The Outsiders: Fire In Her Eyes

By: Sasha Allard

Chapter One/ Tusla's Bloody Secret:

I jumped out of my older brother's car, I was finally here. Tusla, my brother had drove into greaser territory and man were there some mean looking people here. The girls were all sluts and the guys were all hoods. Bad boys with bad attidues and loads of grease in their hair. Boys that didn't follow, nor play by the rules. my brother told me to get out and stay outta the way while he and his buddies caught up. So I thought I'd take a look around town. I knew about this side of town, and about the other, the Socs owned that side. And heck I didn't really care, I didn't fall into either one of those catigories, no I was a skater from New York. But hell I was middle class and these would be the guys I'd be running with now. The greasers, I'd be running with the greasers. By noon I had gotten kind of bored of waiting for my no good brother to return. I poked my head into the car. Good Mike had taken little Danny with him! I walked around to the back of the trunk and popped it, I pulled out my skaterboard. It was a slick black board with red flames on it; it read 'Skater Chick NYC' across it's bottom. My eyes lit up, I hadn't road this in so long. I took off down the street dodging greasers left and right. A couple of times I had ran over some guys feet and was called a 'no good skater chick wannabe'. But heck they didn't scare me. I was so lost in my own little world, that by the time I realized people were in front of me it was WAY too late to stop, I slammed into them full force. OUCH! I got up right away, I could here yelling, cussing and some people trying to reason with the yelling voices. I skated off before any one could pull out their switchblades.

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I'd been skating around since noon it was getting late and the sun was starting to set. I decided I sould head back to the car and wait for my brothers, but I heard shouting. My couriositiy got the best of me, I head in the direction. What possessed me to do this was beyond me, but when I followed the sounds down that dark ally and came out in the clearing, where a group of Socs and Greasers were fighting I couldn't stop myself. I ran in to stop the fight.

"STOP!!!!!!!!!" I yelled.

The two groups looked up at me as I ran in from the shadows. They stood up and watched me. I couldn't let them fight; I grew up in New York, where there was always fighting. And the Hoods there were so much worst, fighting against other Hoods.

"Huh?" one of the greasers looked confused as I walked between both sides.

"Please...don't fight!" I panted.

"And why should we listen to you?" one of the Socs asked.

"Because I grew up around this stuff," I said simply, "fighting never solves anything."

"Don't come here and tell us what to do!" the socs yelled at me.

"Hey! Leave the kid alone!" the greaser yelled back.

This was getting me no where and before I knew it I was caught up in a total brawl of what ever you could get your hands on. Swtichblades, broken bottles, chains, etc. I was cut up in no time, when one of the socs threw a punch at me. I was so scared I ended up throwing a punch at him and nailing him in self defence. Everyone froze; the socs I hit looked at me dumb founded.

"GET HER!!!" he finally yelled.

I ran for it I was being chased by three or four socs. I was in a panic I forgot where my board was and slipped on it. I hit the ground like a ton of bricks. It didn't take long after that for the Socs to catch up to me. They surrounded me like sharks surrounding their prey. I was scared. I was so scared I couldn't move. One of the socs kicked me so hard in the ribs I heard them crack. Another took out his switchblade and started slashing at my arms, not deep enough to scar but deep enough to bleed. Another punched my face. I was starting to see stars!

"HOLD HER DOWN!!" one called as he undid his pants.

"NO! PLEASE NO!!" I cried as I kicked the one holding me in the face and took off.

