Mom and dad are right I need to tell my brothers, I need to tell everyone the full story. I stand up and tell my parents I love them one last time before walking out of the cemetery and down the street back towards my house. It's time to tell everyone the truth.

As I run home from the cemetery I try and gather my thoughts on exactly how I'm going to tell my brothers about this. Every scenario that I run through my head about how this could go always ends up with one of my brothers killing one of my abusers. I'm not saying that that wouldn't make me extremely happy, but I can't lose them so that can't happen. It's time to face the music because I can see the house only a short distance away from me. As each step carries me closer and closer to it, I take deep cleansing breaths to try and calm my nerves.

"Hey slut." I hear. I whip around so fast that I almost give myself whiplash. There standing in front of me are two of the people I despise the most in the world, Seth and Cole.

"Did your leader let you out all by yourselves?" I spit smirking.

"Carter is not our leader slut." Cole hisses.

"Whatever." I say waving my hand dismissing them and continue walking the rest of the short distance to my house.

"OW." I cry as I'm roughly pulled back by my hair.

"Where do you think you're going slut? I don't remember us telling you that you could leave." Seth says turning me around to face him and slaps me hard across the face.

"Let me go!" I growl trying to pull myself away from Seth but he has a vice like grip on my hair.

"Why would you want to leave Sky? The parties just getting started." Cole says smirking.

"I thought you guys weren't aloud to have a party without Carter." I spit still trying to get away.

"Carter doesn't own us so we're going to do whatever we want with you, whenever we want to whether he is here or not." Seth says with a chuckle.

While Seth and Cole are laughing at what Seth just said I take this as my chance to try and get away. I kick Seth as hard as I can in the shin causing him to double over and release his grip on my hair. Before Cole can grab me I take off running as fast as I can, I know that neither of them will be able to catch me before I reach the house because I am way faster then them.

"This isn't over slut! We'll get you at school!" I hear Cole yell as I reach the gate of the house. I just let his threat go in one ear and out the other and focus on bracing myself for my brothers and the gangs reactions. I push open the gate and walk up the porch steps, I take several deep breaths before pushing the door open and walking inside. It's now or never.

"Sky where were you? I told you to be back in an hour and its been two. Do you have any idea how worried we all were?" Darry shouts.

"I'm sorry Darry I got caught up." I explain.

"Where'd you go Sky?" Pony asks me as I take a seat on the couch.

"To the cemetery to see mom and dad." I say softly.

"Why'd you go there Sky?" Steve asks.

"I needed some advice." I tell them.

"Did you get it baby girl?" Soda asks putting an arm around me and pulling me close to him.

"I think so." I say.

"Well that's good peanut, but next time please come home on time." Darry tells me getting up from his recliner and starting to leave the room.

"Darry wait!" I half shout.

"What is it Sky?" he asks turning back around to face me.

"Can you sit back down please? I need to tell you something, all of you." I say softly.

"Okay peanut, we're all ears." he says sitting back down in his recliner.

"A little over 4 months ago the beatings started. At first it was just a few punches here and there but that quickly escalated to them raping me. I-"

"Sky you don't have to talk about this." Pony says cutting me off.

"Mom and dad told me that it was time to tell you guys the whole story. I thought you guys would be happy since you guys have been begging me to tell you guys for almost 3 months now, but now that I am finally deciding to tell you you don't want me to." I say softly.

"Of course we want you to tell us peanut. Please continue telling us, we won't interrupt you again." Darry says giving me a soft smile.

I take a deep breath and grab onto Soda's hand for emotional support.

"I was beat up and raped daily by these guys, until I tried to take my life and was admitted into the hospital. I didn't try and take my life because I thought I would be safe for awhile in the hospital, but I did think I would be safe there. Boy was I wrong about that." I stop to take a breath and wipe away some of the tears that are already starting to fall.

"Take your time baby girl." Soda tells me giving my hand a reassuring squeeze.

"The hospital was a hell hole for me and it wasn't just because I didn't like it there. After you guys left that first night a doctor came into my room. I didn't recognize him and he didn't say anything, all he did was look over my chart. When he did speak though he called me horrible names and explained to me who he was, he was one of my abusers father. He said that since I wasn't going to be in school for awhile that he was going to carry out the beatings that his son wouldn't be able to give me." I stop and take another deep breath in.

