AUTHOR'S NOTE: Okay, I wasn't going to update until Thursday, but I got so many great reviews, that I just had to update. This chapter is sort of short, I am sorry! It will most likely be longer next time.. I hope you all enjoy this one though! I am warning you all, that the next one or two chapter will have a lot of romance, just so everyone will get the feel for Pony and Jenny, but then after that there will be more of a story line, and the chapters will get a bit more serious. This chapter and the next are both kind of fluffy, but they'll get better. I promise, just stick with me! I hope that you all still enjoy it though! Please review if you read, like I said before.. it makes me update faster, just like it did this time!
Anyways, I got more reviews! I got 9, that's the most I have ever gotten! Thank you all so much!
mrs.sodapopcurtis- lol, thanks! I know I was beginning to feel sorry for Steve too, but then I realized that that wasn't the real Steve lol.. so I made him give Pony a dirty look:) Keep on reviewing! Thanks!
Wen- Sorry that it took so long to update, I usually update faster, but I have been busy with soccer! And, I was in a good mood today, because we won! Thanks for the review! And keep reading!
becc-gallanter- Hey! Thank you so much for the review! You may not know it, but you have helped me so much with this story, you have kept me writing when I didn't want to anymore! Thank you! I hope you like this chapter!
little cosette- Thank you! I hope that you like this next chapter! Keep reading and reviewing! I really appreciate it!
lacey- Thanks for the review!! I really hope that you enjoy this chapter! R&R! Thank you!
Karlei Shaynner- Thanks! I hope you keep reading!
Ana- Hey! It was so great to get a new reader! I hope that you like this chapter, and thank you so much for your reviews. It truly did make my day to see all your reviews!! Oh, and sorry that it took me a while to update! I usually don't take that long! Thanks, and I hope you keep reading!
Shannon- You guessed right! That's exactly where she stays! I hope you keep R&Ring! Thank you so much! I hope you like it!
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Okay, on with the story, I hope you all like it...
Chapter 7- Busted- Jenny's POV
" Well..." Darry said slowly. " Cherry said that she doesn't know how long she'll be gone for, so you'll be staying here with us until Cherry or your parents get back." he said slowly.
Wait a minute?! My whole family was just.. abandoning me, especially when I needed them the most?
" Why.. umm... why couldn't I come?" I asked suddenly getting the chills.
" She said that she wanted you to be able to finish out the last week of school, and she didn't think that it would be safe to take you all the way to New York. I'm really sorry kiddo." he said to me.
I felt everyone eyes on me, and Pony's hands were around my waist gently. And I don't know why, but I started to cry. I knew that there was no real reason to cry, I was just being.. I don't even know. Crazy? What was wrong with me? I was going to get to live with my boyfriend for.. at least two months! I guess it was just that I was upset that I wouldn't get to see my sister or my parents for a long time, and I couldn't handle it. I honestly loved my family more than anything, and I missed them already. I was really close to my parents, especially my mom. Even though they didn't approve of Ponyboy, I knew that they would stand by me no matter what my decisions were, as long as I was happy. And, I couldn't be more happy with anyone. Suddenly all my feelings just hit me like a ton of bricks, and I had warm tears streaming down my face. Before I knew it, I shoved Pony's hands away from me, and ran into his room, slamming the door. I felt bad, because I knew that I hurt Pony's feelings, and probably embarrassed him in front of everyone and I regretted doing it, but what could I do now? I heard Pony sigh, and Darry said that he was sorry. What was he sorry for? None of it was his fault, and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have a nice place to stay. I should be thankful to him, not acting like a child. I just couldn't control my feelings.
Pony boy gently opened the door that I had previously slammed.
" Sweetie?" he asked softly. He sat on the edge of the bed, and rubbed my back softly, which hurt me really bad because of all my cuts, so I quickly sat up casually. I loved it when he comforted me like that, and I hated that I couldn't enjoy it the way that I was supposed to be able to.
" I'm sorry.." I said. " I'm just.. scared." I said softly.
" That's okay. And please., don't be sorry.. that seams to be all we ever say to each other anymore." he said smiling. " And what are you afraid of baby?" he asked.
" A lot of things.." I said.
" You wanna tell me?" he asked softly. Gosh, he was so sweet.
