In the morning Ponyboy was the first one up so he plopped down in an empty
armchair and waited till the others started to wake up. Pony glanced at the
girl; she was tossing and turning on the narrow couch.
The girl rolled off the couch and landed face down on Dally, Pony grinned; it hadn't woken either of them. Dally's strong arms automatically closed around her, only then did the girl stir. She groaned and tried to move off Dally but even in his sleep he was strong. The girl struggled for a moment while Pony just watched, he was gawking at her. Her eyes were bright yellow, a goldish color and she was the most beautiful girl Pony had ever seen. She seemed to be about his age maybe older. A door slammed, probably Soda's and Pony snapped out of his trance and saw the girl looking up at him, she looked terrified and helpless. Pony leaned forward, and the girl shrunk away from him.
Pony shook Dally's shoulder, "Wha?" he mumbled without opening his eyes.
"Let her go man, yer scarin her."
His eyes snapped open and he grinned, "Hey there baby, sleep well?" she tried to get away from him but he only tightened his grip. "Oooo, you got pretty eyes." Everyone was starting to wake up now. Dally felt hands grip his wrists and pull his arms away from the girl.
Sasha felt strong hands lift her off of the blonde man that had trapped her. This man set her down on the couch. She gazed around the room at the seven young men, she was scared of them but she knew if she had to she could take care of herself. She looked up at the guy that had helped her; he was smiling kindly at her. The man looked similar to the younger man, the one that had woken Dally for her. She took a deep breath to calm he nerves and gasped as pain erupted in her abdomen. She had forgotten that she had some injured ribs. Then it all rushed back to her, the blue corvette, the five guys, the pain, and the fear. She started to tremble at the memory, she pulled her knees up and wrapped her arms around them, she put her head down on her knees and used the pain that the position caused to escape the memories. She tensed at a touch on her neck; the hand gently pulled her head up, forcing her to look at him. His jaw dropped, he had never seen eyes that color before. As Soda was gathering himself together, Darry walked in the room, dressed only in pants,
"Knock that off Soda, you're terrifying her." He knocked Soda's hand away, she pressed back against the couch, the whole gang was gathered around her now.
"Back off guys." Soda sat down beside her and slid his arm around her comfortingly. The guys retreated to the kitchen.
"You hungry darlin?" Darry asked kindly, he set a plate of chocolate cake on her lap. She shook her head and pushed the food to Soda.
"You sure?"
She nodded.
"Aight then." He took the plate but did not eat it, "What's your name?"
"Sasha, Sasha Tysen."
"Cool well, I'm Sodapop Curtis" he offered he offered his hand and she shook it.
"I'm Daryl (did I spell that right??) Curtis, you can call me Darry though."
As the rest of the gang came in with there breakfast Soda introduced them, "That's my little bro, Ponyboy," Pony smiled at her, "That's Steve Randle over there, and the blondie is Dally, that's Dallas Winston."
"How's it going, baby?" he offered his hand but Sasha shrunk away from him, pressing against Soda, Dally frowned and his hand clenched into a fist and dropped to his side.
"Umm, anyway, that ones Johnny" he pointed to a shy looking dark haired boy sitting in a chair beside the couch. To everyone's surprises Sasha leaned forward and held out her hand, Johnny blinked, shook it, and smiled. Soda gestured towards the last boy with a smile, "And the ugly one is Keith Mathews."
"Iz Too it." He trying to say through a mouthful of cake, he swallowed, "Its Two-bit, and why do I have to be the ugly one?"
No one answered his obvious question.
"So how did you get all beat up?" Steve asked.
"I-I fell." She answered lamely
"Aww c'mon u can't expect us to believe that." Dally leaned forward and lifted her shirt causing her to tense and pull away, burying her face in Soda's chest.
Soda's other arm came around her in a gentle hug. "Honey, you don't get a bruise like that from fallin."
"I fell." She said firmly
"C'mon hun, just tell us."
"Leave me alone." She said trying to pull away, but he held her firmly.
"Now, what happened to you, who was it?"
Sasha looked up at Soda pleadingly, "I don't want to talk about it, please, I'm tired."
