"What you doing?"
"I have a date tonight. I'm trying to find the right clothes."
"First dates. I know how nervous kids get. Need any help."
"No offense, but I don't think Ponyboy would like it if you were helping another man put his clothes on."
Cathy smiled.
"You're not a man. You're still a boy."
Danny rolled his eyes and she closed the door. Danny decided he would put on his red T-shirt, blue jeans, and jeans jacket. He looked pretty nice. He walked out of the door and went straight to Maria's house.
He rang the doorbell and got a little nervous. What if her dad answered? Danny got lucky because Maria answered the door. She was wearing a black shirt and a long gray dress.
"Ready to go?" asked Danny.
"Sure. Let's go."
They walked off and went to the Nightly Double. They didn't feel like seeing any mushy stuff, so they checked out this old flick. In the middle of the movie, Danny asked his date if she wanted a drink.
"Sure, could you get me a Pepsi?"
He walked to the snack bar and got her Pepsi and got himself a Sprite. As he was walking back, he noticed Steve and Soda were there with some dates. Soda must not really care about Sandy anymore. He walked back to his date and gave her the drink. When the movie was over, they walked down the street talking about the movie.
"That guy got beat up a lot. I don't know how he could take it," said Maria smiling.
"Yeah. His brother had to save his butt a lot. It was obvious the movie was made a long time ago."
"Yeah. Matt Dillon was still cute back then."
"What. I'm not."
"No. You're better."
Danny walked her back to her house. They stopped at the front door.
"You're a good guy to go out with," said Maria.
"So you wanna do it again?" asked Danny. He wondered if he was rushing it.
"Sure. I'll talk to you about it at school. I have to see what I'm doing."
"Alright. Good night."
"Good night."
Danny walked back to his house with a grin on his face. This was the best girl he had ever gone out with. Jennifer basically wanted to go to the movies and that got boring. That's what they had gotten in an argument for last time. She wanted to go to the movies, but Danny said he was tired of going there. She was talking some mess about he should do what the girl says. She must have been crazy if he was going to let her pimp him.
He reached the house and saw Jack in the living room playing Uno with Keith and Rachel. Two-Bit was watching TV.
"I've got next," he said sitting down on the couch.
"Yeah," said Keith looking up. "I need to test you."
"Well put some money on the line."
Two-Bit laughed.
"Your dad always put money on the line when he played poker."
Danny then asked,
"Where's Houston?" and everyone laughed. Rachel answered him,
"Calling the girl from the party. We had to hassle him to do it. Uno out!"
"Alright. I'm in."
Danny jumped in the circle and Jack dealed out the cards.