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It was about 3 in the afternoon when I met up with Two-Bit at the diner. We both hadn't had anything to eat, so we went to get some shakes and burgers. He gave me a quick peck on the lips, just like he always does when he sees me,
unless we've got somethin else to worry about, just like yesterday. Maybe that's why our gang seems to think that me an him are goin steady or something.
After we got something to eat, we headed down to the Dingo, the hangout
for the Greasers. The Dingo has some pretty good fights, but one time a girl got shot. We spotted a fight that had begun between a mexican hitchhiker and a twenty-three year old greaser. We saw Pony, Dally, and Johnny, but they didn't even spot us. The fight was really great, all except for the fact that the two flicked out their switchblades towards the end. We both decided to leave, cause the fuzz always show when swithcblades are flicked out during a fight.
It got dark bye the time we got to Jay's, thae local bar. Jay's is like the dingo, cept it's a bar. The Dingo is just a place that's got a soda fountain. We saw Tim Shepard there. We walked over to him to start up a converstaion. "Hey ho're
you doing?"
"Not so good, my kid brother got sent to the reformary for the next six
months."
"Sorry to hear it. That kid sure can fight good." I grinned.
Tim had a brother named Curly. He looked just like tim in every way, shape, and size. Curly's a pretty good fighter in a rumble. Once Tim and I caught Curly and Pony playing Chicken by holduing lit cigarettes between their forefingres. We could smell the burning flesh from it too. We went over there and knocked both their heads in and told them that if they ever did that again, they'd get the tar beat outta them. Pony still has the scar from it.
Tim put an arm on my shoulder. "So how're things on your end of the line?"
"Eh, same old, same old. Darry seems to get worked up on Pony more and more lately. He acts just as if he runs the place, and for some reason, forgets that I have more superiority over him, and that I'm older than him too. Bugs the crap outta me! Other'n that, every things ok.
Two-Bit nodded like he understood, well he should, since I told him bout the problem between me an Darry every single day. Tim just grinned a bit. "Kid brothers who are only a year younger than their other kid sisters have a tendancy to think that they own the place. It's a proven fact too. One of the guys in my gang has a big sister, and he tries to run the place."
I smiled. Although Tim wasn't too educated, he knew the score real well.
I looked over at the bartender. "Hey, Bartender, I need two beers, and one shot of Tequila."
"I bought the first round, so either one of you pick up the second, alright?"
They both nodded in agreement. We all picked up our drinks, and drank it down. Tequila doesn't take too long to get into your system. Luckaly I have a high toerance for alcohol, so I donk get drunk till after my eleventh or twelvth round. I looked over at the clock and it read 8:45. "Hey Two-BIt, we gotta get going and see Pony, Johnny, and Dally."
We both said goodbye to Tim and we started walking off to the movies. It didn't take us more than fifteen minuets to get over to the Nightly Double.
Two-Bit paid for us to get in, cause it only costs a quarter to get in, if you don't have a car that is. We only spotted Pony and Johnny there, but Dally was nowhere to be found. We just shrugged and walked over to where Pony and Johnny were. Two-Bit put his hands on Johnny and Pony's shoulder, and said,
"Ok greasers, you've had it!"
Pony looked at us scared, that is untill he realized that it was us. Two-Bit then realized how bad he had scared Johnny. We all knew not to scare him like that, not after what the Socs had done to him. Two-Bit went to apologize to
Johnny. We both ploped down next to each other, right beside Ponny and Johnny. Two bit looked over at the black haired girl and the red-head. "Who's this, your great-aunts?"
"Great-grandmothers twice removed." The red-head said smiling.
Pony looked at both me and Two-Bit, and I could tell that he was trying to figure out if we were drunk, which we were, but we'd never let Pony know till later.It was extreamly hard to tell if we were both boozed or something. We
could act boozed even if we weren't. I smiled a bit
Two-Bit started up a converstaion with the Black-haired Soc, Marcia. The red-head talked quietly to Cherry. Istarted talkin to Johnny, just to pass some time. "How ya been kid?" He gazed up at me. " I been doin real good. how bout you?" I shrugged. "NOthin outta the ordinary I can tell ya that much fer sure." He nodded. I started watchin the movie. It seemed pretty dull till the guys in the bar started brawlin. that was cool. Just then I heard my stomach growl. "I'm hungry....."
Cherry and Pony got up to get some popcorn. "Hey you guys, I'll come with, just in case there's a fight I can be in."
I loved to fight. Two-Bit loved fighting too. We kept holding a competition to see how many Socs we could whip. If I beat three more than Two-Bit did, he beat up four more.
