A/N Sorry it took me so long to update, I had a hard time writing this chapter. Thank-you all again for the amazing reviews! I would like to personally thank each and every one of you, but I know how annoying that is, so I'll just a say one more giant THANK-YOU!! (: Keep up the great reviews, I love hearing what you guys think!

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Chapter 10: Somewhere Out There

Ponyboy's POV

It had been two hours since the police officers left our hotel room. The longest, most pain filled two hours of my life. The clock hanging on the wall in the kitchen ticked loudly, remindin' me of the passin' time. The wind outside howled relentlessly, remindin' me that somewhere out there my brother and two of our friends were tryin' to survive.

Tick, tock, tick, tock… I couldn't take it anymore. I didn't care what Darry said. I had to find Soda… the other's too, of course. I was worried about Two-Bit and even Dally, but it was Soda I was concerned about the most. He is my brother, my protector, the person who has been here for me my whole life, and even more so since mom and dad died. He likes spendin' time with me and doesn't think I'm just some tag along kid. I loved him the most. He wouldn't just sit around waitin' for the fuzz to find me. And neither would I.

I knew that Darry was in his room pacin' around; he didn't want to do it out here and put the rest of us on edge more so then we already were, and I was pretty sure that I could convince both Steve and Johnny to help me look.

"Steve," I said quietly, not wantin' to risk Darry hearin' me. Steve and Johnny were both starin' mindlessly at the TV.

"What?" he was annoyed not because I'd interrupted what he was watchin' on the TV; he wasn't really watchin' it, but that I'd interrupted him while he was deep in thought. Probably tryin' to figure out how to sneak out and save Soda too.

"Shh," I hissed, "Let's get out of here. We have to find the guys."

Johnny looked at me then, his eyes widened but he didn't say anythin'.

Steve looked amused, "Well Ponyboy for once we're on the same page. Let's get out of here before Superman comes outta his room."

We nearly smacked into each other as we ran to the door, Johnny was right behind us. Before we reached the handle I heard Darry's boomin' voice.

"Just where in the hell do you three think you're going?" We all stopped in our tracks.

"We're goin' to find them Darry." I said as I turned to face my oldest brother.

"No you're not."

"C'mon Darry," Steve urged, "I know you want to find them as bad as we do."

"Yes, I want them to be found. But I don't want to risk anyone else getting lost."

"Well I can't just sit here and do nothin'. I won't! Not while the guys are out there cold, lost and possibly even hurt! They could be hurt, Darry. Bad. And what, we're gonna just sit here all cozy, warm and safe?" I was livid, the more I thought of it the more I had to go find them.

"That is exactly what we're going to do." He told me, "Well, that and call the police station and see if they've found anything." He walked to the phone and proceeded to dial the number that we had written on the hotel stationary pad.

He mumbled into the phone for a couple of minutes before hangin' it up and turnin' to us. He shook his head sadly, "No news yet. But they're still looking."

I started to tear up, Darry shifted awkwardly unsure of what to do and finally decided to come and give a hug. He squeezed me to his chest, a little bit too tight but it didn't matter. I closed my eyes and wished that it were Soda's arms wrapped around me tight.

Dally's POV

I could mask the pain limpin' on my sore foot caused, I could disguise the exhaustion I was feelin', I could put on a brave face and pretend that I wasn't scared shitless, but I couldn't stop my damn teeth from chatterin' or the shakes that had engulfed my whole body. I was cold and I couldn't hide it.

I wasn't the only one havin' a hard time but for some reason the thought didn't comfort me. Tayin and Two-Bit were shakin' and chatterin' as bad as I was. And Soda, well Soda was unconscious and in a bad way. Instead of freezin' like the rest of us he was sweatin' and instead of chatter' teeth he was mumblin' incoherently.

We had been walkin' in one direction for an hour easy, more likely two or three but we still hadn't found anywhere to hide from the unrelenting wind and snow. Two-Bit was the first of the three of us to collapse.

I was at his side instantly afraid he had passed out like Soda, but he looked up at me with a half ass grin.

"My knees gave out on me." Two-Bit laughed. Tayin, who was still packin' Sodapop, caught up to us after a minute.

I sighed and looked around us, nothin' had changed, all you could see was snow blowin' in the howlin' wind, and what looked like an entrance to a cave a ways to our left… wait a minute… a cave? I must be hallucinatin'. But, no, I looked back and there it was.

"Get up." I extended my hand to help Two-Bit; once he was up I started hobblin' towards what I hoped would be our salvation.

A/N Sorry it's so short. I will try to update the next chapter soon! Let me know what you think!