Okay, if you read my reviews, you'll know I had wrote a new chapter, but then I stuffed my computer up… the one I write stories on. Unfortunately, some of my files went missing, including all the chapters to The MarySue… weird, huh? Along with that went missing Ponyboy's Confusing Dream, and also Caught under the Covers. So some of the jokes I had written in there will be put back in this (if I can remember them all)… and some of 'em will leave to make an appearance in a future chapter.
P.S THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE GREAT REVIEWS! It really helped me to finally get motivated and write a reasonably long chapter.
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Me, Johnny, and Mary-Sue were walking out of the movies.
"Have you ever noticed that it never snows here?" I commented.
"Yeah, it's like it's summer 24/7 here," Johnny, said casually, with a shrug. He lifted the collar up his jacket, while with a mysterious extra hand, lit up a smoke in his mouth.
"Maybe… it doesn't snow here?" Mary-Sue suggested. "The author of this, comes from Australia. It doesn't even snow there during their winter… unless you go to the mountains or somethin', but god, who wants to take a couple of hours drive, just to see snow!"
"Yeah… she really wouldn't have any idea whether it did snow in Tulsa. For all she could know, she may think it only snows in certain areas." Johnny said, shrugging once again, "but hey, it's her story, she can do what ever she wants with it."
Suddenly it began to snow.
I looked at the sky strangely, "now that's just crazy! It's June!"
"Yes… but that's normally winter in Australia," Mary-Sue smiled.
"Oh…" Johnny said thinking it over.
"Alright, shutup!" I yelled, getting frustrated all over again, "I don't want to hear about the god damn author and neither does anyone else! People go to this, to read about the characters from the book! Not to read about the author added as some long lost sister or whatever!"
"But how else is there supposed to be any romance?" Mary-Sue asked, winking suggestively at me.
I stared at her, my eye slightly twitching, and then i cringed in disgust. But I continued on, "there were girls in the book too!"
"But I didn't like those girls, so what else do you suggest?" Mary-Sue smirked, thinking she had out smarter the ever so smart me… did I just think ever so? Why do I constantly narrate my own life like this? Hmm, I should become a philosopher?
"Um.." I thought thinking it through, "I dunno.. I guess romance doesn't have to be limited to just heterosexual relationships."
"Where in the book was it suggested there was any kind of gay relationship between the characters?"
"Where in the book was it suggested there was any long lost sister?"
We noticed the snow suddenly began to fall more heavily, instead of just light snowflakes. Also in that short time, possibly 10 minutes, a couple of hours had actually passed, and it was now night time.
"We better get home," Mary-Sue stated, "it's 10:30 at night. Darry is gonna kill us if we're home late."
"You would know that how?" Johnny asked her, but she ignored him.
I also gave her a strange look, "how do you know it's 10:30?"
She coyly smiled, "do you see that twig on the ground? Over there laying on that pile of snow?"
I looked down at it, oh yeah, there it is. "So?"
"The small leaf on the top of the branch is slowly beginning to die."
"Point being?"
"When it crumbles, it will be facing north."
"And?"
"It will point to that ant crawling over there."
"And…"
"The ant is carrying a bread crumb. Possibly from raisin toast."
"And…!"
"The ant would have gotten that from a table… from inside a house. And may now be carrying that back to his home, to feed his starving family."
"Don't ants collect food just to feed the queen?" Johnny asked.
"Oh, simple minded, Johnny," Mary-Sue said shaking her head, with a small smile, "that all ties in with this. Do you see next to the ant? It is a small rock."
"WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS HAVE TO DO WITH KNOWING WHAT THE TIME IS!" I yelled, almost practically blowing steam from my ears I was so angry and frustrated.
"What? Oh, I have a watch," Mary-Sue smiled.
My eye twitched, "lets just go home."
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By the time we got down to my house, the snow had fallen so heavily; we were knee deep in it. Surprisingly though, none had landed on anyone's lawn, or on the road.
"It's good to be home," Mary-Sue grinned.
"Sure is," Johnny grinned.
"You don't live here?" I commented.
"Oh… that's right… for now anyway," Johnny looked around shiftily, "I won't be moving in till it's necessary for the slash plot."
