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Chapter Five

After breakfast was done, I hopped into the passenger side of Darry's truck. Soda and Steve were in Steve's car. They rode over to my house, which was quieter than usual. When we pulled up to the house, Darry asked me (for what felt like the tenth time that day) if I was feeling okay. After I reassured him that I was fine, I got out of the truck and went into the house. I looked through the window and waved to Darry as he pulled away.

"Mom, are you home?" I shouted after watching Darry's truck disappear. There was no answer, and then I remembered that she was working a double shift. Again. At least this gave me some time to think about what I was going to tell her.

I ran into my room, found my math textbook, my notebook and a sharp pencil and dropped it all onto my bed. I plopped down next to my homework and opened my textbook to page 192. I flipped through my notebook until I found a clean sheet of paper, and once I did, I began copying down the problems. Math wasn't my favorite subject, but I dealt with it.

A while later, once I was finished with my homework, I went the living room and turned on the TV. Unfortunately, there was nothing to watch and I didn't like being home alone. I decided that I'd go over to the Curtis house – Pony was going to be home. Plus it wasn't all that far from my house. I changed into my own white t-shirt, blue skirt and sweater that, I must say, fit much better than the clothes I'd wearing for the past hours. Then, as I was walking out the door, I remembered what Darry had said about me not walking alone and everything. I thought that I would be fine, but I didn't want to get into any trouble with Darry. I walked over to the phone and dialed the Curtis house.
"Hello?" Someone picked up
"Hi, it's Mel. Is this Ponyboy?" I asked. You could never tell who would answer the phone at the Curtis house.
"Yeah, it's Ponyboy. How are you doing?"
"I'm good, but really bored. Are you doing anything?"
"Well, I was thinking of going to the DX. You want to come?" Pony invited.
"Yeah, I'd love to. Thanks."
"Okay. I'll come to your house in about five minutes and we can walk for there, okay?" Pony asked.
"Sure, sounds good. Thanks again." I replied, then hung up the phone.

I was so happy to get out of the house. I felt cooped up in here and not able to go anywhere else. I buttoned up my sweater, then made my way out the door. I sat on the porch steps to wait for Pony. About a minute or two later I saw him walking up the street. Once he got to my house, I stood up and met him in front of the porch.
"Ready to go?" He asked.
"Guess so."

So we turned around and began walking to the DX. We were pretty quiet on our way, which is weird 'cause Pont and I love to talk. But I guess we didn't have too much to talk about or maybe we did, but we were avoiding it. I don't know – I guess we didn't always have to talk to understand what the other one was thinking.

Once we arrived at the DX, we saw Soda filling up a car. When Soda finished, he casually walked over to us.
"Hey, how you two doing?" He asked.
I just shrugged my shoulders and Pony did the same.
"Don't ya'll speak at once." Soda said, trying not to smirk. "I think there's two Pepsi's waiting for you guys inside on the counter. I'll be in in a minute to join you two," he continued as another car pulled up.
"Thanks." I smiled. I loved Pepsi.
"Yeah, thanks Soda." Pony said, and we went inside.

We walked in and the door closed softly behind us. Pony and I looked toward the counter, where there were two Pepsi bottles standing just like Soda had said. Pony and I exchanged smiles and went to sit down. Just as we did, Steve come out from the garage, followed a few seconds later by Soda.
"Hey Soda, I think I'm gonna work though lunch today so I can finish up this car today." Steve said.
"Okay. So that leaves the three of us," Soda gestured to Pony and me. "You guys want just stay here?"
"That's fine by me." I said
"Okay." Pony agreed with me.

Just then another car pulled up, but I knew this car – it was my mom's car.
"Oh no…" I though out loud. "My mom's gonna see my face and she's gonna want to know what happened. And then she's gonna tell me to go home and rest." I sighed.
"Wait a sec, I have an idea. Steve hold on," Soda said ,running into the garage. "Go stall Mrs. Mathews."
"Why?" Steve asked curiously.
"Just go – I'll tell you later." Soda said, but Steve still looked a little puzzled. "Hurry up!" Soda said, rushing him out.
"Here Mel, take down your ponytail and put on my hat." Soda said while taking off his DX hat. He handed it to me.
"Just pull down the hat to cover your face a little and look at the ground so she doesn't see your face." Soda explained.
"Um… okay. Here goes nothing." I said as I pulled the DX hat over my forehead. I stepped out the door looking at my feet as I moved towards the car.
"Over here honey!" My mom said like I didn't know where she was. I moved toward her, still staying a good distance from the car.
"So...how are you doing mom?" I asked. I couldn't think of anything to say that would sound natural.
"I'm doing good. How are you, sweetie?" She questioned.
"Oh, I'm good too. You got off work early today?" I asked, still staring at the floor.
She giggled. "Nope. But I'm on my lunch break and I just wanted to tell you that I won't be home for dinner. I figured you or your brother would be here and it would save me a phone call." She sighed. "Anyway I have to go. And Mel, you should wear your hair down more often – it looks nice. Well, bye." She blew me a kiss.
"Bye mom." I waved and she took off.
As I walked back into the station I couldn't believe that I had pulled that off. And now I don't have to worry about covering up at dinner tonight. Very satisfied, I walked into the station and saw Pony giving Soda a dollar."I can't believe that worked!" I said as I walked though the door.
"Neither can I, and now I lost the bet." Pony said with a look of disbelief on his face.
"Soda, you're a genius." I complimented.
"I know." He smiled, then got back to being semi-serious. "Steve and I have to go back to work in a minute, so what are you two doing for the rest of the day?"
"I don't know, what do you want to do?" I asked Pony.
"I don't know, what do you want to do?" Pony asked me.
"Well whatever you two decide to do, make sure that if you're walking anywhere that you stay together and if you decide to do anything on the other side of town and it starts to get dark, call somebody land we'll be there to pick you two up. Stay together though, especially 'cause it's a Saturday night. You understand?" Soda asked us in a stern voice.

We both shook our heads yes. Soda was almost never stern, but he was right then. I guess that after last night they were worried and I understand that, but I'd be with Ponyboy and he's a tuff guy. Maybe not the same as the rest of them, but he was a Curtis and Curtis blood made him a tuff fighter. None of the Curtis brothers ever lost a fight before, so I wasn't too worried.
"Well Steve and I have to get back to work. See you later." Soda waved, then walked outside to a car pulling up.
" I guess we can start walking and then figure out what to do." Pony suggested.
"Sounds good to me," I said. So we exited the DX and walked down the street.

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