Gay Love

Chapter 7 : They Are Not Gonna Get Ponyboy and Johnny

It's been a week since Ponyboy woke up from his coma. He could talk normally now and he was feeling a bit better.

Pony barely talked to the gang, when they visited him. He wouldn't let anyone, but Johnny touch him.

He would freak if you touched him and scream bloody murder. The gang learned their lesson after the incident on the first day of visiting him when he was up, when Soda and Two-bit attacked him in a hug.

Johnny came over to see him everyday after the gang left.

They planned to runaway, right when Pony felt strong enough to walk.

They were going to Windrixville, to an old abandoned church on Jay Mountain. Dally had mentioned it once and that's where they decided to go.

They were going to make that church theirs.

"Johnny, I'm ready to go." Ponyboy announced, when Johnny came over that night.

Johnny looked at him with a somewhat startled look.

"Huh?"

Pony looked at Johnny with a determined expression as he said,

"Let's runaway now,"

"Are ya sure, Ponyboy? … I mean ya can't even eat solid food yet and you're still a little weak. Don't ya think it's a bit too early yet?" Johnny asked with uncertainty and concern.

"I don't care!" Pony snapped.

"We need to go now, b-before I lose my nerve."

Johnny eyed his lover with concern, before he sat down beside him on his hospital bed and placed an arm around his shoulders.

Pony wouldn't meet his eyes.

"Look, Pony, we don't have to runaway, ya know."

That's when Pony finally met his eyes.

"Yes, we do! Don't you see it? That's the only way we can be together freely! If we stay here, stuff like this will happen all the time and it will tear us apart one way or another! And, I don't want that to happen, Johnnycake! I want to be with you forever!"

Johnny understood that. They went to far this time. They hurt Pony, hurt him in every way. He doesn't want anyone to hurt Pony like that again, but if they stay here it's going to happen again and again, and not only to Pony, to both of them. They won't stop, until they're both dead … and it's going to tear them apart. He doesn't want that, he wants to be with Pony forever too … but there was still something on his mind.

"I know, Pony, I know … but what about your brothers?"

Johnny knew Pony's brothers meant the world to him and vice versa. They gave up everything and tried so hard to stay together. They needed each other.

How would Darry and Soda react to Pony running away with Johnny?

They were a total wreck when he was in a coma … Johnny knows they couldn't go on without their baby brother and whether Pony admits it or not, Johnny knows he couldn't live without his brothers.

Pony sighed.

"I-I love them. They're the only family I got left. I don't want to hurt them … but they hurt me first by not accepting me and you for who we our…" He paused, sighing again. "They're the ones who pushed us to do this. They'll never accept us, especially now. We have no other choice."

It was Johnny's turn to sigh. He knew Pony was right. He nodded softly.

"Ok, but at least write them a letter or somethin', before we leave."

Pony thought for a minute, before nodding.

"Ok. Do me a favor, Johnnycake; can you go get me a pen and a piece a paper?"

Johnny gave Pony a half grin and gave him a quick peck on the lips.

"Ok, Pony, hold on, I'll be right back."

He left the room and ten minutes later he returned with a piece of paper and pen in his hands.

"Thanks Johnny." Pony said as Johnny handed him the things he asked him for.

Pony bit his lip and stared down at the blank paper Johnny had given to him. He brought the pen shakily to the paper and began writing.

Dear, Darry, Soda, and gang,

I have runaway with Johnny. I'm sorry, but this is the only way. You pushed me away, you just wouldn't accept me for who I truly am, and kept forcing me to be someone I'm not, even if it hurt me. I love Johnny more than anything and I'll do anything to be with him. We can't stay here now that those Socs know, because soon everyone will know and will want to kill us. It's just not safe here in Tulsa for us anymore, so we are getting out of here. Don't even bother trying to find us, because you will never guess where we're going. What those Socs did to me was just too much … We'll come back once things calm down … but we might never come back. I'm sorry.

~Ponyboy Curtis ~

Then he sat the letter down beside him on the bed, turning to Johnny.

"Ok, let's go."

Johnny pulled out two bags from underneath Pony's hospital bed. He went into the Curtis's house a couple days ago when nobody was there and packed up Pony's stuff, then he went to his own house to pack up his stuff and then he brought them here and hid them underneath Pony's hospital bed, until they were ready to leave.

He sat the bags on the bed and took a pair of clothes out of one bag and helped Pony change out of his hospital gown.

Johnny helped Pony stand up. His legs were shaky, weak from not walking in so long. Johnny put an arm around his thin waist to keep him steady. Pony wrapped a fragile arm around Johnny's shoulders. Johnny grabbed the bags with his free hand.

They walked out of the room.

They couldn't go threw the front doors, because they would surely get caught and if they were caught their plans would be ruined, so they had to sneak out one of the other doors.

And, that's what they did

It was a very dark, chilly night out, but they didn't care.

All they cared about right now was running, running away from the people who have tried to tear them apart ….

… Running to a place where they can be free.

Nothing can stop us, not now, I love you
They're not gonna get us,
they're not gonna get us
Nothing can stop us, not now, I love you
They're not gonna get us,
they're not gonna get us
They're not gonna get us
(Not gonna get us)
They're not gonna get us, gonna get us
They're not gonna get us
(Not gonna get us)
Not gonna get us, get us
Not gonna get us, get us
Not gonna get us"