We went in the consession stands, and as I predicted I saw a few dozen Socs in there. A few of the kids turned to look at us. It ain't that often you see a few greasrs hanging out with a Soc.
"Your friend, the one with the side burns, and her, are they both ok?"
Pony nodded. "Yeah, Two-Bit's the funny one, and she's my sister, Candy."
I smiled, but then it subsided as Pony told Cherry about the time when Johnny had been hurt real bad. I just walked off, but found a few Socs trailing behind me as I walked infront of Two-Bit and Johnny to sit on the railing. I could tell that Johnny was freaking out a little, but he'd never let the Socs see it. "You all wanna fight or something, cause if you do, me an my buddy here'll like tho whip you down."
The Socs looked at me, and I could tell they weren't about to back down. Two-Bit hoped over the railing and threw his cigarette on the ground.I turned to look at Two-Bit, but then the Soc hit me right in the jaw. I fell down to kick his knee. I had to get right back up cause I was gonna knee him in the face. Luckaly, he was knocked out. Unfortunatly, another Soc came up from behind and kicked my back.
I turned to face him, and he hit me on the same part of my jaw as that other Soc had. I quickly threw a sledge hammer punch and knocked him out. Two-Bit had accomplished with beating up his two Socs. Two-Bit looked at me
worridl, and took his thumb and whiped the side of my head, and my jaw. "Um
Kit-Kat, You got a big gash on your left cheek there."
Pony came up to mee and check to see if I was ok. He had goten a few napkins, and he put a few to my cheek to stop some of the bleeding. He did the same for my jaw. "Cut it out you two, I'm gonna be fine, so just quit it ok?"
The two stopped right there, and the bleeding subsided. I looked at myself in a small mirror that was on a Sting Ray, a Socy car. I looked reall tuff, cool, with that cut.
I followed the guys down to Two-Bit's house, cause he was offering to give Cherry and Marica a ride home. Cherry looked over to ask Pony something. "So tell me about Darry. Is he dreamy like Soda, funny like Candy, or sweet
like you?"
Pony flinched as we stoped. "He's not like Soda or Candy, and he sure ain't like me. He's as hard as a rock and about as human. He's got eyes exactly like frozen ice. He thinks I'm a pain in the neck. He likes Soda and Candy. Everybody likes those two but he can't stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he'd do it too, if Soda and Candy'd let him."
My eyes were compleatly widened, I didn't know what to say. Two-Bit spoke. "No..." He was dumbfounded. "No, Pony, that ain't right...you got it
wrong..."
"Gee," Johnny said softly. "I thought you and Darry and Candy and Soda got along real well..."
"Well we don't," Pony was starting to get angered. "An you can just shut your trap, Johnny Cade, cause we all know you ain't wanted at home, either.
And you can't blame them."
Johnny's eyes were bigger than mine at that moment. He looked just like he had been hit or something. Two-Bit slapped Pony upside the head.
"Shut your mouth kid. If Kit-Kat wasn't here I'd beat the tar out of you. You know better than to talk to Johnny like that." He put a hand on Johnny's shoulder. "He didn't mean it Johnny."
Pony looked over at me. I was holding back tears that would probably come cascading down my face at any second. "Pony! What the heck do you think you're doing talking like that? Darry loves you just as much as the whole gang, probably even more. He's just worried, cause I'm hardly there most of the time, that he might lose you or something. I could move out if I wanted to, but if I did, Darry would have of take care of you and Soda. He doesn't want you to miss out on things he never got a chance to have! He's got more worries than a guy his age ought to! Don't you see that?"
Tears streamed down my face, and Two-Bit let me bury my face on his shoulder. "There, there, just let it out. You'll be fine."
Two-Bit made a realization. "Pony you don't realize how bad it's tearing up Kit-Kat. She's the oldest one in your family. She tells me that she wishes she could help out, she really does, but Darry insists that she doesn't. I don't see why he don't want her too. It hurts her to see that you and Darry don't have that same foundation that the both of you have with Soda. I can see why now
she don't like being home that much. It's cause she doesn't want to be stressed out to the point of dying. Stress can do that to you. My Mom is a wreak since my Dad left me an my kid sister a while ago. Trust me, it hurt her deep insde. Although she don't show it, It's really killing her."
My tears subsided, and I controlled myself. Two-Bit migh not be outta High School yet, and he might not know too much, but he knew how to phrase things real good.
Just as I was about to talk, we all noticed the blue Corvair that had been trailing us for a while. "Marcia look!" Cherry sounded scared. "Well, they've spotted us."
