Chapter 6

Alice's POV:

Weeks passed and it seemed that Dally was becoming more and more on edge, like he wanted out but couldn't find the words to tell me. It was around 9 and I was sitting in the living room with Jenna when Dally walked in. He walked right by me and through the door, car keys in his hand.

"Dally?" he didn't answer. "I'll be right back sweetie." I said to Jenna and followed Dally out the door. "Dally!" He kept walking "Dally!" nothing, "DALLAS!" He stopped on the sidewalk.

"WHAT?" he snapped.

I was taken aback, "I was just going to ask where you were going?"

"Over to Buck's I'll be home late, see you when I get back." Then he turned and left me standing there unable to say another word. I turned and went back into the house, but not before Soda and Steve pulled up and saw me standing outside.

"Was that Dally that we passed? Where's he going Alice?" Soda asked looking at me.

"To Buck's I guess." I whispered not being able to find me voice. "Soda can you watch Jenna?" and before he answered I walked back into the house and to my room. I laid on the bed on Dally's side and breathed in his scent, tears fell from my eyes.

I cried for awhile until I heard the door open. Darry walked in. "Soda said I might find you in here. Where's Dal?"

"Buck's." I said as I let out another sob.

"Oh, well Soda put Jenna to bed a couple hours ago, it's almost 1 now, I think you've been in here longer than you really think. Stop crying, Dally's gonna come home he just had to get away for awhile. Alice you have to remember Dally didn't plan on ever having a wife and kid but you changed that, but you changed it very fast. It's kinda like he just now hit the reality that he has to take care of someone else besides himself now. He just needed to get away, he'll be back."

As if on cue we heard Dally walk through the door. Darry and me got up and went to the living room.

"Hey, baby." He said pulling me to him, he was drunk which made me more nervous about what he had done.

"Dally get off me, you're drunk and I don't want to be around you when you are like this." I said pushing him away.

"Naw, babe, I ain't drunk." He said coming over to me holding his arms out.

"Dally you can't be going out and getting drunk you have a child to take care of now, you have more responsibilities than just yourself." I said.

His eyes flashed with anger, he was drunk. "You listen good you little whore, you are the reason everything happened like this. You screwed everything up. You should've gotten rid of the child long before and me going out wouldn't be a problem. You messed it all up. You Alice, not me."

"So you want out? Is that what you want! You wanna leave! Then go! Get out of my life and Jenna's! If I messed up your perfect life then let me do you a favor and leave! I'm gone! It's over!" I pulled my ring off my finger, this seemed to snap Dally back to reality and caught everyone's attention. I threw the ring at him. "I'm gone, I'm not putting up with this. I won't be called a whore. You told me you loved me and I believed you, well I shouldn't have. You used me and lied to me and hurt me. No more! I'm gone." I said and grabbed my keys and walked out the door.

Dally's POV:

"Darn." I said and leaned against the wall, slowly sinking to the ground. I put my head in my hands. "I messed up." I picked up her ring and turned it in my fingers.

"Ya think so. Dal she threw her wedding ring at you. And walked away, she left Jenna here. Dal, she's gone, you didn't just mess up this time, you lost your girl, Dal, she's been through a lot and can only take so much, you pushed her to far." Johnny said. "And if she messed up your life so bad then explain to me how if she hadn't been here you and me both would be dead. So yeah Dal, she really messed up your life. What about hers. She could've gone to college with the money she had and never even thought twice about us. She didn't have to stay or have Jenna. But she did. She stayed Dal, she stayed for you."

Alice's POV:

I got into my car as the tears began to fall, I drove away and headed anywhere but my house. My vision was blurry and I wasn't watching where I was going really. I heard a horn honk. I looked up as the headlights to the semi got closer I slammed on my brakes and tried to swerve out of the way, the semi hit the back end of my car. The car started to spin and then I saw a telephone pole and my world went black."

Dally's POV:

The room fell silent after Johnny had spoken to me until the phone rang. Darry picked it up.

"No this is Mr. Curtis." He then handed the phone to me. "It's the cops. They said they need to talk to you"

"Hello? Yea. Holy…" The cop hung up and I threw the phone at the wall.

"Dally, what's wrong?" Johnny asked.

"Alice got in a wreck, she totaled her car, they don't know if she's alright or not. She keeps saying she's done, and leaving." I said. "I should've never let her leave!"

"Dall, let's get down to the hospital and see her." Darry said.

"I'll get Jenna and take her to Cherry." Soda said.

Thirty minutes later I had sobered up almost completely, we had Jenna at Cherry's, and I was yelling at the nurse to let me in to see Alice.