"Alright sweetheart, but your gonna tell us what happened when you wake up."
"Uh huh"
"Ok" he led her to his room and gave her a gentle push to the bed, she sat and pulled off her shoes then lay down and Soda pulled the covers over her.
Soda started to retreat from the room but Sasha caught his hand, he turned and looked at her questioningly. She tugged his hand gently "Stay with my please?" Soda smiled gently and climbed in beside her. He put his arms around her and he felt her warm breath against his neck. Soda waited until her breathing leveled out, making sure she was asleep before he closed his eyes and drifted to sleep also.
When Sasha woke up she was greeted by Soda in only his boxers, he obviously thought she was still asleep. She pulled the blanket up over her head and giggled, Soda whipped around, "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."
He pulled on his jeans. "Did you sleep long enough?"
She looked up at him, and nodded "Okay then. Lets go get you something to eat."
She got up and followed him to the kitchen where the gang was gathered eating pizza. Soda kicked Two-bit out of his chair, because all the other chairs were taken. Sasha took the chair Two-bit had vacated and wolfed down the piece of pizza that Soda set in front of her. Steve grinned and handed her two more pieces, which she ate just as fast. Then Dally offered her a piece she shook her head, she really wasn't hungry anymore.
But Dally was mad, "What's your problem? Why don't you like me anyway? I'm the one that carried you here, what did I ever do to you that made you hate me?" He slammed a fist down on the table. Hard. Then he stomped out to the porch and sat on the steps. Sasha bowed her head; she hadn't meant to make him mad.
"Wow!" exclaimed Two-bit with a grin "I think you actually hurt his feelings, just think.Dallas Winston, the sensitive man."
Darry smacked him on the back of the head. Two-bit's comment made her feel ashamed. Soda tried to comfort her " Don't worry about it Sash, Dally's just in a bad mood." He squeezed her shoulder gently.
Sasha stood abruptly and walked to the door then out on to the porch to sit beside Dally. "Dally?"
"What?"
"I'm sorry, its not that I don't like you, its just...I dunno, your seem scary."
"What about me is scary?"
"Wouldn't you if you woke up as a captive a man that's about twice your size and he wouldn't let you go? I didn't know you, I thought you meant to hurt me."
"I would never hurt you." She smiled as he put an arm around her and pulled her close, "Now, sweetheart, tell me what happened to you and who did it."
She decided she might as well tell him; he would bother her about it until she told him. "I-I don't know who it was, there were six or seven of them."
"Were they Socs?" She nodded "Well, what did they do to you? Tell me every thing."
"Well, I was just walking and a blue corvette pulled up and they grabbed me and took me to a house and up stairs." she was trembling now, "Well, they were kinda drunk and they took my clothes and...and..." Dally saw tears running down her face and she was clutching Dally around the waist tightly.
Then it hit him, they had raped her. "They didn't." said Dally out loud, not wanting to believe it. She nodded against his chest. "Oh Sash" he pulled her onto his lap and rocked her gently until she quieted. He couldn't believe it, they were gonna pay, she couldn't be more then 15 years old. He stood with her in his arms and carried her inside. He sat down on the couch, he stared at the T.V. but he didn't actually see it, his eyes were out of focus and he was deep in thought. The whole gang was there, staring at them. Dally head jerked up, "What are you all staring at?" he snapped angrily.
"Well, what happened to her?"
"Some fuckin Socs raped her." Pony and Johnny gasped; Darry slammed his fist down on the coffee table so hard they heard it crack. Dally stood, "She's asleep, she must be really tired if she's sleeping this much. I'm gonna give her a bath, it'll make her feel better." Darry nodded and Dally entered the bathroom.
When Darry shut the door for him Two-bit turned to him, "What are we gonna do about this?"
"I don't know, whatever we do it'll probably end up in a rumble. Even though she's not a greaser, its not right, she's just a girl."
Sodapop nodded, "We'll have to tell the Shepards gang, they'll help, they have some other greaser friends that'll help."
"Well, Soda, we gotta git goin, we'll think about it at work." Steve said as he stood up.