Some where along the line I guess I lost my shose. I was off balance and in a strange place, I was confused and in need of medical attention. As I ran down the street I turned back I could see them coming down the street. They were gonna get me. I was gonna be raped! I turned my attention back to in front of me. I was starting to lose consciousness from the pain and the loss of blood. I needed help I looked around and then I looked up, I could see someone with a ciggerette in their mouth walking down the street. I ran toward them, I didn't care anymore I needed help! But I collapsed before I reached the person. This was it I was gonna die here in this town, where no one knew me.

~~~~~~~~~~~DALLAS' POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I was walkin' down the street, when out of no where I heard yelling and screaming. I looked up from my feet only to see a young girl, about Ponyboy's age, running at me. A whole heep of Socs running after her. as she got closer I could tell she was in need of medical treatment. I didn't really wanna help her, but hell I'd been ichin' for a good fight all day. An' no one better to kick around then Socs. I started toward her hopin' to act as a sheild to her, but she collapsed before I reached her. I saw the Socs book it toward her. They didn't look too happy to see her, I figered she'd made them angry some how. But she was out cold. No way I could just leave her now. I ran as fast as I could over to her and stepped in front of her. I would be her sheild only because she couldn't defend herself. The Socs stopped inches away from me.

"Outta the way Greaser!" the oldest of the socs said.

"No." I replied, my cancer stick still in my mouth.

"He said outta the way, Greaser." another said.

"An' I told you no." I said again.

I could tell they were getting mad now, cuz I wasn't lettin' them past so they could have their way with the girl on the ground. The oldest Socs told me one more time to move and when I didn't; he threw a punch at me. I punched him back so hard he toppled over and began bleeding from the mouth. That caused the other three to jump on me. I got socked a couple of times in the face and bleed myself. But I got them pretty goot too. They wern't so tough. Everyone though that Socs were so tuff, but they wern't worth nothin'. By the time I was done with them I had them running like a bunch of whipped dogs. Then I turned around to face the girl on the ground. She was still out cold so I leaned over her and picked her up. She opened her eyes slightly.

"Hey, kid, you alright?" I asked.

"...i-it hurts so much..." she muttered.

"It'll be ok, I'll take you to my buddy Darry," I said, "He'll know what to do!"

"A-alright...thank you." she mumbled.

"Say, what's your name kid?" I asked.

"Serena...Colette..." she replied half-heartedly.

"I'm Dallas Winston, I'll get you to Darry right away Serena." I shouted running in the direction of the Curtis' household.

We were half way there when it started to pour rain. Great. I thought. Just great! Serena was bleedin' even more now because of the rain. I had to hurry. She had passed out quite a while ago an' I had been able to feel her chest gentally rise and fall as I ran, but now I had to hurry or she'd bleed to death. I was releaved when I saw the Curtis' house. I ran up the front steps and banged on the door, hard. Sodapop opened then door. He was stunned to see me drippin' wet and carryin' a girl.

"Erm...how's it going Dally?" He asked looking at the girl.

"Wonderful, now where's Darry?" I asked bursting into the house.

Darry and Ponyboy looked up from the T.V. to look at me. When Darry saw the girl in my arms he stood up an' walked over to me. I most likly didn't look so great myself, those damned Socs got me pretty good too.

"Dally, what happened?" Darry asked calmly.

"This girl was bein' chased by socs," I replied, "I beat them up but she's pretty bad herself!"

"..."

"I thought maybe you could help her out." I cried.

Darry looked at me and then looked at the rest of the guys standing in the room. I know realized that Steve, Two-Bit and Johnny were also in the room. I was surprised that I hadn't noticed them all sitting by Ponyboy.

"Take her to the car," Darry finally said, "Were taking her to the hospital."

