~Chapter 9~ Hiya! Here's Chapter 9! Its in Soda's POV! I can't believe I made it to chapter 9! It should be like a national holiday or something.. I didn't think I'd make it past chapter 7! Wow!! Ok.. I'm gonna shut up now since I'm probably boring you to death! Oh yeah…I don't own anyone but Carmen, and Riley, ok? Kapeesh? Yeah.. here's the story now!
(****Soda's POV****)
I knew everybody was here, they were just giving Darry sometime to talk to me. I saw Riley drop everyone off but they walked toward the lot. "Soda, will you just tell me what's wrong?" Darry had been hassling me for about ten minutes.
"No." I flat out said no and just went into mine and Pony's room and slammed the door. I flopped down on the bed and to my surprise I felt tears on my face again; I thought I was done crying, but I guess I wasn't.
"Soda." Darry knocked lightly on the door. "Can I come in?"
I shrugged even though he couldn't see me. He came in anyway. "Hey, little buddy, what's wrong? Huh?" He sat down on the bed with me. "Come on, I know something's wrong. Sodapop Curtis doesn't cry for no reason."
I played with the fringe on the bed with one hand and punched the bed with my other hand. "Darry. I can't handle it anymore."
"Can't handle what?" Darry seemed very concerned.
"Darry," I rolled over to face him. "Did.. when you were my age, did you think that someone loved you and then found out that they didn't?" He gave me one of those looks that showed that he was hiding what he was thinking, but then he grinned.
"Yeah, I did." I just nodded and still couldn't stop the tears from coming to my eyes.
I wiped them away hurriedly. "Will you tell me about it?"
"Only if you promise to tell me what's wrong." I sighed and nodded my head. Everybody else knew, so why shouldn't he know.
"Ok, oh boy, where do I start." Darry seemed very hesitant to tell me about what I asked him too. "Well, when I was your age, remember that chic, Bethany Greggs?"
"Yeah." I remembered her alright. She was a loud girl with jet black hair and bright green eyes. She was really pretty, but very wild. Her and Darry had went out for about two or three years. "Who could forget her?" I wiped a tear off my cheek.
"Ha ha, real funny." He grinned at me. "Anyway, I thought I loved her, and I thought she loved me." He stopped. "Well, one night, I was going to tell her that I loved her." He stopped again.
"And?" I said, eager to hear what happened.
"Well, she told me that she had some news to tell me too, so ya' know we had the-oh-so-famous little playful argument of who goes first and who goes second. Finally, I got it through her head that she could go first."
There was an eerie silence between us, and I think I knew what was coming. "She broke up with you," I said quietly.
Darry nodded his head with an expressionless face. "Yeah, pretty much. When I asked her what it was she wanted to tell me, she said 'Darryl, I think we need to see other people, because I just don't feel the same way toward you that you feel toward me.'" For a minute a look of pity and sadness came over his eyes but then it was gone. "Man, I was bummed for about three weeks after that." He patted my leg affectionately. "So, little buddy, what does this have to do with you?"
I shrugged. "I don't want to talk about it."
He gave me a look that said, 'you promised'. "Can we talk about it tomorrow?" I yawned. "I don't feel like talking right now."
"Alright little buddy, but if you need anything just let me know, I'll be in the living room waiting for Ponyboy." A couple minutes after that I fell asleep.
"Hey, Steve, you know whats up with Soda?" I heard Darry ask, eventhough I was half asleep.
"Yeah."
"Are you going to tell me?" Darry asked him.
"Nope. I think he should tell you."
"I'll ask one more time, are you going to tell me whats wrong with Soda?"
"No!" Steve said a little more louder this time. By now I was wide awake by the loud talking of, Steve and Darry, and Two-Bit and Dally were arguing over something.
"Don't you guys ever go home?" I yelled from the room and then noticed that Ponyboy was next to me. So I quickly got up, not wanting to wake him up.
"Damnit! Can't you guys shut up! Some people are trying to sleep!" I said to them once I was in the living room along with everyone else.
"Sorry," Steve mumbled. "Darry's just harassing me about whats wrong with you."
"Darry! I said I'd tell you tomorrow! You don't have to go and talk to Steve about it!"
"Look, something has to be really wrong. You were bawling, Soda. If something is wrong I want to know!" I looked over toward the hall way and Ponyboy was standing there now. He was glancing back and forth between me and Darry. Then he glanced at Johnny, who was just sitting there quietly.
"Fine." I muttered quietly. "If you must know, I caught Sandy kissing another guy." Then I pushed Ponyboy out of the hallway and ran back in the room, leavind Darry standing there with his mouth hanging open.
A/N~ End of chapter 9!! Good? Bad? REVIEW PLEASE!! Thanks!