It was their drunken boyfriends. They had been drinking, so Cherry and Marcia left them cause they hate it when their boyfriends get drunk.The Socs stopped right by us, and I noticed Johnny. He was compleatly freaked out. I
noticed a guy who was wearing rings, and an idea came to me. When he was beat up in the vacant lot, he mentioned someone wearing rings, these rings gave hm a deep scar on his left cheek...
The two Socs were trying to get Marcis and Cherry to go back home with them, but Cherry and Marcia wouldn't. "Why are you walking around with these bums?"
Two-Bit and I bothtokk a long drag on our cigaretts. Johnny slouched a bit, and Pony stiffened. We could all pull off the tough act, and it sure came in handy. I put an elbow on Two-Bit's shoulder. "Who you callin' bums, pal?"
"Litsen greasers, we got four more of us in the back seat..."
"Then you should feal sorry for the back seat," I replied.
"If you're looking for a fight..."
Two-Bit cocked one eyebrow, just like I knew he would. "You mean if I'm
lookin for a good jumping. You outnumber us, so you'll give it to us? Well..." He grabbed a bottle, busted the end of it, then gave it Pony. Johnny, Two- Bit, and I flicked out our switchblades. "Try it, pal"
Cherry looked nervous. "No, stop, We'll go with you."
I cocked an eyebrow. "We ain't scared of them."
"No, I just can't stand fights."
After the Socs left, we started to walk to our house. Pony and Johnny sat down on the ground. I stood by the lightpole. "Well You guys, I think I'm gonna go home You guys be careful, and Pony, you be sure to be home at midnight ok?"
Pony nodded. Two-Bit walked over to me. "You ain't goin home just yet..." He nodded his head closer to my head. "Not without a kiss anyways."
I gave him a small kiss. I knew that Pony didn't really like this sorta thing cause his head was turned away. "Well, what are you gonna do later tonight Two-Bit?" I called out as I started walking home.
He stifled a laugh. "Probably go hunt up a game of snooker, get rip roarin drunk, if I feel lucky."
I nodded. "Yeah, well just be careful, alright?" I shouted somethin, an I knew he understood.
Dally's Chick: Thanks for the reply! I can't guarantee that one of the gang ain't gonna die, but I'll see what I can do for ya! Especially since you asked so nice! ^_^ DrunkOffOfSoda: Thanks for readin the chap. I'll try not to copy so much from here on out! =D Two_BitGortez & Karlei Shaynner. Don't worry, I'll try an update each week, dependin on how school's goin, but I can't guarantee much over my winter break.......^_^; Aaliyah-Charity: I dunno, she's not the type of person to work, but I'll see if I can convince her! ^_~ Lynn1415: Hey, thanks, every comment helps! I hope you keep reading! ^_^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~
It was about 3 in the afternoon when I met up with Two-Bit at the diner. We both hadn't had anything to eat, so we went to get some shakes and burgers. He gave me a quick peck on the lips, just like he always does when he sees me,
unless we've got somethin else to worry about, just like yesterday. Maybe that's why our gang seems to think that me an him are goin steady or something.
After we got something to eat, we headed down to the Dingo, the hangout
for the Greasers. The Dingo has some pretty good fights, but one time a girl got shot. We spotted a fight that had begun between a mexican hitchhiker and a twenty-three year old greaser. We saw Pony, Dally, and Johnny, but they didn't even spot us. The fight was really great, all except for the fact that the two flicked out their switchblades towards the end. We both decided to leave, cause the fuzz always show when swithcblades are flicked out during a fight.
It got dark bye the time we got to Jay's, thae local bar. Jay's is like the dingo, cept it's a bar. The Dingo is just a place that's got a soda fountain. We saw Tim Shepard there. We walked over to him to start up a converstaion. "Hey ho're
you doing?"
"Not so good, my kid brother got sent to the reformary for the next six
months."
"Sorry to hear it. That kid sure can fight good." I grinned.
Tim had a brother named Curly. He looked just like tim in every way, shape, and size. Curly's a pretty good fighter in a rumble. Once Tim and I caught Curly and Pony playing Chicken by holduing lit cigarettes between their forefingres. We could smell the burning flesh from it too. We went over there and knocked both their heads in and told them that if they ever did that again, they'd get the tar beat outta them. Pony still has the scar from it.
Tim put an arm on my shoulder. "So how're things on your end of the line?"
"Eh, same old, same old. Darry seems to get worked up on Pony more and more lately. He acts just as if he runs the place, and for some reason, forgets that I have more superiority over him, and that I'm older than him too. Bugs the crap outta me! Other'n that, every things ok.
Two-Bit nodded like he understood, well he should, since I told him bout the problem between me an Darry every single day. Tim just grinned a bit. "Kid brothers who are only a year younger than their other kid sisters have a tendancy to think that they own the place. It's a proven fact too. One of the guys in my gang has a big sister, and he tries to run the place."
