The Outsiders II: The Outcasts

by

~Miriah~of~the~Wind~

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Chapter 8: Apology Excepted

(A/N: Hey sorry my chapters have been so short. My sister just got the Sim: Theme Park and I've been hooked on it! Well, I finally broke outta my trance and here's the next chapter.)

We left the room a little disgusted but happy. I got back to my house without Darry knowing we were gone but Johnny had stopped talking to us. In fact, the reason he stayed at Miriah's place was because his parents didn't want him and he didn't want to turn to us for help.

The next day we didn't see him either. I've seen Johnny mad but this had to take the cake. I knew that Johnny was never mad longer than a couple of hours and at that time he usually gets over it. If we apologized.

The next day we still didn't see him and it got us mighty worried. Dally said that he saw Mr. Cade having a dozen bottles of beer so we knew that there was gonna be hell at Johnny's house.

We had searched everywhere for him: The Dingo, The Nightly Double, The lot, everywhere but we still couldn't find him. Two-bit then got the strangest idea that we should try at Johnny's house. Most of us thought that it was the stupidest idea ever. Yet we came to his house it was filled with shrieking and plate breaking and we knew he was there.

"You go first, Ponyboy." the others said, "You're his best friend." I nodded although I knew Johnny would be as mad as hell and a time like this wouldn't help. I went over to the door and gave it a few knocks and, thank god, Johnny was the one who answered it. Johnny was the one who usually came to us and I always felt awkward around his parents and then, after the hospital ordeal, I felt even worse.

"What do you want?" Johnny snapped.

"Look Johnny we're sorry. We all are. We didn't mean you spy on your date just the part right after. We wanted to see whether she was like Evie. Honestly we swear!" I tried but Johnny didn't look very convinced.

"What? You just arrived too early?" Johnny snapped.

"Yeah, we thought that maybe who come back from the movies, bade each other goodnight, and then you would leave. We would stay a little longer and Miriah would talk to her sisters or something about getting another boyfriend or somethin' like that, and we would warn you. Look we didn't want you to get hurt, that's all. If really wanted a side-show, we could just always follow Dally around. His is longer and a lot more showy so we can even bring popcorn to his."

"Hey! I heard that kid!" Dally yelled behind me and a whole crowd of 'what he say?' went around our group. Johnny and I laughed knowing it was more truth than exaggeration.

"Let's get out of here." Johnny said after seeing his parents starting another round of boxing.

As we were walking out of there I wondered out loud, "I wonder how you can stand those crazy parents of yours." Unfortunately, someone had heard me and knocked me out with a glass cup.

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