Hey ya'll! This is the last part of this story (told ya it would be short.), and I really hope you like it, I worked hard! I wanna thank everyoen who reviewed my 1st chapter, ya'll rock! O and please check out my other story, Choices. Cuz I think you'll enjoy it! Take anything fro this and i'll hunt u down and kil you..lol jk jk! The song is by well...the one I herad is by Usher, and is called "In My Heart", but at least a zillion people have sung it so ya know....newho on with the story! Lata ~DaZe!
Come stop your crying
It will be alright
Just take my hand
Hold it tight
I will protect you
From all around you
I will be here
Don't you cry
**Pony's POV**
Two weeks passed, and my life took turns I had never expected, but each turn lead me back to one place...one person. I'd never met anyone, much less a soc, who dug me as well as Elle did. Except maybe Johnny. That was ironic, because the more time I spent secretly with Elle, the harder it became to find difference in the two. Yeah, Elle was a gal and a socy one at at, and Johnny was a geaser guy, but that's were the differences ended. You wouldn't have been able to tell at first glance, but with time it was clear. A strange thing had happened to us both that night we sat side by side on Elle's freshly painted house, a house from the outside gave off rays off supposed happiness, and love. An understanding formed, an unspoken friendship seal. Elle had been serious when she'd said about not caring who saw us talking, and she'd been true to her words the next day. In the middle of lunch, in front of about 200 hundred student's she'd jumped up from the table she'd been sitting at with her socy friends, with her brown hair bobbing in a pony tail, she'd ran right up to me and thrown her arms around my neck, in a welcoming hug. Her friends had nearly choked on their neat little lunches, as, on my invitation, she'd left with her arm linked through mine to get a soda at the DX.
That had been the start of my first real relationship with any girl, greaser of otherwise. So as I sat here now, parked for blocks away from Elle waiting for her to slip away from the fighting and find refuge in my arms. It felt so good to have someone trust you like that, come to you for strength you didn't know you possessed until they were in your arms. It was a good feeling, the first good feeling I'd had in a long, long time. The passenger side door opened at that moment, and a slim figure made it's way inside the broken down hunk of metal the guy had called a car when I'd bought it. I leaned over, longing for the ell of Elle's lips on mine, but she turned her head. In what was left of the sun light, I could make out a faint burise deepening in purple on her cheek. "Baby," my hand reached over, clasping her small one beneath it, "what happened?" The grip on my hand tightened, and I heard her take in a sharp breath. "Just drive Ponyboy, just get me away from here. Go anywhere, just get me away from here." I brought he trembling hand to my lips, kissed it softly, before holding down the gas petal, and driving back towards home. Getting my Elle away from whatever had hurt her.
For one so small
You seem so strong
My arms will hold you
Keep you safe and warm
This bond between us
Can't be broken
I will be here don't you cry
I parked my broken down car in front of my broken down house, for once wishing that I had something that didn't have 'down' as an adjetive. Hand-me-down, broken-down, run down... Elle didn't seem to notice, she hadn't spoken since we'd got in the car, and my stomaching was tumbling to find out what was the matter. "Come on lets go inside, it's freezing out here." Our hands only parted for the brief second we were getting out of the car, then found themselves back together. I lead her into my house, not feeling the embarrassment I had the first time she'd seen my house. "Hey Elle, hey Pon." My second oldest brother Sodapop let his eyes drift back to the TV for a second, before they snapped back to Elle's bruised face. I hurried my girlfriend back to my room, sending Soda a 'don't ask' look over my shoulder.
Once we were safe inside my bedroom, Elle sat quietly on the edge of my bed, her eyes not leaving her hands. She was a dainty girl, small waisted and no taller. I sat next to her on the bed, pulling her on my lap, I lead back against the pillow. Her head rested on my shoulder, and a faint smell of strawberries filled my nose. "What happened, honey?" she buried her head closer to my shoulder, her words muffled by the fact she was talking into my shoulder, but I understood her perfectly. "My stepfather tried to rape me. I got away before anything happen, but he knocked my around a little bit. Pony, he found out about me seeing you! Called my everything except Queen Victoria, said I was ruining the good name he'd built for me. Told me I needed a real...a real man. Pony he said I couldn't se you again, or he'd kick mother and I out on the streets. I told him where he could go, in not very polite terms. Ponyboy, he said I wasn't good enough for you. I was a waste of air. Pony,I dunno, maybe im not good enough for you." She didn't cry as she said this, though I felt as though I might. He'd laid a rotten finger on my angel, my sweet, sweet angel.
Cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
You'll be in my heart
No matter what they say
You'll be here in my heart
Always
"Elle, listen to me. Your perfect for me, I never met anyone I loved more then you, and I'll never, never leave you, you have to understand that. I will always be here for you. And if he ever touches you again, you tell me, and I'll kill him, I'll rip him apart." My voice was cold, filled with venom, and I could FEEL the look Lexa was giving me. It was one she gave me a lot since we'd met, one that was a cross between, 'get down off you high horse' and 'I love you.'. The kinda look only she could give. I held her close to me, and she wrapped her arms around my neck. "I love you Elle Carvlett, and I always will." I whispered this into her hair, and she grined. "I love you now and forever, Ponyboy Curtis." We laid together the whole night in my bed, fully clothed with the exceptions of our socks. Ours arms and legs wrapped around each other. I stayed awake, watching her sleep, just watching her. I propped myself up on an elbow, and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her small ear before kissing her head softly, falling asleep with the girl I loved in my arms.
Why can't they understand
the way we feel
They just don't trust
What they can't explain
I know we're different
But deep inside us
We're not that different at all
**Elle's POV**
The looks I got as I walked inside the hall of my high school, hand and hand with Ponyboy the next day were like no others I'd ever received. I got looks from people who use to be friends, that could have scared Hitler into surrender. I got looks from people I'd never talked to that matched those. But I didn't care, at least I was telling myself I didn't. My mother had shown up at the Curtis house, and even though Darry had insisted he hadn't seen me (which was true because he hadn't seen me, that day.) she'd left a clean skirt and blouse at the Curtis house. It was funny really, to think my mother had know who'd I'd turn too, when just weeks before she'd have run all over town looking in the most sopcicated paces for her daughter.
At that moment my once best friend Carmen Lawerence, came storming over towards me, her blond hair in a massive wave behind her. She stop right infornt of Pony and I, crossing her arms she said cooly. "I see what you've come to El, the bottom of the barrel huh? Well as of now you have been invited to my party. And until you get through with," she shot Pony a look of pure evil before returning her fiery gaze back to me, "trash, you can just forget that we were ever friends." With that she turned, leaving before I could even mange to think of something to say. I heard people snickering from their lockers, and I felt as though I wanted to fall into the floor. Pony tugged me over to this side of the hall, near the water fountain that hadn't worked in god knows how many months, cupping my face in his hands. "Elle, look at me." My eyes drifted upwards, meeting his sea green eyes. "Don't listen to her, nothing she says can change anything ok. You love me right?" I nodded weakly, tears forming in my eyes, "Then that's all that matters."
And you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
The next three weeks were the toughest weeks of my life, and Pony was the only thing I could count on. So many 'friends' had told my bluntly they didn't want anything to do with me, now that I had 'lowered myself to Pony's level of trash.' My step father became more physically and verbally abusive to both me and my mother, making it almost impossible to cover the bruises with make up and pretend everything was ok.
Don't listen to them
Cause what do they know?
We need each other
To have, to hold
They'll see in time
I know
It was that reason I was running down the streets of the east side, making my way to the only place I was welcomed. My trembling hand knocked loudly on the wooden door of the Curtis house, a little to loudly for the fact it was 2 in the morning. I stood outside for a minute, hearing muffled swearing as someone tripped over something, before the door swung open. A half asleep Ponyboy appears looking rather annoyed at first, then all annoyance wearing away when he saw me. "Elle what..." I didn't even let him finish his sentence, my lips clung to his and I kissed him passionately, before pulling away and staring into his know wide awake eyes. "Pony do you love me?" He half yawned as he replied, "Of corse. Come in here, before you freeze." He pulled me inside the house, shutting door behind us. "Will you do something for me?" my voice was thick with bravery I didn't know I possessed, as I asked this biting my lip.
