Sorry it took so long to update! I've been busy, but here's chapter eleven!
Chapter Eleven
Dally's POV:
Cherry and I went back to bed until morning. We cuddled and kissed and stuff like that. In the morning, Ponyboy came in to wake us up. " Rise and shine!" he said to us. I sat up in bed. Cherry was still sleeping. I laughed. " What are you doing?" I asked, stretching. " The sun's barely up and I'm not even dressed." Ponyboy chuckled and sat on the end of the bed. " Listen," he said. " I'm thinking of something we can all do today."
I smiled. " What's that?" Ponyboy cleared his throat and told me his ideas. " I'm thinking that we should go up and visit Two Bit's Great Aunt Gladys. Two Bit told her that he had a couple of friends with a son and daughter. She's 80 and she loves kids." I smiled. " That sounds pretty fun to me," I said. " What else?" " Well," Ponyboy began. " Two Bit said she'd love it if we stayed over for a couple nights. She has two bedrooms and a couple of sleeping bags. She'd love it if we came down to the house."
I nodded. " Okay, let me get dressed and I'll be out to have breakfast with you." Ponyboy shook his head. " No," he said. " We're thinking of going out for breakfast. Wanna come?" I nodded. " Sure. I'll wake up Cherry in a second and then I'll get dressed." Ponyboy left and I woke up Cherry. " Cherry!" I said, patting her on the shoulder. She sat up. " Morning?" she asked. I nodded. " Yeah. Ponyboy said that we're going out for breakfast and then later we're going to see Two Bit's Great Aunt." Her eyes widened. " Cool!" she explained. " Where does she live?"
" She lives in Milford," Ponyboy said as Cherry and I came out into the living room. " That's about a half hour drive from here, but Two Bit said that she isn't a boring person to be around. He even said that if he had the choice to get in a rumble or go to her house, he'd go to her houe and that's a pretty big shock if you ask me." I nodded. " Well, it's something different to do," I said, stroking my hair around. " A sleepover seems fun enough to me." Cherry yawned. " I'm still sleepy. It was probably that bath I took." " I thought baths were supposed to wake you up," Ponyboy said, turning on the TV. The show, Gunsmoke came on. " Well, I didn't get enough sleep on top of that," Cherry finished.
A few minutes later, Soda came out from the bedroom and yawned. " You guys planning a reunion or something?" he asked. " No, no," Ponyboy said. " Two Bit was going to take us to his Great Aunt Gladys's house." " Cool," Soda said. " I sure could use a vacation." Little Johnny walked in the room, rubbing his eyes. Ponyboy picked him up and brought him over to me. Little Johnny sat on my lap while the rest of us continued talking.
" I think it will be fun," Cherry said. " I could use a little time away from home and I think the kids will enjoy it, too." I nodded as Little Johnny hugged me. I hugged him back. Several minutes later, Ponyboy, Cherry, Soda, Darry, and I were all waiting in line to take our showers. I took Little Johnny in the shower with me and Cherry took Sally in the shower with her. I held Little Johnny up by my shoulders and I let him rub the shampoo into my hair. He really liked taking showers with me because he could mess up my hair and make it into a mohawk. " Having fun?" I asked him. " Daddy looks silly," he said, laughing at the way he shaped my hair. I laughed with him as I fixed my hair up and rinsed the shampoo out. Once our shower was over with, I got dressed and I dressed Little Johnny. When we both exited the bathroom, Cherry went in the shower with Sally.
Two Bit came to the door a little later. Ponyboy was in the shower by this time and the rest of us were all ready to go out for a breakfast and head out to his Great Aunt's house. " You guys ready or what?" Two Bit asked. " Sure we are, Two Bit," Cherry said, studying Two Bit. He actually still had grease in his hair. Cherry was counting out the years. " You're twenty and you've still got the greaser look?" Cherry asked. " Yep," Two Bit replied, laughing a little. " Besides, if I wear hair grease, it makes my Great Aunt Gladys think that I'm still young and she likes that. I chuckled. " Yeah, my Great Aunt used to be that way, too." Finally,Ponyboy was ready. Somehow, we all fit in my car. Darry's truck may have been fixed from when they had the accident, but we wouldn't be able to all fit in there and we wanted to test it in the backyard before we went on the road or anything.
We were on the road for about ten minutes when we stopped at this little countryside lunchonette sort of place. It was a nice place, so we decided to eat there. Cherry and I sat next to each other while Little Johnny and Sally were in their babyseats. We all listened to Soda who was reading out loud almost everything on the menu. I asked for a kids' menu for Little Johnny and Sally. I read off everything they had. " Would you like scrambled eggs?" I asked. " Would you like silver dollar pancakes? Would you like waffles or chocolate chip waffles?" " I want chocolate chip waffles!" Little Johnny explained. Sally wanted the same thing. To our surprise, Marcia was working there. She ended up being our waitress. " My, God!" Ponyboy explained. " I can't believe the luck of us seeing you here!"
Marcia laughed. She noticed Little Johnny and Sally. " Oh, my goodness!" she explained. " Cherry, you and Dally sure got busy!" We all laughed as Marcia took out a pad to write down our orders. " What will you have, Dally?" " I'll have the American cheese omelette with balcon, extra crispy, please." Marcia wrote it down, smiling. " Cherry?" " I'll have scrambled eggs, please." " Balcon or sausage?" " Balcon, please." " And what does this little guy want?" she asked for Little Johnny. " He wants the chocolate chip waffles," I said for him. " So does our little girl, here." Marcia wrote it down. Ponyboy wanted rice crispies. Darry wanted two eggs sunny side up with a side of sausage links. Two Bit first said, " I'll take two egg ham and cheese breafast sandwiches, toast with jelly, a side of sausage links and balcon, I'll have a cup of coffee, sugar, please, scrambled eggs, and a couple of waffles." After that, he simply said. " Well, maybe I'll just have the waffles, then, with a cup of coffee. I'll have black." Marcia smiled, writing it down. Soda wanted two eggs sunny side up with toast and he said that he would like jell on the side. He ended up using this jelly to put on his eggs.
After breakfast, we paid the bill and left Marcia the largest tip we had ever given any waitress. We were on the road again, about half way there. " You guys will love my Great Aunt Gladys," Two Bit was saying. " She talks dirtier than us!" " Well, that must be pretty bad, then!" Soda explasined. Two Bit nodded, grinning. It was a pretty nice drive. The traffic wasn't bad at all and it let us all talk along the way. Two Bit hadn't stopped by in a while, so he had some new stories to tell us which were probably fictional. We finally got there after about fifteen minutes.
Two Bit lead us out of the car and up to the front porch of the one story house. It looked like the average home where an elderly lady would live. " Get ready for her to stick her tounge out or make a funny face when she answers the door," Two Bit said as he rang the doorbell. We all waited for her to answer the door. Little Johnny and Sally were getting excited.
I'll be writing chapter twelve very soon!