It was Monday after school. Usually I walk home with someone but today I decided I'd walk home alone. Bad decision on my part. I heard a mustang behind me, usually I don't have to worry about that because the Socs have a steady truce with me but when I looked at the car, I didn't recognize any of the boys.
"Hey beautiful want a ride?" the driver asked me.
Without even looking at him I said, "No, thank you the exercise will do me some good."
"Oh, I think you should come with me."
"Well I don't," I said as they were getting out of the car. I wasn't far from home maybe I could escape and make a run for it. I did have a switchblade just in case.
What I didn't expect was him to grab me around the waist. Now that just got me pissed off. I hate when people I don't know touch me the wrong way.
"I have a truce with the Socs they don't touch me," I said struggling with him.
"Well, I'm new in town," he said pulling me towards him.
"Well that's bad for you," I said putting my hand over my switchblade.
"And why is that?"
"Because if you weren't new you'd know I can take care of myself," I said taking out my switchblade and slashing his arm. It wasn't that deep of a cut either but it was deep enough for him to let me go.
He looked at the wound and said, "you bitch," but by that time I was already half way down the block.
I heard him running behind me so I flung my baseball cap, that I always have with me if I want to look like a boy, at him. It comes in handy sometimes cause if you're a boy and you pull out a switchblade, its a lot more convincing then a girl with a switch. Now its coming handy to stop a Soc from possibly raping me. Yeah, right, there is no way in hell I'm letting anyone I don't know touch me.
He was still trailing me when I ran to my house, through the gate and into the house. I slammed the door behind me and locked it. I ran to the window to make sure he wasn't there anymore and he wasn't. Two- Bit, Johnny, Dally, and Ponyboy were looking at me like I was crazy.
"Just so y'all can stop looking at me like that I'll tell ya what happened. I basically got jumped except for the fact I cut the guy and ran all the way here. There was no way I was going to let that guy touch me." I looked at there shocked faces, it was so funny that I would have laughed if I wasn't so scared.
"I thought you had a truce with the Socs." Ponyboy said looking at me scared. That poor boy I'm his only mother figure and he thinks he almost lost me.
"Well, the guy said he was new in town. Oh, don't worry Pony, I'm not goin no wheres." I said sitting down next to him and giving him a hug.
"Who was he so we can kick his ass?" Dally said menacingly. Dally only has a soft spot for two people in our gang and those two people were me and Johnny.
"Yeah," Two- Bit said backing me up.
"I actually don't know, I've never seen him before, but I have a feeling he'll be back."
"And I'll be waiting." Dally said cracking his knuckles. That poor Soc, I actually felt bad for him, I was the one girl he should never had messed with. I mean every single greaser gang I know loves me. I mean Shepard's gang and Brumly and all the others in Tulsa, they love me. Especially Tim Shepard, one time he tried to get with me but Dally told him off and the next day I found out that Tim and Dally had gotten into a big brawl.
Well that's my Dally, always having to do things the hard way. God only knows what Darry, Soda, and Steve are goin to do when they find out. God I really don't want to be that Soc right now. Then again he deserves it and that's the kind of thinking that's going to get me in trouble one day. Welcome to my life! The beautiful and glorious life of Danni Curtis, almost.
