~Chapter 13~ Yay! Go chapter 13! I am sooo sooo sooo sorry about that very very very long disclaimer/author's note in the last chapter! I know nobody wants to read something that long! So I won't make this one long! It'll be short and sweet(maybe). Lol! Ok thanks to everyone who reviews! I only own Carmen, Riley, Daphne, and everyone else I add..but the names you recognize belong to S.E. Hinton. So here goes chapter 13! Yay! Here's the story! By the way, this chapter is just a pointless rambling from Sodapop's Point of view, and this basically really only has one significant thing that it needs for the story. So sorry about this chapter being a pointless ramble!

                                                            (******Soda's POV******) Yay..finally someone else's POV!

            It was the next day and I still couldn't believe what Sandy had did to me. Why would Sandy do that to me? I cared for her and I thought she cared for me. "Soda! Buddy! Get up!" I heard Steve call to me as he slammed the front door. I was laying in my bed, and Ponyboy was laying next to me, sound asleep. He didn't have school because it was a Saturday. Everybody else was out in the lot playing football. Of course everybody else only happened to be, Two-Bit, Johnny, and Dally. Darry was already at work. Nobody had really said anything to me the night before, because they had all been there when I saw Sandy. They knew that I was sad and mad.

            "Soda." Steve came in and shook me. "Get up. We're gonna be late for work." I groaned and rolled over causing Ponyboy to wake up. He got out of bed, said a brisk hello to Steve and then walked out of the room.

            "I'm not going." I said, a tear almost coming out of my eye. But I wouldn't cry in front of Steve. Especially not about Sandy.

            "Come on, buddy. You gotta."

            "No, I'm not going." I said again.

            "You have too. And Sandy called while you were asleep."

            "Sandy," I moaned and a tear escaped from my eye. I hurriedly wiped it away careful to not let Steve see.

            "Look, come on just go to work. Darry said you had to." I groaned again. Typical Darry. Making me do something when I wasn't up to it. Of course he wouldn't care about my feelings. Nobody ever seemed to care about what Sodapop Curtis thought. Nope.

            I sat up ,once Steve was gone, and looked at the floor. The floor wasn't very interesting so I argued with myself for awhile before deciding to get up and get dressed. I might as well go to work. Maybe it would get my mind off Sandy. Maybe. Just maybe.

            What is Riley and Carmen up to? I wondered to myself and hoped that they'd be at the station. Riley can always get my mind off stuff that I'm worrying about. And truth be told I liked Riley. I just never let myself believe that before, because I had Sandy. I walked out the door and toward the lot to get Steve so we could go to work.

            I wasn't grinning like I ususally did. And nobody was going to ask me what was wrong, because they all knew and they wouldn't have asked me anyways. I wiped another tear out of my eye. Somehow or another tears just kept coming, whether I meant for them to or not.

            Sandy. I still couldn't believe it. I had always had Sandy. Or it seemed like that atleast. What was going to happen? No more Sandy. I couldn't take Sandy back after what she did to me. But I loved her.

            "Hey Steve!" I heard Two-Bit's loud voice eventhough I wasn't quite at the lot yet.

            "Yeah?"

            "That girl, the one you like, I saw her. She was sleeping on the bench. I woke her up this morning. She seemed pissed! Know anything about it?" Two-Bit asked curiosly. I just rolled my eyes. Two-Bit was always 'waking people up'. What girl was he talking about? It had to be Carmen. That was the only girl I knew that Steve liked, other than Evie of course. In fact I don't even know if he liked Evie. He just wanted a girlfriend and that piece of trash, Evie, was there at the right time.

            "Riley?" When Steve said that I stopped dead in my tracks. Riley. He liked Riley. He knew that I liked Riley though. And how did Two-Bit know that Steve liked Riley? He would have told me before he told Two-Bit.

            "Yeah. Riley. Damn, I always forget that girls name!" Two-Bit laughed. "That little girl is a pretty one." A pretty one? Is that all the guys liked her for? Because she was a pretty face? I liked her for so much more and it wasn't because she was a Soc.

            "She sure is pretty. Me and Shepard tried to pick her up last night and she got all pissed at me. She ran off. Damn that chic is firery!" Dallas's voice rang through my ears.

            "So that's what she was pissed about?" I heard Steve ask. Then I cut throught the lot and stopped when everybody looked at me.

            "How much of that did you hear?" I just glared at Steve.

            A/N~ Good? Bad? So what do you think? Sorry this chapter is so short! It was just a pointless ramble like I said before! Anyway yeah! Ok..yeah..bye! I don't know how many reviews I want..but at least three before I continue!! Umm..yeah..my nbext chapter is going to be in Steve's Point Of View..I think anyway. It should be if I write the story like I have it planned! Ok..thats all I can think of to write so uhh bye!! Oh yeah REVIEW THIS STORY! PLEASE!! Thanks!