Soda nodded
Darry grabbed his work shirt "I'll give you guys a ride."
They left. Two-bit tried to cheer the other two up, "C'mon guys, we'll get them back, no sense worrying about it now, lets play poker." So he dealt the cards and they played.
Dally came out of the bathroom, "Hey Pony, I'm gonna take some of Soda's clothes."
"Alright." Dally went into the room Pony and Soda shared and then returned to the bathroom.
A curse form Dally told the three boys that he was having trouble getting the clothes on the girl. Dally's head popped out of the bathroom, "A little help in here, its sorta hard to get clothes on a limp body"
Two-but jumped up eagerly.
"No way Two-bit.....Johnny." Dally jerked his head, summoning Johnny then disappeared back inside. Together they managed to get Sasha into some clothes.
Johnny was thankful that Dally had gotten her mostly covered before he came. "She looked pretty beat up Dally. I'm surprised she didn't wake up, she must be a heavy sleeper."
Dally nodded and carried her outside were the other boys were throwing around a football. Dally lay Sasha down in the grass. They made plans to walk to the DX when she woke up.
When Sasha woke she was outside, she tried to remember were she was. The last thing she remembered was sitting in the living room with Dally. "Watch Out!!!" she was tired and her reactions were slow, she did not react in time to deflect the football, the football hit her hard in the stomach, right on the bruise.
Sasha winced painfully and held her stomach.
"Shit Sasha, are you ok?"
She nodded, trying to hide her pain
Dally came and put his arm around her and gently lowered her to the ground, "How are you feelin?"
"Great." She lied
Dally frowned, "You sleep long enough? We were going to the DX but if your not up to it we can just hang out here."
"I'm up to it, lets go." She stood up gingerly
"Are you sure?" Dally asked putting his arm around her again
"Yea I'm sure. Just let me get my shoes on." She went into the house and put her shoes on then came back out. "Hey Dally?"
"Yea hun?"
"Why am I wearing different clothes then I was before I fell asleep?"
"Well, I gave you a bath." He grinned and held his jacket out to her "We're going to town and u need to wear I little bit more then that skimpy tank. It's practically see through." He grinned as she put it on.
"Thanks for given me a bah Dally, I needed one."
Dally was puzzled, "You mean, you don't mind?"
"Naaaw, its not the first time I've been given a bath by a guy when I was asleep."
Two-bit cocked one eyebrow "It isn't?"
"No way, my boys would give me baths all the time, when I was unconscious or something." She shrugged
"Your.boys?"
"Yea, didn't I tell ya? I live with five guys."
"What do you mean, you live with the Curtis's, and there's only three of them."
"I mean, before you guys found me, I lived with five guys, I've lived with them for about three years."
"Where are they now?"
"Oh, outa town." She shrugged
"Why didn't you go with them?"
"They thought it would be to dangerous. They wouldn't let me."
"I'm still confused, they just left you here? All by your self, with no where to stay?"
"No, they all wanted to have one of them stay here with me, but I made them all go. See, we bought a house here, but the people that lived in it before didn't know that they had been evicted so we gave them sometime to find a new place. I told the guys that I would just get a hotel or something, but then I got jumped and I lost my bag some where and it had all my money in it."
Two-bit's head snapped up "Ahh, what did your bag look like?"
Sash shrugged, "Just a black bag, it had some of my clothes in it too. Why?"
"I went out last night, to Buck's party and Tim Shepard sad he found a black bag with a shit load of money in it and some girls clothes."
Sash nodded, "That's probably it then"
Dally stopped walking, so did every one else, "Wait a sec, a 'shit load' how much is that?"
"I think he said about."
"A thousand dollars." Sasha said scratching her neck absently.
"Yea, that's what he said." Pony, Johnny and Dally's eyes widened.
"A th-thousand?"
"Yea."
Pony laughed uneasily, "C'mon guys, its not like she's a rich Soc or anything." All eyes turned to Sasha, "Your not a rich Soc, are you Sash?"
"No of course I'm not a Soc, I just moved here."
"But you are rich?"