"What!" I asked, confused.
"Oh… nothing…" Johnny, began to smirk devilish to himself.
I've never seen Johnny smirk like that. In fact I don't think I've ever heard him talk so much in just one night?
"Let's just go inside, to get out from the cold," Mary-Sue said, "I'm freezing!" She then walked towards our mailbox, hitching her very small mini skirt up even higher.
I rolled my eyes.
As soon as she stepped onto our lawn however, a big spot light came down on her from the room, and glowing lazers of all colours shot up from the grass, and were zooming around everywhere. To top this all off a loud siren went off.
I covered my ears, to block out the deafening noise, and squinted my eyes, to try and adjust to the suddenly incredibly bight flashing lights. "WHAT'S GOING ON!" I yelled to Johnny, trying to hear myself over the noise. "WHY WOULD I WANT A BANANA!" Johnny screamed back. I gave him a strange look.
The houses in our street, had heard all the commotion, and lights were being flicked on inside their homes. They came trudging out onto the street, only wearing pyjamas, night gowns, and the occasional leather dominatrix outfit.
"What's going on!" Mr Baker yelled at me, from down the street, "I have a very important work meeting in the morning, so I need my sleep!"
"YEAH!" The neighbourhood chanted behind her, now suddenly carrying flaming torches and large pitch forks.
Then Mrs Davidson began yelling also at me, while trying to support her two crying babies in her arms, "I just got them to sleep and then all of this racket has to go off! It'll be at least 4 days before I can get them back to sleep!"
"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry!" I tried yelling at them, but they just kept screaming, "we need sleep! We need sleep!"
Darry then burst out the door, carrying a large blanket.
"Darry, what's going on!" I yelled to him.
"Thank god, you're home! It's late and I've been worried sick!" He yelled frantic, tears streaming down his face, and bald patches were visible on his head, from obvious worry.
Wow, I didn't know he truly cared that much. Maybe I don't use my head enough? Maybe I should become more responsible, and try even harder at school. So I can go to college, and fulfil everything that Darry has been working so hard for me to become.
…Then he wrapped the blanket around Mary-Sue, hugging her, and crying on her shoulder.
Fine, screw everything I just thought!
"What is all this Darry?" She asked, smiling innocently, fluttering her eye lashes, not seeming to care at all about his worry.
"Oh," he said standing up and getting a remote from his pocket. He pressed a button and the loud siren, and flashing lights all disappeared.
He grinned, "it's my new home alarm system to notify me whenever you come home, after curfew." He smiled, tilting his head, "nothing's too good for Mary-Sue."
He then looked around at all our angry neighbours and yelled, "I'm sorry for waking you all up. But, don't worry… Mary-Sue is safe."
They all then looked at each other strangely, and lowered their pitchforks and flaming torches, "are you sure?"
"Yes," he said, sighing with relief, "she's going to be alright."
"Thank god," an elderly woman said. The neighbours all nodded, smiling, and returned to their homes.
If I tried to figure that one out… I may lose my grip on reality… so I decided to sort out another issue.
"How did you afford all this?" I asked, talking about the sirens, lasers, etc…
"I sold blood," Darry said, showing me his arm, with several cotton wool buds, taped to his arm.
"Ohmigod, are you okay!" I asked.
"Why wouldn't I be?" He said, grinning still, "I'm fantastic now that Mary-Sue is back, and she is safe."
He then wobbled a little, and stared out into space, "what's that Lenny? Buy Mary-Sue more gifts… but I don't think I have any money left… yes… sell more blood."
I walked up to him and slapped him across the face to snap him out of it. "You've given too much blood! You need to rest." He nodded, and we all went inside.
I was ready to go to sleep on the couch, when we heard screaming suddenly outside.
The gang, who was still at my house, and my brothers all ran outside, I followed after them.
There laying on the ground was a beaten and bruised Daisy-Sue.
"Daisy-Sue!" Mary-Sue appeared out of nowhere and ran to her sister's mangled corpse. "Are you okay!"
Daisy-Sue looked worse than the day we found Johnny laying in that lot, almost dead.
She tried to speak, but instead began coughing up blood.
