Alrighty everyone. A spromised, here is the next chapter. Oh yeah, I have a new author friend, and as they will be kind enough to talk about me, I will do the same. If you get bored, wanyt something new to read and you like, gravitation, or xmen, or...something...I dunno, I know they hjave more then just stories in those chatagories...I think. But yeah. Seriously though. Good stuff. So cheack it out, names Seishinbyo-kanja-kokoro, great author.
DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING FROM THE OUTSIDERS. I DO OWN EDEN, HER AST, HER PARENTS, THIS STORY, AND THE PLOT TO THIS STORY.
CHAPTER #7
CRASH INTO THE FUTURE.
PONY'S POV
We were signed in and checked for any weapons or metal. Once that was all clear we were lead into a small room with a few picnic type tables spread out through it.
"Wait here alright?" The officer said leaving us at the table farthest away from the rest.
I looked at Eden for anything. I myself hadn't come to see Dally since he was put in here. I felt guilty. For the first few months of him being in here I blamed him for Jhonnys death. But Eden seemed blank. Then she looked at me. She was shaking a little bit and her eyes told me everything. She was afraid. This was new to me. As long as I had known Eden she had never once shown fear.
Yet her she was looking on the verge of tears and about ready to run. I rubbed her back comfortingly.
"Hey, it's gonna be alright. I promise." I said quietly.
Then it happened. We heard the door behind us open.
"You've got some visitors." A man said.
There was the sound of chains coming undone and footsteps headed towards us. I turned around and saw Dally. He looked harder then ever, tuff as tuff can be. But he smiled a little when he saw me.
"Ponyboy? Oh my god, I never thought i'd get any visitors." Dally laughed.
We shared an akward huggish thing as I stood up to greet him. Then Dally looked at Eden who still had her back to him.
"Who's the girl? Your woman?" Dally smiled.
"No, but-" I tried.
Dally walked over and tapped her on the shoulder.
"Hey kid, come on and at least introduce yourself." Dally said.
"Don't call me kid." Eden said sharply.
Silence. I looked from Eden's unmoving form, to Dally's face. It was no longer smileing. It was stock still and shocked.
"Eden?" Dally chocked out in a barely audible voice.
Eden stood up and faced him.
"Hey Dally." Eden smiled weakly.
Next thing I knew Dally had Eden in a bear hug, and she was hugging him back with almost as much strength. It looked like they both might cry a any second. But they didn't.
EDEN'S POV
I can't beleive it. He hasn't changed a bit. It felt so good to see him again. I was afraid of what his original reaction might be to seeing me. But it seemed good so far. After a minute of hugging he finally set me down, we sat down and started talking, well, first we all lit up.
PONY'S POV
"God, you've grown up. You look so differant. God. Your finally in Tulsa and here I am sitting in jail." Dally shook his head in disbelief.
"Yeah, hey it's not your fault. You look the same. Goddamn do you just not age." Eden laughed.
There was a quite moment were Dally just stared at Eden's face. She wasn't looking him in the eye.
"Think i'm ugly or somethin'?" Dally smiled.
Eden looked up at him. "We have already beeen over this you cocky bastard." Eden smiled.
Dally must have seen what I had. Eden's smile was forced, and her eyes told it all. Of coarse, I already knew the story. And I knew right now that telling Dally was gonna be the hardest thing ever for her to do. But it needed to be done. I looked over at Dally and saw a look on him i'd never seen before. True concern.
"You mind giving us a minute to catch up in private Ponyboy?" Dally asked without even looking at me.
"No problem man. You guys take the rest of the time alright? I'll come back another day to talk to you." I said.
I got up and left the room. Back against the door for a moment, before I decided I needed to go sit in the waiting room.
"They done in there?" The officer asked.
"Not yet. Thier brother and sister, haven't seen each other in years." I said in a voice that wasn't my own.
"Alright. I'll give them some privacy then, why not, he hasn't had any visitors since he's been here, and he's had good behavior, i'll let them have an extra twenty minutes. You wanna sit in the lounge with the other guards while you wait?" The officer asked.
"Yeah. Thanks." I said and walked away.
EDEN'S POV
Silence. I knew it was a mistake to look up the moment I did it. Dally had always been able to see right through my masks. This time was no differant.
"So whats going on Lunar?" Dally asked.
Lunar was the nickname he had given me back in New York. All because of my eyes. He was the only one I would let call me that. Just like I was the only one who could ever call him Tex.
"To much Tex. I've done some things. Some real bad things." I said quitely.
"Can't be that bad. Come on Lunar. You know I won't judge you. No matter what you say I could never be mad at you." Dally said.
I knew I had to tell him. I was just hoping it wouldn't be the first time I saw him again.
"How are your folks?" Dally asked in a blank tone.
I knew it. It was like he was a mind reader. Not really. He just knew me well enough to see what was bothering me. He knew what I was gonna tell him had to deal with them. But he didn't know exactly what, or how bad.
