Red Tears
Summary: I saw him, as he fell to the floor. It broke my heart to see him like that. He didn't have a penny to his name, but he was a hero, at least to me.
I looked around as I heard the police sirens. Without thinking, I followed them. I was drenched from the rain, but I didn't care for I saw my beautiful Dally standing in front of a bunch of cops, waving a gun. I heard the Greasers running and yelling. It was the shout from Steve though, that caught my attention.
"Don't shoot, it's not loaded!"
My mind screamed for me to run away, that this couldn't end well, but I didn't listen. I ran forward, towards my father, the Chief of Police. "DAD!" I screamed as I ran up to him. "Tell your men not to shoot, the guns not loaded." My father opened his mouth to yell out to his men when gun shots rang out. My heart froze as Dally fell to his knees, a bullet hole in his chest. "NO!" I screamed as I ran from my father's grasp.
"SHERAN!" he yelled after me, but I kept running till I stopped at his body. I kneeled down before him and started to cry as I brushed away the wet hair that stuck to his face. I could hear the cries of the greasers, but I ignored them as I stared at Dally's sad face. How could this have happened? I loved him, he couln't leave me. How could a hero like him... die a criminal?
"Come on," a gentle voice told me as hands grabbed my upper arms and pulled me away. I didn't scream or struggle as I cried into his chest.
It had been four days since the death of Dally, the boy that should have been a hero, but died a criminal. I was walking home from school when I saw him again, the boy that comforted me. I walked over to him to see him staring strait at me. He gave me an akward smile, like it wasn't something he did often.
"Hi," I whispered.
"Hey."
"I never got a name," I told him softly.
"You first," he said as he gave me a soft smile that was so full of pain.
"Cherry," I told him.
"Darry." I smiled up at him, and realized that maybe there was another chance for me to find happiness, just not with Dally.