So the waitress brought us our food and Lee made a huge scene out of dropping his napkin. And as he let down to pick it up he looked up the waitress's skirt. She had given Lee a playful slap but I don't think she really minded. I could tell by the way that she was flirting back with Lee that she thought he was pretty cute. Dally and Two-Bit didn't seem to find anything wrong with Lee flirting with the waitress. Typically I wouldn't either. But I knew why he was. I was just waiting for Jen to catch on.
But I didn't have to wait long. I guess Jen had finally noticed us and she was staring at Lee. I could tell she was a bit hurt, even if she was drunk. Ponyboy noticed Jen looking over too. I didn't have to say anything to try to explain it to him. He understood right away. He was real smart and could pick up on things like that. Which I liked.
Though it seemed like me, Lee and Ponyboy were the only ones who did notice. Dally and Two-Bit just figured that Lee was having a good ol' time with that waitress. But I knew even Dally and Two-Bit would catch on any minute now.
As Jen walked over to where we were, well kind of stumbled would be a better word. Lee grabbed the waitress and started making out with her. Jen stopped dead in her tracks. I looked over at Lee then Jen. I found it amazing how Lee could be making out with this waitress (who seemed to enjoying herself) well keeping one eye on Jen the whole time.
Then all of a sudden Jen literally pushed the waitress away from Lee. I quickly stood up to try and get a hold of Jen. But she was already taking a few swings at the waitress. Dally and Lee were both kind of sitting there not doing anything. Lee had a look of triumph on his face again. I knew this was what he had wanted. And Dally was just smoking his cigarette like this happened everyday. Well sometimes it did happen every day but definitely not with Jen. Ponyboy was holding back the waitress. I was trying to hold back Jen but that girl was mad. So Two-Bit came over to help me. I wasn't a weak girl but I swear Jen was trying real hard to take another swing at the waitress. If Two-Bit hadn't have come I swear she would have gotten away. Ponyboy was having no trouble with the waitress though. He had her arms so she couldn't take a swing. But I'm pretty sure that the waitress knew she couldn't escape Ponyboy's grip so she just waited. No point in wasting all that energy I suppose.
"Jen," I said calmly, "Jen! Calm down. For heaven's sake freakin' calm down!"
After a few minutes of fighting with me and Two-Bit, Jen calmed down a bit. She just kind of stood there breathing slowly. Ponyboy let go of the waitress who just seemed to brush herself off. She took out a piece of paper and wrote down her phone number, she then slid it to Lee. I could tell Jen wanted to take another swing at her, but Two-Bit had made sure that wasn't going to happen.
I looked around to see we had gathered quite a crowd. Most of them were guys. I heard a few people holler 'Just let 'em fight' before they all started going back to their tables. Or heading back outside to tell their friends what they had seen.
I looked over at Lee who seemed to be enjoying himself. He took the waitress's number and slid it into his pocket. I saw the look on Jen's face and she just started crying.
"Let me go!" se yelled at Two-Bit before she calmed down still crying, "Please just let me go."
I guess Two-Bit hated to see girl's cry. And he let her go. Jen ran outside as bet as she could and I knew I couldn't let her run out all by herself. I looked over at Lee who still had a smug look on his face and just went back to talking to Dally.
"You know Lee you can be a world class jerk sometimes," I said as I rushed out to follow Jen.
Running outside it was really cold. I didn't have a jacket or anything. But I didn't care. I could see Jen running down the street. It didn't take much for me to catch up to her though. She was in no condition to be running.
"Jen! Jen!" I called after her, "Wait up!"
I could tell Jen didn't really ant to be alone right now. She didn't exactly stop but she slowed down quite a bit. I walked up to her and within seconds she was crying mumbling something I really couldn't understand.
"Calm down," I said softly, "It's gonna be okay. Just calm down. Relax."
She nodded her head and we walked over towards on of the bench's outsides. Between Jen's mumbles I got the random thought "Why did he do that?" or 'I thought he liked me." She sounded a bit like Lee did this morning but Lee hadn't been crying or anything.
"Well you want the truth," I said.
"Yeah."
"He thinks you don't like him."
"What that's stupid."
"Yeah. And it's stupid for you to think he doesn't like you."