"Only family." The nurse said.

"I'm her husband! That's family!"

"I didn't see a ring on her finger." The nurse said placing her hands on her hips.

"Because she threw it at me before she left the house. See!" I said pulling the ring out of my pocket and holding it up. "Let me in the room to see my wife!" The nurse stepped aside finally and I went into the room.

The sight broke my heart. Alice had a large cut across her forehead and different cuts and bruises down her arms. I saw the outline of a cast on her left leg under the sheet. An IV was in her arm and her eyes were closed. She looked so beautiful even with the cuts.

"Alice?" I said as I walked to her bed.

She opened her eyes and looked at me. "Leave me alone Dally, I don't wanna hear you yelling at me right now. I don't want anything to do with you. I'll get out of your life, I'll take Jenna and we'll leave you alone, I'll go back to my parents and just forget what they did to me. We'll be out of your life before you even know it, you can forget all about me." she said, tears falling.

"But that's the problem babe, I don't want you to go. I was way out of line, I was drunk and I didn't mean what I said, baby you have to believe me. I didn't plan on ever settling down with someone and raising a family. It scared me, I didn't want to be my dad, and having a kid just made me think I would turn out like him. But you have changed me babe. I love you, and I love our daughter. I can't watch you walk away from me, knowing I'm the reason your walking. Don't leave me babe, please don't leave me." I begged her.

Tears rolled down her cheeks and I leaned down and brushed them away. "I love you babe." I said looking down at her.

"I know you do Dally, but I can't sit at home wondering when you are going to come home."

I pulled out her ring. "I thought you might want it back, I'm not going to hurt you, everytime I do I end up crying too. Please don't leave Alice, stay with me, I love you too much to let you go without a fight."

"Dally, I, I just," she looked up at me. "I love you too." She said and smiled.

I took her hand and slid the ring back on. Smiling at her. She scooted over and I slid in beside her. The nurse came in and looked at me. I held up Alice's hand. "See she does have a ring and I am her husband." I held up my hand showing her my wedding band. Alice giggled from beside me.

"She wouldn't let you in?" She whispered. I shook my head. She laughed out loud. 'God I love her laugh.' I thought.

Three days later Alice was released from the hospital but she had to walk with crutches, so Cherry offered to keep Jenna longer, because they were having so much fun. Alice hopped up the stairs to the porch holding onto my arm so she didn't loose her balance. Once in the house she went into the bedroom and tried to change clothes. I watched from the doorway as she tried to pull her pants on and fell over and onto the bed. I laughed.

"It's really not that funny." She said sitting up on her elbows on the bed.

I waked over and helped her and she then pulled a shirt over her head without problem. I laid down and pulled her to me. "I love you."

"I love you too. But Dally the doctor gave me some news that you need to know."

I sat up scared at what she was going to say. "Dally… I'm pregnant again."

I looked at her. "Are you serious?" She nodded. "How far along?"

"Three months." I nodded.

"Dally… I understand if you want…" I cut her off.

"I'm happy I am babe, and no I don't want out. I just don't know what to say. Another baby… wow." She laughed. Then rolled on top of me.

"Yes, Mr. Winston another baby, and you are the reason we are going to have another baby." She kissed me and then rolled back over. "I think I can manage walking on crutches and Jenna being here, can we go get her?" She looked at me.

"Yea, I'll drive." I said.

"Obviously, not like I can drive very well with this thing on my leg." She said sarcastically.

I turned around and picked her up holding her in my arms, her arms wrapped around my neck.

"Well looks like y'all are all better." Soda said.

She laughed. "Yes, well after Dally confessed his undying love for me… again I forgave him. We are going to get Jenna but I have some news first."

They all looked at her and I set her down. "I'm pregnant again."

Two-bit choked and Soda, Pony, and Johnny, started laughing, Steve looked amused and Darry looked like normal, almost as if he had expected her to be. She had been sick a lot of morning but none of us thought anything of it, not even her.

"Well we'll be back we're going to go get Jenna." I said as we walked out of the house.

Alice's POV:

Life was back to normal. Dally had settled into the married life and was a great father. Delaine Nicole Winston was born on July 15, Jenna was four years older.

Pony and Johnny shared a room. The girls got the upstairs rooms, and Steve and Soda shared the other bedroom we had built. Two-bit still decided to stay with his mom but was at our house most of the time. Life was perfect and I didn't think anything could ever change that.

A/N: I'm so sorry for the long wait but I've had a busy summer. There is only one more chapter after this. I'm sad to see it come to an end but happy that I can devote more time to my other story. Please Review!