CHAPTER EIGHT

Football

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::Football::

I was silent the whole time we walked to the lot. I had that gutsy feeling like the night of Dallas's and Johnny's death. It scared me almost and Soda was looking at me funny, as if he could sense something was wrong.

"Ponyboy is something wrong?" he asked his eyebrows furrowing a bit in worry. Darry then looked at me now concerned. I looked at them both then at Two bit and Steve who were goofing off with the football. I didn't want to ruin anyone's fun by nodding my head yes. So I shook my head no.

But their looks said they didn't believe me.

"You're sure?" Darry said coming a bit closer and I backed up. I nodded.

"Okay but if something's wrong please speak up." Darry said before running over to Two bit and snatching the football from him and laughing. It made me smile slightly at the childishness we still had in us even after what happened. It was good to still have it otherwise we'd be all dead in our souls. And that wouldn't be something very good to have.

"C'mon Pony, you can be quarterback." Soda said with a grin and pushed me toward the outfield. I smiled and ran to the outfield watching everyone set up. It wasn't much of a football game without Johnny and Dallas. With them me and Johnny could've tackled Dally or one of the bigger guys and everyone would've called it cheating, but it would've been fair to us because we were smaller and we just wanted to score points for our team. Those were the good times.

"Pony you payin' attention out there?" Steve shouted to me and I nodded quickly to show as if I was listening, which I half was half wasn't. He sighed and they started the game. I watched as they chased each other around the field, throwing the ball to each other and tackle each other. Occasionally argue if that was fair and did that throw count. Only Darry would know because he had been quarter back for a couple years on the foot ball team in high school.

"Pony catch!" Soda shouted throwing the ball to me. I jerked out of my thoughts and saw a flying football at a hundred miles per hour come my way. I caught it in the nick of time but Two bit was coming my way; Time to run.

I started toward the goal and luckily I was in track and the fastest runner in the whole gang. I ran past the goal and Soda and Darry cheered.

"Nice goin' Pone!" Soda said and grinned. I smiled and tossed the football up and down in the air. Thunder rumbled in the sky and I looked up to see thunderclouds. I frowned slightly and looked over at the guys. Darry was un sure if we had time to play more but Soda piped up,

"Let's play one more round then we'll head home." He said and everyone seemed to agree. We all lined up again and Soda decided to be quarterback instead.

"Hut!" Darry shouted, handing the ball to me and I ran toward our goal only to be tackled by Steve. I let out a grunt and Steve smirked as he snatched the ball.

"Talk kid. Don't be a mute forever." He said before taking off running. I narrowed my eyes and ran off after him only for Two bit to dive at me and grab me, us rolling on the ground.

"Ouch…" I mumbled and Two bit grinned.

"He said a word!" Two bit said like it was a miracle. I hadn't forgotten how to speak. No one forgets how to speak.

"He said ouch!" Two bit said and laughed, letting me go. I rubbed my side as Steve got the goal. I sighed and shook my head giving Two bit the dirtiest look I could manage but he only laughed at me.

"Ponyboy that don't work on me." He said and pretended to wipe a tear away. I felt a drop on my nose and swiped at it only to feel more and it suddenly started raining. I started to shiver and we all started to run back to my house. The rain was pouring and it was thundering and lightning. I was curious to know where the sudden storm came from. It was sunny out and I hadn't even noticed the sudden darkening of the sky or the clouds form in the sky. I sighed and laid on my bed, listening to the sounds of the rain hit the roof, the soft sound of the T.V. and the chitter chatter of the gang in the living room and eventually drifted off to sleep.