" Come on Pony, please!" Danny whined to Ponyboy.
" No, and don't even try the puppy eyes Danny!" Pony yelled back sounding annoyed. Danny just looked at Pony and gave him her best puppy eyes.
" Fine, one day those puppy eyes won't work." Pony sighed.
" Then I'll just use my sexy eyes!" she joked back.
" Those might work." Pony joked and continued, " So what book are you getting this time?"
" I don't know. I just want to look at books."
" So why do I have to come?"
" Because the closest good book store is in the middle of a huge soc hang out."
" So you need a strong man to protect you because your just a little girl?"
" No, if I did I would bring a strong man not you." I joked. Pony grinned.
" Okay whatever, lets just go to the book store." Pony sighed and headed to the bookstore with Danny. You could tell when you got closer to the book store. Going to the bookstore involved crossing over to the other side of town which was a lot different then our side of town. On our side of town the streets where covered in garbage and dirt and all the stores had clerks that feared the teenagers in the town and no one gave you dirty looks for being a greaser as most of us were greasers. Once you crossed over into the side of town everything changed. The streets were clean and full of rich snobs, also known as socs. The stores clerks were nicer to the rich teenagers but jerks to us greasers. The biggest difference was how every corner you turned someone would yell 'greaser!' at you or give you a dirty look. It's a toss up over which side was better.
" How come you don't get Johnny to come with you or Two-Bit or Curly or Dally?" Pony asked Danny still sounding annoyed.
"Because Johnny isn't as amused with books as you are, Two-Bit can't go on to this side of town without causing some Blondie's boy to beat the hell out of him, Curly lives to far and Dally can't go to this side of town without getting into a fight!" Danny replied sounding a tad annoyed herself with Pony's stubbornness.
" I'm going to convince Curly to move down here so he can go to the book stores with you instead of you dragging me. Or maybe convince that boyfriend Johnny of your to appreciate books." Pony glared.
" I get the point. You don't want to be dragged here." Danny laughed as they approached the store.
" Danny maybe we should come back. There's a lot of socs over there." Pony advised Danny, he was smart to do so. loitering outside the store was about ten sixteen or seventeen year old socs. Each one of them wearing expensive leather jackets and looking for a fight.
" O well, I want to go read some books!" Danny glared and walked towards the store with Pony keeping his distance from the place. Just as Danny got to the door the group of socs stopped her.
" Hey greaser, this is were socs hang out, not little greasers." One of them said.
" Look, I just want to go look at some books, okay. I don't want to start anything." Danny replied in a courageous manner.
" Well maybe we want to start something, greaser." Another soc grinned and pushed her into the wall and swore at her.
" Look, I just want to go read some books okay? So just let me go to the store and we can all go are separate ways." I said in a non-challant voice.
" If you like to so much how 'bout you read the book about a stupid greaser who messes with the wrong people."
" Never heard of it. Is it a new book?" Danny sarcastically glared at them.
" So your a smart mouthed greaser huh? I can fix that." One of the socs said and pulled out a switch blade.
" What are you going to do with a switchblade?" she stammered and tried to find a way to run.
" I can cut you with a switchblade." They grinned and held the blade against her throat.
" Hey! Don't you dare hurt her!" A voice yelled, it was Pony's voice.
" Her?" One of the socs said sounding surprised.
" Ya, I'm a girl, what are you some kind of moron!" Danny glared.
" Let's go guys, we don't jump girls, even if they are greasers." One of the socs said and they all left. Danny just looked at Pony and began to talk,
" Thanks Pony, who knows if he would have used that switchblade if you didn't tell them off." she blushed.
" No problem Danny. Though it was a tad sad that they didn't know you were a girl. Your short, skinny ,big eyes ,long hair and have a chest, not much of one but enough to tell your a girl." Pony grinned.
" Hahaha Pony, but still thanks." Danny blushed.
" It's not a big deal Danny, you would have done the same thing." Pony blushed too.
"Yep, I would have Pony. Hey, is that not Two-Bit' in his car?" Danny asked.
" Ya, it is. Let's see if he can give us a ride back. Won't he be surprised what happened." Ponboy grinned and headed off to his car.
" Hey Two-Bit, can you give us a ride back to my house?" Pony asked.
" Ya sure you two can ride in back. I need the front seat for picking up Blondie's and holding my beer." Two-Bit grinned.
" Guess what happened? Some socs brought a switch blade out on Danny and..." Pony went on telling the story for the whole ride, of course half of what he said was exaggerated by a long shot.
" Hey Danny, were here." Pony grinned and broke her focus on her thoughts.
" Oh, ya coming." Danny replied in a dazed manner and followed Pony.
" Hey!" Someone yelled and tapped Danny on the shoulder. Danny jumped a little.
" Wow, sorry Danny, didn't mean to scare you." It was Johnny.
" Danny is probably jumpy after that encounter with some socs." Pony said.
" You got jumped? Wow, scary. Your okay though right?" Johnny asked sounding worried. Danny nodded.
" Want to go down to the park or someplace Danny?" Johnny asked.
" Sure, but wait I was going to hang with Pony, you don't mind do you Pony?"
" No go ahead, see ya later!" Pony grinned.
" Okay, bye Pony" Danny said and Johnny and her left to Danny and Dally's house. Their house was small and very untidy. It had one bedroom, one bathroom and a kitchen/extra room. In the bedroom they had a bed and some drawers and books every were, all the books were obviously Danny's. The bathroom had really nothing in it and the kitchen was empty and the extra room had an old couch that was full of holes and small Telly. Johnny and Danny went to sit on the couch and watch some good old Mickey Mouse.
" Hey Danny, is Dally home?" Johnny asked.
" Nope, he is out somewhere. Why?"
" Just wondering, because if he was here he would probably get mad at me for this." Johnny grinned and moved in closer to Danny and put his arm around her.
" Wow, your such a dare devil Johnny, how do you go through life knowing how daring you are!" Danny sarcastically laughed and acted like a swoon maiden in love.
" I can be a dare devil if I wanted to!" Johnny glared.
" You can? Then kiss me Johnny! Kiss me like the dare devil you are!" Danny laughed.
" Fine then." Johnny grinned and leaned in closer to Danny and kissed her.
" I guess you are a dare devil Johnnycake." Danny smiled and gave Johnny a kiss on the cheek.
" Where is Dally by the way?" Johnny asked in a curious yet terrified voice.
" He's in the bed room most likely listening to every word we say." Danny mischievously grinned.
" Danny! You know he gets mad when I do anything resembling affection towards you!" Johnny glared.
" No he doesn't, you're exaggerating. Dally likes you more then he likes me. He doesn't care if you show affection." Danny glared back and rolled her eyes at him.
" Yes he does care and he doesn't like me more then he likes you." Johnny argued.
" Well if he gets so angry then you better run because I can hear him coming into the kitchen." Danny grinned with a smirk on her face.
" What? Okay see ya Danny!" Johnny hurriedly said and rushed out the door. He made it out the door just as Dally entered the room.
" He still thinks I care if you two are kissing?" Dally laughed with a smirk on his face.
" Yep, he sure does." Danny laughed.
" Did you tell him I don't?" Dally asked.
" Yep, didn't do any good." Danny grinned.
" He'll learn someday." Dally laughed.
" No, he never will." Danny grinned.