I sat down on the bench and covered my face with my hands to try and calm down. "Rain!" I heard someone call my name. I looked up and saw Cherry and Marcia. They sat down next to me on the back at both my sides. "Griffin, Joseph, Caleb and Andrew all left," Marcia said, "Your friends are all waiting for you at the Dingo." I nodded and we walked to the Dingo in silence.

We went in and I looked around to find my friends. I saw them sitting in a booth in the back. I quickly went to the bathroom to change back into my old clothes. When I finished changing, I took off the makeup and put my hair into a braid so the curls and such wouldn't show. I gave Cherry back her clothes, thanked the two for their help and they left.

I walked out of the bathroom and toward the booth they were in. Steve glanced at me, gave a little smile, turned to Two-Bit and nodded toward me. Two-Bit turned, jumped up from his seat and quickly and tightly wrapped his arms around me. "Rain, are you ok?" he asked. I wrapped my arms tightly around him and buried my head in his shoulder, "I'm fine. Are you ok? I saw that one Soc tackle you." He nodded, "I'm fine." He let me go and I hugged the rest of them. We all sat back down, Two-Bit wrapping his arm around my shoulder.

"Are the rest of you ok?" I asked Sodapop, Ponyboy and Steve. They all nodded. I looked at Ponyboy, "I'm sorry."

They all gave a confused look. "For what?" Ponyboy asked.

"When those Socs got you, I was still with them and that's when they saw you."

"It's not your fault," he said, "They could've hurt you too."

A second later, Darry came in- all worked up- which was understandable. "You guys all ok?" he asked when he reached us. We all nodded and he calmed down.

We went back to the house since it was getting dark. As soon as we all got inside, I was bombarded with questions. "So how was it playing Soc for a day?" Two-Bit asked as we all sat down. I rolled my eyes and he laughed, "That bad, huh?"

"Well it's not like Socs are the best people around," Sodapop said.

"That's true, but not all of them are bad. Randy, Cherry and Marcia are fine, considering they helped me do this. Jeez, you should hear how some of them talk about us, though! When the four of them, the ones who own the red car, went to Pony and Marcia, ya know what he said?" They all shook their heads. "He's just a greaser." I repeated.

They all gave angry scowls and I hears hissing sounds in different directions. "Nice people," Steve said sarcastically.

I nodded. "Try spending a whole day with 'em. When they went by Pony I ran off cause I couldn't watch the fight you guys had with them. My bottom lip was bleeding cause I literally was biting my lip to keep from screaming to you guys."

"That's the reason you called here, right?" Darry asked.

"That is correct."

"So what are the four guys in the red car names?" Two-Bit asked.

"Well there was that one who, ya know, Griffin. Then his four little stooges are Joseph, Caleb and Andrew. They go to the high school starting this Monday and two of them are juniors. One is a sophomore. One is a senior. I'm not sure which is which though."

"Well, this'll be fun," Ponyboy sighed a bit.

later that night…

Sodapop had gone out with Steve on a double date. Steve's girlfriend Evie had a friend that she thought would be perfect for him, so with a lot of persuasion, Soda agreed to go. It was good for him that he start going out again. It kinda meant that he was getting over Sandy… Darry and Ponyboy were doing something inside the house. I was sitting on the front steps with Two-Bit, like we had started to do nearly every night. It was peaceful and quiet, which was pretty rare for any of us.

"Can I tell you the craziest thing that happened today?" I asked and nodded. "Ok, so my story was that I was visiting from Georgia since I moved there eight years ago for my dad's job and I finally convinced my parents to visit back here."

He laughed a bit at that, "Who came up with that?"

"Cherry Valance."

"Figures, you're too smart for that… anyways, what's the craziest thing that happened?"

"You're not gonna like this, but… that Soc Griffin asked me out."

His eyes widened and he stood up with fists clenched. "I'm gonna kill him!"

I pulled him back down next to me. "Don't worry, I said no. And technically, he was asking out 'Rose the Soc' from Georgia, not 'Rain the Greaser'. And even then I said I had a boyfriend."

"Really?"

I nodded. "But when he asked me his name, I panicked and said Keith." He cringed a little at his real name and I couldn't help but laugh. "No Soc knows your real name, so we're fine. Besides, they think that 'Keith' is in Georgia."

He chuckled, "Good point."

I gave a teasing smile. "Ha- told ya so."

next Monday morning…

"But none of those bums are in your grade," I argued to Ponyboy.

He shrugged, "I'll still have to deal with them, and for two reasons. One: I'm a Greaser. Two: I'm a freshman."

"What does being a freshman have to do with anything?"

"Everybody loves to get the freshman, for some reason."

"Well, I have to deal with them too. One: I'm a Greaser, just like you. Two: I'm a girl, which opens a lot more doors for them."

Two-Bit draped his arms over both our shoulders, "Well, neither of you gotta worry cause I'll protect both of y'all." I smiled and we walked into the school. "Besides, two of them are juniors so I got more to worry about than either of you."

"Well, you should've been in your senior year nearly a year and a half ago, so that's your doing," Ponyboy teased.

Two-Bit blew it off, "School is fun, why would I wanna leave?"

"There's always college."

"But ya can't play around in college like ya can in high school. I'd go nuts in college." I laughed. "What? You know I wouldn't be able to handle it. Could you two?"

Ponyboy and I just looked at each other. I shrugged, "I don't know… Pony, you'd probably be able to handle college better than any of us."

"Darry and Sodapop say I'll probably end up getting a scholarship," he said, "But I could never go too far away. I would miss home too much."

I shrugged again, "I don't know what I'll do… I kinda wanna go to college, but one: I don't wanna leave you guys. Two: I know it'll help me in the future, though. Besides, times'll be different by the time any of us get to college, it'll be the 70s so let's see how things are then," I said hopefully.

"Well, if either of you go, don't go too far or I'm taking the first bus to follow ya," Two-Bit laughed.

Boring chapter, deal with it, I'm still trying to catch up with my notebook for this and my watt pad and I finished writing another chapter for watt pad and I still have to update and I'm kinda just sitting here like "screw it" but then I'm also sitting here like "nah, I gotta get this done"