I was not looking forward to school today. Even though Steve only goes part time to school, he offered to take the day off and walk me to and from school. I work to, at the diner but yesterday was my only day off this month, which sucked. I'm a waitress there but I'm not very good. At least I haven't been fired yet so that's a good thing.
Sadly I had to go to school early because my math teacher wanted to see me. I wonder what I did now. Two-Bit, Pony, and Johnny were going to leave after me, lucky.
Me and Steve were walking down the side walk toward school when we heard someone behind us. Oh, great that has to be the Socs, I thought. I glanced behind me and saw, blonde hair, ice cold blue eyes, a leather jacket, and a cigarette. That definitely wasn't a Soc, it was Dally.
Steve still hadn't noticed but I did. Without even looking at Dally I said, "Hey Dal." Steve flinched a little, and I couldn't see his face but I could tell that Dally was surprised.
"How'd you know it was me?" Dally asked walking up to the side of me.
"I could just tell."
"So Dal what's up, why were you following us?" Steve asked stopping. We all stopped and Dally took out another cigarette to give to Steve.
"Making sure that none of the Socs were gonna jump Danni again."
"Well I was with her," Steve said slightly annoyed.
"You think that would stop the Socs, I mean cmon I have a record, they'd be scared to even come close to her if I was with her."
"What makes you think they wouldn't be scared of me?" I just stood in the middle of them listening. This wouldn't end well.
"Steve, man, you look in the mirror lately, you aint the most intimidating guy on the block."
Steve was about to lurch at him because he doesn't have the greatest temper. I stood in between them and told them to stop. I put one hand on Steve's chest to keep him from killing Dally, if that's even possible. Dally laughed. I turned my head and gave him an angry glare. Then something occurred to me, why is Dally going to school? I didn't say anything about it but Steve did.
"Dally why are you going to school anyway?" Steve had calmed down and we were walking towards the high school.
"I'm not, I'm just making sure that Danni isn't touched again."
"Well she won't be because I'm going to school with her today. I took the day off, so you don't have to worry about having to even look at school."
"Whatever I'm walking you guys to school anyway. I'll be back at lunch and after school too. I'll walk Danni to the diner and maybe even stay around for a little bit." Dally said and then smirked. Sylvia, Dally's girlfriend, used to work at the diner but as I've told him for the millionth time she doesn't work there anymore. We were approaching the school and we're still into the conversation.
"Dally as I've told you for the millionth time Sylvia doesn't work at the diner anymore," I said joining the conversation again.
"Who says that's the reason I want to hang around for awhile," he said with a mischievous smirk.
"Tim would kill you." I said. Dally was also into Tim Shepard's little sister, Angela Shepard. Angel was one of my best friends.
"I wasn't talking about Angie." By this time Steve had seen someone he knew and went to go talk to him. Since I was with Dally, Steve knew I would be safe enough.
"Who, me, oh I don't want you annoying me all through my shift."
"I'm not going to annoy you, I'm just going to sit on the counter and give you a little entertainment."
"Yeah, sure and the first pretty greaser girl you see, your not going to totally ignore me and go hang all over her?" I questioned disbelievingly.
"No, alright maybe."
"Dallas Winston you are not going to use my job just so you can flirt with every girl you see."
"Well, I see you."
"Yet your not flirting with me, I'm amazed I guess we can tell Darry not to worry about you ever trying to get with me."
"What makes you so sure?"
"Oh, go to hell Dallas Winston."
"I probably will but I'm taking you with me."
"Smartass, see ya later Dally." I said and walked into the school. I will never understand the mind of Dallas Winston yet he knows me so well.
Turns out my math teacher said that I'm at the head of my class at math. He said that I'm on the honor roll and that if I keep it up any collage will except me. Even though I have two years it's never to early to start preparing.
That brightened my morning but what happened next really got on my nerves. I was going to my locker to get my books for first period and homeroom and that Soc from yesterday was leaning against my locker.
"Excuse me," I said trying to get into my locker. I pulled it opened but he slammed it shut with his back.
"Now, what do we have here, do you know what your little slash mark did to me," he said and pointed to his arm. It had a bandage around it.
"It wasn't that deep, but it'll teach not to touch me again." He just wouldn't let me through.
"Oh, you mean like I'm doing now," he had snaked his arm around my waist and pushed me into the lockers.