"Me and my boys are...ya we're rich."
Dally looked mad, "You're a Soc, this whole time, you were a Soc and you never told us!"
"I'm not a Soc, Dally! But you are sure acting like one!"
"What? I am not!"
"You judging me with out even getting to know me, just because I have money doesn't mean I'm a Soc!"
"Yes it does!"
"If that's what you went to think then go right ahead, but leave me alone." She walked out in front of a passing car, the old man stopped and stuck his head out the window.
"What are you doing?"
"Can I have a ride?"
"Sure get in." she did and he drove off leaving Dally and the other three boys dumbstruck. John sighed "Well, Dally, she's right" Dally just kept walking and the others followed.
"Where would you like to go, missy?"
"Do you know where the DX station is?"
"Sure do, a few blocks away." Sasha nodded. When they got there Sasha thanked the man and he left.
Steve and Soda were there, "Hey Sash what you doing? Where the rest of the gang? Isn't that Dally's jacket?"
"Hi, they're coming and yes this is Winston's jacket." She pulled it off, "Can you tell me where Tim Shepard is right now?"
"Umm, he just dropped off his car, said he was going home. Why?"
"Where does he live?"
Soda leaned over the counter toward her "Hold a second. Why are you looking for Tim Shepard?"
"I need to talk to him."
"well, you go thata way," he pointed to his right "umm, two blocks? Right Steve?"
"Yea two. Then down, two more."
Sasha nodded, "Thanks. Ummm, when Dally gets here can you give him this?" she set the jacket on the counter."
"Yes ma'm."
"Ok, bye."
She started out of the station but Soda jumped up and cut her off. "Are you coming back? Why did u leave Dally's jacket?"
"Ask Winston." She tried to step past him but he cut her off again.
"Alright, alright, hold on, take my jacket, you shouldn't go walking around wearin that. Just don't go any where, its in the back room lemme go get it, ok?"
"Ok."
He went and came back with it, she put it on and started away. "Are you comin back?"
"Probably not."
"Why? I want you to come back."
"You wont after you talk to Winston." And she disappeared around the curb.
Soda sighed and went back behind the counter.
The girl rolled off the couch and landed face down on Dally, Pony grinned; it hadn't woken either of them. Dally's strong arms automatically closed around her, only then did the girl stir. She groaned and tried to move off Dally but even in his sleep he was strong. The girl struggled for a moment while Pony just watched, he was gawking at her. Her eyes were bright yellow, a goldish color and she was the most beautiful girl Pony had ever seen. She seemed to be about his age maybe older. A door slammed, probably Soda's and Pony snapped out of his trance and saw the girl looking up at him, she looked terrified and helpless. Pony leaned forward, and the girl shrunk away from him.
Pony shook Dally's shoulder, "Wha?" he mumbled without opening his eyes.
"Let her go man, yer scarin her."
His eyes snapped open and he grinned, "Hey there baby, sleep well?" she tried to get away from him but he only tightened his grip. "Oooo, you got pretty eyes." Everyone was starting to wake up now. Dally felt hands grip his wrists and pull his arms away from the girl.
Sasha felt strong hands lift her off of the blonde man that had trapped her. This man set her down on the couch. She gazed around the room at the seven young men, she was scared of them but she knew if she had to she could take care of herself. She looked up at the guy that had helped her; he was smiling kindly at her. The man looked similar to the younger man, the one that had woken Dally for her. She took a deep breath to calm he nerves and gasped as pain erupted in her abdomen. She had forgotten that she had some injured ribs. Then it all rushed back to her, the blue corvette, the five guys, the pain, and the fear. She started to tremble at the memory, she pulled her knees up and wrapped her arms around them, she put her head down on her knees and used the pain that the position caused to escape the memories. She tensed at a touch on her neck; the hand gently pulled her head up, forcing her to look at him. His jaw dropped, he had never seen eyes that color before. As Soda was gathering himself together, Darry walked in the room, dressed only in pants,
"Knock that off Soda, you're terrifying her." He knocked Soda's hand away, she pressed back against the couch, the whole gang was gathered around her now.
