🌷Kimmy🌷

WHEN she woke up, she forgot where she was. But then she remembered, the pool of blood, crimson red, Darry pushing Pony, and running away. Kimmy noticed Ponyboy sleeping next to her, snoring away with Johnny's jean jacket draped over him like a blanket. She soon noticed that Johnny was missing before turning around to see Went to get supplies. Be back soon. J.C. written on the dust of the floor.

Kimmy stood up and went to the pump to wash her face. The water was cold, and it woke her up real quick, all right. She saw Ponyboy walking down to the pump, and waved at him to know that she was also there.

"Morning."

"Morning."

Kimmy wasn't that close with Ponyboy as she was with her other two brothers. Sure, they had their moments but either way, even though they teased one another often, they still had each other's backs for being the little pair of the Curtis kids. Cause, you know, the younger kids in the family gotta stick together, even if they hate each other to death. The younger kids got to stay together.

They went back to the church and sat in silence, waiting for Johnny. Kimmy didn't mind, she liked the quiet, before suddenly realizing she didn't bring her copy of Sense and Sensibility to the drive in. Well that sucks. She thought. Now she won't find out what happened next.

Kimmy always had a soft spot for books that girls of the old fashioned days would love. Her mother had read Anne of Green Gables when she was younger and Kimmy had identified with Anne Shirley ever since. She also read the book Little Women at the library and cried when she had to return it. Amy had given her some copies of Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights.

Kimmy was just starting to get into Sense and Sensibility right now and wondered whether if she would ever see her precious books or the gang again. I wouldn't miss Mr. Lemons, though. Kimmy thought to herself. He called me an Incorrigible Chatterbox! Then Kimmy heard an all too familiar whistle. It was used by the gang and Tim Shepard's gang for "Who's there?"

Ponyboy returned it, since if Kimmy did it would sound like she was a dying bird, before the two siblings darted out the door so fast that Pony fell off the steps and Kimmy nearly lost her balance. Ponyboy propped himself on his elbows and grinned at him. "Hey Johnny. Fancy meetin' you here." Kimmy waved at the older boy. Johnny looked down at the Curtis boy over a large package. "I swear Ponyboy, you're getting to act more like Two-Bit every day."

Pony unsuccessfully tried to cock an eyebrow, a trick the gang had picked up from Two-Bit. "Who's acting?" He rolled over and sprang up. "What did ya get?" Kimmy asked Johnny. "Come on inside. Dally told us to stay inside." They went in. Johnny dusted off a table with his jean jacket and started to take things out of the package. "A week's supply of baloney, two loaves of bread, a box of matches..."

The Curtis girl was tired of watching him do it all, so she reached in and took something out at random. "Wheee!" She sat down on a dusty chair and stared at what was in her hands. "A copy of Little Women! Oh, thank you, Johnny!" She went over and kissed him on the cheek before sitting back down. She remembered when Johnny and Ponyboy took her to see the movie, she liked it a lot and said that Charmian Carr would be a perfect Meg if she had casted the film now.

Johnny had given the other Curtis a paperback copy of Gone With the Wind. Ponyboy and Kimmy started to look through the package together. "Hair Dye? Peroxide? A deck of cards..." The siblings turned to one another with the same thing in their minds. "Johnny, you ain't thinking of..." He sat down and pulled out his knife. "We're gonna cut our hair, you're gonna bleach yours and we'll gonna have to dye Kimmy's."

Kimmy immediately covered her head with her cardigan. "They'll have our descriptions in the paper. We can't fit 'em." "Oh no!" Pony's hand flew to his hair. "No, Johnny, not our hair." Long hair was the boy greaser trademark and it was their pride. The one thing they were proud of. Kimmy's hair, blonde and golden, reminded her of her mother.

"We'd have to anyway if we got caught. You know the first thing the judge does is make you get a haircut." Johnny reasoned. "I don't see why." Pony said sourly. "Dally could just as easily mug somebody with short hair." "I don't know either." Kimmy shrugged. "I think it's just a way of trying to break us. They can't do anything to guys like Curly Shepard or Tim, they'd had just about everything done to them. And they can't take anything away from them because they don't have anything in the first place. So they cut their hair."

Ponyboy looked at Johnny imploringly. "I'm gonna cut mine too, and wash the grease out, but I can't bleach it.  I'm too dark-skinned to look okay blond." Kimmy shuddered as a picture of a blond Johnny came into her mind. She could only describe it in two words. Not pretty. "Oh, come on Ponyboy. It'll grow back." Johnny pleaded. Ponyboy looked at Kimmy as if saying, You do it! She returned it with a look that said, You first! He sighed, knowing what lay ahead for his hair.

"Okay," Ponyboy agreed, wide-eyed. "Get it over with." Johnny flipped out the razor edge of his blade, took hold of the Curtis boy's hair and began to saw on it. What followed was a series of ow's from Ponyboy, sorry man's from Johnny, and Kimmy watching from the sidelines, wincing every time her brother said ow. "Can I see now?" He asked when Johnny was done. "No. We gotta bleach it first." Johnny replied.

Kimmy was looking down at the tufts of hair. It's lighter than I thought. She thought to herself. After Ponyboy had sat in the sun for fifteen minutes to let the bleach dry off, Kimmy had found a cracked mirror she found in a closet. When she saw her brother's hair for the first time, Kimmy didn't know whether to laugh or tease her brother. It was lighter than Josephine and Malcolm McCartney's hair combined and it wasn't a great look on her brother. It reminded Kimmy of a wig.

"Gee, this makes me look tuff." Pony commented, smoking on a cigarette. Johnny handed Pony the knife. "Cut the front and thin out the rest. I'll comb it back after I wash it. Go ahead, get your jollies." "My pleasure." Ponyboy said, excited to inflict pain on him. Kimmy rolled her eyes as Pony started cutting. Boys.

Johnny didn't look so bad after that. He looked nice. He looked kinda cute, actually. Before too long, Kimmy was trying to adjust to having brown hair that went to her shoulders as she checked herself out in the cracked mirror. "You look ridiculous." Ponyboy commented. Kimmy turned to him. "You look ridiculous." He stuck out his tongue and Kimmy stuck it out right back.

Author Speaks:
Kimmy crushing on Johnny is so cute tho 🥰 If there was one thing I would say to her right now, it's this:

Btw, the Little Women movie Kimmy mentions is the 1949 version! And Charmian Carr (Kimmy's lil fancast of Meg March) played Liesel in The Sound of Music!

Btw, greaser pic of the day

Also: Kimmy 🥰