I saw Jen kind of nod her head as she continued crying. She had her head on my shoulder and she was just bawling her head off. I still didn't understand what was going on though. Jen and Lee had been getting along great, then Jen slaps him. Then Jen is drunk out of her mind, Lee is making out with another girl. Jen is fighting with that girl. And the whole time they both thought the other person hated them. I was really confused.
I was just about to say something else when Jen had stopped crying. I looked down to see she had fallen asleep. Great I thought to myself. Here I was sitting with some rich drunken girl on my shoulder. And I could see some Socs eyeing us up from the parking lot. But to my relief I saw Ponyboy and Two-Bit walking over towards us. No sign of Lee though. I merely shook my head. Boy was he gonna get it when I saw him tomorrow.
Two-Bit was just about to yell something out but Ponyboy and punched him in the arm as he noticed Jen was sleeping on my shoulder.
"Wow she's had a rough night," Ponyboy said as he reached us.
"No kidding. Hey where did Lee run off too?" I asked.
"I dunno. He and Dally picked up some chicks and headed off to find some booze." Two-Bit replied.
I shook my head again, "Ass."
Ponyboy and Two-Bit both managed a laugh.
"You guys wanna help me get her back to my place?" I asked.
It felt kind of weird saying 'my place.' Most of the time I just refereed to it as Mrs. Hannigan's. But I guess it was kind of like my place. At least I'd like to think it was.
"Yeah sure we'll help," Ponyboy said with a smile.
"Thanks."
Two-Bit picked up Jen and threw her over his shoulders. Jen must have had a lot to drink because she wasn't waking up. We were walking towards Two-Bit's ride when I heard some Socs behind me.
"Hey there Good looking," they called out, "Where you heading off too with those guys."
Two-Bit quickly set Jen into his car and turned to face the Socs.
"What do you mean?" he said reaching for his back pocket.
"You know perfectly well what I meant. Filthy greasers," one guy said back spitting on the ground.
Two-Bit was getting closer to the guys now and even Ponyboy seemed had his hands in a fist.
"Come on guys," I said trying to get them to avoid a fight, "They're just jealous they have no shot what so ever of getting with this."
I looked one of the Socs in the eyes and spat. "Filthy Socs."
Right at that second some guy made his way towards me calling me pretty much every unprintable name under the sun. But I didn't have time to say anything because Ponyboy and Two-Bit were already pounding the snot out of the five Socs. I kept hollering for them to break it up but I really wasn't to worried. Ponyboy and Two-Bit from what I could tell were real good fighters who could handle their own. But soon enough I could spot on of the cops making his way over towards us. I managed to get out 'Cops' loud enough so they heard me but not loud enough so the cops did. Ponyboy and Two-Bit quickly jumped into the car and so did I. The Socs even made their way over back to their car. It was a Sunday night and no one wanted to be hauled into the cooler. So when he cops came by they came over to Two-Bit's car.
"Everything alright over here?" he asked taking a look around the car.
"Of course so officer. Why would you think otherwise," I said with a smile twisting a strand of my hair.
The cop smiled at me but he noticed Jen passed out and looked over at Two-Bit, "What happened to her?"
"Oh her. Don't worry sir. She's just real tired. She's been studying like crazy for her next exam. I thought she was gonna go crazy from all of that studying. So after literally pulling her away from her studies we managed to get her to eat something and get away from those books. Poor girl soon as she had finished up her burger she was out cold. She hasn't slept in a few days. She's all worried bout this test," I said smiling.
I lied really good. The cop seemed to believe my story. Besides Jen didn't look like the type to go out and get drunk either. But being in a car that belonged in their eyes to some 'greasers' might have been a bit suspicious. But even cops have a hard time trying to get past my looks. So the cop had left but before he did I did mention something about 'See those boys over their. They were being real rude to me. Calling me a slut and everything. I felt really uncomfortable around them.' The cop told me he'd go talk with them. Whether or not he actually did I'll never know but at least I had the satisfaction of knowing we weren't in any trouble.
After the cop had left Two-Bit started to drive. He was a bit of a crazy driver but most guys were. I could tell he was into drag races and all of that. So was I. But I hadn't been to one in ages.
"Pretty slick back there Kate," he said with a grin as we did a quick turn.
