((Sodapop's POV))

"Oh God Soda, what did I do? Come on we got to go get him!" Darry said tugging my arm as I recovered from my shock.

I took a deep breath and pulled him back. "Wait Darry. I think you ought to just leave him alone for awhile. Let him cool down. He'll come back when he's ready."

"I don't know Soda. It's 2 am and he's 14 years old." Darry said running his hand through his hair.

"He'll be fine, Darry. Just calm down and apologize when he comes back. He'll understand." I said but deep down I knew that wasn't true. Pony already felt like Darry hated him. I sighed. It's going to take a lot of talking to fix this one.

Darry still didn't look convinced but he sat back down. "Okay well, I'm going to wait here for him, why don't you try and get some sleep buddy." He said patting my arm.

"Yeah sure, don't worry Darry. He'll be okay." I said somewhat convincing myself.

((Ponyboy's POV))

I ran up to Johnny in the lot and shook him.

"Johnny wake up, we're running away." I said and he got right up. No questions asked.

After about a minute of running Johnny finally stopped me. "Man where are we going?" he asked.

I shivered at the frigid wind now that we were standing still. "Um, I don't know. Darry.. he hit me and I'm just all juiced up." I said rubbing my arms.

"Man he hit you? I guess you were right about what you were saying earlier." Johnny said.

I just shrugged. It's not like I wanted to be right. "Lets just walk around the park, maybe I'll be cooled down enough to go home by then." I said and he nodded and we started walking.

We got there and sat on top of the jungle gym as usual and just sat in silence for awhile. I was pretty deep in thought about what I should do when Johnny poked my shoulder and nodded in front of me. When I looked I saw none other than the blue Mustang. Great, just great.

"Do you want to run for it?" he asked me. I shook my head no.

The car slowly stopped in front of us and Bob, Randy, Scott and two other Socs whose names I didn't know got out.

"Well, well, well what do we have here? The little greasers who tried to pick up our women!" Bob said slurring most of his words. Five drunk Socs is not something to be reckoned with so I kept my mouth shut.

"Hey Scotty isn't this ones brother dating that broad you like?" Bob said nodding towards me.

Scott grinned evilly. "Nah I heard she dumped his stupid ass."

"Screw you!" I yelled out at him.

"Woah he speaks!" Bob yelled in fake shock.

"Bob maybe we should just go." Randy said.

"Shut up Randy stop being a bitch." Bob said angrily. Randy just rolled his eyes.

"At least now you can bang that girl then huh Scotty?" one of the nameless Socs said.

I sat there counting to 10 over and over again trying to calm down.

"He doesn't want some greasers sloppy seconds." Bob said.

8,9,10. "Yeah you'd only be so lucky." I said spitefully.

Bob and Scott just laughed.

"Hey kid you know what a greaser is? White trash with long hair." He said getting close to my face.

I've never felt so much hate in my life. Not for anyone. I wished he would die. Life would be so much easier.

"You know what a Soc is? White trash with Mustangs and madras." I said and spit right in his face. His mouth dropped open and his eyes quickly filled with anger.

"Get him!" he yelled wiping his face and him, Scott and the other Soc grabbed me violently and threw my head into the fountain. I was kicking and yelling for anyone, Soda, Darry, Dally.. anyone. After a few more seconds of struggling my vision was filled with a red haze.

I heard a slight sobbing but it seemed so far away. Johnny? I thought. I tried to open my mouth and started to cough aggressively. At least I'm not dead, being dead can't hurt this bad. I thought rolling over and sitting up.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw Johnny sitting next to the fountain holding his blade and it was covered in blood. "Oh my God Johnny." I whispered.

"I killed him, I killed that boy." Johnny sobbed. I looked to the left of me and saw Bob laying lifeless on the ground and blood steadily flowing from his body.

"Johnny I think I'm going to be sick." I said my stomach churning.

"Go ahead man I won't look at you." he said never taking his gaze from the knife.

I vomited quietly next to me and quickly wiped my mouth once reality hit. "God Johnny what are we going to do? They kill people for murder!" I exclaimed wanting to cry.

He sat quietly for a couple seconds. "Dally." He mumbled.

"What?"

"Dally will know what to do." He said getting up. I nodded, if anyone knew what to do, it was Dally.

"I think he was going to Buck's tonight." He said, and so we started over there. I wish I had a weed, I was shaking like a leaf in a tornado.