"He didn't you know, did he Sky?" Dally asks.

"No he didn't, he just beat me up really bad. That's the reason why I tried to take my life again during my evaluation, I couldn't take the beatings he was giving me anymore. He was beating me every night after you guys left and sometimes in the morning also before you guys got there."

"I knew we shouldn't have left you there by yourself." Soda growls cutting me off.

I squeeze his hand to get him to look at me. "It's not your fault, you guys couldn't have known that that was going to happen to me. Please don't blame yourselves." I beg.

He squeezes my hand and nods urging me to continue.

"As I was saying he beat me at least once a day, if not more. He finally stopped when you caught him Soda, I can't tell you how happy I was when you walked through that door. When I was finally released from the hospital I was so excited to come home and that excitement lasted the rest of the week up until the day before I had to go back to school. That first day back I was given three horrible notes from my abusers warning me to watch my back and just before the school day was over they beat me up really bad and they would've raped me again if the end of the day bell hadn't rang. The rest of the week they beat me up and raped me 3 times, well almost 3 because Pony stopped them half way through." I stop once again to catch my breath.

"I'm going to-" Darry starts to growl.

"Wait I'm not done." I tell him quickly.

"There's more?" Two-bit asks baffled.

"Yes. The reason why I was late coming home today was because I ran into two of my abusers. I was close to the house when I ran into them and they tried to rape me again. Before they could though I kicked one of them hard in the shin and then ran as fast as I could to the house before they could catch up to me." I say.

I'm starting to rethink telling them. If I don't tell them their names then Carter, Seth, and Cole can't carry through with their threat. But then moms words come back into my head 'you need to tell them sweetie.' Here goes nothing, I really hope I don't regret this.

"I didn't tell you guys because they threatened to tell the social worker that you guys were abusing me and get you taken away from me." I say wiping away some of my tears.

"That would never happen baby girl." Soda tells me wiping away some more of my tears.

"I know that now." I say and give him a soft smile.

It's now or never.

"Their names are Carter Evens, Cole Smith, and Seth Demule." I tell them.

"I know who those guys are, I don't know how I didn't realize how creepy they are till now." Two-bit says.

"Come on Two-bit you can show me who they are because I am going to go kill them." Dally growls getting up and pulling out his switchblade.

"No!" I shout getting up and blocking the door.

"Move out of the way Sky." Dally demands.

"You promised me that when I told you guys that you wouldn't do something that would result in you being taken away from me." I choke out before a sob racks my body.

"But Sky th-"

"But nothing! I can't lose you!" I wail.

"I'm so sorry short stuff. Come here." Dally says softly holding his arms out to me. I immediately fling myself into his arms and continue to cry my eyes out, soaking his shirt in the process. After awhile I pull back and let go of Dally. I don't really know what to do right now so I kind of just stand there awkwardly bracing myself for the rest of their reactions.

I look over at Darry and his face is so red that it looks like it is going to burst, he's that angry.

"Darry?" I ask cautiously.

He looks up at me for a brief second before standing up abruptly and punching a hole in the wall.

"Darry stop." I cry as I grab his arm stopping him from splitting his knuckles open on his other hand. He turns and looks at me and while his facial expression shows nothing but anger, his eyes betray that anger. His eyes are glazed over and he just looks so helpless and sad.

"Please don't cry Darry." I beg softly reaching up and wiping away the single tear that escaped his eye.

"I'm so sorry peanut. I'm supposed to protect you from everything bad in this world and I couldn't, I'm such a horrible big brother." he says hanging his head.

I grab his chin and force him to look at me. "You are the best big brother in the whole world, don't for one minute doubt that. Don't blame yourself for this, it's not your fault it's not any of you guys fault so I don't want any of you blaming yourself for this. I love you Superman." I say.

"I love you too peanut." Darry says and then pulls me to him engulfing me in his strong and safe embrace. He kisses my head before letting me go.

When I turn around to face everyone else, I see that they are all crying but trying not to show it because they don't want to come off as not tuff. As I look around though I notice that somebody is missing.

"Where's Pony?" I ask.

"He said he was going out to take a smoke." Johnny tells me.

I know that's not what he's doing.

"And you let him?" I half shout.

"Yeah, why wouldn't we baby girl?" Soda asks his voice cracking at the end because of the crying.

