Chapter 3 "New friend, old friend"

Saige's POV-

The girl had blond wavy hair that went to her shoulders, she had blue eyes, and her skin was almost pale. She was heading to the moving truck. When I ran up to her I was all excited and out of breathe I could barely talk. "Hi…..what…..what's…you're... name?" "Rosalynn Sweet." She said. "Where have…you moved from." I said, controlling my breathing a little better. "I moved from," Rosie started to say but Soda interrupted, "Saige…you have…to…stop run….running off like….that." "New York." I said. "New York, really? I lived there." Dally said. "What city?" Rosalynn said. "New York, you?" Dally asked. "Me to." She said. "So Rosalynn how old are you?" I asked. "6, what's your name anyways?" Oh my god, it's a dream come true. Maybe she will be will be my friend (probably not but still). She probably has old friends back home and, she probably doesn't want to make any new ones. She probably doesn't even want to be my friend anyways. All my friends I have are boys, including the gang, I hang out with only boys at school too. I don't even have one friend that is a girl and…. "Hello are you there, Saige she asked you a question." Two-bit said, waving his hands in front of my face. "Huh, oh my name is Saige Curtis." I said. "I'm Soda Curtis." "I'm Pony Curtis." "I'm Darry Curtis their older brother." "I'm Dallas Winston and don't forget it, but don't call me Dallas call me Dally." "I'm Steve Randal" "And I'm the amazing and single, Two-bit Matthews, my real name is Keith but no one calls me that." "Two-bit shut your trap. And that's Johnny Cade, but you can call him Johnny or Johnnycake." I said, knowing that Johnny's too quiet for Rosalynn to hear him. "I'm Rosalynn Sweet but you can call me," Rosalynn said but I interrupted her, "Rosie" "Um…okay then." Rosie said. "Hey Rose, mom wants you." An identical looking Rosie said. "Well tell mom I don't care." Rosie said. "Is that your twin sister?" I asked. "Yes I'm her twin, but I'm older." Her twin said. "By 4 minutes, big deal." Rosie said. "Rosie's right 4 minutes is not a big deal, Pony's 5 minutes older than me and that's not a big deal." I said. "Whatever." Pony said rolling his eyes. "See she doesn't think it's a big deal." Rosie yelled at her twin which was walking back to the house, she turned around and said, "Like she knows anything." "Bitch" I muttered under my breathe. Soda flicked me in the back of the head and whispered, "Watch your mouth." "Well she started it." I whispered back. Rosie turned back at us when her twin went inside. "That's Robin. Don't listen to her Saige. I don't." Rosie said looking down at me, yeah she was taller than me, shorter then Pony, and the same height as Johnny. Why do I have to be so short, I thought. "Do you want to play some football?" Dally asked. Then an older man came out of Rosie's house and said, "Rosie come inside and unpack." "Okay coming," Rosie said then turned back to us, "I'll see you guys later." Then she ran inside. "Well let's go play some football." Two-bit said and grabbed the football, and started running towards the lot, with Dally right behind him. We got to the lot and play some football. We were in the middle of a game when Rosie showed up. "Hey guys" Rosie said. "Hey Rosie." I said, running over to her and giving her a hug. "Hey Saige." She said. "You want to play football?" I asked. "I guess but aren't you guys in the middle of a game?" Rosie said. "Yeah, but we can start a new game." Pony said. "Yeah can you play, please, please, oh pretty please?" I begged. "Okay, Okay I'll play." Rosie said. "Yay!" I said and started jumping around, the guys must think I'm crazy, I thought. "All right same teams but Rosie go with Saige." Soda said. Our teams were me, Rosie, Johnny, Pony, and Dally. Then Soda, Darry, Steve, and Two-bit. We were red team, and they were blue team. We won 2 times in a role! "I'm hungry." Two-bit said. "You're just saying that so you don't have to lose no more." Dally said. "Yeah, let's go eat." Darry said, they were heading back to the house. "Oh you guys are sore losers." Dally said, following them. We got to the house and ate lunch. "Let's watch Mickey Mouse." Two-bit said and ran to the living room. We followed him, me, Rosie, Johnny, and Pony sat on the couch, Dally and Darry were playing poker, Soda and Steve were arm wrestling, and Two-bit was watching TV. "So Rosie want to see my room?" I asked. "Sure." Rosie said.

