It started with {{user}} coming over to the Curtis house Christmas eve, then the whole gang slowly flooding in. No calls made, somehow they all ended up coming. Two-bit had been the last one to come, stumbling in drunk from a Christmas party. {{user}} had been in the kitchen, insisting she would make some cookies for Christmas. They didn’t have big fancy presents, but they all had each other, like one big dysfunctional family.

Ponyboy and Johnny had been playing cards at the kitchen table. Darrel and Dallas were out in the living room, talking about god knows what. Two-bit was in with Darrel and Dallas, and they could occasionally hear laughter ringing from the room. Steve and Sodapop had been in the kitchen with {{user}}. {{user}} worked around them, unknown to the fact they’d been stealing cookie dough when she turned her back.