A/N—point of views are going to be changing a lot, so pay attention 

((Kristina's POV))

"I'm bored." I said bouncing on the side of the bed.

"I don't care." Dally mumbled from his pillow. Dally was trying to "sleep", not on my watch.

"Aren't you supposed to be the infamous Dallas Winston? God you're so boring." I said getting up.

"Yeah well famous people sleep too." He said turning over.

"Not while they have company." I pointed out.

"I didn't make you come."

"Well then I'll just leave!" I said insulted.

"Okay bye." He mumbled. I glared at him.

"Dally!" Buck yelled up to Dally's room.

"God why can't anyone leave me alone?" He yelled getting up.

"Wahh why can't anyone leave me alone?" I mimicked and he glared at me and went downstairs.

I laid down on his bed and suddenly realized how tired I really was. I almost felt bad for annoying him all that time. Almost.

I started to daydream about Soda again as usual, and suddenly heard Dally yell "Jesus Christ! Get in here!"

"I'm sorry Dal, we just didn't know where else to go." I heard Johnny say and he sounded near tears.

I got up to open the door but Dally beat me to it.

"Okay now come in here and tell me the whole story." He said and Ponyboy and Johnny came in his room.

"Ponyboy what are you doing here?" I asked. I was seriously confused.

Pony opened his mouth but Dally put his hand up.

"I want you in the hallway, now." he said gravely.

"What? No way. I want to know." I said.

"Get out, Kristina. I'm not about to have you involved in a murder rap okay?" he said opening the door.

"Excuse me? A WHAT?" I exclaimed.

"Out! NOW!" he yelled pushing me out into the hallway and locking the door.

((Ponyboy's POV))

I watched Dally push Kristina out of the room and started to wonder what she was doing in his room to begin with, but realized we had bigger matters at stake.

"Does anyone know?" Dally asked.

"Just the boys who were there." Johnny said.

"Okay well the cops will know soon. Here's what your going to do.." Dally started and from there it was all a blur.

((Kristina's POV))

I waited for the door to open and a very scared, but more tranquil Pony and Johnny came out.

"Pony, what is going on?" I asked.

I looked at me sadly for a second and pulled me into a hug, which was weird because Pony usually wasn't very affectionate. "Tell Soda I love him okay?" he whispered in my ear.

"Yeah. Sure." I said. He pulled away and opened his mouth to say something but decided against it and turned and him and Johnny left.

I turned around to face Dally. "Come on, I'm taking you home." He said taking his keys out of his pocket.

"Okay." I answered. I didn't feel like arguing, and if I wanted answers I'd have to be nice.

After we got in the car I started shaking my leg impatiently waiting for him to talk.

"Damn sit still." He said glancing over at me.

"Sorry." And I sat still, for about 30 seconds before it started again. I was starting to think I had a mild case of ADD.

I felt him glaring at me from the corner of his eye. "Oh come on!" I exclaimed. I couldn't help it. All that was going through my head was Johnny and Pony and the word "murder. Some words I never wanted to hear in the same sentence.

He was silent for a minute and he looked deep in thought. "Alright you're going to find out by morning anyway. A bunch of Socs tried to jump Pony and Johnny. They started to drown Pony in the fountain so Johnny pulled a blade on one of them, and you can figure it out." He said and proceeded to take a long drag of his cigarette.

I was speechless for one of the few times in my life. Little Johnny killed someone? He always seemed so gold. He was still gold. Johnny wouldn't do something like that unless he absolutely had to.

"Who?" I whispered barely audible.

"The friggen ring leader, Bob Sheldon. It's going to be hell around here once word gets around. Maybe for once you playing nice with both sides will turn out good for you they probably won't touch you." he said gripping the steering wheel.

I was barely listening. Bob was dead. Dead.. dead.. dead.

"Oh God poor Cherry." I said sadly.

Dally looked at me suddenly. "Cherry as in the girl at the movies?" he asked.

"Yeah."

"That's why. They wanted revenge." Dally said banging on the steering wheel. "It's all my fault, if I wouldn't have left them this would've never happened."

"Dally it isn't your fault, you could've never known." I said trying to offer atleast some sort of comfort. I knew how he loved Johnny and kind of saw himself as his older brother.

He just continued glaring at the road. "Look you can't mention this to anyone okay? I mean it, not even Soda. I don't need him and superman on my back about this."