"Thier dead." I said calmly.
"Can't say i'm sorry to hear it. How'd it happen?" Dally asked.
I figeted with my smoke for a minute. Staring at it. The words were right on the tip of my tongue. It was simple enough to tell Pony and them. But Dally. It was harder. I started to stutter it out, no success, just a few odd noises came out of my mouth.
"Eden. How'd it happen?" Dally asked again.
"I...uh...you see..." I stuttered trying to fight back the tears that were now coming to my eyes and burning my throat.
I couldn't fight it. I'd have to show my weakness. To Dally. I'd never shown him anything but strength, wether it be false or true. I never showed anything else. So as not to get hurt. Yet here I was, looking him in the eye with tears streaming down my face. My hand covering my mouth.
"I killed them." I whispered.
"What?" Dally asked.
It wasn't that he hadn't heard me. He heard me clear as a bell. He just didn't want to beleive it.
"Tell me your lying Lunar. Please." Dally said.
His jaw began to clench, his fists tighten, and his eyes went into shock. As I didn't answer him, I sat there crying. I couldn't say anything else. Nothing would come out. Nothing but the tears i'd held in for many years. Since the first time Dally ever let me stay with him, to the night I killed my folks. I'd been holding in my tears. Don't cry, Don't cry. I had told myself over and over again.
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry." I said through my tears.
I heard Dally get up from his seat. He was probably to disgusted to be in the same room as me. But the next thing I knew he was sitting next to me with his arm around my shoulder. Telling me it was okay now, no one would know. It was okay. I think I cried into his shirt for a good ten minutes before I finally calmed myself down completely.
"Why'd you do it?" Dally asked calmly.
"I was so sick of it Tex. Staying in that closet for years, the beatings, the screaming, the...abuse." I phrased the last set carefully.
Dally looked like the old fire was sparked in his eyes again, but he calmed it down for my sake.
"Hey kid. No more of that alright? It's done and over with. Where you staying at now?" Dally asked.
"The Curtis's house. The saved me just like you did." I smiled.
"Yeah. Thier good people. Tell you what. My time here is just about up for this visit. But, I got a hearing in a week, I might be able to get out of here on my good behavior and the work i've been doing." Dally said.
"You had good behavior?" I asked.
"Well, I was acting like a jackass, but then we had a preacher come in and give us a sermon. He talked about the Garden of Eden. And I thought of you. I had forgotten my promise to get you here. So I grit my teeth and did what I was told. I want you at the hearing next tuesday ya' dig?" Dally asked.
I nodded my head. It seemed like we had been in there for almost an hour, but we'd only been talking for about twenty five minutes. The guard came in and said it was time to go. So I gave Dally a big hug and started leaving while the guard put his chains back on.
"That your girl or something?" The guard asked.
"Nah man, she's my little sister." Dally said.
PONY'S POV
I was getting real bored and aggitated when Eden came around the corner. I jumped up ready to leave. We walked out in silence.
"So, how'd it go?" I asked.
"It went just fine. I gotta get to the courthouse by next tuesday though." Eden said.
"Why's that?" I asked.
"Well, I gotta be there to greet my brother when they let him go home now don't I?" Eden smiled.
I thought things were gonna look up for the rest of the night. But i'd forgotten about the little incident at the Dingo. We weren't gonna say anything about it but someone else did. Damn Two-Bit and his loud mouth!
"What the hell were you thinking today!" Darry yelled the minute we had the door shut. Soda was sitting on the couch, and Two bit was sitting next to him, both trying to act like they were watching T.V. and weren't hearing any of this.
"I was thinking of going to see the outside world, is there a problem with that?" Eden asked.
This was bad, she had drained her soul again. I hated it when she did that.
"You know what i'm talking about! Don't be a smartass!" Darry yelled.
"I have absolutly no idea what you speak of." Eden replied playing dumb.
I didn't say a word. Lately Eden had tried to keep me out of any fights with the family. So I wasn't used to it anymore. I just sat behind her with my mouth shut good. If she wasn't gonna say where we went today or what we did, then niether was I.
"And what were you thinking? Letting her do that just becuase one guy is bugging you!" Darry yelled at me now.
"I was just-" I tried but was cut off.
"Don't give me any bullshit excuses!" Darry yelled.
"Let him speak!" Eden said in a deadly voice.
Darry just looked at her for a minute. Then frowned when he didn't like her tone.
"Was I talking to you?" Darry asked with an attitude.
"Look, it was either I do that or your little brother and me would have ended up in the hosipital! I don't sit back and just take it when i'm being threatened or treated like shit! That's not what Dally taught me!" Eden said angrily.
Everyone shot up thier heads at the mention of Dally. Darry even looked concerned for a minute. No one had mentioned Dally since he landed in jail and Jhonny died. Darry then looked at Eden angrily.
"You don't know Dally like we do! You have no right to talk about him!" Darry spat out.
"I have all right to talk about my god damned brother thank you!" Eden snapped.
