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Chapter six: Whatever
Two Months Later…Saturday nightTaya's Pov:
It's been two months since I met Curly and only three weeks since we started dating. I don't know how it happened but a couple of weeks ago he was just acting really weird around me and then he just asked me out. And I like dating him. He's real nice to me and he's really funny.
Pony doesn't seem to like that I'm dating him though. In fact he hasn't talked to me in a week. It really hurts cause I care about Pony, he's my best friend and everything and I don't want him to be mad at me. Anyways I don't really have time to think about it anymore, I have a date tonight with Curly and I have to leave if I want to meet him at the Nightly Double in time.
At the Movies…I got there a few minutes early and Curly wasn't there yet so I just hung around waiting for him, he's always late.
"Taya!" I looked around and saw Two-Bit running towards me, Soda, Steve and Pony were with him.
"Hey Two-bit!" he ran up to me and picked me up and nearly squeezed me to death.
"Man I haven't seen you in forever! Where ya been? You don't come around anymore" he put me down and let go, thank god! He almost squeezed me to death!
"I've been busy doing…"
"Curly"
Even though he was mumbling I could still hear him. How dare Pony assume that I slept with Curly!
"Dude Ponyboy that's mean. I'm sure she hasn't had sex with Curly" Soda said looking at his kid brother
"Whatever. I'm sure she has. That's why she hasn't bothered coming over or hanging out with us anymore"
"I wanted to come over but for some dumb reason your not talking to me and every time I talk to you, you act like an asshole! Do you even care how that made me feel! I care about you Pony and you just act like I don't exist just because I'm dating someone!" I was yelling by then, it was the first time I had every really been mad at Ponyboy before.
"Whatever" he rolled his eyes and just stood there with that dumb look on his face, "you know what Pony! Your just mad because you wanted to date Curly cause we all know that your GAY! And you wanna know something else? You should have killed yourself and I wish I had never met you!" I hadn't realized that I had moved and smacked him, at least not until I had and he was looking at me with such pain filled eyes that I almost cried.
"Hey! I don't care what the hell Ponyboy said to you or what he's done don't you EVER call him gay or tell him that he should have killed himself, ya hear me you little bitch!" Soda had grabbed my arm and spun me around so I was facing him, he was madder than I had ever seen him before.
He looked so mad that I thought he was going to hit me, but he didn't. Instead he just squeezed my arm so hard I was sure it was going to be bruised the next day. I pulled out of Soda's grasp and looked at Two-Bit and Steve, they were both looking like they would like nothing more than to kill me.
Tears sprung up in my eyes and I turned to leave. I looked at Pony, he was looking at the ground but I could see the tears streaming down his face. I didn't mean what I said, I'd never hurt you Pony. I turned and ran, I could see Curly and his friends but I didn't care. I just wanted to get out of there. I never meant to hurt Ponyboy, I was just upset.
Pony's Pov:
She's right. I should have killed myself. I didn't know I was hurting her by not talking to her. I was upset. I still am. I just don't want her dating Curly, he aint right for her. She's way too good for him. She sure can hit hard. I sniffed and rubbed my eyes and started walking home, "Pony come back!" I acted like I didn't hear Soda calling for me. He hurt Taya too.
I walked to the park and sat on one of the old swings and cried. I don't know how long I had sat there crying but by the time I stopped it was dark out and probably past midnight. I wiped at my face to get rid of the tears and started home, on the way I passed by Taya's house.
She lived with her mom in a small white house a block from my house. The kitchen light was on. I could see right into the kitchen through the window and I saw Taya sitting on the counter. Her knees pulled up and her head resting in her arms on her knees. She was shaking which meant she was crying. I turned away quickly and kept walking.
Friday at school…Taya hadn't been to school all week. I went to her house everyday hoping to catch her and talk to her but her mom just said that she wasn't home. She wasn't anywhere. I looked everywhere that we liked to go, the diner by the DX, the park, the movie house, and the ice cream place where we went everyday after school. I just couldn't find her. I was starting to worry and that had made my grades slip cause I spent all day at school wondering if she was ok or not no I didn't get much work done. Darry didn't like it, neither did Soda cause he knew I was thinking about Taya and he just didn't like her anymore. No one in the gang did.
I shook out of my thoughts when the bell rang signaling the end of the school day and I walked slowly out of the classroom to my locker where I shoved my books and then left. When I was by Taya's, I saw her sitting on her porch just staring out into space. I walked over quietly and sat a little ways away from her, she didn't notice.
"I'm real sorry Ponyboy…I didn't mean to hit you or say that stuff" I looked at her and saw that she was crying, she wouldn't look at me though. She was still staring out into space, "it's ok. And I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have been so mean to you. I was just upset. Your too good for Curly"
"I aint dating him anymore. I broke up with him last night" she pulled her knees up to her chest and rested her arms on them. Her eyes were their normal pale green color but the area around her eyes was slightly red. She had been crying.
We sat in silence for a few minutes before she suddenly jumped up and pulled me up with her, she was smiling and her eyes were sparkling, I couldn't help but smile back.
"Lets go get some ice cream" I nodded and we ran the whole way to the ice cream place, I won of course but I let her think that she did cause I'm a gentlemen like that.
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