The Dark Secret Chapter 11
DALLY
David and Hunter lead me inside the tiny house. There were only two floors, I expected Ponyboy to be on the bottom. I mean it would be pretty stupid if he was upstairs that's basically them saying "run for the hills!" unless they figured he was to beat up to move.
David and Hunter looked about the same. Hunter still was pale and had a panther slouch, he still had that blood craving look in his hard eyes. David got a little chubbier, but it was mostly from muscles. We lead me down to the basement, it was a bare room, I saw from a post there was a chunk of wood missing, I big one.
Did they use wood stake on him?
Hunter caught me eyeing the table, without a word he lifted up his shorts showing a huge scar. I felt a small smile tug on my lips. Figured Ponyboy would pull a stunt like that, and then David walked in with Ponyboy, I felt my eyes widen a little bit, nothing noticeable.
Ponyboy was pale, like a fish's belly. He was covered from head to toe in cuts and bruises. Some I could tell were not that bad, others were deep. He slowly raised his head to look at me. That playful look he had in his eye was gone; no traces of it were left. Instead they looked tired and crazy. He had a hard look on his face, like if he didn't know who I was anymore. He took a step towards me, yanking his arm out of David's grasp.
He took both of us by surprise, with a hard look I told David to stay where he was; Ponyboy was soon right in front of me. Normally he wouldn't dare step this close, I knew I scared Ponyboy, but not anymore. He looked at me dead in the eye, and then punched me right in the jaw.
I staggered back, in shock. My first reaction was to grab his beat up body and show him who he's dealing with. The other was just shocked. Ponyboy had a look full of hatred in his eyes, I went to swing again, and this time I caught his arm then pressed him against the wall. He tried struggling then gave up.
"What the hell is the matter with you? Aren't you glad I came? I'm here to bring you home!" I shouted at him,
"Right! You think I'm dumb enough to believe that!"
"What the hell are you talking about? I'm here to take you home before you drop dead!"
"So then what are you going to do about Destiny? And your friends huh Dally? This was a set up wasn't it? You're not here to being me home are you! You're going to kill me then run off with your soc friends! Admit it!"
I took a step back, so it was true. Destiny was here and she told him everything, I narrowed my eyes and shook my head.
"I am here to take you home. I will Ponyboy,"
He rolled his eyes I don't know why that just sparked some more anger in me. I shoved him back to the wall, and then growled.
"Listen Ponyboy this is what's going to happen. I'm not taking you home. I'm going to take you to a gas station or something. When you finally get home you're going to tell everyone that I was killed and you managed to find your way back to civilization. Got it? You don't know about Destiny! You think that the socs killed me and then ran off you don't know where"
Then before he could argue I slammed his head back into the wall. He body dropped like a ton of lead, I checked his pulse then tossed him over my shoulder like a ragdoll. David and Hunter nodded in approval. Then Destiny walked into the room.
"Hello Dallas. Golly I hardly recognized you"
"Save it Destiny, I don't want to hear it, you're nothing to me" my voice was ice cold. I turned to David "I'm going to drop him off at the closest gas station. I'll be back"
"How do you know this will work? That he won't wake up and remember everything that happened?" David's voice wasn't full of mock
"I've done this before. It will work."
It has to work.