Rosie's POV-

Saige seemed nice, but she was very hyper. She literally dragged me to her room, and it was up stairs. Her room was medium size, her bed was in the corner by a window, and in the opposite corner was a doll house and a toy chest. On her bed was only 3 stuff animals a white bear, a tiger, and a plain cat. Saige seemed like the kind of person that would have a lot of stuff animals, I thought. I looked around the room some more and in the corner by her closet was a pile of stuff animals probably taller than me, I was right. "Nice room." I said. "Thanks" she said looking out her window, it was still snowing. Saige had on a blue T-shirt, blue jeans, white boots, and a jeans jacket. Then I realized I didn't see any adults in the house, "Where's your parents?" I asked. "My dad works at a construction place, and mama works part time at some store. They think that Darry is old enough to take care of me, Soda, Pony, and sometimes even the gang." Saige explained sitting down on her on her bed then asked me, "Is Robin your only sibling?" "No I have a brother, and a cousin." I said. "How old are they?" she asked. "My brother is 14, and my cousin is 6 but a few months older than me." I said. "How about their names?" she asked. "My brother's name is Kaleb, and my cousin's name is Violet." I explained. "What are they like, I mean is Violet like Robin." Saige asked. I was getting annoyed by all the questions, but I'm not going to tell her that. It might hurt her feelings and it might ruin our chance with being friends. Because if she doesn't want to be my friend the guys probably won't either. The guys seem very over protective over Saige, and it seems like whatever Saige says to them, even if it doesn't seem like it they respect it. So I decided to answer all of her questions nicely. "No she's nothing like Robin, she's kind of like me, but has a big temper. And Kaleb can be nice, but most of the time he's just plain annoying." I said. "You're lucky to have sisters. All I have is 3 brothers, technically 7 bros including the gang." She said, that caught my attention. I knew what she meant, I couldn't live without Violet. I was lucky, and grateful to have her and Robin, Violet is just like a sister. "Yeah, I know." I said. "Where are they now? I didn't see them when I was at your house." She said. "I guess they were inside unpacking." I said. I was starting to get worried, I mean I know I saw Kaleb unpacking, but I didn't see Violet. I hope she didn't get into trouble with the cops again, I don't want to bale her out again, plus I don't think I have enough money. "Actually I don't know where Violet is. I better go look for her." I said, standing up. "I'll go with you." Saige said, standing up with me. I didn't think it was a good idea for Saige to come, but I don't think she was going to take no as an answer. We walked in the living room, and went to the door about to go out but Darry stopped us. "Where are you going?" "Were going to look for Rosie's cousin, Violet." Saige explained. "Where?" Darry asked, Saige looked at me. "I guess in town." I said, knowing Violet she could be on the other side of town by now. "By yourself? No way you two aren't going anywhere by yourself. We will go with you. Especially since what happened this morning." Her brother Soda said. Saige looked really annoyed by her brother's over protection over her. "We can take care of ourselves. Thank you very much." Saige said, looking at all of her bros, then eyeing the rest of the boys. Dally got up and so did everyone else. Dally walked up to me and Saige with the boys' right behind him. Then Dally patted Saige on the head and said, "I don't think so kiddo." Then him and everyone else went to the door and put their shoes on, except Darry stopped in front of us and said, "Dally's right. We can't risk two 6 year olds getting hurt." Then he followed the gang out the door. Saige looked annoyed, and furious at the same time, the kind of furious where they kill people. But me and her followed in silence. When we got outside we started running, I'm guessing towards town. It turns out Saige and Pony were really, really fast. I pasted Pony up after a while, but that's just because he slowed down, other whys I don't think I could catch up with him. I just followed Saige for 2 reasons. One I didn't know where the town was. Second she was fast, the closest I got to her was like 2 feet. All of a sudden Saige stopped dead in her tracks, I don't know why, but I didn't care I kept on going.

