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Chapter Fourteen: The New Job And The Fight

Dally quickly grabbed my hand and pulled me protectively behind him, and kept holding my hand. I knew that fear was still on my face, but Dally's expression had changed to anger.

The bald tattooed guy spotted us, smiled evilly, and walked over to us.

"What the fuck are you doing here, Vince?" Dally growled in a low, dangerous voice.

Vince. So that was his name.

"You're alive I see, Dallas," Vince said.

"Yeah, unfortunately for you," Dally said.

Vince just laughed.

"You didn't answer me, what the fuck are you doing here?" Dally said, a little louder, so that people at tables close to us looked.

"Well, I know that's Sunny behind your back, so you can stop hiding her. And what I'm doing here, well, I know you need a job, sweetheart, or you'll lose your house, so I was just telling the boss all about you," He said to me. I was too scared to talk.

"How the hell did you know all that?" Dally asked in a shocked, quiet voice.

"I told you Dallas, I'm smarter than you, and I'm always one step ahead of you. So you know what? Since you were so nice to me in and out of prison, I'm gonna do you a favor too. Make your life a living hell," Vince whispered, up close to Dally's ear. Then he chuckled softly and strolled out of the Dingo.

I was shaking with fear by now, and Dally just looked shaken. He turned to face me and pulled me into a hug.

"Dally, how the hell did he know?" I asked.

"I don't know, but don't worry; I promise I won't let anything happen to you. I'm going to find out how he's doing this, and I'm gonna stop it. Now, go in there and apply for your job, just tell them not to believe anything Vince said." Dally said.

I nodded and kissed him quickly on the lips before walking over to the room. I opened the door and walked inside. I was sort of relieved to see a guy I knew sitting at a desk in the office type room.

"Gary," I breathed.

"Hey Curtis," The 22-year-old Dingo manager said and smiled at me.

"I'm so glad to see you, when did you become the manager?" I asked him.

"About a week ago. The old manager quit. He was old, couldn't handle us greasers!" He laughed. I laughed a little too.

I knew Gary for a while, a couple years at least. I met him at one of Buck's parties. He was a friend of Bucks.

"Listen Curtis," He said. He was always calling me, Ponyboy and Soda "Curtis", but he always called Darry by his name. "This guy just came in here, and he told me you were a bad worker and that you brought guys around all the time because you had like 2 million boyfriends."

I froze. "You... you didn't believe him, did you Gary?" I asked slowly.

Gary looked serious for a minute, the cracked a smiled.

"Of course not, I didn't know the guy, and to tell you the truth, I don't even think he was from Oklahoma. He sounded like he was born in Mexico," Gary said, thoughtfully. I laughed.

"So, I came to apply for the waitress job. What do you think, Gary?" I asked.

He looked at me.

"Honestly, I would rather have you working here than the other girls that applied. First off, I know you, and second of all, you're not a slut or a "bad worker", as Mr. Bald and tattooed Mexico there said." Gary said. I kept looking expectantly at him.

"So, you're hired."

I smiled broadly. That was much easier than I thought it would be.

"Thank you Gary," I grinned and hugged him. He laughed.

"No problem. Here's your apron, you start on Monday. Don't be late," He greened cheekily.

"Oh, I won't," I said. And exited the room with my red apron that said "The Dingo" in fancy writing.

Dally was looking at me expectantly when I left the room. I showed him the apron and he smiled widely.

"Congrats, baby," He said and hugged me tightly.

"Thanks Dally," I said. We left to walk to my house.

On the way there, we were talking about Vince, trying to figure out how he knew all this stuff about me.

"Maybe he has someone spying on me and my brothers," I suggested. Dally thought for a minute.

"It's possible. But who, and how?" He pondered.

"I have no idea. It's weird though. Hey, let's not let this wreck the rest of the day, okay?"

He smiled and put an arm around my waist.

"Sure."

At my house, Soda, Two-Bit and Ponyboy were there. Dally went into the kitchen to get a beer, while Two-Bit already had one.

"HEY EVERYONE, IT'S PONYBOY CURTIS!" I yelled and ran over to him, wrapped my arms around his waist, and lifted him right off the ground for a second.

"Holy crap," Soda said. I burst out laughing, and so did everyone else except for Ponyboy who told me to cut it out.

"Where's Darry?" I asked Soda.

"Working late today," He replied.

I walked over to the TV where Mickey was on, and changed the channel to a movie. Then I sat beside Two-Bit.

"I was watching that," He said.

"Yeah, well, now you're not."

"Put it back!" He said, glaring at me.

"Um, you guys, don't we have to go um, do that… thing?" Soda said.

"Oh, yeah, let's go," Dally said. They all quickly shuffled back into mine, Ponyboy's and Soda's room.

"No! I will not put it back, I wanna watch this movie," I said, turning back to face the TV.

"What's your problem?" Two-Bit asked me.

"I don't have a problem, you do! Stop being so obsessed with Mickey Mouse, go outside and live a little, and by 'live a little', I don't mean go get drunk like you always do!" I said.

"Yeah, well, why don't you be the one that goes outside and lives a little?"

"It's my house!"

"I cannot believe that you are being such a bitch!" He said.

"Keith Mathews!"

"Well you are! And don't say that like you're my mother, Sunny, cause you're not, you're just a broad that can't make up her mind!"

"What?"

"Well let's see, one minute you hate Dally, and the next minute you're going with him, and now it seems like you hate me!"

"Two-Bit, you know what's not true-"

"Well you think I'm just a drunk, and someone that you can walk all over? Well I'm not!" He cut me off.

"I never said you were, dumbass!"

"Oh, so now I'm too stupid for you? Well Sunny, I don't care what you say!" With that he got up and stormed out of the house. I just sat there, pissed off at him. I couldn't believe this huge fight we'd just had for no apparent reason. Dally, Soda and Ponyboy came out then.

"Finally, I was starting to feel like a homo, being in a bedroom with two guys," Dally said.

"Well, Sunny, what the hell was that?" Soda asked.

"That was Two-Bit being a jerk!" I yelled.

"Well, it was weird whatever it was," Ponyboy said. I just looked at him.

"Maybe I should go make sure Two-Bit doesn't do anything stupid," Soda said. He went out the door without another word from anyone. Dally sat beside me. Ponyboy stood there.

"I wanna know how the hell that happened," He said.

"Watch your mouth," I said absently.

"What? Hell, it's a place," Ponyboy said. I chuckled slightly at him.

A while later, Darry came home, and Soda was home too. He said Two-Bit went to the movies with Johnny. Soda had told Darry all about my fight with Two-Bit. Darry told me to come sit beside him on the couch, while Ponyboy sat on the floor, Soda on the other couch, and Dally stood behind the couch we were on.

Darry made me tell him about the whole fight.

"Well…" He said when I was done. I just looked at the floor angrily.

"What did the whole fight get started over?" He asked.

"Mickey Mouse," I reluctantly mumbled.

"Mickey Mouse, for God's sake!" Darry said.

"Yeah, and he had to be such a big jerk about it!" I exclaimed.

Well, there's part 14 for ya… Will the conflict with Two-Bit continue? Or will they make up? You'll just have to REVIEW and see what happens in the next chapter!