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"Have ya children?" Ponyboy asked.
Selena shook her head sadly.
"Would ya like to have any?" Pony kept on asking.
Selena looked at him and smiled. "Yes, I'd be glad to."
And it seemed that the ice was broken with that, because suddenly Selena embraced Ponyboy.
And Pony replied this embrace; in sure belief that he just released and caused feelings of a mother and maternal instincts inside Selena.
He felt at this hug that she has taken him to her heart, in spite of this just short acquaintance, and she also would protect him the way his own mother had done it so far and also would have continued to do it if she wouldn't have died.
Now he knew that he has found a new mother.
And he wouldn't lose her any more!
He felt good and safe near her, and it felt like she would hug him as if he would be her own child and this feeling caused an unspeakable delight inside him.
He finally has found a mother again!
"I love ya!" Ponyboy whispered, so softly that he feared that Selena hadn't understood him.
But she only smiled and replied, "I love ya, too."
And with that she stroked him affectionately over his back.
They held in arms like that some time; each of them happy about the other one.
But then Selena came off, looked Ponyboy into the eyes and said seriously, "I'm sorry, Ponyboy, but I'm afraid, ya have to go again now. Mike, um, my um..."
"Pimp, I know." Pony answered.
Selena nodded. "Yes, right. Mike's certainly gonna appear here very soon again.
And I don't wanna that he's gonna see ya. He must not find ya here in any case or else he's gonna be behind himself with rage.
I don't wanna that he's gonna do somethin' to ya. I never ever could allow that."
Ponyboy understood and nodded. With that he got up. Selena rose as well.
Pony looked at her interrogatively and appellatively.
Selena interpreted this look right, because she meant, "Of course ya may come back, if ya like."
Pony's eyesshone with joy and he replied, "And if I like to!"
And he hugged his 'new mother' happily. Selena hugged him smiling.
She always wanted a child, a son, and now there was such a kind little boy and searched for a mother; she felt that somehow.
And she was more than willing to take this part.
She took Ponyboy to her heart and loved him like her own son just in the moment, when he entered her room.
There was a boy, who longed for the affection and the love of a mother and she would do everything for it to give this to him.
"Goodbye, Ponyboy. And take care of ya that Mike won't catch ya." Selena meant and released herself from the hug smiling.
Ponyboy nodded and said goodbye, too.
Then he turned towards the door. When he arrived there he turned around once more, waved to Selena cheerfully and opened the door.
Then he sneaked out of the house again.
He was lucky that he didn't meet with Mike.
