fritoqueen: thanks for review :)
yeah, I decided to do it like the 'scouts' (I'm not sure if this is the really meaning of the word I searched for...) : 'do every day a good deed' :)
well, and that's why I update that fast
I'm glad you like it
I try it and hope that the next chapters will be like the ones you like, but I'm afraid I can't promise that...
15. Comforting words
Johnny ran to his new home quite dissolved. He was so dissolved in tears that he nearly bumped into Patrick.
"Hey, what's the matter with ya?" he asked him, after Johnny nearly collide with him.
"I've... I've... seen... 'em again!" Johnny sobbed and dropped to his knees.
"Who? Who has seen ya? What happened at all? Ricky, Thomas! Hurry up and help me!"
Both boys came to them.
"Johnny! What's up? What happened? Patrick?"
"I don't know what's the matter! He only stammered somethin' 'bout 'have/has seen'!"
Ricky kneeled beside Johnny and placed a hand on his shoulder and asked, "Hey, Johnny! What's the matter with ya? Please tell us! We just wanna help ya!"
"Oh, it... it was so terrible! I thought it would be gettin' over, so that I can forget 'em! But I saw 'em again today and he..." Johnny sobbed and broke off.
Patrick sighed and said to Ricky and Thomas, "Nothin' doin'! Let's take him in. Maybe he wanna tell us later what happened! It ain't any use at the moment!"
So the three boys took Johnny into the factory. Johnny fell asleep quite exhausted short time after that.
After two hours he opened his eyes again.
The others came back to him again just in this moment.
"Hi, Johnny! Ya feel better now?" Isabell asked.
"Um, I guess so! It was just the shock, I think!" Johnny answered slowly.
"Can ya tell us now what happened at all?" Patrick said a bit impatient.
He wanted to know by all means what happened to him, so that he could help him.
"Well, ya know that I went into town today to beg! I pinched a purse from a woman and 'someone' got that."
"Of course that's shit but why are ya cryin' then? You're still here and not with the fuzz or were ya perhaps there?" Ricky meant.
Johnny shook his head and meant, "Nope, I wasn't with the fuzz! But this ain't actually the point!"
"But?"
"This 'someone' that got me, was nobody else than... Pony and Dally!"
"Pony and Dally? Two of ya friends?" Natalie asked.
Johnny nodded sad. "Yeah, those two! They ran after me and caught me.
I would run away, but Pony held me tight. He forced me to give him the purse.
I refused.
There we argued a bit and he..." Johnny had to swallow. "...he slapped me..."
"He did what? That can't be true! I thought he's ya friend? And a friend never ever beat his friend!" Thomas said furious.
"He is, but... I don't know... he was different somehow!
He assured it would only be a mistake that he beat me.
But I shouted at him and said that I would hate him!
Him and the rest of my friends!
But now I'm sorry!
It ain't true at all!
I miss him; him and my other friends!
But I regarded it as the best to forget 'em!
The best for me... and also for 'em!"
Johnny lowered his eyes and cried again.
The others looked at each other silently. There Isabell got up and showed the others to go as well. So they went and leave Johnny alone.
And Johnny fell asleep again short time later.
The next day Johnny felt a bit better again.
He still didn't get over the shock completely, but he had to put up with that!
Patrick, Thomas, Ricky, Isabell and Natalie forced Johnny so to speak, to go into town again to cope with that.
At first Johnny refused for fear but then he changed his mind.
What else did he finally have to lose!
So he went with Patrick, Natalie, Isabell, Thomas and Ricky into town for begging.