His voice was clear as he answered "Anything." That was just the reply I'd hoped for and I smiled, clutching his hand, "Then let's run away, leave tonight. Leave all this behind, and start a live where no one knows us..." My voice trailed off as, he put a finger against my lips. "What's going on Elle?" I looked down, fidgeting nervously before replying, "Frank came home drunk again tonight...and and...I got away, through my window, when I heard him coming back the hall but he's looking for me. I gotta get away Pony." He looked at me, dumbstruck almost before garbing his keys off the table, and pulling me out the door. "Pony, where our we going?" He put the car in drive and speed off into the dark morning as he answered. "I'm taking you to the bus stop, we're gonna get on a bus and go somewhere, where ever there's a bus going right now. I'm not going to let him do this to you El. Never again."
When destiny calls you
You must be strong
I may not be with you
But you've got to hold on
They'll see in time
I know
We'll show them together
**Ponys' POV**
"We need two tickets to..um...Baltimore Maryland, please." Elle hung close to my arm, as I leaned in towards the ticket both. A elderly man, with gray hair and yellow teeth started back at me. "There's only one seat left on that bus, young man. It's $7.95." I reached into my pocket pulling out my wallet, and slamming a ten dollar bill on the counter. I looked over at Elle, who was trembling from either the cold, fear or both. I had to get her away from here. "She'll take it." My vice was even and deep, and I sounded a lot more sure then I'd ever felt. My girlfriend stared at my as if I'd grown another head, her eyes wide, resembling Johnny Cade more then I'd ever thought possible. She had the same look as he had when he'd told me he'd killed the soc, so many nights ago.
"I'm not going alone, I'm not going without you." She said this stubbornly, and if it would have been any other situation I would have laughed at the irony of it all. But instead I grabbed the ticket in one hand, and her small hand in the other, pulling her towards the platform near the bus. I took her face between my hands, directing her eyes to mine. She had Dallas' eyes, the kind of eyes that said they were gonna get they're way and get through what ever came at them. The kinda of eyes that look stronger then they were. The kinda eyes that could get you killed. "Elle, baby, I love you. Do you trust me?" she swolled, and bit her bottom lip, tears swelling in hey blue eyes. "Uh huh." Out lips met, and I didn't want the moment to ever end. I pulled away, my hands still on her face, "Then trust me. Honey, you have to get on that bus, and in a few days I'll met you there I will find you, but I want to make sure your safe." I slid my wallet, and all it continence into her shaking hand, then kissed the pale skin.
The bus doors started to close, and I drug her hurriedly towards them. "Get on. I love you, everything will be ok, I promise." Tears were flowing freely down her cheeks now, dripping off her chin and nose onto the cement below. "Pony..." her arms flow round my neck, and we kissed one last time before I pushed her up the steps, "Go." I watched through the window as she took a seat next to it and one of her small hands drifted to the glass. The bus slowly started to pull away, taking half of me with it.
Cause you'll be in my heart
Believe me, you'll be in my heart
I'll be there from this day on
Now and forever more
*Elle's POV *
I watched Pony through the window as the bus jerked forward. I couldn't do this, I didn't care what my stepdad did to me when I went home. I couldn't leave Ponyboy. We'd gone about 7 feet, before I flew up the isle. I clutch the drivers shoulder in my hand, watching his surprised face as he turned to look at me. "Let me off."
Oooo, you'll be in my heart
You'll be here in my heart
No matter what they say
I'll be with you
You'll be here in my heart
I'll be there always
He gave me the same look a teacher gives a student who just did something totally uncalled for, but opened the doors. I took the four steps by twos, rushing back throw the pouring rain towards the one boy I'd ever loved. He met me half way. His arms went around me, and his lips were on mine, warm and smooth. "What are you doing?" Another kiss. "I couldn't leave you, not ever." He didn't say anything, he understood. He took my hand, and pulled me towards his car. Rain pelted down heavily, leaving me cold, yet at the same time an unwordly warm feeling flowed through me. When we finally were safe inside the interior of the broken down car he loved so much, he pulled me towards him again. "I love you." His breath was warm on my cheek, as he whispered it. "I love you, too. I'm sorry about your money, I'll pay you back." He laughed slightly, and with my head on his shoulder put the car in drive. We didn't know where we were going. Didn't know what we were going to do when we got there. But none of that matter, we were together, for always.
