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The Outsiders II: The Outcasts
By
~Miriah~of~the~Wind~
Chapter 10: Rusty's
We hurried over to Two-bit who was with Kathy at the time when we burst through the door.
"Hey, do ya mind? Can't a guy get a little privacy?" he said.
"Yeah, well do you still have your switchblade?" I asked.
"Yeah, why?"
"We need it for some negotiating." Two-bit tossed us the knife at us without the knife-part sticking out. We thanked him and went out on the road to Rusty's. I watched and waited. I had everything I needed, a knife, the time, the place, now all I needed was the right Soc. Johnny and I waited in the shadows until I spotted one girl from Leadership. I pulled her into the back and shoved her to Johnny who held her down. She was about to yell when I flicked out Two-bit's switchblade. She went quiet real good.
"Listen and listen good. We're not here to hurt you. Make any loud sounds and we will HAVE to hurt you, ya savvy?" She nodded quickly.
"This may come off as the craziest thing," I said as Johnny held her on his lap, "but we need your help, bad."
"My help?" she whispered. "How?"
"You know the girl who was dating a greaser? Well some Socs dropped around her house and started makin' trouble and then started to threat her that if she didn't stop dating that greaser they would kill him. She was mighty upset and did as they said. You know somethin' about that?"
"Yes, what business is it of yours?"
"It's my business." Johnny said quietly, "concerning I'm her ex-boyfriend now because of them."
"What are you going to do if I tell you?"
"We're going to find out what's there problem." I said.
"Well I know it was the Jackson gang who threatened her but my boyfriend who's in the gang says that he was taking orders from another Soc."
"Another Soc?"
"Yeah. My boyfriend said that the Soc told him that he was nothing but trouble." she said nodding her head toward Johnny, "That he even brutally killed a Soc once." I noticed that Johnny winced as though she belted him.
"Do you know who the Soc that told Jackson that was?" I asked.
"No." I took her and brought her outside and told her to beat it. Johnny and I ran out through the back door.
"Where do we go now?" Johnny said.
"I don't know. We have to find who would tell Jackson to do that and we will find our problem." We hurried up to the Vasquez manor. I didn't know wether Miriah would help us or not but I had a good feeling that she would.
"We gotta ask Miriah if she knows anyone the Jackson gang would listen to." I was about to ring the doorbell when I heard yelling and shouting. It sounded like a fight between Mrs. Vasquez and Janet. We sneaked out to the side of the house where a someone stupidly left a ladder.
"Ponyboy you know I can't climb that thing." Johnny said but I dragged him up anyway by letting him hang on to me. Because Johnny was scarred a lot he was very light.
"Are you sure this is it?" I asked. It looked pretty suspicious to be climbing a ladder to one of the windows.
"It's the one with the balcony. I'm sure." It was the middle of the night and I prayed to God I wasn't over my curfew. We climbed over the railing and heard Claudia talking to Miriah.
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