Maggie and I have kept each other's secrets and so have Ponyboy and Johnny.
Dally and I have been nicer to each other to an extent but he does stuff to annoy me such as twirling or playing with my hair while I'm sleeping or pushing me on to Two- Bit every time I'm sleeping upright on the couch. It's been three months since we all started school and it's actually been alright.
Socs have made many passes at Maggie and me but we just ignore them. Maggie has a few Soc girlfriends but I don't. My only friends are Maggie and Angela Shepard even though I've never met either of her brothers. Curly sounds cool but I know that Tim hangs around with Dally and that makes me scared.
Every now and then I go to Buck's and play poker but I leave every time they ask me to play strip poker. That's when trouble started at Buck's.
I was playing poker when a guy started to come on to me. The only guy from the gang there was Dally, sadly. I got up from the poker table and was starting to leave when the guy cornered me on a wall.
"Hey baby, want to come home with me tonight?" the guy asked. I could smell that his breath was full of alcohol.
"No," I said trying to get by him but he put his arm up against the wall to block my way around him.
"Sure, you do, you just don't know it yet."
"Look I said no," then I said the only thing I could, "Dally!"
"What," the guy said like he had never heard the name before.
Coming up from behind was Dally, looking pissed but when he saw who it was he broke into a smile.
"Hey, Shepard when did you get out of the cooler?" Dally said to the guy who had me on the wall.
The guy turned around and then left me alone to talk to Dally. After about 5 minutes the guy left and Dally pinned me against the wall. I thought to myself oh great here comes the yelling and the cursing and the lectures.
"Do you just go looking for trouble, do you even know who that was!" Dally yelled at me in no more than a whisper.
"No, and I tried to get away, he came on to me not the other way around!" I screamed in the same whisper.
"Well guess what that was Tim Shepard one of the toughest hoods around!"
"Did I look like I knew that!"
"Well now you do!" he whispered and ended the conversation but he wouldn't let me go. I tried to get away but he kept me pinned.
"Dally," I said, "let me go."
"Dally," I said again but he cut me off and kissed me. He pried his tongue into my mouth and we stayed against the wall for what felt like minutes until I heard a big crash. That snapped me back into reality and reminded me of Johnny. I had to stop this before it went any further. I pushed him back but he came back until I pushed him back again.
"Dally, I have to go," I said trying to get away. The scary thing was I didn't smell any alcohol on him. He seemed as sober as he could get.
"Why?" he asked still not letting me go. Should I tell him about me and Johnny? I couldn't think I just needed to get out of there.
"I told Darry I'd come home early and if I'm not there he'll come here and look for me," I lied right through my teeth and I couldn't believe it.
"Whatever," he said letting me go.
I ran down the street and for the lot where Johnny would be. I had to tell him. I wasn't going to lie to him about this. I just hoped he could forgive me then I heard something behind me, Socs.
They catcalled to me but I ignored them. Then I heard them get out of the car. I started running as fast as I could but they caught me quickly as did darkness. Although I was unconscious I could still here them until someone saved me. I heard them wrestling and screaming.
When I finally woke up my clothes were ripped and I hurt all over. I had bandages all over my body including my forehead. I looked to the side of me and saw that I was on Ponyboy and Soda's bed. I got scared when I saw a battered Johnny next to me on the bed with a scar on his face. He must have been the one that saved me, damn Socs. I decided to go back to bed there was nothing more I could do.