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Her eyes searched Randy's face for some way out. "You don't believe us do you!" he yelled. Dally sort of mumbled how stupid Randy was. Randy whistled really loud and out of the night, 8 headlights flashed on and the roaring of mustangs started. "Now young lady what's your answer!" hollered Bob. Before Bailey could answer, she heard rustling in the bushes, she turned around and found Darry and Tim Shepherds gang.
Dally, Johnny and Ponyboy grinned and Darry walked up and spoke in low voices. Bailey walked up to Bob and said, "Fine I will go." Bob and Randy both grinned and opened the car door for her. She sat in the back seat and turned to where the Greasers stood. Dally just shook his head but in a way sort of understood what she was doing for them, he also kind of smiled with a deeper respect that she was more then Darry's little cousin. Randy whistled again and the cars went dark, down the street.
At that moment, she felt like a glass wall separated her from her friends. Everything looked different from the inside of the car, all she knew was kind have distorted. "Your just driving me around the block and then home." Randy shook his head, you could smell the beer on his skin, he reeked, "Were stopping to have some fun!" Bailey's face froze and she turned to her friends and then saw Dally Winston and Johnny Cade with the anger flashing in their eyes. It seemed like hours before that she had lain on his shoulder sleeping peacefully (Johnny's) and teased Dally. Her tears ran down her face as the mustang sped off for Rocker's hill.
As they reached the hill and deep into Soc territory, Bails cried harder. They pulled into that drive and fellow mustangs were parked. Bailey got out of the car, with the two guys and their girlfriends joined up with them. Bob sort of waved towards Bailey. "Cherry this is Bailey Parker. She is new to our high school. Can you show her around?"
Cherry has sweet enough and nodded to her boyfriend, "Well your that girl that hangs with Greasers! You certainly don't look like them!" Bailey looked up from the ground, "I am one of them thou!" Cherry giggled and said, "Not for long!" She introduced everyone to Bailey and Bailey tried to be nice. She wasn't used to hanging out with other girls expect her sister Mary.
It was past midnight and the party on Rocker's hill was dying fast. Almost all the guys were drunk and the girls same, for the exception of girls like Cherry. Bob and Randy grabbed their girls and left the party. Bailey sat on a bench and watching the drunken girls and guys making complete fools of themselves.
She saw Jason walking towards her and he didn't look drunk. "What are you doing here Bails?" "Bob and Randy made me come or they would have fought the Greasers. I didn't want violence, all I did tonight was waste it away and now I have no ride home!" Bailey said. Randy turned to her, "Why didn't you say earlier. I will drive you home!" Bailey smiled and walked up to Jason's black mustang, they got in drove threw the night with the wind in their hair. They pulled into Greaser territory. All Bailey could thing about was Dally, Darry, Ponyboy, Johnny. They were so miserable when she left and went into the car.
Jason pulled the car up to the curb in front of the Curtis house. Just as the lights turned off with the engine, Bailey thanked Jason and headed to the dark, dark house. Not one light shown in any of the rooms and this scared her. As she opened the door to her house, the rooms were all dark, gloomy and nobody was home. She turned on some lights in the kitchen and living room; it looked like Darry had left rather quickly, his wallet still lay on the kitchen table with his cigarettes. There was no note, no nothing. Bails watched the clock chime on 3 am. This scared her bad, nobody was around, and she couldn't even call anyone. She lay on the couch and turned off all the lights, the thunder of the early morning storm raged outside.
The clock struck 10am and Bailey woke with a start. Still no one was home and this scared her even more. All of a sudden she heard voices and shouts outside. Women and children were crying, she ran outside and Mrs. Cade was in the street shouting that the President of the United States had just been assassinated. Bailey leaned against the porch beams with tears in her eyes. The women came all out of their houses, wailing and screaming. Mrs. Cade was already down the street, she was screaming, "The injustice, Where is Johnny? Johnny!!!!" Bails still leaned against the post but she went inside and to her room and changed. With her fresh jeans and blouse she set off to find her cousins.
Tulsa was very quiet that day; no one in the town talked much. Most of the stores were closed and as Bailey walked the streets searching she stopped by the back lot. There in the grass, lay Johnny and Ponyboy, they both were fast asleep. Bailey ran toward them and pinched them both. Their eyes flew open and they laughed and smiled at her. "Bailey we searched all night for you!" Johnny said in a low voice. "I missed you guys so much. I'm safe now with you guys." Bailey said. She got between her best friends in the grass and told them about the president. They all ran to Ponyboy's house to watch the news.
Dally and Darry were there and looked at Bailey hugged her hard. Johnny heard his mother screaming and left quietly. Darry decided to go to work because his job wasn't closed for the day. Two-bit wasn't around at all, he supposedly was hanging out with Soda and Steven. Ponyboy sat glued to the television and Dally sat on the porch smoking some cigarettes. Bailey originally was sitting next to Ponyboy but got up and grabbed a soda and went out to the porch. Dally looked so old just staring out into the street. He seemed lost in thought. She almost didn't interrupt her but decided to.
"Dally what do you think of all this?" Bailey whispered.
Dally looked over at her, "You had a lot of nerve last night, to do what you did! I got a lot of respect for you but I will make it clear I'm not easily won over. The president dying is really tragic with all this term moil going around."
For once Bailey thought she had gotten a better understanding of Dally Winston, the young man that lived half his life in the hood of New York and had a police record to prove it.
Then when she said, "Its what I had to do Dally. I hate fights! Someday I want world peace!"
He looked at her with his icy eyes that chilled her heart, "World Peace will never happen! Forever there will be war Bailey. Both War and Peace work hand in hand. It will never happen and even in this small town where nothing happens, something big soon will! I can feel it!" he whispered the last part.
Bailey looked over at him and nodded. "I wish life was simpler." Ponyboy came running out of the house, "Where's Johnny???"
Bailey froze trying to remember him disappearing. He had been around when they got home but something was wrong. There was a moaning coming down the street, Dally stood up and he saw Mr. Cade kicking Johnny. There were one lookers and Dally ran toward Mr. Cade and Bailey and Pony trailing behind.
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