"Back off guys." Soda sat down beside her and slid his arm around her comfortingly. The guys retreated to the kitchen.
"You hungry darlin?" Darry asked kindly, he set a plate of chocolate cake on her lap. She shook her head and pushed the food to Soda.
"You sure?"
She nodded.
"Aight then." He took the plate but did not eat it, "What's your name?"
"Sasha, Sasha Tysen."
"Cool well, I'm Sodapop Curtis" he offered he offered his hand and she shook it.
"I'm Daryl (did I spell that right??) Curtis, you can call me Darry though."
As the rest of the gang came in with there breakfast Soda introduced them, "That's my little bro, Ponyboy," Pony smiled at her, "That's Steve Randle over there, and the blondie is Dally, that's Dallas Winston."
"How's it going, baby?" he offered his hand but Sasha shrunk away from him, pressing against Soda, Dally frowned and his hand clenched into a fist and dropped to his side.
"Umm, anyway, that ones Johnny" he pointed to a shy looking dark haired boy sitting in a chair beside the couch. To everyone's surprises Sasha leaned forward and held out her hand, Johnny blinked, shook it, and smiled. Soda gestured towards the last boy with a smile, "And the ugly one is Keith Mathews."
"Iz Too it." He trying to say through a mouthful of cake, he swallowed, "Its Two-bit, and why do I have to be the ugly one?"
No one answered his obvious question.
"So how did you get all beat up?" Steve asked.
"I-I fell." She answered lamely
"Aww c'mon u can't expect us to believe that." Dally leaned forward and lifted her shirt causing her to tense and pull away, burying her face in Soda's chest.
Soda's other arm came around her in a gentle hug. "Honey, you don't get a bruise like that from fallin."
"I fell." She said firmly
"C'mon hun, just tell us."
"Leave me alone." She said trying to pull away, but he held her firmly.
"Now, what happened to you, who was it?"
Sasha looked up at Soda pleadingly, "I don't want to talk about it, please, I'm tired."
"Alright sweetheart, but your gonna tell us what happened when you wake up."
"Uh huh"
"Ok" he led her to his room and gave her a gentle push to the bed, she sat and pulled off her shoes then lay down and Soda pulled the covers over her.
Soda started to retreat from the room but Sasha caught his hand, he turned and looked at her questioningly. She tugged his hand gently "Stay with my please?" Soda smiled gently and climbed in beside her. He put his arms around her and he felt her warm breath against his neck. Soda waited until her breathing leveled out, making sure she was asleep before he closed his eyes and drifted to sleep also.
When Sasha woke up she was greeted by Soda in only his boxers, he obviously thought she was still asleep. She pulled the blanket up over her head and giggled, Soda whipped around, "Oh sorry, I didn't mean to wake you."
He pulled on his jeans. "Did you sleep long enough?"
She looked up at him, and nodded "Okay then. Lets go get you something to eat."
She got up and followed him to the kitchen where the gang was gathered eating pizza. Soda kicked Two-bit out of his chair, because all the other chairs were taken. Sasha took the chair Two-bit had vacated and wolfed down the piece of pizza that Soda set in front of her. Steve grinned and handed her two more pieces, which she ate just as fast. Then Dally offered her a piece she shook her head, she really wasn't hungry anymore.
But Dally was mad, "What's your problem? Why don't you like me anyway? I'm the one that carried you here, what did I ever do to you that made you hate me?" He slammed a fist down on the table. Hard. Then he stomped out to the porch and sat on the steps. Sasha bowed her head; she hadn't meant to make him mad.
"Wow!" exclaimed Two-bit with a grin "I think you actually hurt his feelings, just think.Dallas Winston, the sensitive man."
Darry smacked him on the back of the head. Two-bit's comment made her feel ashamed. Soda tried to comfort her " Don't worry about it Sash, Dally's just in a bad mood." He squeezed her shoulder gently.
Sasha stood abruptly and walked to the door then out on to the porch to sit beside Dally. "Dally?"
"What?"
"I'm sorry, its not that I don't like you, its just...I dunno, your seem scary."
"What about me is scary?"