"Thanks Two-Bit."
Ponyboy smiled at me. Though I could tell he wasn't as impressed with my flirting as Two-Bit was. I guess I didn't blame the guy. I didn't think he liked it too much the amount of guys that were hitting on me, not to mention the fact I could flirt real well with any one of them when I had too. But he knows that I like him. At least I think he knows that I like him. Well I thought I might as well let him know again that I liked him. So as we were stopped at a red light and as Two-bit was flirting with the girls in the car beside us, I took the time to lean over and kiss Ponyboy. He seemed a bit surprised by it but he returned the kiss. After a few seconds we were making out, and I was really glad that this happened to be a real long red light. But as soon as the light turned green Two-Bit noticed the two of us and stepped on the gas real quick. Ponyboy and I jerked forwards and Two-Bit started laughing. I gave him a punch in the arm but he didn't care. Soon enough we were at Mrs. Hannigan's place and Ponyboy helped me carry Jen inside. I figured it was better to let Jen sleep it off at my place then take her home to hers. I saw Mrs. H flick on the lights as usually and I opened the front door.
"Well hello their Kate and who is this lovely young man?" Mrs. Hannigan said as she looked up from her knitting to see Ponyboy.
I typically didn't bring guys inside the house. So I could understand why she was a little surprised to see one now. Actually the only guys that had ever been in here were Lee and Bryan. Plus Mrs. H didn't really know about my flirting skills. Like I said I don't like to bother her with that stuff. I just talked to her about recent books she and I had read or poetry, stuff like that. Mrs. H was a nice lady, but kind of a clueless one. She didn't understand that while she was out in her garden, singing along with the birds that some kid was getting jumped two bocks away. I wanted her to spend the rest of her days outside in her garden and not have to worry about the real world. She had been threw enough, I just wanted her to enjoy what time she had left.
"Mrs. Hannigan this is Ponyboy," I said with a smile, "Ponyboy this is the wonderful Mrs. Hannigan."
"Nice to meet the you, the wonderful Mrs. Hannigan," Ponyboy said with a smile shaking Mrs. H's hand.
"Nice to meet you to Ponyboy. What a unique name," she said with a chuckle.
"Thanks," Ponyboy said with a grin.
"Well Mrs. Hannigan Ponyboy needs to get home. But do you mind if my friend Jen stays here overnight. She fell asleep and I don't have the heart to wake her up," I said with a smile. I felt kind of bad but hey I wasn't lying to Mrs. H. She not telling the whole truth I guess.
"Of course," she said with a smile, "Excuse me will you."
Me and Pony both nodded. I directed Ponyboy upstairs to my room and he set Jen down on my bed. I heard Two-Bit honk his horn and so did Ponyboy.
"Well I guess I better go before Two-Bit decides to lave with out me," Ponyboy said with a grin.
"Alright thanks again Ponyboy. You're a great guy," I said with a smile.
He leaned in and kissed me. I slowly broke the kiss and looked into his eyes.
"I like you a lot Ponyboy," I said with a smile.
"Yeah I like you too Kate," he said smiling back though he kind of had an odd expression on his face.
I guess it must have seemed a bit weird to him. Obviously if we had gone out and we're kissing it usually meant you liked the person. Well at least it did to me. But I looked over at Jen and though of Lee and it had all started because both of them thought the other person didn't like them. I guess I just wanted Ponyboy to know that I did like him.
"I'll see you tomorrow then?"
"Of course."
"Bye Pony."
"Bye Kate."
I smiled as I watched him leave and heard him and Two-Bit drive off. I headed into the washroom and got a cloth. I took it and wiped Jen's face off. She had a few cuts on her face from the waitress but all and all she looked okay. I phoned up Jen's friend Allison and told her to call Jen's parents and say she was spending the night over their. Allison didn't ask many questions and said she would. I figured Jen's parents would worry a lot less thinking their daughter was over at Allison's place then over here with me.
I took off Jen's shoes and pulled some blankets over her. She woke up for a brief second and asked me where she was but both of us had fallen sleep before another word was said.
A/N: I hope you guys like the story so far. The next chapter is going to be a really dramatic one. I tried writing it today but I just couldn't get it the way I wanted. But any ways please continue to R &R I'll try to update soon!