Chapter 7 "Courage"
Johnny's POV-
"Here take this to the neighbors."
When my mom told me to take a cake (she made) to the neighbors I was shocked. She's never like this; she's acting like she's nice, but we all know the truth.
I have no idea why she wants to all of a sudden be nice even to the neighbors, she never cared about the neighbors before.
She shoved that cake in my hands, and shoved me out the door. So I walked over to the neighbors, and lightly knocked on the door. I was stunned at who opened the door.
"Hey, brought you a cake," was all I could say.
Dally's POV-
There was a knock at the Curtis' front door, which was weird, no one knocks, ever. I answered, since the only other people in the house we're either sleeping or busy in some kind of way.
"Hey, Dally."
It was Danni, I turned, and slammed the door. But she walked in saying sarcastically, "Jesus, aren't you nice."
"Really?! I don't get that a lot," I smirked, "Why are you here anyways?"
"Just walking around the neighborhood, and decided to stop by," she said sitting down.
"Cool," I said, acting interested.
"So where's everyone?" Danni asked.
"Johnny and Two-bit ain't here, Darry's at work, Steve's with his girlfriend, and Soda and Pony are still asleep," I paused, "Why do you care?"
She shrugs, "Just wondering."
I shrug and lean back, like I didn't care. Even if I actually did, why should she care about us, the gang?
"So do you know when everyone will get back?" she asked suddenly.
"No, why?"
"I just thought we could hang out, and do something. So I could get to know y'all better."
"Well, sorry to bum you out, but there ain't much to learn about. We're all just a bunch of hoodlums trying to get through this hell of a life, we're all hoodlums except for Johnny, Pony, Soda and Darry of course, they wouldn't do nothin' bad," I explained.
"About the rest of you guys?" Danni asked, getting interested.
"Well Two-bit's unpredictable, Steve gets in trouble, I mean he's not a afraid to he's been to jail a couple of times, but that's it," I said.
"About you?"
"Me? Well let's just say my record with the cops is longer than the Curtis' shopping list when the gang ate all their food and they haven't went shopping for weeks," I said, smirking.
"Oh," she said stunned.
Johnny's POV-
"Johnny! I'm surprised to see you."
"Yeah, me too!" I said, still too shocked to move.
"Well, um… do you want to come in?"
"Um…no, I have to go, here," I shoved the cake in their hands.
I ran off without saying goodbye, I went back to my house, and went to the door, and yelled, "I dropped the cake off, and going to a friend's house."
"Wait!" my mother rushed to the door, "Who's our neighbors?"
"I don't know, their daughter answered, but I saw her mom and dad."
"What does her dad look like?"
I gave her a confused look, "I'm not sure…"
"What do you mean you're not sure, you said you saw him," she started to yell.
"Yeah, but."
"No, buts you're not going anywhere anyways, go to your room," she pointed to upstairs still yelling.
I ran past her, and went upstairs. Why does she care about her dad? I was confused, and shocked at everything.
My mother's moods, were so weird, she's never like this. Then my neighbors-I didn't like to think about it, it was all too confusing.
I couldn't believe Phoebe Edwards was my new neighbor, there's something I really don't like about this conversation.
Author's note: Sorry, it took so long had 'wifi' problems, and family problems. Sorry it's so short too. If you have options for on what I should write, feel free to tell! R&R!