I sighed. " I am scared that those socs are going to hurt us again. Pony, they aren't gunna let us be together. Their going to do everything that they can to keep up apart. I mean what are we-" I started to talk rather quickly. He put his finger up to my mouth slowly, giving me a sign that I needed to calm down. He was right, I was overreacting. I cried softly into his shoulder as we both rocked back and forth.
" Soda, Steve, Darry and Two-bit aren't gunna allow that to happen sweetie. So don't even worry about that. If they even lay a finger on you again, they're going to die. I promise, your safe will us." he said.
" I know, I am just being silly. I just wish that things would be back to normal , like when we were first dating. " I said slowly as I stopped crying.
" And what? Miss everything that we've had together? Never. Not even a chance that I would go back. Things are perfect, we just ran into some trouble. Things won't ever be normal if you're with me Jenny. Maybe if you want to go and be with a soc, then things would be normal, you'd be safe. I mean, maybe you want to leave-" he started to say sadly, but of course, I leaned out of his arms and I cut him off.
" Pony? How could you even say that about us to me?" I asked. " I thought you loved me?" I asked.
" I know, I do.. I really do Jenny. I guess that I am just..." his sentence trailed off.
" Scared." I finished for him.
" Yeah.. we can do this.. together." he said. Gosh, I did love him. We had only been going out for a little over two months, and we were already in love. Is that possible? I guess so.
He leaned in and started to kiss me. " I love you." he said.
Wow, I definitely could get used to living here!
I wrapped my arms around his neck, and we fell back onto his bed kissing. We hadn't ever really what they call "made out" before. We usually did short kissing, or once in a while a long kiss, but this was different. I liked it though. I ran my fingers through his hair, and I continued to kiss him for about five minutes or so. Whose keeping track anyways? It would have lasted longer, but someone knocked on the door. We quickly sat up. I was a little light headed, and I was blushing. We both were, I think we were both surprised at what we were doing. We didn't do anything but kiss a lot, but it was a big step for us, because we were both usually so shy, even around each other.
Soda opened the door and walked in.
" Hey guys!" he said smiling.
" Hi Soda, listen, I am really sorry about before, I don't know what came over me, but I honestly do appreciate you letting me stay here with you guys. I was just a little upset that's all." I said.
" Aw, come on, don't even worry about it. We all understand, everyone, even Darry." he said.
" Thanks." I said scooting slightly away from Pony so that maybe Soda wouldn't realize what we were doing.
" Do you guys want some diner? It's gunna be good! I made it" Soda said grinning.
" Please, she hasn't ever tasted your food, if she does she just might die!" Pony said laughing slightly at Soda.
" It can't really be that bad!" I said laughing along with them. But I mean come on.. Soda was Darry and Pony's brother and they both cooked great.
" Oh, yes it can!" Pony said smiling. It was really good to see him smile again. I missed his smile a lot. It was a lot like Soda's.
" Come on Pon, that only happened twice!" Soda said looking Pony in the eyes.
" What only happened twice?" I asked interested. When he told me what Soda had made, I suddenly didn't want to know anymore.
" Green eggs!? Soda!" I said laughing.
" Oh, Pony's lying, they weren't that bad." he said ending the conversation when Darry walked in. I was sure he didn't want Darry's input on his so called " Delicious eggs".
" Look, I am really sorr-" I started to say, but Darry was shaking his head.
" Sorry? No, don't be sorry. No one minds you staying here. You're one of us now." Darry said.
That really meant a lot to me for Darry to say that. " Thank you so much." I said. I didn't need to say anything else. I knew that he knew that I was thankful.
" Oh, and about those socs, don't worry about them, we'll take care of em.. all you gotta do is give us names.. if ya can, and well take care of them good." Darry said.
I figured that now was a good as time as any to tell them the truth about why they really jumped us.
" Well, I think I know why they jumped us.." I said sort of quietly.
" You do!? Why?" Darry asked surprised.
" Well, one of them Jason Williams(A/N: I made this name up, along with the other two names I am about to name...), well he sort of asked me out about a week ago. And when I politely declined he wouldn't leave me alone, he kept bugging me, then I wasn't so nice about it. And I think he got some of his friends together, and they planned it." I said quickly. I felt my cheeks get hot.
" What? How come you didn't tell me?" Pony asked.
" I'm sorry, I just remembered right now." I said. It wasn't all a lie, I had just remembered it.
" And umm, the other two guys were his friends Bobby, and Kevin.. I don't know their last names. Sorry.." I said.
