Oh lookie here I'm back yo! Wahoo!

I'm sorry if it's not as great as the others or other stories. I'm sooo tired and sick. This is the only thing I have the attention span for and even that is limited.

Thankies S. for creating the Outsiders book

~~~~~Dallas

When we walked by a gas station we looked around. Things had been lifted and I swear half the candy was gone. That was really weird. Johnny and I left without taking anything because neither of us could risk getting caught. We walked around some more and we were going to give up and go back to the Cutis place when Johnny pointed at the park. There was Ponyboy and the Shepherd gang, and so was Angela sitting on the m'onkey bars. They were actin like kids, playing with sticks and yellin.

"Should we go get him?" Johnny asks me looking at Ponyboy who was hanging upside down.

"No, we're gonna get his brothers. Come on Johnnycakes." I started walking fast and he fell into step once again. The Curtis house had all of its lights on and I wondered if anyone else was around. Johnny goes in first and I follow.

"Where is he?" Soda asks his lower lip trembling. I know how worried he is, I remember seeing that look when Pone was up in that church.

"He's with Curly's gang and Angela at the park." I reply smoothly. Truthfully I was a little pissed off that he chose those knuckleheads to hang with instead of us. Us meaning me or maybe Johnny but mostly me.

"Figures." Darry said with a bitter tone. We walked to the park and Pony was hanging upside down throwing M&M's at Curly. They were laughing and Angela was putting on her lipstick. Darry and Sodas cleared their throats. All heads snapped to look at them. I almost laughed at the face of horror Pony had on his face. But then it was replaced with a blank expression. He jumped down and landed on his feet perfectly. He stood straight and he crossed his arms across his chest.

"Hi." He said simply.

"Ponyboy where have you been? I was worried!" Soda cried running up to him. He went to hug Pony and Pony stepped back.

~~~~~General

Soda looked at his baby brother and felt like he'd been punched in the gut. Why wouldn't Pony let Soda hug him? Soda reached for his little brother and came in contact with Curly instead. He glared at Soda and the rest of the Curtis gang.

"Did you guys need something?' He asked coldly.

"Look here you little-" Dallas growled moving forward but Pony's voice stopped.

"DON'T YOU TOUCH HIM." He yelled angrily.

"Pony..baby just come home okay? Please?" Soda pleaded. Soda was confused and hurt by his brothers cold attitude towards him. Soda didn't understand why Pony was so mad at him and suddenly so protective of a Shepherd.

"I will go home when I'm ready. I got a good 20 minutes till curfew and frankly I'd like to spend them with my friends." He smiled up at Curly and he grinned back. He ruffled Pony's hair and Pony giggled. Not one complaint about his hair being messed up, not one. "See ya later 'King'." He said as he gestured for his boys to follow. Angela hopped down and kissed Pony's cheek, he blushed and waved as they walked away.

"What the hell kid! What'r you doing with those hoods?" Seteve asked glaring at Pony.

Pony glared straight back, "They're my friends. Angela too, we were having fun. What's wrong with that? We didn't do nothin!"

"Don't get smart with me kid." Steve growled.

"Well don't be such a dick." Pony retorted. They were nose to nose by now and Steve looked ready to punch him. Dallas grabbed ahold of Pony and drug him back.

"The hell do you think you're doin." He asked as he let Pony go. Pony readjusted his shirt.

"Nothing okay, you wanted me to go home so let's go." He said quietly and stuck his thumbs in his pockets and started walking. Soda looped his arm around Pony's shoulders and felt slight comfort that he was allowed to touch his little brother again.

"I'm sorry." Pony said quietly as they got ready for bed when they got home.

"I'm sorry too." Soda replied, hoping to apease his brother. Soda wanted to know where Pony had been all night and knew that having Pony mad at him would be counter-productive. "But really where were you?"

"We went to a gas station, messed around. I got hit on by the creepy store clerk so we left. Then we went to the Dingo and Curly slashed some socs tires so we ran out before we got in trouble. And then we hung around at the park. I don't get why you guys are so against the Shepherds. Sure Tim is pretty shady sometimes but who in this neighborhood isn't? Soda I'm not a kid anymore and you need to see that."