Always
I'll be with you
I'll be there for you always
Always and always
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
I'll be there always
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Come stop your crying
It will be alright
Just take my hand
Hold it tight
I will protect you
From all around you
I will be here
Don't you cry
**Pony's POV**
Two weeks passed, and my life took turns I had never expected, but each turn lead me back to one place...one person. I'd never met anyone, much less a soc, who dug me as well as Elle did. Except maybe Johnny. That was ironic, because the more time I spent secretly with Elle, the harder it became to find difference in the two. Yeah, Elle was a gal and a socy one at at, and Johnny was a geaser guy, but that's were the differences ended. You wouldn't have been able to tell at first glance, but with time it was clear. A strange thing had happened to us both that night we sat side by side on Elle's freshly painted house, a house from the outside gave off rays off supposed happiness, and love. An understanding formed, an unspoken friendship seal. Elle had been serious when she'd said about not caring who saw us talking, and she'd been true to her words the next day. In the middle of lunch, in front of about 200 hundred student's she'd jumped up from the table she'd been sitting at with her socy friends, with her brown hair bobbing in a pony tail, she'd ran right up to me and thrown her arms around my neck, in a welcoming hug. Her friends had nearly choked on their neat little lunches, as, on my invitation, she'd left with her arm linked through mine to get a soda at the DX.
That had been the start of my first real relationship with any girl, greaser of otherwise. So as I sat here now, parked for blocks away from Elle waiting for her to slip away from the fighting and find refuge in my arms. It felt so good to have someone trust you like that, come to you for strength you didn't know you possessed until they were in your arms. It was a good feeling, the first good feeling I'd had in a long, long time. The passenger side door opened at that moment, and a slim figure made it's way inside the broken down hunk of metal the guy had called a car when I'd bought it. I leaned over, longing for the ell of Elle's lips on mine, but she turned her head. In what was left of the sun light, I could make out a faint burise deepening in purple on her cheek. "Baby," my hand reached over, clasping her small one beneath it, "what happened?" The grip on my hand tightened, and I heard her take in a sharp breath. "Just drive Ponyboy, just get me away from here. Go anywhere, just get me away from here." I brought he trembling hand to my lips, kissed it softly, before holding down the gas petal, and driving back towards home. Getting my Elle away from whatever had hurt her.
For one so small
You seem so strong
My arms will hold you
Keep you safe and warm
This bond between us
Can't be broken
I will be here don't you cry
I parked my broken down car in front of my broken down house, for once wishing that I had something that didn't have 'down' as an adjetive. Hand-me-down, broken-down, run down... Elle didn't seem to notice, she hadn't spoken since we'd got in the car, and my stomaching was tumbling to find out what was the matter. "Come on lets go inside, it's freezing out here." Our hands only parted for the brief second we were getting out of the car, then found themselves back together. I lead her into my house, not feeling the embarrassment I had the first time she'd seen my house. "Hey Elle, hey Pon." My second oldest brother Sodapop let his eyes drift back to the TV for a second, before they snapped back to Elle's bruised face. I hurried my girlfriend back to my room, sending Soda a 'don't ask' look over my shoulder.
Once we were safe inside my bedroom, Elle sat quietly on the edge of my bed, her eyes not leaving her hands. She was a dainty girl, small waisted and no taller. I sat next to her on the bed, pulling her on my lap, I lead back against the pillow. Her head rested on my shoulder, and a faint smell of strawberries filled my nose. "What happened, honey?" she buried her head closer to my shoulder, her words muffled by the fact she was talking into my shoulder, but I understood her perfectly. "My stepfather tried to rape me. I got away before anything happen, but he knocked my around a little bit. Pony, he found out about me seeing you! Called my everything except Queen Victoria, said I was ruining the good name he'd built for me. Told me I needed a real...a real man. Pony he said I couldn't se you again, or he'd kick mother and I out on the streets. I told him where he could go, in not very polite terms. Ponyboy, he said I wasn't good enough for you. I was a waste of air. Pony,I dunno, maybe im not good enough for you." She didn't cry as she said this, though I felt as though I might. He'd laid a rotten finger on my angel, my sweet, sweet angel.