" That's okay. It's all we need to know." Darry said staring at Soda.
" Yeah, that's okay." Soda quickly said.
" Thanks you guys, it makes me feel better." I said.
" Good, then I am glad we all had this talk." Darry said when he was about to stand up, but then he stopped and stared at my neck.
" What?" I asked looking to Pony for an answer. He was bright red by now.
" Didn't the socs give you two hickeys?" Darry asked me.
" Yeah... why?" I asked confused. Was I really that dumb? What was he talking about.
" Well then where did the third one come from?" he asked me.
Uh-oh! No wonder Pony was blushing so much! Pony must have done that when we were.. well making-out.
" Uh.." I started to stutter. Pony looked awful embarrassed. I knew he had never done anything like that to a girl before. I felt bad for him. Darry was real hard on him all the time. It really wasn't that big of a deal! Obviously Darry thought that it was.
" Hey! Umm, isn't it diner time? My food is gettin' cold! Hurry, I didn't spend all that time slaving over a hot stove to cook ham for nothing!" Soda piped in trying to get Darry away so that he could cool off.
" Yeah, okay. But it looks like we've got another talk coming.." Darry said walking out of the room to eat diner.
" Your welcome!" Soda said laughing.
I guess we both must have looked scared, because Soda said, " Geez guys, don't worry he's just gunna give you "the" talk." Soda said laughing.
" 'The' talk?" I asked laughing nervously.
" Yeah, you know.. the don't have sex talk.. blah blah blah... it's no big deal.. at least it wasn't for me!" Soda said laughing.
I had had enough! Besides, I was hungry. " Ok." I said standing up. " Lets eat now."
" Nooow you want my food." Soda said laughing.
Pony and I just laughed acting as though we didn't care about what Darry was going to talk to us about, but I knew we were both nervous. There was that one time when Steve had told Darry that he thought we did it, when we fell asleep in his bed studying. I thought Darry didn't believe Pony and I. Maybe we were wrong and he did believe us, he probably just wanted us to think that he thought we did it. Does that make sense? It's okay. I am a little confused right now. I tried to shove the thought of it all to the back of my mind. I wanted to enjoy diner. I was starving! We all got off of the bed to go eat.
TBC...
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Okay, that took me 2 and a half hours to type. I had so much to edit from what I wrong down.. anyways.. again, sorry for grammar or spelling errors I am tired! PLEASE R&R!:) Thanks!
Anyways, I got more reviews! I got 9, that's the most I have ever gotten! Thank you all so much!
mrs.sodapopcurtis- lol, thanks! I know I was beginning to feel sorry for Steve too, but then I realized that that wasn't the real Steve lol.. so I made him give Pony a dirty look:) Keep on reviewing! Thanks!
Wen- Sorry that it took so long to update, I usually update faster, but I have been busy with soccer! And, I was in a good mood today, because we won! Thanks for the review! And keep reading!
becc-gallanter- Hey! Thank you so much for the review! You may not know it, but you have helped me so much with this story, you have kept me writing when I didn't want to anymore! Thank you! I hope you like this chapter!
little cosette- Thank you! I hope that you like this next chapter! Keep reading and reviewing! I really appreciate it!
lacey- Thanks for the review!! I really hope that you enjoy this chapter! R&R! Thank you!
Karlei Shaynner- Thanks! I hope you keep reading!
Ana- Hey! It was so great to get a new reader! I hope that you like this chapter, and thank you so much for your reviews. It truly did make my day to see all your reviews!! Oh, and sorry that it took me a while to update! I usually don't take that long! Thanks, and I hope you keep reading!
Shannon- You guessed right! That's exactly where she stays! I hope you keep R&Ring! Thank you so much! I hope you like it!
Tensleep- Thank you so much! Yep, it should be interesting! I love getting reviews from you!! I hope that you like this chapter!:) Again, thank you for your kind reviews, I honestly can say that they make my whole day better!
Okay, on with the story, I hope you all like it...
Chapter 7- Busted- Jenny's POV
" Well..." Darry said slowly. " Cherry said that she doesn't know how long she'll be gone for, so you'll be staying here with us until Cherry or your parents get back." he said slowly.
Wait a minute?! My whole family was just.. abandoning me, especially when I needed them the most?
" Why.. umm... why couldn't I come?" I asked suddenly getting the chills.
" She said that she wanted you to be able to finish out the last week of school, and she didn't think that it would be safe to take you all the way to New York. I'm really sorry kiddo." he said to me.
