There are times in your life when you feel like everyone is against you, and everything that happens was done to piss you off.
Darry, out of nowhere, had made a new rule. Ponyboy was to always be with at least two people, so as to prevent a repeat of what happened at the fountain. Soda was being unusually clingy to him, and because Soda was Steve's best friend, naturely Steve hung around them as well.
Dally and Johnny had been ignoring him lately, and Ponyboy didn't know why. Two-Bit as well - he was at his own house a lot.
Really, they all had to piss off...