"And these guys were chasing her!" Soda explained "But we stopped em'"

"Yeah! And my buddy got a hard right hook to the face as payment!" Steve laughed as he poked Soda's burse.

"Yeah and she left quite a mark!" Two-bit said hopping off the couch to take a look a the purple-ish mark "What's that say if ya get hurt by a girl?"

"Man she can punch hard. I think she would have broke my nose if i didn't turn in time" He saidwincing in pain as he rubbed it. "But," he paused "She reminded me of Johnny," everyone fell silent. "Ya know, all sacred looking and stuff."

Pony looked down at his feet. It had been a little over a year since he died, last november.Pony often visited his grave. He missed his buddy more than anything and often visited his grave, Dally's too.

"So," Two-bit spoke up, trying to change the subject "What'd she look like?" he looked at Soda with a raised eyebrow. "Was she good lookin'?"

Soda thought for a moment

"She was a little shorter than me," he said holding his hand out to measure up. "Her hair was Jet black and long. And she had light blue eyes." He looked as if he were in a daydream

"Hey, if she's that good looking you have to drift out of reality than we should leave you alone." Two-bit joked

"Ha, Ha very funny Two-bit!"

"Why were the Socs chasing her?" Darry asked walking into the living room form the kitchen.

"Hell ifwe know." Steve shrugged

"She didn't really look like she was minding her own business though, she was disused, dressed in pants and a jeans jacket, with her hair all put up under a cap."

"Why do you suppose that is?" Pony asked

Soda shrugged.

"Hey, to get our minds off the trouble that we've been havin lately let's go to the stables tomorrow! I hear their havin' a few compitions" Two-bit suggested

"Can we?" Pony asked

"Well we have the day off tomorrow." Steve said looking at Soda

"And I can take the day off." Darry said rubbing his head

"God knows you know one!" Pony chuckled

"All right, tomorrow, we go to the stables!" Two-bit said in triumphant, as if he had just concord the Aztecs.

"We leave in the morning!" Soda added

Later on that night-

"Soda?" Pony asked sitting on the bed waiting for him

"Yeah?"

"You remember Johnny and Dally?"

Soda looked at him

"Yeah."

"We've known then most of our lives, we knew them better than anyone."

Soda smiled at his little brother

"Look kid, I know ho how ya feel." He said walking over to the bed. He sat down next to pony and put his hand on his shoulder. "I cared about them as much as you did, but there was nothing we could have done."

Pony was silent

"I shouldn't have run away." Pony muttered

"What?"

"If I didn't ran, Johnny wouldn't have killed bob, we wouldn't have been in Windrixville, he wouldn't have hurt him self…Dally wouldn't have gotten shot"

Soda looked in confusion at his brother.

"Shoot kid, they would have found Johnny in the lot and killed him there if you hadn't grabbed him!"

"How do you know?"

"Dally and I went lookin' for ya! We saw the Socs car drive past the lot. If anything you helped save his life, and anyway, he died a hero! Can you think of a better way to go?"

Pony shook his head

"C'mon, let's go to sleep." Soda yawned turning off the light

"Night Soda."

"Night lil' buddy." Soda said rubbing Pony's head before laying his arm across his neck and going to sleep.

Sorry it's so short, but I don't want to ruin a surprise!

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