I felt everyone eyes on me, and Pony's hands were around my waist gently. And I don't know why, but I started to cry. I knew that there was no real reason to cry, I was just being.. I don't even know. Crazy? What was wrong with me? I was going to get to live with my boyfriend for.. at least two months! I guess it was just that I was upset that I wouldn't get to see my sister or my parents for a long time, and I couldn't handle it. I honestly loved my family more than anything, and I missed them already. I was really close to my parents, especially my mom. Even though they didn't approve of Ponyboy, I knew that they would stand by me no matter what my decisions were, as long as I was happy. And, I couldn't be more happy with anyone. Suddenly all my feelings just hit me like a ton of bricks, and I had warm tears streaming down my face. Before I knew it, I shoved Pony's hands away from me, and ran into his room, slamming the door. I felt bad, because I knew that I hurt Pony's feelings, and probably embarrassed him in front of everyone and I regretted doing it, but what could I do now? I heard Pony sigh, and Darry said that he was sorry. What was he sorry for? None of it was his fault, and if it wasn't for him I wouldn't have a nice place to stay. I should be thankful to him, not acting like a child. I just couldn't control my feelings.
Pony boy gently opened the door that I had previously slammed.
" Sweetie?" he asked softly. He sat on the edge of the bed, and rubbed my back softly, which hurt me really bad because of all my cuts, so I quickly sat up casually. I loved it when he comforted me like that, and I hated that I couldn't enjoy it the way that I was supposed to be able to.
" I'm sorry.." I said. " I'm just.. scared." I said softly.
" That's okay. And please., don't be sorry.. that seams to be all we ever say to each other anymore." he said smiling. " And what are you afraid of baby?" he asked.
" A lot of things.." I said.
" You wanna tell me?" he asked softly. Gosh, he was so sweet.
I sighed. " I am scared that those socs are going to hurt us again. Pony, they aren't gunna let us be together. Their going to do everything that they can to keep up apart. I mean what are we-" I started to talk rather quickly. He put his finger up to my mouth slowly, giving me a sign that I needed to calm down. He was right, I was overreacting. I cried softly into his shoulder as we both rocked back and forth.
" Soda, Steve, Darry and Two-bit aren't gunna allow that to happen sweetie. So don't even worry about that. If they even lay a finger on you again, they're going to die. I promise, your safe will us." he said.
" I know, I am just being silly. I just wish that things would be back to normal , like when we were first dating. " I said slowly as I stopped crying.
" And what? Miss everything that we've had together? Never. Not even a chance that I would go back. Things are perfect, we just ran into some trouble. Things won't ever be normal if you're with me Jenny. Maybe if you want to go and be with a soc, then things would be normal, you'd be safe. I mean, maybe you want to leave-" he started to say sadly, but of course, I leaned out of his arms and I cut him off.
" Pony? How could you even say that about us to me?" I asked. " I thought you loved me?" I asked.
" I know, I do.. I really do Jenny. I guess that I am just..." his sentence trailed off.
" Scared." I finished for him.
" Yeah.. we can do this.. together." he said. Gosh, I did love him. We had only been going out for a little over two months, and we were already in love. Is that possible? I guess so.
He leaned in and started to kiss me. " I love you." he said.
Wow, I definitely could get used to living here!
I wrapped my arms around his neck, and we fell back onto his bed kissing. We hadn't ever really what they call "made out" before. We usually did short kissing, or once in a while a long kiss, but this was different. I liked it though. I ran my fingers through his hair, and I continued to kiss him for about five minutes or so. Whose keeping track anyways? It would have lasted longer, but someone knocked on the door. We quickly sat up. I was a little light headed, and I was blushing. We both were, I think we were both surprised at what we were doing. We didn't do anything but kiss a lot, but it was a big step for us, because we were both usually so shy, even around each other.
Soda opened the door and walked in.
" Hey guys!" he said smiling.
" Hi Soda, listen, I am really sorry about before, I don't know what came over me, but I honestly do appreciate you letting me stay here with you guys. I was just a little upset that's all." I said.
" Aw, come on, don't even worry about it. We all understand, everyone, even Darry." he said.
" Thanks." I said scooting slightly away from Pony so that maybe Soda wouldn't realize what we were doing.
" Do you guys want some diner? It's gunna be good! I made it" Soda said grinning.