I smiled. Although Tim wasn't too educated, he knew the score real well.
I looked over at the bartender. "Hey, Bartender, I need two beers, and one shot of Tequila."
"I bought the first round, so either one of you pick up the second, alright?"
They both nodded in agreement. We all picked up our drinks, and drank it down. Tequila doesn't take too long to get into your system. Luckaly I have a high toerance for alcohol, so I donk get drunk till after my eleventh or twelvth round. I looked over at the clock and it read 8:45. "Hey Two-BIt, we gotta get going and see Pony, Johnny, and Dally."
We both said goodbye to Tim and we started walking off to the movies. It didn't take us more than fifteen minuets to get over to the Nightly Double.
Two-Bit paid for us to get in, cause it only costs a quarter to get in, if you don't have a car that is. We only spotted Pony and Johnny there, but Dally was nowhere to be found. We just shrugged and walked over to where Pony and Johnny were. Two-Bit put his hands on Johnny and Pony's shoulder, and said,
"Ok greasers, you've had it!"
Pony looked at us scared, that is untill he realized that it was us. Two-Bit then realized how bad he had scared Johnny. We all knew not to scare him like that, not after what the Socs had done to him. Two-Bit went to apologize to
Johnny. We both ploped down next to each other, right beside Ponny and Johnny. Two bit looked over at the black haired girl and the red-head. "Who's this, your great-aunts?"
"Great-grandmothers twice removed." The red-head said smiling.
Pony looked at both me and Two-Bit, and I could tell that he was trying to figure out if we were drunk, which we were, but we'd never let Pony know till later.It was extreamly hard to tell if we were both boozed or something. We
could act boozed even if we weren't. I smiled a bit
Two-Bit started up a converstaion with the Black-haired Soc, Marcia. The red-head talked quietly to Cherry. Istarted talkin to Johnny, just to pass some time. "How ya been kid?" He gazed up at me. " I been doin real good. how bout you?" I shrugged. "NOthin outta the ordinary I can tell ya that much fer sure." He nodded. I started watchin the movie. It seemed pretty dull till the guys in the bar started brawlin. that was cool. Just then I heard my stomach growl. "I'm hungry....."
Cherry and Pony got up to get some popcorn. "Hey you guys, I'll come with, just in case there's a fight I can be in."
I loved to fight. Two-Bit loved fighting too. We kept holding a competition to see how many Socs we could whip. If I beat three more than Two-Bit did, he beat up four more.
We went in the consession stands, and as I predicted I saw a few dozen Socs in there. A few of the kids turned to look at us. It ain't that often you see a few greasrs hanging out with a Soc.
"Your friend, the one with the side burns, and her, are they both ok?"
Pony nodded. "Yeah, Two-Bit's the funny one, and she's my sister, Candy."
I smiled, but then it subsided as Pony told Cherry about the time when Johnny had been hurt real bad. I just walked off, but found a few Socs trailing behind me as I walked infront of Two-Bit and Johnny to sit on the railing. I could tell that Johnny was freaking out a little, but he'd never let the Socs see it. "You all wanna fight or something, cause if you do, me an my buddy here'll like tho whip you down."
The Socs looked at me, and I could tell they weren't about to back down. Two-Bit hoped over the railing and threw his cigarette on the ground.I turned to look at Two-Bit, but then the Soc hit me right in the jaw. I fell down to kick his knee. I had to get right back up cause I was gonna knee him in the face. Luckaly, he was knocked out. Unfortunatly, another Soc came up from behind and kicked my back.
I turned to face him, and he hit me on the same part of my jaw as that other Soc had. I quickly threw a sledge hammer punch and knocked him out. Two-Bit had accomplished with beating up his two Socs. Two-Bit looked at me
worridl, and took his thumb and whiped the side of my head, and my jaw. "Um
Kit-Kat, You got a big gash on your left cheek there."
Pony came up to mee and check to see if I was ok. He had goten a few napkins, and he put a few to my cheek to stop some of the bleeding. He did the same for my jaw. "Cut it out you two, I'm gonna be fine, so just quit it ok?"
The two stopped right there, and the bleeding subsided. I looked at myself in a small mirror that was on a Sting Ray, a Socy car. I looked reall tuff, cool, with that cut.
I followed the guys down to Two-Bit's house, cause he was offering to give Cherry and Marica a ride home. Cherry looked over to ask Pony something. "So tell me about Darry. Is he dreamy like Soda, funny like Candy, or sweet
like you?"
