A/N: You know I really didn't think of my middle name when I was naming the character in my story. So it is coincidence. Anyways, I know I promised that I would update by Thursday the latest, but omg, I had the worst flu ever. I couldn't speak even. I had a horrible sore throat. So sorry but I was really in no condition to update. I'm not completely better so I had to stay home from school today, and there's absolutely nothing to do so I'm going to try to cough up a story (what a funny phrase). Thanx for understanding ;)

Here's chapter 4!

~Pony's POV~

We were playing football. The teams were me, Darry and Johnny against Dally, Steve, Two-bit and Soda. Even though the teams were uneven, we had Darry and everybody knows that Darry's superman. I reckon he would win against all of us if we played. We were kicking butt. Darry was on a roll.

We stole the ball, and Johnny had it. I was open, so Johnny threw it at me. I caught it and started a dead run towards the goal line with Steve, Two-bit and Soda on my tail. Steve tackled me to the ground just as I reached the line. We scored by an inch. We won! I was jumping up and down with joy, Dally was swearing about how unfair it was since we had Darry in our team, and Two-bit and Soda were tackling each other. I swear those two are the two weirdest people I know.

As I turned around to see where Darry was, I hear a groan coming from near distance. I turned around, a figure....it was a girl. She was looking straight at me. I studied her face. She looked sorta familiar, but she was too far away, I really couldn't tell. I started to walk towards her but before I could take two steps I was tackled to the ground by Two-bit, Soda, Steve and Dally.

"Ahhhhhhh!" I yelled as they all piled on me. "Get off you guys, I can't breathe."

"Aw, Pony, you're strong, you can take it." Darry said, and then he jumped on me too.

I groaned.

"Hey guys?" Johnny said, who hadn't jumped on me.

"What is it Johnnycakes?" Dally said as he got off of me. Thank god, I finally can breathe.

"Who is that?" Johnny pointed towards the girl I saw before.

"I think I know her. She looks hurt." I said as I cleaned the grass off my jeans.

"Let's go see who she is." Darry said.

We walked towards her.

Dally and I gasped at the same time. I wondered if he knew her. She looked horrible. Her face was all scratched up, and there were bruises all over her body. Her clothes were ripped and muddy and there were some blood on her pants.

"Oh my god, what the fuck happened to her?" Dally said. He looked horrified.

It suddenly came to me who she was. She was the girl in my science class. I think her name is Tara.

"I think I know her." I piped up.

"So do I." Dally said.

"Hey Dally, isn't that the girl you brought to the DX yesterday?" Soda asked.

"Yeah, I think so, it's so hard to tell, her face is so messed up."

Johnny knelt down near her. He moved her long brown hair out of her face. Wow, she had beautiful eyes, it was definitely Tara. I used to stare at her from my old spot, during science, before I got moved upfront for not paying attention.

"It's her, it's Tara. I know her." I said. Everyone looked at me, expecting me to tell more about her. "She's in my science class."

"Yeah, yeah, I think her name was Tara, the girl yesterday. Her mom died. Poor girl." Dally had, what is that, care? in his eyes. Wow, I couldn't believe it, Dally actually looked worried.

She groaned as Johnny stroked her hair. She had a huge cut on her forehead.

"Do you know where she lives Dally?" Darry asked.

"Yeah but I don't think they live there, I think her mom committed suicide in the house or something." Dally said.

"Wow, that's tough." Johnny said in a quiet voice.

"Yeah" I sighed. "So, shall we take her to the Curtis residence?" I knew we had to take care of her. Poor thing. "I mean we can't just leave her here."

Darry sighed. "I have to work. If you guys think you can handle it, go ahead."

"Well I'm gonna get drunk and hunt for girl with Stevie so it's Johnny, Pony and Soda are the ones who will take care of her." Two-bit said cocking one eyebrow.

"Me too" Dally said quickly. "I mean, I don't got nothing else to do."

I was getting suspicious of Dally. I wondered if he liked her or something. He never really cared about anybody but himself, but here he was telling us that he would help take care of some stranger. Or maybe not so stranger to him?

"All right. Let's go then. Darry, since you're the biggest, you're going to have to be the one carrying her to the house." I said. Darry flexed his muscles meaning no problem.

"No, it's fine, I'll carry her. Darry will have to work tonight, he shouldn't get tired." Dally blurted out.

Ok, now I was really getting suspicious. What the hell was wrong with Dally. Strangely, no one else but me noticed this.

"Fine by me." Darry said but he looked kinda disappointed for not being able to show off his superman abilities.

I would have to find out why Dallas Winston was so interested in this girl, soon.

~Dally's POV~

She felt so light in my arms. I was so horrified at the sight of her. She looked so terrible. Whoever did this to her, is some kind of sick bastard. I cussed out loud. It was probably those damn socs.

I placed her on the couch in the living room, when we reached the Curtis' house. She looked so pale. I got an icepack out of the fridge and put it on her forehead.

"Hey guys, I'm going to the store to get some gauze pads and stuff, alright?" I said.

"Ok Dally." Soda answered.

I looked at her once more and walked out the door.

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Ok, there. I hope you guys liked this chapter. Now please review!

Dally's my hero: Humm..I'll think about it. It's a good suggestion but I don't really want her to get pregnant.

Naria4: It's ok that you don't have any ideas. It's enough that you review. Thanx. Soda and Dally are my faves. So maybe I'll have them fight over her.

Tensleep: Does your brother like just sit around and watch you do stuff on the computer all day or something? If he does, that is really creepy! Omg omg omg, I'm sorry, I'm really random, but I have to tell this to someone like you, cuz sounds like you're kinda random too. I'm having the best THE BEST yogurt ever! It's called la Crème Mousse. I swear to god, it's the best yogurt ever. You have to have it. Ok, sorry I've gone off subject. Anyways, uh, naming the character in the story Tara was really coincidence, seriously! I was still going with Kate at the moment, and I really didn't think about it that way. Its funny when I think about it. Thank you for the idea, but I really didn't want her to get pregnant, but I got reviews from people saying she should, so maybe I will have her get pregnant. Eh, I'll think about it later. lol, thank for reading.