"You guys are stupid, that's not what he's doing." I say baffled that they would believe his lie.

"What is he doing then Sky?" Steve asks me.

"Seth and Cole couldn't have gotten very far in this time that I've been here telling you guys. Pony's gone to find them, because if anyone can catch up to them it's him. I'm going after him, I have to stop him." I say frantically running out the door before they can stop me.

I can hear the gang running behind me trying to catch up as I run as fast as I can to try and catch up to Pony before he does something stupid. I'm almost to the lot when I finally catch sight of him, I force my short legs to run even faster to catch up to him.

"Pony!" I shout. He turns around briefly but doesn't stop running. I run even faster if that is even possible and finally catch up to him, when I'm right behind him I jump on his back tackling him to the ground.

"What do you think you are doing!?" I shout at him.

"Man Sky you should play football instead of doing track." he says standing up and brushing himself off.

"What do you think you are doing!?" I shout at him again.

"I'm going to beat those little shits up, I had them in my sight before you tackled me." he says angrily standing up, I can tell by the way he's standing that he's planning on taking off again.

"Don't even think about it." I warn standing in front of him with my arms crossed firmly over my chest.

"Why are you defending those creeps Sky?" he shouts at me.

"I'm not! I'm stopping you from doing something stupid!" I shout back.

"Beating them up is not stupid, they need to feel the pain that they have made you feel." he says.

"It is stupid! If you go and beat them up you are breaking your promise to me and you are going to make my worst nightmare come true. Did you ever think of that?" I growl but my voice cracks at the end.

"Ponyboy what do you think you are doing?" Darry shouts as him and the gang finally reach us.

"Darry stop, I'm handling this." I say putting my hand out to stop him.

"Don't break your promise Pony." I say softly.

"I'm keeping my promise by beating them up, I promised you that I would make the pain go away and that's what I'm doing." he says defensively.

"No you're not." I say.

"Sky-."

"Let me finish." I say cutting him off. "If you go and beat them up you are just going to cause me more pain. You might feel good once you have beaten them up but that isn't going to solve anything. The only thing it's going to do is make my worst nightmare come true. If you beat them up then someone will find out about it and the social worker will catch wind of it and you will be taken away from me. Please Pone, don't break your promise. I can't have anything else taken away from me because of them, you guys are all I have left and I'll be damned if I let them take you guys away too." I say choking on a sob at the end.

Pony hangs his head knowing that I'm right. When he finally looks at me he doesn't say anything, all he does is hold his arms out to me. I give him a soft smile and walk into his embrace hugging him just as tight as he is hugging me.

"I'm so sorry Sky, I wasn't thinking. My judgment was clouded by all the anger I was feeling for what those creeps have done to you. Thank you for making me come to my senses." he cries into my hair.

"I love you Pony." is all I say.

"I love you too." he says pulling away and wiping away some of my tears.

"Can we go home now? I'm cold." I ask letting go of Pony and jumping on Soda's back because my feet and legs hurt from all that running.

"Sure baby girl." Soda says reposition me on his back so that he won't drop me.

"What do we do now?" Dally asks.

"You guys have to catch them in the act." I say as we're walking home.

"How do you propose we do that?" Steve asks.

"I know what we're going to do, but you guys aren't going to like it." I say softly.

"What's your plan Sky?" Darry asks me.

"Before the end of the day bell rings on Monday, I am going to go to the back of the school all by myself."

"I already don't like this plan." Soda says cutting me off.

"Let me finish." I say slapping him on the back of the head. "I know that they will be there waiting for me or they will follow me there. Two-bit, Johnny, and Pony will all be hiding in the back hallway where they can't see you and Johnny will record what they say with our old tape recorder. Dally is going to come by at the end of the day to pick us up and is going to hide under the bleachers with Steve." I say explaining out my plan.

"Okay, then what?" Dally asks.

"Here's the part you guys aren't going to like." I say.

"Just tell us already Sky." Steve says.

"You guys can't intervene or make your presence known until they have beaten me up for awhile."

"No. That's not going to happen Sky. I'm not going to just stand there and do nothing while I watch them beat the shit out of you." Pony says angrily.

"Wait!" Two-bit exclaims.

"What is it doofus?" I ask.