Pony flinched as we stoped. "He's not like Soda or Candy, and he sure ain't like me. He's as hard as a rock and about as human. He's got eyes exactly like frozen ice. He thinks I'm a pain in the neck. He likes Soda and Candy. Everybody likes those two but he can't stand me. I bet he wishes he could stick me in a home somewhere, and he'd do it too, if Soda and Candy'd let him."
My eyes were compleatly widened, I didn't know what to say. Two-Bit spoke. "No..." He was dumbfounded. "No, Pony, that ain't right...you got it
wrong..."
"Gee," Johnny said softly. "I thought you and Darry and Candy and Soda got along real well..."
"Well we don't," Pony was starting to get angered. "An you can just shut your trap, Johnny Cade, cause we all know you ain't wanted at home, either.
And you can't blame them."
Johnny's eyes were bigger than mine at that moment. He looked just like he had been hit or something. Two-Bit slapped Pony upside the head.
"Shut your mouth kid. If Kit-Kat wasn't here I'd beat the tar out of you. You know better than to talk to Johnny like that." He put a hand on Johnny's shoulder. "He didn't mean it Johnny."
Pony looked over at me. I was holding back tears that would probably come cascading down my face at any second. "Pony! What the heck do you think you're doing talking like that? Darry loves you just as much as the whole gang, probably even more. He's just worried, cause I'm hardly there most of the time, that he might lose you or something. I could move out if I wanted to, but if I did, Darry would have of take care of you and Soda. He doesn't want you to miss out on things he never got a chance to have! He's got more worries than a guy his age ought to! Don't you see that?"
Tears streamed down my face, and Two-Bit let me bury my face on his shoulder. "There, there, just let it out. You'll be fine."
Two-Bit made a realization. "Pony you don't realize how bad it's tearing up Kit-Kat. She's the oldest one in your family. She tells me that she wishes she could help out, she really does, but Darry insists that she doesn't. I don't see why he don't want her too. It hurts her to see that you and Darry don't have that same foundation that the both of you have with Soda. I can see why now
she don't like being home that much. It's cause she doesn't want to be stressed out to the point of dying. Stress can do that to you. My Mom is a wreak since my Dad left me an my kid sister a while ago. Trust me, it hurt her deep insde. Although she don't show it, It's really killing her."
My tears subsided, and I controlled myself. Two-Bit migh not be outta High School yet, and he might not know too much, but he knew how to phrase things real good.
Just as I was about to talk, we all noticed the blue Corvair that had been trailing us for a while. "Marcia look!" Cherry sounded scared. "Well, they've spotted us."
It was their drunken boyfriends. They had been drinking, so Cherry and Marcia left them cause they hate it when their boyfriends get drunk.The Socs stopped right by us, and I noticed Johnny. He was compleatly freaked out. I
noticed a guy who was wearing rings, and an idea came to me. When he was beat up in the vacant lot, he mentioned someone wearing rings, these rings gave hm a deep scar on his left cheek...
The two Socs were trying to get Marcis and Cherry to go back home with them, but Cherry and Marcia wouldn't. "Why are you walking around with these bums?"
Two-Bit and I bothtokk a long drag on our cigaretts. Johnny slouched a bit, and Pony stiffened. We could all pull off the tough act, and it sure came in handy. I put an elbow on Two-Bit's shoulder. "Who you callin' bums, pal?"
"Litsen greasers, we got four more of us in the back seat..."
"Then you should feal sorry for the back seat," I replied.
"If you're looking for a fight..."
Two-Bit cocked one eyebrow, just like I knew he would. "You mean if I'm
lookin for a good jumping. You outnumber us, so you'll give it to us? Well..." He grabbed a bottle, busted the end of it, then gave it Pony. Johnny, Two- Bit, and I flicked out our switchblades. "Try it, pal"
Cherry looked nervous. "No, stop, We'll go with you."
I cocked an eyebrow. "We ain't scared of them."
"No, I just can't stand fights."
After the Socs left, we started to walk to our house. Pony and Johnny sat down on the ground. I stood by the lightpole. "Well You guys, I think I'm gonna go home You guys be careful, and Pony, you be sure to be home at midnight ok?"
Pony nodded. Two-Bit walked over to me. "You ain't goin home just yet..." He nodded his head closer to my head. "Not without a kiss anyways."
I gave him a small kiss. I knew that Pony didn't really like this sorta thing cause his head was turned away. "Well, what are you gonna do later tonight Two-Bit?" I called out as I started walking home.
He stifled a laugh. "Probably go hunt up a game of snooker, get rip roarin drunk, if I feel lucky."
I nodded. "Yeah, well just be careful, alright?" I shouted somethin, an I knew he understood.
