Disclaimer: Don't own the Outsiders...

Later that day, Two-Bit said he had to meet Dally and Darry somewhere and said he'd be back soon. When Two-Bit did get back, for some reason Velma didn't know, Two-Bit had bandages wrapped around his knuckles on his right hand. When she asked about it, he just said he tripped and it happened while he tried to break his fall.

The rest of the week went by pretty well. Velma had went to school and spent alot of time at the Curtis house and with Two-Bit. Everything was pretty much back to normal...But Thursday evening..Velam's mother told her something that made her worry all night, and most of Friday morning. Two-Bit noticed that Velma was acting kinda different. So he decided to ask her about it...

" Hey , something wrong?"

Velma just bit her lip.

Two-Bit put his arms around her, "Come on, you can tell me.."

She sighed, " My mom said that we had been invited for an evening at the country club by one of her clients...She told me to take a friend..."

"So?" Two-Bit shrugged, " Whats so wrong with that?"

"I don't have anyone to ask.."

Two-Bit looked like he got smacked in the face, " No one?"

"I mean...last time I tryed to take yous to a formal place..." She sighed when she thought about it.

Two-Bit laughed, " Oh, yeah. That was fun."

"See? That's my point...You can't act like that in a country club...and you can't show up in an old t-shirt, jeans and a clip on tie..."

" What if I promis...to...Be on my best behavior...and to wear an actually suit?" Two-Bit asked her.

Velma looked up at him , "You promise?"

"Promise" Two- Bit smiled and gave her a kiss.

Velma sat down in front of her Vanity, brushing her hair. She had on a long black dress...she sighed and there was a knock on the door. She looked over and saw Two-Bit enter. He was wearing an actual suit...Black pants and Blazer with a clean white shirt underneath and a properly tied tie... Although the sleeves were rolled up, the shirt wasn't done all the way up..neither was the tie...but it was still pretty formal. She smiled and stood up. She put her sliver, silk shawl and walked to the door...

The drive where was very awkward...Velma's parents were sitting in the front seats walking as if there wasn't two teen-agers sitting in the backseat.

The evening was going much better that Velma had expected. Two-Bit was acting properly, used his manners...said please and thank you..

Later on in the evening when Two-Bit snuck out side for a smoke..While Velma was waiting for him to come back inside, She had gotten into a conversation with a group of other kids..

"did you guys notice that that Two-Bit greaser here?" One boy said.

"Uh...Yeah..I invited him" Velma told them.

"Why? He's a no good Greaser."

"No he's not. He's a good person."

"Good people don't go jumping other people."

"What?..He doesn't 'jump' people..."

"Are you kidding? He jumps people all the time...along with that Shepard gang leader and Dallas Winston...who, by the way jumped a friend of mine about two weeks ago...we saw them get into their car and drive off..."

"What? No..I was with them before they got into the car...Dally told me that- " She got cut off.

"Well, guess what? He lied. "

Velma shook her head disbelievingly. " Dally wouldn't do that.."

"Are you crazy? He gets arrested all of the time for beating people up..."

"Hey, " Velma turned around, Two-Bit was there. He didn't look to happy, "I don't like the way you're talking about my friends.."

"Yeah? So what are you going to do about it?" The boy crossed his arms.

"I'll show you what I'm gunna do about.." Two-Bit took his his blazer and handed it to Velma.

"Two-Bit, please. Don't.." She pleaded.

"No. Actually, that's not a bad idea." The boy took off his blazer and handed it to his girl friend, " But why don't we take it outside?"

"Fine with Me" Two-Bit said, and he followed the boy outside and Velma was trying to convince him not to fight.He didn't listen to her.

The fighting went on for 15 minutes before the guy was on the ground, struggling to get to his feet. Two-Bit turned around to walked over to Velma, He was ready to leave...But while his back was turned, the boy stood up took a shot at Two-Bit...His nose started to bleed. He wiped the blood off with the back of his hand and reached into his pocket, then pulled out his switch blade.

Everyone went silent, alot of them alittle shocked. The boy backed away...Everyone moved away, even Velma. Two-Bit looked around and sighed. He put the knife back and then went back over to Velma and muttered, " come on..lets go..." He took the blazer back and put it on and started to walk down to the parking lot...with a moment of hesitation, Velma followed. As they walked home, Velma was pretty quiet. Two-Bit looked over at her, "whats wrong?"

"Why did you have to fight with him?" She asked him.

"Hey, he started it...he shouldn't of been talking like that." He told her.

"Was what he saying true?" She looked up at him.

Two-Bit didn't answer her right away...He then nodded slowly. Velma stopped walking. Two-Bit turned around when he noticed she stopped, " Look, Velma, we didn't want you to know any of that stuff...you didn't need to know any of that stuff...It wasn't something you needed to know.." He walked closer to her."We just didn't want you to think we were bad people..."

"So, yous just kept lying to me?" She looked down at he ground, " And I kept believing you guys..." She just back away abit and ran home...