"Wouldn't you if you woke up as a captive a man that's about twice your size and he wouldn't let you go? I didn't know you, I thought you meant to hurt me."
"I would never hurt you." She smiled as he put an arm around her and pulled her close, "Now, sweetheart, tell me what happened to you and who did it."
She decided she might as well tell him; he would bother her about it until she told him. "I-I don't know who it was, there were six or seven of them."
"Were they Socs?" She nodded "Well, what did they do to you? Tell me every thing."
"Well, I was just walking and a blue corvette pulled up and they grabbed me and took me to a house and up stairs." she was trembling now, "Well, they were kinda drunk and they took my clothes and...and..." Dally saw tears running down her face and she was clutching Dally around the waist tightly.
Then it hit him, they had raped her. "They didn't." said Dally out loud, not wanting to believe it. She nodded against his chest. "Oh Sash" he pulled her onto his lap and rocked her gently until she quieted. He couldn't believe it, they were gonna pay, she couldn't be more then 15 years old. He stood with her in his arms and carried her inside. He sat down on the couch, he stared at the T.V. but he didn't actually see it, his eyes were out of focus and he was deep in thought. The whole gang was there, staring at them. Dally head jerked up, "What are you all staring at?" he snapped angrily.
"Well, what happened to her?"
"Some fuckin Socs raped her." Pony and Johnny gasped; Darry slammed his fist down on the coffee table so hard they heard it crack. Dally stood, "She's asleep, she must be really tired if she's sleeping this much. I'm gonna give her a bath, it'll make her feel better." Darry nodded and Dally entered the bathroom.
When Darry shut the door for him Two-bit turned to him, "What are we gonna do about this?"
"I don't know, whatever we do it'll probably end up in a rumble. Even though she's not a greaser, its not right, she's just a girl."
Sodapop nodded, "We'll have to tell the Shepards gang, they'll help, they have some other greaser friends that'll help."
"Well, Soda, we gotta git goin, we'll think about it at work." Steve said as he stood up.
Soda nodded
Darry grabbed his work shirt "I'll give you guys a ride."
They left. Two-bit tried to cheer the other two up, "C'mon guys, we'll get them back, no sense worrying about it now, lets play poker." So he dealt the cards and they played.
Dally came out of the bathroom, "Hey Pony, I'm gonna take some of Soda's clothes."
"Alright." Dally went into the room Pony and Soda shared and then returned to the bathroom.
A curse form Dally told the three boys that he was having trouble getting the clothes on the girl. Dally's head popped out of the bathroom, "A little help in here, its sorta hard to get clothes on a limp body"
Two-but jumped up eagerly.
"No way Two-bit.....Johnny." Dally jerked his head, summoning Johnny then disappeared back inside. Together they managed to get Sasha into some clothes.
Johnny was thankful that Dally had gotten her mostly covered before he came. "She looked pretty beat up Dally. I'm surprised she didn't wake up, she must be a heavy sleeper."
Dally nodded and carried her outside were the other boys were throwing around a football. Dally lay Sasha down in the grass. They made plans to walk to the DX when she woke up.
When Sasha woke she was outside, she tried to remember were she was. The last thing she remembered was sitting in the living room with Dally. "Watch Out!!!" she was tired and her reactions were slow, she did not react in time to deflect the football, the football hit her hard in the stomach, right on the bruise.
Sasha winced painfully and held her stomach.
"Shit Sasha, are you ok?"
She nodded, trying to hide her pain
Dally came and put his arm around her and gently lowered her to the ground, "How are you feelin?"
"Great." She lied
Dally frowned, "You sleep long enough? We were going to the DX but if your not up to it we can just hang out here."
"I'm up to it, lets go." She stood up gingerly
"Are you sure?" Dally asked putting his arm around her again
"Yea I'm sure. Just let me get my shoes on." She went into the house and put her shoes on then came back out. "Hey Dally?"
"Yea hun?"
"Why am I wearing different clothes then I was before I fell asleep?"
"Well, I gave you a bath." He grinned and held his jacket out to her "We're going to town and u need to wear I little bit more then that skimpy tank. It's practically see through." He grinned as she put it on.