I did as I was told and took her to the car, when we arrived, we all took her in. The doctors took her and rushed her to the E.R. Darry told me she'd be fine and that we would wait until we were told we could see her. A half hour later the doctor told us they had finally managed to stabilize her and we were free to go see her. I guess he figured we were her family. Come to think of it, she was new in town. We didn't even know if she HAD a family. But, we all rushed down the hall way and into her small room anyway. As soon as we entered, she turned her head and looked at us before smiling. Her smile lit up the whole room, even though you could tell she was in deep pain.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~SERENA'S POV~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I looked over at the seven boys that had entered the room and smiled. I was glad to see them. Even though I only reconized one of the seven, Dallas Winston. I watched as they stepped forward, they all walked over to the bed slowly. But once they reached in Dallas plopped on the bed beside me, and the others made themselves comfy around the bed. I looked at them all.

"Hello, my name is Serena Colette." I said with a huge smile.

"I'm Darrel Curtis." the oldest said.

"Sodapop Curtis!" the one next to Dallas replied with a smile.

"Steve Randle." the guy next to Sodapop said.

"I'm Ponyboy Curtis!" the one to my left said.

"I'm Two-Bit Matthews." the guy standing next to Ponyboy in a mickey mouse shirt said with a goofy grin.

I looked at the last boy, who was on his knees beside me. He had dark brown hair that was slicked back. And had huge scared black eyes and a scar under one of his eyes. He was wearing a black shirt, blue jeans and a blue jean jacket. I smiled at him and he sort of blushed and smiled back. He was pretty cute, for a greaser then again all the guys with me were pretty hot and tuff, I think that's the phraze, I wouldn't know I'm no greaser. But hey that's fine with me.

"So, what's your name?" I asked looking at the boy beside me.

"...Johnny Cade..." he whispered.

"Johnny Cade? I like that name," I said, "In fact I like all your names. They're so...um...tuff?"

I nearly jumpped out of my skin when my older brother Mike threw open the door with Danny in toe behind him. The doctors were yelling at him, but hell he didn't really care. I was shocked. Why the hell were my brothers here? My brother Mike stopped in the door way and starred at all the boys in the room. But Danny ran over to me.

"Serinha!" he cried as he jumpped on the bed with me and Dallas.

"Ow...hi-ya Danny!" I cried hugging my little brother.

"What's going on in here?" My older brother Mike asked.

"Sorry about this," Darry said extending his hand, "I'm Darrel Curtis. I helped your little sister out."

"Hey. Nice to meet you. I'm Mike Colette," he said taking Darry's hand.

I starred at the sene playing out before me. My brother was shaking Darry's hand and talking to him like I wasn't even an issue. Something in me snapped, I looked down to try and hide my tears. It didn't work too well cuz Johnny noticed and grabbed my hand for suport, trying to not draw attention to me but let me know he was there. It was an odd sensation because he didn't know me, but he was there. He was real. He understood my emotional dismay. The neglect I felt from my brother. He understood. I was so happy I forgot about hiding my tears and threw my arms around him. He seemed to be momentarily shocked or something cuz his hand stiffened on my hand. Everyone was looking at us. Everyone could see the tears. No one knew why. My brother looked surprised and in three strides was over to me and Johnny. I looked up at him the tears streaming down my face, Johnny looked up at him too. Scared stiff.

"Serena...are you alright?" Mike asked me.

"...."

"Are you okay?" he asked again.

"Yes." I replied.

Johnny seemed thankful I hadn't said 'no'. I smiled at him, he shied back a bit. I still had my arms around his neck. I leaned down so my mouth was close to his ear.

"Thank You, Johnny." I whispered in his ear.

His eyes got real wide and Dallas shot up. He looked at Johnny and then at me, well no he glared at me. Johnny got up as Dallas grabbed my collar and my brother grabbed Dallas. Johnny shook his head in a silent 'no don't'. Dallas let go of my collar and my brother of him. I looked at Johnny. He smiled at me. It was an odd smiled between a 'you're welcome' and a 'I'm not sure about this'. I laughed in spite of myself and Johnny laughed too, there was a huge coruse of laughter. Then the doctor came in, quite angry looking I might add and told everyone I'd be here tomorrow and to come back then. He told my brother I'd be in here for another day and a half. So all the boys shuffled out. Muttering their 'good byes' and 'see you laters'. Johnny was the last to go.

"Johnny?" I called to him.

"Yeah?" he asked turning around.

"You'll come back," I said, "tomorrow won't you?"

"..."

"...." I bit my lower lip in sadness, I wanted him to come back, he could understand me.

"...sure..." he said with a smile before saying good bye and heading out the door.

I sat there in my hospital bed, I suddenly couldn't wait for tomorrow! I was so excited to see the gang and....Johnny again. And later I would have to repay Dallas and Darry.