Chapter Fifteen

"I told you, you where hungry." he said as I ate a cheeseburger. "Be quiet." I said before taking a sip of coke. I hadn't realized how hungry I had been until Joe brought food up. "Joe, there's something wrong, what is it?" I asked putting my coke back in the car cup holder. He looked at me strangely, "What are you talking about?" he asked. "I don't know it just seems you're keeping something from me." I said softly, looking over him carefully. "I'm not, now are you going to eat those fries or do I have too?" he asked. I grinned, "Yea just a little." I said popping a fry into my mouth. "You're a greedy little thing." he grumbled. "No… I'm not little." I might have seemed in a happier mood but I wasn't, I was just acting like it, but my heart still hurt constantly and tears perked at my eyes every so often.

We where just driving around town, talking about just about everything, or listening to some songs on the radio. There was something Joe was keeping from me, I only knew him for ten years now, you'd think I'd know. "You know I don't think I ever saw a Soc walking alone." he said suddenly, slowing his car. I stared at him, "Okay that was random." I said. "No, look." he said nodding his head towards a tall nicely dressed Soc, probably on his way to the movies. "Second time for me." I said.

Joe pulled the car over and got out, nodding his head telling me to get out too. Joe had a great hate for Socs, he had good reasons too, it was his old house that had been put into flames by Socs when he was ten, his old car that had gotten it's windows smashed and tires slashed, and the little girl I said had been jumped a while ago was his little sister Chelsea. But then again we all had our hate for the Socs, they where determined to make our already bad lives even worse.

It wasn't often Greasers jumped Socs. And that's mostly because they're never alone. And when a Grease saw a Socs roaming the streets solo, well there's not much that could replace that craving of jumping them…

"Yo!" Joe called, walking across the street. I shut the car door watching him walk, he had the normal dragging walk like every Greaser around here, but when he stepped on his left foot it seemed to carry a faint limp. Since I can remember he always had that limp, it was where his ankle heeled wrong when he hurt it because he never went to the doctors or told his mom because they didn't have the funds to pay for it. The Socs turned to him, already hard faced and grim looking.

"I just had to tell you, you're the first Socs I ever saw walkin' alone." Joe said stopping in front of the guy. The Socs made a face of disgust, a face that couldn't be missed by Joe. "Come on Babes!" Joe called, not taking his eyes off the Socs. "You're off your territory Grease." the Socs said. Joe shrugged his shoulders, "Nah, this is no man's land." he said. "Hmm… Really? It was just down the block I jumped one of you." the Socs said smirking. Yea he might be taller then Joe, a little more muscular too but he didn't have Joe's stubborn determination never to back down nor did he have my temper.

I hadn't realized I was at Joe's side when he grabbed my arm. "That so you where in the bunch that jumped that girl?" Joe said, playing it cool. "Yea, walking home all by herself. I gotta admit she put up one hell of a fight but not enough." the Socs said, starting to look around, maybe looking for some of his friends. Joe nodded his head clenching his teeth, and clasping his hands in a fist. The Socs turned back to face Joe…

CRACK!

The Socs held his jaw, Joe looked at me with surprise and I kept a heavy glare towards the Socs, ignoring the throbbing of my fist. "That girl… she's my sister." I said to him, releasing the pressure I had on my fist feeling my nail cutting into my skin. "If you weren't a girl I'd knock you the fuck out." he said glaring at me. "Yea and I'm not so try!" Joe said, and in a second Joe had the Socs on the ground. I don't remember how but I ended on top of the Socs, and I was punching him even harder then I had Kara. Finding it appeasing making the guy who helped knock my sister out bleeding beneath me.

'I'm not strong enough to over power Joe, so how am I overpowering him' I thought as I hit him again. Just then he shoved me off of him and rolled on top of me. "You're just like your sister." He said grimly, hitting me. I struggled underneath him but he had me pinned pretty good, but I managed to get a few kicks in. He paused for a second; perhaps asking himself where Joe was as I was. A second too late and I rolled out from under him, standing up quickly. Another guy was there, and Joe was having a good time with him, I could tell by the way he threw his punches. Pity throws, as I would call them, even though they still hurt like hell.

I was to busy catching my breath to notice the Socs get up. I must have messed up his judgment because he tried to tackle me to the ground by clipped me with his shoulder, but it still sent me falling backwards. I landed on my ass hard, I'm sure if I had air to loose the air would have been knocked out right after me.

Quickly I searched the ground around me, just anything and I'd have him out like a light, just like Erica, I thought grimly. Relief washed over me as I touched the unmistakable smoothness of a glass bottle. My fingers fumbled over the neck of it, it already had its bottom smashed, no mistake there as I felt it prick my wandering fingers. I juggled it quickly finding the spot I preferred to hold it and stood back up.

Out of the corner of my eye I could see Joe finishing up with the other Socs. I don't think my guy saw my bottle but once the street light reflected off it he jumped back quickly. "Come on, you said you wouldn't hit a girl well now I guess we're pretty even." I said motioning him to come to me. He grimaced, "You fight like a guy, but that won't stop me from knocking you out like I did your sister." I lounged for him, hitting him with the bottle right across the arm. I hated fighting with weapons, because while you're fighting you have to make sure you're not going to catch yourself on it while blocking the other person's hits.

Well my hand slipped a little to far forward on the bottle and I wasn't about to let it smash to the ground so I juggled my hand back down the neck and the guy took his chance and hit my right in the jaw and it hurt like hell. I don't think I ever been hit that hard. I lashed out at him, I didn't know if I had the bottle in hand or not but the next thing I know I'm standing next to Joe watching the Socs run.

"They'll probably be back with friends." Joe said, wiping his nose, what was lightly draining blood. "Lucky they ran because I woulda killed them all." I said softly. He started off towards his car, "Don't I know it. Now let's get going."

We drove a couple blocks before we parked again and he flicked the car light on. "This cut hurts like a mug! I rolled over a piece of glance dodging the guy's hit." he said, for the first time I noticed blood trickling down his cheek. I nodded me head and he turned to look at me. "I never saw you fight that hard, I was surprised when you punched that guy dead in the face the first time." he said grinning. "You where having a good ol' time when that other Socs came around." I said flashing a grin back. "Damn Hailey, you should have seen yourself. I don't think I could even have beat you." he said softly. I shrugged my shoulders, "You haven't seen me fight a lot."

"Sure I have, you fight girls around here just as much as I fight the guys."

We exchanged looks and he grimaced, "Okay maybe not as much but close to it." I rolled my eyes, "I fought with you before." He laughed, "Yea but I never hit you back, you always hit the shit outta me." I was quiet, he was right he never did hit me back, but he would yell at me and if I started hitting him to much he would grab me by my wrist and wouldn't let go until he knew for sure I was calmed down, then normally I would storm off. "We fight like brother and sister." he said, I think he forgot about his cut. I forced a grin, because we did fight like brother and sister and sometimes it felt as if that was all we where. We fight like an old drunken married couple, I thought but didn't say anything I just said a mere Yea and rested my head against the window glass.

I hoped you enjoyed reading Chapter Fifteen of Sweet Revenge. So a lot has happened in the last couple of chapters, I just have to get more active uploading them! lol... R&R please!