"What if I don't want to..." Soda replies looking at the floor.

"What..?"

"What if I don't want you to grow up just yet? What if I want you to stay my baby brother for a little longer?" He replies wiping his watering eyes. Soda knew he was being unreasonable and he shouldn't be so touchy. All he wanted was to keep Pony's innocence perfectly intact and untarnished. Sure Pony had seen some things but not the things Soda wanted to keep him from. Although he was sure Dallas was going to take this plan and ruin it.

"How..y'know what? I don't want to deal with this." Pony snaps and goes to his old room. Soda watches his litle brothers retreating back and makes a split second decision. He grabs ahold of Pony's hand and holds it tight. Pony looks up at his middle brother and feels guilty instantly. Pony sighs and walks back down Soda's room and smiles slightly at Soda. They crawl into bed and Soda instead of just his normal arm across Pony's shoulder grabs him and holds him against his chest.

~~~~Morning Pony P.O.V

When I woke up this morning the only thing I saw was white. I blinked and realized it Soda's shirt, he was holding me tight. I slowly move myself out of his grip and let me tell ya, that was difficult. I look at my hair and decide that today I am not messing with it at all. After I've showered and gotten dressed for school I walk down to the kitchen. I look around and make sure no one was around to mess up my eggs again. After determining that no one either up yet or not here. I look in the icebox and start my breakfast. I sigh and move to make myself toast. I look at the clock and realize why I'm the only one up. It's barely 7 o'clock!

No one would be up yet, geez I'm such an airhead in the mornings. I seriously could've stayed in bed! Oh well, I'm up now, a part of me wanders if I could walk to school. I think better of this because winter is on its way in and I don't want to walk in the cold. I'm taking the toast out when Dally wanders in...shirtless...and his pants hanging off him. My face heats up and I mimble a good morning. I hope he didn't hear me because my voice cracked. God dammit it should be illegal for him to be shirtless, then again he doesn't follow the laws anyways. What would be the point? I sit down and begin eating. I hear him getting a glass of milk and when I dare look up I'm met with a glass of apple juice.

He smirks at me, "I think you forgot something."

With slightly shaking hands and a very red face and ears I take it, "T-thanks Dally." I stutter out and then feel the need to punch myself in the face for stuttering. He just hums and sits down. "Hey Dal, you want anything to eat?" I ask and feel glad that my voice is working again.

"Sure." He replies simply but for some reason it makes me happy. Which is so weird because all he said was 'sure'. I think Johnny and Angela are right, I like Dallas Winston. Oh my freaking god, of all hoods to fall for I picked the most passive, aggressive, law-breaking, rugged, ass-hole, rude and craziest hood in Tulsa. I officially hate my life. I make him scarmbled eggs with cheese in them and toast with strawberry jelly because I know that's his favorite. I set it down in front of him and he mumbled a thanks and I grin at him. Thank you's are rare out of Dally and I feel giddy and special to have recieved one. We were eating in silence until Two-Bit woke up the whole damn house by slammin the door, I rub my temples and groan. In 5...4...3...2..annnnddd,

"HEY THERE PONY!" Two-Bits hollers as he walks into the kitchen.

"Two-Bit! Darry and Soda are sleepin...or rather tryin to!" I hiss at him. But he doesn't answer, both he and Dally are staring at me. "What?"

"Your hair..it's all fluffy and stuff." Two-Bit says with a tone of surprise.

"Oh..I just didn't feel like messin with it." I reply smiling slightly and start rubbing at my neck.

"Looks pretty decent." Dally comments casually.

"Yeah you should totally go to school like that." Two-Bit comments.

"Really?" I ask touching some longer strands that frame my face slightly.

"Whatever." Dally says then exclaims a loud "OW-what the hell clown?!"

"Oh nothing ol Dally~" He smirks and winks at me. I don't get it so I just clean up my plate. Soda walks slowly in and stretches he spots me and hugs me.

"Morning to you too Soda." I chuckle.

"Morning little brother!"

"I ain't little! I protest.

"I'm taller and older so yes, yes you are!" He retorts laughing.

I pout and cross my arms and stick my tongue out at him. "Just you wait! I'll be super tall and you'll be the little brother!"

"That'll be the day!" Darry says as he walks into the kitchen ready for work.

"Morning Darry." I say and shuffle awkwardly. He walks by me and ruffles my ungreased hair. This is a good sign, although I'm pretty sure I ain't outta the woods yet. Breakfast goes about normally and Two-Bit and Dally take Johnny and I to school. Johnny is up front with TB and and I'm in the back with Dally. He hasn't looked at me in a whole 10 minutes and for some reason it made me a little relieved. When we pull up I sprint up the steps and past everyone in the halls. I was running when I felt some one grab me around the waist, I yelped and looked up. I saw Angela and she smiled sweetly at me.

