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Just like the day before Soda and Steve had started their short journey over the DX to start of their shifts, except this time they didn't have Two-Bit drive them.
The sun beat down on them while they joked around and eventually got to the familiar place. Soda felt through his pockets before his fingers wrapped around a cold metal and pulled it out before unlocking the door and putting it back.
He walked to the counter with a smile with Steve walked to the door that led to the garage where he worked on the old cars people would bring in.
"Alright, I'm going to work on those old things. Don't scare those broads away" he joked before patting sodas shoulder and opening the door. There was no way soda would scare away any girl if anything he's the reason most chicks go to the DX.
After countless hours of working on cars and jokingly flirting with broads the two ended their shifts and made their way to anywhere. Clouds had covered the sun, blocking the hot rays from hitting them.
"So how much broads today?" Steve nudged Sodas' arm jokingly while walking down the sidewalk that led them to anywhere. They never had a destination in mind and just let the time lead them to somewhere.
"Maybe about 7 tried to flirt with me and I got bored easily so flirted back," Soda said happily that he was getting from attention.
"They never fail to entertain while on long shifts," he said while stretching, looking over to Steve for a reply. Steve put his arm around sodas' neck and took him down while ruffling up his hair, automatically getting soda to laugh and fight back. Oh, how he loved that laugh so much.
"Have you never listened to the gang! You're a real looker and that's why they're always flirting with you" Steve admitted while giving up the fight but keeping his arm around sodas neck.
"First-time hearin' that from you Stevie" soda teased, a small pink tint he thought was blushing made its way to Steve's face. Soda and his relationship popped into Steve's mind, how he thought something between them was happening in a good way? He really didn't know if it was good or bad. Maybe this was how all the best friends acted.
"How 'bout we see if there's a chocolate cake waitin' for us sodie," Steve said, avoiding the topic they were just on. He smiled while taking his arm off soda and opening the door. He walked into the room that was filled with the gang, soda following behind him and shutting the door once they were all in.
Like usual, the gang continued doing their own personal things while soda headed to the kitchen whistling a song stuck in his head. Steve ran in front of soda and pushed him slightly away.
"You need to go rest. You must be tired after standing at the counter flirting with all those broads" he teased again with a smirk, opening the fridge and bending down a little to see how many cakes were available.
He could feel soda smiling behind him while he quietly gave in and sat down at the table, taking a pack of cigarettes out of his pocket and quickly lighting one up. The smoke smell quickly filled the room.
"Hey, any of y'all want some cake!" Soda asked the gang in the living room, getting yes's from everyone almost immediately.
Steve quietly hummed a tune while getting five cakes out and setting them on the table before looking over his shoulder at soda, seeing him smoking even though he usually never smoked even in front of the prettiest broads he has seen.
"How about you give me that and don't start an addiction," he said, taking the lit cigarette out of sodas hand and putting it in his mouth, going back to cutting the cakes in halves. Soda was going to fight back or say a smart remark but knew Steve would probably win the fight or Darry would have to break up the play fight.
He had found that recently he had given into Steve's small parenting rules and fights. Soon everyone had gotten their cake and was all in the living room trying to squeeze into the tiny space in front of the tv.
Ponyboy and Johnny were next to each other on the couch sharing a plate of cake, Dally was laying down on the other half of the couch with his feet laying on the other two boys laps, smoking what seemed like the last one of his first pack of the day, Two-Bit like always was sitting in front of the couch, Soda and Steve were sitting on chairs that were pulled from the kitchen while Darry was standing behind the couch leaning on it.
"Aye soda, Steve there's a party at bucks and I'm thinking of going wanna join?" Dally said over the shows loud volume. No one even looked at him while he let out another puff of smoke but the two agreed to go.
After awhile the Mickey Mouse episode ended and a talk show started causing pony and johnny to get up with the book and go up to pony's and soda's room upstairs. Dally looked at the clock on the wall before getting up with a grunt and walking over to the door.
"Alright hurry up before all the good broads leave," dally said signifying for the two to hurry up. Soda looked over at dally then darry then steve. He got up, holding onto steves shoulder for support as they both stood up.