~Chapter 4~ Hiya people!! Rina wrote this chapter for me so if you like it, its Rina's writing that you like and not mine so yeah!! Thanks Rina! Oh and you know the disclaimer stuff right people! Right!


                                                            ****Rina's POV****

           

            I watched Soda leave and Steve run after him. I turned back to Carmen and
she looked as if she was about to cry. I guess with losing her best friend, and now seeing another one of her friends doing that to himself I would be really upset too.

            "Is he gonna be ok?" I asked and she shrugged. I hoped he was going to be ok, because I really had wanted to atleast meet him. He was really cute and seemed pretty sweet too.
            "I don't know Rina, but I hope he is."

                                                             

                                                            ****Steve's POV****


            "Soda wait up will ya?" I called chasing after him; he finally stopped and
turned around to face me. I was angry at him, but I still didn't want him to hurt himself so I had to talk to him.
            "Steve I just want to be alone, will you just go away?" I shook my head as
he sighed and sat on the curb. There was absolutely no way that I was going to leave him alone. Hard tellin what he would do to himself.
            "Soda, buddy you don't need to be alone, when you're alone you do things like
this to yourself. Soda we're all worried about you, you're taking this whole
Riley thing too hard, look what you're doing to yourself, man." Soda looked
at his arms and sighed. Then he looked back to me.

            "Steve you don't understand! It's my only escape. I have to do this!"

            "No. You don't and you need to fuckin stop it! You could kill yourself!" It sounded like I was yelling at him, which I was, but inside I was saying something different. I was saying: Soda please stop, because if something happened to you  I wouldn't know what to do. You're my best friend and my life would just be difficult without you, so stop. "Like I said, buddy, you're taking this thing to hard." I repeated myself and Soda sighed again.
            "I just miss her Steve." I laughed softly, sarcastically thinking, 'Soda, you think everyone else is glad she's gone?' and sat next to him. Soda looked miserable. And completely worn out. All the blood had completely drained out of his face and it was as white as cotton. His eyes had lost that special glimering glow of happiness that they used to have. Now they were full of pain, and anger, and sorrow. He just wasn't the Sodapop Curtis that I knew anymore.
            "We all miss her Soda, but we have to move on, Riley wouldn't have wanted
you doing this to yourself." I stopped when Soda frowned.

            "Maybe you're right. But I don't know what to do Steve. Its not fair! Why does everything have to happen to us? To me? First mom and dad and now Riley." Soda looked like he was about to start crying, but I knew he wouldn't.

            "I don't know what you can do, but I do know what you can't do. And that's cut yourself. All you're doing is hurting yourself so stop it now. If you don't I'll Darry." I knew a surefire way to get him to stop would be to threaten him. He looked at me and his eyes grew big.

            "Please Steve, don't. Promise me you won't!" He practically screamed at me.

            I smirked. It worked. "Ok. I won't, but you can't cut yourself anymore." He didn't say anything but just nodded his head a little so I took that as an ok."Now come on, lets get back to the DX, that red headed chick that was in there? She came to see you and you just ran out."  Soda looked up at me confused, probably wondering what I was talking about.
            "She came to see me? I don't even know her." I smiled and stood up off the
curb.
            "She's a friend of Carmen's, I guess she heard you were feeling kinda bummed and came by to say hi." Soda nodded and stood up brushing himself off. He was still frowning. In fact I'm not even sure if he wanted to talk to Rina, or any girl for that matter. I don't even think he wanted to talk to me, hence he told me to go away but I was stubborn. So I had stayed anyway, which I'm glad I did. He didn't look any happier now, but he was afraid I'd tell Darry so I think he'd stop.

             We walked back to the DX in silence. Once we got there Soda picked up his switchblade and started to put it in his pocket, ignoring the looks he was getting from me, Pony, Two-Bit, and Johnny.
            "No buddy why don't you let me hold onto that for a while? I don't want you
hurting yourself again." Soda sighed and handed me his blade. I think he handed it to me, because he knew that if he kept it he would have cut himself with it. So I handed it to
Pony to hold onto and he still looked white when he saw bits of blood left
on the blade. I walked over to Rina.

            Pony gulped before wiping the blood off the blade with his shirt. Pony wouldn't even look Soda in the eyes and I could tell that it hurt Soda. Soda cared more about Pony then he did anything or anyone else in the world and for Pony to be mad at him, made him even more upset then he already was.
            "Soda this is Rina. Rina I think you already know Soda." I introduced them and Soda perked up a little, but just for a minute and then he went right back to being sad and I'm willing to bet, thinking about Riley.




Ok I'm stuck sorry that was really short!!!! Ok hiya..Thanks for writing this chapter Rina!!!!!! Oh yeah..hehe..sorry Rina but I added some stuff to the chapter to make it longer so yeah! Hope you don't care that I did add stuff! Although its probably worst now since I added stuff, cuz you write better then me but yeah!!! Lol!! Thanks again! So yeah everyone!! REVIEW!