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Darry carried Cade to the car as Johnny and Sodapop rushed to the doors, sliding in,
"Hey! Where am I gonna sit?" Steve asked. Darry rolled his eyes, placed Cade between Soda and Johnny and shoved Steve into the trunk, "you make one peep. Soda'll throw you out of the car."
"OOOOohhhh…sounds fun! Next time I wanna try it!" Two-Bit said, jumping up and down, raising his hand. Darry rolled his eyes,
"Pony, can you stay here and tell Mom and Dad where we went? And Two-Bit, hunt Dallas down. He must need to know, even if he isn't acting like family."
They sped all the way to the hospital, Steve being knocked around in the trunk as Darry made sudden swerves to get to the hospital. "Come on! Faster, Faster." Johnny muttered.
Two-Bit wandered the alley-ways trying to look for Dallas, and when he saw a puff of smoke, he bolted and ran straight into Dallas.
"Dally, Thank God I've found you! Cade got jumped!"
Dallas face fell into an expression Two-Bit had never seen before…fear.
Dallas took off running in the direction of the hospital, leaving a open-mouthed Two-Bit staring as he ran, "Whoa, weirdness much?"
Sodapop carried Cade into the ER while Darry parked the car, Steve rubbed his head from hitting it on one of the turns,
"She needs help." Soda said, holding her.
"Name?"
:"Sodapop Curtis."
"Her name."
"Oh. Last name Winston…Cade."
"Ok, we'll wheel her off and clean her up," the nurse said, grabbing a stretcher and wheeled Cade into the hospital. Johnny sat down in the waiting room waiting for Pony to come. Why had they jumped her? They must have come all that way for somethin. Johnny thought, putting his elbows on his knees and leaning on them. Soda came and sat next to Johnny,
"Wellup, we just gotta stay until Dallas shows." He said, Johnny looked at him,
"I think I'll stay after he shows up."
"OOOOOHHHH…someone's got a crush on Dallas' sister!" Soda said, poking Johnny and laughing.
"Naw man. Why would I like her?" he lied, looking at Soda, trying to convince Soda and himself. Me and Dallas' sister? How would that work? He thought to himself, and looking at his hands.
After an hour, Steve fell asleep on the bench and Soda started to get bored, so he paced around as Darry read a magazine, and they heard footsteps and ignored it. But when Johnny felt a hand on his shoulder, he jumped and whirled around to see an out-of-breath Dallas,
"Where's the little runt? She OK?"
Darry leapt up, "Dallas, what the hell where you THINKING leaving Cade alone on her first night? She got jumped by some Socs and apparently, you forgot to mention that she shouldn't walk alone…especially at NIGHT? She was so damn lucky we got there or they would've killed her or worse." Darry shouted, everyone in the hospital turning to look at them,
Dallas looked at Darry with as much hate as he could gather,
"So where is the kid?"
"'The kid' was taken by nurses, she was bleeding from the head, side and jaw. She lost a ton of blood. Couldn't you care about someone other than yourself for ONCE?"