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On the walk back home I felt my throat begin to sting. I was upset because now would be a good time for my mom to come back and tell me what to do, give me some advice or even just hug me and tell me everything was going to be okay. But she was gone and I felt so alone. That's when I heard running feet behind me.

"Molly..." He breathed. It was Johnny he had run to catch up to me.

"Soda...looked upset…are you guys okay? You never fight so I figured something might be wrong."

"Oh no!" I said quietly putting my head in my hands. "I didn't mean to upset him I just had to sort some stuff out myself."

"I'm sure hell understand, he really loves you, you know."
"I know…and I love him to." That was super hard for me to say out loud, not because I hadn't said it before, but because I was worried it had taken on a new meaning I hadn't expected before. Johnny seemed to sense that I had trouble spitting that out and looked confused.

"You guys are…uh…gonna stay friends right?"

"Yeah of course we are we can get through anything." I said a little bit distracted and worried. What would Soda think of he knew my feelings for him were different then he thought? What would Johnny think? And the rest of the gang?

"Don't worry, Johnny everything will be fine, Ill be around later to talk to him I just need to breath."

"Yeah I understand let me know if you need help or –or like someone to talk to." Johnny was so shy and barely talked; in fact this was the most he had said in a long time.

"Thanks Johnny I really appreciate it." I hugged him and as he headed back to the Curtis'.

I decided I would run to clear my head. I began to run at a full sprint hoping that all my confused thoughts and feelings would stay behind and it worked surprisingly well. It worked so well that when I reached my house I felt so free of worries that I didn't want to return and I just kept running. I ran and ran until I hardly knew where I was, but I didn't care I just kept running. I ran through the park and all the way into town and past the movie theatre. By that time I was exhausted so I decided to turn when I reached the theatre and head home. I was taking back roads or what I thought was a short cut home when I heard a roaring motor behind me.

"Heyyy well what do we have here." They said driving next to me. Their comments only made me run faster.

"A greaser giiiirl huh? What's a pretty thing like you doin out all by yourself?"

"Ill say, I hardly see you without soda, where is your little boyfriend anyway?" When he called Soda my boyfriend it made my stomach churn. I was so angry and confused and scared and so many feelings rushed back to me at the same time that I tripped and fell midstride. I scrapped my knees and elbows and with that distraction they jumped out of their blue mustang and had me down in a second. I screamed and yelled but no one was around to hear me.

"Yeah your boyfriends too far away. He doesn't care about you he never has." They began shit talking Soda and telling me how he didn't care for anyone or anything but his greasy hair and dump of a gas station. They called him dumb for dropping out of school. The more they talked the madder I got. I knew it wasn't true, but they almost convinced me. Did Soda really care about me or was a grandfathered? Well since we were friends when we were little we have to be now right? Our parents were friends heck our parents died in the same car we had to be friends. It was nothing, but that. I couldn't take it anymore, I was so angry at everyone and everything. I almost wanted them to kill me so I didn't have to deal with this anymore. I felt so alone and betrayed. Bob the one holding my arms down sat on my stomach and began to kiss down my jaw.

"Yeah that's right I bet that ole Greaser of your never made you feel this way." He teased. I could smell the alcohol in his breath so heavily I almost choked. I was so mad at this point. Mad at him and for some strange reason I was mad at Sodapop too. They had messed with my head, but I didn't realize it yet. I was so mad I started kicking and punching I managed to get free from Bob, but I ended up running smack into Randy, without a moments hesitation I flung my knee up and kneed him where it hurts. He fell and as two others jumped at me I was smacked to the cement again.

"Feisty eh? I like it." Bob said with a nasty smirk and blew a smoke ring. I was standing up at this point with one of Bob's gang holding each of my arms. They had slugged me a few times and I most likely had a nasty black eye on my right side and a bruised cheekbone. I spit at him not knowing what to say. I was so hurt and confused I wanted to cry, but I sure as hell wasn't giving them the pleasure. All of a sudden I see Dally's mean grin comin up behind Bob who was talkin dirty to me again and has his switchblade to me cheekbone "outlining my pretty lil shiner". The boy holding me weren't paying attention to anything but Bob and I so when Dally got Bob hard in the back of the head I flung my elbows as hard as I could at the unsuspecting guys noses and shoved my way out to Dally. Dally had to slug a couple of em to get em to run off and I smacked Bob across the face for all the things he said. Dally took off running the other way and without knowing what else to do I followed. When we got a good distance away we began to walk and breath heavily.

"Thanks" I said after a while. I was still feeling awkward from our previous conversation, but I was also still mad and confused.

"Lemme see your face." Dally said his voice dripping the hatred for the socs, but also slightly with worry.

"Good news; your gonna live." He said sarcastically before reassuring me it wasn't so bad.

"Just wait till I tell the boys how you held em off and even gave Bob a nasty bruise." He said cockily and when I didn't respond he continued "Soda'll be proud of ya." He ended with seeing how much he could test me. I got angry again all of a sudden. I felt like if I opened my mouth Id burst and go off yelling at Dally so I kept it shut and locked my angry eyes on the ground in front of me and walked a little faster.

"Hey hey I was teasing" Dally said with a laugh as he lengthened his steps to keep up with me. He then jogged a few paces before continuing to walk backwards right in front of me. I gave him a glare that he returned staring right into my eyes as if he could read me. I kept my face scrunched and angry. Dally could read me well enough already he didn't need to what the socs had said or what I was thinking now. Dally continued to stare a questioning look on his face until I broke.

"Ok ok just quit it will you." I snapped at him and looked at me feet. I tried to walk around him, but his long legs made sure he was always in front of me. We had reached the park at this point and Dally sat on a swing and pointed me firmly to the other. I wasn't going to tell him anything. I just sat there making circles with my foot in the dirt underneath me. We sat for a while and I ended up calming down and it felt nice. Like Dally was actually just persistent on caring about me not persistent on getting me to talk like I thought he had been. That's better then Soda, he didn't even bother to try and figure out what was wrong! I was getting angrier the more I thought about Sodapop and I knew I had to get it out before we ruined our friendship.