I don't own the Outsiders!

(Ponyboy's P.O.V.)

I walked into Buck's place with what was left of the gang behind me. It had been two weeks since Dallas and Johnny died. Buck's eyes were red, when he told us to come get Dally's stuff. When I walked thru the door, I was handed a box marked 'Dally's room'. I took it home and started to go thru it remembering the guy I had known as my buddy.

I picked out and folded his clothes, like we did when mom and dad passed. Then I kept the best looking box of camels, and threw out other trash. I picked up the cowboy boots he wore when he jockeyed. I saw the busted blade that Dally used to slash Tim's tires that night before the movies. I got his sunglasses and his cigarette lighter. I didn't expect an old black notebook in the bottom of the box.

I picked it up, and opened it to the first page.

Dallas Winston's Personal Property

Read and I will beat your head in!

Same old Dally; I flipped to the next page…

The story of me

My story starts the same way as anyone's; on the day I was born. It was a cold November night, in a little run down hospital in the worst part of the Bronx. My mom was real sick and frail when she had me. She died about an hour and a half after I was born, didn't even fill out the birth certificate. It was the nurse that filled it out.

I closed it real fast; this was Dally's life, wrote by Dallas himself! Shouldn't I read this, it was personal and raw. What he really felt about everything, what his time was like in New York. To know what went through Dally's head… I opened the notebook again. A copy of his birth certificate fell out, like the one the nurse filled out…

Full birth name: Dallas Lee Winston

Date of birth:November 9, 1948

Place of birth: South Bronx Medical Center

Birth mother: Charlotte Smith Winston Birth father: Nicholas Earl Winston

I stared at it for a while; He never told us his birthday or his middle name. We just guessed at it, when we tried to give him a birthday party. He told us it was in November; I never would have thought of Lee as a middle name. It sounded kind of like a Soc name…

I always hated my middle name, it sounded girly. I never told anyone my birthday, it was no big deal; another hood was born, Whoop-de-do! My dad wasn't their when I was born; he was in Tulsa on a business trip… I guess he was happy my real mom had died, that way he could marry my step-mom.

He met her in Tulsa, and supposedly fell in love with her. I just saw it as cheating on my mom. I moved to Tulsa when I was a week old, so I didn't even know I was born their till I was a little older. My step-mom hated me; she said I looked to much like my real mom. Dad tried to make me look more like him; he would he grease my hair back and dress me like him. It never worked; I still had mom's light hair and blue eyes…

"Pony, go to bed! You have that track meet tomorrow!" Darry hollered from the kitchen

"Okay, night guys!" and I realized Two Bit and Steve were here when they, along with Soda and Darry replied

"Good night Pone!"

Hey y'all,

If you want another chapter please tell me! I just wrote this off the top of my head, so any ideas you would like to see would be great too!

Stay gold,

Outsidersfanlovesdally