Soda and Darry hadn't heard her story like I did, they also didn't know we had just been to see 'ol Dally. So it was a real shock for them to hear this. Two Bit was just as shocked.
"Dally never mentioned a little sister." Darry said confused.
"Coarse not, I was only known as his little sister to people in New York. Why bring it up here?" Eden said. She was still a little pissed off, but it was leaving her voice now.
"Lunar right?" Two Bit asked suddenly.
Everyone looked over at him. Who the hell was Lunar? Even Eden looked at Two-Bit, but with a curious look.
"How do you know that?" Eden asked calmly.
Two Bit looked up at her.
"Dally talked about you alot. Just not over here. He used to tell me about his little sister Lunar, never told me her real name. But he did tell me he had nicknamed her that becuase her eyes were as pretty as a lunar eclipse." Two Bit said.
Two Bit just got up and left after that. Eden looked at the floor with a mix expression of shock and sadness. Soda stepped forward and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Do what you think's right from now on. Dally never took shit from anyone, i'm sure he'd want his little sister to be the same." Soda smilled.
Darry mumbled an apology.
"I need to go out." Eden said.
We all looked at each other for a minute.
"In the morning, it's late, we should all go to bed. In the morning we'll take you to see 'ol Dally." Darry said calmly.
"I already saw him today. Pony took me because I asked him too. I just need to take a walk is all." Eden said.
"For what?" Darry asked.
"I need some smokes from the store." Eden said.
"I'll go with you." Soda said.
"I need to go alone." Eden said.
"Just be safe ok? Try to be back before it gets too late." Darry said.
"Thanks. If i'm not back in two hours don't bother looking for me." Eden said sarcastically walking out the front door.
I didn't argue when Darry said we needed to get to bed.
"Oh hey, Dally might be getting out on tuesday, so we gotta take Eden down to the courthouse. Ya know, to give him moral support." I said.
Darry agreed. And we went to our rooms. I stayed awake, listening for the front door to open. And listening to my thoughts. I hated to admit this, but I had a crush on Eden. And I was thinking about saying something when she got home.
EDEN'S POV
I was walking blindly to the store. Just thinking. Lunar was my secret name for him. So he had told people about me. He hadn't forgotten about me like I thought he had. It felt good to know. I got to the store just before it closed, pretended to be looking for feminine products, so the clerk left me alone and went to the back to clean up.
"What an idiot." I mumbled as I hopped up on the counter and grabbed a pack of smokes from the holder above the register.
After that I grabbed a bottle of booze, I didn't care which kind it was, so long as it was alcohol. I never drink really. But for some reason I felt like drinking tonight.
Halfway home i'd finished my beer and threw the bottle, hearing it thunk instead of crash, then hearing a few angry voices.
"What the fuck?" A guy yelled.
I didn't even think about it. I just started running. But i'd been out of practice. Before I knew it I was tackled to the ground.
"Look who it is. If it ain't the crazy chick from the Dingo." The guy smiled wickedly.
It took me a moment to recognize him. He was the kid i'd held the knife to earlier today. And his buddies were all with him too. And fuck me, the one time I forget to bring my blade.
"You either fuck off or I will cut your ass this time!" I spat out.
I may not have a weapon. But I wasn't gonna show fear to these pricks. But they weren't buying. I was punched a few times in the face. They had me pinned down with my arms under thier legs while sitting on my chest, and another guy sitting on my legs. I couldn't move. But I didn't say ow or cry. I started to laugh.
"Come on you puss. Can't you hit harder then that?" I laughed wickedly then spat in his face.
"Your nothing but a drunken white bastard who's mother coddles him. You don't have the guts to do shit without your buddies." I spat out.
Again I was punched a few times. Sure it hurt. But this was nothing compared to what i'd been through. After a bit of this they got bored. They saw it wasn't affecting me.
"I know something that'll get to you girly." The main guy laughed evily.
I fet a hand reach for my pants, another pull on my shirt. I knew what they were going to do. And I kenw at this point I had no way to fight back. So...I blacked out. I let my world go black. Hopping it would be over soon.
About an hour later I was snapped out of my trance by a kick to the stomach.
"Thanks grease." The kid sneered.
I was too sore to move. All the pain of what happened was taking a toll on my body, they must have been beating me up at the same time they were violating me. But again, it wasn't anything new to me. It pissed me off, but it wasn't new. I straightened my cloths, then lay there, smoking a cigarette. I noticed my hand was bleeding pretty badly. When I took a good look at myself I saw blood almost everywhere, so they'd cut me. Not too deep, just enough for a decent amount of blood.
I slowly stood up and began the shaky walk home.
"Those fucking pricks are gonna pay." I said to myself.
Oooh. I left you all at a cliffy. :scary music: no worries, the next chapter is in progress as we speak. I have a sudden new wave of inspiration. so this story will be mocing alone nicely. no remember to tip your waitresses and leave a review. I shall update again within the enxt two days. I promise.