I don't own The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton does.

Dally's Pov

Why didn't they come to me? Those two know I would've helped em out of any trouble, even if it was a murder. I would protect those two with my life. I just hope they're okay. I've never seen the Curtis family so depressed. Two Bit hasn't cracked a joke since they disappeared, and Steve is always angry with everyone. Of course Johnny's parents don't even give a hang that he hasn't come home for four days.

"Dallas!" I heard buck yell from down stairs. Dammit what does he want?

"What do you need?" I shouted coming down the stairs.

"Ya got a phone call." He said when I reached him.

"who is it?" He just shrugged his shoulders and handed me the phone. "Hello, Who the hell is this?"

(Johnny bold,Dallas normal)

"It's Johnny."

"Johnnycakes? Are you alright, where are ya? What happened?"

"I'm fine Dal. I can't tell you where we are."

"Why'd you bother to call then?"

"I just wanted to let you know how we are. We shouldn't be gone to much longer anyway."

"Okay?"

"Never mind Dal, don't tell anyone I talked to you, and don't worry we're okay. Okay?"

"Sure, alright Johnny. Please be careful, and tell Pony I said hi."

"Alright, bye Dal."

"Bye Johnnycake." With that I hung up. At least I knew they were okay.

Johnny's Pov

I told Ponyboy that was going to run to the store to see what I could get for a dollar, but I really went to call Dally. I knew it wasn't very smart to leave the church because I might get caught, but in a way that's what I really wanted. I did end up getting ahold of Dally, and talked to him for a few minutes. After I got off the phone though I knew I had to bring something back, and I knew we were out of ciggarettes so I grabed a package paid, and headed back to the church. When I got there I was surprised to see Ponyboy still awake since he woke up so early. I had found him outside watching the sunrise.

( Flashback to sunrise.)

I woke up, and couldn't find Ponyboy. I started to get worried so I went outside to search for him. It didn't take long to find him though. He was just watching the sunrise.

"Golly that sure was pretty." I said

"Yeah." He said in a hoarse voice.

"It's like the mist was what's pretty, all gold and silver." He waited a minute before he spoke.

"Nothing Gold Can Stay." He said still looking at the colors in the sky.

"What?" I asked.

"Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay."

"Where'd you learn that? That is what I meant." I said.

"Robert Frost wrote it. He meant more to it than I'm gettin' though." He said.

(End of flashback)

"Hey Johnny, what'd ya get?" Asked Pony.

"Ciggarettes, I knew you'd go crazy without them." I said grabbing one for myself.

"Thanks Johnny."he said, lighting one up. Maybe my plan would work. Pony looked awfully tired, and he just lit that cigarrete. If he were to fall asleep maybe it would fall out of his hand, and this place would be in flames, but Pony was too careful and put his smoke out before dosing off. I hadn't really realized how tired I was though and started to fall asleep. This isn't how I planned it, I accidentally dropped my ciggarette, and the church immediately started smoking.

"Pony come on, wake up." He woke up coughing and realized the church was on fire. We had just gotten out of the church wen we heard little kids screaming. We ran around to the front, and sure enough there was a whole bunch of little kids. We heard this woman talking to some overweight guy about children being stuck in the church. Oh boy I thought, I started this. What are we going to do now. Pony started at a dead run for the church.

A/n Once again thank you all so much, and I hope you enjoyed this chapter. I was going to post this last night, but I decided to add more to it. ❤️💖