" Please, she hasn't ever tasted your food, if she does she just might die!" Pony said laughing slightly at Soda.
" It can't really be that bad!" I said laughing along with them. But I mean come on.. Soda was Darry and Pony's brother and they both cooked great.
" Oh, yes it can!" Pony said smiling. It was really good to see him smile again. I missed his smile a lot. It was a lot like Soda's.
" Come on Pon, that only happened twice!" Soda said looking Pony in the eyes.
" What only happened twice?" I asked interested. When he told me what Soda had made, I suddenly didn't want to know anymore.
" Green eggs!? Soda!" I said laughing.
" Oh, Pony's lying, they weren't that bad." he said ending the conversation when Darry walked in. I was sure he didn't want Darry's input on his so called " Delicious eggs".
" Look, I am really sorr-" I started to say, but Darry was shaking his head.
" Sorry? No, don't be sorry. No one minds you staying here. You're one of us now." Darry said.
That really meant a lot to me for Darry to say that. " Thank you so much." I said. I didn't need to say anything else. I knew that he knew that I was thankful.
" Oh, and about those socs, don't worry about them, we'll take care of em.. all you gotta do is give us names.. if ya can, and well take care of them good." Darry said.
I figured that now was a good as time as any to tell them the truth about why they really jumped us.
" Well, I think I know why they jumped us.." I said sort of quietly.
" You do!? Why?" Darry asked surprised.
" Well, one of them Jason Williams(A/N: I made this name up, along with the other two names I am about to name...), well he sort of asked me out about a week ago. And when I politely declined he wouldn't leave me alone, he kept bugging me, then I wasn't so nice about it. And I think he got some of his friends together, and they planned it." I said quickly. I felt my cheeks get hot.
" What? How come you didn't tell me?" Pony asked.
" I'm sorry, I just remembered right now." I said. It wasn't all a lie, I had just remembered it.
" And umm, the other two guys were his friends Bobby, and Kevin.. I don't know their last names. Sorry.." I said.
" That's okay. It's all we need to know." Darry said staring at Soda.
" Yeah, that's okay." Soda quickly said.
" Thanks you guys, it makes me feel better." I said.
" Good, then I am glad we all had this talk." Darry said when he was about to stand up, but then he stopped and stared at my neck.
" What?" I asked looking to Pony for an answer. He was bright red by now.
" Didn't the socs give you two hickeys?" Darry asked me.
" Yeah... why?" I asked confused. Was I really that dumb? What was he talking about.
" Well then where did the third one come from?" he asked me.
Uh-oh! No wonder Pony was blushing so much! Pony must have done that when we were.. well making-out.
" Uh.." I started to stutter. Pony looked awful embarrassed. I knew he had never done anything like that to a girl before. I felt bad for him. Darry was real hard on him all the time. It really wasn't that big of a deal! Obviously Darry thought that it was.
" Hey! Umm, isn't it diner time? My food is gettin' cold! Hurry, I didn't spend all that time slaving over a hot stove to cook ham for nothing!" Soda piped in trying to get Darry away so that he could cool off.
" Yeah, okay. But it looks like we've got another talk coming.." Darry said walking out of the room to eat diner.
" Your welcome!" Soda said laughing.
I guess we both must have looked scared, because Soda said, " Geez guys, don't worry he's just gunna give you "the" talk." Soda said laughing.
" 'The' talk?" I asked laughing nervously.
" Yeah, you know.. the don't have sex talk.. blah blah blah... it's no big deal.. at least it wasn't for me!" Soda said laughing.
I had had enough! Besides, I was hungry. " Ok." I said standing up. " Lets eat now."
" Nooow you want my food." Soda said laughing.
Pony and I just laughed acting as though we didn't care about what Darry was going to talk to us about, but I knew we were both nervous. There was that one time when Steve had told Darry that he thought we did it, when we fell asleep in his bed studying. I thought Darry didn't believe Pony and I. Maybe we were wrong and he did believe us, he probably just wanted us to think that he thought we did it. Does that make sense? It's okay. I am a little confused right now. I tried to shove the thought of it all to the back of my mind. I wanted to enjoy diner. I was starving! We all got off of the bed to go eat.
TBC...
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Okay, that took me 2 and a half hours to type. I had so much to edit from what I wrong down.. anyways.. again, sorry for grammar or spelling errors I am tired! PLEASE R&R!:) Thanks!