The next morning, Trishan came over for a ride to school. Ponyboy left early to meet Two-bit there.

"Hey, Darr. Can I take the car to work? I'll drop Trishan off too," I asked.

"yeah. take me to work first." He said, hopping in.

once we got there, my regular group of girls swarmed in," Hey Soda. Whatcha doin with the new girl?" Cindy asked.

"I'm giving her a ride." I answered, waiting for privacy to say bye. She was too into her book to notice all of the girls around the car.

"Hey, where are your friends?" I asked.

"inside flirting with girls. Its just Two-bit and Steve. Everyone else thinks I'm weird." She said acting as if she doesn't care.

"glory, I didn't know. I'll pick you up at lunch and after school, you dig?" I said, giving her a small kiss.

She slowly walked inside, not closing the book, not stopping ever, just to turn the page.

Glory, waiting for 12:00 took forever. I decided to leave at 11:45. girls playing hookie came to my car as soon as I parked it.

"hey Soda. Came to pick up Steve?"

"No. he is a big boy. He could walk. I came to pick up Trish."

"her? Why her? Why not Cynthia? She's nice. But that Trish girl. she's just weird."

"I said I came to pick up Trishan. You dig?"

and finally, the bell rang. Trishan came out, almost done with the book she left with. When she saw me, she fastened her pace. Not too slow, not too fast.

As she entered the car I said," hey Trish." And gave her a small kiss.

"where are you taking me?" she asked.

"where do you want to go?" I asked, leaving the girls there.

"the ding-" she began but I cut her off.

"are you sure?"

"very sure."

When she got there, she saw a guy that she knew from NY. His name was Anthony or something.

"is that? No!" she said," want to see an example of what I used to be like?"

"yeah! Sure why not?"

"Nerd!" she yelled.

"back off," he said, not turning around to see who it was. He just kept on drinking.

"Dork!" she yelled.

"G-G-Gangster?" he turned around. "what are you doing-" he got cut off when he saw me," another escort?"

"no." she said, wrapping her arm around my waist.

"I'm Andrew. You are?" he asked.

"Soda."

"soda? That sounds ga-" Trishan cut him off by cracking her knuckles," Nice!" he immediately said.

"yeah.well.see you back in NY."

"I ain't going back. I live here."

"well.ok.bye." he said and was off.

"wait! Say 'Hi' to April for me." She said.

"now I'm glad you changed." I said just imagining what it would be like if she hadn't changed.

Two-bit came with a blonde. We ate some burgers and left. "cant I just stay at DX?" she asked," I don't want to go back to school."

"fine by me." I said.