Even though Dally acts as if I'm his kid sister, sometimes he doesn't. Sometimes when I'm doing dishes in the kitchen he'll go by me to get something and put his hands where they don't need to be. I never say anything and I still haven't told Maggie about Buck's and I'm not going to.

Now that Johnny has his scar that means it won't be to long before it all starts. I still have scars from where the Socs got me and the Socs don't mind reminding me of it either.

One day Johnny and me were making out in the lot when we heard screaming. We immediately got up and started running towards the sound. When we got there we found the whole gang around Ponyboy. Maggie was sitting next to him and Sodapop wiping the cut on Ponyboy's face. When we got there Maggie looked up at me with tears brimming in her eyes. She knew this was only the beginning.

I finally spoke up and said, "What happened?"

Dally came up from behind me and put an arm around my waste. Then he said, "Ponyboy was jumped." Even though I knew why Dally was out of the cooler it would only make sense if I asked.

"Oh, I hi Dal when did you get out of the cooler?" I asked as did Ponyboy.

"Got off early for good behavior," he said smirking at me.

After that pretty much everything happened as it did in the book. Dally asked if anyone wanted to come with him to the movies. Everyone said no except for me, Johnny, and Ponyboy. I was surprised that even Maggie said no but she said it looking at me like she knew that I could save them.

We got into the movie theatre the illegal way of course. Dally helped me get under the fence and Ponyboy helped Johnny. I knew this wasn't going to be good. We sat right behind Cherry and Marcia. They were both Maggie's friends and they both apologized to me for their boyfriends jumping me. We were on pretty good terms and we would talk every now and then. Just to show off to me Dally started on Cherry.

"Dally leave her alone," I said. He just ignored me and kept on going until Cherry yelled in his face. He got up for drinks and left.

"You guys aren't going to start on us now to are you?" Cherry asked.

Before Ponyboy could say anything I said, "No, we're not like Dally he's an ass."

She smiled and said, "Oh, I'm sorry I didn't you were there Lacey, again we are so sorry for what our boyfriends did to you."

"Don't even worry about it, its over and done with."

"So who are these guys?"

"This is Ponyboy and Johnny."

"Ponyboy that's a really original name," she said looking at Ponyboy.

"Well my dad was a real original person, I even have a brother named Sodapop, it even says so on his birth certificate."

Just then Dally came back with drinks. This wouldn't end well. He gave one to me, to Johnny, to Ponyboy, to Marcia and to Cherry. Of course Cherry through it in his face(go girl!) and Dally attacked her. I sent a look to Johnny and we both stood up and the exact same time we said, "Dally leave her alone!"

He cursed at us and left. Cherry asked us to sit up with them and we did. I sat next to Johnny so when Two- Bit came I could tell Johnny he was there so he wouldn't be so surprised. When I saw Two- Bit coming I whispered to Johnny, "Watch out Two- Bit's behind us and I think he's going to try and scare you."

Johnny whispered back, "Thank you."

"Alright greasers you've had it!" Two- Bit yelled and Marcia, Cherry, and Ponyboy jumped. Two- Bit was surprised that neither me nor Johnny jumped so he just did what he did in the book, flirt with Marcia.

We all talked for a little bit then when Cherry was talking to Ponyboy about Darry, Ponyboy started becoming agitated. I was talking to Johnny so of course Ponyboy had to insult me to. When Johnny tried to calm down Ponyboy, I tried to and Ponyboy said, "You know you two aren't wanted at home either Lacey, I mean when was the last time you've even seen your parents." What he said hurt me and Johnny but we didn't show it. Two- Bit stood up us though and put his around my shoulders cause he saw the tears brimming in my eyes. I may have hated my home and parents but I couldn't stand the fact that they hated me to.

Then the Socs came.

"What are you greasers doing picking up our girls," Bob said.

"Cherry, Marcia get in the car," Randy said.

"No," Marcia said.

"Well then we'll have to take some of your greaser trash," Bob said implying me. Johnny stood infront of me with his switchblade out, Two- Bit had his switchblade out, and Two- Bit gave a broken glass bottle to Ponyboy.

Then suddenly Cherry screamed, "Stop, we'll go I hate fights alright I hate fights."

Cherry said something to Ponyboy, and then left. Two- Bit left and then we all stayed in the lot around a campfire. The funny thing was Johnny wasn't the one saying he was going to kill himself, I was. We all fell asleep but Ponyboy woke us up. I told him I would stay with Johnny for the night. Johnny kept his arm over me and we slept until Ponyboy woke us up again.

