Rose kept herself planted in one spot, a muscle not even moving at all. Juliet, she moved ever so slightly wanting to launch herself at her cousin and I knew she was growing frustrated at this point.
Rose closed her eyes just as Juliet came running towards her. Rose dove at the ground, tripping Juliet in the process and we watch them ensue the small fight. Juliet kept on trying to take Rose down over and over again, hitting, kicking, and trying other methods to bring Rose down to the ground. But Rose, she stayed ever calm and withstood all of the blows that Juliet was giving her.
"Rose is trying to wear Juliet down!"
I stared at Soda for a small moment, then back to the fight. Rose didn't look the least bit tired at all, but Juliet was running out of energy. Smiling a small bit, I heard Soda and Steve cheering Rose on and with a few other greasers behind them.
The Socs, they didn't even cheer Juliet on. They just stayed quiet and cool as they ever could be.
Within the next moment, Rose was on top of Juliet. She kept her arms pinned nice and good on the ground, kept her knee on the fold of Juliet's back and her foot between her shoulder blades. Juliet kept struggling to break free, but I could see that it was causing her a great amount of pain from the pressure upon her back. Rose ever so slightly readjusted herself on Juliet, and we heard her give out a small shriek.
"You're done, Juliet, so deal with it. I won this battle, like I won all the other times. So stop being a little brat and saying things are suppose to go your way, and get a grip here already. Just grow up and stop fighting for once."
She got off of Juliet, and walked over to us. Soda and Steve were jumping and hugging Rose like crazy, and other greasers applauded her. Looking back at Juliet, she and the other Socs began to walk away from us greasers, without even saying a single word to us. Shaking my head, I turned my attention back to the celebration that us greasers were having.
"So what's next, that's going to happen?"
"Well Pony, I say we go out and celebrate. Don't know where or what we're going to do, but we need to let the last bit of our energy out!"
Soda quickly began to do back flips and did some no-hand cartwheels and was just laughing like crazy. I began to laugh at Soda, as he fell flat on his back and jumped up onto his feet.
"Why don't we head to Jay's, guys? You know grab a bit to and a couple of drinks?"
Steve and Soda were soon all up on me for the idea, and Two-Bit joined in. Tim and Curly, they said they were going to hit the hay and the other groups that came from out of town needed to head home. The Brumly boys said they'll join, and I stare at Darry and Rose.
"I'll join ya Pony, someone's got to keep an eye on you and your brother here from getting into trouble. For your brother Darry, it's up to him if he wants to join or not."
He just barely nodded his head at us, and ruffled mine and Soda's hair. Guess he was joining us on this victory. He pulled out a cigarette and lit it.
"Come on guys, let's get there before they close at midnight."
We all broke out into run towards Jay's Drive In restaurant. I wasn't sure if this was a competition or not, but we kind of did make it a race. I kept pulling ahead of everyone else multiple times, and we did tackle each other once in a while for fun, but other than that I stayed in the lead.
We all settled down into booths at Jays, and decided on things that we wanted to order and had small conversations. I've hardly ever seen Darry come out to a restaurant, so this is one of those rare occasions where he would come with us and hang out.
Two-Bit was talking about Christy to us, and how she got jumped the other day and that he hunted down the two Socs that freaked her, and knocked out their front teeth. Steve went on to talk about Evie, while Soda just shrugged them off and said maybe Darry should get a girl now. We all grew silent at Soda's words, and then broke out into laughter as we saw Darry's face turn a bright red.
When our food came out, we all kind of cooled down and relaxed. Once in a while, Soda, Steve and I, we blew straw wrappers at each other and once or twice it the wrappers would hit a waitress. One of the waitresses got real cocky and gave us a nice good handful of straws, and gave us a small wink. Us guys just smiled as we loaded ourselves with straws and got ready to fire at each other.
"Knock if off ya guys, if I was you I would eat my meal before it got too cold here. So eat up before ya starve to death before it gets cold."
I shoveled a couple of French fries into my mouth, and stared at everyone else. We were all having a small amount of fun and just trying our best to catch up on our lives and how things have been for everyone.
For a bit, we basically just sat at the table eating in silence. Soon enough Evie and Christy came in and sat next to Steve and Two-Bit. Steve just wrapped an arm around Evie, while Two-Bit set Christy on him and pressed his face against her shoulder and neck area.
Darry threw a quarter or two at Soda, and he stared at him like he was crazy or something.
"Put them in the jukebox, Soda. See if they got Jailhouse Rock here."
