Outside of What?
By: Clear-Sparkle and Johnny-cakes-Depp
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Two-Bit sighed as the show went off and pushed himself up off the floor. He went back into the kitchen to fetch himself another coke and I hollered at him to get me one too. That's when he poked his head out of the doorway.

"Hey, Ponyboy, when'd you get in?"

"Never mind, I'll get it myself." I said, rolling my eyes. I pushed myself past him and opened the ice box. Seeing that there weren't anymore pop bottles, I poured a glass of chocolate milk. Two-Bit rested his arm on my shoulder.

"What's with the long face, kid?" He asked, following me onto the couch.

"Nothin. Just stuff going on at school, that's all."

"Well, spill it. You can tell ol' Two-Bit anything."

"Why are you so interested?"

He shrugged, glancing at the T.V. "There's nothing on." I don't know why, but for some reason, that made me crack a grin. Even if I was in the worst mood ever, he could still make me laugh.

"Fine I'll tell you. But only if you swear not to blab, dig?"

"Alright, alright."

"Ok," I took a breath, "You know that whole theme thing I did for English?"

"Uhhh...yeeaah.." He didn't have a clue.

"Well, Mr. Syme read it, and he thinks I should have it published." Two-Bit's eyebrows shot up.

"Whoa, you mean like a novel or something?"

"Yeah, Two-Bit," I answered monotone, "Like a novel or something."

"Well then what are you lookin so gloomy for? There's a lotta money in that field."

"So I've heard. I just don't know if I wanna do it."

"Golly, I don't see why. I mean, come on, think of all the stuff you can do for you an Darry an Soda. Hell, you can get outta here, move away to the country or anywhere with that kind of dough. I know I would." He said grabbing the glass from my hand and gulping the

stuff down.

"Yeah? Well what if we did move away? What would you an Steve do?" I looked down at my shoes and my voice became softer. "What would I do?"

"You're talking about your girlfriend aren't you?"

"She's not my girlfriend, Keith. I never said she was my girlfriend."

"Might as well be. Look she'll be fine, so'll me and Steve."

"Whatever. It doesn't even matter. We're not moving cause I'm not selling it. Besides, it just don't feel right. It's mostly about Johnny and Dallas and their both dead. How could I sell it when they don't get anything out of it?"

"They don't need anything out of it, Ponyboy! I gauruntee you, Johnny's way happier now than he'd ever been in his life, and maybe Dally is too, I dunno."

I took a while to try and put what he had said into consideration. He was right, they were probably happier now, but something just didn't feel right about it.

"I don't know, Two-Bit..."

"Look. Maybe you should talk about this with Soda or Darry. See what they think about it. Then you can decide whether or not to sell it with them, alright?"

"Yeah, sure."

I watched him get up and start flipping through the channels. He was a lot smarter than I thought he was. A whole lot smarter.

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