Chapter 13
When I came back around, I found myself lying on the floor in the DX with Anya sitting next to me.
"What happened?" I asked.
"You passed out" said Anya, handing me a bag full of ice, "you have a big bump on the back of your head." I sat up very slowly and immediately wished I hadn't. Everything was spinning.
"Where's Davanee?" I asked.
"She's in the garage with Ally" said Anya, "I figured you might be surprised about the news."
"Oh trust me" I said, "I'm far beyond surprised."
"Are you mad?"
"Mad? How can I be mad? I'm thrilled" I said.
Anya smiled and said "good. For a second there I thought you were mad."
"No. I couldn't be mad at you" I said.
"The doctor says I should probably go back in about a month or so" she said, helping me up. She handed me a Coke.
"This should help a little" she said.
"I can't believe it" I said, taking the Coke from her.
"Neither can I" she said.
"This has turned out to be a bigger day then what I thought it was going to be" I said.
"I know" she said, "I have to get back to work."
"I should probably go too. I promised Davanee I would take her to the park" I said.
"Alright. I'll let you go" said Anya, giving me a kiss.
"Bye, baby" I said, walking to the garage.
"I'll see you when I get home!" shouted Anya. I walked out of there in a daze with Davanee right by my side.
"Daddy, what's wrong?" asked Davanee.
"Nothing" I said.
"You fell. You got a bump" she said.
"I know" I said.
"Then what happen?" she asked.
I took a minute before I answered.
"Davanee, what would you think if you had a little brother or sister?"
"I want a little sister. I don't like boys. Boys are yucky" she said.
"So would you be disappointed if you had a brother?" I asked. Davanee thought about it for a minute.
"No" she said.
"Do you like the thought of having a little brother or sister?" I asked.
"Kinda" was all she said. I thought for sure she would say no. After all, she had been the only child for 2 years. Pretty soon we were at the park. As soon as we got there, I saw Johnny coming from the other direction. We had been talking for a little while (I was careful not to tell them about Anya) when I saw a blue Mustang circling the park.
"What do they want?" asked Johnny.
"I don't know" I said.
Before we could say anything else, about 5 socs got out of the car. The odds weren't in our favor this time. It had been a long time sense I'd gotten jumped or been in a rumble. Those kinds of things are ok to do when you're young and you've got nothing tying you down, but it's not ok when you've got a wife and kid.
"Well, well, well" said Bob, "looky what we got here. Hey Greasers!"
"What do you want?" I asked.
"Nothing, we just wanna have a little fun with you is all" said another. I looked down and noticed that Davanee was standing behind me, grabbing hold of my leg.
"Sweetie, go play" I said. She walked away without saying anything.
"Not so fast" said one of the socs as he picked her up.
"Put her down" I said in a low voice. The soc just stood there.
"I swear, if you don't put her down right now I'll…………."
"You'll what?" asked Bob.
"Leave her out of this" said Johnny, "she didn't do anything."
"No but we're gonna show her what happens to greasers" said Bob. I tried to walk towards Davanee but they had Johnny and I down within seconds. I didn't really care so much about them hurting me just as long they didn't hurt Davanee, but I could hear her screaming. I tried to get to her but one of the socs kicked me and knocked me down again. I wanted to fight back but I couldn't. I didn't want Davanee to see me fighting. I was just about to give up when I heard footsteps. I guess the socs heard them too because they left. The one that was holding Davanee stood there a couple of minutes before dropping her, and I mean literally dropping her, and running off to join his friends.
I looked up to find Darry, Dallas, and Two-Bit standing over us.
"You ok kid?" asked Dallas.
"Yeah" I got up and walked over to Davanee. She was still crying pretty hard. I picked her up and tried to calm her down but she wouldn't stop. They had scared her that bad. Finally, she started calming down a little. I decided that it was best we went home. She was still a little teary eyed.
"You ok, sweetie?" I asked once we got home. She didn't say anything.
"They didn't hurt you, did they?"
She shook her head no. I thought it best that maybe she had nap. I did my homework while I waited for Anya to come home that day. I really wasn't paying attention to whatever my homework was on. I didn't care. Normally, after a run in with the socs, I would've just forgotten about it. But this one was different. I didn't want Davanee to see those kinds of things and I certainly didn't want her to see me getting hurt. Hopefully she won't have to deal with the whole Soc, Greaser thing when she gets older. I was about finish with my homework when Anya came in. She looked tired.
"Rough day?" I asked.
"Yeah. Really rough day" she said, not looking up at me. She threw herself down on the couch and closed her eyes.
"How was your day?" she asked.
"I got jumped" I said.
"What!? When!?" she asked, sitting up and opening her eyes.
"When we were at the park" I said.
"Are you guys ok?" she asked.
"We'll be ok. They scared Davanee, but we'll be ok" I said.
"What'd they do to her?" she asked.
"Nothing. She just got to see the whole thing" I said.
"I'm sorry to hear that" she said.
There was a moment of silence between us. I started making dinner. It was my night. Anya and I had this whole thing planned out. I made dinner on Monday night, Wednesday night, Friday night, and Saturday night. She made dinner on Tuesday night, Thursday night, and Sunday night.
I was in the middle of making spaghetti when she said "it isn't fair."
"What's not fair?"
"You guys didn't do anything" she said.
"It's just the way things are. There's nothing we can do about it" I said. In my opinion, the only way to escape was to get out of Tulsa all together. When I was younger, I had always dreamed of moving as far away from Tulsa as possible but that all changed when Davanee came but I don't blame her for that. I blame myself. If I hadn't gone to the party that night, everything would be different for me. I would still be living in the old house with Darry, anxiously awaiting Soda's return.
I was just about done with dinner when I heard Davanee shuffling her feat down the hall.
"Daddy" said Davanee from the doorway.
"Hey baby" I said, picking her up.
"Daddy, can I watch Cinderella?" she asked.
"Yeah, sure" I said. I sat her down on the couch and turned Cinderella on for her.
The rest of the night was pretty quiet, unlike that day.