"Can't get to your little switch blade now can you?" He said threateningly. He tried kissing my neck but I kneed him in the groin. He let out a yelp and brought his head up just enough so that I could elbow him in the face. He let out another yelp and slammed me against the lockers. This time he pinned my hands against the lockers as well. Sadly, he got his cold, slimy lips against my neck and then kissed way towards my mouth. I saw Steve coming so I stepped on the Socs foot really hard. This time the Soc groaned loudly then slapped me. That was definetly going to leave a mark. I was able to yelp so that the whole hallway came to my rescue. The Soc saw this and took off but not without kissing my earlobe and whispering, "You better watch your neck, cause if you don't I'll be chewing on it." Then like a vampire he bit my neck lightly and left.
Steve came rushing towards me and all the boys wouldn't leave me alone at all for the rest of the school day. At lunch Dally came by and noticed I wasn't looking him in the eye. I had big red mark from where the Soc hit me. Then he saw the little bite mark the Soc had made. He jumped up angrily from the table and was heading toward the Soc table. Luckily, Steve and Two- Bit were able to keep him from doing something stupid. He stalked angrily to what I'm guessing was Buck's car and sped away.
After school Dally met me at the door and pulled me towards his car. Steve saw us and gave me a knowing nod. Then he left in Two-Bit's car with the rest of the gang.
At the diner Dally wouldn't stop staring at me and refused to leave. Sylvia stopped by for a quick 'hi' and he didn't even acknowledge her. Even everytime when Angel would "accidentally" drop something and have to pick it up, he wouldn't stop watching me. After awhile he got on my nerves and I told him to go flirt with someone, but he said that every time he takes his eyes off of me, I get hurt.
"Dally, that's silly, I didn't get hurt, maybe a little shaken up but not hurt," I said seriously. He just sat on the counter looking at me worriedly.
"You check out the side of your neck, or better yet your cheek, what do you mean you didn't get hurt?"
"Well, I'm fine, hey Angel table four needs more sodas!" I called out to her across the diner.
"Got it!" she yelled back. When she came towards us she batted her eyelashes at Dally then went into the kitchen. I followed her to help her with the sodas. She isn't the best waitress in the world either.
"Hey Angel, after this I'm goin to head out, is that okay?" I asked her as she was handing me sodas.
"Yeah, I'll close up, hey do you think Dally likes blondes or brunettes?"
"Neither, I think he goes for red heads like Cherry Vallance and," I said but she cut me off and said, "You."
"What me, Angel I'm strawberry blonde, not a red head." I said after we had left the kitchen. Dally was still eyeing me.
"Whatever," she said. We delivered the drinks, then me and Dally were on our way. Something occurred to me, I didn't have a baseball cap, man did I need one. Bad thing was I didn't have any money. Dally and I were walking past the drug store when I stopped and begged him to get me a cap. After a lot of begging, he went into the store alone and came out with two packages of cigarettes, then he opened up his jacket and pulled out a baseball cap.
I figured if I went around looking like a boy for a while, maybe the Soc will leave me alone. I put my hair up in the cap and then looked in a shop mirror close by. For a girl who's supposed to look like a boy, I looked pretty damn good.
When I got home everyone except Darry and Soda were there. Great so now I have to wait another five hours to tell Darry and Soda. This was going to be a long day. I thought to myself.
I sat on Steve's lap and he tried to take off my cap. Every time he put his hand up to take it off of my head I gently slapped his hand. Finally, he started tickling me and took it. My long, strawberry blonde hair came flying down into his face. Then he started whining that he was blind. What a baby.
The second Soda and Darry got home the gang jumped up and started blabbing my school day to them. They didn't even give me a chance to explain by myself. They all just kept on with there threats and what the guy looked like and what he did to me. This was going to get very annoying very fast. Soda was mad and Darry looked at Dally in the eyes giving him a I-thought-you-were-going-to-protect-her look. Darry does that a lot, he says things with his eyes and his looks.
All I got from that was a bunch of lectures and everything. After everyone left and Soda and Pony went to bed, I told Darry to wait up. Soda and Pony told me I could sleep in the bed with them again, and I said that I would see how I felt after I talked to Darry. After everything that had happened, I wasn't able to tell Darry about what my math teacher said.
When I told him he jumped up and hugged me tightly. After about five minutes we went to bed. I decided that I would sleep in Soda and Pony's bed. The only space there was, was next to Ponyboy so I slipped in and went to bed. I felt Pony slip his hand around my waist and hold me close. Again, he almost lost me, I have to stop this Soc before he tears my family apart.