Saige's POV-

I stopped dead in my tracks, when I saw Bryce and his gang, his whole gang not just 4, 8. Rosie kept running towards some chick that had her back turned to us. She had straight black hair that went a little pasted her shoulders, (shorter than mine) and her skin was darker than Rosie's and lighter than mine. She had on a leather jacket (like Rosie's), Jeans, and boots. The gang stopped when I stopped, "What's wrong?" Soda asked. I pointed, because I was too panicked to talk. Right then Rosie came up with the girl, "This is Violet, and Violet this is Darry, Dally, Two-bit, Steve, Soda, Johnny, Pony, and Saige." Rosie said. I guess Rosie saw the panic in my face because she asked, "What's wrong?" But before I could answer Dally said, "Let's go" then he grabbed my shoulder and turned me around. I walked all the way back home with Dally's arm around me.

Rosie's POV-

Soda, Steve, Two-bit, Pony, Johnny, Violet, and me walked a little behind Dally, Darry, and Saige. Soda, Two-bit, Steve, and Pony explained what happened to
Saige this morning, and about those guys that I saw at dairy queen. Then about the whole town feud thing, Greasers eastside vs. Socs (short for social) west side and then the middle class, how they don't really get involved. Then that greasers are poor that get into trouble a lot, and even if greasers don't they get blamed anyway. Then a soc is are rich, that get whatever they want, never get blamed even if they did do it, and they jump greasers like us, and like Saige this morning. We got inside and had some cake, I knew that me and Violet had to go home eventually, but I decided that we had time to hang out with Saige for a bit. We went to Saige's room after we ate. The boys went to the living room, by the looks and sounds of it they were having a loud contest. Steve had the radio full blast, and Two-bit had the TV all the way up. When we got in there and sat on the bed, "Is this normal?" Violet asked. "Yeah, pretty much." Saige said. We talked for a while until I said, "It's getting late I think me and Violet should get home." "Okay, but ask Johnny to go with you." Saige said. "Why? We aren't afraid to walk alone." Violet said. "No I don't mean it that way. Johnny lives next do to you, and I want to make sure he gets home." Saige said. "Why?" I asked. His parents might be annoying, but why wouldn't he want to be in his own bed. Safe at home, I know I would. "You will find out." She said. Then me, and Violet went out to the living room. The TV and radio was still on, I yelled at them but they didn't hear me, so me, and Violet yelled at them and it finally got their attention. Steve turned off the TV and Two-bit turned off the radio. "Were going home." Violet said. "And we want to know if Johnny can walk with us? Saige said that Johnny lives next door to us." I said. "Sure" Johnny said, and got up, and went with us out the door. There was yelling and screaming next door, we didn't know which side Johnny lived on until he went to that house. Johnny walked up to his house, waved at us and went inside. The door slammed and there was even more yelling and screaming. "I think I know what Saige is talking about." Violet said. "Yeah me too." I said. I knew actually what Saige meant.

Johnny's POV-

I tried to walk in quietly so I could go to my room in one piece and not be disturbed, but the door slammed. "What the hell are you doing here, boy." My mom yelled. "Well answer me." She yelled. I looked at my ole man he started yelling at me too, "Answer your mother boy." Sometimes I wonder if they forgot my name, or they just hate me, and think my name means nothing to them. That made my eyes well up with tears. But I answered anyway, "Um….a-at friend's house, sir." "You don't have friends. You worthless piece of shit." She yelled. Then my ole man threw a beer bottle at me, the first one I was able to duck, the second one not so much. It scattered against my face but most of it went in my shoulder. Pain hit instantly, I ran upstairs and went to the bathroom. When I got to the bathroom and picked the glass out and put medicine on it. Then I put a wet cloth on my shoulder, went to my room and lied down on my bed staring at the ceiling until I fell asleep.

Dally's POV-

I left about an hour after Johnny, Rosie, and Violet. I walked home, it took a half hour. When I got home, next door was a moving van. There was a girl, and 2 adults outside, and I'm pretty sure there was more people inside, but I wasn't sure. It was too dark to see what the girl looked like, all I know is that she is a girl. I went inside and went straight to bed. Thinking about how Saige is going to react to ANOTHER GIRL. I hope she isn't hyper tomorrow, but I highly doubt that.

Saige's POV-

After everyone left I went to my room, and started reading my book (Love, Aubrey). It's about a little girl that lost almost everything. Her dad, and little sister died, and her mom left her. She lives alone for a while until her grandmother finds her and she goes to live with and start things new. I read the book until I fell asleep.