"Hiya King." She greets.

"Well hello there Queen Angel, what is thou up to this fine morning?" I ask with a smirk and a small bow. She giggles and so do several others. I look around and see that Angel and her friends have formed a kind of circle around me. "Oh hey there ladies."

"Girls, this is Ponyboy curtis and Pony this is my gang." She says gesturing to her friends. I look at them and they all have the same aura that Angel does, "get-in-my-way-and-you-die." "This is Blaine, Trisha, Kacy, and Lola." She gestured to Blaine first, she was gorgeous. Her hair was long, clipped back sloppily and she wore blie jeans and a band t-shirt. Trisha had short red hair and freckles, she was cute and wore a less than modest skirt and large sweater. Kacy was the tallest and she smiled at me wide and I saw her teeth were flawless. She had shorts on and a short sleeve plain shirt, the shorts made her look even taller. Lola was dressed practically the same as Angela, short skirt, tank top and bracelets galore. They were all very pretty and I felt fear of them arising.

"Nice ta meetcha." Kacy greets.

"Hi Pony, your in my Algebra class." Blaine says smiling at me.

"I've seen him running the track." Trisha says grinning.

"I'm on the girls team." Lola says in a small voice.

"I knew that!" I reply smiling at them all. "Nice to meet you gals! I don't mean to be rude but I need to get to class! Darry'll kill me if I get in trouble for being late." They just giggle and walk with me. I feel eyes on me and I look straight ahead.

"Here you go." Blaine says as she and the girls wave. I wave back and sit down, everyone is glaring at me. I look up and they all look away. I don't really understand what their problem in, hell even some of the other greasers were throwing me dirty looks. I didn't get it all so I opted for pretending to pay attention. Actually to tell the truth I was daydreaming and for some reason Dal kept poppin up. It was gettin kinda annoying truthfully, here I am trying to have a nice daydream and his stupid face keeps poppin up. Fuck you thoughts I don't want to deal with this, come back later. Never would be great too.

I'm in my thoughts completely and I'm currently thinking about why Dally should have shirts glued to him when I feel two a hand on my shoulder. I jump about a mile in the air and I look up and see Tray. He's from Curly's gang and I liked him second best, Curly was obviously first. Speaking of Curly, I wonder if he'll be here today.

"Hey, Tray, is Curly here?" I ask looking up.

"Yeah, He's around here somewhere." Tray replies looking Curly.

"Good, I wanted to ask him sometthing."

"Like what?"

"You'll find out when I find Curly." I reply simply. Then I remember a question I was gonna ask Soda. "Hey, how come everybdy keeps glaring at me?"

"Most likely because you was surrounded by chicks. Greaser or Soc, it don't matter. Girls are girlsw man, and you were surrounded by em without even trying. Hell I was a little jealous." He grinned at me and looped an arm around my shoulder.

"Oh...but you're not mad at me right?" I ask him wondering why it was such a big deal.

"Nah, I ain't interested in those gals. " He smiled at me and I grinned back.

"Okay, cool." We walked down the hall towards my next class and I saw Curly. He was leaning against a locker. He spots us and jerks his head toward some Soc group walking by. I don't get what he wants so I just look down and keep walking. Whatever it is I want no par. Tray sticks out his foot and whacks a kids binder to the all tumble over each other cursing and spitting insults. Tray and Curly high-five while I just keep walking.

"Ah come on Curtis, that was funny!" Curly says whacking me on the back.

"Sure it was but I ain't gonna let them know that!" I retort. I would be outmatched and outnumbered if they decided to get revenge.

"Don't worry Curtis, you'd be just fine." Tray tries assure me.

"Anyways, Curly." he turns and looks at me. "Do you guys wanna go to the Dingo with me or something?"

Tray loops his arms around my shoulder again and he laughs, "Why Curtis, didn't know you swung that way!"

"I don't get it." I reply confused. He just laughs again and nods.

"I'll go with ya, Jimmy and Dante." (Don-teh) I smiled at him, usually only Dally or Johnny would come. Two-Bit and the others never wanted or had the time to.

"Really? That's awesome!" I felt happy, they weren't coming out of pity or to baby-sit. They wanted to come and that made me feel accepted. I didn't notice they'd walked me to my class until I was standing at the door. "How about you and Angela Curly?" I asked as I opened the door.

"Shoot, I'll be there and I'm sure Angela will too. Why don't you ask Angela's girls to come too. We'll have our little party." He smirks and waves as they both walk off. I wave back and walk into the classroom. It's the same here too, everyone is mad at me. But it doesn't matter to me because what they think isn't what's important. I'm too happy to pay them any mind.

