Chapter 7: Adventurous Night

Keith will be attending Danny's school for the rest of the year. Until he went back to live with his mom. The next day at school, Danny and Maria were talking at lunch. They had began to be good friends. Danny then let out the question.

"Maria. Do you want to go out tomorrow night?"

It seemed like the world had stopped spinning and there were all eyes on them. It seemed like ages before she said,

"Sure, what time?"

"7:00. I'll pick you up at your house. Then we can walk to the movies."

"Alright. See you soon."

The bell rang to get back to class. Danny felt like dancing for joy, but he didn't want to embaress himself. That afternoon when they teenagers got home; no one else was there.

Keith then asked Danny,

"What was that fun night you had planned?"

"What are you talking about!" said Rachel.

"We're gonna go riding around tonight," said Danny smiling.

"What for?" said Rachel.

"Do you have anything better to do?" said Danny.

"No."

"Then come with us."

"Where y'all going?" asked Houston walking in.

"We're going to ride around town," said Keith. "Wanna come?"

"Sure."

Danny then turned to Rachel.

"C'mon Rachel. Everyone else is going. You're gonna be home all by yourself."

"Fine. Whatever!"

"Great. Hey Keith. Think you can get your uncles car."

"Yeah. He doesn't mind walking. I'll be right back to pick up you guys."

Keith ran out of the door while Jack wrote a note telling the adults where they were going. It didn't take long, but he was back with the car and he honked the horn. Everyone ran outside. Danny had a bag in his hand. Danny got in the front beside Keith and put his bag under the seat. Jack, Rachel and Houston got in the back.

"Where to captain?" said Keith.

Danny turned around to Jack.

"Anyone ever have any good parties around here?"

"Yeah. Drive past the school."

Keith hit the gas and they took off while Jack was giving him directions to the place. Danny knew he was close, because he could hear the loud music playing. He could hear the sounds of some rock, rap and any other songs you would play at a party. He remembered once when he and Alex had sneaked into a club. He had used a fake I.D. While he was inside, a fight broke out and people started busting other people's heads with bottles, pool sticks and other stuff. Alex almost got hit and they beat it out of there. They would have stayed and watched but bottles were flying everywhere.

Keith pulled up to the sidewalk and everyone got out. They walked in and had some fun. Danny was dancing mostly. When he got tired of it, he sat down next to Houston. He was sitting mostly.

"Where's Jack?" Houston asked looking around.

"The bedroom."

Houston's eyes went huge.

"I'm just playing kid. He's over there talking to that girl. I see your sister's found someone."

Danny pointed over to Rachel dancing with this one guy. Pretty soon this one girl around Houston's age came over to them.

"Hi," she said nervously.

Danny could tell she had a crush on Houston. She was looking straight at him. He decided that it would be best to let him handle it. Houston looked like he liked her too.

Danny got up and danced a little more. A while later, the party got boring. Everyone was ready to go.

"Hey, where's my brother?" asked Rachel.

"Ey, check it out!" said Keith pointing towards the couch.

Houston was on the couch asleep, and the girl was asleep too. She had her head on his shoulders. Everyone thought they looked like a cute couple. They laughed and Jack went over to wake his cousin up.

"Huh," said Houston looking up tiredly

"Kid. Tell your girl you have to leave."

Jack was smiling like crazy. Houston woke up the girl and told her he had to leave. She said okay and gave him slip of paper and walked off. Houston looked at the number, it had digits on it.

"Ah. Houston we have a problem. Unidentified numbers," said Keith imitating a space cadet. Everyone laughed and Houston just blushed. They all went out to the car and Keith asked,

"Well. It's midnight. Wanna do one more thing before we head home?"

"Yeah," Danny answered. "Wanna mess with some socies."

"By doing what," said Rachel getting interested.

"Well," said Danny reaching under the seat. "I happened to bring my paintball gun."

Everyone smiled. Danny had red ammo also. Keith drove to the soc neighborhood. Driving slowly.

"There are some socs," said Rachel pointing in the direction of five socs standing around.

"I'm going for it," said Danny switching the safety off of the gun.

Keith drove up near the socs. Danny flipped his hood up to hide his face. He yelled out,

"Brace yourself fool!"

The socs turned around and Danny shot at their chests. They all screamed thinking they had actually been shot in the heart. The red paint didn't make it any better. The greasers could hear the socs yelling,

"It's just paint! Not blood!"

They all laughed while Keith was zooming down the street. He dropped the Curtis off at their house. They all walked in and Ponyboy was sitting on the couch. Waiting for them to come home.

"Have fun?" he asked smiling looking up at them.

"Yeah," said Jack. "We went to a party. And uh, Houston picked up a girl."

Houston blushed once again. Ponyboy just laughed.

"Dad, I'm gonna turn in," said Houston yawning.

"Okay. Night son."

Jack and Rachel went into the kitchen and Danny sat down beside Ponyboy. Pony then asked,

"So you took them to a party huh? Your dad did the same with me."

"Really? Did you have fun?"

"Yeah, it was fun. Until the next day, Trix and I got in late, but luckily no one was home. Darry got a little mad at me the next day though."

"What about Dad. Did he get in trouble?"

"Oh yeah. He had been out all day and got into more trouble. He sneaked into a bar, jailed for riding in a stolen car, and he was late getting home again. Darry yelled at him a lot more."

Danny just laughed. The more he heard about his dad, the more he wanted to meet him. He couldn't wait until he got home from the pen.