"Thanks for given me a bah Dally, I needed one."
Dally was puzzled, "You mean, you don't mind?"
"Naaaw, its not the first time I've been given a bath by a guy when I was asleep."
Two-bit cocked one eyebrow "It isn't?"
"No way, my boys would give me baths all the time, when I was unconscious or something." She shrugged
"Your.boys?"
"Yea, didn't I tell ya? I live with five guys."
"What do you mean, you live with the Curtis's, and there's only three of them."
"I mean, before you guys found me, I lived with five guys, I've lived with them for about three years."
"Where are they now?"
"Oh, outa town." She shrugged
"Why didn't you go with them?"
"They thought it would be to dangerous. They wouldn't let me."
"I'm still confused, they just left you here? All by your self, with no where to stay?"
"No, they all wanted to have one of them stay here with me, but I made them all go. See, we bought a house here, but the people that lived in it before didn't know that they had been evicted so we gave them sometime to find a new place. I told the guys that I would just get a hotel or something, but then I got jumped and I lost my bag some where and it had all my money in it."
Two-bit's head snapped up "Ahh, what did your bag look like?"
Sash shrugged, "Just a black bag, it had some of my clothes in it too. Why?"
"I went out last night, to Buck's party and Tim Shepard sad he found a black bag with a shit load of money in it and some girls clothes."
Sash nodded, "That's probably it then"
Dally stopped walking, so did every one else, "Wait a sec, a 'shit load' how much is that?"
"I think he said about."
"A thousand dollars." Sasha said scratching her neck absently.
"Yea, that's what he said." Pony, Johnny and Dally's eyes widened.
"A th-thousand?"
"Yea."
Pony laughed uneasily, "C'mon guys, its not like she's a rich Soc or anything." All eyes turned to Sasha, "Your not a rich Soc, are you Sash?"
"No of course I'm not a Soc, I just moved here."
"But you are rich?"
"Me and my boys are...ya we're rich."
Dally looked mad, "You're a Soc, this whole time, you were a Soc and you never told us!"
"I'm not a Soc, Dally! But you are sure acting like one!"
"What? I am not!"
"You judging me with out even getting to know me, just because I have money doesn't mean I'm a Soc!"
"Yes it does!"
"If that's what you went to think then go right ahead, but leave me alone." She walked out in front of a passing car, the old man stopped and stuck his head out the window.
"What are you doing?"
"Can I have a ride?"
"Sure get in." she did and he drove off leaving Dally and the other three boys dumbstruck. John sighed "Well, Dally, she's right" Dally just kept walking and the others followed.
"Where would you like to go, missy?"
"Do you know where the DX station is?"
"Sure do, a few blocks away." Sasha nodded. When they got there Sasha thanked the man and he left.
Steve and Soda were there, "Hey Sash what you doing? Where the rest of the gang? Isn't that Dally's jacket?"
"Hi, they're coming and yes this is Winston's jacket." She pulled it off, "Can you tell me where Tim Shepard is right now?"
"Umm, he just dropped off his car, said he was going home. Why?"
"Where does he live?"
Soda leaned over the counter toward her "Hold a second. Why are you looking for Tim Shepard?"
"I need to talk to him."
"well, you go thata way," he pointed to his right "umm, two blocks? Right Steve?"
"Yea two. Then down, two more."
Sasha nodded, "Thanks. Ummm, when Dally gets here can you give him this?" she set the jacket on the counter."
"Yes ma'm."
"Ok, bye."
She started out of the station but Soda jumped up and cut her off. "Are you coming back? Why did u leave Dally's jacket?"
"Ask Winston." She tried to step past him but he cut her off again.
"Alright, alright, hold on, take my jacket, you shouldn't go walking around wearin that. Just don't go any where, its in the back room lemme go get it, ok?"
"Ok."
He went and came back with it, she put it on and started away. "Are you comin back?"
"Probably not."
"Why? I want you to come back."
"You wont after you talk to Winston." And she disappeared around the curb.
Soda sighed and went back behind the counter.