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Chapter 2: Meeting the Gang

When we got to my Aunt Tammy's my mom and dad didn't even bother coming inside. They put the bags on the busted sidewalk and both kissed me good-bye.

"You know we'll always be at home waiting for you. We'll see you in a month." My father said as he got into our mustang and drove off.

I looked around. Everything was small and dirty looking. It wasn't anything like the East Side where the people even clean the streets. I walked up to the door I gave it a light knock. A very thin, scary woman stood in the doorway smiling. She had ratty, grayish, blondish hair and grey eyes.

"Oh My! Is this Jenny Vinder! Look at you, you look beautiful!" My Aunt Tammy said pulling me into a hug.

Beautiful is a word I hear a lot. I guess you can say I am. I don't particularly think I am but I'm 5'4 and thin but not real thin. I have chestnut hair that goes to about my elbow and curls at the end. Aunt Tammy gave me another big hug and pushed me inside. The house wasn't that good looking. There were cracks in the wall and the carpet was black and I don't believe it should have been. About four cats came running out of the kitchen and went running up the stairs. I was never a big cat fan.

"Thank you so much, Aunt Tammy, for letting me stay with you." I said as I smiled at her.

I didn't care about what the house looked like. The fact that she was letting me stay there was so kind of her.

"Not a problem. Now let's go get you're bags." She said as we headed back to the door.

She helped me get settled and we sat around and talked about ourselves. She was crazy, but she was very kind and I respected her. As we were talking we heard a honk outside. I looked out the window and I couldn't believe it. It was Tommy in his car.

"I'll be right back." I said to my aunt as I stood up and walked out the front door.

"What are you doing here?" I said walking over to him.

"I was just about to ask you the same question." Tommy said with a smirk on his face as he leaned on the car. Tommy was also a Soc who was pretty good looking. He had dark, wavy hair that he wore real short and he was seventeen.

"Tommy, I told you. It's over between us. I don't like you anymore." I said folding my arms.

"Why Jenny? I treated you fair." He said stepping closer to me.

"Fair!" I screamed "You wanna talk about fair, Tom? Your always with you damn friends. Either jumping Greasers or getting drunk and in trouble. Sometimes all at once! But you never have time for me. You think that's fair?"

He came towards me and grabbed my shoulder. "Come on Jenny, get in the car. Its time to go back where you belong." He said pushing me to the car.

"Get your hands off me!" I was screaming as loud as I could. He was hurting my shoulder real bad. Then suddenly I herd people yelling down the street.

"Let the girl go, buddy!" The yelling was getting closer now. I couldn't see there faces because I kept my eyes closed. All of a sudden I herd a punch. Tom let go of my shoulder and I hit the ground. Tom must have gotten punched by those guys because I herd more yelling and a car drive off.

"Yeah, Get out of here, you goddamn Soc!" I looked up and there were six greaser boys surrounding me.

"Here, let me help you up." One of them said. "How is your shoulder?"

"Oh fine." I was lying. It hurt really badly. "It's just a bit soar."

"Oh, well my name is Sodapop Curtis." He was sure handsome. He looked about sixteen with goldish hair like mine.

"It's nice to meet you, Sodapop, I'm Jenny Vinder." I smiled at him.

One of the other boys came up to me. He was wearing a jean jacket but with no shirt under it. "I'm Steve Randle." He said smiling as I shock his hand. He had dark hair that was long in the back with greasy curls everywhere.

"It's nice to meet you, Steve." I said smiling back.

All the guys had a strong build to them. They were all good looking too. Another one came up to me with a Mickey Mouse t-shirt on. He looked about eighteen.

"Hi, my names Two-Bit Mathews." He said smiling widely. I couldn't help but smile when he said his name. He just looked like the funny type.

Then came the biggest of the bunch. He was really muscular with a smirk on his face.

"Hey pretty lady. I'm Dallas Winston but you can call my Dally." He said with the smirk still on his face. I returned the smirk. I knew he must have been the girl crazy kind.

Then came up to me was a familiar face. "Hey you're Ponyboy Curtis. You go to my school." I said as I smiled at him.

"Yeah, I know. We sit next to each other in English class." Ponyboy said smiling shy fully.

Then from behind him came a guy who was about three inches taller then me and looked beat up and faded. I don't know what it was that day but I instantly fell for him. He was nothing like any guy you'd see in a magazine or anything. But I couldn't stop looking at him.

"Hello." He said in a soft voice. I looked up at him. His greasy dark hair that was long in the front and sides went over his eyebrows. It was shiny in the cool afternoon sun.

"Whats your name?" I asked him.

He looked at me and took a pause before he finally said "Johnny Cade."

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