Chapter 10: A Little Bit Of Traveling
Danny and Alex ran for while. After about ten minutes, Danny stopped and leaned against the streetlight. Alex ran up to him.
"Why are we running?" asked Alex. "What happened?"
"My dad and I got into a fight," said Danny breathing. He was looking straight ahead, holding his tears back.
"He hit you?" asked Alex.
"No. We were just yelling at each other."
But…I thought you and your dad were cool with each other?"
"Not right now. He doesn't understand, like I knew he wouldn't. He's just like all the other adults."
They started walking now.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Alex.
"We're gonna hideout until Tay finally gets caught. He's not that smart. When he does, you can go back to Atlanta, and I might go back home."
The word 'might' was true.
"Where are we now?" asked Alex.
Danny looked around. He saw a street sign.
"Some place called Brumly."
"Brumly?"
"Sounds familiar doesn't it."
"Yeah, from where?"
Um…no…I got it! It was in my uncle's book. These are some of the guys who helped out my uncles and dad in the rumble."
"So they should be cool with us right?"
"Right. Let's find a house."
They went around looking for a house with lights on. Danny kept looking and looking. He finally found a house and walked up to it. He knocked on the door. After a while, a teenager around seventeen came to the door.
"What do you want?"
"We need some help," said Danny. He was a little intimidated by this guy.
"Do I even know you? What's your name?"
"Danny Curtis. And this is my best friend Alex Miller."
"Danny Curtis?"
"Yeah."
"You're dad is Trix right?"
Danny nodded. His dad was all the connection he needed.
" My name's Jean. C'mon inside. We'll make a plan inside."
Danny and Alex walked inside and Alex told him about his situation. Jean just smiled.
"Today are you guys lucky day. About six other Brumly Boys and me are going downtown. Someone rented a building down there and you guys can chill until we leave."
"When are you guys leaving?" asked Alex.
"In about one or two weeks."
'Weeks'. This meant that Danny would miss a lot of days in school. But he didn't care. He was gonna look after his best friend.
"All right. We'll go with you."
"Cool. We'll go when the other Brumlys show up. I'm gonna go make a phone call to let them know about you. Watch TV or something."
Danny and Alex turned over to the television and watched whatever was on. Pretty soon, Jean told them it was time to go and they followed him outside. Danny and Alex got into the back of a van and the van took off. This reminded Danny so much of when Ponyboy was running away. He ran away after an argument, Jean helped them out like Dally helped Pony and Johnny, and he was riding in a van instead of a train.
