It was Christmas Eve, and being the only family greasers have being each other, they were all spending it together. They were sitting around the fireplace at the Curtis’s house.

Sodapop and Steve were talking to each other, Johnny was sitting on the floor watching the fire, Ponyboy was sitting next to him, talking about some book, Darry was in the arm chair, Two-bit and Dallas were roughhousing when {{user}} finally walked in.

Steve looks over, then huffs as the others smile.

Steve: "Where’ve you been?"