Okay, so here's yet another chapter. I hope you absolutely love it! I think it will be longer than the last one. Don't forget to review!!

Chapter 6

Pony's POV

My stomach twisted and turned when I saw Shane standing in my doorway. This was not going to be pretty. Darry jumped off of the couch. Shane gave me a dirty look.

"Hey, pal, what are you doing here?" Shane got a real innocent look on his face then, and looked at Johnny.

"Nothing, my friend Johnny took me here." He coolly said.

"Your friend? Johnny?" I was so confused. How did Johnny meet Shane? And what were they doing here? Of all people to run into…

"Hey, kid, I think that's my girlfriend you've got your arms around" Shane said, starting to get a little mad. Then Jamie started to say something.

"Not anymore, Shane. I'm sick of the way you've been treating me, and I'm through with it. We are over. I could find a real gentleman to be with instead." She said, standing closer to me. This was good for me, since I was getting the girl I wanted, but Shane was going to hate me for life.

"What? Jamie! You're going to hang out with this loser?" he said pointing at me. Then, something I thought could never be done, Johnny spoke up.

"Hey, we aint losers." He calmly said.

"You know what? Fine. Go ahead. Throw away all that we have gone through. You just go right on ahead. Have a nice life." He said, turning around to walk out the door. I just looked at Johnny, and he had a blank look on his face.

"Hey, Johnny, how come you was with him?" I asked.

"He gave me a ride home, and we got to talkin"

"Really? About what?" I was very interested in hearing this one.

"nothin, really. Just about our dads and stuff. He's a pretty cool guy when you get to know him." I could tell Jamie was getting kind of upset because she said she was gonna go to the bathroom. Then I said real quietly,

"Hey, Johnny, you know that Shane hit her? Like, you know, your dad?" I said. It was kind of a touchy subject.

"Really? I would have never thought so." We totally forgot that the whole gang was listening on our conversation, and they just gave us blank stares.

"Let's go back to my room and talk." I suggested to Johnny.

"Hey, Pony, you have homework." Darry reminded me.

"Oh alright." I said, sitting at the kitchen table, leaving Johnny and Jamie to talk in my room alone. After had seemed like an hour of torturous homework, I went back to my room to talk to Jamie. I thinking about how I was going to ask her to the movies tomorrow. I went in to my room.

"Hey Jamie, want me to walk you home now?" I would ask her on the way.

"Oh, yeah, sure" she said, staring at Johnny. I couldn't stop looking at her. Man, was she pretty. I couldn't wait to take her to the movies tomorrow night. We walked out into the crisp, cold air. I was distracted and forgot my coat, so I was freezing the whole time. I was about to ask her when she broke the silence.

"Hey, Ponyboy," her voice sounded so sweet when she said my name. I felt my ears get real red, and was silently thankful for the darkness.

"yeah?" I said, trying to seem tuff.

"would you mind, um, asking Johnny out for me? He's really nice, and I don't know how to ask him. Would you do it for me? I mean, we're friends, right? So, you wouldn't mind?" I couldn't believe what this girl was saying to me. This girl that I might actually be in love with, wants me to ask my friend out for her. I couldn't believe this! But, I didn't want to see her sad, so I agreed to it. I couldn't believe what I was doing, either. So much for my plan, we just walked in silence for the rest of the way to her house. I walked up to her porch with her, and she said,

"Well, see ya Pony, thanks for walking me."

"Yeah, sure." I said not even looking at her. I was kind of being rude on purpose, and I regret every second of it. I walked home in the cold dark silence. Man was I freezing.

Johnny's POV

I heard the door open and I heard Darry start yelling.

"Ponyboy, where's your coat?" it always bothered me how Darry yelled at Ponyboy. I don't know why, I mean I get used to it by my old man, but it always made me feel uncomfortable around Pony when he was getting yelled at. Pony came stomping into the room.

"Hey, Pony, mind if I stay here tonight?" my dad had kicked me out of the house, and even though he was drunk, I was afraid to go back in there. And they didn't care if I came home or not anyways.

"I don't really care where you stay, Johnny." What was wrong with Ponyboy? And why was he taking it out on me?

"Hey, Pony, what's the matter? Huh?" I said.

"Oh, nothing, sorry. Oh, by the way, Jamie wants to know if you'll ever want to go out with her." He said. I had no idea Jamie dug me. Yeah, we talked and we had something in common, but I hadn't ever considered the thought. But oh well, why not?

"Yeah, sure. I'll probably call her and ask her to the Dingo tomorrow night." Hey, I finally had a date. Man I sure was tired.

"Hey, Pony, I think I'm just gonna go to sleep now. I'm just gonna crash on the floor. That okay?" I knew I couldn't sleep on the bed, since Soda slept there. I was always sort of them. Only because I have no brothers or sisters, and they are so close and everything. And, the couch in the living room was filled with guys.

"Yeah, night Johnnycake." He said, putting on pajamas himself. It seems like as soon as I was on the floor, I was asleep.

Pony's POV

I just sat there in bed, trying to get my mind off of Jamie and fall asleep. How could this happen? I actually fall for a girl, and she falls in love with my best buddy. I'm sure he wouldn't go out with her if I told him how I felt, but that wouldn't help anything, since she would still like him anyways. Man, how could this happen? Then, I felt Soda get into bed, and it kind of scared me, and I jumped.

"Oh, hey, Pony, didn't mean to scare ya." He said.

"Oh, no. I was jus thinking, that's all, and you kind of like broke my concentration. That's all." I said laughing. He started laughing too.

"Oh, sorry. Well, what were ya thinking about that was so important anyways?" he said, pulling the covers up.

"Oh, nothing. Hey, Soda, turn off the lights man, they're real bright" I said squinting my eyes.

"Sure, little buddy." He said turning off the lamp and laying down.

"Hey, Soda?"

"Yeah?" I was thinking about how much I was going to tell him.

"What if, you like this girl," I heard him giggle when I mentioned girl. "No, seriously. If you like a girl, and this girl likes your friend, then what do you do?" oh man, he knows that this is about me and Johnny and Jamie.

"Well, it all depends on who you are, who your friend is, and how hot the girl is." That was Soda for you.

So? I'm sorta running out of ideas again, so….review and tell me what you all think! By the way, I changed my name.