Before I start. I just want to ask anybody if they know what movie Danny and Maria were watching in Chapter 8. I know I didn't give exactly the best clues but I wanted it to be a good challenge. Remember that this story takes place currently and they saw an old movie starring Matt Dillon. Now on with the fic,

Chapter 11: More Devastating News

That morning everyone was rushing as usual. Danny had gotten up early and was talking to Trix in the kitchen. He had slept on the couch for the night.

"Remind me to talk to my wife," said Trix wiping crumbs off of his face.

"Why?" asked Danny.

"She was supposed to serve you chocolate cake every morning."

Danny smiled. Then Houston walked in and grabbed a slice of cake. Then Cathy called him for something. He put the slice down and ran to his mom. Danny then thought of something,

"Dad. Doesn't Houston remind you of Johnny somehow?"

"Yeah. He's shy like him. Except I don't think he would carry around a blade."

"Well, Johnny saved someone by carrying a blade. Do you think he needed to use it?"

"Shoot. Johnny wasn't exactly the karate kid. He had to use something."

Rachel stuck her head in the kitchen,

"Let's go."

"See you dad."

"Bye, son."

Houston ran in the kitchen and grabbed his cake. He ate the slice on the way. Two-Bit had a while before he went to work so he gave the teens a ride. Before his first class started, Ms. Richardson came up to him.

"I heard what happened. Are you okay?"

"Yeah. I'm fine."

Danny had gotten pretty popular at school. Especially when everyone learned that his dad was back.

"Well, just let me know if anything is bothering you. You're doing well in my class."

At lunch, Maria ran up to Danny. She was panting.

"You join track or something?"

She smiled but was still serious.

"Matt and the socs that hit you the other night were looking for you this morning. They were going to jump you on your way to school."

"Well, I caught a ride from Keith's uncle. They wouldn't have stood a chance though. I was with my Keith, Rachel and Jack. They would have had my back."

Maria shook her head.

"That wouldn't have been enough. They had ten socs with them."

"Ten. Geez. What's Matt's beef anyway. I didn't do anything."

"Well, he's getting tired of you getting in his way when he's picking on Houston. Like I told you. He couldn't do anything when Rachel was protecting him. But now he's mad at you. And Houston going out with his sister made the situation worse."

Danny just smiled. He had beef like this back in Atlanta.

"Well, if he wants some beef. I'm serving all day."

After school, Danny was watching his back. He was being smart and not going around looking for the guy. If the guy had ten socs with him, then he wasn't going get jumped like an idiot. He went to Two-Bit's car and told everyone what Maria told him.

"Yeah. I heard," said Rachel. "We need to play it safe."

"Yeah," started Jack. "Matt is one crazy dude. No one knows what he'll do. I remember once when he was greaser; he attacked this one guy with a crowbar when he tried to rob him."

"A crowbar?" yelled out Danny. "If he was greaser, then what was he worried about."

Everyone shrugged and Two-Bit drove off. That night when Danny and Rachel were doing there homework. Danny had trouble in science and Rachel was helping him. The doorbell rang and soon Ponyboy called Jack.

"Wonder who that could be?" asked Danny.

"Probably the girl he met at the party?" answered Rachel not tearing her eyes away from the science book. Danny looked at her.

"He hooked up with her?"

"Oh. He did more than hook up with her."

Danny then got the idea of what happened. I guess he told Houston the wrong thing when he asked where Jack was at the party. They then heard a slap and the door slam. 'Oh crap. Some is gonna happen tonight'. Soda went up to the living room and started talking. But from the back of the house, Danny and Rachel couldn't hear what they were saying. It sounded like mumbling. Then suddenly,

"What!"

That sounded like Soda. Rachel and Danny looked at each other and ran to the front. Ponyboy, Trix and Cathy ran in from the kitchen and Houston ran up from his room. Everyone was looking at Soda and Jack.

"Just get to your room. Now!" yelled Soda. Jack obeyed and walked by us towards his room. Soda fell on the couch looking down and holding his head. He was obviously disappointed in something. The fun loving Curtis brother was mad at someone. Ponyboy and Trix went over to either sides of their brother and started talking to him softly.

The teenagers ran back to Jack's room.

"Hey. What was all of that about!" Danny asked.

Jack looked at all of us and barely said through his tears.

"I might have gotten that girl at the party pregnant."