A/N. Well. Thanks for all the reviews. I'll address them personally at the end. Now about the Timothy thing. I completely forgot the part where Johnny says that he'd never been out of Tulsa except when he went to Windrixville, sorry. So I suppose that couldn't have happened, but I'm just going to leave it and remember that for future references. However, I did fix the technicalities like the calculator, Queen song, and the "talk" button on the phone. Let me know if there's anything else. Sorry it's so short, I'm working on more, but it's coming slowly, so I just decided to update anyway.

Pony's POV

I didn't want to get out of bed. The past few days had been…dizzying. I had been certain that the whole thing with Liza had been a dream when I woke up the next morning. It wasn't until Darry asked me about it that I realized that it must have happened. But really, who goes into a gas station for cigarettes and comes out with a pregnant girl, and then proceeds to drive her around, 'helps' deliver the baby, and waits in the hospital with her until she's okay? It sounds like something that might happen in a cheap movie. For some reason, surreal things seem to happen to me more often than they should. I wanted a cigarette. But I never did end up getting any, did I? Figures.

And on top of all of that, there was school. And track. And homework. I groaned, and dragged myself out of bed.

Soda was already up, and in the shower. Darry was in the kitchen, cooking breakfast. He had taken the whole Liza thing relatively well. And I wasn't grounded even though I stayed past curfew, so that was good. Although I now had to listen to him complain about that girl, Meredith. It was pretty amusing really. Because for some reason, he let it bug him. It was funny watching him fluster about it.

"I was just about to come get you up," Darry said when I walked into the room.

Two Bit and Steve were lounging around in the living room, eating chocolate cake. Steve still came by almost every morning even though he and Soda didn't ride to work together anymore. There was something to be said for routine.

"By the way," Darry said, "that doctor called. The one who helped you the other night. He wanted me to tell you that Liza is out of the hospital."

"Oh okay," I wasn't in a talkative mood.

I thought about going over to see Liza, but I didn't know where she lived. I also wasn't sure when she'd be back at work, or if they still give you maternity leave if you're not keeping the baby. I still thought it was weird that she wasn't going to keep him.

At school that day, I heard some girls talking Liza. I guess that had written something about it in the newspaper since the circumstances were so…extreme.

"She's probably just giving it up so she doesn't have to mess with raising it."

"I know. I can't believe anyone would do that. It's bad enough she got pregnant, but she goes and makes it worse by refusing to keep it." The girl shook her head in disgust.

They continued talking about her like this until the bell rang. I wanted to say something, but they were socs and I wasn't really sure why she wasn't keeping it either.

When I walked out of my biology class, I saw some guys talking about Liza too. Come on. Something else must have happened this weekend. Their conversation was a little different though.

"Did you hear about that greaser broad?" A soc was saying.

"Yeah. It's not surprising though."

"Well of course it's not. Those girls are disgusting."

"You think they could wear any more makeup?"

"Not likely. And with the clothes they wear, it's like they're just asking to get knocked up."

This was starting to make me mad.

xodahmsoirxo: Thanks for the review!
Soda rox my sox off: Thank you so much. I've done that before with stories I like.
theultimateoutsider: Thanks! I'm glad you like Liza's character
Marauder and Q: (this is only addressing your review of Ch. 8): Thanks for telling me about the phone. I forget the time difference sometimes. And yeah, I know that it was rushed, but there was a reason for that.
ANGELMEGAN: they are! I thought about killing the baby, but I couldn't.
Smile because it happened: well thanks for the review. I think I addressed everything in the PM!

Again, sorry about the short chapter, and the longer wait on the update.