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Chapter Sixteen: The Man In The Alley

I gasped sharply and almost fell over backwards, but Soda caught me.

"Oh my God Sunny, are you okay?" Darry asked. I didn't answer his question. Instead, I said,

"Darry, what did you just say? About Vince?"

"Um, I said I work with a guy that knows some guy named Vince," He said.

"Darry, do you know who Vince is?" Dally asked, very seriously, almost angrily.

"Uh…"

"He's the guy that threatened me, beat up Dally, and almost made me not get a job!" I yelled, Soda still holding onto my arm.

"Oh God…" Darry said.

"Okay, we have to go to the cops," Soda said. I looked at him, as did everyone else in the room. I looked around at everyone, to see what their reaction was.

"He's right," Darry said after a long silence.

"And we have to put that other guy away too, the one that's friends with this Vince guy," Soda said.

"How do we find him?" Ponyboy said, speaking up.

"You, Ponyboy, don't find him. I'm not bringing you into this," I said, trying to protect the safety of my little brother.

"Aw, come on Sunny, don't leave me out," He said.

"Ask Darry," I said. Ponyboy looked at Darry, who then looked from Ponyboy to me then back to Pony.

"Sunny's right, Pony. You should stay here. You and Johnny could stay here and watch the house while we go to the police station, okay?" Darry said.

Johnny nodded, agreeing with the idea, but didn't say anything. Ponyboy looked at his best friend, then said, sulkily, "okay,"

"Okay but do we have to go now?" I asked.

"The sooner the better," Dally said.

"Alright," I said. So, we left Pony and Johnny sitting on the couch while Steve, Darry, Soda, Dally and I went out the door. Dally, Darry and I walked in the lead, with Dally's arm around my shoulders. Steve and Soda were behind us. At the police station, the cop recognized Dally and Steve.

"Back again, Steve? Didn't you just get out? And I know you, Dallas," The cop said, sort of staring at us. Dally just gave him a cool glance.

"No, we're here to report this guy," Darry said.

"Oh really? Who is he and what did he do?" The cop asked.

"Well, his name is Vince something, and he was in here once when Dally was in here. Kinda tall, bald, tattoo on his neck," Darry described.

"Yeah, I know the guy. What'd he do?" The cop asked.

"Well, he threatened Dally, and my sister. I'm talking about death threats. And then he put Dally in the hospital-"

"He cut him up and everything," I interrupted Darry.

"-and then there was this guy where I work, that was finding stuff out about my sister for Vince, and he told Vince a bunch of stuff about her, and then he went to the Dingo where she was applying for a job. He told the boss all kinds of bad stuff about her so she almost didn't get hired. He's like, stalking her and Dally." Darry finished his story.

"Okay, that should be enough to put him away for at least some time, do you know where he is?" The cop asked. We all shook our heads.

"Well, don't worry, we'll find him. Thanks kids," The cop said. We left the building, and I did feel slightly better. I hoped Vince would go to jail, and the guy at Darry's work. Back at home, Ponyboy was on the phone and Johnny was looking at him.

"Who's on the phone?" I asked Johnny, pointing at Ponyboy.

"Two-Bit." Johnny replied, making me raise my eyebrows.

"What is he doing, calling here? And where the hell is he?" I asked. Johnny shrugged.

"Okay…. Alright… I said okay! Jeez…. Well, she just came in, did you wanna talk to her? Oh, alright… okay, bye." Ponyboy said and hung up the phone.

"What the hell?" I asked.

"That was Two-Bit…" Ponyboy said.

"Yeah, I gathered that, where is he and what did he want?" I asked. Everyone else was listening too.

"He's at his own house, and he basically just called to bitch about you. I told him you guys went to the police station to report that guy."

"Don't say bitch. Let me talk to him next time," I said to Pony.

"Okay," He said. I sat beside him on the couch. Dally sat beside me, with Johnny beside him.

"Man, this is a small couch," Dally said.

"Well, there's four of you sitting on it," Darry said.

"Five," Soda corrected as he squeezed at the end, beside Johnny.

"Six," Steve said as he squeezed between Soda and Johnny.

"How is this possible?" I asked, in a squished voice because I was, well, squished. I pushed Ponyboy off the couch so I could get off.

"Hey!" Ponyboy said. I laughed at him. Then I tried to do a handstand, but fell down.

"Dogpile!" Soda yelled and jumped on me.

"Ow!" I said. "Get off!" I laid while laughing.

"No, say the magic words," Soda said.

"Iced tea," I said, shoving him off.

"What?" He asked. I pointed out to the kitchen, where, on the counter, was a pitcher of iced tea.

