Here's chapter two! YAY ME!

I don't own The Outsiders, but I own Dory. Id rather own Johnny...he's cute...lol

WARNING: This chapter contains SOME swears. You have been warned.

Ponyboy's POV.

We walked out of my house together and started down toward the lot. But then I realized it was 4:30 and it has been a long time since I had eaten. I stopped her and asked "You hungry?".

"Yeah," she said. "Where you wanna go?" she said looking up at me. Im a little short for my age so it was weird that she was still shorter than me.

"There's this new dinner I'd like to try out. Its a little by the west side, though, you still wanna go?" I asked.

"Sure I'd love..." she began to say but I cut her off.

"Crap, I'm broke." I said. 'You blew it', I thought to my self. 'You cant afford to buy a girl dinner. Darry's right, you never use your head...'

"Relax, I'll pay, no problem." she told me, while laughing and taking my hand, and leading me to the door of the West Side Diner. She kept staring at me and it was getting kind of awkward, so I broke the ice.

"Is something bothering you, Dory?" I asked her, but she had no time to answer as we entered the diner.

Dory's POV.

He was so cute! I can't believe I was lucky enough to wake up on the side of the rode after being beaten up and see his beautiful eyes, which I still cant stop staring at!. What more could a girl ask for then a guy as cute as Pony? I wasn't watching were I was going, since I was too busy staring at Ponyboy, so stupid me, ran into a waitress as we entered the diner.

She was a old lady with more wrinkles than a prune. She also had yellow teeth, bad breath that reeked of rotten eggs, and she had badly permed, grey hair. It also wouldn't hurt if she went on a diet.

Before I could say anything, she shouted "Watch where your going!" at the top of her lungs. 'She defently needs to retire', I thought to myself. The diner was empty except for a few old men on bar stools and a booth full of guy socs. I stupidly, sat in the booth behind the socs. Pony looked at me, unsure, but I didn't think they would try to pull anything in public, but I thought wrong.

The waitress I bumped into before walked over to our table and threw two menus on it and walked away. I handed one to Ponyboy and told him "Order anything you want, it's on me.".

Ponyboy's POV.

It sure was nice of her to offer to pay and tell me to get whatever I wanted. I never really got to spend money this freely before. But it sure felt nice. I felt like one of those rich soc guys. Bein able to afford mustangs and madras. That must be nice. But I knew I would never be able to afford a tuff mustang or anything like that, so I might as well enjoy having a expensive dinner instead. I opened the menu and tried to decide weather to get BBQ ribs or cheeseburger. 'I should get a salad, too.' I thought to myself. But when I was deciding about all that, Randy, a soc, turned around and stuck his head in between me and Dory's.

"How are you two love birds doin?" he asked. The stench of beer on his breath almost made me vomit. I was about to let that slide but then his friends started to make chirping sounds, which was enough to send me over the edge. The old Ponyboy would have let them continue, just ignored it. But I have changed. I changed when the socs attacked me and Johnny that night. When they were gonna drown me and forced Johnny to kill one of them out of self defense. And of course we had to run away so we wouldn't get caught. And then we went to that church which started to burn down, probably because of us. So went to save the kids in it and Johnny got so burnt that he eventually died. And after he died Dally went and got his self killed. All because of them. All because of the socs. They changed me.

"Shut the fuck up you ass-wholes!" I screamed. They all looked a little surprised at my outburst. It wasn't like me to swear and shout like that. Not like the shy, quiet, nice ole Ponyboy.

"I've had enough of your shit so leave us alone!" I continued.

"And whatchya gonna do if we don't?" one of them asked.

I finally snapped and punched him in the face giving him a bloody nose. Then I went after Randy and punched him in the stomach, and then punched him in the eye. The others were running away so I looked over at Dory. Randy, despite his injury, was sticking his hands down her shirt and trying to kiss her. Dory was screaming at him to stop. I grabbed him and pushed him to the ground and kicked him in the groin.

I took Dory by the hand, and ran out the restaurant, practically dragging her out the door. We were so pumped up, and scared that they were chasing us, that we ran all the way to the lot. We laid down underneath the monkey bar-dome thing (what Ponyboy and Johnny were near in the beginning of the movie when they were jumped by the socs) from exhaustion.

Suddenly, Dory rolled over to face me and said, "I wasn't really hungry, anyway.".

I hope this was O.K. I'm sorry my chapters are short. Its hard for me to make them long with out rambling on and on and on and on and on and on…….. Thanks for the people who DID review. I hope that I get some more. I cant get better if you don't tell me how I can.

Much Love from,

IJAG77