I wasn't thinking so I agreed that we could go to the park. When we got there trouble started, again. Maybe Dally's right, trouble just comes looking for me.

The Socs chased after us and started beating up Johnny and drowning Ponyboy. They forgot all about me so I went to help Ponyboy.

"Get off of him!" I yelled. When they saw me they dropped Ponyboy on the ground and started kicking him. They grabbed me and ripped open my shirt. Then they started drowning me and Bob got on top of me. My whole body was drowning under the water until I finally saw red. When I woke up I saw Johnny and Ponyboy shaking next to me.

"What happened?" I asked shakily.

"I kill-lled that Soc," Johnny said stuttering.

"But Lacey he was beating up Pony and me and they were going to kill you and rape you again, I couldn't let that happen," Johnny said again almost crying.

"Ok," I said close to crying. I wasn't expecting me to be the one drowning or dying, I was supposed to be the one to save them.

"We have to find Dally he'll know what to do," Johnny said and we all left.

When we got to Buck's I wasn't to happy. This was the place that made me and Johnny get jumped in the first place. When Buck answered the door he took one look at me and said, "Hey Lacey, what the hell happened, you finally decided you wanted to play strip poker. I mean I knew you would play just not under water," Buck said laughing. When I saw myself I realized that my shirt was open down the middle but I didn't care. So what if my bra was showing it's a sports bra.

"Shut the hell up Buck and get Dally, tell him Johnny, Pony and Lacey are at the door, he'll come," I said.

"Whatever," he said and closed the door to look for Dally. Johnny and Pony went by the window to wait for Dally but I just sat down on the cold concrete ground. When Dally was coming the boys came back to the door but I stayed on the floor.

"Hey whats going on?" he asked.

"Johnny killed a Soc," Ponyboy blurted out.

"Good for you, lets get you in here, gee I thought New York was the only place I could get caught up in a murder rap, hey where's Lacey?" Dally said all in one breath.

"Down here," I said not getting up. "I'm having a little trouble getting up," I said looking up at him.

"Cmon," he said taking my hand and putting one arm around my waste to pull me up. I don't know why but I couldn't really walk well so Dally had me shift all my weight on to him.

When we got upstairs he got one good look at me and Pony and said, "Are you two wet, you'll die of pneumonia before the cops ever get to you." He told Pony to dry of and take off his shirt and handed him one of bucks. Then he told me to take of mine. Which I did but I didn't really care because like I said before I was wearing a sports bra and in 2006 girls would wear those without shirts in public all the time.

I didn't realize it at first but he had bruises all over his chest. I realized that when we were in the movie theatre we left before Tim Sheppard ever got to us.

"What happened to you?" I said while putting on one of Dally's shirts.

"Got into a fight with Tim Sheppard tonight, slashed his tires."

"Nice."

Dally gave money and a gun to Johnny and then gave them directions about the train and the church on Jay Mountain. I just stood there and nodded my head. When I was leaving Dally grabbed my hand and pulled me back. Like I said I thought that he thought of me as a little sister, thought. I could have been wrong. He kissed me but I was too tired to do or say anything. I just thought to my self how I am going to explain this to Johnny later. When he let me go he smirked and said, "You better go before they think we eloped to Mexico." He let me go and I left. I caught up with the boys eventually and hopped on the train.

On the train my head was on Johnny's lap as a pillow and Ponyboy's head was on my stomach as a pillow. I didn't really go to sleep despite the fact that Johnny told me to. Ponyboy just fell asleep and I held Johnny's hand the whole time.

When we got off the train I basically fell off. The boys started arguing over who should ask for directions so I did. There was a cowboy about 17 on the side of the road.

"Excuse may, suh," I said making myself have a strong southern accident so I sounded like I was from around the area.

"Yes, mam," he said to me looking me up and down. I didn't look as good as I had before but I looked pretty good.

"Can you give may directions ta the church on Jay Mountain?" I said batting my eyelashes.

"Sure its right up that hill there to the left."

"Thank you, suh, I appreciate the help," I said turning around.

"Hey, why are you going up there anyway?"

"Oh, may and mi boyfriend wanted somewhere we could be alone." I said not turning back around.

When me and the boys got there, we each picked a pew and went straight to sleep.