"Woo!" Soda and I yelled, giving each other high fives and running out to drink some. Darry was standing beside the kitchen.

"Hey Darry, what did we learn about camels today?" I asked him. He looked at me, cocking an eyebrow just like Two-Bit. I put some iced tea in my mouth and spit it all out at him.

"They spit!" Soda and I yelled, and cracked up laughing.

"EW! You guys!" Darry said.

"What? It wasn't me, Sunny spit the water." Soda defended himself.

"No I didn't," I said.

"Yes you did," Soda said.

"No," I said, and looked at him. We grinned and looked at Darry.

"Yeah!" We said together. Then we cracked up again, while everyone else had a laugh at Darry's expense. It was pretty hilarious, Darry with iced tea all over him.

When everyone calmed down and started watching TV, I took Dally's hand and dragged him back to my room. He sat down on my bed, and I sat on his lap, straddling him. I placed my lips on his, and felt him kiss back. He slid his tongue in my mouth, and I massaged it with him. He wrapped his arm around my waist.

I broke the kiss for a second to gently push him back on to the bed, but soon resumed it while I leaned over him. He knocked my elbows off balance, so that I fell on top of him. But he caught me and rolled me over so that he was now on top of me.

I smiled at him before he pressed his lips to mine again. I ran my hands through his hair, feeling his hands roam my body. He moved his kiss from my lips to my cheek, then to my neck, where he began to suck and nibble on it. I let out a little moan. He sucked on it for a while, then moved back to my mouth. I then rolled him over so that I was on top again, and kissed his neck. I moved down a little, lifted up his shirt and kissed his toned chest and stomach. When I heard him let out a small moan, I moved back up to his neck and sucked on it like he had done mine. Then, we almost jumped a mile in the air when the door opened.

I was still on top of Dally, and I turned around to see Ponyboy enter the room. I burst out laughing and collapsed on top of Darry, muffling my laughter in his shirt. Ponyboy just stood there, his face turning red.

"Sorry little brother," I laughed, walking over to him. I put my hand on his shoulder.

"Where has that hand been?" He asked, looking suspiciously at my hand. That made me laugh harder, I doubled over and I could see Dally chuckling too.

"Right…" Ponyboy said, and left the room. I sat down beside Dally again, and gave him a quick kiss on the lips.

"I love you," I said. He smiled.

"I know," He said, kissing me again. "I love you too."

We walked back out to the living room, where everyone, except for Two-Bit of course, was still sitting in the living room, watching TV. They didn't even notice us enter.

We watched TV with them for a while, but it was really boring, until Soda laughed and pointed out that me and Dally had "big fat red hickeys" on our necks. Darry gave me a stern look, and I smiled sheepishly. Dally was to scared to make eye contact with Darry, which I thought was quite funny.

"Hey, who wants to go to this party that Tim Shepard's having?" Dally asked.

"I'll go," I immediately said.

"We'll come, right Soda?" Steve asked. Soda nodded.

"I wanna go," Ponyboy said. Darry started to say no to Ponyboy going, but Johnny said,

"I'll go and watch him."

"Well, I'm not going. I need some sleep for tomorrow." Darry said.

"Alright. Well, are we ready to go then?" I asked. Everyone mumbled their agreements, and we all put on our shoes and coats.

"Seeya later Dar," I said.

"Bye sis," Darry said. We stepped out the door, closing it behind us. Walking down the sidewalk, I was feeling really uneasy, as if something bad was going to happen.

"It's really cold out," Soda observed.

"Really? You don't say?" I said, my breath coming out in clouds. Everyone laughed. We kept walking, and then some stuff happened, and it seemed like it all happened in slow motion. As we walked by this dark alley, a fist came out and punched me right in the jaw, so that I fell down and rolled into the alley. I was on the ground, sort of holding my face where I could already feel a big purple bruise forming and blood trickling out.

Dally of course, and the other guys, ran in after me to see if I was okay, which was a huge mistake on their part. The guy who hit me drew a gun, and pointed it all of them, making them stop in their tracks. He was standing in between me and the guys.

"Sunny, I'm coming," Dally said, and ran at me, running around the back of the guy.

"Dally, no!" I yelled, but it was too late, the guy cracked him over the head with the gun. He didn't shoot him, I mean he hit him with the gun, and knocked him out cold.

"No!" I screamed, and a tear came to my eye as I saw Dally lying on the ground with blood dripping out of a cut on his head.

"Oh God," Ponyboy said in a weak voice, and I would've given anything to hug my baby brother just then.

"Who the fuck are you!" I shouted, dragging myself over to the wall and propping myself against it, as I had twisted and sprained my ankle when I fell.

Then the guy turned his face to the moonlight, and we all saw who it was.

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