Chapter 1:
*Raine's POV*
When my friend Ponyboy and I step out….into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things in my mind. Minnie Mouse and getting him home.
Usually walking towards home is not a good idea, especially for us greasers. Well I am older than him by a couple of years and I have my switchblade on me so I can protect my dear friend. Ponyboy and I share a few laughs as well talk about anything we can think of. Mostly about books and Minnie Mouse. In fact, my clothing is worn out black jeans, a purple Minnie Mouse sleeveless top with long black sleeves underneath it for a reason, and black converse on my feet.
Soon as we arrived to our neighborhood. A group of Socs are following us. More like stalking us. He gently links his arm with my long black sleeved arm as I happily accept it. Our speed picks up towards the Curtis Household. The one place I feel really safe in.
Just down the street of the house, something or someone hits me at the back of my head, causing me to fall forward scraping my hands, clothed forearms, and clothed shins. Pain shoots up from scrapes and wounds from previous events. It made me scream in agony. The Socs tower over us jumping us without a care in a world. I was about to get my switchblade when I feel them being forcefully remove off of us.
"And don't you dare come back over our triff!" the mama bear of the Curtis Gang, Elynn Curtis, screams at them.
The impact of the jump caused me to stay down on the ground, shooken up a little.
"Raine," a gentle, familiar male voice speaks to me. "Are you alright?"
I look up through my tearful eyes to see my other good friend Keith Matthews also known as Two-Bit.
"No," I answered, crying a little in my hand.
"Come here," he pulls me into a hug where I can cry on his shoulder. He tells me a Mickey Mouse joke which I laugh more than crying now.
"Walking by you guys' selves!" Darry, the papa bear of the group, exclaims at us as we head back towards the Curtis house. "You don't ever think!"
"All we were doing is walking home from the movies," I explained for Ponyboy and I as Two-Bit holds me with his arm around my waist.
"Movies and books," he growls under his breath.
"Hey, at least they are learning some education after of school," Elynn comes in for the rescue.
"Why don't you concentrate on girls and cars?" Soda suggested, smirking. "It works for me!"
"Look both of you," Elynn says softly to us, concerned for us. "If you two had to go by yourself or each other, you should have carried a blade."
"Oh, yea, that would have been a great excuse for the Socs to cut his neck a little more there!" Soda comments.
"If I want my kid brother to tell us what to do with my other kid brother, I'll ask you, all right, kid brother!" Darry points at Soda's chest before walking back in the house.
"Easy now Darry," Two-Bit commented.
Elynn, Darry's wife, sighs and follows her husband.
"Geez Soda," Pony says to his other brother. "Why's he always gotta be like that?"
"He's just got more worries than he used to."
"How's it, kids?" Dally asked, smirking at us.
"Fine," Pony and I said at the same time.
"What are you doing out of the cooler, Dal?" I asked him as he walked over with Steve.
"Yea?" Steve speaks, looking at us. "And what are you doing walking by yourselves on the street, huh?"
"It's none of your business," Pony says.
"It is my business! Look at my nose!" Soda and Johnny pulls Steve back from fighting with us.
"It's huge!" Two-Bit jokes.
"Smartass. Hey, Dally. How you doing?" Steve shakes hands with him.
"I'm doing all right, man," Dally smirks.
"Thought you were in for about ninty days or something like that," I said to him.
"Yea, I got out early, kid. Good behavior, you know."
"Awe."
"Hey, Johnny," he greets Johnny, walking over to him. "How you doing, bro?"
We follow them closer to the house.
"Things would go a lot better, if the Socs stayed on the southside of town, man," Johnny says.
"Don't worry, Johnny," Steve tells him. "We're gonna have it out with them sooner or later."
"We sure as hell are," Soda joins in. "They keep coming over to our side of town."
"Those the same guys that got you?" Dally stops to ask Johnny.
"No. They were other guys," he answers.
"Now that I'm out, I'm gonna make it my business to get the guy who did that to your face," he promises Johnny.
"What about me becoming your personal bodyguard, huh, Ponyboy and Raine?" Two-Bit asked us.
A blush covers my face when he asked that.
"I-I don't mind," I stuttered a little.
"I don't think it's too hot of an idea for my end," Ponyboy says, making him nod in understanding.
"How about you and Sylvia coming over to the game with us tomorrow night?" Steve offers Dally.
"I wanna go," Ponyboy says.
"Oh, we're taking Evie and Sandy," Soda says.
"No kids allowed like us," I explained to Ponyboy, wrapping an arm around his shoulders.
"Nah, nah, nah," Dally speaks up. "I'm gonna go hunt some action. If little kids are allowed."
"We'll go with you, won't we, Pony and Raine?" Johnny asked us.
"I don't know, Dal," Pony wasn't sure. "I can't get in no trouble with the cops. Darry says the court will split us up for sure if I do."
"I'm going to pass because I need to get home," I sighed, not wanting to go.
"I'll give you a ride home," Two-Bit offers.
"Okay," I blushed, shyly.
Gosh, he's so handsome.
"Hey, Ponyboy," Elynn calls from the front door. "You got homework to do."
"See yea gentlemen," I tell them before leaving with Two-Bit.
We parted ways when Steve does his usual funny weirdness.
I got into the passenger seat of Two-Bit's car when he says to Johnny and Ponyboy, "mind pushing this?"
Soon we are seated in when they push his car out into the street.
"See you guys later!" he calls out to them.