Randy and Cherry was just hanging in the lunch room watching Ponyboy walk over to the lunch line grabbing his food and just like that he was gone. All the socs were name calling Pony faggot. Cherry felt disgusted with her group and Randy felt the exact way. Randy had enough and turned to his so called friends.
"That's enough" he shouted at them and just like that Randy's friends stopped talking and continued to eat. Cherry walked outside to find Two-bit and Marcia talking. They looked pretty close some may say, I guess Marcia was a bigger person than Cherry and decided to not care about the feud between the socs and the greasers. Since Randy broke it off with Marcia, Marcia was free to talk to whomever she pleases.
"Pony" Cherry greeted Pony and Pony looked up. He had a black eye and his lip was dripping with blood.
"Are you okay" Cherry asked Pony but Two-bit stopped talking to Marcia.
"He's fine and he doesn't need you to check on him" Two-bit snapped at Cherry. He hated talking to women like that but Cherry didn't care about Ponyboy at all. Marcia just looked down at the ground unlike Cherry, Marcia generally felt bad about Johnny and Dally's deaths. Marcia even visited Johnny to apologize for Randy's actions and so did Randy. I mean Randy was forced to by his father.
"Okay" Cherry walked away from Marcia, Pony and Two-bit. Cherry got the hint that she wasn't wanted there. Ponyboy felt like a third wheel and decided to head back to class.
"I'll see you later Two-bit" Pony told his friend and Two-bit just nodded along. Pony walked back into the school building and headed towards his locker.
"Pony" Randy called out to Ponyboy and Ponyboy just shook his head. "Pony, wait. I can help you" Randy told Pony and Pony just stared at Randy.
"How can you help me huh" Ponyboy folded his arms. "There's nothing you can do for me. This will always follow me around for the rest of my life Randy. I don't want to talk about this anymore" Ponyboy pushed Randy out of his way. Randy sighed while going to his own class.
Later that night:
Randy was hanging out in his room, doing his homework when he knocked on his father's office door. Randy wanted no needed to talk to his father.
"Come in Randy" Mr. Anderson said while Randy sat down in front of his father's desk. Mr. Anderson was currently on the phone with one of his clients. Randy kept looking around his father's office.
"What is it son" Mr. Anderson asked while his arms folded along his chest.
"I need your help" Randy rubbed the back of his neck.
"What is it, I was getting ready to head out" Mr. Anderson stared at his son.
"You know that boy Ponyboy Curtis" Randy said to his father.
"The boy who you and Bob made his life terrible" Mr. Anderson raised an eyebrow up.
"Yeah, he's in trouble and since you're a lawyer maybe you could help him out" Randy gave his father a sly smile.
"Sorry, I am not fixing your mistake" Mr. Anderson got ready to grab his coat.
"Dad, he gets tormented more because people thinks he's gay but he's not dad. He was raped by someone. You know how it feels to be someone you're not" Randy was practically begging his dad for help.
Mr. Anderson faced his son, "does he want to press charges" Mr. Anderson questioned Randy.
"No because he thinks the police won't care about a greaser. Dad I need to help him. I'm at fault for his best friend's death" Randy faced his dad.
"Okay, get him to admit he wants to press charges and then we'll deal with it then" Mr. Anderson told his son and Randy smiled.
"Dad, you have to do it for free. Ponyboy and the Curtis's don't have money" Randy reminded his dad.
"Enjoy your evening with your 'friend' Aaron" Randy winked at his dad.
"Don't forget to call your mother" Mr. Anderson stated to his son before walking out to hang out with his friend. Randy felt happy, he was on his way to redemption. He knew he should be upset with the fact that Marcia is hanging out with a greaser but ever since Bob's death Randy didn't care about those things anymore.
What Randy said to Ponyboy about fighting was pointless and stupid, he meant it. He knew that Ponyboy wasn't like his other greaser friends. There was always the odd one out in groups such as greasers and socs. Randy couldn't help but wonder who was the odd one out in the socs, maybe it was Marcia maybe it was him. All he knew is that Cherry wasn't the odd one out. It couldn't be. Randy dialed the hospital that his mother was in.
"Hey mom" Randy greeted his mother. Not anybody knew about his mother being in a mental hospital, Bob didn't know, Marcia didn't know. Nobody knew and that was the way Randy liked to keep it. Randy Anderson life was like a soap opera. His mother is in a mental hospital, his dad is a secret closet gay who pretends him and Aaron are just friends. Randy and his mom didn't really have anything to say.
The next day was Saturday, which Ponyboy and Randy were glad about it.
Randy decided he was going to talk to Ponyboy today but it made Randy nervous, the thought that he would run into Dallas Winston. So here he was, he knocked on the door of the Curtis. He got the address from Marcia. The door opened and there stood Darry Curtis aka superman.
"How can I help you Randy" Darry asked Randy.
"I came to talk to Ponyboy if that's fine with him" Randy looked down at his feet nervously. Darry Curtis was a scary guy, he had the muscles but now Dally appeared at the door while holding an intimidating glare.