"Two-Bit!" Darry yelled to him, "do you know anything about first aid? This girl needs help!"
"No, Darry," he said. He then rolled up his sleeves, "yet, I do however, have a certificate 2 in medicine and medical procedures. Step back."
We all made room for Two-Bit while he knelt down beside Daisy-Sue and began to look her over.
"She's been beaten pretty badly… soc's I presume."
"Those bastards!" Sodapop yelled, fighting back tears, and Steve held him for comfort.
Two-Bit continued, "yes.. a fractured wrist, bruised eye, possible her ribs have been broken and bruised also, nice boobs however."
He stood up. Darry took a deep breath and gave Two-Bit a stern look, "was it rape?"
"Most definitely."
"What makes you think she was raped?" I asked.
"Ponyboy… she's a good looking greaser. Why wouldn't she get raped? A fine girl like that, probably gets pounced on by at least 7 socs, before she can even leave the front gate of her house."
I rolled my eyes, and sighed, "is she going to be alright?"
"A bandaid should do it," Two-Bit nodded, looking her over again.
"God, look what we should do… and is the smart thing to do, is that we should take her to the hospital." I suggested.
Darry shook his head, "I have a better idea."
"That is?" I asked.
"She'll move in with us."
"How will that help?"
"Oh, Pony, it just will! Now help me pick her up, so we can lay her down on the couch… by the way that's her new room, you're going to have to find somewhere else to sleep."
"Now you're taking away the couch from me!" I yelled.
"Oh, Pony, stop complaining, there's still a perfectly good dog house in the back yard."
"Why do we have a dog house if we don't have a dog?"
He ignored me however when Daisy-Sue began to speak. "Ponyboy…" she began to whisper weakly.
Aw, jeez, why does it have to be me.
I sighed frustratingly and knelt down beside her, "what?"
"I'm in pain…" she weakly told me.
"Darry's going to help you."
She then worked up enough strength to push me away roughly, "I don't need his help! I don't need anyone's help!" She then tried to sit up, but she began to groan loudly in pain, and cough up more blood.
"No… I think you do need our help."
"No! I'm a tough greaser! I don't need anyone's help!" She then tried to stand, but she began to wobble, and she fell to the ground again.
I rolled my eyes. "Look, you seriously do need help. Get over this whole pride thing."
"I DON'T NEED YOUR GOD DAMN SYMPATHY OR HELP!"
Dally then knelt down beside her. "Can I help you?"
Her eyes widened, and began to glitter, "of course…"
He picked her up and carried her inside, and layed her down gently onto my couch.
"I need to take a shower," I said, frustratingly, as all the guys ran around to get her things like pillows, drinks, blankets, food, etc…
I went to the bathroom and turned on the hot water to take the shower. I took off all my clothes and hopped in.
I squirted shampoo into my hand, and began to rub it into my hair. I hummed quietly to myself, when I noticed someone had joined in on the song… and was washing my back!
I turned around, "Curly!"
He jumped, "Pony, you frightened me!" He then chuckled.
"What are you doing here!" I yelled.
He shrugged, "well… I'm never mentioned in stories that much. It wouldn't kill you to at least visit once and a while either! You know, so maybe some interesting plot can be started between you and me! But nooo, it's always gotta be you and Johnny, or you and your brothers!"
"I'm sorry, Curly, it's just… you were mentioned, what like, twice, in the book? You just weren't a major character."
"Pfft, neither was Buck Merill. Yet, all I ever read is, 'we're heading over to Buck's' 'I heard he was at Buck's' 'wild parties at Buck's'. When is Buck never brought up in a story! Hmm!" He then pouted and crossed his arms.
"Look, lately people have been trying to make more of an effort to bring you up. You've just gotta be patient."
"Yeah…" He sighed, "but god, I hate waiting!"
"I know, I know," I said patting his shoulder, "…now get out. This isn't a slash."
He got out, grabbing a towel and then turned back to me, "this is a Fragile-Ego story. Some sort of slash, even if it's incredibly mild like this, HAD to be put in somewhere."
"I know," I smiled, nodding.
Curly then left… and was never mentioned in this story again.