"I'm truly hurt Sky. Forget about proof and going to the cops because they are never going to believe a greaser over a soc ever." he says.

"Then what do you suggest we do?" I ask him.

"Call them out not just them though, all of the socs." he says.

"What do you mean? I'm still confused." I say not quite understanding where he is going with this.

"He means start a rumble Sky." Soda explains simply.

"I can't believe that I'm saying this but I actually agree with Two-bit. Forget trying to get proof, what we need to do is get even and the only way we're going to do that is by beating their heads in." Dally says.

"Okay we'll go with your plan because I like it better too. So when are we going to have this rumble and where? And how do I call them out?" I ask.

"We'll have it at the lot where we've always had them and we'll have it at the end of the week so that we have time to get the word out to everyone else." Darry says.

"Okay now how do I call them out?" I ask again.

"We'll call them out Sky. On Monday you go to the back of the school like you said you were going to and wait for them to come to you. All of us will be back there hiding under the bleachers waiting and that's when we'll call them out." Pony explains.

"Okay. Now just one more question." I say.

"Shoot Sky." Steve says.

"Can I fight in the rumble?" I ask, even if they say no I'm still going to fight in it whether they like it or not.

"No." Darry deadpans not even thinking twice about it.

"Hey, if I'm not aloud to fight then we're not having this rumble period." I say jumping off of Soda's back and planting my feet firmly on the ground with my arms crossed over my chest.

"Sky you can't fight in this, you're going to get hurt." Soda says agreeing with Darry.

"Look at me, I'm already hurt. I'm fighting in this rumble and that's final." I say standing my ground.

"No you're no-"

"They didn't start this fight with you, they started it with me. If anyone needs to get even it's me and I am going to get even." I say seriously still standing my ground and cutting Darry off in the process.

"Darry she's right, you need to let her fight in the rumble and it's clear that she's not taking no for an answer." Dally says agreeing with me.

"Yeah Dar, plus she will have all of us there. If she get's stuck then one of us will help her." Pony says finally giving in.

"Fine. But Sky you need to stay close to me, got it?" Darry asks sternly, unwillingly giving in.

"Got it." I say nodding my head excitedly.

"Now I have to ask Sky, which one of the three do you need to settle the score with?" Steve asks.

"You guys can take any of them except for Carter, he's mine." I growl making sure they understand that they are not to touch him during the rumble.

"Which one is he?" Dally asks.

"I'll point him out to you on Monday." I tell them.

"Why him baby girl? Why not Seth or Cole? Don't you want to get even with all of them?" Soda asks.

"I do want to get even with all of them, but I know that you guys will take care of Seth and Cole for me. I want Carter because he's the leader of their little group." I tell them not explaining my full reason for wanting to fight him.

"Baby girl there's another reason why you want to specifically fight him that you're not telling us, I can see it in your eyes. So tell us." Soda pushes.

"Fine. He's the one who raped me." I say simply still not explaining it all.

"You said they all raped you." Pony says not letting it go.

"God damnit! He's the one that raped me for the very first time before the other two! He's the one that took my virginity!" I shout at them.

"Oh Sky, I'm sorry." Darry says coming over to me and wrapping his arm around me.

"We'll stay away from him Sky, don't worry." Johnny says.

"Thank you." I say in response.

"Now Sky if at any point he has you stuck or you can't fight him anymore or if he pulls out a blade, I want you to scream as loud as you can and we will come and help you. Got it?" Darry demands although it comes out sounding like a question.

"Got it." I say.

"I call Seth." Soda says calling dibs.

"Cole's mine." Darry says.

"You guys get them first and we'll all get our punches in on them before the rumbles over." Dally says.

"Okay now that that's all settled, can we go home? Now I'm really cold." I ask shivering slightly.

"Let's go Peanut, hop on." Darry says bending down so that I can get on his back. Once Darry has me situated on his back so that I won't fall we all start walking back to the house. We say bye to the rest of the gang before heading inside and then we all go to our bedrooms and get a good night's rest because we're going to need it. Tomorrow I call out all the socs, I'm going to need all the sleep and practice I can get before the rumble this weekend if I'm going to stand a chance at beating Carter.

Sorry for the late update! I've been really busy! Only a few chapters left. I'm sad to see this story coming to an end, but I'm also excited to start writing the sequel. As always please review!