gasping, Steve just stood there in shock,

"Maybe I should leave," Steve looked uncomfortable

"No please stay, please go get Darry," Soda dropped to his knees and hugged us, the officers looked at us,

"We're sorry, I know this is a bad time, but if you can't be raised properly, well we'll have to send you two to a boys home," Officer #2 said nodding to Soda and I,

"And you young lady will be sent to the only girls home in the state," That made me cry, the thought of being separated from Darry was hard enough, but my sister too? Plus the State girl's home was 3 hours away, that's just too far. Just then Darry walked in, the officers nodding to him and left, Darry saw us crying and knew what had happened.

I shook the memory from my head,

"I know but besides that, like at the funeral, we we're crying like babies and she just stood there like, like she was lost,"

"She was lost, she realized she was going to be raised by a bunch of guys,"

Starlet's POV

A piece of cold settled on my nose, oh great it's snowing, I pulled my shirt closer to my shaking body. I had no idea where I was going but I knew I needed to cool off, but this, I glanced at the snow, is not what I anticipated. I looked around at my surroundings, I noticed I had wondered a little too far and now found myself in Soc territory, Darry always warned me about staying away, telling me stories about being jumped just to frighten me, and I believed him after I saw how badly Johnny got beaten one day. I tear fell down my cheek, Johnny I miss him. I turned around to re-trace my steps, and started to walk home when a cold hand grabbed me,

"Hey little far from home aren't you greasers?" I looked at him with fear in my eyes, he laughed,

"She's just a baby," he laughed as two of his friends appeared out of the darkness of the corner, they laughed too. I struggled a little,

"Let me go!"

"No way!" he spat, literally, a spray of spit hit my cheek, I wiped it off and kicked him in the shin. He let go to grab his leg and I dashed out of there,

"Get her!" I turned just in time to see them catching up to me, I knew of coarse I didn't have Pony's speed, that's when they hit me full force and knocked me to the ground, I screamed and kicked as they held me down while the guy I had kicked, I figured was they leader, hobbled over.

"I'll teach you to kick me!" He yelled right in my face,

"Let go of MEEEEEEE!!!" I screamed as loud as I could, he punched me across the face his ring cutting me, I remember Johnny's wound from when Bob punched him, I felt the blood trickle down my face, one of them laughed and I spat in his face, he pulled out a knife and held it to my cheek,

"We can do worse then that wound," he said looking at the cut, I screamed again, he took the knife and cut my shoulder, I yelped in pain, and consequently he cut my other shoulder, I knew their game. Next my world was covered in complete darkness.

Pony's POV

"You hear that?" I said

"Hear what?" I listened for the sound and then heard it again

"That!"

"Yea but it's not her Pony, she wouldn't go to the Soc side,"

"Yea your right, Darry lectures her too much," I said half-heartedly, I wasn't to sure,

"Let's go home, maybe she went to school and just forgot her backpack in her outburst," I nodded.

Star's POV

I woke up in incredible pain, when I realized what had happened when I was knocked out, I screamed and got up and ran for the house crying the entire time. I slammed open the door and ran into my room.