A/N: There were a few request to hear the story Two-Bit told Ponyboy. So here it is. This is not chapter 3 that will be coming soon.

~Two-Bit~

I light my cigarette before I start. "Let's see, that old drive-in. Remember the one?"

The kid gives me a look of, course he'd remember it. "Admiral Twin."

"Yeah. Well, it ain't there no more. Burnt down." I told him as I took a drag of my smoke. "There's a trailer park there now. Shepard…Tim that is, knocked up some girl from a few towns over, and her daddy came looking for him with a shotgun."

Ponyboy shakes his head. "Hey give me one."

I throw him my pack and he looks over his shoulder.

"Holler if you see Ryann."

"What? The little woman doesn't like you smoking?" I ask with a smug grin.

He shrugs and lights up a smoke. That's the Ponyboy Curtis I remember.

"She'd prefer I stopped. But what she doesn't know probably won't hurt her too much."

I shake my head, snickering. "How'd you manage that?" I ask. The last time I had spent time with Pony he had been afraid to even talk to a girl.

"What can I say ladies can't resist me." He sounds so much like Soda it's ridiculous.

"So you were saying Tim and a shotgun?"

"Right. Yeah, so her daddy comes over here with a shotgun, standing in the street yelling like a madman. 'You no good hood you knocked up my daughter, no you're going to marry her!'

"With a shotgun?"

"With a shotgun and he's waving it around." I stood up and played the scene out for him. "Then the damn gun discharges and he shoots himself in the foot."

"Two-Bit, you're lying."

I cross an X over my heart. "I swear it Ponyboy. So he's in the street bleeding all over himself, still screaming like a maniac. One of the neighbors call the cops, they show up and haul Tim in thinking he shot the idiot." I laugh, recalling the incident and Ponyboy is laughing so hard he has tears in his eyes. "Th..the cops all like 'Now we got you, you stupid hood'.Tim spent two nights in the cooler for that, then ended up marrying that girl." I pause to take a drag of my cigarette. "Oh, and the other Shepard, he's dumber than a rock."

"Curly?" he asks and I give him a nod.

"Him and a few of his boys decide it'll be swell to steal from the collection plate at church. The pastor catches them and proceeds to beat him over the head with his cane until the cops show up."

Pony rolls his eyes.

"Oh, Steve finally married Evie."

"Poor Evie." I have to laugh you'd have thought after all these years he'd get over hating him so much, but no it's still there.

"Didn't do much for his attitude."

"Go figure."

"He's working for Evie's dad now, managing that trailer park. We call him "Slum-lord Steve." Just the thought of it is comical. "Yeah, Steve don't look nothin' like you remember him, kid."

"Yeah what about you? What sort of crazy Two-Bit moments have I missed?" I grin at him.

"Besides being arrested three times for disturbing the peace?"

"What the hell did you do?"

"First time, I figured I'd do a better job directing traffic than the cop. Didn't work so well. Second time, we went bowling and my ball got stuck so I crawled in after it. The owner didn't like that, tried to get me out then when I told him why I had done it. He called the cops and said I was 'interrupting his patrons'. Third time I pretended I was a cop, and tried to arrest somebody."

"Impersonating a cop, huh?" Pony repeated. "Your mother must be so proud."

"She is. Then my probation officer made me get a job. That's when Darry hired me."

"You and Marcia huh?"

"Yeah, surprised?"

"You could say that, but I'm glad you're happy."

I smile at him. He's always been a good kid. At least that hasn't changed.

"I am." I butted out my cigarette then threw the butt in the bushes. Darry always finds them and yells at me. The man gets married and has kids so he's Mister Safety. So, when you two having kids so I can tell them all about how much trouble you used to get into?"

"If it were up to Ry we'd already have two or three. Then her dad may come after me with a shotgun." Darry sticks his head out the door.

"Hey you ready we got to go pick up Soda?"

"Ready when you are." Pony stands up brushing his jeans off."Two, you gonna be around?"

"Yeah I'll stop by after dinner. See ya guys later." I say as I walk down the street towards home.