Cause you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
You'll be in my heart
No matter what they say
You'll be here in my heart
Always
"Elle, listen to me. Your perfect for me, I never met anyone I loved more then you, and I'll never, never leave you, you have to understand that. I will always be here for you. And if he ever touches you again, you tell me, and I'll kill him, I'll rip him apart." My voice was cold, filled with venom, and I could FEEL the look Lexa was giving me. It was one she gave me a lot since we'd met, one that was a cross between, 'get down off you high horse' and 'I love you.'. The kinda look only she could give. I held her close to me, and she wrapped her arms around my neck. "I love you Elle Carvlett, and I always will." I whispered this into her hair, and she grined. "I love you now and forever, Ponyboy Curtis." We laid together the whole night in my bed, fully clothed with the exceptions of our socks. Ours arms and legs wrapped around each other. I stayed awake, watching her sleep, just watching her. I propped myself up on an elbow, and tucked a loose strand of hair behind her small ear before kissing her head softly, falling asleep with the girl I loved in my arms.
Why can't they understand
the way we feel
They just don't trust
What they can't explain
I know we're different
But deep inside us
We're not that different at all
**Elle's POV**
The looks I got as I walked inside the hall of my high school, hand and hand with Ponyboy the next day were like no others I'd ever received. I got looks from people who use to be friends, that could have scared Hitler into surrender. I got looks from people I'd never talked to that matched those. But I didn't care, at least I was telling myself I didn't. My mother had shown up at the Curtis house, and even though Darry had insisted he hadn't seen me (which was true because he hadn't seen me, that day.) she'd left a clean skirt and blouse at the Curtis house. It was funny really, to think my mother had know who'd I'd turn too, when just weeks before she'd have run all over town looking in the most sopcicated paces for her daughter.
At that moment my once best friend Carmen Lawerence, came storming over towards me, her blond hair in a massive wave behind her. She stop right infornt of Pony and I, crossing her arms she said cooly. "I see what you've come to El, the bottom of the barrel huh? Well as of now you have been invited to my party. And until you get through with," she shot Pony a look of pure evil before returning her fiery gaze back to me, "trash, you can just forget that we were ever friends." With that she turned, leaving before I could even mange to think of something to say. I heard people snickering from their lockers, and I felt as though I wanted to fall into the floor. Pony tugged me over to this side of the hall, near the water fountain that hadn't worked in god knows how many months, cupping my face in his hands. "Elle, look at me." My eyes drifted upwards, meeting his sea green eyes. "Don't listen to her, nothing she says can change anything ok. You love me right?" I nodded weakly, tears forming in my eyes, "Then that's all that matters."
And you'll be in my heart
Yes, you'll be in my heart
From this day on
Now and forever more
The next three weeks were the toughest weeks of my life, and Pony was the only thing I could count on. So many 'friends' had told my bluntly they didn't want anything to do with me, now that I had 'lowered myself to Pony's level of trash.' My step father became more physically and verbally abusive to both me and my mother, making it almost impossible to cover the bruises with make up and pretend everything was ok.
Don't listen to them
Cause what do they know?
We need each other
To have, to hold
They'll see in time
I know
It was that reason I was running down the streets of the east side, making my way to the only place I was welcomed. My trembling hand knocked loudly on the wooden door of the Curtis house, a little to loudly for the fact it was 2 in the morning. I stood outside for a minute, hearing muffled swearing as someone tripped over something, before the door swung open. A half asleep Ponyboy appears looking rather annoyed at first, then all annoyance wearing away when he saw me. "Elle what..." I didn't even let him finish his sentence, my lips clung to his and I kissed him passionately, before pulling away and staring into his know wide awake eyes. "Pony do you love me?" He half yawned as he replied, "Of corse. Come in here, before you freeze." He pulled me inside the house, shutting door behind us. "Will you do something for me?" my voice was thick with bravery I didn't know I possessed, as I asked this biting my lip.