~~~~Dallas

I don't like Angela Shepherd and I sure as hell don't like her gang of girls. I don't like Curly's gang neither for that matter. So when I saw Angela and all her girls fawning and holding onto him I was pretty pissed. Two-Bit, Steve, Dally and Johnny caught up with me finally and as we drew closer the girls were giggling. They were laughing at something Pony said and I hear Two-Bit whine behind me.

"I don't get how he does that."

"Does what clown?" I asked still glaring holes at people as I walk towards Pony.

"Attract girls like that! All her did was go to his locker and BAM, instant chicks!" He grumbles.

"I don't give a shit, all I know is you three are blocking my way. Now move." Steve snaps and pushes past us. He glares at Pony as he walks by and Pony flips him the bird. Johnny chuckles from behind me and I find it odd. When had Pony become so brave around Randle? Used to be he'd argue but when Steve got too loud or to close he backed off shaking. I had a feeling it was the girls, was he trying to impress those bimbos or was he just sure Steve wouldn't do anything near the girls. Two-Bit, Johnny and I are almost to him when Pony wriggles out of Angela's long fingernailed grasp and runs down the hall. He waves and his face is in a wide adorable smile. Adorable...? That is not normal and something a male refers to another male with. I don't get what's going with me and truthfully it's pissing me off. I don't deal with things I don't understand.

Anyways the first few periods of class go by slowly and all I want to do is skip. As I leave stupid Alegbra II, I spot Pony with one of Curly's boys. He's laughing with Pony and Pony is pouting. Then the little shit puts his arm around his shoulder and I have the strongest urge to pop a cap on him. They're talking about something that I can't hear. Then some Socs start leering at Pony and I spot Curly as well. He jerks his head as Tary I think his name was and the brat sticks his leg out. Pony speeds up, obviously wanting nothing to do with the activity. The Socs fall like dominoes and it would be funny if I had been the one to do it. Since it was Shepherds idea and one of the little Shepherds gang who did it, it wasn't funny. The two are laughing as Pony huffs at them and rolls his eyes. The two hoods walk with him the entire way and the Tray kid has him greasy mitts on Pony again. Pony doesn't shrug him off or anything! Just lets him! I'm finall close enough to hear them and hear that pony wants to go to a movie. With Curly and his gang along with Angela and her girls. What the hell was he thinking?!

They say jealousy is a strong human emotion and I never really thought about it until I saw Tray being all touchy with Pone. Lately anyone who so much as looked at him (who wasn't part of our gang) made me irritated. I decided I would confide in Johnny for once, somethng I know Pony does almost religiously. I wasn't one for feelings or anything but I was about ready to crack. I was lost and I hadn't felt anything other than anger or irritation in a long time. Make yourself emotionless and you don't get hurt. Pony goes inside his class and as I pass by I slow down slightly. The class's eyes are on him and they're all glaring. Even some greasers were glaring but Pony was practically bouncing. Apparently dipshit and junior dipshits going to the Dingo had made him happy.

I wanted to make him happy.

Or something like that right?

Shit this is confusing...

I am late and I boy howdy am I sorry. I'm doing my best and ermahgawd school is hard.

R&R kittens