A/N Sorry for the confusion in the last chapter! The new guy's name is Tim! His middle name is Cody. Enjoy!

Chapter 14- Soda Meets A Girl

Soda's POV

Well I was sitting in the living room with Tim and Darry. I was bored out of my mind! Tim was asleep on the couch and Darry was reading the paper. I though I'd go for a walk.

"Darry. I'm going to go for a walk. Ok?" I said.

"Yeah but becareful and be back before it gets dark." He said.

"Ok." I said.

So I left the house. My ankle was still kind of sore but I just ignored it anyway. In the distance I could hear yelling. A girl yelling. I ran ahead and saw in the vacant that there were 4 Soc's beating up a girl. So I ran up. I was furious! How could anyone do this to a girl!

"HEY! LEAVE HER ALONE!!" I yelled. I realized that she was a Greaser like me.

"Why Greaser? I'm sure she doesn't want to hang around with trash like you! She's way to pretty for you!" One of the Soc's yelled.

"I'm a greaser too you scum bags!" The girl yelled.

"Is that so? Well then I'm not going easy on you!" the other Soc yelled.

They started to punch her in the stomach. I had had enough of seeing this poor girl getting beaten! SO I stepped in and protected her. I ran in front of her taking the blow that was meant to hit her. I punched the guy in the face. He grabbed my shirt collar and started to choke me. I was kicking around desperate for air, but the air wasn't reaching my lungs. The girl got up and ran towards us and got in between us and got the other guy to let go of me. He had me off my feet and I fell to the ground gasping.

"Look at him… He's a wimp! C'mon guys we can find better people to jump." He kicked dirt at me.

The girl walked up to me and fell besides me. She put a hand on my shoulder.

"Are you ok?" She asked.

"I'm… OK….. Are you?"

"Yeah I'm fine…. I"ll probably have a black eye. I'm fine."

"Good….." I took a heaving sigh and fell back to the ground.

"My name's Kayla Rodgers by the way. What's yours?" she asked.

"Sodapop Curtis." I said.

"That's a cute name! I love it!" Kayla said.

"thanks…. Do you want to come to my house. I can clean you up a bit?" I asked.

"I'd like that." Kayla said.

I tried to get up but I was exhausted. Kayla helped me up. She put my arm around her shoulder and helped me walk to my house. When we got there Darry was in the kitchen making dinner, Pony was in his room doing homework, Two-Bit was watching Mickey Mouse, and Steve was just sitting on the couch. When I walked in Steve jumped up and ran to me.

"Hey Buddy! What happened?" He said.

"I was taking a walk and saw that this girl was getting jump… So I helped her out." I said.

"Yeah… He helped me a lot!" Kayla said.

"Well well, Good job Soda. You picked up a nice looking one!" Steve yelled.

"Shut up!" I said.

So I led Kayla to the couch and told her to sit.

"I"ll be right back." I said.

"Ok." She said.

I ran into the kitchen and grabbed a wet rag. I ran back into the living room and sat down next to Kayla. She let me clean up all of the blood that was on her face. Man! I thought, She is really pretty! After that she insisted that she cleans me up. I didn't mind! She was hot anyway! So I offered to walk her home. But she said that she would rather not go home tonight. The Other's didn't mind if she stayed here. Pony's girl did. So why can't Kayla? It was about Midnight when Kayla fell asleep. I just Pulled up a chair and fell asleep next to her.