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8. Nothing is the way, how it seems!
This worked well quite a while.
And nothing ever happened up to now.
Mike never had discovered Ponyboy; a thing that he almost constantly owed to Betty and Caroline.
But when Pony once sneaked out of the brothel after the visit to Selena without the help of the both Mike watched him coming out of Selena's room.
Mike considered furious, what he even could do, so that Selena finally would be pliant and make nothing against his will any longer.
So he got morphine the next day, pulled up an injection of it and walked straight into Selena's room with it.
Selena frightened at the sight of the injection and asked uncertainly, "What ya wanna here? What's that supposed to be? What have ya planned with that?"
"Ya know that very well, Selena! I forbade ya explicitly to make friends with someone outside!
Don't deny it! I saw the boy, when he came out of ya room!
Who's he anyway?
He has no business to be here if he ain't a suitor! Is he one? If not, what has he done here then?
Well, who's he?"
"Please Mike. Pony has nothin' to do with it. It ain't his fault. He's just a little boy..."
Mike came towards her, pushed her against a wall and grabbed her arm.
"Ouch! Mike, ya hurt me. Please, stop it! Please..." Selena implored Mike.
But Mike had no mercy with his whore. He held her arm tight merciless and would put the injection, when the door was opened suddenly.
Ponyboy opened the door to Selena's room, nothing bad suspecting, and stiffened.
Mike turned around just in this moment, when Pony opened the door.
Pony couldn't believe what he was seeing there: Mike held Selena's arm tight with one of his hands and held an injection in the other hand.
He probably would give it to Selena, if Pony wouldn't have appeared in the room.
Ponyboy stared at the injection with wide eyes, turned around and ran scared out of the brothel.
"This can't be true! What cheek! Well, just wait! I'm gonna take him to task now!"
With that Mike let Selena go and rushed behind Pony.
"Mike... please..." Selena screamed behind him and dropped on her bed.
But Mike didn't catch Ponyboy any more.
He already was gone, when Mike came out of the brothel.
When he couldn't discover Pony somewhere he walked inside again. But Mike swore bitter revenge to Pony if Mike would get him.
Ponyboy ran away scared.
He was running past the lot, when Johnny, who kicked a bit with the football, turned around to him surprised and shouted behind him, "Pony? Hey, Ponyboy, what's the matter?"
When Pony heard his name he stopped and turned around. He stared at Johnny with wide opened eyes.
Johnny came closer.
When Johnny saw the frightened eyes of his best friend he asked worried, "Hey Pon, what happened? Ya look if ya have seen a ghost."
And then Pony told what he experienced just now.
"That's horrible!
Pony, I know ya don't wanna hear somethin' 'bout it, but don't ya think too that ya rather shouldn't go there any more or that ya should tell Darry at least 'bout it?"
"For heaven's sake, Johnny! No!
Darry must not hear somethin' 'bout it, understand? Never ever! Or else he's gonna flip out if he would know that.
Don't tell him never ever 'bout it, ok?"
"Pon, I..."
"Please, Johnny!" Pony nearly begged.
"I can't lie. I can't lie to anyone; and even less to a buddy..." Johnny said quietly.
"Ya don't need to tell 'em nothin' at all.
All ya have to do is just not to meet 'em, then ya don't need to tell 'em nothin' at all, and so ya don't have to tell 'em lies." Pony explained.
"I don't really know, Pony.
"Please..."
"Hmm." Johnny made and looked to the ground.
With that this subject was finished for the present.
"I better go home now, or else Darry's gonna nag again. Bye, Johnny."
"Bye, Pony." Johnny replied and waved at his friend.
Then Ponyboy went home.