Soda bounced right out of the booth, and began to look for the song. We all admired Elvis Presley, and greatly loved his music. I mean who doesn't? Well except maybe the Socs, but that's their lose here. Two Bit soon looked up from Christy's shoulder, and gave us all a sly smile.
"Why don't we all play a game here? Cause I was thinking of playing truth or dare here, at least something along there. Or are you guys too chicken to even play it?"
Soda came back a moment later with a large root beer float and set it down in front of Two-Bit.
"I dare you to drink this whole root beer float without a single break."
"You're suppose to ask me truth or dare, nimrod."
"Where's the fun in that? Plus I always just skip the truth and make the person do the dare anyways, when we play."
"Got a point there, Pepsi-Cola, so I accept your dare."
He grabbed the root beer float and began to drink it down. We started to cheer him on, and for a small second I thought he was going to spit it out and break out laughing. But he managed to keep it down, and slammed the glass onto the table.
"Now my turn, Soda. Who should I go for on this? Let me think. . ."
His eyes darted over us, and I kind of sulked back in my seat along with Steve. The Brumly Boys sulked back too, as we all knew if we picked either truth or dare, Two-Bit would give us something that would be so stupid but it would make us the laughing stock of the town. And if he picked Darry, he always thought twice now cause the last time he picked dare and Darry had to do it, he gave Two-Bit a black eye. And that black eye lasted for at most two weeks, before it started to go away.
"Pony, truth or dare."
"Truth."
At least now he can't get me to do anything stupid on public. He snapped his fingers in an annoyed way but gave me my truth anyways.
"Is it true that Darry might be crushing on Rose, here?"
Right at the moment, I could hear Darry coughing a small bit of his drink back up. Soda began to snicker at this, along with Evie and Christy.
"I really don't know if he's crushing on her or not, but I say he is. That's just my opinion here."
I relaxed a small bit, as the truth question wasn't an embarrassment towards me, but more towards Darry. Pretty sure now that Two-Bit and I had a bit of punishment coming at us later on.
"Alright Pony, now it's your turn to pick someone and ask them truth or dare."
My eyes lay down on one single person.
"Evie, truth or dare?"
"I'll go with dare here. So what do you want to give me?"
"Dare you to give Two-Bit a black eye within the next two hours."
Soda and Steve were soon laughing their heads off, and Two-Bit sent a glare at me. Grinning, I felt content as I did revenge for both Darry and myself.
We all went around doing crazy dares or asking embarrassing but yet fun truths at each other. Darry managed to do a few good truths and a good dare, but he never really enjoyed playing the game much. Soon Steve was giving out the truth or dare, and he picked Rose for it.
"I picked dare, Randal. So throw me the best one that ya got for me to do."
We all stared at her like she was crazy, as Steve always had the most brilliant of all dares. His were just plain smart, and made to embarrass the second person if there ever was a second person for him to involve.
"Dare ya to kiss Darry here, or are ya chicken?"
"Deal, cause I don't back down from a dare here. Ever."
"Good, cause the dare can't be on the cheek, nose or forehead. Has to be on the lips and can't be under thirty seconds. And neither of you can back down from this."
I think Darry's face went pale at this, but Rose still had determination in her eyes. Both she and Darry looked at each other, and Steve crossed his arms and a smile came upon his face with pride and victory. He just bested Rose and Darry here.
We all moved to different seats, except for Darry, and I could see that he was growing uncomfortable about this. All of us guys grew eager smiles and I could Evie and Christy starting to giggle a small bit. Guess the tension was bringing the giggles out of the girls.
Darry soon pressed his mouth on Rose's, and Steve slowly began to count up past thirty. The seconds seemed to have drone on, but I think Darry was starting to enjoy the kiss along with Rose. Steve reached over the table and hit the back of both their heads.
"Been over thirty seconds ya two, so you can stop."
They pulled away from each other with quickness, and they two of their faces were burning bright. I'm pretty sure we all broke out in awe or laughter at them.
Around midnight, we all headed off to our houses and Rose walked down her path alone. Darry, Soda and I, we all stared at her in silence till we could see her no more. As we walked into our house and to our bedrooms, for a good night sleep.
Staring at the ceiling above me, I wonder what the morning will have waiting for us that is soon to arrive. If anything, I'm pretty sure that the Socs will be up at us for the fight and trying to get us to have another. Like Cherry once said, things will never change. Soc's will still be Soc's no matter, and we'll still be the same ourselves.
Thing's probably won't change her at all, maybe not ever. Not until someone comes and decides to prove that Socs and Greasers aren't much different, but I don't think that person will come and prove it. Ain't that a bitch.