His voice was clear as he answered "Anything." That was just the reply I'd hoped for and I smiled, clutching his hand, "Then let's run away, leave tonight. Leave all this behind, and start a live where no one knows us..." My voice trailed off as, he put a finger against my lips. "What's going on Elle?" I looked down, fidgeting nervously before replying, "Frank came home drunk again tonight...and and...I got away, through my window, when I heard him coming back the hall but he's looking for me. I gotta get away Pony." He looked at me, dumbstruck almost before garbing his keys off the table, and pulling me out the door. "Pony, where our we going?" He put the car in drive and speed off into the dark morning as he answered. "I'm taking you to the bus stop, we're gonna get on a bus and go somewhere, where ever there's a bus going right now. I'm not going to let him do this to you El. Never again."
When destiny calls you
You must be strong
I may not be with you
But you've got to hold on
They'll see in time
I know
We'll show them together
**Ponys' POV**
"We need two tickets to..um...Baltimore Maryland, please." Elle hung close to my arm, as I leaned in towards the ticket both. A elderly man, with gray hair and yellow teeth started back at me. "There's only one seat left on that bus, young man. It's $7.95." I reached into my pocket pulling out my wallet, and slamming a ten dollar bill on the counter. I looked over at Elle, who was trembling from either the cold, fear or both. I had to get her away from here. "She'll take it." My vice was even and deep, and I sounded a lot more sure then I'd ever felt. My girlfriend stared at my as if I'd grown another head, her eyes wide, resembling Johnny Cade more then I'd ever thought possible. She had the same look as he had when he'd told me he'd killed the soc, so many nights ago.
"I'm not going alone, I'm not going without you." She said this stubbornly, and if it would have been any other situation I would have laughed at the irony of it all. But instead I grabbed the ticket in one hand, and her small hand in the other, pulling her towards the platform near the bus. I took her face between my hands, directing her eyes to mine. She had Dallas' eyes, the kind of eyes that said they were gonna get they're way and get through what ever came at them. The kinda of eyes that look stronger then they were. The kinda eyes that could get you killed. "Elle, baby, I love you. Do you trust me?" she swolled, and bit her bottom lip, tears swelling in hey blue eyes. "Uh huh." Out lips met, and I didn't want the moment to ever end. I pulled away, my hands still on her face, "Then trust me. Honey, you have to get on that bus, and in a few days I'll met you there I will find you, but I want to make sure your safe." I slid my wallet, and all it continence into her shaking hand, then kissed the pale skin.
The bus doors started to close, and I drug her hurriedly towards them. "Get on. I love you, everything will be ok, I promise." Tears were flowing freely down her cheeks now, dripping off her chin and nose onto the cement below. "Pony..." her arms flow round my neck, and we kissed one last time before I pushed her up the steps, "Go." I watched through the window as she took a seat next to it and one of her small hands drifted to the glass. The bus slowly started to pull away, taking half of me with it.
Cause you'll be in my heart
Believe me, you'll be in my heart
I'll be there from this day on
Now and forever more
*Elle's POV *
I watched Pony through the window as the bus jerked forward. I couldn't do this, I didn't care what my stepdad did to me when I went home. I couldn't leave Ponyboy. We'd gone about 7 feet, before I flew up the isle. I clutch the drivers shoulder in my hand, watching his surprised face as he turned to look at me. "Let me off."
Oooo, you'll be in my heart
You'll be here in my heart
No matter what they say
I'll be with you
You'll be here in my heart
I'll be there always
He gave me the same look a teacher gives a student who just did something totally uncalled for, but opened the doors. I took the four steps by twos, rushing back throw the pouring rain towards the one boy I'd ever loved. He met me half way. His arms went around me, and his lips were on mine, warm and smooth. "What are you doing?" Another kiss. "I couldn't leave you, not ever." He didn't say anything, he understood. He took my hand, and pulled me towards his car. Rain pelted down heavily, leaving me cold, yet at the same time an unwordly warm feeling flowed through me. When we finally were safe inside the interior of the broken down car he loved so much, he pulled me towards him again. "I love you." His breath was warm on my cheek, as he whispered it. "I love you, too. I'm sorry about your money, I'll pay you back." He laughed slightly, and with my head on his shoulder put the car in drive. We didn't know where we were going. Didn't know what we were going to do when we got there. But none of that matter, we were together, for always.
Always
I'll be with you
I'll be there for you always
Always and always
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
Just look over your shoulder
I'll be there always
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