Ever since Johnny and Dallas died a couple of years back, the gang and I have been pretty lonely. Steve moved in with us after his father him to a military school for boys. He ran away back to us.
We had enough room since Sodapop became old enough to be my guardian; Darry moved away to start his life in the city.
He'd said he'd be back to visit us every now and then, and that was a promise that he intended to keep.
Soda keeps telling me that I look more like Darry everyday; I denied this for I wasn't as hard and cold on people. Soda agrees, but he still says I look like him.
Life for me, Ponyboy Curtis, wasn't getting any easier here on the East Side. For one, the Socs were jumping us even more since Johnny had killed Bob.
On my sixteenth birthday good ol' Two-bit had polished, boxed, and wrapped an old, black, tuff-looking switchblade and said, "I took this from a thrift store, thinking it could replace my old one. It just ain't the same. I don't need this hunk of junk. Here, Ponyboy, you keep it. Believe me, Pony that switch'll scare them Socs straight into Johnny's grave."
That remark made me cry all that night, thinking about Johnny and Dally. Soda asked if I was okay and I told him I wasn't feelin' too hot. He knew I was thinking about Johnny and them.
"Pony, follow me," he whispered in the dark, crawling over me to get out of bed. I followed him to the closet at the back of the hall.
He fiddled around in it and produced a box that looked like it would hold a wedding ring. Soda handed it to me to say, "Dally wanted you to have this when you turned seventeen, but I guess I might as well give it to you now." I opened the box to find a silver hand lighter. It was engraved with a picture of a bucking bull with cowboy on it's back. I turned the lighter over, around in my hand when I spotted a name in the metal. It was Dally's name.
It read Dallas Winston in curvy, fancy letters. I never forgot that night
Hey this is AdimentVirage123 and this is just the beginning of the story. I have about 167pgs. Left in the written version and I ran out of time to type the 2nd chapter. So please bear with me and still read it anyway. Thanks and lots of hugs
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