Disclaimer: same as the other chapters

Authors Note: I just realized how weird it is that In both my stories, one of the main characters is in prison. But it's different when they get out, trust me. Thanx, everyone that reviewed, you guys rock!

Chapter Eight: Dally Gets Out

Not much happened while Dally was in prison. I got another piercing in my ear, but that's about it. It was about a month later when he finally got out. In a previous visit to him, we'd agreed to meet outside the cooler when he got out.

I took the bus there, and happily waited outside for Dally to come out. I couldn't have been happier that Dally was getting out. I smiled thinking about that night a month and a couple days ago when he'd kissed me for the first time. I couldn't wait for him to walk out those doors.

When he finally walked out, he came out beside this tall guy, who looked to be about 25. He was bald, and he had a tattoo. Remember, this was the 60's, not many tattoos were around. And he had one on his neck, of all places.

They walked up to me.

"Hey Dal!" I said, grinning.

"Is this her? Is this your girlfriend Sunny?" The guy asked in a gruff voice. Dally looked at me with an expressionless face. What he said next almost broke my heart.

"No," He said, turning back to the guy. "I never seen her before in my life."

"Alright, whatever. Let's go." Baldy said and walked away. Dally looked at me again with a look in his eyes that you'd have to have known him forever to see: hurt and apology.

I felt tears sting my eyes as Dally turned away from me and followed the guy down the street, around the corner and out of sight.

I sniffed, turned and walked the road back down to my house.

I don't know what I was thinking, I thought, how could I have been such an idiot? I was a fool to think Dally cared about me. Dallas doesn't care about anyone.

I wished I knew then that I was wrong, instead of thinking terrible things about Dally. When I finally got home, I walked in, slammed the door, and leaned against it, letting a tear roll down my cheek.

"Hey Sunny," Ponyboy said, lifting his head and putting it back down. Then he did a double take and looked up again.

"Sunny?" He asked.

"Hey Sunny, what's wrong? Where's Dallas?" Soda asked, walking over to me while Darry stood in the kitchen looking at me with a concerned expression on his face. Soda put his hand on my shoulders and saw that I was crying.

"Sunny, what happened?" He asked.

I told them the whole story.

"Oh my God," Soda said softly and cursed under his breath.

"I'm going to kick his ass," Darry said.

"Look, guys, I just wanna go to bed," I said.

"Sure, sure thing sis, come on," Soda said and took me to our room. I changed into my pajamas, which were an old Beatles shirt that was too tight and a pair of Ponyboy's pajama bottoms, blue plaid and ripped at one knee.

Soda turned away while I changed. I didn't care if he looked much anyway, he was my brother. I laid back on my bed and sighed. Soda turned out the light, and I expected him to either leave the room or go to his and Pony's bed, but he didn't.

He crawled into my bed next to me. He threw an arm across me for comfort.

"Thanks, Sodapop," I said and smiled tiredly.

"No problem, kid," Soda said and I could tell he was grinning. I rolled my eyes. He called me kid all the time, even though he was only 13 minutes older than me.

As I tried to fall asleep, a flashback haunted me.

:FLASHBACK:

"Sorry babe, it's true," Dally said grinning. "Seriously, you know how many guys would've asked you out already if you didn't have three brothers, two of whom would kick their asses if they ever hurt you?" He said. I laughed.

"Really? Then how come you're not afraid?" I said.

"Cause I'm never gonna hurt you," He said. I looked at him and smiled.

:END FLASHBACK:

I sighed. If only what he said was true. I rolled over. Soda was already asleep and snoring. I sadly smiled and snuggled into my twin brother. I soon fell asleep after that.

The next day when I woke up, Soda was no longer beside me. I looked at the clock in the bedroom. It was already 1:30 in the afternoon.

"Fuck…" I mumbled and got out of bed. I walked out to the living room where my three brothers were sitting.

"Morning Sunny. Er-afternoon, that is," Darry smiled at me. I sort of groaned and sat down beside him on the couch. Pony and Soda were on the other couch.

"Hey, those pajamas are mine!" Ponyboy said. I grinned half-heartedly and stuck my tongue out at him.

"We went out looking for Dally today already," Soda said to me. I looked up at him.

"And?" I asked.

"Well, we didn't find him. We actually saw no trace of him, and we even asked around, nobody's seen him. It's weird, it's like he disappeared," Soda said. I looked down.

"Oh…"

"Yeah…"

"Well, we gotta go to work kiddo, sorry we can't stay with ya, we just stayed until you woke up," Darry said.

"It's okay, we need the money," I said. Soda and Darry both gave me a hug and a kiss on the cheek before they left.

I looked at Pony, it was just me and him left in the house.

"Shouldn't you be at school?" I asked him.

"Yeah," He said and looked at me with the most innocent face I've ever seen in my life. "I wanted to stay home with you," He said, smiling gently.

I smiled and hugged him.

"Thanks, Pony," I said and we sat down on the couch. Or rather, he sat down at one end and I laid across the couch with my feet in his lap. I never changed out of my pajamas all day, and I even got Ponyboy to put his pajamas back on and have pajama day with me. It was cold and overcast outside, we weren't gonna go out there anyways.

We watched TV, played games, ate snacks, and talked all day.

I was half heartedly cheered up. It still hurt a lot, what Dally did.

I wondered where the hell he was. I don't know why I even cared. But it was just weird, Darry, Pony and Soda had looked for him and never found him, and nobody else had seen him. I mean sure, he just got out of jail yesterday, but if he was being his normal self, he would have already been around to see everyone, or at least get drunk with everyone.

Ponyboy and I were sitting on the couch, curled up in little balls and huddled together under a blanket for warmth, watching some scary movie on TV when Two-Bit and Johnny came in, back from school. They practically slammed open the door just when a scary part of the movie came on. Pony and I almost jumped out of our skins and screamed when they did that.

Two-Bit laughed his ass off.

"Man, you guys shoulda seen your faces!" He said and sat down in a chair. Johnny sat on the other couch.

"So how come you wasn't at school today Ponyboy?" Two-Bit asked.

"I wanted to stay home with Sunny," He replied.

"Yeah, we heard what happened, I'm sorry Sun," Two-Bit said and kissed me on the forehead.

"Thanks Two-Bit," I said and smiled sadly at him. Johnny gave me a hug too.

"Hey, check out you guys still in you pajamas man!" Two-Bit said and laughed at us.

Just then, Darry and Soda burst through the door.

"Guys, come quick, it's Dally," Darry said, both of them standing in the doorway. It looked just like the scary movie we were watching, the wind whistled around them in the doorway and thunder crashed behind them.

Then they ran back out the door, and we all followed them, pajamas or not.

We followed them all the way to the lot where Steve sat beside a figure on the ground.

"Guys! Over here!" He shouted and we all ran up to him.

I was shocked and had a sick feeling in my stomach when I saw what Steve was kneeling beside.

Wanna know what it was? Review! Lol I'm typing up the next chapter now though )