Johnny walked into the Curtis home and headed for the kitchen. The gang, minus Dally, were all there.
"Hey Johnnycake!" said Soda excitedly.
Johnny muttered a barely audible hey back. Johnny was shaking hard and the others definitely noticed it. Feeling the gangs' eyes on him, Johnny attempted a smile, but it didn't fool anyone.
Steve, whose eyes hadn't left Johnny since the second he'd walked in, said "Hey, Johnny, what's wrong? If it's your old man I'll kill him for ya."
Then Soda and Two Bit joined in the conversation with remarks on how they'd take pleasure in hurting Johnny's bastard of a father, but Johnny was to shaken up to really hear them. Darry looked at Johnny's still shaking form and asked, yet again, if he was okay.
Johnny quickly snapped out of his thoughts and replied, quietly, "I-I'm okay. Just.. have you guys seen Dal?"
As if on cue, in walked Dallas Winston. "What's up kid?" Dally coolly asked.
"Hey, Dal. Um, can I, uh, talk to you?"
Dally took his attention off his lighter that he'd been tampering with the entire time and looked at Johnny. He looked pretty bad, but Dally was used to that. But something was off with the kid today…
"Sure Johnnycake."
Johnny looked hastily at the front door. "Can we go to the park?"
Dally stared at Johnny for a second in an attempt to read his eyes, but Johnny wouldn't make eye contact.
"Yeah. Let's go."
Dally followed Johnny out the door. The walk to the park was quiet and Dally starting to get irritated. "What's wrong Johnny?"
"Um, it-it's my dad."
Dally hated Johnny's dad for the hell he had put Johnny through. Hell, if Dally could only get his hands on him without hurting Johnny in the process, he'd…
Dally was broke from his thoughts when Johnny suddenly began sobbing. Dally put his arm around Johnny in an attempt to comfort him.
"Hey. Hey, kid you're alright. It's okay."
"N-n-no it's not! Dal he - he…" Johnny's entire body was now racking with sobs.
After a minute Dally said, "What did he do to you, Johnny?"
Though he wouldn't show it, Dally was starting to get real worried.
"If I tell you Dal you - you have to promise me you won't hate me."
Confused, Dally said "Johnny I could never hate you. What happened?"
"He was drunk again and he - he touched me."
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