"Okay. I don't think me and Soda will be talking much anyway." I said.

"Yeah well all the same this stays in this car. Deal?" he said seriously.

"Deal." I agreed. "But please keep me updated on this Dal, I'm already worrying my brains out."

He attempted a smile but failed. "I won't let anything happen to them. I won't." he said expressively.

"I know you won't. Thanks for the ride." I said unbuckling my seatbelt.

"Thanks for leaving." He said sarcastically. I think.

"Ha-ha." I said sticking my tongue out and got out of the car.

I opened the door and was glad to find no one was awake. I went up to my room and plopped down on my bed immediately. I was exhausted but it didn't matter, I wouldn't be able to sleep for awhile.

((Soda's POV))

"Oh God, what is it officer?" I heard Darry's frightened voice in the living room.

Officer? I turned over to see if Pony knew what was going on but the bed was empty. Suddenly all the memories of the past couple hours came rushing back to me.

I bolted out of bed and went into the living room.

"We are here to search for a Ponyboy Curtis." The policeman said stepping inside and looking around.

"What is going on?" Darry asked frantically.

"He's under arrest, along with a Johnny Cade." The officer read from his notepad.

"For what?" I asked shocked. Pony usually didn't get in trouble like this. Aw man Darry is going to kill him.

"The murder of Robert Sheldon."

Two days later Still Soda's POV

I laid on the couch and reached for my 5th cigarette of that hour and took a nice long drag. Two days have passed and still no word from Pony. Darry had of course blamed himself but we all knew it was my fault. I stopped him from going after Pony. Pony would've never gone to the park. Johnny would've never killed that Soc. They'll have to live with this for the rest of their lives and it's all because of me. What else is new?

I was about to take a sip of beer when there was a knock at the door. I ran up and swung it opened and found Liv standing there.

"Oh, hi Liv." I said disappointed.

"Yeah I know, probably not the person you were hoping for." She said sticking her hands in her jean pockets.

I just shrugged and tried to smile.

"Um do you want to come in?" I asked.

She nodded and walked in and sat down in Darry's chair. I saw her looking at the beer uneasily.

"Don't worry. I haven't even taken a sip yet." I said.

She smiled looking relieved.

"So, what can I help you with?" I asked.

"I was just wondering if there is any new news, about Ponyboy?" she asked looking hopeful.

I sighed. "I wish there were." She nodded sadly.

"I can't believe this happened." She said staring at the floor.

"How is everyone taking it? How is Kristina?" she asked looking up at me and it was my turn to look down. You have no idea how badly I wished I could answer that question.

"I don't really know, we broke up a few days ago."

"Wow really?" she said looking at me like I was lying.

"Why'd you break up with her?" she asked.

"How did you know I broke up with her?" I asked raising an eyebrow.

"Simple, I knew she would never break up with you." she answered as if it were a no-brainer. I guess it was, and that hurt deep.

"Want to hear something funny, Liv?"

She shrugged. "I guess I could use some funny right now."

"I was so concerned about not losing the people that I love, that I ended up pushing one out of my life, and forced the other one to runaway because I didn't let Darry help him. I lost both the people I love the most and all the while I was just doing everything I thought was right to keep them around." I said shaking my head.

"That's not funny." She said frowning. "That's just something that's completely unfunny."

I took another drag of my cigarette and remembered I hated to smoke but I had nothing better to do these days. Steve was working and my boss told me not to come in. I didn't have Kristina and it seemed like all the guys were avoiding the house. It was just me, my smokes and well I guess now Liv.

"Soda, look if you and Kristina aren't together. Well that really makes me lose hope ya know?" she said sadly.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because when you see most couples, you can tell which ones are meant to be and what ones aren't. Yours was. The way you looked at eachother, with so much happiness. It was breathtaking and I wasn't even the girl you were looking at." She said twisting her ring on her finger.

She was right. It was meant to be. God why do I always have to mess up everything good in my life?

"Get her back Soda." She said standing up.

"She deserves better." I said walking her over to the door.

"No one deserves better." She said looking me right in the eye and turned and left.

I knew I liked her for a reason..

A/Nokay so as you can see this is going to be more whats going on at home rather than Pony and Johnny's church days, because well we all know that story.

Dreamer for Lyfwe were on the same page all along when you said to have the person stay. Good call lol