Day 4 Thursday January 4, 1967

That day Darry came and sat with the guys. Rose had decided that Darry would take the stand on Friday and Soda would take the stand on Monday with Ponyboy.

After everyone was seated and Judge Toby was seated Rose called Steve Randle to the stand.

"Mr. Randle how do you know Ponyboy?" Rose asked

"I'm a friend of his brother's." Steve said

"Now Mr. Randle did you expect anything was going on before Johnny told you?" Rose asked

"No I didn't and please call me Steve." Steve said

"Ok Steve did Johnny tell you first what he found out?" Rose asked

"No he told Dal, Two-Bit and me all at the same time." Steve said

"I see. Who's idea was it to talk to Pony? And to talk to a lawyer?" Rose asked

"Johnny was the one that was just going to go talk to Pony and then after talking to him Two-Bit said he knew of a good lawyer." Steve said

"Thank you no more questions." Rose said

"Your turn counselor." Judge Toby said

"Mr. Randle do you know my client Mr. Moss?" Frances asked

"No I've never seen him until this trial started." Steve said

"And this Two-Bit character how did he know of a lawyer?" Frances asked

"His mom knew her." Steve said

"So how much are you paying her?" Frances asked

"Objection your honor! I don't see what that has to do with anything!" Rose said getting mad that Frances was asking questions that was none of his business.

"Move on counselor." Judge Toby said

"But…But" Frances started to say.

"I SAID MOVE ON!" Judge Toby said getting angry with Frances

"Yes your honor." Frances looked like a child how had just had his favorite toy taken away.

"Now Mr. Randle how long had the abuse been going on before you found out?" Frances asked

"I would say a couple of months but I really don't know for sure." Steve said getting annoyed with the guy because of the stupid questions he kept asking and for not calling him Steve.

"And Mr. Randle why was Mr. Curtis with my client?" Frances asked knowing that this was his chance to get Steve to blow up at him.

Steve saw right through him and answered calmly because he knew that it wouldn't help if he did blow up at Frances.

"His parents died and his brother wasn't able of taking care of him." Steve said while giving Pony a look saying he was trying to put it in nice terms.

"Not able or didn't want to take care of them?" Frances asked waiting for Steve to blow at him

"You would have to ask him." Steve said

"Well it's kind of hard to ask someone that's no here." Frances said thinking Steve was going to blow up at him any minute.

"Well I guess you'll have to call him then." Steve said with a smile on his face.

"No more questions." Frances said mad that he couldn't get Steve to blow up at him

"You may step down now." Judge Toby said

"We will take a lunch break now. Everyone is to be back here at noon. Court dismissed." Judge Toby said

Everyone left the courthouse. The guys headed over to the diner.

"Was it just me or were you about to blow up at that guy Steve?" Johnny asked

"No I was about to. Then I relied what he wanted so I didn't give into him." Steve said

"Oh" Johnny said

"Johnny when did you start talking so much?" Pony asked surprised that he was talking that much since he'd seen Johnny again.

"Well one day I just decided that it wasn't worth not talking to people and it was getting annoying having them look at me as if I had two heads." Johnny said

Everyone started laughing about that. Because of their laughing they started to get weird looks from other customers. They tamed it down before they got kicked out of the diner. After they were done eating, they headed back to the court house.

"I call Tim Zoo to the stand." Rose said

"Mr. Zoo how do you know Mr. Curtis?" Rose asked

"Please call me Tim and I know him from track." Tim said

"So you're both on the track team?" Rose asked

"Yeah we are." Tim said

"So when did you find out that Mr. Curtis was getting abused?"

"I guess it was when I realized he was wearing make-up." Tim said

Pony was blushing bright red after Tim said that, and the guys were looking at him like he was crazy for wearing make-up.

"How did you find out Pony was wearing make-up?" Rose asked

"One day after school we were coming home on the bus and I saw Pony taking his make-up off. I didn't know what he was doing at first until I saw the big bruise of his face. Then the next day I confirmed it. He didn't want me to tell anyone so I didn't." Tim said looking ready to kill Rick/Sam

"Thank you no more questions." Rose said

"Your turn counselor." Judge Toby said

"So you say that you saw Mr. Curtis taking off make-up didn't you find that kind of weird?" Frances asked

"Yeah at first, but when I found out I didn't." Tim said

"So what kind of make-up was he wearing?" Frances asked

"He was just wearing blush that's all." Tim said getting mad for asking something he had no business knowing.

"So did he wear all kinds of make-up?" Frances asked trying to get Tim to blow up at him.

(AN: The guy's just weird like that ok?)

"Objection your honor! I don't see what that has to do with this case." Rose said staring to get mad herself.

"Yes I don't see what how much and what kind of make-up has to do with anything. I'm going to ask the jurors to ignore what kind and how much make-up Ponyboy wears." Judge Toby said

"No more questions your honor." Frances said having that look on his face as if he'd just been told no about getting his favorite toy.

"Ok we're going to end it here today. We will start court tomorrow at 8:00 a.m. sharp! Court dismissed." Judge Toby said

So everyone left the courthouse. The guys headed back to Steve and Pam's place. Pam and Steve had talked and decided that they were going to get married after the court trail. They wanted to be there for Ponyboy and Pam wanted to get married before she got really big.

Steve, Two-Bit and Dally's moms came up the first day of the trial and they were going to come up when the verdict was read. They just couldn't afford to take time off.