Pony woke up to find that Soda had already woken up and got dressed; he smelled beacon cooking and wondered what time it was. He looked at the clock and rolled his eyes, 7:30 on a Saturday morning. He got up; pulled a fresh pair of pants on, with a somewhat clean t-shirt. He walked into the living room to see Two-bit, Steve, and Soda sitting on the couch. Darry had finished frying the rest of the beacon and was cleaning up. He grabbed a few pieces and remembered that they were going to the stables today.
"So are we ready?" Darry asked
"Yup!" Two-bit declared as he stood up to stretch
"I am." Soda said looking a Steve
"Me to!"
Pony rubbed his eyes to get the eye junk out of it "Yeah, I am."
"Well let's get going." Darry said grabbing his car keys
Soda and Steve got in the truckwith Darrywhile Pony rode with Two-bit
"You remember to fix the breaks?" Pony asked
"Damn, I knew I forgot something!"
Pony looked worried but Two-bit just laughed
"I'm just pullin' your leg kid" He rubbed Pony's head jokingly and reved the car.
When they arrived at the barn people were scattered everywhere.
"Wow theres a lot of people here to watch the show." Two-bit pointed out the obvious
"Acctually, some are here to learn how to ride." A female voice said behind them. "For fifty cents we teach, al two dollars ya ride."
"You tryin' ta do buisness?" Steve asked
She was a small brunette; she had blue green eyes and looked embarrassed by the fact that Steve asked her that
"Yeah! Mainly to get my name spread around and give the stable hands a workout."
"Really?" Steve asked in fake interest
"Really!"
The group was interrupted by a scream
"What the hell! Ya'll tryin to KILL meh?"
On the top of the barn there was a boy working on the roof, his hammer slipped and nearly hit a girl in the head. The girl was dressed like a guy; she had her long blackhair pulled back in a ponytail at the base of neck.
"Sorry!"
"Sure ya are!" The girl said with asmiled as she tossed the hammer back up to him, nearly nailing him in the face.
"Pay back?"
"You know it!"
"That reminds me, OH RICKY!" The brunette shouted waving her hand "I have work for you!"
The boy and the girl looked at the brunnette and then looked at each other in bordom. to thegang's surprise the girl walked over, not the guy. As she walked over Soda and Steve recognized her, it was the girl form before.
"Yes?" The girl sounded board
"Now that's not very enthusiastic."
The girl sighed and forced a smile,
"Yes Ms. Smith?" She said mocking her
"I want you to fetch the mouse!" She said in discust
The girl raised an eyebrow
"He has a name!"
"Well you know which one I'm talking about, you know,The horse!the brown one with black mane." She was talking down to her the entire time
"Yeah, Ah know, don't give your self a heat attack tryin to describe im' to meh! God knows Ahm, the idiot! Oh, and Ms. Smith, Only mah friends can call meh Ricky!"
"But aren't I you friend?" She said innocently.
"Don't humor yourself, I don't make friends with rich snobs!" She said in a harsh tone. Her eyes shifted toward the boys behind her, one in particular boy caught her eye. Her eyes grew huge. "You!" the said in a shocked tone
"Know her?" Two-bit asked Soda
"You know this boy?" The brunette asked Ricky
"Ah ran into him once."
"Literally!" Steve said
"Um, this is the girl that was being chased by the Socs!"
Pony saw Two-bit grin and knew that he was thinking about the girl, she did look cute, for a girl dressedlike a guy. The girl rolled her eyes and walked off.
"Interesting, well I'm Pamela." She said sticking out her hand for on of the boy's to shake it. Darry did and smiled slightly. " I believe a proper introduction is in order."
"I'm Steve, this here is Two-bit, Darry, Ponyboy, and Soda." Steve said pointing to everyone
"Ponyboy? Soda?" She laughed. They all just stared angrily at her, trying to be nice, she kept laughing, "I like the sound of that, their very nice names." Pony knew she was lying.
Soda grabbed a cigerett from his pocket and stuck it his mouth. Steve did the same. Pony grabbed one from Two-bit who already had one out, Pony lit his from Two-bits and Steve bummed a lit from Soda's match.
A few seconds later Ricky walked back out with a buckskin horse, he had only his bridle on and walked him over the Pamela.
"What do you want with im'?"
"Warm him up! I'm going to ride him!" she walked over to him and tried to pat him. He reared up and tried to run, but Ricky was claming him down, she grabbed his halter and put her nose too his. "Ok, it's ok, every things fine, shhhh." She mumbled, "Shhh." After he calmed down she looked a Pamela who was shaking in fear.
"Ah don't think he likes ya!" Ricky laughed
"Just, just warm him up and shut up stable girl!" Pamela demanded.
"Anything ya say Pam!" Ricky said in a dicusted, evil tone,as she hopped on the horse, "Hey can you open the gait?" She asked nodding toward Two-bit, He walked over and undid the metal latch and the gait swung open. She gave that horse a kick and a "Yaw!" and the horse reared up once more andsped off to the pasture,
"Wow, she's got spunk!" Steve said
"And not even a thank you!" Soda added
"I hate her!" Pamela said in a smug, harsh voice "she thinks she's better than every one!"
Two-bit wanted to get away from the girl a bad as the rest of them did
"Hey, let's go see the competition! Maybe someone will get hurt!" Two-bit laughed
" Who knows!" Steve said rolling his eyes "Ya comin'?" He looked at Soda
"Um, Just a sec, I wanna go see somthin! Save me a spot!"
