I woke up by the light being on. I turned to see Ponyboy and found Sodapop there looking at him talking. "What are you doing here Soda?" I asked squinting from the light. "Oh Susie I'm sorry I didn't mean to wake you up. I was just seeing how Ponyboy was doing." Sodapop said as Ponyboy's stomach growled. "You think you can get up for some breakfast?" Sodapop asked him. "I think so." Ponyboy answered trying to get up. With a little bit of Sodapop's help he finally got up. He started walking around clutching his chest. "You sure you're okay?" Sodapop asked conserned. "Yeah it just hurts a bit, I'll be fine." "Okay but don't hurt yourself too much." Sodapop said as we walked slowly downstairs to the dining room to get some food finding Darry, Cherry, and Mr and Mrs. Valance there. "Hey there you are!" Darry said excitingly. We walked a bit more hoping he wouldn't notice Ponyboy walking funny and his eye but he noticed both. "What happened to your eye kid?" Darry asked. "Why you walking so funny too." Cherry said. Sodapop, Ponyboy, and I all looked at Mr. Valance and he shook his head no. Ponyboy quickly came up with something. "I sorta ran into something." He said. We knew Darry and Cherry didn't buy it but the just ignored it anyway. Ponyboy came up to the chair and sat down slowly wincing because of his chest. "You okay?" Darry asked knowing for certain that Ponyboy didn't run into something but someone. "Yeah I'm fine, really." Ponyboy lied. Mr. Valance sat down in the chair farthest away from Ponyboy as Mrs. Valance handing out the plates of bacon and toast leaving Ponyboy with the burnt plate of food. "You wouldn't mind the tad burnt one now wouldcha?" Mr. Valance said staring Ponyboy down. "No, not at all." Ponyboy answered back. "Mom, dad, where are your plates of food?" Cherry asked. "Oh we already ate, were going to the grocery store today so you'll be on your own for a bit. We better go right now." Mrs. Valance said as they got up and left but before Mr. Valance left he came up to Ponyboy and whispered something in his ear that made Ponyboy gulped and widen his eyes though I couldn't hear what he said. I leaned over to Ponyboy and whispered, "What did he say?" "Nothing." He lied. "How would you like to hook up the water tube to the boat after breakfast and take it for a spin?" Cherry asked looking around at all of us. "Sure!" Sodapop said. "Great I'll go get my swimsuit on." Cherry said as she sprinted upstairs. When Cherry was gone Darry started talking. "Okay now that Cherry's gone what really happened to your eye and why are you walking so funny! I know you guys are keeping it from me and I'm not going anywhere until you tell me the truth." Darry said sternly. Ponyboy sighed before starting the whole story. When Ponyboy finished Darry looked real shook up. "I'm, I'm sorry Ponyboy but I don't know what to say." There was a long pause before someone talked again. "I know how much you love Cherry but I don't think it's...safe." Darry said picking his words carefully. Suddenly Cherry comes sprinting down the stairs. "Why aren't you ready?" Cherry asked. "We were just going up to get them on." Darry said getting up and pushing Sodapop and I closer to the stairs. After we got our swimsuits on except for Ponyboy because of what Mr. Valance did we all went down to the boat and hooked up the water tube to the back of it. "Are you sure you just want to stay in the boat?"Cherry asked. "Yeah it's just that my stomach hurts." Ponyboy said. "Well I hope you get better." Cherry said softly and kissed him on the lips but Ponyboy pulled back. "That's probably going to be the last time they did that." I said to Sodapop and Darry when we all were lying on the tube. Darry nudged me a bit. "What did you say, Susie?" Cherry asked looking back from the boat. "Nothing. Just talking to myself." I answered back as the boat started up. We started off real slow because none of us has never done anything like this but it soon caught up to speed. We were all laughing and then we hit a huge bump on the lake that knocked Darry, Sodapop and I off the tube. When we finally got our heads over the water we started laughing even more. The more we fell the more it was fun. After we went on the water tube we went on the jet skis. As much as it hurt Ponyboy he knew that this would probably be the last time he spent time with Cherry. Sodapop and I shared a jet ski, Cherry and Ponyboy, and Darry got his own. Cherry was the leader and we all followed her until she stopped my the shore. Their was a big wooden chest just sitting there like it's been there for centuries. "People say that this is the only thing left of them. You see these two people were on there honeymoon in a cabin right where that chest is. They say that they blew up the cabin and left on their boat. Some people say they sunk and some people say they went far away. Me? I saw it's all just a ghost story." Cherry said and it gave me the shivers. After we visited the giant chest we all hit this huge bump. We came splashing down and the water went over our jet skis and fell right on top of us. We were all soaking wet. By then it was getting sort a dark out and we all piled into the cabin. We all went into our own rooms to dry off and this was my time to talk to Ponyboy. Ponyboy went to grab a towel and we both sat on the bed not afraid we would get it wet. "Does your stomach hurt even worse?" I asked knowing that it probably did. Ponyboy nodded as he wipped all the water on his face. "Come on Pony you haven't talked all day. We all know you're bummed about Cherry but do you really want to spend the last day with her not talking?" I asked. Ponyboy didn't act like he heard me and kept wiping his face. Then he used the towel and scrubbed it all over my hair to dry it. When he took the towel out of my hair he started chuckling and I knew that it was probably sticking straight up all over. Ponyboy messed with it until it was sitting flat on my head. Suddenly Darry and Sodapop came in and sat down on the bed. "I've been trying to get him to talk but he won't." I said to them. "Ponyboy come on. Is there something more you didn't tell us?" Darry asked. Ponyboy nodded his head shyly. "When Mr. Valance was yelling at me, I could smell alcohol." Ponyboy said and we all fell silent.