"A soc actually showing up here. You have some nerve" Dally stated to Randy harshly and Darry shook his head in response to Dally attitude.
"Why don't you come on in Randy" Darry opened the door wider. Randy took a seat on the couch seeing all of Pony's gang. Randy saw Two-bit, Steve, Soda, Dally and Darry but no Pony.
"Before we get Pony, we want to know what you planning on talking with Pony about" Darry folded his arms across his chest.
"I can help Pony get justice for what happened to him" Randy rubbed the back of his neck.
"How" Dally wanted answers.
"My dad is a lawyer and if Pony would want to press charges, my dad would defend Pony" Randy was fiddling with his hands. Being in a room full of greasers made Randy anxious to a bit.
"How much would that cost" Darry asked Randy.
"My dad doesn't need money" Randy said to everybody in the group.
"I have to make up for my mistake, it's my fault that Johnny is dead" Randy confessed and Two-bit was the first one to break the silence.
"First of all it's not entirely your fault" Two-bit shrugged his shoulders and Randy slowly felt more comfortable.
"Are you going to stay for dinner" Sodapop now asked Randy and Randy looked around the house.
"I don't want to impose" Randy got up from the couch and was about to leave.
"It's not safe for a soc to be outside on greaser territory" Pony finally came out of his room.
"So you might as well stay" Pony told Randy with a small smile.
"Okay, I'll stay" Randy sat back on the couch when his phone rang. Randy picked it up quickly.
"Hello" Randy greeted the person on the other line.
"Randy, your mom committed suicide today" Mr. Anderson broke the news to Randy.
"Where are you right now" Mr. Anderson asked his son. "I'm with the Curtis's" Randy replied monotone.
"Stay there and Randy, I won't be home till next week" Mr. Anderson told Randy and Randy sighed.
"Okay, I'll see you next week" Randy hung up the phone and Randy just stared at the TV.
"Randy you okay" Pony asked Randy and everybody turned towards Randy.
"my mom is dead" Randy whispered the words out and only Ponyboy could hear it.
"I'm sorry Randy" Ponyboy apologized to Randy but Pony didn't want to say those cliché words that he heard when his parents died.
"I shouldn't be surprised. How many times does it take to kill yourself? For my mom it took her about 10 times" Randy spoke out loud and Randy looked up at everybody in shock.
"I never told anyone that" Randy said those exact words that Cherry once stated to Ponyboy.
"Your mom committed suicide" Dally finally said something to Randy.
"Yup but I mean she's been in the mental hospital my whole entire childhood. It wasn't a shock to me" Randy shrugged his shoulders acting like it was no big deal but to Ponyboy it seemed that Randy was still in denial because he was lacking emotions.
"So Darry dinner" Sodapop suggested to try to bring the tension down. Darry just nodded and hopped into the kitchen. Ponyboy made Randy come outside on the back porch. Randy sat next to Ponyboy.
"I heard what you said about your dad being able to help me" Pony brought up to Randy and Randy just stared at Pony.
"Yeah" Randy nodded. "Thanks" Pony smiled at Randy.
"And it's okay to be upset over your mom's death" Pony advised Randy.
"Thanks kid but I hardly knew her except she was passionate about killing herself" Randy just stared in front of him and Pony opened his mouth but then closed it. "Randy" Ponyboy wanted to say something.
"I guess it is rough all over" Ponyboy told Randy and Randy gave Pony a smile.
"Yeah still think us socs have everything" Randy nudged Ponyboy.
"You know Cherry told me that you guys think you to cool to show emotions but you guys do have emotions" Pony said to Randy.
"Yeah I know" Randy replied to Ponyboy.
"You Randy Anderson is different" Pony said before facing the front to see the sunset going down.
"I never seen a sunset ever" Randy whispered.
"I've always been too busy to see one" Randy continued to speak and Pony smiled,
"Come dinner should be ready" Pony told Randy urging him to get up.
"Ponyboy" Randy called out to Pony and Pony turned around.
"Yeah"
"I just want to say thank you for this" Randy rubbed the back of his neck.
"You helping me Randy, if you help one of us then you can somewhat become one of the gang and if you mess with one of us then it doesn't end well" Pony ranted to Randy and Randy nodded along.
"I wish we had that. The socs, I mean the loyalty at least" Randy commented before walking back inside of the Curtis's residence with Pony following him.
"You and Bob were close to one another weren't you" Ponyboy asked Randy and Randy shook his head.
"Compare to Sodapop and that Steve guy, we had no connection like that" Randy confessed to Ponyboy.
"You okay with Marcia and Two-bit dating" Ponyboy asked Randy and Randy looked around the room.
"It's okay to be honest Randy" Ponyboy put his hand on Randy's shoulder.
"I want Marcia to be happy and if that's with that guy then I'm happy for her" Randy stated to Ponyboy and Two-bit heard the whole thing and come out.
"Wow, you are really cool"