"Your loss!"
Soda waited until his friends were out of sight, then he hopped the fence to the pastor and went to go find that one girl he saw earlier. It wasn't long before he came across an old arena; it was just simple red railing fencing in jumps and polls lying on the ground. In the middle of the arena he saw the girl riding the horse around the arena, not even noticing he was there.
"Hey!" He yelled trying to get her attention by waving his arm in the air. The girl stopped the horse and looked at him, she walked the horse over the where he stood at the fence.
"Yeah?"
"I got some questions I wanna ask you." Soda said putting his foot on the first bar of the rusty metal fence. he flicked away the bud of his cigerett.
"Ok, shoot."
"1. Don't I get a thank you?"
"Why?" She hopped off the horse and stood in front of him on the side of the fence.
"I saved you life!"
"Ok, thank you." She said in a thankless tone of voice
"Ya gotta mean it, other wise it don't mean nothing!" Soda said with a childish grin on his face. he had placed his arms on the rail and used it for support
"Ok, Thank you! Really, I mean it you saved mah life! Ah owe ya, mah life in return!" She said trying to hold down laughter
"I guess that works." He said lighting up another cigerett
"What, were you expecting a kiss?" She said with teasing smile.
"Maybe?" He said with even bigger grin on his face. He leaned over the fence to get closer.
"Sorry kid, Ah don't fall for the heroes! nor do I like smokers, It'll kill ya, and they don't make ya look anythougher that ya do already."
Soda looked at her in astonishment, she read him like a book, but he wouldn't let her notice. He took the white burning stick in his mouth and threw it down the the ground, grinding it into the sand with his foot.
"You don't dream of someone comin to save you?" He asked trying to stay on subject
"Ah can protect mhy self!"
"Oh, like ya did at the gas station?"
"Ah'll admit that that got out a hand, but I guess you really did save mhy life."
"And the thank you, you gave me was one like I never got before!"
"Oh, you don't like bein punched in the face?"
"No, not really." he rubbed his cheek once more
"Ahm sorry." She said with a fake pout."
" That sounded like ya meant it, ok, 2 why were the socs chasing ya?"
"Said they don't like mhy kinda girl hangin around their town."
"So they just chased ya?"
"No, I kinda ignored them, and they got mad, said I had to be a Greasers woman."
"Are ya?"
"Nope, just a poor ol' stable hand working for a livin, I only got two close friends, and Ah don't even know anybody here."
"What were ya doin in town then?"
"Lookin for some one, andAh needed more matches for my lanturn."
"So you disguised your self to hide?"
"I only took my hat to confuse em' If I really wanted to hid, I would of dressed like a "Normal"gal."
"So you always look like that?"
"Yup, aint nothing wrong with that."
"Didn't you mom tell ya that that aint how ladies dress?" he asked jokingly
"Yeah, several times but…I aint no lady, nether was she come ta think of it."
Soda smiled at her, she had spunk and individuality.
"Ok, 3, what's you name?"
"Why do you care?"
"Just curious."
"Curiosity killed the cat."
"Good thing I'm a dog." Soda said with a raised eyebrow
"Ah can't tell ya meh first name. You'll laugh! mhy middle name's Roxanne, but everyone call meh "Ricky", or "Roxy" some times Anna. Your name?"
"Soda." He said waiting for a reaction
"Wow, that's just a strange as mhy name!"
"Really! If my name's as "strange" as yours, than you can tell me."
She blushed
"Ahm not gonna tell ya,"
"Why not?"
"Cause, Only mhy brother or family can call meh by mhy name, people Ah love, that means not you!"
"Oh, come on, can it be that bad?"
"Yup"
"So I guess I'll have to wait for you family to call ya."
She smiled at him,
"They don't call mhe that in public, well…they do if Ahm I trouble."
"Do you get in to trouble a lot?"
"All the time, but Ah really have to be in trouble for that to happin."
"What kind of trouble?"
"Look, You aint never gonna get it, Ah haven't seen mhy family since a little over a year ago." Her smile faded
"What happened?"
She took a deep breath and looked as if she was gonna cry
"We got separated."
"How?" Soda looked at her in concern
"Ah don wanna talk a bout it."
"So…you haven't seen them? In how long exactly?"
"Mah parents three, mah brother a little over a year, we got split up on the way over here, we were lookin for a friend here when he felt he had to help with a fire that happened in that town just west of here, WindrixvilleAh think."
Soda's heart skipped a beat
"Wi - Windrixville?"
"Yeah, Why?"
"No reason." he siad shaking his head, trying to get the memories out of his head
The two just stood there and looked at each other for a while before Ricky remembered that she had a job,
"C'mon, I got to take "Mick" here to Ms. "Am better everyone else!"" she said walking off,
Soda laughed
"The horses name? What is it?" he said trying to catch up with her
"Mickey Mouse."
Soda stopped in his tracks,
"Mickey Mouse?"
"Yeah, why?"
Soda walked a head of them and when she tried to catch up he stopped her.
"Wait here," Soda walked a little more a head and then stopped. "Mi-ckey mou-se!" Soda shouted and a sing song-ish voice. The horse's ears picked up and ran towards him.
"How'd you do that?" Ricky asked
"I used to know him." Soda said rubbing the horses' head, "He's changed."
"He's real mean horse! Kicks and bites."
"Well, maybe not that much."
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