“Dallas,” you said as you walked into Dally’s room at Bucks"What is that?“
"It’s our Christmas tree,” He answered.
“No, it’s not. That’s the most pathetic tree I’ve ever seen.” The tree in question barely decorated at all, and the ornaments were in the same spot. “why is the bottom of the tree decorated and not the top?”
“It hurts my feelings, Now can we please fix the tree and make it look like an actual Christmas tree this time.”
“No,” Dallas said, folding his arms across his chest. You knew that he made the tree look terrible just to tick you off. You could tell by the massive smirk plastered across his face.
You laughed as you put your hands on your hips. “What do you mean ‘no’?”
“I mean no. We’re not getting rid of Branchy.”
You raised an eyebrow. “Branchy? You named the tree?”
“Of course I didn’t name the tree,” Dallas said, grinning. “Two-Bit named it.”
“Well then Two-Bit can have the tree”
“Two-Bit already has a tree.” Dallas’ grin widened.
“We are not keeping the tree that way. Either you can go get the decorations and help me decorate tree, or I’ll do it myself and invite Steve and Soda to help.
"Well Soda helped us pick this one out and Steve thought it had class.”
“It’s a dead pine sapling. In what world does that have class?” You asked.
Dally shrugged. “This one, apparently. Anyways, we’re keeping the tree the way it is”
“Dal, it’s our first Christmas together. Do you really want to have that,” she pointed toward the little pine. “As our first Christmas tree?”
He smiled brightly. “Sure. It means things can only get better from here.”
You smiled and cocked your head to the side. “I hadn’t thought about it like that.”
“Also I knew it would annoy you,” Dallas was grinning widely now.
“You’re lucky I love you,” Y/N said “Fine, we can keep the tree, but I get to put the star on top” he lightly ruffled your hair chuckling “FINE. You can put the topper on the tree.”
“Mark please… please don’t do this” “Y/N I have no interest in being with you” you and your boyfriend mark were currently in the midst of a breakup. It was your 5 month anniversary and you were a mess but mark on the other hand remained un phased by the tears running down your face “did-did you ever even love me?” “No, and I never will” “y-you don’t mean that” you were at your breaking point your entire relationship was a lie.
“Your broken,people like me don’t date people like you” “then why did you ask me out in the first place?” There was a long uncomfortable silence before you walked out of the house slamming the door behind you. The glass of the door shattered and glass coated the floor but you didn’t care, you didn’t care about anything anymore. The next week you didn’t go to school, you didn’t even leave your house. You thought no one would notice but when you stopped hanging out at the DX after school the devilishly handsome boy with the movie star smile noticed. He noticed that you weren’t around as much, that his friends said they stopped seeing you at school, but most of all he noticed how much he missed having you around.
~time skip~
It was 1:00pm when you heard a knock on your door, you didn’t answer, 5 minutes later there was a knock again. Sighing you get up trying to make yourself look somewhat presentable, you open the door and see Sodapop Curtis staring at you with sympathetic eyes before being embraced by a heart melting hug and slowly you begin to feel ok.“All he ever did was use you. Why can’t you see that? “ “Soda…” you trailed off and slowly realized that what sodapop said was true. “Your right” you reflected on your relationship and realized he never did love you, he was playing a game he played with your feelings and toyed with your emotions for his own amusement. What you and mark had wasn’t real, you thought about all the times you fought and how it always ended up in you breaking down in tears. Soda was the only person there for you and suddenly you weren’t sad about mark or anything else you realized you had someone who really loved you and who you loved back and he was standing right there infringe of you. “I love you sodapop Curtis, you’ve always been there for me no matter what happened and I-I lov” before you could finish your sentence a gentle kiss was placed on your lips and the tears were wiped off your face “I love you too Y/N”
