"Get back here!" I shouted at Sandy as I sprinted up to her. "What do you think you're doing walking away leaving us there like that?" I scolded her, shaking my milk jug at her.
"Why do you have a milk jug?" She asked.
"Don't change the subject!" Angela snapped.
"Look, you guys, I'm sorry, it's just that…I didn't want to see him for the first time in front of all those people, I got self-conscious." Sandy explained.
"You are getting pickier and pickier," I shook my head in disappointment. This was becoming much more complex than I thought it would be. But now it wasn't just about proving to Ponyboy that love exists, but now I was doing for Sandy and Soda. If they love each other then they should be together.
"Okay, okay, we'll go to his house tonight when he gets off of work, I promise I won't leave this time," Sandy said.
"Can we believe you?" Angela asked doubtfully.
"Yes you can, I'm ready," Sandy insisted.
"Okay then, well, let's go back to my house and get this milk in the fridge before it spoils." I said.
We walked back to my house. After putting the milk away I got out some wine I found in my mothers liquor cabinet.
"Here, we can drown our sorrows in this," I said.
"Okay, me first," Angela said, whom by far is the heaviest drinker out of the three of us, "I'm drowning my sorrows in this wine over my ex- boyfriend Bryon," Angela said and took a swig from the bottle. She then passed the bottle to Sandy.
"I'm drowning my sorrows in this wine over my ex-boyfriend Sodapop, with whom I want to oh-so badly get back together with but can't seem to find the nerve." Sandy said, took a drink of wine and passed it to me.
"I'm drowning my sorrows in this wine over Ponyboy Curtis who never was my boyfriend, and probably never will be my boyfriend," I said. I took a swig of wine, filled the bottle a bit up with water so it would look like any had mysteriously be drunken, and put it back where I found it.
"That wasn't a very nice thing to say Ash!" Sandy said to me.
"What?" I asked, oblivious to what she was talking about.
"Saying that Pony probably will never be you boyfriend," Sand told me.
"Well, Pony right now doesn't think that love does anything but cause heart ache," I said.
"That's terrible!" Sandy gasped.
"I know, I told him I'd prove him wrong." I said, "you and Soda'd make a perfect example."
"I though you were up to something you little sneak!" Sandy declared. I just smiled innocently.
"That of course isn't the only reason why I want you and Soda to get back together. I think if two people love each other they should be together," I said.
"Honestly, Ash, what is up with you and the obsession with love?" Angela asked.
"Ever since I read Romeo and Juliet I've been thinking about it a lot more," I answered and shrugged. That was only part of the reason though. The other part was that I've never been in love before, and I really wanted to know what it was like.
"My uncle's got a ranch," Sandy said, changing the subject oddly quickly.
"Really?" Angela asked.
"He got me a horse," Sandy said.
"Does it have a name?" I asked.
"Yeah, Mickey Mouse," She replied and my head jerked up suddenly.