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When I came out of the shower, Daisy-Sue was sitting on the table, laughing and giggling. She appeared perfectly fine! If anything better?
What happened to the cuts and bruises!
"Daisy-Sue…she's fine!" I yelled, completely shocked.
"Yeah…she healed," Steve said, rolling his eyes.
"But it's been only about 7 minutes!"
"Yeah? What's strange about being able to heal completely in only 7 minutes with no doctors to even help?" Darry asked me.
Dally sat down by her feet and began to rub them, looking up at her adoringly, taking such care, that he wouldn't even show a small fragile kitten.
"How are you feeling now, by the way?" Dally asked her.
"Fine… except…"
All the guys jumped to their feet, surrounding her to the point they were almost suffocating her. Sodapop began to cry again, "what is it! Please tell us! We'll promise to try and make everything better!"
Daisy-Sue then sighed, looking down, "well..before they attacked me…"
"Conveniently outside our house…" I mumbled under my breath.
"I had a happy meal from… you know, that fast food place… and… they… they… STEPPED ON IT!"
"Those monsters!" The guys all yelled.
I sighed, shaking my head, the Sue curse has struck again.
"I know," the supposedly tough greaser, began to cry, "even stole that little toy you get with it!"
"I love those toys," Dally said, sighing.
"Don't worry!" Johnny yelled, with a sudden burst of unusual confidence, "I'll go get you another happy meal!"
"No I will!" Two-Bit yelled.
"Na-uh, me!" Steve hollered.
"Not if I get there first!" Sodapop yelled, running outside.
"Dang!" Darry yelled, chasing after him, to get that happy meal first.
Pretty soon all the guys had run out to get that happy meal… except Dally, Mary-Sue, and me. Unusually Mary-Sue hadn't been mentioned in a long time, which meant she had gone to bed.
Dally took her hand, "don't worry, we'll find those socs and teach 'em a lesson they'll never forget! I don't care if it takes me 10 years to find the socs who did this to you! They will pay! Oh, I swear, they will definitely pay! I will camp out in soc territory day and night, trying to find them. I don't care if I get beaten up constantly by them out numbering me. I'll go to every damn door if I have to, just to find them! Oh, and when I do find them… I'll tie 'em up, and make them watch as I kill their family in slow torturous way… and we're talkin' real sick torture! Like cutting off limbs with blunt butter knives, and scooping out their eyes with toothbrushes! That's not even half as bad as what I'm going to do those socs who beat you up! By the way my name's Dally."
She giggled, and I rolled my eyes.
"Oh… Dally… I think I'm in love with you. But… it's just too soon for me to be falling in love with a tough hood like you. Also… I'm not sure if I can love, with my cold icy heart, from constant years of abuse."
"Oh, Daisy-Sue, me too, I thought I could never love! But when my eyes laid upon you're bruised, cut up body… I knew it was love."
"Dally," she began to cry again, "its… it's just too soon!" And she ran off quickly, into the night.
Yet, she came back, only a few seconds later. "Chase after me, Dally!"
He looked up at the clock, "it's getting kind of late isn't it?"
"Yeah… you're right. Let's head to bed." She walked back inside, but Dally first went to the bathroom.
"What a man…" she sighed lovingly, walking over to me. Why have I just been standing here this whole time?
"He's so handsome…"
My eyes almost popped out my head, "what are you blind! The man looks like some kind of elf!"
"A dreamy elf… that all the girls want."
"He looks rather scary to me, actually?" I said, thinking it over.
"Oh, Ponyboy, you'll never understand love."
I shrugged, "like I mentioned in the book, I'm just not that interested in girls yet."
"So you say now… but just wait till a girl from out of nowhere appears… and you fall madly in love."
"Uh-huh…" I said, heading towards the backdoor…for bed.
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Wow, that took me hours to write! But in the next chapter The Outsiders will be told all over again! Except of course with the addition of Mary-Sue tagging along. Will anything change? Who will they meet along the way? More clichés? Maybe they'll run into Gary-Stu… And what will happen to the gang while Pony, Johnny and Mary-Sue are away?… They'll find a baby on their front step of course!
Lots more clichés coming!