Chapter 3

Some of them gasped as I stood there, silently. Two-Bit had a red hand print on his cheek.

"Gina..." started Erinne, but trailed off.

"Two-Bit, you should apologize..." said the guy sitting on the couch, breaking the silence, and I looked at him.

"I'm so-"

"No, I'm sorry." I said, cutting his apology off.

It got really quiet then, even the music stopped playing. The guy with dark brown hair stood up from his card game.

"So, what did you say your name was again?" he asked and I opened my mouth to answer him.

"Kristen!" said Kristen, cutting me off and stepping in front of me.

The guy was confused for a moment, but stuck out his hand.

"'Names Soda, Sodapop Curtis." said Soda, as Kristen shyly shook his hand, and blushed lightly.

"Uh..." I said, confused.

I turned back to look at Two-Bit, who was rubbing his cheek.

"My names Gina Carson." I said, as he looked at me.

"Names Two-Bit Matthews." he said, as we shook hands.

We stood there, and I decided to see what was taking Ponyboy so long with that towel. I walked over to Pony, and he handed me the towel.

"You might want to change out of that." said the guy, who was sitting on the couch, as he pointed to my shirt.

"Um, yea..." I said, as he gestured me to follow him.

I followed him all the way to the end of the house where there was a room. I'm guessing this is his room? He took out a blue shirt and handed it to me. I stared at it.

"Look. I'm sorry for Two-Bit. He's a wise crack and does stuff on his own free will. He didn't mean what he did, he was drunk at that time." he said.

"Oh..." I said, shuffling from one foot to another.

"My name is Darry Curtis." said Darry, holding out his hand and I shook it.

"Your Gina Carson, right?" he asked as I nodded, "You better, change into that shirt or you tank top will stain."

"Um, where's the..." I asked, as he pointed to the bathroom and I walked to it.

I locked the door and quickly got out of my tank top and into the blue shirt Darry had given me. I opened the door and saw that Darry was standing outside. He took my shirt and headed for the laundry room.

"Thanks." I said, and he nodded in response.

I headed back to the living room to find everyone happily talking. Kristen, Erinne, and Nicole were talking to Soda and some brunette guy. Megan was in the kitchen getting a drink. I went over and sat on the couch next to Johnny. I laid back and spaced out. Maybe, I shouldn't have been to harsh to Two-Bit, now I feel bad.

"Hey Gina?" asked Johnny, bringing me out of my thoughts.

"Uhuh?" I asked.

"How come you got all mad so fast when you were so happy before?" he asked, quietly.

I looked at him.

"Well, Johnny. I–I can't tell you. I'm sorry, I just have my reasons..." I said, and he nodded.

Soda turned up the volume of the music, as Two-Bit started dancing around. I raised an eyebrow as he passed me. He then grabbed Erinne's arm and spun her around and she stumbled and landed right next to me. I chuckled, as she blew the hair out of her face.

"Having fun?" I asked and laughed.

"Oh yea, lots of fun." she said, sarcastically.

She sat up next to me, as Two-Bit grabbed Megan, who was on her way back from the kitchen, and spun her around.

"Woah!" she said, and landed on a brunette guy.

I leaned next to Johnny and whispered, "Whose he?"

"That's Dally." said Johnny, as Dally looked at Megan and smiled a dirty smile.

"Well, what's your name?" asked Dally, as Megan looked up at him.

"Hey, I'm Megan Goddfrey." she said, happily.

He smirked. She smiled, unaware of the dirty thoughts that was going through Dally's head. Megan sat next to Dally and they started talking.

"Is Dally always like that?" I whispered to Johnny, and he shrugged.

"You can never tell." said Ponyboy, coming over and sitting next to Johnny.

"Is he going to do something to Megan?" I asked, keeping my eyes on Dally.

"Who knows." said Ponyboy.

"So, can I interest you in a drink?" Dally asked, smoothly, slowly wrapping his arm around her waist.

"Uhh, no." she said, uncomfortably, and getting up and sitting next to Ponyboy.

"Hey Pony? Whose that guy next to Soda?" I asked, curiously.

"That's Steve." he replied.

I placed my head on Erinne's lap and she leaned her head back.

"You guys look tired." said Megan, stating the obvious.

"It's getting late, I think we should go." said Erinne, and she lightly pushed me off her.

I groaned and laid fully on the couch and clutched a pillow.

"I wanna stay." I said, tiredly.

Megan and Erinne pulled me off the couch. I groaned when I hit the floor. I got up and yawned.

"Kristen, let's go." I said.

"I don't want to." she whined, as Nicole dragged her to us.

"Thanks Ponyboy, for letting us hangout." I said.

"I'm sure you guys ain't planning on walking on your lonesome." said Darry, coming into the room.

I shrugged.

"Pony, Johnny. Do you guys mind to walk these lovely ladies home?" asked Darry, as I chuckled.

"No problem." said Ponyboy, as Two-Bit jumped in front of us.

"I want to come too. I gotta keep an eye on these younger ones." said Two-Bit, already heading for the door.

We all headed after Two-Bit into the crisp, cool night air. I sighed and spun around once.

"It's a nice night." I said.

It was quiet then. We were passing the park when Megan spoke up.

"We should cut through the park, it's faster." she said.

"Yea, I think so, too." said Kristen, as we started cutting through the park.

I heard a distant and faint roaring coming from the street behind us. I turned to look and saw nothing. I looked straight ahead and I heard the roaring coming closer. I turned to look at Nicole.

"Don't you hear that?" I whispered to her and she looked at me, confused.

"Hear what?" she asked and I just nodded my head, dismissing the subject.

Was I hearing things? Nah. We were passing the fountain when I heard the roaring closer then before. I spun around, tripping over my feet, falling on Nicole, which caused her to fall. I looked and thought I saw a flash of blue pass by. Ponyboy gladly helped us up. I pointed where I saw the flash of blue.

"Didn't you see that?" I asked, looking back and forth.

"See what?" asked Johnny.

"I saw something blue and I heard a roaring." I said, still pointing to the place.

"I didn't see nuthin'." said Two-Bit, looking at where I was pointing.

"But-but, I saw something!" I whined, still pointing to the place, and jumping up and down.

"You probably saw a Blue Jay or something." said Megan.

"Are there even Blue Jays in Tulsa?" I asked, putting my hand down.

"I don't know..." said Kristen.

"It was probably nothing." said Johnny.

I turned around to start walking again when a certain blue mustang parked in our path.

"Not good..."

sorry i havent updated for a while there was something wrong with my computer that took a couple of days to fix, so review please!