A/N: Chapter 3! Yay I'm getting really far in this! And pretty darn fast! lol. Yeah I'm happy. Please R+R! I don't own the outsiders or any places/people except for Carrie Sheldon because she's cool like that. XD Yeah. And without further ado, here's CHAPTER 3! lol
CHAPTER 3
Carrie had stopped crying after about five minutes. She took a deep breath trying to steady her voice, then began.
"You know, I wasn't aloud into the hearing that day. Cherry didn't want me to go and someone had made sure they wouldn't let me in. It was all stupid in my opinion because he was my brother. But Cherry wouldn't tell me who killed him. I rememeber the day it happened well. Cherry came home all worried. I heard your name and Johnny's tossed around. She also complained about some towheaded greaser kid who had been bothering her.
"It took me about 20 minutes to get her calmed down enough to even talk to me, let alone tell me what was wrong. She told me my brother was drunk. She told me he had found her and Marcia walking with you and Johnny and Two-Bit. She was scared stiff that he might kill one of you.
"A few hours later the police came to our door. They told us he had been killed but they didn't know who did it. That was the first time I actually cried real good in a long time. Bob was the only reason I hadn't run away from home. He was like my best friend He treated me like he did all the other Socs, even though he knew I was different. Him and Cherry were my only real friends. And Randy, he was real nice to me. But he left three months ago. Anyways, my parents had kicked me out the day before because I had back talked them one too many times.
"It was always odd that they spoiled Bob rotten and belted me if I even came home a half hour late. It was stupid. I swear if I didn't have my brother I would have been long gone when I was 10. But still. I was lucky Cherry was my friend. She was more than willing to let me live at her house." She looked up into my eyes and smiled weakly before continuing.
"A few days later I saw your picture in the paper. I didn't have time to read the article because I was almost late to school, but I saw the hero bit and how they said your friend might die," she said. I stiffened at the mention of Johnny but Carrie didn't notice.
"I went to find Cherry. She had said she was going to find you later to talk and I wanted to go but she had already left. I don't even rememeber what I was going to say. The next thing I knew, she was telling me that your buddies had died. Or rather that Johnny died and Dally had gotten himself killed.
"I hear rumors all the time about who killed Bob, people claiming it was you or Dally or Johnny or even Randy. It was odd. I don't know who to believe," Carrie finished, lifting her head off my shoulders. She stood up shakily from the cold and sitting still so long. She reached her hand down to me. "Come on, I'm freezing man." She giggled and attempted to pull me up. I pulled her back down next to me.I couldn't believe I was actually going to tell her this. She would hate me forever. But I had to. She had a right to know.
"Carrie..." I started. She stared at me, her hazel eyes becoming rounder. "You know how you don't know who killed your brother?" She nodded and waited for me to continue. "Those rumors are true. Johnny killed him. I was there." Carrie continued to stare at me, then jumped up. She glared at me and started to run off again. I got up too and sighed. She was going to the park, I knew it. I ran around the outside of the park and caught her by the fountain.
Grabbing her arm I turned her to face me. She was crying again but this time she was pissed. "I trusted you!" she screamed, slapping me across the face. I let go of her out of shock. I was not expecting this kind of reaction from her. She started running again. I followed. Even if she had a head start, I was still faster. I caught her again and grabbed her wrist.
She had stopped crying and she looked like she was gonna hit me again. "Will you just listen to me?!" I yelled, trying to get her to stop squirming. I ducked her second slap. "I thought you were nice. I thought I could trust you." She sounded calmer when she said this, but her voice started shaking. She slumped to the ground.
"Look, I know my friend killed your brother and I'm sorry. But you don't know what happened before that. Your brother had found us walking with Cherry and Marcia. After they left and so did Two-Bit, Johnny and I went to the lot. We accidentally fell asleep. I'm supposed to be home by midnight but I didn't get there until two."
Carrie had wiggled out of my grip and was rubbing her wrist ruefully. I relized I had been holding her wrist a little bit too tightly. I sighed. "My brother hit me so Johnny and I ran to the park. Your brother and some of his other friends came and jumped us. Bob and some other big Soc started drowning me. The others started beating up Johnny. He pulled out his switchblade and stabbed the first Soc he could get to that was drowning me. It happened to be your brother."
Carrie was turned away from me now. Her shoulders were shaking and I couldn't tell if she was crying or just mad enough. Then she snapped her head around to face me. She wasn't as angry or crying. She stood up and simply said, "You took away the only person who ever cared about me. I know you lost your best friend but you have a family that cares for you." She shook her head and walked away without another word. I was still in shock.
A/N: Yes, I know it's still really short but it seemed better to end it here. Teehee lol. R+R so like yeah lol.