Hey People, This Is my First ever fanfiction YAYYYY idk I don't know if anyones gonna like it so please don't be mean to me. Lol I don't really care if you are Since I don't know how to put a disclaimer on im gonna be doing it this way for a while, so yeah thanks

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING IT IS ALL BELONGED (is that even a word) TO S.E. HINTON I DON'T OWN ANYTHING

Ponyboy's POV

We had reached the top of Jay Mountain when Dally suddenly slammed on his brakes and stared. "Oh glory!" he whispered. The church was on fire!

"Let's go see what the deal is," I said hopping out.

"What for?" Dally sounded irritated."Get back in here before I beat your head in."

I knew Dally would have to park the car and catch me before he followed out his threat, and Johnny was already following me, so I figured I was safe. We could hear him cussing us out, but he wasn't mad enough to come after us. There was a crowd at the front of the church, mostly little kids, and I wondered how they'd gotten up there so quickly. I tapped the nearest grownup. "What's going on?"

"Well, we don't know for sure, "the man said with a good-natured grin. "We were having a school picnic up here and the first thing we knew, the place is burning up. Thank goodness it's the wet season; the old thing is worthless anyway."

"I bet we started it," I said to Johnny.

Just then a lady came running up to the man. "Jerry, some of the kids are missing!"

"Their probably around here somewhere," He didn't look too worried.

"No, they've been missing for a half hour, I thought they were climbing the hill," She shook her head.

We all froze; faintly just faintly you could hear children screaming from the inside. I took off for a dead run. I wasn't about to go through the flaming door, so I slammed a big rock through the window and pulled myself in. It's a wonder that I didn't cut myself to death.

I noticed Johnny was behind me, I had completely forgotten he was following.

"Where are the kids?" I asked him smoke filling my lungs as I stumbled through the church.

"In the back I guess," he hollered.

We made our way through the church. I should be scared, I thought with an odd detached feeling. The smoke around us made it harder and harder to breathe, the embers were lightly burning the back of my neck and my hands but I kept on walking. We made our way into a back room; there were about six kids, eight years old or younger. I was about to pick one up when I heard the running feet of Johnny Cade coming my way.

"Pony!" he yelled, "Watch Out!" Johnny tackled me to the ground without a moment's hesitation, "That beam was gonna fall on you!" I owed him one I thought in my head.

The both of us had saved almost all of the kids. I threw one out of the window as gently as I could without wasting too much time.

I looked out the window and saw Dallas there, yelling at us "For Pete's sake get outta there! That roof's gonna cave in any minute! Forget those blasted kids!"

Listening to Dally, like you always should, I pushed Johnny out of the window so he could run to safety, after all he saved my life mere minutes ago. I looked around one last time, I made a dead sprint for the window. It was too late, the roof had already begun to collapse, I could only watch as my death approached me.

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